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First World Problems (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This isnt unique to the first world. In fact, I'd argue it's even more prevalent in many developing countries where government incompetence and corruption is more appearant.^1^ In places where things like war and famine are in living memory, a shit government can seem like an acceptable tradeoff.

A relative rule of course, the current US executive branch would give any tinpot dictator a run for their money.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

This guy cites