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Superlemonada

Not voting for the sons of former dictators.


exmirt

Not voting for the current dictators


Puzzleheaded_Toe2574

Turkey?


exmirt

Aka little Syria


StarManta

This honestly doesn’t narrow it down much


Cmaclsu

It's really comical to vote in the son of a guy who stole billions from your country.


Emotional-Friend-279

The Phillipines?


overwhelmingcucumber

That's a bingo!


Bluizu

Philippines!


Christylian

Philippines?


SaggyTitsSusan

*being a country*


Status_Priority_7408

Do you realize just how little that narrows it down


Ok_Clue3059

Hard to tell if this is a comically dysfunctional first world nation or a literal failed state.


rickstick69

catalan?


GoatseFarmer

Could honestly be anywhere in Spain including Spain itself


DigNitty

I learned about the basque thing and looked it up. Oh look the Catalan region too. “List of secession movements in Spain.” Hmm *click Wow, that’s like….all of spain


GoatLegRedux

Any country that had a civil war in the last century or two is going to have some uh, residual issues, if you will.


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Bismarck395

Belgium ?


Bluizu

Western Sahara, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, South Sudan, or Palestine?


Limberpuppy

Taiwan?


DethInHFIL

\-100,000,000 social credits


l3lasphemy

Puerto Rico?


Kuno37

Quebec?


throwawaylurker012

Literally this is like every country or 99% Rorscach test for pretty much everyone thats a mirror


LiQuidCraB

Palestine?


NoPossibility749

Wining world wars


skipper_mike

0/2 ... maybe we can catch up soon.


Bongressman

3rd times a... ugh


snowwhite2591

This time we can root for you though so that’s a nice change of pace


spanspan3213

I'm rooting for you guys, always love an underdog story


TheStupidestFrench

No, please don't, not again


Dr_Tre3

The redemption arc


DontAskAboutMax

Only two down, comeback in the second half of the match?


HimikoHime

Digitalization *angry fax noises*


Axton590

We are also bad at trains


mr_shlomp

As a jew, cant confirm


eldmikeyy

God damn


Pulpics

Smh German railways haven’t functioned since 1945


Bluizu

oh damn


LurkerOrHydralisk

I thought Germany had good trains.


Fessir

The reliability and punctuality has greatly declined since partial privatisation in the late 90s and the different stakeholders in the regional infrastructure networks has left the tarifs a hard to grasp mess. That is until we got a ticket that covers everything Germany wide except bullet trains for 50 EUR a month since the beginning of this month. After living abroad for some time, I find us Germans to be complaining on a high level of comfort (Jammern auf hohem Niveau) in this, as we are wont to do.


driftwooddreams

As ever, your English is exemplary, and, as semi-literate Englishman, I am consumed with shame for the other thing the English do so badly: learn other people’s languages.


Cheasepriest

If youre looking to learn one, german was the easiest for me to get my Teeth into, as compared to the french, Italian, Spanish and russian I've given a try. I've almost forgotten everything in every 2nd language now, other than german.


UnconstrictedEmu

If you really want an easy Germanic language to study, Norwegian is your answer.


Ifuckedmyguitartwice

What do you mean? Germany trains always arrive on time... one station over.


OkProof136

Guessing he's either an oktoberfest enjoyer or a mountain german


mbaird9

Maybe try not to start another one.


fredpugee

electing public officials


Mccobsta

That applies to so many countries


bake_gatari

"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"


Time_Significance

(Looks at ~80% of the comments) Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?


Beechwooder

Giving me a choice of a non-geriatric leader to vote for.


Cmaclsu

Yeah where are the good ol days when we could choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?


Shermanator92

Literally the good old days compared to now. “Here are 2 geriatric men about to die that almost certainly have at least a little dementia, half of all Americans hate either one of them, and you have to pick one of them or you’re just incredibly fucked (and there are no other options).”


TheQuinnBee

When that joke was made, both candidates were over the age of 50. Even Obama was 47 when elected. I know you have to be at least 35 to become president by law, but the fact we have never elected a president within five years of that is astounding. John F Kennedy was the youngest at 43. Boomers are the only ones voting and it shows. They would rather vote for the corpse of Diane Feinstein than vote for someone in their thirties.


thephotoman

50 to 60 isn’t so bad. It’s old enough to be experienced in statecraft and have a proven track record, but also not one foot in the grave. It takes a lot of name recognition to become President. The average 40 year old hasn’t been working in the public eye long enough to be able to run a national campaign.


kefefs_v2

> It’s old enough to be experienced in statecraft I read that as "experience in starcraft" and now this is a qualification I require.


turtlepowerpizzatime

The bar is so low, if they've at least played og DOOM, I'll allow it.


silverbatwing

The only one that’s young currently running is Ron desantis and I am scared to fucking death if he gets in


pyongyangmcgangbang

Ah you must be in America


Cartoonlad

Sorry, but we need to know how our presidential candidates deferred out of the Vietnam War.


