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What I've observed is that Americans like to put themselves higher than other cultures due to their second amendment rights (and first, but that's neither here nor there), but when push comes to shove there's actually no real positive outcomes that come from having a country with it's citizens armed to the extent that Americans are.

>>Freedo+(OP)
And we've seen what allowing people to promote hate speech with no restraint does to a nation.

When it's over, and it will be, Americans need to start from scratch, iterate and write a new constitution, create new institutions and build a new system.

>>stackb+A1
We've also seen what very rigid hate speech policing does to a nation in Germany... and AfD seems to be doing pretty well.

It's almost as if those laws are mostly just performative bullshit that doesn't actually prevent the spread of violent ideologies when the environment is conductive to them.

>>int_19+lf1
Fair, but we need to account for the influence of the 1st-amendment-propelled far right discourse in the US on German politics to know how (in)effective German speech laws are.