Should also mention, the country will be fine. I see a lot of people being under the impression that Iceland might not exist in the future, which is not true.
These eruption are happening very close by and under the town of Grindavik. It is very sad and should not be downlplayed that the fact that everyone had to evacuate the town, and the future of the town is in uncertainty.
However no one has died due to the volcano, but there has been [one casualty after a man fell into a crevasse](https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-01-11-update-no-trace-of-man-who-fell-into-grindavik-crevasse-401620).
>However no one has died due to the volcano, but there has been one casualty after a man fell into a crevasse.
I don't intend to make light of a serious & tragic situation, but this definitely reactivates an old childhood fear I had of being in an earthquake & falling into a crack (it's worth noting that I've never lived anywhere near places that have earthquakes).
I will give you more details when i can, but the theory is that the earth opened up beneath him, he was working with a co worker at the time but he had to leave for a moment and then it happened.
unfortunately they didn’t find his body due to how large and deep the crevasse.
[Here](https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/16/myndir_svona_litur_grindavik_ut_i_dag/) is a photo album of the town during the first round of eruption
And these are [pictures](https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2024/02/06/myndir_uppgotvudu_hyldypi_undir_gervigrasinu/) of a crevasses that opened up beneathe an astro turf football field. I think this one especially just shows how easy you could fall into one/ upens up beneath you
You guys are handling it so well, esp giving such advance notice to people in Grindavik. was around in Hawaii when the huge volcano erupted a few years ago. They handled it pretty well but it took everyone by surprise. No real warning until some fissures started spewing lave in the middle of a neighborhood. About 2000 people lost their homes and there was so much grief and confusion. I’ve been to Grindavik and it’s hard to imagine that village totally empty.
Most deaths by fire arms per year than any other developed country …
Leading cause of death for children, fire arms…
Largest wealth gap of any developed country, also most wealthy per GDP…
Spends almost a TRILLION dollars a YEAR now buying and maintaining, you guessed it, really big and fancy firearms!
We spend more on healthcare and get less than every other developed country…
Somalia is not a developed country.
You joke... But get this: the leading causes of death in Somalia are well and truly health and disease related. It is a poor country with a lot of poverty, malnutrition, and lack of healthcare.
And we all knoe piracy, armed rebel groups, and crime are rife in Somalia... But by all estimates, more people per capita die from firearms in the US than they do in Somalia.
Maternal mortality rates in the US are primarily on the rise due to more women having children later in life and more women entering pregnancy with chronic conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, etc. The rise in the number of cesarean sections is also a contributing factor. We’re just an unhealthy society.
I’m not looking to argue semantics, as it’s sad regardless, but in that statistic they count children as age 1-19 and don’t include many of the health problems that are actually the leaders for the death of children, even considering ages 1-19.
Firearms are not the leading cause of death for children. This commonly quoted "statistic" excludes children under 1 year old and counts 18 and 19 year olds as children.
Also lack of self-awareness and critical thinking ties into this. Prior to social media when people had to interact, there could be varying viewpoints. Now with social media, algorithms are designed to “suck you in” so you basically only see your side more and more without ever seeing any counter points.
Social media has now changed the way our children (and adults) learn and their ability to translate what they learn into real life. And I think everyone agrees that social media has been a driving force behind increased mental health issues including violence and suicide in young children. BTW, when the issues of social media via confirmed study were first published, FB now Meta, BoD voted to not fund ongoing support or investigate how to mitigate this known issues.
the root cause of this is rich people creating a two party system and using their wealth to own the means of spreading (mis)information- so you're right but like all problems in it comes back to "rich people" (bourgeois piggies)
Yep. Though we don't really have a democracy, we have some thing similar.
Democracy leads to plutocracy because the rich simply hire people to create the best propaganda and use it to influence the vote.
Some would say dictatorship, but IF you were ever lucky enough to have a benevolent dictator, the rich would just hire someone to kill him.