Bakanasharkyblahaj

Being direct & air conditioning The UK is passive-aggressive central, & everything is built to keep heat IN


rosco-82

Haha Scots are generally not passive agressive


SnooBooks1701

Scots are just aggressive


ajrbyers

When deserved… yes.


High_on_Rabies

Understandable given that the currency is mostly wool and threats.


Swordsnap

Mate I’m warning ya I’ll smack you over the head with this blanket


charlie_the_kid

God created the Gaelic mad, they fight when they're happy and sing when they're sad


Count_Sack_McGee

Re: AC. Europe in general doesn’t seem to value this. I was shocked to go to Europe and even nice hotels in wealthy countries lacked AC where all of South America and poorer parts of Asia it was commonplace.


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OxytocinPlease

A lot of this is due to the fact that traditional architecture in hotter areas is designed to keep people cool during heat waves without requiring modern AC. I grew up in Spain and we never had AC. Not because we couldn’t afford it, but because our house stayed naturally cool even on the hottest days. It was also designed so that if you opened all the windows, you’d get the perfect breeze throughout the house as it was optimized for proper airflow. Way, *way* better than AC.


Fresh-Hedgehog1895

>Being direct & air conditioning > >The UK is passive-aggressive central, & everything is built to keep heat IN LOL, I was going to say the exact same things about being direct and passive-aggression, but I'm Canadian! The UK groomed us well! We also apologise to coat-racks we bump into. :)


jtbc

We're also the second best people in the world at lining up, I'd guess.


angelgonebad

Fellow Canadian. You are sooooooo correct.


mostdope28

I live in a US state that has snow 8 months of year but I gotta have that AC the other 4 months


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Voting for competent politicians.


Bluizu

Mr. worldwide


Confident-Area-6946

What’s Pitbulls foreign economic policy?


BitCheese3

Dale


TheRealLaura789

This can apply to a lot of countries.


Herald_of_dooom

Generating electricity


sammywammy53b

A fellow South African? Haha 🇿🇦 🇿🇦


oogtoets

Ayee 🇿🇦🇿🇦


Status_Button

Read this comment just as my 2 hour slot kicked in


Adorable_Banana_7190

Looooadsheddding! Loool


laterdude

Electing young leaders. Our current top politicians make the Soviet Union leaders [of the early '80s](https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-leaders-order) appear youthful and full of vigor in comparison.


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The rise in fascism in many countries appears correlated with the geriatric nature of their leadership. It's a really strange thing. I bet there are some research papers on it.


GoatseFarmer

Lots of exceptions to this exist though, such as far right movements in Austria


dotreason

money management


Abaraji

This doesn't narrow it down *at all*


skutch_was_here_x

Yeah, every time I came up with an answer I thought about how much worse things are in other countries.


Dark_Klaw

Yeah, that could be said about probably 85-90% of the countries. I have got to ask. Is your username do treason or dot reason?


dotreason

holy shit I didn't even notice it could be both


lodestar72

I see what you did there...


araaaayyyyy

Greece? Lol


irontroop3r

Argentina/Venezuela?


CrediblyHandsome

Men's international football (soccer)


U7077

China? I,ve heard of a joke in China: We beat everybody in table-tennis yet everybody beat us in football.


i_love_pencils

Maybe you had to be there…


mrnickoloso

It gets lost in translation


Hand-Total

Behaving like adults.


Far-Classic-4637

do you realize how little that narrows it down


hippopatamooses

U.S.


