• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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        7 months ago

        Indeed, it’s going to be kind of funny if things start looking up in DPRK thanks to trade with Russia while they keep getting worse in occupied Korea.

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      7 months ago

      Can you explain what makes this “Ipsos” report different than the “World Happiness Report” ? I wanna steal this graphic for later uses if I can understand how to defend it.

      Do you think that the Ipsos report is a better measure of happiness?

      I’m a bit surprised how Mexico and Brazil show high levels of happiness. But I do understand that (from what I know) it seems like family connections have higher importance in these countries so there is a bigger social safety net.

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        7 months ago

        The report from 2023 focused on happiness, while 2024 focuses on whether people feel the country is moving in the right direction or not. They’re not measuring exactly the same thing, but both things are obviously related. I’m not sure how good their methodology is, and how representative their sample is. It is worth noting that happiness is an inherently subjective thing that depends on tons of factors such as culture, expectations, etc. So, it’s possible for people in a country that’s relatively poor to feel happy because their needs and expectations are met.

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    7 months ago

    The fact that 21% of my country’s population thinks things are going in the right direction here is fucking insane to me. The UK is literally one of the worst countries in the world right now.

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        It pretty much is. People are literally pulling their own teeth out because they can’t get dental care, the cost of living crisis is so extreme that at one point I was spending £50 a week on food for just myself, the NHS is basically on its last legs due to conservative incompetence and people are dying of easily treatable cancers and illnesses because by the time they’re actually seen to it’s already too late. On top of that our government is sending money to Ukraine and supporting Israel, our politicians are turning the lynchings of trans people into a game of political football, and the entire political system is literally primarily based on documents that were written between the 13th and 18th centuries. If you think America sucks I genuinely do not see the UK surviving this decade.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, that’s grim af, I do think UK breaking up is a very likely scenario at this point given that the current political system has no chance of turning things around.

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            7 months ago

            I think Scotland will be the first to achieve independence from England since a good amount of people are starting to get sick of parliament. The UK used an obsolete law that’s never been enforced just to make life harder for trans people and that’s kind of been a big catalyst in Scottish independence gaining traction again. I don’t think Northern Ireland will last much longer in the UK after that. The inevitable abolition of the monarchy will put an end to the UK since we wouldn’t even be a Kingdom anymore. Either way this is definitely the end of the United KIngdom now and it’s going to happen within the century.

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    7 months ago

    too vague of a question. hell half of America would respond with “hell no, this country is falling apart, [something about white genocide]”

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      Although the conservative European immigrants would use racial equility as their reason for their dissatisfaction, do they realized how blessed and spoiled they are? The European immigrants had gained free stolen land, free child labor from Indian Residential fake Schools since the 1850s that could continue in secret, free stolen inheritance from state-sponsored abducted First Nation Native American children, authority to censor the widespread evidences of fake school death camps that keep on appearing, election of war criminals that pass their savage practices to Nazi German without consequence, free high quality healthcare from unethical experimenations of First Nation children in fake schools, and the opportunity to avoid poor living condition according to their own individual choice.

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    7 months ago

    18% of my countrymen believe that we are on the right track… but it is a democracy, riiiiight?

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      7 months ago

      Welcome to the enchanting realm of procedural democracy, where the essence lies in adhering to the process rather than focusing on meaningful results or substance.