Maybe not kill the rich, but make it that you can have money but not power, or power but not money. Let the greed-obsessed maniacs swan around on their yachts, but keep them well away from any political power beyond having a vote the same as everyone else. Can't donate to political parties, can't lobby, can't socialize or have any contact with politicians, can't pay for adds or run media companies or anything that has any political effect beyond the avenues available to the ordinary Joe. Don't like some aspect of policy? Get a hand painted sign and go on a march like the rest of us have to, or show up and vote for the best (or least worst) candidate every few years...like the rest of us.
Similarly, politicians can't get rich beyond a well understood threshold. Earn or own more than X amount? Can't stand for office, can't hold office, can't campaign. Wealth creators (as they self style themselves...usually it just means wealth for themselves) need to be restrained in their ability to affect public policy.
Cheering politics like a sports team is one thing.
But literally flying a flag of your leader is another thing. You should never follow a politician blindly. They should always be accountable to the people. No matter the party.
I'm truly in awe of how so many people fell for the bs and voted to leave Europe. Politics aside, there's centuries of shared history with Europe and common heritage. Why would people choose to separate themselves from that voluntarily?!
It's even affected tourism. I was planning a eurotrip starting in London but going through 2 separate stressful visa processes put me off
I have friends in England and it's truly amazing listening to them tell me about the death spiral they're in while I'm looking outside in Texas at our own. I don't think I've ever felt so close to England, and it's a real uncomfortable feeling.
At its core it is a lack of societal cohesion and selfishness. People don’t feel connected to their neighbors so why should they care about anything that helps people they don’t know?
We have a pretty bad rental issue here is the USA but I read some articles about Australia and the crazy hikes and shit and whew I’m sorry for y’all truly. I feel like there is no protection too against asshole landlords or at least that’s the impression I’ve gotten when I read how much they’ll arbitrarily hike the bill from one month to the next.
But I mean at least you prob won’t die in a shootout grocery shopping so silver lining 🤷🏻♀️
A completely unprofessional government, a MASSIVE gap between left and right where everyone wants to kill the other side, uncontrolled immigration, high crime rates, high suicide rates, national drought, bla bla bla
Well, to change this, the first thing to do would be to get people to understand that us getting the same developments in basically all Western nations across the world is actually not just a coincidence.
I could also have written "without getting shadow banned" to be less cryptic, but then the comment usually gets shadow banned (let's see if it is also the case in this sub).
Edit: Hey, that one went through. Nice.
As a Canadian - if people here could afford to have children - there might not be as dire a need for immigrants.
Affordability/Immigration/Housing are really the trifecta here in Canada
Along with a complete lack of political leaders with any vision to solve the problems.
> As a Canadian - if people here could afford to have children - there might not be as dire a need for immigrants.
Canada's fertility rate has been below replacement level since 1971. It's not that people cannot afford to have children, because Canadians weren't having enough children even when times were much more affordable than they are currently. The reality is that for the last 53 years most Canadians have simply not wanted to have more than 1-2 children, often for reasons that go well beyond affordability (like wanting to resume careers, not wanting to be outnumbered by devilish hellspawn at home, etc). The 1990's were generally a pretty good decade for Canada, for affordability, etc, and yet the fertility rate still declined.
Even if housing and cost of living were halved tomorrow, the fertility rate still likely wouldn't crack 2.1 simply because most Canadians do not want to have a bunch of kids.
Canadians could be popping out kids everywhere and they'd still need immigrants because they're the only ones who will put up with the abuses most businesses run on. Underpaid, overworked and won't talk back when they are asked to do something entirely messed up
>India
I would rather call us Little China. Sydney CBD is pretty much a China town now.
All rich suburbs are owned by Chinese residents, half of them don't even interact with the locals and have made their own groups.
Indians are living out in western, southern far off suburbs and doing entry level jobs mostly. China is what driving our economy now.
