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by roenxi12 hours ago |
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upvoteby joe_mamba11 hours ago|
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>not working all year around

Keeping people employed through inefficient bullshit jobs is better for the government than paying them to sit at home, since this way you have control over their livelihoods and their votes.

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upvoteby pif9 hours ago|
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In civilised places, the government is the people. And civilised people know they are the government.
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upvoteby joe_mamba9 hours ago|
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Like which places are those?

This is some idealist fairytale view that people like to believe in but doesn't actually exist.

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upvoteby bigfudge7 hours ago|
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This is unnecessarily confrontational. The real point here is that there better functioning democracies than the US. They have faults, but Scandinavia and much of northern Europe (partially excluding the UK) much better approximates what you call a fairytale than a US perspective might allow you to believe. Trust in and satisfaction with government institutions in Scandinavia and Finland are much, much higher than in the US, and it's largely justified by their competence and delivery of public goods.
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upvoteby joe_mamba6 hours ago|
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>This is unnecessarily confrontational.

Why?

>but Scandinavia and much of northern Europe

That's like 3-5 out of 195 countries and only 0,3%-0,5% of the world's population. Being born there is like winning the lottery so maybe take that into consideration when arguing with such examples since that's not the norm. Like what are the odds that people you talk to online are part of that 0,5%? So who's the one being needlessly confrontational?

>Trust in and satisfaction with government institutions in Scandinavia and Finland are much, much higher than in the US

I don't care about the situation in the US since I don't live there. I'm talking from the perspective in Europe(not Scandinavia) where I can't say the democracy is representing or serving me. No law maker asked about the major decisions the EU made.

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upvoteby pif3 hours ago|
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> I'm talking from the perspective in Europe > > No law maker asked about the major decisions the EU made.

Idiot brexiteer talk...

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upvoteby joe_mamba2 hours ago|
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Did your mom teach you to talk like that?
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