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Old 11-10-2022, 02:10 PM
 
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Europe and Canada no longer have free speech. Suppose you are stupid and don't believe in the holocaust, you can be locked up for your opinion. It is starting to get that way here. They have had their gun rights seriously hindered. The UK has even limited the right to own a knife.
There's an anti-knife sentiment among the anti-gun movement here in this country already. You can't even sell them very easily, not because of lack of buyers, but because platforms have banned their sales as vehemently as they have guns. I have a pile of knives and no way to sell them.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:12 PM
 
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Europe is not a country.
I did not say it was. Its a union. They share a currency and principals.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:19 PM
 
Location: Palm Coast FL
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You all say you don't want to give up freedom, but according to this, the U.S. ranks 15th in freedom.
Not even in the top 10--

Switzerland — 9.11
New Zealand — 9.01
Denmark — 8.98
Estonia — 8.91
Ireland — 8.90
Finland — 8.85
Canada — 8.85
Australia — 8.84
Sweden — 8.83
Luxembourg — 8.80

https://worldpopulationreview.com/co...eest-countries
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:23 PM
 
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Europe and Canada no longer have free speech. Suppose you are stupid and don't believe in the holocaust, you can be locked up for your opinion. It is starting to get that way here. They have had their gun rights seriously hindered. The UK has even limited the right to own a knife.
Canada never had free speech.

Despite what you may think, Canadians don't actually have freedom of speech

Yes, “freedom of expression” is guaranteed by our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but there’s a pretty big loophole nobody mentions. The preamble to the Charter explicitly mentions that this freedom is subject to “reasonable limits.”

There’s also the other part of the Charter where provincial governments can steamroll any freedom they want, provided they publicly announce that they’re doing so.

This is all very different from the US, where you just have the First Amendment.

But in Canada, it means that you can get fined or even go to jail based on something you say. Say something on Twitter that “wilfully promotes hatred” and you could go to jail for two years.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:28 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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Cuba and Venezuela have been destroyed many times over. That is how the United States will end up looking.

Actually, it will no longer be the United States.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:31 PM
 
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The fact that we let so many people in from central American and South America - whole other continent bigger than us! is a major problem. If people don't see that then we are doomed. We are already headed that way.

If we decide to be so lenient with our borders (which I am against) then it would be nice if other countries made it easier for people to get in as well. I'm not sure everyone in the US is on board with what this country will become and could be looking to leave. The problem is other countries have rules!
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:35 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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Why don’t Canada and European countries invite tens of millions of poor, uneducated people from the slums of the Third World to immigrate to their countries?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an answer that question.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:37 PM
 
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Norway has the population of Alabama. They don't have much of a military, and their health costs are much lower as they have a homogenous population.
Don't forget that Norway is a Petro state too. Evil anti climate change people there.
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Palm Coast FL
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we have a virtual open border and allow millions of uneducated, needy people across our borders.
How can you say we have "a virtual open border" when a couple weeks ago, "Border Patrol reports 2.4 million migrant arrests at southwest border this year, the most ever." The most ever!!!!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10...nt-encounters/
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Old 11-10-2022, 02:41 PM
 
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Cuba and Venezuela have been destroyed many times over. That is how the United States will end up looking.

Actually, it will no longer be the United States.
I heard there are huge lines of people waiting to get in to Cuba and Venezuela. Wonderful places with so much opportunity. Socialism is great!
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