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      The US has guns, and also get as fucked by their government as characters in the tentacle hentai they can consume there. It’s probably more the Rupert Murdoch media empire’s influence and the disillusionment from their corrupt government.

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        I think weak labor protections for a people that commonly live paycheck to paycheck with health insurance from those jobs, poor social programs should they lose those jobs and a police force that has a robust history of violently shutting down protests might also have a hand

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      They have plenty of fight in them to not have taxes snuck in on a price or hijack of an airplane or fuck around on public transit. Or kicking out a PM.

      All things I see other countries pretty much bend over and take it like it’s medicine.