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Brazil’s government is in better shape than the US government is.
Can you name a Government that is in worse shape?
True. I don’t think I’d want to live in Russia, Afghanistan, North Korea or Hungary because of the shape of their governments, but it’s definitely a short list.
Russia might be, but that bar is lower than the Mariana Trench tbh..
Russia is dogwalking the US. They are a cancerous blight on humanity but they are better run than the US.
Before anyone finds a hint of respect for russia in here know there is none, greedy orcs rape and murder for someone else's yacht money when they could have been a first world silicon leader. Most naturally resourceful country on earth, too cowardly to make the necessary changes to their society to excel.
Nepal? China is gonna sweep in to help
This a question that I will always answer with "Belgium". Even in trump times.
NK is basically a monarchy...
Way better shape. The police actually arrested the traitors on the day they did the treason. What a novel fucking concept.
i'm so jealous of south korea and brazil rn
And Nepal!
You know what helps? A populace willing to protest.
The US public has been protesting pretty much non stop since the 60s.
Their politicians have responded not by addressing the grievances of the people, but by increasingly criminalizing nonviolent protest to the point that it's often classified as literal terrorism.
To call the US system a representative democracy is naive to the point of being downright farcical and has been for several decades.
Ch aging your facebook picture and shitposting on lemmy doesn't count.
Look to France or Nepal on how a real protest looks like.
Hey now! The Americans have done far more than that, they've peacefully wandered around the neighbourhood and played some acoustic guitar. If that doesn't attract the attention of politicians, what will?
/s
Yeah, imagine having a real, functioning government.
Must be nice. As an American millennial, sadly not something I ever really got to experience.
Most other governments are, at this point
Bar low enough to trip over
Suck it, Yemen and Eritrea!
I mean, the mere fact that you have to reach for two of the most poverty stricken and lacking in natural resources countries in the world to compare with literally the richest country in this world in both money and natural resources is in itself pretty damn indicative of the failure of the US system to guard from giving the incompetent and the thoroughly corrupt all of the power.
Well, yeah, that was definitely part of my thinking. But also the humanitarian abuses.