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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Most of Europe seems to have gone mad. The UK, Germany, and quite a few others... may be some exceptions, Hungary, Croatia... the US is not paradise, but at least you can move far away from the shouting crowds (both sides) and just live your life. Several friends urge me to visit my family while still possible - but I am not going, because, within a few days the world might have turned around and I cannot get back home - remember the 2020 moment when all of a sudden we could not travel anymore. No thanks.

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Jim Brown's avatar

This is the stuff political uprisings are made of. In the USA, there is a legal distinction between "slander" (which has a high bar to prove and which is merely a civil matter when proved) and "insult," which is rudeness at worst. How can an "insult" be a crime? And why is it a crime to insult a politician and not a fellow plebeian?

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