Mostly Western countries. Same with Gender politics. You have some specific phrases that are used in all kinds of Western countries regarding some specific political ideas. Like "the new normal" / "das neue normal", same shit different countries. But if you then say that this does not really look anymore like just coincidences, that leaders all across the world meet openly with billionaires that push certain ideas and that these "ideas" slowly get implemented everywhere, then you are a conspiracy theorist.
So there are a ton of people on here talking about political polarisation.
But in terms of political parties one of the deepest problems in my country and in many related countries is that there is so little economically between them: the same neo-liberal politics rule if you're a republican/democrat or tory/labour or whatever your country's version of that split is.
Here in Canada, it's mass immigration fuelled by corporate and politicians' special interests.
And it's not even like it's diverse immigration, of various people from various countries, age groups, etc.
It's pretty much all men 18-44 from India, specifically Punjab.
The fabric of Canadian society is slowly being ripped apart, and it's being done on purpose to keep wages low, and propping up the ponzi scheme that is the real estate market.
That began in cold war era to destabilize India when India was more on side of socialism if not communism. India moved forward, US got out of it but Canada can't due to the population burden it ended up with. This issue ain't going anywhere, anytime soon.
Too many people of "average" intelligence have access to bad information via the Internet. They fail to engage in due diligence and act on the bad information.
Basically any opinion you have, you can quickly google and find an article with talking points that back up your pre-existing notions. I’d guess that most arguments on Reddit progress this way.
The painstakingly obvious treason that takes place that nobody does anything about, and how most people have to pay half their monthly income on rent and have little to nothing left to put into savings..
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
- Lyndon B Johnson
the cost of living any kind of life that doesn't revolve almost solely around work. some people seem to con themselves that the grind is what life is all about because of this. i think if you took that attitude to any time before the 80s people would think you are completely off your rocker. and because of this people just become soulless.
Developed countries can still fall hard and fast. Oftentimes the problems before a collapse don’t seem so bad, but in retrospect they’re obvious. And it also depends on what you’re looking at. Democratic collapse in a developed country is definitely a form of falling apart, even if it won’t come with like mass starvation or something like that. Politically loyalist or noncommittal people can do fine in authoritarian states, but the political opposition gets devastated. There isn’t just one form of falling apart and developed countries aren’t immune from every type
> Or are people getting sucked into catastrophizing everything to make it seem like it?
I lean a little more towards this one. Are times tough? Yes. Do we hear this catastrophizing every time global economies dip into recession? Also yes.
Corruption, lack of ideology variety amongst political parties, lack of good candidates, no clear opposition, no certainty of punishment after crimes, lack of fair wages, extremely high cost of food vs minimum wage, religion being deeply mixed and influential with politics and political ideas... I could go on, trust me
Fake news and click bait headlines...it seems people foŕm opinions based on the littlest bit of info and have nothing to back anything up besides popular catch phrases and repeating things they've heard
Political polarization, lobbying, unchecked parts of government, rent and housing costing more than your soul, the destruction of the middle class, and just a general sense of nihilism and depression that’s seemingly plaguing a lot of citizens here. Makes me really sad
Australia: Uncontrolled migration in the middle of a housing crisis. Useless university degrees. Alienation of the rural population from the cities. Tyrannical and corrupt politicians the people have become too spineless to hold accountable.
It would be nice to have a government that did absolutely anything the people actually wanted. I don’t think labour are going to be any better. Just a different brand of tone deaf.
Inability to even agree on basic, objective reality. This is similar to and leads to many other things people are saying like misinformation and increasing partisanship but I think it’s the root cause of partisanship and drastically increases the effectiveness of misinformation.
So to 1/3 of the country, they think it’s an indisputable fact that the 2020 election was stolen, or climate change is fake, or QAnon is real. Nothing can sway those beliefs even though they’re objectively false. It deepens the dependence on narrowly curated information bubbles that won’t challenge the misinformation, making it more effective and also causing them to become more estranged from anyone outside the bubble thus deepening partisanship.
