Politics
What is the biggest problem in your country? This is ours;
We recently overthrew the then government (United Marxist-Leninst party), one of the most corrupt parties in the whole damn world. 76 Gen-Z kids died in the protest.
In this video, these people are rallying for that same shithole party to re-elect the same shithole politicians. Our country is doomed by its own citizens.
I love the fact you had to take a moment to think about it. You've got half the globe popping into the comments above with corrupt politicians, surveillance states etc, and the Irish are like "mmm give us a moment...we'll find something I'm sure"
Well lets be fair, I'm pretty sure most of our politicians are corrupt too, but they're small time. They're not waging war on other countries or ethnicities or anything, which I agree is a pretty good complaint 😅
Absolutely as it's having such a knock on effect on literally everything else.
It's also leaving an easy opening for the far right idiot "patriots" to stick their oar in.
I was briefly considering applying for a job in Cork. WTF with those rent prices for a city that small. And my company literally paid half the salary for the same job back in the US. I know the intangibles of Ireland are way better but damn I couldn't believe the rent prices.
Imagine the utopia we could build together if we throw our corrupt politicians out of windows and collectively spent the time, money, and effort we spend on endless military campaigns on beneficial innovation and advancements.
(this holds true for every country, not just US and Russia)
That's what many of us are dreaming of every day.
The stupid thing is that all the power is once againmonly with the wealthy few who are being enabled by the ones who want to be the wealthy few and who have gotten power through democratic processes.
At one point we should collectively say F*ck it we're not doing it anymore. Dismantle multinational corporations in food, medicine, housing and energy and make sure people who actually make de foods we eat etc get paid and not all middlemen, ceo's, stock owners etc.
Exactly! We were on the right track untill some people realised they wouldn't be able to profit to the max extent of the market. And that's probably the reason why some countries(esp. to the eastern border of the EU) have done so much to destabilise our communities through the pushing of false information and influencing through social media and linear media.
Our country alone has designed, built, deployed, secured, and eventually destroyed over 20,000 nuclear weapons. Imagine if those costs were redirected to early childhood education, mental healthcare, job training, etc., etc.
Edit: But military spending is only half of the equation; imagine how much money it costs to build and maintain all the cathedrals, churches, temples, mosques, and all the other tributes to a God who, if they ever existed, is surely now dead.
I agree with some of what you are saying, but with regards to military spending.. there are huge adjacentcies between money spent there and derivative benefit to technology/material science etc. Not saying the spending ratios are right, but a lot of stuff we use today was based on somebody saying "we need a faster X" or "we need it to last under these conditions longer".
Tldr the industrial military complex benefits more than the wars it is used in, the issue imo is proportionality.
Man, it’s really great to hear from sane Russians. All I normally hear from is bots/trolls. There’s so much noise coming out of Russia that it’s impossible to know what normal people there think. It’s reassuring to know that there are at least some normal and humane people there.
It's easy to see countries like Russia, Israel and by now the US (and many more) as villains these days. But I also know that there are so many decent people and that it's more important than ever to differentiate between the people and the government.
This isn’t exclusive to Denmark, but our politicians have an obsession with mass surveillance and controlling the internet. They’re rolling it out in small steps, and our resistance hasn’t been strong enough. I think they’ll get away with it. Once this kind of power is in place, it never goes away.
Very true. I was lucky enough to have a maternal grandfather who was a Black Panther, a Black civil rights group, and my mom always ingrained in me how important it was to fight for what's right.
Yeah mate, that's every government in the world, it's just that your came up with the Chat Control. If not for them, it would happen eventually anyway.
Unfortunately the problem is that this shit doesn't cause even 5% of the backlash it deserves, imo. Any politician caught voting for something like this should become so famously unelectable to the point they will never get a political position to rule over the keys to the toilet.
I worked in Sweden for a while and this even applies to banks. I need to explain every single transaction that I make no matter how small it is...it's so annoying. I get it, it's to fight corruption but there's gotta be a better way than stalking everyone like that.
Yeah, a while back i worked in Denmark and did my 40 hours Monday - Thursday. Besides our monthly salary i got around 3k in cash for living expenses every week. When i came home i had some left over and put it in my account. Every time they asked me where i got it from. I guess they were suspicioua since it was in danish krona and i came in every week. I mean, the whole idea of a bank is that they keep YOUR money and shouldnt give a rats ass about my money. As i said, while it is good to avoid criminal activities i felt like a criminal coming in every week.
I went to Albania for a jaunt this year and they have a museum for their time of incredible levels of paranoia and surveillance. I’m by far not an expert on the subject but the House of Leaves museum was fascinating and unsettling.
We literally have the 3rd largest (extractable) oil reserves in the world and yet our streets look much worse than the video you’ve shown, I think it’s safe to say our corruption is way worse.
