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Because the US is controlled by corporations

Asia for the most part doesn’t care

Australia is run by right wing nut jobs

New Zealand is quiet so they probably do do something like this but we haven’t heard about it.

Japan is Japan. Civil rights isn’t really a thing.

And China and Russia love invasion of privacy it’s basically the entire basis of their countries.

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China and Russia are dictatorships meaning they do whatever the fucknthey like and if you don’t like it you might become suicidal.

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Well actshually… Australia used to be run by right-wing nutjobs. The current mob in power are centrist nut jobs.

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I am generally curious what you mean by centrist nut jobs? The whole point of the centre is to be somewhere in the middle and therefore the best of both worlds that everyone has something in common with as far as I’m concerned

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There is no “best of both worlds” when one side wants you to be a fucking slave. Wake up, dummy.

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The power behind the throne in Australia is still right wing nut jobs and corporations

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I feel like Australia and New Zealand is kind of like England and Scotland in that sense.

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I’m really curious (as I’m not living there) what the difference is. Is it just their religious tendencies? Or is it their feelings towards the nebulous “other” that defines them?

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In Australia there are two major political parties, Labor and Liberals.

Liberals does not mean what it does in the US, they are the right wing party, who are in a coalition with the Nationals party which is even further right wing.

Labor is now centre-right as they kept running on centre-left policies and losing.

The defining difference between the parties on the domestic front are that Labor supports and Liberals oppose

  1. Social safety nets

  2. Universal medical care

  3. Taxation of corporations

On a foreign policy front they parties are broadly aligned however their stance on how to deal (interact) with China is vastly different, where Labor engages the Liberals attack China endlessly which resulted in a trade war which we’re still feeling the effects of.

This is a very shallow examination of Australia’s political landscape but I’m not a political commentator.

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You forgot Africa, South America, Canada, Greenland(?).

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Africa is still developing so data privacy is the least of their concerns. They’re focusing on creating stable corruption free governments that don’t undergo a coup or civil war every 5 years, and having a hell of a time with that.

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Africa is an enormous continent, it contains 53 different countries and what you said is only true of a handful of them.

I don’t blame you, I blame the eurocentric educational system and news media.

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that don’t undergo a coup or civil war every 5 years, and having a hell of a time with that.

If by “having a hell of a time with that” you mean “the US loves shutting down developing nations”, absolutely.

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Greenland is a part of Denmark so in the EU

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I also had to look this up but Greenland is not in the EU

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Well yes, but actually no. Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in the EU, but Greenland is not in the EU.

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As with most things in the US, California has similar laws to the gdpr (though admittedly not as powerful), so a lot of websites are starting to change a bit in the US because of california.

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I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

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