those who don't are naive imo. sure, most western european governments are not quite as bad and corrupt as the american government and its handlers, but that doesn't make them good or moral actors - and more importantly, even with exclusively good intentions in mind (which already is a foolish assumption imo), we have to be careful to open doors that could be used by bad actors / private interest down the road, people we don't even have a clue now who could gain access.

Gilets jaunes disagree.

This post was edited by balrog66 on Mar 30 2020 01:43am

If there's no weak and incompetent populists and if the political class is properly renewed i have not a big issue if they trace my movements for several months.
Macron's party replaced 2/3 of whole legislative chamber here.

On the other hand we have to understand that US has a factorized power concentration due its size and no renewal of their political class, at least not a quick one.
On the top of this you can add individualistic culture, religious disorder, allowed corruption...Since centuries now. U.S people have many reason to just say "NO".



It's called freedom for dummies

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 30 2020 07:01am

You might aswell say give me your credit card password and number so that I can monitor any suspicious activity.

all fair points, and important distinctions, but that doesn't mean we should trust our governments blindly. 'not as terrible' doesn't equal 'good'.

That's a weird name for it.

talking about "airstrikes":

Vpn activated

Just look what happened last time we sacrificed freedom in the name of safety. Laws passed in the name of terrorism never went away, this crisis will do the same.