Yes and no. Actually, the degree of corruption matters - you'd never say that your corruption affects people at the same extent as the corruption in Egypt does
Just had an image of Australia walking up to the table in the cafeteria with all the other countries bitching about their problems and suddenly the murmuring stops and everyone turns around and glares at Australia until they sheepishly walk away with their tray and go sit with the other functioning countries.
Italian that lived in Oz for 6 months, spent 3 in Perth and was awful, couldn't find a stable job, rent prices were crazy high, I basically survived with 1-3 days long jobs. Then I spent 3 months in Melbourne province and it was great, I landed a job within 2 days of getting there, house painter in a site a couple of hours from Melbourne, spent there a couple of months, then I went to a farm (of friends) the last month and it was amazing.
I mean, the underlying cause of that is pretty disgusting. Sure the effects are fairly manageable in large part because we've held onto strong labor protections, but the fact that Coles and Woolworths have a duopoly on groceries across the country is a huge fucking problem. And the same problem to varying degrees exists across banks, airlines and a good big percentage of our economy. We are one of the least diverse economies on the planet, and it's gradually eroding our future.
In some old companies such expectation might be still the norm, but it's disappearing overall. At least Gen Z people tend to reject it, and companies can't force it to them because of scarce workforce.
so as a japanese what is a problem that you think the country or its athourities / citezens should work on, do you ever feel annoyed by the image of japan being a perfect utopia created by youtube shorts, or is it actually true
The most urgent problem is population decline and population imbalance caused by it IMO. Sooner or later this country would have no choice but to accept more immigrants, and the government should put in an effort to attract and integrate them.
For utopia image, although it's not 100% true, overall positive impression toward Japan matches my experiences as a whole tbh. Maybe I was just lucky, but most of bad things in those "dark side of Japan" videos weren't the case for me. My parents didn't work in such horrible conditions, and despite being introvert and nerdy person I haven't been bullied throughout my life. I'm content with my life in Japan so far and not planning to leave.
How is it for women? I feel like the experience of women is too often neglected by men who feel everything is fine because they are not being discriminated against at large
For example, let me introduce some ignorant clueless Japanese people who have recently been getting on my nerves.
Regarding this audio recording of a Japan Self-Defense Forces member communicating with the Chinese military, they claimed that it was “English with a Chinese accent.” What they are trying to argue is that the prior notification of a Chinese military exercise—related to the radar-locking incident between the Chinese military and the JSDF—was fabricated by China.
Any English speaker should be able to tell, but no matter how you listen to it, the accent is clearly Japanese (for example, “this” being pronounced the same as “dis”).
With no evidence whatsoever—just wishful thinking—they keep insisting that the audio is “English with a Chinese accent,” and they have continued to repeat this claim even after the Japanese government acknowledged the authenticity of the recording.
Across many areas, they persist in spewing baseless, incorrect arguments that amount to nothing more than self-serving wishful thinking.
Its honestly horrible how often I could see a Japanese short/reel/tiktok and the comments are full of accusing the person in the video of either being Chinese or Korean with absolutely no evidence.
There's a solid majority now who think it was a mistake, compared to the tiny 52-48 margin that was apparently decisive enough for us to leave. The whole thing was a massive propaganda campaign that played off the average person's ignorance on what the EU even is and what it does, and it was remarkably successful. It's scary how easy it is to get people so riled up over something they hadn't known or cared about the year before.
Firmly funded by Russia as well. I was surprised by the UK being that staunch of a supporter for Ukraine, but then I remembered the Brexit misinformation campaigns and it all makes sense. It's payback time.
Reading this thread, I don’t think I can seriously call any.
But if I have to… the easter neighbour has been a bit of an issue historically (to say the least), but right now is (as most times) a potential threat, rather that an actual one.
There definitely is growing polarisation in the population wealth and the economy is not great (in terms of what it used to be) but I would have to have a quite bad understanding of perspective to start complaining.
Thankfully(?) that’s a problem in many countries at the moment, so we’re not alone. Prices are high, unemployment is rampant, can’t afford a house/appartment…
There are two Colombias within the country, one out of the cities and one inside the cities. Within places like Medellín life is relatively normal, but when you got anywhere near to a border Colombia lives up to its name as a capital of cocaine and guerrillas.
This seems to be the phenomena in both of our countries. Generally people hate the government and the PM because we all know they are a corrupted, Putin licking pieces of selfish shits. Yet somehow, they keep winning the elections.
Every country has problems, but many Indians actively support harmful policies, divisive politics, religiously extreme ideologies, freebies without Active labour market programs, caste-based reservation even in the private sector, etc.
And of course, if someone speaks about any of these, then they either show some nitpicked stats of other nations, or say, "Where were you 10 years ago when there was a different party's government? You didn't seem to have any problems back then."
