I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."
I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.
But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.
China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.
Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.
@nymoen_ole Man kann übrigens auch beide Armeen scheiße finden, das schließt sich wirklich nicht aus. Ist wirklich ganz einfach, komplett ohne Relativierungen.
Absolute Scheißaktion jemanden zu swatten, ohne Frage, aber von Timgioh der dümmste Reaktion überhaupt, direkt nachdem sowas passiert ist sich vor die Kamera zu setzen und diesen Trollen das Mett zu geben was sie sich erhoffen....
2010s Berlin was the golden age.
People tried to make it the European Silicon Valley and VC subsidised hippies from all over the world to vibe at one of the twelve food delivery app start-ups.
Some dumbass non-German speaking Swede with a history major could find a job in marketing at HelloFresh.
You didn't earn much, but a nice room near the center was €500/month, kebabs were €3.
And you could literally provide negative value to the company, and it still didn't matter cuz the founders were clueless mid-twenties MBAs, and as long as VC-money kept flowing, nobody gave a shit.
Everyone was partying and coming to work hungover- it was okay.
Berlin's mantra was tryharding like Americans is hetero as fuck-
we building shit with love and friendship!
Now housing prices doubled.
Kebab prices doubled.
VC subsidies dried up.
HelloFresh stock crashed by 93% from ATH.
The feverdream is over.