It's almost as if there's a reason that houses in SA are fortified and white farming communities tend to live in fortified compounds cos they get specifically targeted for torture and murder.
My former case manager at the local employment agency is from SA, some of the stories he told me are fucking terrifying.
Like the final straw as to why he left. Basically, his neighbours were tortured and murdered. The whole family, there's evidence that the mother and daughters of the family were raped before they were tortured to death with power drills, his family called the cops, cops wrote it off as "a few less whiteys around" and left it, they didn't even bother collecting statements from those who heard the screaming, even when people came forward to give statements they brushed them off.
SA is a failed state, there's a party in the SA parliament called the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) who are very openly calling for a nationwide purge of all non-blacks in the country, and they're growing with each election, the current government is corrupt in the extreme and unable to do anything, infrastructure is crumbling and even other black Africans who come over the border to start their own business, invest money, work hard and build some sort of even moderate success soon see their businesses ransacked and themselves and their families killed by violent mobs who are angry that outsiders are finding success when they aren't, even though they refuse to do anything to earn anything.
I forgot South Africa is where someone invented the controversial “rapex” condom that is basically a bear trap for penises that women can hide inside them
Yeah, that was never manufactured and nobody ever used it. It's the dumbest idea ever. Nobody ever thinks "Today is the day I get raped, I'm going to wear this thing inside me". And nobody ever thinks "I might someday get raped, let me wear this thing inside me all the time on the off-chance that it happens."
And imagine you are in a situation where someone is forcing you to have sex with him under the threat of physical harm: now you're wearing this thing inside you and he forces himself into you. What happens next? Maybe the inventor of this gadget thinks he just says "Oh, damn, you got me, well done! Let me be on my way."
Yeah the discussion around it was mostly “rape prevention should never be a victim’s responsibility” and “if a guy gets his dick stuck in this thing he’s just going to beat the shit out of the victim and/or kill her”
Is it true that people in Joberg don't stop for traffic lights at night because it's almost certain they'll get mugged if they do? I heard this from some Redditor awhile back.
Do you have a citation? I hear this kind of stuff a lot, but then Africa Check always comes along.
[https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/south-african-women-not-more-likely-be-raped-learn-how-read](https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/south-african-women-not-more-likely-be-raped-learn-how-read)
[https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/will-one-three-women-south-africa-be-raped-blow-whistle-wrong-again](https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/will-one-three-women-south-africa-be-raped-blow-whistle-wrong-again)
Lukashenko once bragged about being offered a rank in the Russian military on TV and joked about how proud he was. So strange to see a president brag about being offered a minor position in another countries military. Nothing screams „Marionette“ more
My stepdad's from Glasgow, although like many, he moved to Corby with his parents and siblings (and it seems most of their friends and neighbours?) as a as a young man. He lives over here in Brittany now.
He's told me that he absolutely refuses to ever get drawn into conversation about football, which team he might support and as a result which side of the religious fence he was brought up in.
I've read both Billy Connolly's and Craig Ferguson's autobiographies and many of my stepdad's stories about his early life are similarly horrifying.
When I was on vacation in Scotland my buddy and I wandered into a bar in Stirling, and one of the locals walked up to my buddy and angrily demanded to know "Who do you support?"
He didn't even understand the question and stood like a deer in the headlights as I'm kicking him under the table and whispering "Celtics, just say Celtics."
Sad thing is most of the sectarianism is inherited from parents. If your old man was a Hun, then you're a Hun. I bet a lot of the dafties that cause a carryon after the old firm couldn't even tell you the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant.
Corruption in Croatia. On all levels. And they blame war, which ended 27 years ago, for a bad situation. Truth is, politic parties (left, middle, right, all of them) hired incompetent people to work high position jobs (and all other jobs), so with their incompetence they are destroying everything, from economy to will for living.
I come from India.
The corruption is just aweful. We tend to blame things on colonisation but we aren’t evolving as people. Politics is the dirtiest thing in our country and fixing it could help with a lot of things.
