Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.

Same energy as "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong."

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh and in case anyone thinks Freedom House is some impartial org that just happens to also rate Germany highly, take a gander at what they give China:

https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores

A 9 out of 100

There's also this:

https://freedomhouse.org/effects-us-foreign-aid-freeze-freedom-house

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] chickennuggies@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Good old fashion TLDR right there <3

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This makes perfect sense really if you see it as a banker freedom scale.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 day ago

Lol good point.

[–] Orcinus@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Misread that as 9 out of 10 for a second and was pleasantly surprised. Wondered if they were pandering to the increasingly vocal pro-China sentiment before taking a second look.

[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Whoops. So yeah, to expand on it, if you skim the last link I posted, you can see they're basically one of those USAID orgs (now in trouble because of USAID funding cuts) that helps with US soft power propaganda. So naturally, AES states tend to have a very low score and liberal capitalist governments tend to have a high one.

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 day ago

Freedom for White Cishet Capitalist Men House

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Germany scored 105 out of 100 on the Trolldom House index. One day America will get back there with a lot of soul searching and work...

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 2 days ago

LMAO
fucking what?

democracy is when protesting a genocide is illegal apparently

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Lol. No.

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 2 days ago

you spelled china wrong

[–] funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 2 days ago

should've been posted to the funny comm

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As a german: Is this a late april fools joke?

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

worlds cooked

jk germany is leading the world in fartsniffing and nothing else