I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.
Which country, if you don’t mind me asking?
Just off the top of my head:
State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.
PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.
A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2
Healthcare, a sane leader who cares about his country, cheaper tuition, more than two parties, the metric system, less urban sprawl (though it’s still not great here), far less guns
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
Australia?
Correct
We’ve got one media oligarch and that’s one too many.
Assuming you’re talking about Australia since you mentioned Super.
Would we consider him australian still?
No chance.
I’m on board except for the food variety, but I live in Chicago which attracts an amazing foodie scene. In bumbfuck Iowa you’re probably more likely to have trouble getting some good Thai food.
We already went through the phase you just began.
Germany?
Yeah.
Yeah Germany is about to launch into this again though
Absolutely, it’s not looking to hot here either. For those who don’t know should look into our west/east split.
I’m allowed to walk across the street without being arrested for ‘jay walking’.
Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.
I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.
Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.
Thats not a speed limit. That’s a speed minimum.
Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.
I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.
I say minium because if you’re not doing it you’ll get hell from all drivers around you and realistically everyone is pushing 10 over.
Being able to walk in the cities! And healthcare is also a big reason
Literally all of them except size of military.
5 weeks paid leave
We elected a fascist leader once and then we learned from it.
If you’re from Germany or Italy: I don’t think this is really true anymore. The fascist parties in these countries got 30%/21% of votes.
It doesn’t have a traitor as a president
We care about the planet.
We, here in the UK, for all our faults, have waaaay fewer school shootings… In fact way fewer shootings altogether (even when multiplied by ~5 for relative population size)
To be fair, the UK includes the Scots and they are pretty much in the top 3 of most chill people.