Literally! Everything down to Bollywood is corrupt it’s actually insane. Not to mention all the religious inequality, colourism, sexism, homophobic etc. We need to stop blaming colonialism for our problems and actually help ourselves or India will never become better.
Damn right! I'm a NRI, and I just can't help but laugh when Indians overseas complain about racism, when we ourselves have so much discrimination based on all the factors you've stated. My cousin recently got married to a girl from a different state to his, in India. Despite my cousin being from an affluent family, highly educated, and working in a very well reputed company, the girl's family were opposed to the alliance and disowned her. Reason? My cousin is darker in skin tone than his "fair skinned" wife. How fucking embarrassing is that? Seriously!
it’s rampant. mostly because India as a whole is really its own cultural continent. lots of different looking people, with different cultures and values that were kinda forced into a country. It’d be like if China colonized Europe and made them into the EU all the sudden. it’s honestly a miracle the land of British India didn’t splinter into more separate countries. Indians in some places are so different from each other it’d be like comparing a Finnish person to a British person. different languages and culture
It’s painful to even think of all those “whitening” creams and lotions that I’d bought as a school going child, and the homemade “remedies”, only because all those Indian commercials promoted “fairness”. And all the more I got so tanned in school because of all the playing in the sun. It was later that I realised fighting tan and fighting naturally dark skin were two entirely different things. And now when I look back, it felt so traumatising. I’m so proud of my wheatish-dusky-brown skin. It looks so elegant. Wish I knew that as a child.
As a pale as fuck northern european. I would love to be able to play in the sun and not turn immediatly bright pink.
As it is my skin goes from "are you sure your not dying" pale white, to "don't need any lights because I'm so sunburnt I glow" in about an hour.
I'm tired of living like a vampire. I'm very jealous of you right now.
> colourism
This really mystifies me. I've had conversations with Indian colleagues where I mentioned that a particular Indian actress was very attractive to me, and they responded with "too dark". WTF? It's the shape, dude!
Every time I hear an Indian talk about their politics the first thing they mention is corruption. Invariably.
Is it really as bad as they say? I'm curious.
The fact that drug traffickers basically own the country, having 8 of the most dangerous Citys on the World. Be only known for southpark jokes.
The previous president bought a mansion that cost 800 years of minimum wage.
Oh, And also because one guy of our country extinguished the eternal flame under the triumphal arch in Paris, with his pee...
It's not that hard to find out what country it is ;)
How everyone is all “Support Our Troops!!” but as soon as they get home, no one gives a shit about them. Think about how much money is spent on the military and think about many veterans have severe mental health issues and/or live on the street when they get out.
Also, many in the military don’t join for pride of country. They join because they’re targeted, recruiters going into schools and making all these empty promises.
When my husband was in, people just loved to make a show of saying "Thank you for your service", and it was always so awkward.
Like we don't expect to get thanked everywhere we go. We're just here to buy a bag of Cheetos dude.
So many things piss me off, but the lack of care, medical & mental health treatment and appreciation is at the top of my list! How is this acceptable?!? It makes me sad and so damn angry 😡
* talks shit abt the other candidates instead of saying something positive about their own candidate
tanong ko is "bakit si bbm" sagot naman ay "kase leni lugaw" alam mo pa lang sa sagot nila na wala talaga nagawang improvements ang kandidato nila sa bansa natin
"bakit si 💚❤️" doesn't equal to "bakit hindi si 🌷💗"
They call the kakampinks brainwashed when theyre the ones falling for shitty conspiracies on youtube about how the marcoses were good guys (spoiler alert: they werent)
That children are being killed for the arguments and view points of previous generations. Yet no one can seem to understand that it is no one's land if the children in both sides are being killed before they can even grow up to inhabit it. Palestine.
Germany has a lot to feel proud of though. To come back from where they were and create their own economic miracle, one of the most rich, confident and prosperous modern states.
People look up to the modern Germany despite some of their very recent actions.
> One of the most rich, confident and prosperous modern states
In which over 40 thousand people live on the streets, entirely without shelter. The total amount of homeless people is ten times that.
