• steeznson@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    11·
    2 days ago
    • 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 🏴‍☠️
  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
    282·
    2 days ago

    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

      • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        20·
        3 days ago

        Don’t feel too bad about it, remarkably few countries really do have democracy (even though many have more of it than the US).

    • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
      318·
      3 days ago

      To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

      Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

      Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

      • GuyFawkes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        Some…representatives…choose whatever they want…because they were voted in.

        Oh that there’s the Republicans.

        Others…vote for whatever the majority of their consituents want.

        Found the Democrats.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    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.

      • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        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.

      • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
        11·
        1 day ago

        Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.

        • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          23 hours ago

          Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.

  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    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 systems

    Also 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.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    391·
    3 days ago

    I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.

  • rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.dev
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Owl@mander.xyz
    20·
    2 days ago

    If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    39·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • kwedd@feddit.nl
    27·
    3 days ago

    Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, affordable healthcare, affordable education, great roads and infrastructure with lots of cycling lanes, shops near homes, better labour laws, more vacation days, maternity leave, social safety net, less gun violence, police trained in de-escalation, affordable phone and internet plans, more affordable healthy food options, more egalitarian culture, none of those pesky hills or mountains, surrounded by countries that make good beer.