• Matt@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    What’s weird is that former eastern European countries like Slovakia are more democratic than wester the western European ones.

    If a cop stops me, he doesn’t care what I have on my phone or what my phone is. He just asks me for an ID card (and also driver’s license and papers for the vehicle if I’m driving).

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      17 hours ago

      That is more freedom inthis particular way, but not necessarily more democracy.

      Edit: and reading more about it, it’s not even true about the Spanish confiscations.