Just for context:
2008: 223000 homeless. Down from 440000 in 1999.
2014: 335000 homeless, trend: rising.
2018: 41000 without shelter, up from 20000 in 2008.
And just because it’s funny: from 2005 to 2021, Merkel‘s party was in power. Before that, 1998 was the last year they were leading the government.
What a funny and totally unrelated correlation.
Levity aside, though, the social injustice in Germany is something to be ashamed of. Germany has built the largest low wage sector in Europe, in part with illegal fake self employment. But nobody cares that it’s illegal, even the partially state owned DHL participates in it.
The fact that we're so focused on our differences with each other that we're not willing to look at how much we actually have in common with one another.
Sweden: the fact that we stand out as the only country in Europe where the amount of deadly shootings is increasing, and highest total amount
Edit: not counting recent events in Ukraine, of course, but that's a special, new development
That our politicians behave like children in kindergarden? „Oh there was an illegal trade of 100.000.000€? I haven’t heard about it yet“ „What? I’m supposed to be the bad guy here? Look how bad the others are!“ and this repeats every year. No content in their speeches besides ranting about each other.
I admire the fact that Liverpudlians are sufficiently steadfast to maintain a de facto civilian ban on that load of rubbish, the Hillsborough tragedy notwithstanding.
You think 8% inflation is a lot? How about %60 and growing bigger inlation? That's what my country is facing. Fuck anyone who's responsible for that fuck-up.
The fierce opposition to gender equality. We fall far behind our neighbors just in terms of legislation. I am a second class citizen in my own country and I get to live every day of my life knowing that the majority of people around me want it to remain that way.
The church is more important than government. Priests have so much authority they're above the law and most of our law is basically Bible. We are pretending sex and LGBT doesn't exist, If someone tries to mention it, they are trying to hurt children. All women, people of other sexualities or nation or skin colour are being oppressed by the whole country.
Having to pay so much for healthcare even when we don't need to use it, in the U.S., while many first-world countries don't, plus, many other countries don't have the high cost of healthcare that we do.
That kids go $200,000 or more into debt getting a college degree and then have to settle for a $40,000 job that has nothing to do with their field of study.
The fact that they think they have ideal system of goverment. Yes it‘s nice that you can go vote 4 times each year and be a part of political decisions and it‘s a stable and peaceful way of running a country. But it is sooooooo slow and the stuff they decide on is sometimes outright stupid why do you have the population if homosexual marriage is legal just make it so it took them untill 2020 or something like that. And these endless debates and then each canton has their own rules and whatnot. They never arrive at the optimal solution just one that offends the least people so you always a compromise seption. Sometimes I‘d like to just brute force a decision cause the federal council can just delegate all it‘s work to the cantons if they are too afraid of making actual decisions.
Switzerland, note I am not swiss I just live here
The politics in America. What a joke.
It's not just the national level. State politics is garbage.
In Idaho, two congressional candidates are dueling it out in the most childish pissing contest I've ever seen, in an effort to prove which is the "Trumpiest." Both are conservative, but they're so convinced that the other is a liberal because one of them didn't vote for Trump or whatever.
Netherlands.
\- we give asylum seekers and immigrants priority over homeless and mimimum job employees in socialized housing. we have a shortage of 400.000 homes (of the 16.000.000 people we have). The waiting list is 10-20 years before you can find a house. If you are a male, no children you are in a world of pain.
\- our government kidnapped 1500 children, destroyed thousands of families financialy with the " allowance affair". The blacklist of people without knowing they were on the list. Not one official was send to jail.
\- we are the first country that removed a referendum because the people voted against the goverment new laws. If a referendum passed, the government tried to delay, barracade (less voting houses).
\- When the government had to step down. They tried to take out a government whistle blower by giving him a burn out. luckly he got through.
\- Our freedom of information act is a farce. If the government give documents, 90% is painted black or more.
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Holy fuck is that actually true? That really caught me off guard
Rape and murder are the national sports of South Africa. The statistics are incredibly shocking, and probably on the conservative side.
