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I don't think I've heard a genuine complaint from a Japenese person about Japan, or a Spanish person about Spain, or any other country from a native.

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[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have plenty of complaints about Australia (and plenty more about the US). This quote from The Lucky Country (1964) still perfectly sums up so much of the country:

Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.

Australian houses are glorified tents that are too hot in summer and too cold in winter because It DoEsN't GeT cOlD iN aUsTrAlIa. Our economy is entirely built around digging shit out of the ground and selling it overseas, and selling houses back and forth between slumlord investors. Our federal government is paralysed into inaction by fear of the blatantly partisan and hostile media, who are currently deliberately trying to stir up panic about fuel shortages. Our government is still too scared to criticise or stand up to Trump, and completely caved in to the zionist lobby after the Bondi shooting attack. I could go on.

That said, I would much rather have our current Labor government in charge at the moment than any realistic alternative, because despite my complaints I do think they're generally competent and they are generally trying to make things better (I just wish they would be more bold, they have a huge majority for a reason). I certainly wouldn't want to live anywhere else either.