Your stance seems to be based only on vibes so 🤷

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

Wikipedia deserves to be represented in that meme.

Thank you. Your hypothetical question has been a nagging, unresolved background radiation in my mind for decades, but I’d never gotten around to investigating.

OP basically did ask “why do people in Nordic countries care more what happens to their citizens?”

No they didn’t. You read way to much into what was actually asked.

Sure, but that was in the Good Place, where the local government was simply empowering the will of the people, which is completely different from what happened in Bad Place, where the central authoritarian regime imposed its will on the people. So there’s really no comparison.

If only

nazi alliance NATO

• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism

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This is an eminently believable fact.

Due to its high latitude and being in the middle of a continent, it is a contender for the most extreme winters in the contiguous United States.

Two square miles & 54 residents in North Bumblefuck, separated from the rest of the US by 60 miles. It’s an affront to reason.

omg la is east of reno what is happening rn

To paraphrase an aphorism, create the communities you wish to see in the fediverse.

Based on my dietary intake, guar.

Again, your sources are our media. The NGOs you linked to; RSF, AI, and CPJ; are parts of the imperial core’s human rights concern troll industrial complex, so I take them with a grain of salt. What do those NGOs have to say about Julian Assange or Steven Donziger or other US political prisoners? These Western capitalist state NGOs seldom attack Western states. They mostly attack states that the imperial core states want regime changed.

Did you come here to make an actual point or just to lay up gotcha questions? Because your human rights concern troll wankery is weak tea in the face an ongoing genocide supported by the imperial core.

Damn, it’s so nice that nobody invented sarcastic vagueposting yet.

It was imperial core neocolonialists who fucked them the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)#Post-Soviet_states

It could be better, and compared to some parts of the US, it is better.

It’s funny to lament the erosion of checks and balances: they’re one of the reasons the US is not and has never been a democracy. Why the US Government Can’t Get Anything Done