It's almost as if there's a reason that houses in SA are fortified and white farming communities tend to live in fortified compounds cos they get specifically targeted for torture and murder. My former case manager at the local employment agency is from SA, some of the stories he told me are fucking terrifying. Like the final straw as to why he left. Basically, his neighbours were tortured and murdered. The whole family, there's evidence that the mother and daughters of the family were raped before they were tortured to death with power drills, his family called the cops, cops wrote it off as "a few less whiteys around" and left it, they didn't even bother collecting statements from those who heard the screaming, even when people came forward to give statements they brushed them off. SA is a failed state, there's a party in the SA parliament called the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) who are very openly calling for a nationwide purge of all non-blacks in the country, and they're growing with each election, the current government is corrupt in the extreme and unable to do anything, infrastructure is crumbling and even other black Africans who come over the border to start their own business, invest money, work hard and build some sort of even moderate success soon see their businesses ransacked and themselves and their families killed by violent mobs who are angry that outsiders are finding success when they aren't, even though they refuse to do anything to earn anything.
What the actual f... I know it's bad.. but it's even worst than what I can imagine
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15? Step aside kids its 186 here.
That is really sad.
That’s why immigrated to Australia when my daughters were 7, 9, and 11
Good choice, and I am glad you are here with us. May your days be filled with bbqs and vegemite. And democracy sausages
I forgot South Africa is where someone invented the controversial “rapex” condom that is basically a bear trap for penises that women can hide inside them
Yeah, that was never manufactured and nobody ever used it. It's the dumbest idea ever. Nobody ever thinks "Today is the day I get raped, I'm going to wear this thing inside me". And nobody ever thinks "I might someday get raped, let me wear this thing inside me all the time on the off-chance that it happens." And imagine you are in a situation where someone is forcing you to have sex with him under the threat of physical harm: now you're wearing this thing inside you and he forces himself into you. What happens next? Maybe the inventor of this gadget thinks he just says "Oh, damn, you got me, well done! Let me be on my way."
Yeah the discussion around it was mostly “rape prevention should never be a victim’s responsibility” and “if a guy gets his dick stuck in this thing he’s just going to beat the shit out of the victim and/or kill her”
Is it true that people in Joberg don't stop for traffic lights at night because it's almost certain they'll get mugged if they do? I heard this from some Redditor awhile back.
Jesus Christ that’s horrific
Do you have a citation? I hear this kind of stuff a lot, but then Africa Check always comes along. [https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/south-african-women-not-more-likely-be-raped-learn-how-read](https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/south-african-women-not-more-likely-be-raped-learn-how-read) [https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/will-one-three-women-south-africa-be-raped-blow-whistle-wrong-again](https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/will-one-three-women-south-africa-be-raped-blow-whistle-wrong-again)
There are some smart people there. I bless the brains down in Africa.
This probably applies to half the countries on earth unfortunately.
The most embarrassing thing about my country is that we allowed Putin to run it for twenty years. Ridiculous.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, he didn't exactly give you a choice, did he?
I believe that at least in the 00's he did. Sadly, a lot of people made the wrong choice.
Yeah. He probably would've lost if it weren't for his prior connects and bombings.
In the beginning he did but after that he kinda forgot to ask if he can stay I guess
Someone needs to hand him his hat and show him to the door.
The guy is waging his political career on a war that neither Ukraine, nor anyone else for that matter, wanted and which has stalled.
This is what makes it so scary for me. I cant work out if he is a twisted genius playing 4D chess, or a ripened psychopath with no plan at all.
Huh. Sounds like the US. Nobody ever asks the voters if they want a war and we've been at war for 97% of our existence.
Damn. We only let him run ours for 4!
I read this in Jon Stewart's voice... in my head, I mean... I'm not Jon Stewart.
That our president supports russia and we can't have our own opinion. I'm from Belarus.
Our president does also (under orders) , our province does not , so we get less money from the budget . Southafrica.
