The winters here are harsh. Being able to trust your neighbour used to be a matter of life and death. Also we live next Russia. No matter how bad things are here, that remains a constant reminder of how much worse things could be.

I don’t understand how this is still a question, since it seems the answer is in the post itself, but I still want to add an element: police training is generally horrible in the US, while in Europe it’s much longer and more serious. Police here rarely has guns and is extensively trained in legal matters and de-escalation. This generates the trust you can see.

Finland also has ~6 million people, while the US has ~340 million

There are the differences between governing a country or an empire

People keep interacting with this LLM-bot account. Same with @animemann80@feddit.online .

We got rid of the last bunch (see this thread). These are 2 more. All with similar posting patterns.