[ejoso]

So you’d enjoy being like the free and happy people of Tibet then, eh?

[verzali]

As opposed to the free and happy native Americans? Oh wait, they were all murdered and their culture destroyed.

[awestroke]

Lesser of two evils etc. How about south america as a counterexample?

[ejoso]

Is it lesser?

Up until the 2010s the US was generally pretty good with EU & EU adjacent. It’s likely to return too, as there remains a strong societal will for it.

I ask this - which has the more persistent track record of a free or more free society?

I think recency bias and online discourse has polluted perceptions.