• starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I live in Germany. A court just fined a politician for criticising the conservative party (CDU) because it was working together with the fascist party (AfD). The CDU sued him and won. Not the first time a judge supported the right wing either.

    That’s all you need to know, really.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Any justice system is well adapted to how society was in the near past.

    There could be improvements, a major overhaul of the sentencing scale for example. Over the years there have been increased sentences for some crimes but not others which can create funny technicalities that if you threaten someone with a weapon you get a lesser sentence than just handling an illegal weapon.

    Over all it’s good, not excellent.