This is a weird story to write given that New Zealand (of all places!) is slipping into authoritarian rule.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1251970727374467073 …
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Also the Lord of the Rings landscapes were unspectacular, the national dessert you stole from Australia doesn't taste very good, and a snakeless country is a joyless country. Just putting it all out there now.
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And yet which one elected Trump?
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You know, the funny thing is that a lot of us look at the US and see the constant and often arbitrary and violent exercise of state authority and think, wow, glad it's not like that here.
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Also, which "heavy restrictions on the press" are these? Periodicals have been obliged to close along with most other businesses, and not everyone's happy about that, but the role of news media has been explicitly recognised as an essential service.
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Your so call freedom has imprisoned you.
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You, mate, are barking.
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The US tends to define ‘freedoms’ in a very narrow and individualistic way. In Aust & NZ (I’d like to think) we appreciate a more nuanced understanding, that excessive individual freedom may actually impinge on the broader freedom’s of society as a whole.
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the US has just as much latitude w/r/t emergency powers. Some of them are limited nationally by federalism, but most aren’t. We censored the mail during WWI and still have (and use) a century-old sedition law to limit free press
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and, as other “enraged kiwis” or whatever have pointed out, many US jurisdictions are functional police states in which uniformed officers murder indiscriminately, and detain without cause. not to mention the immense violations of human rights abroad. (this all predates Trump)
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