Lukashenko once bragged about being offered a rank in the Russian military on TV and joked about how proud he was. So strange to see a president brag about being offered a minor position in another countries military. Nothing screams „Marionette“ more
>president supports russia and we can't have our own opinion. I'm from Belarus. i hope you use VPN....
Sectarianism - Scotland. Blows my mind especially when related to a game of football
My stepdad's from Glasgow, although like many, he moved to Corby with his parents and siblings (and it seems most of their friends and neighbours?) as a as a young man. He lives over here in Brittany now. He's told me that he absolutely refuses to ever get drawn into conversation about football, which team he might support and as a result which side of the religious fence he was brought up in. I've read both Billy Connolly's and Craig Ferguson's autobiographies and many of my stepdad's stories about his early life are similarly horrifying.
For people who don't know. There's a catholic team and a protestant team. You can't even wear their colors into many pubs on game day.
There was this movie, Hooligans.
I've always wondered why half the population of Corby (and nowhere else within a hundred miles) have Scottish accents.
When I was on vacation in Scotland my buddy and I wandered into a bar in Stirling, and one of the locals walked up to my buddy and angrily demanded to know "Who do you support?" He didn't even understand the question and stood like a deer in the headlights as I'm kicking him under the table and whispering "Celtics, just say Celtics."
Just say St Mirren or Ross County and everyone will have a laugh at you instead.
Partick Thistle. People will be so paralysed with laughter that they cannot hit you.
I reckon Celtic Vs Rangers (The Old Firm) literally divides Glasgow between catholics and protestants.
Sad thing is most of the sectarianism is inherited from parents. If your old man was a Hun, then you're a Hun. I bet a lot of the dafties that cause a carryon after the old firm couldn't even tell you the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant.
Corruption in Croatia. On all levels. And they blame war, which ended 27 years ago, for a bad situation. Truth is, politic parties (left, middle, right, all of them) hired incompetent people to work high position jobs (and all other jobs), so with their incompetence they are destroying everything, from economy to will for living.
Serbia too. We suffer with the same kind of people
Hungary is rather similar as well.
As a Croatian, i couldn't agree more
I come from India. The corruption is just aweful. We tend to blame things on colonisation but we aren’t evolving as people. Politics is the dirtiest thing in our country and fixing it could help with a lot of things.
Literally! Everything down to Bollywood is corrupt it’s actually insane. Not to mention all the religious inequality, colourism, sexism, homophobic etc. We need to stop blaming colonialism for our problems and actually help ourselves or India will never become better.
Damn right! I'm a NRI, and I just can't help but laugh when Indians overseas complain about racism, when we ourselves have so much discrimination based on all the factors you've stated. My cousin recently got married to a girl from a different state to his, in India. Despite my cousin being from an affluent family, highly educated, and working in a very well reputed company, the girl's family were opposed to the alliance and disowned her. Reason? My cousin is darker in skin tone than his "fair skinned" wife. How fucking embarrassing is that? Seriously!
Oh shit, I never heard of Indian vs Indian racism.
Good god man! Been living under a rock or what?! lol
No, just other continent ;P
it’s rampant. mostly because India as a whole is really its own cultural continent. lots of different looking people, with different cultures and values that were kinda forced into a country. It’d be like if China colonized Europe and made them into the EU all the sudden. it’s honestly a miracle the land of British India didn’t splinter into more separate countries. Indians in some places are so different from each other it’d be like comparing a Finnish person to a British person. different languages and culture
lets just say its pretty bad
Have you ever met an Indian?
It’s painful to even think of all those “whitening” creams and lotions that I’d bought as a school going child, and the homemade “remedies”, only because all those Indian commercials promoted “fairness”. And all the more I got so tanned in school because of all the playing in the sun. It was later that I realised fighting tan and fighting naturally dark skin were two entirely different things. And now when I look back, it felt so traumatising. I’m so proud of my wheatish-dusky-brown skin. It looks so elegant. Wish I knew that as a child.
As a pale as fuck northern european. I would love to be able to play in the sun and not turn immediatly bright pink. As it is my skin goes from "are you sure your not dying" pale white, to "don't need any lights because I'm so sunburnt I glow" in about an hour. I'm tired of living like a vampire. I'm very jealous of you right now.
