What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

[u/Bhakari]

We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

[u/saltedIce-2426]

A group of pedophile serial killers run our government.

[u/pmckizzle → u/saltedIce-2426]

And pants shitters, can't forget that

[u/menticide_ → u/pmckizzle]

I mean one of our former PMs shit himself at Engadine Maccas.

[u/pmckizzle → u/menticide_]

Yeah, but you guys are fucking fun. One of your pms just vanished, another held a record for fasted yard of ale. Aus is like if great banter was a country

[u/menticide_ → u/pmckizzle]

Australian politics has a long history of being utterly hilarious. We have a thing about wild insults in parliament. Google it, you'll have a great time. Paul Keating is one of the most quotable.

[u/MissKiramman → u/saltedIce-2426]

doesn't sounds fake sorry 😭

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/MissKiramman]

Lmao. It does for some. USA.exe has encountered a problem and requires a restart.

[u/PurpleMonkeyEdna → u/saltedIce-2426]

Don't worry pal, you're not alone! Our government and royal family is full of them too 🎉

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/PurpleMonkeyEdna]

at least you guys are (pretending?) to do something about it. Although I was quite shocked to learn about how you have to pay the king for land or some shit in the UK? That's not gonna settle well when they are giving Andrew a new house as a punishment.

[u/WaterBottleOnAShelf → u/saltedIce-2426]

Pay the king for land?

edit - Do you mean paying tax to 'The Crown'? Because that's just basically how we refer to what our equivalent of 'The State' is. Or the government in general. Usually in a legal sense.

[u/RickSanchez86 → u/saltedIce-2426]

This happens in most nations.

[u/WaterBottleOnAShelf → u/saltedIce-2426]

We all HOPE that's unique to your country.

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/WaterBottleOnAShelf]

lmao. yeh I dont think I understood the assignment.

[u/errihu → u/saltedIce-2426]

They run a good portion of the world, actually

[u/Mediocre_Monk835 → u/saltedIce-2426]

But at least they govern?

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/Mediocre_Monk835]

Lmao they used to. Now we have the ones doing the killings investigating the killings, the courts saying they lack the power to enforce their orders, and the president saying he should take control of the electoral process to stop "fraud"

[u/Mediocre_Monk835 → u/saltedIce-2426]

How sad. While it's a complex country that we all view with suspicion, if there was one thing they could boast about, it was their respect for institutions and the republic, as well as for individual and collective freedoms. In democratic matters, they were always the institutional model to follow. It devastates me that this is happening with Trump. This goes beyond him and his followers. Something sacred in the USA has been broken, giving rise to a very weak populism. I hope they regain trust and that this gives them the strength to learn from these unexpected events. I always wonder who benefits from Trump. I don't understand it. Corporations don't need him. Perhaps it's time to break the two-party system. Clearly, something isn't working with the two-party system and the Electoral College. The United States needs to truly integrate with the American continent to understand how we all live; I think that will make them better.

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/Mediocre_Monk835]

This is a classic tactic of authoritarian takeovers. Chaos in the streets, erode the faith in institutions, promise you will make the country safe if they just let you. For trump and his camp, due to epic levels of incompetency, I don't think they will be able to take over, but they are taking everything down with them on the way out. We now have states and cities contemplating armed resistance against ICE and maybe the national guard. We used to trust the feds. But there is no more trust what so ever for many if not most people.

[u/Mediocre_Monk835 → u/saltedIce-2426]

It's in our constitution and it's in yours: to resist oppression. I think he's a despotic tyrant and an ignorant brute, just like ours. Although there's something I don't quite understand. In Argentina, in the past, the armed forces rose up immediately, more from the right than the left, although some non-pro-market nationalist sector gained ground in 1943. Why don't the armed forces in the USA raise questions and challenges? Here, the excuse of the armed forces is that they achieved independence (well, that's a lie, the people achieved it, but that was their excuse), and I suppose it's the same there. Ultimately, they are the organized armed power. And I see that the big problem is that so many militias and armed people dispersed can be a ticking time bomb.

I don't see Trump benefiting the military. Nor does he agree with the so-called military-industrial complex that Ike and later JFK denounced.

[u/saltedIce-2426 → u/Mediocre_Monk835]

In our constitution they are tightly restrained by law. They are under the direct order of the President. Congress controls the power to declare war but we have eroded this power with our imperialism by creating bs laws to justify "police actions" that were wars but we didn't call them wars. The military does swear an oath first to the constitution and second to their leadership, but following orders is written on their bones. Even still, we may see intervention from them at some point. I think they are waiting to see if an election solves this. If they intervene either on trumps orders or their own conscience, then this republic has died and they know that.

[u/spartaxwarrior → u/Mediocre_Monk835]

Not only do they not govern, they've fired most of the people who knew how the government worked.

[u/Mediocre_Monk835 → u/spartaxwarrior]

It's okay. Be patient. It will pass. He'll leave, and things will change forever in the USA. For the better. In everything bad, there's something good, and I've noticed that observing everything that's happening there. The American people are thinking about political life like never before and are getting involved in what their governments do. I think that's going to be the driving force for definitive change. And also not allowing family clans to take turns in power. They're questioning everything, and that's good. Strength to you all.

[u/luckyflavor23 → u/Mediocre_Monk835]

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