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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Killing brown people. Incredibly skilled at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Gun violence. Police murder. Cover-ups.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Support Israel.

Ha, try guessing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Haltet den Verräter!

😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Historically we have had good education and OK healthcare. The trend is downward.

The military has been really good with purchasing used but good equipment for cheap.

The foreign policy has been consistent, and even opponents to military alliance pushed for NATO when Pootin screwed the pooch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Kill (or help kill) people who are on average more poor and brown than we are.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jesus, Lemmy, this should be a positive thread not just an opportunity to complain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Yea, didn't see it going this way either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Maintain global dominance by attracting and keeping STEM workers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Preferential voting. Compulsory voting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Corruption, and running enterprises into the ground with. Our countries official power utility, our postal service, our railways, our police as examples. You know , the stuff we kind of need as citizens. Edit: Our taxation is world class though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Military stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Superannuation

Minimum 10% compulsory

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Protect rich people at all costs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Not even protect, really, but also “ensure they experience not the slightest discomfort nor the smallest penalty of law, and make sure their ever-expanding demand for luxury is exceeded in every measure.”

~guillotines are good for the environment~

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Many things. For example, every single president during my lifetime has been almost universally liked by everyone in the country - kind of like a lifetime of Obamas.

A more recent example of something they do well is when I started my business. I received nearly 10 hours of one-on-one personal guidance on how to do it, completely free. They’re also paying me around 600 euros a month for a year to help me get started.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks Obama.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What country is this? Uruguay?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Ha! You must be from... Shit, so many options.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Australia is super good at dryland cropping, growing wheat where there's fuck all water.

Also, digging up red soil and flogging it to China at a rate that you can almost feel the earth's axis shifting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Abandoning public services and privatizing them :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My county government office is a well oiled machine. Paying for taxes like car tags and property is a no-brainer, in person or online. Last time I got a new driver's license I was in and out, 10 minutes flat, including the walk to and from my truck. Prices for all of the above are plenty fair.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Welfare for giant corporations

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Destroying public services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Fucking the working class.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Incarcerate citizens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

They handled the pandemic well with regards to small businesses

50% of your normal monthly income, free, no questions asked. That was great lol, sat on my arse for six months

Also, 1% of my taxes get put into a training fund that I can spend on any kind of training I want. Doesn't have to be relevant to my business at all

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Parks and interstate freeways

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Syrup. Affable. Eh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Steal, corrupt, kill, erase, and destroy. Thats about all the country im ashamed to be a citizen of does

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The country: promise the opportunity of a better life

The govt: Be corrupt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Bomb oppressed peoples.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Sensitivezombie 5 points 1 day ago

Serve the military Political kidnaps and assassinations their own citizens and journalists

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Pulling shit out of the ground and inflating a housing bubble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oppress mosquitos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

To find new ways to obstruct the lives of the everyday citizens, while letting both local and international monetary elites to do what they want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Many things, but not all of them good. Still, some are good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Taxes. They have an incredible talent to raise new taxes.

And, more seriously, like already mentioned in another comment: destroying public services. which is a real sad thing to see happening, if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Shoot itself in the dick

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Making new enemies.

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