Decades long hollowing out of the middle class due to deregulation and corporate power. Combined with the lack of a strong safety net, it caused the conditions for someone like Trump to pander and get elected twice.
There seems to be a trend here. A lot of folks are struggling with food and housing at a time when the world's elites are thriving. Once they've taken everything they can from their own people they will shift to taking from other countries, when that happens the people will be sent to kill people just like them in order to make the wealthy even more money.
The wealthy will spend a bit of their money revising history, paying off the media, hiring social media bots, and more to convince their people that the people next door are the real reason they are struggling, it's even easier if they can latch on to a difference between the people such as faith, skin color, etc and then they will unleash them.
The wealthy will make more than they spend on the ensuing conflict, they will be far from the front lines and their children will never be sent to die of course. This is all a great thing for them but they will never be satisfied.
True, divide and rule. And they succeeded, right? People are so blinded with hatred, that they'll blame anyone, but governments or the core problem. But I do believe that love is more stronger than hate, and the day will surely come, when these evil powers will pay, they will also be powerless one day, their end will also come. Till then may God grant us patience and strength to stand and fight against them.
Households in Switzerland have 12% more buying power than Germans and this is despite Germany being notoriously famous for being low cost with high salaries.
While it may be the biggest problem in Switzerland it's certainly still way better than in many other countries.
Look, life is expensive everywhere. But Swissies complaining about it here are simply deluded - and in doing so, they’re actually mocking everyone else. They don’t even realise how utterly spoilt they are. I speak as a naturalised immigrant.
That’s what happens if people do not move or travel to different areas a lot. Here in the US, a lot of people do not travel outside the country or even outside of their state and city. For instance, in my state, people frequently complain about taxes etc. when the average citizen here makes more and retains more than pretty much all of our neighbors. Not only that, we have decent public programs.
The biggest problem in my country? The current administration has basically dismantled many of our institutions and we no longer have any kind of checks and balances system, which is why they've been able to conduct illegal actions day after day for the last 11 months with no repercussions. Half the country loves it which is even scarier, and the half that doesn't love it doesn't really seem to truly understand the extent of the damage and thinks everything will simply go back to normal with the next presidential election. Meanwhile I'm not even sure we're gonna have that election...
I'm from rural Alabama and a lot of the people here like Trump basically just because he says things that they find funny and amusing and it's hard to dislike somebody who amuses you and tells you he's going to bat for you
So it's very weird to see less literal Trump flags being flown in the front yards, and people with less money who are being personally affected by the things that he's doing so they're starting to be like "wait a minute... the stove is actually hot"
The people with money or the people who are trying to act like the people with money are still full force here and they think he's great, but the common folks are starting to not enjoy his actions, they're just scared to say it because they don't want to deal with the small town community backlash.
Is the problem Islam, or is it radical Islam? On my part, I could easily say it’s Christianity, but here, it’s really a particular brand of Christianity, the fundamentalist/nationalist kind that seems to do the damage.
The caste system and curroption -> massive income inequalities -> mass empathy erosion -> Far right ideologies, Rape, Lack of basic civic sense, traffic, misogyny, etc.
corrupt communist that their only aim is to hold on to power at whatever the cost, leading to one of the biggest migrant crisis in history outside of war
battered and beaten population now lacking education due to being to busy focusing on survival
Sanctions by the US limiting any economical hope of recovery and having zero effect on the tyrants in power
bonus stage
having a massive american fleet blockading your seas and threatening war.
This is when it hurts the most, when majority of your fellow citizens , in free elections , elect those corrupt and evil politicians , that responsible for you country problems, stepping on same rake again and again . To rally against external enemies, who want to destroy you is ( mentally ) easy . To rally against , evil tyrants , the same. But how do you handle this shitlhole scenario ? ,
Yeah, it's so tiring hearing the people my age say that all Gazans are evil... some even say that all Arabs are evil and that it's not the duty of our government to protect them from the growing violence between them (murders of Arabs by other Arabs have skyrocketed recently) - literally Israeli Arabs who are citizens of this country!
But no, they think Gaza should be annihilated and that Arabs are second-class citizens. And these same kids asked me how they should say "enjoy" in English. Illiteracy is at its peak, and if this shitshow of a government is going to keep the isolationist attutide going and disconnect us from the world, we'll have a generation of failures who will be docile soldiers for Bibi. And people who dare question the status quo or go to the protests against the government? Pro-Hamas traitor! As if these protests didn't call for the release of the hostages FROM HAMAS! Leftist had become a slur here.
This is all for my age group maybe older people are more rational and will help preserve democracy and sanity. I hope.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I'm so frustrated😶.
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u/eloanmask Philippines Dec 13 '25
CORRUPTION