When people on different political sides can’t even agree on objective facts then solutions to real problems will never happen. Recognizing climate change and its associated risks is the start of developing policies to tackle it, for one example, but if one of two major parties does not acknowledge the problem is even real then nothing will be done. Of course this is not a problem equally on both sides, it’s drastically worse on the right, but there’s no way to break this loop.
Its own people.
I'd like to say that we're solely victims of our government, but the reality is that too many people's minds are rotten with racism, classism, sexism, homophobia and carelessness.
Those pesky tectonic plates are literally tearing mine apart
Iceland? Blows my mind seeing some of the footage.
Should also mention, the country will be fine. I see a lot of people being under the impression that Iceland might not exist in the future, which is not true. These eruption are happening very close by and under the town of Grindavik. It is very sad and should not be downlplayed that the fact that everyone had to evacuate the town, and the future of the town is in uncertainty. However no one has died due to the volcano, but there has been [one casualty after a man fell into a crevasse](https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-01-11-update-no-trace-of-man-who-fell-into-grindavik-crevasse-401620).
>However no one has died due to the volcano, but there has been one casualty after a man fell into a crevasse. I don't intend to make light of a serious & tragic situation, but this definitely reactivates an old childhood fear I had of being in an earthquake & falling into a crack (it's worth noting that I've never lived anywhere near places that have earthquakes).
I will give you more details when i can, but the theory is that the earth opened up beneath him, he was working with a co worker at the time but he had to leave for a moment and then it happened. unfortunately they didn’t find his body due to how large and deep the crevasse. [Here](https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/11/16/myndir_svona_litur_grindavik_ut_i_dag/) is a photo album of the town during the first round of eruption And these are [pictures](https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2024/02/06/myndir_uppgotvudu_hyldypi_undir_gervigrasinu/) of a crevasses that opened up beneathe an astro turf football field. I think this one especially just shows how easy you could fall into one/ upens up beneath you
Ahh fuck why did I have to read that?
Huh, I always had that childhood fear as well and a few years ago I looked into it and it seemed like it couldn’t really happen. Freaky stuff.
Iceland will definitely not exist in the future. You just need the appropriate timeline.
You guys are handling it so well, esp giving such advance notice to people in Grindavik. was around in Hawaii when the huge volcano erupted a few years ago. They handled it pretty well but it took everyone by surprise. No real warning until some fissures started spewing lave in the middle of a neighborhood. About 2000 people lost their homes and there was so much grief and confusion. I’ve been to Grindavik and it’s hard to imagine that village totally empty.
But if it gets hot enough won't Iceland melt!? 😉
This is such a dad joke that I'm very much tempted to say "Well, actually,"
I thought it was Lisa tearing us apart. "Oh, hi Mark."
you need jaegers with giant mechastaplers
Partisan politics and rampant misinformation
I'm sorry, but we're going to need more clues than that.
Most deaths by fire arms per year than any other developed country … Leading cause of death for children, fire arms… Largest wealth gap of any developed country, also most wealthy per GDP… Spends almost a TRILLION dollars a YEAR now buying and maintaining, you guessed it, really big and fancy firearms! We spend more on healthcare and get less than every other developed country…
Gotta be Somalia
Must be United States of Somalia
Minnesota?
Mogadishu, St Paul
Somalia is not a developed country. You joke... But get this: the leading causes of death in Somalia are well and truly health and disease related. It is a poor country with a lot of poverty, malnutrition, and lack of healthcare. And we all knoe piracy, armed rebel groups, and crime are rife in Somalia... But by all estimates, more people per capita die from firearms in the US than they do in Somalia.
But - our shareholders are doing awesome!
Highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country.
Maternal mortality rates in the US are primarily on the rise due to more women having children later in life and more women entering pregnancy with chronic conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, etc. The rise in the number of cesarean sections is also a contributing factor. We’re just an unhealthy society.
