• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      We have a shit neighbor. So I’m not surprised. What surprised me is that Mexico is above both the USA and Canada. Really?

      Seems strange.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      Those scores are not objective. Don’t read it as “people are this happy” but as “people report in a survey they are this happy”. People will report high scores because they think they should (“My country always scores high on this, I don’t want to spoil it” ), because the previous scores change people perception (“Fins are famous for being happy, I can’t put less then 7, right?”) or because they want to defend their country (“Enemies want to see Israel suffer but I will show them we’re still happy here despite all of it: 10”). People will also put low scores to protests (“Nothing change in my life in the last year but I will put 1 to show that Trump sucks”).

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      completely free health care. 90% government subsidy for colleges. Comparable social security. And no pressure to pretend you’re anything but a murderous racist supremecist.

      If they are so happy and well developed, why are they are number one recipient-- by a lot-- for foreign aid money?

    • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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      They provide universal healthcare, free college education, free childcare and strong social services

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    When your government and a bunch of the regular people base their happiness literally on making other people unhappy because they’re unhappy…that’s what you get. It’s also like a drug, the antagonists’ happiness with their successes is short-lived, so they need to inflict more and more terrible things on others for that feel-good sadistic kick that doesn’t actually solve any of the problems that pushed us down this path.

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      Right? I’m new to this community, but it seems off. How is this a meme and not just a fact or news being shared?

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        There have been several posts that made me side-eye and question the mods as they won’t be memes at all and will literally just be a tweet about facts or smth, so this is just a water-cooler for anything posted to social media I guess. I just ignore it now.

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          Pretty much this, for some reason meme communities seem allergic to quality control or at least to keep the meme community for memes and point the rest to microblogmemes

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    Costa Rica is the happiest place in the Americas. I wouldn’t have guessed that. Guess they’re doing something right. Quick look at Wikipedia showed high education spending and no standing army.

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    Thanks Obama Biden all those people who won’t stop asking for the Epstein files.

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      Gosh how many kids did Trump touch to keep the bit up this long?

      I’m sure his supports would condone a few rapes.