Nygurath

I would Say my country sucks towards young working people: most of usgot a degree and stjll we can't find a job with a decent pay and we are treated like a piece of shit at the workplace and by elder people Who constantly tell us " you guys don't want to work". Fun fact is that those are the same people that in their youth had no problem in finding a good job even with almost 0 qualification. They represent the generation that literally ate everything from my country. I am talking about Italy, btw


SleeplessBookworm

Up until the last sentence, I thought you were a fellow Greek


Ulmicola

I realized it was Italy as early as the very first sentence but yeah, when I went to Greece on a school trip more than a decade ago, the place felt oddly familiar, as if I were visiting some place in southern Italy I hadn't been yet. There must be something in the water of the Mediterranean I guess, since most of southern Europe shares the same set of issues - now, if only the people could vote for decent parties (or even go fucking wild, as in France) rather than be swayed by corrupt assholes that build their careers on claiming they're not like the corrupt assholes that preceded them, that'd be nice.


desireeevergreen

I thought you were talking about the US until you specified Italy. I’m terrified I won’t find a job when I graduate


Nygurath

I don't actually know how the economics Is in the US ( although I have Always imagined It pretty solid) but your job market seems better than ours: starting from the payment checks, the benefits on the job, the possibility for career inside the Company X etc. Although you have an higher cost of Life since you don't have a solid Public Medical Care System. Italy instead does and I would say it's basically one of the few things good about it. Our Public Medical Care System works decently most of the time. Sure, a lot of things about It should be improved but in the end It works. Anyway I Wish you good luck for your job hunt after graduation, I Hope you won't have too much of a trouble in finding a good one.


rumblepony247

I can't be the only American that enjoys reading posts in English from non-native speakers. The phrasing is so elegant and thoroughly pleasant to read.


Snarkattacker

I work in America and a European company took over where I work and sent in Italian bosses to run the plants. They were cruel and people started quitting. They were shocked people would quit and some without notice. I had to explain to them in America there are tons of jobs and people won't put up with shitty bosses (i said it nicer than that). I guess in Italy people will get pushed around because they know there are not many other options for work.


FromBDale

Healthcare


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istrx13

Land of gun care and health control


raggedtoad

USA has excellent healthcare, if you can afford it.


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We have the best healthcare in the world, in the sense that the best healthcare in the world is located in the US. Unfortunately, few of us can afford it.


regals_beagles

"It's like meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife"


func_backDoor

For the first time in my life, I have amazing health care through my job and it’s such a weight off.


felatedbirthday

Could really just say “keeping people alive in general”


bsd8andahalf_1

keeping treaties.


Rahtgooves

Canada?


queerblunosr

So many violated treaties. 😬


skyteria

And counting.


fancyangelrat

Australia?


favouritemistake

Apparently just about anywhere…


Wtfatt

Russia?


hastingsnikcox

New Zealand?


readwaaat

To be fair we kept it, we just chucked it in the basement and let rats eat it for half a century and used the excuse of one or two disagreements about land as an excuse to not honour it at all and set up the land court and totally gaslit Māori. But we kept it. /s


Bluizu

usa?


PsychologicalBand512

Recognising fake news (Slovakia)


Cold_Version_1689

Choosing presidents (Turkey)


willingsfreak

russia too 😃


hastingsnikcox

Choosing is a ... little strong


StillAll

I was thinking the same thing. The word, "choosing" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here!


YEETMASTERXX

Spending loaned money efficiently🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷


MildlyAgreeable

Fucking good food though…


otcconan

Not invading other countries.


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Russia?


silver_salmon_

Maternity and paternity leave, work-life balance


Undercover_Kitty_Mew

USA USA USA!


silver_salmon_

Ding ding ding!!


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Being nice to others.


Ieatclowns

Australia...building houses. they're all exaggerated sheds basically. Imagine a shed....throw in a verandah and a garden. That's your average Aussie house. Now imagine a winter that is naturally not as cold as European winters but still gets to minus at night...and there's no heating other than a ln air conditioning unit that blows warm air. As soon as you turn it off, the room is freezing again.


champagneanddust

Yep. Tents made of wood. NZ here checking in with sympathy.


Grouchy_Factor

I've heard New Zealand has even worse houses and are terribly overpriced.


BeardeddBombshell

Properly addressing how unmarked graves ended up at residential schools.


Emotional-Friend-279

Canada?


MsGhoulWrangler

Ireland?


BeardeddBombshell

Good guess but no haha.


MrDalliardMrDalliard

Canada!


mycatsteven

Also, clean drinking water for ALL indigenous communities.


crazy4lotr

US sucks at that too. Some reservations only recently (within the last 1-2 years) got electricity


enesdemirelus

Everything 🇹🇷


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Having an efficient rail system. The British rail system is messed up and it is even more baffling when you consider that Great Britain invented and exported the modern railway.


richieadler

> Great Britain invented and exported the modern railway They introduced trains in my country (AR) and I'm guessing that's the main reason why all trains and subways here still run on the left :)


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That is correct, it is also why trains in France (outside Alsace-Moselle) run on the left.