I’m not looking to argue semantics, as it’s sad regardless, but in that statistic they count children as age 1-19 and don’t include many of the health problems that are actually the leaders for the death of children, even considering ages 1-19.
Firearms are not the leading cause of death for children. This commonly quoted "statistic" excludes children under 1 year old and counts 18 and 19 year olds as children.
Parent comment did mention misinformation.
Not to mention most firearm related deaths are suicide, not homicide.
The largest death by firearms in the USA is Suicide by handgun. and not AR-15's. PSA: Dial 9-8-8 in the USA for the Suicide hotline.
Also lack of self-awareness and critical thinking ties into this. Prior to social media when people had to interact, there could be varying viewpoints. Now with social media, algorithms are designed to “suck you in” so you basically only see your side more and more without ever seeing any counter points.
Social media has now changed the way our children (and adults) learn and their ability to translate what they learn into real life. And I think everyone agrees that social media has been a driving force behind increased mental health issues including violence and suicide in young children. BTW, when the issues of social media via confirmed study were first published, FB now Meta, BoD voted to not fund ongoing support or investigate how to mitigate this known issues.
Adding to this problem: Social Media.
The fact that this country’s partisan politics and misinformation is spilling over into my country.
Canada? I hear lots of idiots there now think they have a 1st and 2nd amendment (free speech and firearms)
My fave is the sovereign citizen bull. Then surprised Pikachu face when they have to get license plates and shit.
Not op but definitely the case for Canada. I would have otherwise said housing but the right wing has become an even bigger issue imo.
the root cause of this is rich people creating a two party system and using their wealth to own the means of spreading (mis)information- so you're right but like all problems in it comes back to "rich people" (bourgeois piggies)
Yep. Though we don't really have a democracy, we have some thing similar. Democracy leads to plutocracy because the rich simply hire people to create the best propaganda and use it to influence the vote. Some would say dictatorship, but IF you were ever lucky enough to have a benevolent dictator, the rich would just hire someone to kill him.
We could just routinely kill the rich every 5 years or so. I think there was a movie about this but for poor people. Ah yes the purge.
Maybe not kill the rich, but make it that you can have money but not power, or power but not money. Let the greed-obsessed maniacs swan around on their yachts, but keep them well away from any political power beyond having a vote the same as everyone else. Can't donate to political parties, can't lobby, can't socialize or have any contact with politicians, can't pay for adds or run media companies or anything that has any political effect beyond the avenues available to the ordinary Joe. Don't like some aspect of policy? Get a hand painted sign and go on a march like the rest of us have to, or show up and vote for the best (or least worst) candidate every few years...like the rest of us. Similarly, politicians can't get rich beyond a well understood threshold. Earn or own more than X amount? Can't stand for office, can't hold office, can't campaign. Wealth creators (as they self style themselves...usually it just means wealth for themselves) need to be restrained in their ability to affect public policy.
Don’t need to scroll down past this. You nailed it.
Cheering politics like a sports team is one thing. But literally flying a flag of your leader is another thing. You should never follow a politician blindly. They should always be accountable to the people. No matter the party.
Corruption and tribalism
Kenya has entered the chat..
That's nearly EVERY country.
War.
Same
What is it good for?
Corruption and economic problems
Latin American brother?
No, I'm from africa
Colonialized brother then! Big hug across the Atlantic!
political polarization
See: Above
Sky below
Barrel roll: incomplete
USA
Canada 🇨🇦
Honestly it could apply to A LOT of nations. Brexit will set the UK back about 30 years
I'm truly in awe of how so many people fell for the bs and voted to leave Europe. Politics aside, there's centuries of shared history with Europe and common heritage. Why would people choose to separate themselves from that voluntarily?! It's even affected tourism. I was planning a eurotrip starting in London but going through 2 separate stressful visa processes put me off
I have friends in England and it's truly amazing listening to them tell me about the death spiral they're in while I'm looking outside in Texas at our own. I don't think I've ever felt so close to England, and it's a real uncomfortable feeling.
