• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is the kind of shit you’d expect to hear about a shitty banana republic, not a so-called modern, civilised country

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      10 months ago

      Banana Republic: poor, corrupt, and badly ruled

      So were 2/3 or 3/3, depending on how you view the national debt.

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        10 months ago

        You’re letting perfect be the enemy of good here.

        No country is even close to perfect, but I can’t think of any other developed country where climate change is successfully becoming a de facto illegal topic in schools, bodily autonomy laws being set back decades, etc.

        I don’t find “nowhere is perfectly civilised, so really we’re not that different” to be a particularly helpful stance to take when we see bs like this.