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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now

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160 points cruzcampo | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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jbverschoor ◴[11 Apr 25 08:39 UTC] No.43651649[source]▶
Emmm no it's not. Believe it or not, the BRICS are
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pjc50 ◴[11 Apr 25 08:40 UTC] No.43651658[source]▶
The Russia and China that don't have free elections?
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anticodon ◴[11 Apr 25 08:43 UTC] No.43651685[source]▶
EU, where Brussels sends to jail candidates in other countries that it doesn't like?
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jbverschoor ◴[11 Apr 25 08:56 UTC] No.43651804[source]▶
Quote after a question in a meeting with the EU I asked and I was taken aside + my mic was muted:

"You can't ask these questions, or we'll all go to jail."

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pjc50 ◴[11 Apr 25 09:25 UTC] No.43652019[source]▶
You can't say things like that and not tell us what the question was.
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1. jbverschoor ◴[11 Apr 25 12:31 UTC] No.43653057[source]▶
It had to do with conflict of interest.