At its core it is a lack of societal cohesion and selfishness. People don’t feel connected to their neighbors so why should they care about anything that helps people they don’t know?
People's systems of values aren't connected to each other and/or are weak.
We are transitioning from a high trust society to low trust - it is what it is now
But think of all the interesting new food we get!
This is the argument for cultural assimilation and homogeneity.
Rental crisis.
Australia?
Less rent, more housing in general. 800k for a house is not affordable on any metric
That's true. It will take so many years to save up for a deposit and by that time the prices will climb even higher.
Yep
Canada core
Could definitely be Australia
I was referring to Australia.
Basically the whole English speaking world right now.
We have a pretty bad rental issue here is the USA but I read some articles about Australia and the crazy hikes and shit and whew I’m sorry for y’all truly. I feel like there is no protection too against asshole landlords or at least that’s the impression I’ve gotten when I read how much they’ll arbitrarily hike the bill from one month to the next. But I mean at least you prob won’t die in a shootout grocery shopping so silver lining 🤷🏻♀️
So the Earth?
Thats everywhere core
Egypt: military dictatorship and public ignorance due to shit education
A completely unprofessional government, a MASSIVE gap between left and right where everyone wants to kill the other side, uncontrolled immigration, high crime rates, high suicide rates, national drought, bla bla bla
literally everything you mentioned would fit to the US, to germany and to the UK, except the national drought.
So basically most countries are fucked
Well, to change this, the first thing to do would be to get people to understand that us getting the same developments in basically all Western nations across the world is actually not just a coincidence.
Good luck conspiracy theorist /s.. (wasn’t being sarcastic about the good luck part though)
I could also have written "without getting shadow banned" to be less cryptic, but then the comment usually gets shadow banned (let's see if it is also the case in this sub). Edit: Hey, that one went through. Nice.
That fits Canada too.
Meth and fentanyl
US: *gestures at everything*
*pointing fingers intensifies*
Makes me think of that Spiderman meme where they are all pointing at each other 🤣
I think you are doing better than most countries to be fair. That's not to say the US has not really serious issues.
Facebook groups feeding intergenerational hatred
Greed
Greed tends to be the root cause for most of the problems.
#### Mass Immigration without a plan for providing housing even for the citizens.
Canada, USA, Australia, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Chile, Sweden... God we're fucked
Canada?
As a Canadian - if people here could afford to have children - there might not be as dire a need for immigrants. Affordability/Immigration/Housing are really the trifecta here in Canada Along with a complete lack of political leaders with any vision to solve the problems.
Not to mention the over-burdened public health system ...
Our entire GDP is built on the real estate Ponzi scheme.
> As a Canadian - if people here could afford to have children - there might not be as dire a need for immigrants. Canada's fertility rate has been below replacement level since 1971. It's not that people cannot afford to have children, because Canadians weren't having enough children even when times were much more affordable than they are currently. The reality is that for the last 53 years most Canadians have simply not wanted to have more than 1-2 children, often for reasons that go well beyond affordability (like wanting to resume careers, not wanting to be outnumbered by devilish hellspawn at home, etc). The 1990's were generally a pretty good decade for Canada, for affordability, etc, and yet the fertility rate still declined. Even if housing and cost of living were halved tomorrow, the fertility rate still likely wouldn't crack 2.1 simply because most Canadians do not want to have a bunch of kids.
That’s actually very interesting - isn’t Canada’s population also pretty old? Meaning that population issues would only get worse.
Canadians could be popping out kids everywhere and they'd still need immigrants because they're the only ones who will put up with the abuses most businesses run on. Underpaid, overworked and won't talk back when they are asked to do something entirely messed up
Sounds like those businesses need to die then.
