Fair, but no, I get ya. I just... Feel like Qatar, for example, is fairly stable, arguably up there with Western nations, yet it is already right up there for ridiculous "corona overreach"...
Also Chile, which is theoretically the richest, most "stable" (post-Pinochet) country in South America, but quickly descended into near martial law, when this kicked off (yes, I know about the anti-government protests, even prior to coof)...
And finally Japan, which is definitely seen as "stable", but is behaving just as horribly towards its citizens as we are (well, in my state, anyway. NSW and Victoria are arguably worse. Arguably)...
So... I dunno, hey. It just doesn't seem to hold. Like, this weird authoritarianism is similarly everywhere, but also... Not?
I never thought Sweden, of all goddamn places, would be the most reasonable about all this. Like, I talk to Swedes who are living there, and they just... Can't even understand how the rest of the "West" is behaving like this... And I never thought I would say that about fucking Sweden. Or Iceland, for that matter. It's weeeeiiiirrrdd, man.
Fair, but no, I get ya. I just... Feel like Qatar, for example, is fairly stable, arguably up there with Western nations, yet it is already right up there for ridiculous "corona overreach"...
Also Chile, which is theoretically the richest, most "stable" (post-Pinochet) country in South America, but quickly descended into near martial law, when this kicked off (yes, I know about the anti-government protests, even prior to coof)...
And finally Japan, which is definitely seen as "stable", but is behaving just as horribly towards its citizens as we are (well, in my state, anyway. NSW and Victoria are arguably worse. Arguably)...
So... I dunno, hey. It just doesn't seem to hold. Like, this weird authoritarianism is similarly everywhere, but also... Not?
I never thought Sweden, of all goddamn places, would be the most reasonable about all this. Like, I talk to Swedes who are living there, and they just... Can't even understand how the rest of the "West" is behaving like this... And I never thought I would say that about fucking Sweden. Or Iceland, for that matter. It's weeeeiiiirrrdd, man.