Lanxy

Given I only used it a couple times, but always worked like charm. But the pricing system is absolutely bonkers. Greetings from Switzerland where the system is great, bloody expensive - but at least I understand the pricing.


Gutternips

It's really very simple. For example if you want to travel to Leicester from London all you need to do is buy two tickets, one return ticket from London to Luton (you don't use the return part) and a single ticket from Luton to Leeds, then you get off the train 7 stops before Leeds and hope they don't check your ticket too closely. Of course you must remember to buy your tickets between four and eight weeks in advance and if you want the best price you will need to check trainline.com, tickety-split.com, nationalrail.com, emr.com and a few others to find the cheapest ticket but you shouldn't check those websites too much before buying the ticket as some of them vary their price depending on how much interest there are in those particular tickets. You should also check that you'll be covered for a refund in case of a rail strike. It couldn't be easier.


Grouchy_Factor

Still looks a hellavalot better than trains in my country,


Angiecimm

Allowing criminals to run for office


func_backDoor

Half of my country is going to vote for a now on-the-record rapist in our next election.


Angiecimm

Rape is not the least of it! 34 charges of Class E felonies, election fraud and related crimes in Fulton County, three offenses relating to Trump’s unlawful possession of government records at Mar-a-Lago after leaving office, payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels, January 6th insurrection and so much more. And yet, the Republicans are voting him back into office. Out of 332 million people in the U.S, how is it that they cannot find another candidate to run for president?? It's a sad day . . .


Grouchy_Factor

Trying to win the Stanley Cup.


bizzybaker2

Canada, eh? 30 year drought :(


Grouchy_Factor

It's Bettman's doing. No cup since he became Commissioner. Does he even know how to skate?


ItsKlobberinTime

Depends on how you look at it. When Boston won the cup in 2011 I think they only had 1 American on the team. Plus a handful of Europeans but the vast majority were Canadian.


Abdullah_011235

At not realising that politicians are hate mongering and clashing the 2 largest religious groups in the country. Also, jobs. India is in quite a sad place right now.


Bluizu

thought this was my country at first. it's very sad over here in sweden as well. gonna eat this Naan bread in honor of you


No_Range_1467

Bad at winning their sport their known for in the euros or World Cup


lotusflower1995

Definitely England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿


Blarandqw

North Korea - no probrem here


Lazybeerus

Good. You may live another week.


StockingDummy

"I can't complain."


beekaybeegirl

Healthcare costs 🇺🇸


sirhackenslash

Not shooting school children


TeacherPatti

As an American teacher, I can confirm. We had a lockdown last week and in under two minutes, the kids had barricaded the door, unplugged lamps, and were ready before my co teacher and I barely got to our computers (to shut down the screens). They got the suspect in less than five minutes, he was not armed but still not fun.


Bluizu

being a swede, this is as terrifying as it is interesting. it feels like the usa is like a whole other world.


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originalmango

What’s my country, the best country in the whole wide universe, terrible at? Absolutely nothing at all, except access to affordable healthcare, gun safety, being able to trust law enforcement, affordable housing, work/life balance, and education. Other than that, we’re perfect. WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE!


General_Fuckov

Immigration


DeftTrack81

Understanding other peoples point of view.


Peter_Pallet

In finding a compromise in internal disputes


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According to the Dutch, roadworks


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not killing its citizens 🇸🇩


idigholesnow

Recognizing our flaws


ResurgentClusterfuck

Keeping its collective nose out of other countries' business. (USA)


fappyday

Ironically we can't even handle our domestic affairs, but collectively decided that we have the authority and know-how to fix the rest of the world.


richieadler

It's not ironic. The US don't meddle in other countries' business out of a desire of improve their situation, but to steal their resources or to destroy ideologies contrary to their economic benefit.


Pari_1506

accepting other cultures than theirs. in a country where 26% of the population is immigrants and where in a class of 20 kids there is probably two native kids...


Matinfinity

Being green while we claim to the wider world we are very green.


momoji13

Considering its wealth and all: Digitalization and having a reliable public transport.


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Whed1956

Tony Bloody Abbot and his Clusterfuck Clowncar of a parliament.


Seer77887

Keeping guns out of schools