cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24043909
Under this methodology of all 193 UN Member States – an expansive model of 17 categories, or “goals,” many of them focused on the environment and equity – the U.S. ranks below Thailand, Cuba, Romania and more that are widely regarded as developing countries.
In 2022, America was 41st. Interesting to see where it will be after this term of office, which looks set to be working against many of these aims.
Show me a red state and I’ll show you a bunch of big blue cities. Show me a blue state and I’ll show you enormous red rural territories. Even within the same city center, you can find enclaves of rival political ideologues - arch-conservative suburbs and LGBTQ friendly business corners - abutting one another.
Nobody is getting Nationally Divorced without the kind of ugly fascist purges common to post-invasion Iraq or Israeli-occupied Lebanon and Syria.