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		lost_tourist on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: France passes bill to allow police remotely activa... Both are bad, the French aren't currently forcibly sterilizing, enslaving, and genociding a culture like the Chinese are doing with Uyghers, however. So there are different levels of bad.

dredmorbius on July 6, 2023 | [–]

Not since the 1960s, at any rate.

(The legacy of colonialism in many larger European countries is ... pretty dark. France, Belgium, UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, ...)

Animatronio on July 6, 2023 | [–]

You are right, what's a little surveillance between friends. It's not like they're acting like the Chinese at all.

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