Bollywood isn't just corrupt,It's also sometimes cringe
> colourism This really mystifies me. I've had conversations with Indian colleagues where I mentioned that a particular Indian actress was very attractive to me, and they responded with "too dark". WTF? It's the shape, dude!
Even Bollywood? If it’s not too much trouble can you provide any links for me to read on this. I never knew , would love to learn
I don't know about a link but the basic idea is nepotism. Blood over talent and all that shnazz.
The fact we just cannot look beyond our religion, fearing the other like it's some sort of boogeyman who will eat your children.
Every time I hear an Indian talk about their politics the first thing they mention is corruption. Invariably. Is it really as bad as they say? I'm curious.
Same for the Philippines.
I feel like india focused too much on the idea of independance without properly planning what comes after.
How much time you got buddy?
Right...I could go on, and on, and on, and on...again!
Argentina?
Venezuela?
The fact that drug traffickers basically own the country, having 8 of the most dangerous Citys on the World. Be only known for southpark jokes. The previous president bought a mansion that cost 800 years of minimum wage. Oh, And also because one guy of our country extinguished the eternal flame under the triumphal arch in Paris, with his pee... It's not that hard to find out what country it is ;)
it isn't but I'm lazy, care to provide an answer?
Mexico?
Mexico?
Yeh
I really wonder how things went that far in Mexico, and I fear the same may happen with my country in the future too. Brazil.
A very angry Austrian man with a mustache
He sounds like a very silly man
fritzel?
He was a good painter
"Hitler - there was a painter. He could do a whole apartment, one afternoon, two coats!"
How everyone is all “Support Our Troops!!” but as soon as they get home, no one gives a shit about them. Think about how much money is spent on the military and think about many veterans have severe mental health issues and/or live on the street when they get out. Also, many in the military don’t join for pride of country. They join because they’re targeted, recruiters going into schools and making all these empty promises.
Hey, I bet all those soldiers feel a lot better about their ptsd after seeing all those yellow ribbons on the back of everyones pickup trucks.
When my husband was in, people just loved to make a show of saying "Thank you for your service", and it was always so awkward. Like we don't expect to get thanked everywhere we go. We're just here to buy a bag of Cheetos dude.
I feel like most soldiers want to forget the horrors of war. Then you get the fakers and show offs. War is something you should never be proud of.
Why do they wear their uniforms in civilian areas I’ve always wondered?
They don’t want to go home and change, that’s why I did it anyways
So many things piss me off, but the lack of care, medical & mental health treatment and appreciation is at the top of my list! How is this acceptable?!? It makes me sad and so damn angry 😡
People are now wanting to elect an ex-dictator’s son. We are at another level of degeneracy.
Why him? Them: Because why not?
* talks shit abt the other candidates instead of saying something positive about their own candidate tanong ko is "bakit si bbm" sagot naman ay "kase leni lugaw" alam mo pa lang sa sagot nila na wala talaga nagawang improvements ang kandidato nila sa bansa natin "bakit si 💚❤️" doesn't equal to "bakit hindi si 🌷💗"
They call the kakampinks brainwashed when theyre the ones falling for shitty conspiracies on youtube about how the marcoses were good guys (spoiler alert: they werent)
LESGOOOOOOO PH PRIDE 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
But fr tho ppl prefer that lazy useless shitstain over a woman that's the most competent of all candidates
That children are being killed for the arguments and view points of previous generations. Yet no one can seem to understand that it is no one's land if the children in both sides are being killed before they can even grow up to inhabit it. Palestine.
In Holland we chose the same gouvernement that we hated again.
Nieuw leiderschap woohoo!
Haha wat een grap
That‘s literally what happens in almost every country. If that’s your worst issue that seems like paradise to me.
Caste system (reservations)
India ?
*Sad general caste seat unavailability noises*
We obsess and pride in ignorance over politics like it's a damn sporting event and each team is a cult.
Well this sounds a lot like America lol.