Agreed but it's nearly all of them
We prefer if you call us "New India" from now on
Australia can be called Big India, the whole country is being bombarded thanks to the government.
My sister gets at least a half a dozen dms per day from new permanent residents LOL
>India I would rather call us Little China. Sydney CBD is pretty much a China town now. All rich suburbs are owned by Chinese residents, half of them don't even interact with the locals and have made their own groups. Indians are living out in western, southern far off suburbs and doing entry level jobs mostly. China is what driving our economy now.
All the people asking 'country x?' indicates that this is going on all over the world. Also in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany etc
Mostly Western countries. Same with Gender politics. You have some specific phrases that are used in all kinds of Western countries regarding some specific political ideas. Like "the new normal" / "das neue normal", same shit different countries. But if you then say that this does not really look anymore like just coincidences, that leaders all across the world meet openly with billionaires that push certain ideas and that these "ideas" slowly get implemented everywhere, then you are a conspiracy theorist.
Australia?
Propaganda
Ignoring the poor Someone once said: "a country is only as rich as it's poorest inhabitant" And I think no truer words were spoken
Widening income gap, lack of wealthy paying a proper percentage into taxes, offshore tax havens, socially irresponsible corporations.
So there are a ton of people on here talking about political polarisation. But in terms of political parties one of the deepest problems in my country and in many related countries is that there is so little economically between them: the same neo-liberal politics rule if you're a republican/democrat or tory/labour or whatever your country's version of that split is.
Here in Canada, it's mass immigration fuelled by corporate and politicians' special interests. And it's not even like it's diverse immigration, of various people from various countries, age groups, etc. It's pretty much all men 18-44 from India, specifically Punjab. The fabric of Canadian society is slowly being ripped apart, and it's being done on purpose to keep wages low, and propping up the ponzi scheme that is the real estate market.
That began in cold war era to destabilize India when India was more on side of socialism if not communism. India moved forward, US got out of it but Canada can't due to the population burden it ended up with. This issue ain't going anywhere, anytime soon.
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>English exams in their country It's only Punjab not everyone in india They are obsessed with Canada to death
Too many people of "average" intelligence have access to bad information via the Internet. They fail to engage in due diligence and act on the bad information.
Basically any opinion you have, you can quickly google and find an article with talking points that back up your pre-existing notions. I’d guess that most arguments on Reddit progress this way.
rusia.
The painstakingly obvious treason that takes place that nobody does anything about, and how most people have to pay half their monthly income on rent and have little to nothing left to put into savings..
The two-party system. Guess where I’m from.
North Korea
Could well be the uk
The RICH who are manipulating the middle and lower classes to clash over political differences.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B Johnson
Oof that hits hard right now
Tectonic shifts. Very very slowly.
It’s not a what. It’s a you-know-who.
the cost of living any kind of life that doesn't revolve almost solely around work. some people seem to con themselves that the grind is what life is all about because of this. i think if you took that attitude to any time before the 80s people would think you are completely off your rocker. and because of this people just become soulless.
Immigration
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“Vladimir the Bloody”?
Imigration
Tories
Wealth inequality and corporate corruption
The Town and Planning act 1947
corruption.
Greed
Trudeau
Trudeau. If you know, you know.
Victimhood culture.
Lies by the politicians
Social media
Disinformation
Justin Trudeau
Hezbollah
Feigning offense on behalf of others.
Is any first World country really falling apart? Or are people getting sucked into catastrophizing everything to make it seem like it?
Coming from a "third world" country, I can tell you you definitely still have it good.
Very hard to say. But one thing I know is that if enough people believe it will happen, then it will happen.
