Just off the top of my head:
State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.
PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.
A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.
I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.
Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.
Thats not a speed limit. That’s a speed minimum.
Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.
I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.
I say minium because if you’re not doing it you’ll get hell from all drivers around you and realistically everyone is pushing 10 over.
We already went through the phase you just began.
Germany?
Yeah.
Yeah Germany is about to launch into this again though
Absolutely, it’s not looking to hot here either. For those who don’t know should look into our west/east split.
It doesn’t have a traitor as a president
We elected a fascist leader once and then we learned from it.
If you’re from Germany or Italy: I don’t think this is really true anymore. The fascist parties in these countries got 30%/21% of votes.
We, here in the UK, for all our faults, have waaaay fewer school shootings… In fact way fewer shootings altogether (even when multiplied by ~5 for relative population size)
To be fair, the UK includes the Scots and they are pretty much in the top 3 of most chill people.
India - multi-party democracy. US is too big and too diverse of a place to have effectively have two parties for every region and every cohort of the country. It should try to copy some aspects of India’s multi-party culture. Some states in India have parties that don’t exist in any other state. And some parties exist across many states. Basically a mix of current US system and the European system.
Literally all of them except size of military.
5 weeks paid leave
Being able to walk in the cities! And healthcare is also a big reason
- Actually diverse politics (though still dominated by moneyed right wing)
- Amazon is not the nº 1 online retailer and there exists… some competition between the major ones
- Significantly less infighting between federal govt and states - phones were recently banned from every school as federal law, no “let states decide” bullshit
- We don’t have to pay to make searches in justice databases
- We have govt-funded hospitals and healthcare (doesn’t always work and there’s constant right-wing ill-will to sell it all off)
- 🏴☠️ So long as you don’t pirate stuff for profit, nobody will go after you 🏴☠️
At this point. If youre a democracy and just voting against money in all ways, shapes, and forms you’re oopsed.
We care about the planet.
I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.
Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.
