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I've never heard of a functional country. i live in a safe one but the government is made of incompetent sloppy old men

The USA isn't particularly functional at the moment, but I'd hesitate to say it's lost much of the safety it had YET.

Most are still going to work, not being robbed, not being shot in the street, and so forth SO FAR.

Those things may change, but I'd be cautious about calling the USA unsafe until it actually is. I'd still rather be in most of America than most of, say, Syria right now from that standpoint.

Sweden. I'm happy. But I have a hard time watching the rise of a fascist dictator and the collapse of the dollar reserves as the planet still gets eviscerated by mega corpos entities several orders of magnitude more powerful than any government. What I wish most is that the humans that do the biddings of the megacorps realised that they are just temporarily allowed to be their "ceo" or "cfo" and that in reality they are being used but the allure of money as a means of success, while mindlessly ignored goes the fact that joy and success is found in people that avoid money as much as possible. The demons can and should be revoked the status of being "legal humans" and correctly categorised as entities that exist to serve and protect humans. How can so many people be revoked the status of human and even killed while the destructive hateful entities that ruin our souls and habitat are continually worshipped by its zealots when they provide net negative happiness and health is so tragic.

We are not living in the safe world anymore. We are all threatened with Ruzzia and its lapdog US.

As a Canadian who generally fits this category, i am fairly privileged, have all my basic needs met and some security for the future under status quo conditions. I have my struggles, but they have not so much to with marginalization or oppression. But it depends on who you are. Indigenous women are still going missing, racists are still gonna racist, billionaires are still exploiting people struggling with food and housing security, etc. same goes for the USA. For millions of Americans who are upper-middle/upper class, heteronormative, and white, life is continuing on just fine, feeling safe and experiencing a government that functions as well as it ever has from their perspective. They're too busy living their lives to get caught up in the "noise of angry squabbling of childish politicians". Maybe expenses have gone up, but they can still sustain all their expectations out of life. He'll you can imagine there are a not insignificant proportion of the Russian population are like this.

USA. Despite what people will tell you around here we aren't crumbling to bits or shooting each other in the streets.

What the federal government does has ultimately very little effect on my day to day life. I go to work. I come home. I get high and pet my cats too much. I play video games with friends I've made over the course of my life. I eat dinner and I crash. I'll repeat this pattern all week and then on weekends I do chores and visit friends/family.

Other than that everything is still functional. Safety hasn't gone up or down. It's still exactly as safe as it was under Obama and Biden eras. Pretty safe as long as you avoid certain places or hanging out with the wrong crowds.

8/10. Room for improved always but I'm not really concerned.

Enough to thrive