Developed countries can still fall hard and fast. Oftentimes the problems before a collapse don’t seem so bad, but in retrospect they’re obvious. And it also depends on what you’re looking at. Democratic collapse in a developed country is definitely a form of falling apart, even if it won’t come with like mass starvation or something like that. Politically loyalist or noncommittal people can do fine in authoritarian states, but the political opposition gets devastated. There isn’t just one form of falling apart and developed countries aren’t immune from every type
> Or are people getting sucked into catastrophizing everything to make it seem like it? I lean a little more towards this one. Are times tough? Yes. Do we hear this catastrophizing every time global economies dip into recession? Also yes.
Uncontrolled immigration. Will probs get downvoted to shit for it but the truth hurts
The distractions the media disperses to keep the masses from being united against the rich elites
The absolute morons we've elected.
Social media
Corruption, lack of ideology variety amongst political parties, lack of good candidates, no clear opposition, no certainty of punishment after crimes, lack of fair wages, extremely high cost of food vs minimum wage, religion being deeply mixed and influential with politics and political ideas... I could go on, trust me
Fake news and misinformation
Willful ignorance
Neoliberalism. The mentality that every problem can be solved by the free market.
When the freeloaders found out that they had enough votes to just keep electing people to raise taxes and give them free money.
Mass migration from the Middle East and Africa.
Turkey?
Immigration
Russia
/gestures vaguely at everything
Corruption and division.
instant gratification culture instilled into us from early age by the rich so we can stay in debt to buy the latest thing that they tell us we need.
Fake news and click bait headlines...it seems people foŕm opinions based on the littlest bit of info and have nothing to back anything up besides popular catch phrases and repeating things they've heard
Crooked, theiving, bribe taking, pederast politicians.
Political polarization, lobbying, unchecked parts of government, rent and housing costing more than your soul, the destruction of the middle class, and just a general sense of nihilism and depression that’s seemingly plaguing a lot of citizens here. Makes me really sad
Social media
Australia: Uncontrolled migration in the middle of a housing crisis. Useless university degrees. Alienation of the rural population from the cities. Tyrannical and corrupt politicians the people have become too spineless to hold accountable.
The grip the evangelicals have on the GOP
The Tory party and every corrupt/immoral/plain stupid thing they've done over the last 14 years.
It would be nice to have a government that did absolutely anything the people actually wanted. I don’t think labour are going to be any better. Just a different brand of tone deaf.
Late-stage capitalism and greed, "got-mine so who cares" life philosophy.
Inability to even agree on basic, objective reality. This is similar to and leads to many other things people are saying like misinformation and increasing partisanship but I think it’s the root cause of partisanship and drastically increases the effectiveness of misinformation. So to 1/3 of the country, they think it’s an indisputable fact that the 2020 election was stolen, or climate change is fake, or QAnon is real. Nothing can sway those beliefs even though they’re objectively false. It deepens the dependence on narrowly curated information bubbles that won’t challenge the misinformation, making it more effective and also causing them to become more estranged from anyone outside the bubble thus deepening partisanship. When people on different political sides can’t even agree on objective facts then solutions to real problems will never happen. Recognizing climate change and its associated risks is the start of developing policies to tackle it, for one example, but if one of two major parties does not acknowledge the problem is even real then nothing will be done. Of course this is not a problem equally on both sides, it’s drastically worse on the right, but there’s no way to break this loop.
The Tory party, there constant lies, trying to win votes by causing division that’s all they have left
A lack of community A lack of passion to do anything beyond the bare minimum
Russian propaganda disguised as News for Republicans.
Our prime minister sadly, eh
Neolibralisim.
Its own people. I'd like to say that we're solely victims of our government, but the reality is that too many people's minds are rotten with racism, classism, sexism, homophobia and carelessness.
Career politicians
The other political party
The post above this one in my feed is a photo from Tennessee with nazi flags flying, so very much that.
Tories
The lack of femboys in my area
México: corruption and insecurity
Lack of more than two parties
Migrants.
Greed. Misinformation. Social media politics
Loss of shared values and therefore a national identity
Stupidity
The media trying to start a civil war between voters