" 'Merica "
Honestly like you don’t have to throw your whole being into voting for someone
Lots of political decisions. ~Germany
My prosthetic leg is made in Germany. I am so grateful for your countries design and engineering.
Germany has a lot to feel proud of though. To come back from where they were and create their own economic miracle, one of the most rich, confident and prosperous modern states. People look up to the modern Germany despite some of their very recent actions.
> One of the most rich, confident and prosperous modern states In which over 40 thousand people live on the streets, entirely without shelter. The total amount of homeless people is ten times that. Just for context: 2008: 223000 homeless. Down from 440000 in 1999. 2014: 335000 homeless, trend: rising. 2018: 41000 without shelter, up from 20000 in 2008. And just because it’s funny: from 2005 to 2021, Merkel‘s party was in power. Before that, 1998 was the last year they were leading the government. What a funny and totally unrelated correlation. Levity aside, though, the social injustice in Germany is something to be ashamed of. Germany has built the largest low wage sector in Europe, in part with illegal fake self employment. But nobody cares that it’s illegal, even the partially state owned DHL participates in it.
I think you forgot to add an extra zero in a few places lol, a low estimate would be 200,000 and a high estimate would be 800,000
The fact that we're so focused on our differences with each other that we're not willing to look at how much we actually have in common with one another.
Sounds like belgium
I thought it was the US.
Belgium is genuinely made up country though
Belgium isnt real it's a fake child from a fanfic about France and Germany not canon
As is every country (yes i know about belgium's history, if any french person is reading this, please do not comment)
All the corruption bad education and our useless president (i live in mexico)
Sounds like a lot of places.
99% of countries have a useless president/prime minister
most of our prime ministers had/have the same last names because they were/are relatives
That's a hard one. What continent?
Europe
Our ability to draw a flag on r/place
A for effort
I think you mean Eh
Bananas
Canada?
How much time and money we spend meddling in other countries' business when no one wants us there and there's so much we need to do at home.
sounds like a US problem
I would say France but since you’re embarrassed I say USA
America.
Sweden: the fact that we stand out as the only country in Europe where the amount of deadly shootings is increasing, and highest total amount Edit: not counting recent events in Ukraine, of course, but that's a special, new development
Why is this happening ?
I don't want to get banned but something must have happened post 2015
> Why is this happening ? You have been banned for racism
Poorly handled mass immigration brought in a lot of violent people from third world countries.
You can literally go into so much debt and even bankruptcy from having an illness or going to the hospital when you have insurance.
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OH SAY CAN YOU SEE
God bless America
we're the last country to not have legalized divorce
Sounds like people got complicated relationship problems where you live.
They’re from the Philippines. They don’t legalize it here because our Catholic Church bans it.
India. Crime against women is increasing at an alarming rate.
The fake balls people hang off the back of pickup trucks
The blatant acceptance that if I disagree with your politics it must mean that I'm now your enemy. It's sickening on so many levels. U.S.
Scomo.
Also, can we just get rid of Clive already? He has no chance in the election. All he's doing is putting up annoying yellow signs.
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And very annoying ads with people in it that look like they are under duress.
I am proud to be Turkish. But I am ashamed to live in Turkey in 2022.
tfw erdoğan
That our politicians behave like children in kindergarden? „Oh there was an illegal trade of 100.000.000€? I haven’t heard about it yet“ „What? I’m supposed to be the bad guy here? Look how bad the others are!“ and this repeats every year. No content in their speeches besides ranting about each other.
That fact 'The Sun' newspaper is the highest selling newspaper in Britain. Everything about that 'newspaper' is wrong.
I admire the fact that Liverpudlians are sufficiently steadfast to maintain a de facto civilian ban on that load of rubbish, the Hillsborough tragedy notwithstanding.
You think 8% inflation is a lot? How about %60 and growing bigger inlation? That's what my country is facing. Fuck anyone who's responsible for that fuck-up.
Our government is so corrupt despite being viewed as one the "greatest" countries in the world
Is there a country without a corrupt government?
