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IceSkater40's avatar

Sounds to me like a state that is deeply afraid of actually hearing what the people want. Makes me think perhaps the current rulers call themselves democratic but in reality are actually closer to being authoritarian than they themselves realize. Sounds to me like it is them who should be put under the microscope, not the AfD

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Well, I can tell you that to hold opinions against the mainstream, even if the mainstream consists entirely of two girls ganging up on the third, is a rough place to be. All of politics these days is just two girls ganging up against the third, exponentially multiplied.

And this forces me back to my basic thesis always--no matter where you are, no matter your culture and its particular belief system, you are not allowed to dissent. This is the history of the world and we are not modern people, we are just living in *now.*

Perhaps you listened to JD Vance's acceptance speech at the RNC and how his referencing the seven-generations' filled cemetery where he hopes someday to have his own bones--and those of his wife--resting in drove the lunatics of MSNBC into a whirlpool of hysteria. To be rooted in a specific place, no matter how far away you've moved from it, is to be a monstrous purveyor of the concepts which will sunder the universe, or something. And the hilarity here is that his wife's bones are, living or dead, those of a Hindu woman whose long line of ancestors are from India.

This is on every one of us now. If we cannot clearly and with simple well-chosen words define the value of freedom of thought and choice, the rare shining gifts of the Western Enlightenment and why every succeeding generation must understand and then defend them, we have failed ourselves and our children. To be unable to refute idiocy is the worst slavery.

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