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Now you know why the USA* exists. Welcome to Europe, where you are both more free than the USA and less free at the same time.

* I assume you mean the USA when you say America, as both the North American and South American continents have many countries.



What country do you say you are from, Kingdom of Normway? Federal Republic of Germany? Peoples Republic of China? Commonwealth of Australia?


I mean, yes?

America exists because we couldn't stand Europe, and we've had to go back there at least several times to fix the mess y'all keep dispensing before we just said "Fuck it." after witnessing WW2 and made our presence permanent for the forseeable future.

Now that I got the snark out of my system, I personally prefer a legal system everyone will agree on even if not everyone will like it.


Heh, I’m from the US actually; moved to the Netherlands before shit got weird there. Every time I go back to visit friends and family, I get a reverse culture shock.

The legal system here is mind-blowing compared to the US. My son got beat up by some thug-teenager for being from the US (the teen was Afghan, so makes sense why he would feel that way, but to take it out on a 6 year old is kinda fucked up). Anyway, watching that play out was very interesting.

Even just dealing with employee background checks is interesting in that only certain crimes (relevant to the work you are asking them to do) show up. So if an embezzler wants to go into childcare, nothing would show up (probably, I haven’t actually done that, so I have no idea for this specific example, it’s just an example).

It’s so fascinating… but if you are ever looking for a way out of the US: Dutch-American Friendship Treaty is a way.


I'm Japanese-American, so I'd most likely move to Japan if I ever feel like changing my scenery. Thanks though. :P


Nazi laws were created and inspired from Canadian and US racist laws/eugenic acts.

So, guess which ideology generated that German/Austrian monster.

Thank Jim Crow for that.




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