🇮🇱: Worst country in the world bar none; gleefully carrying out a brutal genocide 90% funded by US tax dollars after being the victims of one less than a century ago. THE reason for a century of war in the Middle East.
🇺🇸: too many crimes to list (including being under complete control of the AIPAC).
🇬🇧: genocide, repatriating Holocaust victims to Palestine otherwise known as the Nakba. Just as guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity as the US since the end of WWII.
🇦🇺: widespread corruption/genocide support
🇩🇪: supporting 🇮🇱 after being the perpetrators of their own genocide.
🇸🇦: dictatorship/openly chop journalists into pieces/dictator owns most politicians in oil rich nations
🇶🇦: dictatorship/ dystopian ultra-rich hellscape in the middle of the desert where slavery is the norm
🇹🇷: dictatorship/Armenian genocide then subsequent denial
Probably Muricans offended at the healthy dose of reality.
I just had to start this thread after seeing the other one. Honestly, I purposely put it right next to the other one on world because I felt like they needed to hear it more than the less brainwashed .ml version of asklemmy. It’s very telling to see how many people actively, aggressively insist on burying their heads in the sand on lemmy.world. I’d be shocked if this post doesn’t eventually get taken down.
I down voted op because it feels like he's doing the classic bully maneuver where you seemingly either agree with this post, or he's implied he'll call you part of the hive Mind or whatever.
Also, personally, I don't believe op genuinely cares about the answers.
Countries don't have a unique identity I could like or dislike as a whole.
They can vary widely from region to region, city to city, block to block, street to street... heck even person to person. I may not like some people, or at worst some region because of this or that reason but that is all.
I would call it a (federal) government, not a country.
How would you call it?
I more than disagree with what our government is doing in my country (and how they are doing it), do you think I should dislike all the people living in it, and all the places of that country because of me disliking a bunch of politicians and their politics? I don't.
Like, you’re taking it as “people from a country” and trying to be high and mighty about it. When literally no one else is having that conversation…
Like, do you really think it's healthy to only answer what people are expecting?
and trying to be high and mighty about it.
In our days and age of constant hastily proclaimed condemnations, I can appreciate you taking the time to better know me before expressing your informed opinion on my person.
Probably the ones who oppress their own people, wage war, manufacture weapons and death, spread terrorism... I'm not singling out any specific one. It's difficult to compare which atrocity is the worst and choose a winner.
Remember rule 1, people! We can’t have any truth leaking into our aggressively-censored (lemmy.world) echo-chamber that so closely resembles the smug Reddit hive-mind that it’s hard to discern between the two!
Countries I like in no particular order: Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, New Zealand
I've visited a scant handful of countries. And you want me to pick a least favorite? Let's start by enumerating my options: US, Canada, Thailand, Mexico, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Laos.
I guess I'll have to say Jamaica because they were pushy as hell with tourists, but not in a scary way. I don't have anything bad to say about my experiences in any of the rest. Canada gets too cold in the winter, but not while I was there. I could occasionally hear gunfire in the distance from the resort in Mexico, but it was never worrisome—I can sometimes hear a gun range from my house. That's it. I'm pretty easy to please, I guess.
Not that I'm not famous for saying it already (and I should clarify I hold these sentiments for national governments and the cultures, not civilian individuals), but the British ranks on top for their overreach, if not also Japan and Russia for the weight their cultures put on people.
My least favourites are in no particular order; Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Reasoning is that they have territorial claims in Antartica.
Antartica belongs to the inhabiting wildlife, no one has the right to claim a territory there.
I'm not well-traveled internationally. Outside of America I've only ever been to Costa Rica, which was a great experience. I'd like to visit Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Canada.
Outside of the obvious despotic and corrupt nations, I've watched enough Amazing Race to know that, sorry, I'll never go to India.