someguy3, (edited ) Housing crisis and inflation.
(Are we naming ourselves or are you guessing?)
Fades, (edited ) I too am a citizen of earth
JackDark, Oh! I know this one! It’s the planet!
match, developed countries be like “housing crisis but also population decline crisis”
DragonTypeWyvern, “How can we exploit you if you won’t breed beyond your current financial abilities???”
Evkob, (edited ) We usually just import American issues but with a 2 to 5 year delay.
TropicalDingdong, You’ll be very excited to know that we’re currently working on the Civil War Two: Baka Texas expansion pack. We should have it out of the beta stage and into production here in a few weeks, and you’ll be hearing about it non-stop until forever!
DragonTypeWyvern, I’m personally excited for the release after that, Christian Hunting Season. The evangelicals have been hyping it for a while, they’re honestly so into it I’m a little worried it’s a fetish thing but it certainly sounds like a good time!
Evkob, Stop, we’re just on the verge of electing our Trump-like politician. I’ve had to cut out US political news because the prophecies are too foreboding.
samus12345,
Fades, (edited ) Let me guess, the UK?
Edit: ahh Canada, a close second
TheGrandNagus, (edited ) The Brexit clusterfuck was prior to the Trump clusterfuck, and certainly prior to Texit.
Shit, chief neoliberal shithead Reagan is just Thatcher with a USA badge slapped on the front.
okamiueru, Weirdly how well both aligned with Russian interests.
perviouslyiner, Brexit was the practice run for trying to influence an election
PP_BOY_, The US, for one
krondo, Came here to post this :)
stmcld, Lol same, but i see a few people beat us to it.
Empricorn, My eyes don’t both face the same direction.
jabathekek, Omni-directional awareness is a plus.
PeepinGoodArgs, Island nations are facing rising sea levels thanks to climate change.
someguy3, (edited ) Really it’s time to abandon a lot of islands. And Florida. Damn I should buy a house before that migration happens. But I guess Floridians would want somewhere warm so Texas, Alabama, etc are gonna get it.
Vanth, Australia is getting battered with storms rn with several people killed. Fights over tax cuts for the wealthy. Protests over Gaza and immigration policies. The largest specimen ever of the most venomous type of spider was found; it will now be used in a venom-milking program to help make antivenoms, because no matter what’s going on the tropes must be fulfilled.
tourist, South Africa: Major energy crisis
Global: ADHD drug shortage
vivavideri, AGAIN?!
tourist, It never ended
I’m guessing the lack of ADHD medication led some of those in charge of solving the problems to procrastinate.
vivavideri, I had to switch to generic Vyvanse, at first because they couldn’t get brand out here, but now because insurance is like lol fuck you get generic or we won’t bother covering it
cactus_head, I feel like those two problems could solve each other
Today, Like a hamster wheel setup? They’re too distracted to stay on the wheel.
jabathekek, Municipalities would rather destroy homeless encampments with a large, expensive police action rather then attempt to fix the underlying issues. This causes more trauma, which leads to more drug use, which leads to more deaths. These deaths don’t seem to matter to them as long as they die in a convenient spot, out of sight from the ‘normal’ people shopping in the gentrified down town.
sharkfucker420, The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing severe political violence involving large militant groups over natural resources and territory.
AnomalousBit, That one dude in Argentina is basically doing a government cosplay of Evel Knievel
Thorny_Insight, (edited ) Russia is sending migrants to Finland and after we closed the eastern border they started walking thru the forest and showing up on the yards of people living close to the border. These people are literally hiking thru deep snow in the freezing winter wearing sneakers.
Fades, Non-Russian migrants?
Thorny_Insight, (edited ) Yeah mostly from middle east I believe. Finland started putting up hundreds of kilometers of border fence about a year ago as this was expected to happen. They’re trying to destabilize our political system this way. Despite what many articles say this is not about trying to stop an invasion. It’s about migrants that Russia is using as political leverage.
Mr_Blott, Guy in your thumbnail has got one eye going to the shop and the other coming back with a loaf
MadBob, As we used to say in Liverpool, one eye in Crocky and one eye in Tocky.
Mr_Blott, I would’ve thought you’d say one eye at Gregg’s and one eye in the dole 😂
shinigamiookamiryuu, Pitcairn has appealed for independence. The outcome is probably predictable.
kionite231, Concerning level of fascism and violence against minorities are norm in India.
taanegl, …American neo-liberalism? No shot, in Norway we are seeing a return of poverty, and it’s mostly thanks to new public management and the two massive neo-liberal parties that front US ans UK economic policies.
Yes, it really is that bad. My job now is to remind everyone continually that poverty will grow, because as per usual, the politicians responsible will try to find a scapegoat.
It might be the socialist, might be brown and black people, might be the Jew, heck: it most likely will be the Polish who get blamed for the insane policies are being fronted.
So yeah, neo-liberalism, the political enabler of capitalism, is currently our biggest problem - but it shows, through deforestation, consolidation of ownership, the indirect banning of cooperatives, the milking of the European energy market at the expense of Norwegians, everything being centralised, ownership wise, and the propaganda and talking points remain the same.
Our politicians are gutless shills for yankie ambitions. Former prime minister and leader of the right wing party Erna Solberg has a large fucking painting of Ronald Reagen on her wall, and she was recently embroiled in a conflict of interests case, where her husband got favourable government contracts for his parking company.
Of course it had to be fucking parking.
Økokrim, the national economic crimes division, refused to actually investigate the situation, and all the neo-liberal fucks, including the other massive neo-liberal party (AP, or “the labour party”), who probably also are falling deeper into corruption, let it slide.
So yeah, poverty is on the rise, and crime will rise with it. When it reaches boiling point, you can bet I’ll have to verbally smack people in the face once the people in power have decided upon a scapegoat.
I’m betting Polish and Slavic people, or Africans. Anyone except the political and economic precedent set by the politicians in power.
MadBob, They say never attribute to malice what could be explained by ignorance, but they really could have looked at how it’s been going in the UK for the last forty years and learnt the lesson vicariously.
Aradina, At a point, stupidity becomes malicious
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