Comment by Fnoord
2 months ago
'Being proud that he say' [sic]. You're not even a native English speaker, are you, 'greg'?
First you say freedom of speech is about after the speech (it is about before the speech, as after that the law is applied pragmatic).
Then you come with this KJU joke. North Korea doesn't make these indices. [1] [2] [3]. In each of these, USA is decidedly below the vast majority of the free West, including the very countries I mentioned before, each of which couldn't be further from North Korea. It is also Trump during Trump 1 who was positive about KJU (IIRC before the Rocket Man rhetoric, but still), and who is being a shill for one of North Koreans partners (China by proxy / Russia). Mind you, all of these sources are post-Trump 1 yet pre-Trump 2 (ie. from Biden 1 era).
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democracy...
[2] https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-econom...
[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
By one of your own references USA is in the top 3 for freedom of speech.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
Yep, in fafs in 2021. Pew 2015: 8th. gsod 2023: 28th.
On all of the freedoms, USA tends to do best on freedom of speech. But how can you say such, when the press has less freedom than in other rich West countries? Isn't that counter interactive?
I didn't say it, your sources did.
> There's a good reason why on every half-serious index about freedom of speech or freedom of press, the best countries are Scandinavian and Switzerland, followed by West-Europe. And that data is from before the current orangutan is in office.
Can you share your half-serious indicies?
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both of these sources are European