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  • lyra_lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneL [email protected]

    As far as I can tell the USA, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Australia and China are fucked. Fascism, nationalism, corporate capitalism, segregation, genocide, history erasure, political extremism and regression.. Looking pretty fucking bleak. I'd include Palestine but it was formatted by Britain and replaced with Israel, and it doesn't technically exist like it used to.

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    I'm glad you didn't mention Canada but I'm not feeling entirely safe here either

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      South Korea, I'm pretty happy overall. Previous president attempted self coup but failed and got impeached(#), now things are mostly going well.

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        Pretty happy. There’s universal healthcare, there’s decent investment in infrastructure and when there’s corruption, people tend to go to jail. There are two main parties and although things are bitterly contentious between them, neither one seems to be radically rewriting the social contract. It’s not perfect of course, but seems like paradise compared to the country I moved from, which sadly has fallen to the fascists. Of course, there’s a giant authoritarian country next door that keeps saying they are going to invade us, so it probably won’t last.

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          I'm glad you didn't mention Canada but I'm not feeling entirely safe here either

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          They just forgot. Canada isn't any less at risk than the rest... probably more-so due to proximity to Americas mass mental illness.

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            Chicago City Gov't: Moderately unhappy in general, unhappy with my Alderman specifically.

            Illinois State Gov't: Very happy. Pritzker is amazing and I hope he doesn't run for president because we need him here for a few more years to keep cleaning up these messes. I'm very unhappy with my State Representative specifically, but he runs unopposed in both primary and general so my options are limited. And by "unopposed" I mean he's the stepson of my Alderman, the Alderman whose wife held the State Rep seat previously, and it's a whole nepotism / Machine thing.

            US Federal Gov't: Very unhappy. You've read the news, you know why.

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            • lyra_lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneL [email protected]

              As far as I can tell the USA, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Australia and China are fucked. Fascism, nationalism, corporate capitalism, segregation, genocide, history erasure, political extremism and regression.. Looking pretty fucking bleak. I'd include Palestine but it was formatted by Britain and replaced with Israel, and it doesn't technically exist like it used to.

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              Denmark?

              Germany?

              How?

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                Local: not too happy, a populist party holds the majority and they're only looking out for their own interest. Also generally our municipality tends to be too ambitious, pouring lots of money into stuff that doesn't benefit the residents.

                Country (the Netherlands): we had elections in november 2023, the (right-wing) cabinet was formed in july 2024, and it blew up in may 2025. New elections will be next month, and the right-wing Islamophobic Israel lover is leading the polls once again, even though they didn't make good on any of their promises in their current reign. So really unhappy about that.

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                  City is lead by a bunch of idiots. Maybe one person who has any idea of how to lead and balance things.

                  State isn’t too bad. Needs some serious work. But over all not bad.

                  Federal level (national level) … I’m in the US so yeah I’ve lost all faith in them.

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                    I am happy to say….What government?

                    The Netherlands…we'll be voting soon again.

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                      Denmark?

                      Germany?

                      How?

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                      I was wrong about Germany, the main issue over there is the AfD party, but it seems the public are vehemently opposed to them. Denmark, however, is the current presidential leader of the EU, and is speedrunning Chat Control before their term ends. Normally these kinds of votes must be unanimous, but it wasn't -- yet Denmark is continuing to implement it.

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                        They just forgot. Canada isn't any less at risk than the rest... probably more-so due to proximity to Americas mass mental illness.

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                        Yeah, I have faith in the people but the leadership definitely puts Canada in the same gross boat as the others..

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                          Local government is great but we're a pretty small township.

                          National government is fucked and can go fuck itself. Packed full of incompetent morons, sycophants, opportunists, grifters, and brainworms, and riddled with hate - racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, etc. It's a smorgasbord of vile shitheads who never should've gotten anywhere near this much power.

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                            Top to bottom it’s a piece of shit. USA Michigan

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                              Local is not terrible. They do a decent job. We have decent schools and decent roads. The county police aren't super terrible. Property taxes aren't insane like they are in most of the country. State a bit worse. They seem pretty corrupt. They levied a gas tax on us so they could hire tons of new state troopers, something the majority of people in my state do not want, and absolutely were not okay with, because we are already very poor, both the gas tax and the state troopers writing tickets. I think most people in my state see this as pure greed from the nanny state people and a scheme to extort money from the poor. Our state also completely sells us out to the evil federal government constantly unless it's state rights to own slaves or ruin trans people something. The national government. I hate it honestly, I hate both the Republican and Democratic party. I like the Democrats more but they are both extremely corrupt and they always pass laws that screw the people and they ruin our currency and let criminal corporations get away with just about anything. They also spy on us and our children.

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                                Netherlands:

                                Country: an utter clusterfuck. After a fifteen year neoliberal government, the far right have taken over. Whereas the neoliberals broke lots of things, under the facsists, our country satgnated and it will probably take decades for us to recover. We are fucked. Sideways. With a chainsaw.
                                Province: As far as I can tell, they try to do their best despite being fucked over by said far right.
                                City: Right-wing mayor who actually appears do be doing a somewhat decent job. However, whenever he tries to act as a human being in a national or international context, he is being cut short by his party members.

                                The outlook is not good.

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                                  Ah, is it that country I heard about where the parliament keep dismissing the cabinet / no confidence votes?

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                                    Ah, is it that country I heard about where the parliament keep dismissing the cabinet / no confidence votes?

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                                    That's Belgium.

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                                      Germany: Merz. My Little Nazi. Lindner and Merz worked together to discredit the Greens and it worked. The AfD keeps winning local elections.

                                      Local is weird. AfD popular even though the area literally depends on French customers for income.

                                      Country is fucked.

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                                        As far as I can tell the USA, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Australia and China are fucked. Fascism, nationalism, corporate capitalism, segregation, genocide, history erasure, political extremism and regression.. Looking pretty fucking bleak. I'd include Palestine but it was formatted by Britain and replaced with Israel, and it doesn't technically exist like it used to.

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                                        Germany is totally fucked.

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                                          I was wrong about Germany, the main issue over there is the AfD party, but it seems the public are vehemently opposed to them. Denmark, however, is the current presidential leader of the EU, and is speedrunning Chat Control before their term ends. Normally these kinds of votes must be unanimous, but it wasn't -- yet Denmark is continuing to implement it.

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                                          You weren't wrong about Germany.

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