What is your country best in?

[jordancoles]

First Shubla post I've fucking lold at

Good job

[Potjeh]

Oh, and we all live like we're rich men now. That's what happens when there's something other than "nobility" and "poor peasants."

Don't worry, middle class is on it's way out.

[MagicManICT]

Oh, and we all live like we're rich men now. That's what happens when there's something other than "nobility" and "poor peasants."

Don't worry, middle class is on it's way out.

Definitely... It's just taking longer cause we're all so fucking rich in the US... at least it looks like that when you see everyone but the homeless wasting everything they touch. (No, it's not everyone, but it's widespread enough to make a sensible person have a strong, righteous sense of anger about it.)

[Potjeh]

I think you're confusing being heavily indebted with being rich.

[MagicManICT]

I think you're confusing being heavily indebted with being rich.

Is there a difference if you live the same decadent lifestyle? After all, you don't take either with you when you die. The only real difference is one creates wealth for the next generation*, the other just puts the money in the spin cycle and scatters it around a little bit.

*I'm trying to avoid turning this into a politics and economics debate... we've had enough of those over the years. I just want to talk shit about the "worst parts" of us.

[sMartins]

We need limits, and coming back to reason. Why we mass produce fries chips when we know the are not healthy? If one want to eat fries he can do that by himself and even better. Why we use 5000cc engine in town and cities where a 500cc would be the same?
We need to come back to reality, and listening and learning again ... cause these days we don't know a shit.
We don't even know what are the fruits and vegetables right to eat for the season, how to grow a plant, how to live as a free man, they want us dependent by them of course, and the bullshit they sell.
EDIT:
But it's our fault cause we buy them, cause we are dumb.

[Sarge]

Heh OP, what do you know, my country (South Africa) is best at being racist against whites... if such a thing existed because you know, if it's not against niggers then it's just not racism.

[Avu]

Romania has the most household in EU without bath shower or indoor flushing toilet: 27.2% as of 2017.

It also the country with a chronic shortage of highways which managed the performance of opening minus 4 km of highway in a year.

It's also the country where the secret services have/had secret protocols with the judicial system to basically allow spying on citizens on non national security issues. The current leader of the senate has been under surveillance for 7 years. During that period he was prime minister, regular joe, member of parliement and finally leader of senate.

It's also the country that had over 300 recordings that were part of evidence for a criminal trial for corruption turn out to be surveillance recordings of truckers talking about weather, pay day, wives etc... Only 1 recording was related to the actual case.

It's the country where a member of the constitutional court the highest authority that judges if laws are constitutional or not was investigated by prosecutors for trying to sell some goats, it was spinned as trying to sell them to Russia through a third country, Nothing came of it.

It's the country where our ex president gave away, while minister of transport, the ENTIRE commercial fleet of Romania some 300 ships away for literally nothing. He was "investigated" and there was found not to have prejudiced the national interests at all. Phew close one.

It's the country were same said ex president which got elected twice was suspended by parliament for gross unconstitutional conduct and 87% of the people that came to vote voted for his dismissal. He was saved by a 3 AM errata published by the then favorable to him constitutional court (with most members in vacation) that introduced a cvorum for the referendum. All the while the ex president was urging people not to come vote.

It's the country where the then campaign manager of the party in opposition to our ex president was convicted to 2 years suspended sentence for thinking of trying to organize random prize contests for people who voted during referendum. He sent a mass message to his people in the field day before referendum but sent another one rescinding the plan before it could be put in motion. The court concluded that his intention was malicious and he would have benefited from the result of the elections.

It's the country where the current president winning on a campaign of anti corruption (that he keeps insisting on to this day) owns 6 houses which he got on a highschool teacher then mayor salary (teacher salaries were street sweeper level at the time). When asked where did he get the money? Tutoring (no taxes payed for that). Did I say own 6 houses? It's 5 actually he lost one in civil court judge decreeing that the house was obtained using falsified documents (false inheritance), which he awarded himself while being mayor. Same dear leader when asked if he was ever under criminal investigation said he never ever was. Official documents point to at least 17 cases that were dismissed before getting to trial. Asked again about it? He still saying he was never investigated. Most of the press still praises him though.

Yeah fuck this country.

[MagicManICT]

It also the country with a chronic shortage of highways which managed the performance of opening minus 4 km of highway in a year.

Hasn't China been trying to "fix" this with a transcontinental highway? I seem to recall this factoid from a news article a few years ago about it. The funding for it was the huge issue. If I remember the facts correctly (been a few years, doubt it), China doesn't (didn't) want to pay for it in the long term, just make bad rate interest loans to the poor countries that can't afford to pay their portion up front. The government was for it, but there was a big fuss among some of the people that would be affected. I'm sure there are details I'm forgetting, and it may not have been Romania.

[Trappin]

America is best at wildfires. The resulting smoke cloud left from the city of Paradise burning ashes.