Food riots were one of the key factors that kicked off the French Revolution
In a civilized country these things simply wouldn’t happen.
Not paying an employee is simply illegal, and If what is happening in USA now happened here, we have public funds guaranteeing any unpaid employee by any employer get their money. Usually used for private companies that go bankrupt.USA is such a shitty country, their regulation is of the caliber that would only be expected of a very poor developing country that lack resources to do better.
I don’t think most Americans are even close to understanding how shitty USA is as a country. It permeates everything because Americans accept their society to be shitty, because they kind of accept a minimal government that doesn’t even work.
Having a country with a two party system that begs for stalemates, and then is incapable of handling a stalemate is such tremendous lack of foresight, I bet most kindergartens are run better.
Not paying an employee is simply illegal, and If what is happening in USA now happened here, we have public funds guaranteeing any unpaid employee by any employer get their money. Usually used for private companies that go bankrupt.
Laws in most civilized countries simply say that if new budget is not passed in time the previous budget continues or default budget covering basic expenses (like federal workers salaries, bills etc.) is automatically created. Shutting down government is simply not an option.
True, I have not heard of other countries that do what USA is doing with the shutdown.
Americans are such a bunch of amateurs on democracy, despite they were among the first to use it!
Or maybe because of it? They sorely need a major reform of their democracy. But it looks like it will probably be the wrong way to an even more authoritarian system.The problem is that they were “early adopters” and created a system impossible to reform. Civil war was the perfect moment to do a major rewrite of the system. They had a human rights issue and their system proved completely unable to resolve it. Unfortunately instead of realizing it’s broken and fixing it they did some minor changes and moved on. Now they have a constitution that is more of a holy book than legal document. No one understands it, the laws don’t mean anything but it’s sacred so it’s impossible to even talk about changing it.
I think they can’t because their constitution is a holy text from the heavens and therefore cannot be trashed (or archived) and rewritten from scratch.
I don’t think most Americans are even close to understanding how shitty USA is as a country.
They’re brainwashed from birth to believe they’re the greatest country in the world. Most of them never question it. Those that do need years to overcome the beliefs embedded in their heads.
Yes American exceptionalism is pretty crazy.
The arrogance of calling a national championship “World Series” is a very clear example of that, and also calling the country America is another blatant example of exceptionalism.
It is this exceptionalism that makes Trump believe he can bully the rest of the world into submission. But all it will do is accelerate the fall of USA from being the de facto world leader.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Series_champions
I don’t have to know where you live to say that you’re trending this direction too. If you’re not vigilant you’ll find yourself in the same position before too long.
That is only true to a minor degree regarding immigrants, we are not on the way to become an authoritarian hellhole, and our democracy is in no way threatened. We do not have a single anti democratic party in parliament among the 12 parties represented here, and we do not have the systemic problems or extremism USA has.
Saying we (Denmark) are heading in the same direction is a false equivalence. Saying it about EU is false too, although there are right wing tendencies in some regions, I am pretty sure they are temporary. For instance even if AfD should become the biggest party in Germany, they can never form a government alone (government is comparable to the US administration), except the checks and balances by parliament are way stronger.
By far the most EU democracies are way way stronger than USA, because they are not built undemocratically to be 2 party systems like USA and UK.
Well, if you have some other options you’d like to throw out there…
Scandinavian model.
This is the conservative version of America.
Starting to think maybe everyone should have shown up and voted in the most likely way to prevent conservatives from having power. I know that’s a lot to ask from Americans.
But voting for Kamala would be bad for Palestine! Not voting was the only way to save Palestine! /s
“I disagreed with Kamala on a single issue involving two nations on the opposite side of the planet, so I didn’t vote for her and held the door open for fascists instead.”
Yeah, not a bright bunch.
“I’m gonna keep voting for the lesser evil candidate and get mad when people don’t fall in line to support their oppressors.”
You guys are insane, and a bunch of pussies.
You’ve been conditioned to only focus on gridlock issues in a culture war to distract you from how we’re all being robbed every day by the ownership class.
So very well said.
Some of them are still around here and have the fucking balls to pop up here and chastise people they have derisively labeled “liberals”. They think they have the moral high ground. Even now. And, if it sadly comes to it, when everyone is being put into FEMA camps, I doubt they will admit their wrongdoing and will instead lecture people on things like “don’t blame the voters”. FFS. It’s bonkers.
I know a few of this type IRL, too, unfortunately. No self awareness and no apologies. I think it’s mostly narcissism, really. The ones online are possibly paid actors/bots put there to sow division.
Less bad than Trump, but non-voters don’t want to hear that.
Neither do the Jill Stein types.
Give them someone to vote for who isn’t just the lesser evil.
If federal workers ever weren’t sure how little their employer feels for their life situation, here you go.
Look at that line. America is great again, everyone.
just like the roaring 20s!
Expect the shit to hit in Nov, when funding runs out for food stampes.
They had Hoovervilles in the 20s…2025: Mar-a-Lunch-a?
Tacovilles?
This is such an idiotic game to play and so god damn harmful to everyone except a few, of course we can survive without a government for a while, probably even a few years maybe, but it’s fucking vital and everything WILL go to shit without it, so it’s so disingenuous to keep doing this as to prove to people we don’t need government, but of course that’s their goal and I wouldn’t expect anything less from this bunch of Reno grade magicians.
How many voted for Trump?
They’re joining the Federal Workers who were fired this past winter then?
