The example you are giving about fighting back turned out to be in your favor.
But things could have gone wrong, especially when a whole group would have backed the other guy.
And by that you are sort of advocating a survival of the fittest which is maybe not a good idea
when you are small and timid versus some strong guy.
I believe it is not wrong to involve school personnel when bullying happens.

In Europe anti bullying policies were implemented years ago. I remember reading that in newspapers.

Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf

• Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
• Each individual must be treated with respect
• Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
• Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
• All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
  react against all forms of bullying.
• All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
  supported.

The US should improve treatment of mental health issues.
The US should recover public confidence in its political system.

The things you have suggested are just distractions away from these two points and won’t fix anything.

Your point about mental health issues is about the victim being bullied or being avoided by others I guess ?
If I refuse to buy Nike shoes like all others, and if I decide to wear all black clothes with heavy metal shirts and I prefer to read books rather than talk loud and the rest of my class mates avoid me for reasons, does that mean I need to get therapy ?

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To me there is a significant difference between a possible US dictatorship a la Project 2025 and the Western Europe where the far right is in some governments but certainly not close to a dictatorship (Things are different in the East of Europe, for example in Hungary). And there’s more differences, compare worker unions in the US versus Europe. And compare gun ownership in the US versus Europe. Same for death penalty. I consider the EU future a breeze compared to the US future.

Europe, who is already seeing far right insurgencies due to a few immigrants?

A few immigrants ? Remember that Europe got a whole bunch of refugees from Ukraine to look after.
And the USA is huge compared to Europe, especially to some small countries in Europe like Belgium, Holland.
The problem of the rise of far-right is more complex.

I’d like to second that. When it comes to “far-right boiling point” several countries in Europe look like a breeze compared to Project 2025 minded US. Far right is on the rise in Western-Europe but things are not so bad yet. Not sure about the specific gay friendliness per country but countries like Germany (except the East and part of the South), Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, France could be interesting to read more about. Portugal actually had its borders wide open for some time for immigrants to work and live there but they now have some (but not so bad?) restrictions for non-EU citizens.

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Indeed :(

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/

‘I am a Zionist’: How Joe Biden’s lifelong bond with Israel shapes war policy

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Just a few things come to mind :

• Lobbyists stopping sugar taxes.
• Big Pharma and health industry making tons of money.
• European Union being very tolerant about pesticides.
• Supermarkets putting candy close the counters where parents with kids are in queue.
• Lots of people spending most of their time on mobile phones only exercising the muscles of their eyes.

I am happy that an organisation like Foodwatch exists : https://www.foodwatch.org/en/foodwatch-international

+1 :)