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

I live in Germany and we have an election coming up where the far right might win. And the US have just handed command of the most powerful military of the world to a certified moron who works for their biggest adversary. That's somewhat concerning, isn't it?

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.

Australian checking in.

Feeling as happy and as safe as ever. Granted, I don't pay a lot of attention to our politics cos it's just a bunch of little children fighting over who gets to play in the sandbox but it says something that I CAN be ignorant of our politics without being scared that something drastic is going to happen while I'm not looking.

My biggest concern is honestly that Australia has a habbit of following whatever inclinations big Daddy USA is following and for that reason the state of affairs over there is a little worring to me.

But yeah, overall can't complain.

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.

Sweden is a functional country for the most part, but we are small in a geopolitical context.

In daily life I feel mostly fine, I have a decent job (I am on the bus to work right now), I have a good apartment (if a bit small), just ordered a new desk for my home setup, in general you can feel society bracing against "Drumpf & Puttler's Crazy Wild Ride: The Rise of Ketamine boy".

Biggest news lately, the school shooting in Örebro, terrible shit, and the coward perpetrator didn't have the decency to survive so we'll probably never know his motives which would help us prevent this in the future.

Locally we have had some small scale scandals recently, politicians disliked by most citizens but with connections getting new jobs either barely following the process or outright ignoring it, nationalistic party have their scandal politicians, other politicians scamming money from the government.

We recently had a news story about an islamist being hired as a teacher and raping a student, that guy was rejected by the security service when applying to be a security guard before being a teacher.

Personally this is how I feel when reading the news lately:

As it stands now, I will just focus on myself and my family and friends, the current US regime is dancing to the tune of a dictatorship and I try to stay far away.

All the fucking right wing wankers are feeling empowered and crawling from under the rocks thanks to the blond Cheeto you guys idiotically voted as president. Economy is going to shit. This is a nice peaceful sunny European country and we're suffering with your idiocy. So not very happy. At all.

Not much better on the upper deck of titanic than elsewhere

Not from a "functioning safe country", but I just want to say: No matter where I go, things are just fucked.

I was born in PRC, and the Rural areas doesn't even have bathrooms in your own home, and you'd have to go to a shared bathroom in the village. In the city, I don't have a Hukou (Household Registration), so you're basically an "illegal immigrant" inside your own country (and, as many of you know, its very authoritarian). And even the city, there is problems with finding a job because theres like 1/7 of the world population in the country. Then I got to the US and casual racism is everywhere, and even Chinese Americans classmates (who are born in the US) refuse to stand up for me against racism.

Now its declining into fascism.

Wow, the bad luck just follows me everywhere doesn't it?

Hey EU, wanna give me political asylum? (Hopefully the bad luck doesn't follow me into the EU lol)

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

Not really happy, because the downfall of the US has massive consequences worldwide.

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.

UK. It's actually alright here despite our culture of complaining about everything.

Weather is predictably dull and boring, but in a world of climate change that's not such a bad thing anymore.

Wages are outpacing the cost of living once again so that's nice.

Politics is just the usual arguing/ bitching about the economy. Everyone blaming each other blah blah blah. Storm in a teacup really.

US news is getting a bit scary, seeing the president cosying up with the enemy and appearing to want to let them take Ukraine in exchange for half of their minerals means that I don't think we'll be considering them a close ally in the near future. At least not a reliable one.

Not to rub it in, but I moved from the US to Scandinavia (during Biden's presidency) and while I have plenty of problems and stresses there's a relief to the safety and stability of it that I didn't realize I was missing in the US.

Life is far from perfect here but it's all in all better than life was in the US for us, and I feel that would be even more true as time goes on.

Also sorry about wtf is going on to you (presumably) over there.

Canada. Could be a lot better, but I'm happy that we're not currently doing as badly as they are south of the border.

I've been working relatively high-paying precarious positions, but my circumstances have allowed me to build myself a safety net. So even if the government can't support me should something go wrong, I can support myself, at least for a time.

I currently have enough money to engage in hobbies and socialize. What I'm currently wishing for is more time.

I haven't had a paid sick day in my life, though I have had a couple "We can't give you a paid sick day, but we can pay you to do light work from home" in the last couple of years. The last time I had a paid vacation day and a job still lined up was in 2020. Though I do get statutory holidays, so it's not terrible.

First world problems. Overall, I'm happy with my life. This year, I'm looking to turn my precarious positions into a full-time gig. If that doesn't work out, I'll try to turn my side-gig into a full-time thing (and take the pay cut in exchange for life satisfaction). And if neither of those works out, I have my safety net which should be able to carry me through until I can get more contracts. And my partner may be looking at income increases next year, which should make everything easier.

Things haven't always been this good for me, but I'm happy with where they are and where they're going.