Because the EU is more than smartphone users... and because when you put a lot of people together, you get a herd that may for no reason start to stampede in the wrong direction. A bit of restraint is a good thing sometimes.

"A lot of them chose crime including murdering women & children"
In my friend circle, they mostly play computer games, and occasionally do some recreational drugs or drinking. And they are in their 40s. What a life!

Declining population is solved rather easy. You just open a border here and there. It is the only reason my country still has a rising population.

I have friends who decided not to have kids. They live happy lives... For some it just is a matter of making a choice.

Yup, it ain't no pony camp. We'll have to cope somehow. Me? I make bad jokes all the time.

Less teen pregnancies? That is going to hurt in some elections...

Phones are worse for you than binge drinking, reefer, and promiscuity combined. Imagine that!

You're a fucking idiot.

I'm not and I have never said it shouldn't be a crime to incite panic in a crowd.

But if your government starts passing laws that say it's against the law to incite panic in a crowd and you aren't asking yourself why the fuck they're doing that when it's already illegal then you have turned your brain off and you need to turn it back on.

If the behavior in question is already a crime but your government is creating a law to make that behavior a crime then there's a reason they are doing that and it's to expand the definition usually so that they can abuse power.

At some point guys like you stopped being distrustful of the government. It's weird because you act like you're distrustful but then when the government grabs power you fall over yourself backwards to let them grab it and give them even more.

No I'm not an expert but I can fucking Google the phrase does Poland have obscenity laws and yes they do. The laws are actually much more strict than the laws here in the United states. They would easily cover snuff films.

I really wish you could think clearly. I don't know if it's the paint fumes or the paint chips or what not but you aren't thinking your way through this.

There are plenty of existing laws even in Poland that would cover posting snuff films online but those laws even if they're strict would require to prove that there is no journalistic value in what's being posted because they are obscenity laws.

I don't care if you're polish or American or whatever you are when your government is seeking to take something that is already covered by existing laws and add new laws then you have to ask yourself why aren't the existing laws working? And it's painfully obvious in this case that the government in question wants to abuse power and they can't do it under the existing laws.

I'm sure it's fine though, nothing bad ever happened from Europe promoting fascism right? Absolutely nothing bad at all...

So there was this little brouhaha over a certain fellow named George Floyd being executed in broad daylight by police and posting that video under a law like this would get you 5 years in prison.

I don't give a shit what the article says I'm talking about the inevitable and obviously intended results of laws like this. You do not write laws like this if you don't intend to use them to silence journalists and Free speech. Again like I said existing obscenity law covers shitty YouTube posters putting up snuff videos.

The reason nobody wants to use obscenity laws is that they only can be applied in the cases of extreme obscenity without any journalistic or artistic merit and you have to prove that in court usually. With a lot like this you could put somebody in front of a jury and the jury has to either convict them or go with something like jury nullification. This assumed your country has jury trials because otherwise you've got judges rolling on it but it's the same result where the law is written to force a outcome beneficial to a fascist state.

I am really sick and tired of people like you cheerfully giving up your rights. I could give a rat's ass what happens to you at this point but I'm sick of you dragging me and my family down with you because you can't understand how fascism works. For god sakes read a fucking history book

Film at 11:00.

Throw in a decline in the use/abuse of alcohol, and you've got declining fertility, which should surprise nobody. :)

X box console in the cloud for a low monthly subscription. Just connect your controllers to your PC and go!

If the Arabs are "invaders", how is it the majority of Israelis are immigrants to their country?

I'm aware that Israelis feel land where other people are living is "theirs" because of a promise by their God. I have a more Earthly understanding of property rights, and what their God says about the land's ownership is irrelevant to me. What's relevant to me is that someone else owned and farmed the land, and it was taken by force of arms.

That the Allied powers approved the plan after WW2 doesn't excuse their behavior either.

With Trump is President America's Financial system is so hopelessly corrupt and so completely unregulated that it just boils down to who has the most money and power. If both sides have equal money and power then like America and the USSR staring each other down instead of firing nukes nothing comes of it. On the other hand if you're a regular Joe schmo and a rich asshole rips off your cryptocurrency they get to keep it and you get to suck eggs. If somehow they get charged with a crime at the state level all they have to do is bribe the shit out of trump and Trump will threaten the local Governor until that Governor issues a pardon. If the governor digs their feet in Trump will illegally withhold federal funds but again we're not enforcing laws. This is exactly what happened in Colorado with a woman convicted of a State crime who should be rotting in prison right now for the crime but who is currently about to go free if she hasn't already.

There's a term for our current system of government, kakistocracy.

It means government by the least competent and most corrupt.

I used to think the old farts who put us in this situation were going to get away Scott free by dying peacefully of old age and a lot of them will but at this point they have fucked up so hard for so long with who they put in charge that a lot of them will not escape what's coming.

Go look into what's going on with the stock market with shit like the SpaceX IPO. It is very obviously and very transparently a scam to turn American 401k savings into a personal piggy Bank for the ultra ultra wealthy.

And it looks like Google is about to get in on that because they're going to put out something like 80 billion dollars worth of stock into a market that cannot possibly absorb that much stock.

The only way you can have these unprofitable tech companies, and yeah Google here is an unprofitable tech company because this is all about AI bullshit, the only way you can have these unprofitable tech companies throwing out this much stock and getting it bought up is by changing the rules so that they can be included in various index funds and other ultra low risk investments, in other words your 401k. But these are not low risk investments and they will eventually have to be paid for and they will be paid for by your retirement savings and mine.

The problem is even though everything I just wrote is readily verifiable just by watching a few videos from Patrick Boyle and maybe reading a few posts from senator Warren it's so out there and so outside what should be normal nobody wants to believe it and their first reaction is to vote down any post that brings it up. The only time you can talk about this shit is with people like Patrick Boyle that are more or less ignored because they are less Financial gurus and more court jester. Even though Court Jesters traditionally spoke truth to power. Oh Christ that's a phrase that triggers people with mod points

It's going to bother trying to increase its market share over time?

This is the trouble with conservative thinking. It's difficult for that kind of thinking to think past the next quarter. The people backing these kind of changes, the people who came up with the belt and road initiative and are gradually taking over africa, those guys think in decades.

It's not entirely the fault of conservative thinking, rather since most people have spent most of their lives living paycheck to paycheck it's extremely difficult for them to think in terms of decades let alone generationally. It doesn't help that human beings brains are just not equipped for that. We're supposed to be chasing down antelope not analyzing geopolitical bullshit...

Anyway this is about soft power, the ability to make another country do what you want them to do. Like how NBA stars don't criticize china, at least not if they want to keep playing for the NBA...