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What the fuck is wrong with US? It feels like I'm leaving a comment like this way too often... What the fuck?
More time I spend on internet, more it feels every government is the same.
Every US government is the same indeed. But the life outside the US is very different.
Sadly I did mean rest of the world
Thankfully, you're wrong. I mean even the most far right party in the UK, The Reform Party, has better social policies than Democrats in the US, lol.
You do know there's more to the world than the US and UK, right?
Yes, and there are much better countries than the UK.
And, shockingly, also a lot that are waaaaaaaaaaaay worse.
Most of the countries in the world have exceptions to the legal marriage age being set at 18+. Most allow 16 and up, many as low an 12. This exception is for when the parents consent to the marriage. This is in line with the US. So this issue is a world issue.
Marriage at the age of consent (which is usually 16) is not a problem, forced arranged marriage is.
Marriage, under those conditions, exists for arraigned marriage, and forcing under age kids to marry for whatever reason, pregnancy, etc. to save face. I guarantee you that very few people who married at 16, are deciding to marry, and then getting their parents to consent to it. This stuff exists because of antiquated ideology. They are there for fundies, and people who still think of kids, and women, as property, regardless of religious disposition. 16 is a compromise between the religious, and far right parties, and the rest of the government.
If the age of consent is 16 then you don't ask your parents for an approval. That's the point of the age of consent.
Stop defending forced marriages please.
The fuck are you talking about defending forced marriage? Do you have reading comprehension issues? Is English not your first language? The law is they can get married at 16, and often below, WITH CONSENT FROM THEIR PARENTS. I am sorry this is not jiving with your idea that this is a US problem. Most countries in the world work like this. This is a problem with humanity.
What part of me saying this is a problem with the world, not just US, told you I was defending the practice? Seriously, is your reading comprehension poor, or do you struggle reading English? If it's the latter then it is just a misunderstanding, if it if the former, well, there are many online resources to help with this.
If you heard as much about Korea, Singapore, Australia, Slovakia, or anywhere else then you'd say the same about them too. Not diminishing the problems in the US but the rest of the world is nuts too.
Well, as someone who doesn't live in the US, I don't see such high concentrations of utter nonsense from anywhere else.
Canada is racing to catch up.
It is amazing how every country can see the decline of America. And then politicians pop up in other countries imitating what American politicians have done for years.
They advocate for privatizing healthcare, deregulating businesses, and other American policies which we already know the result of. Using the exact same arguments as the American politicians. People still fall for it and vote in those populists. Of course no left wing politician ever mentions that the populist talking points are the exact same as we have heard from America.
I don't live in the USA either but I'm here on lemmy where most news is American and all the social media is the same. Korea as one of.my examples has had a strimg of absolutely horrendous rape and abuse scandals which would rival epstine but they're pretty much unknown in western media and discourse. Australian politics likewise is a total dumpster fire that barely registers beside American and European news, some people vaguely know about the guy that got firebombed for reporting on corruption because he was a YouTuber but there's endless insanity going on which barely gets a mention in ozzy news let alone international news, and even if it did no one would read it or talk about it like we do with American news.
That's different though. Dumb shit happens everywhere, but the US is one of the few places where that dumb shit is legal and systemic.
I really think if you learned more about the world you'd be incredibly shocked at how crazy it is
What the fuck is wrong with humans?