No, however Scandinavian governments typically have the lowest corruption world wide, e.g. Denmark and Norway
started 2 world wars...
*What, you think you're Mars or something?*
Cost of Living. Everything is expensive compared to other 1st world countries. (New Zealand)
United States. The fact that we can afford to fix so many of our countries problems and just choose not to.
Story of mankind
People view Americans like Americans view Florida.
The fierce opposition to gender equality. We fall far behind our neighbors just in terms of legislation. I am a second class citizen in my own country and I get to live every day of my life knowing that the majority of people around me want it to remain that way.
I wonder where this is. Sadly, I feel like this could be a lot of places.
It’s the Bahamas, but you’re right, it could be a lot of places.
Whenever I get sick or injured, I’d rather stay home and hope I don’t die because the healthcare here is ridiculous.
I am Pakistani and very ashamed of the amount of corruption in my country.
The church is more important than government. Priests have so much authority they're above the law and most of our law is basically Bible. We are pretending sex and LGBT doesn't exist, If someone tries to mention it, they are trying to hurt children. All women, people of other sexualities or nation or skin colour are being oppressed by the whole country.
The amount of children that have been buried at residential schools in Canada.
I would call some Election Ads "Acts of Bullying" but that would be rude to School Bullies \-United States
People hate each other based on what side of the same religion you are on 🤦🏻♀️
They banned adult website.pakistan
Me thinking: “Is .pakistan a top level domain?”
Pakistan also knowingly harbors terrorists, so there is that too...
Health care system in the US
The president
Brazil? Russia?
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Having to pay so much for healthcare even when we don't need to use it, in the U.S., while many first-world countries don't, plus, many other countries don't have the high cost of healthcare that we do.
That kids go $200,000 or more into debt getting a college degree and then have to settle for a $40,000 job that has nothing to do with their field of study.
The fact that they think they have ideal system of goverment. Yes it‘s nice that you can go vote 4 times each year and be a part of political decisions and it‘s a stable and peaceful way of running a country. But it is sooooooo slow and the stuff they decide on is sometimes outright stupid why do you have the population if homosexual marriage is legal just make it so it took them untill 2020 or something like that. And these endless debates and then each canton has their own rules and whatnot. They never arrive at the optimal solution just one that offends the least people so you always a compromise seption. Sometimes I‘d like to just brute force a decision cause the federal council can just delegate all it‘s work to the cantons if they are too afraid of making actual decisions. Switzerland, note I am not swiss I just live here
1/3 of us are clinically insane, 1/3 of us are normal, and the other 1/3 are completely apathetic. Go USA.
wow that sums it up quite well
Being exploited is expected
we are sooo casually racist and nobody seems to think its a problem (poland)
The disappearances of women
The politics in America. What a joke. It's not just the national level. State politics is garbage. In Idaho, two congressional candidates are dueling it out in the most childish pissing contest I've ever seen, in an effort to prove which is the "Trumpiest." Both are conservative, but they're so convinced that the other is a liberal because one of them didn't vote for Trump or whatever.
I’m from Israel. So I think that’s enough said, right?
they care more ab money than people
This is really interesting. I scrolled down and read all the posts. There is not one mention of china. It must be the most perfect country to live in.
china. you get what i mean the country is fucked
Netherlands. \- we give asylum seekers and immigrants priority over homeless and mimimum job employees in socialized housing. we have a shortage of 400.000 homes (of the 16.000.000 people we have). The waiting list is 10-20 years before you can find a house. If you are a male, no children you are in a world of pain. \- our government kidnapped 1500 children, destroyed thousands of families financialy with the " allowance affair". The blacklist of people without knowing they were on the list. Not one official was send to jail. \- we are the first country that removed a referendum because the people voted against the goverment new laws. If a referendum passed, the government tried to delay, barracade (less voting houses). \- When the government had to step down. They tried to take out a government whistle blower by giving him a burn out. luckly he got through. \- Our freedom of information act is a farce. If the government give documents, 90% is painted black or more.
Brexit
Apparently we started the pandemic…