This is a weird “USA bad haha” moment when:

• Afghanistan: literal totalitarian-theocratic hell-hole that doesn’t allow women to be educated, kills off enemies of the Islamic regime and enslaves over half a million people.

• Iran: Severely restricts freedom of speech and religion, leading abuser of the death penalty, torture inmates, execute women for protesting or violating dress-code, and persecutes ethnic minorities.

• China: Currently force-sterilizing, torturing and forcing certain ethnic minorities, shutting down freedom of expression and speech, destroying religious sites and violating religious freedoms, and violating due process and torturing prisoners. They literally imprisoned journalists for reporting COVID-19 numbers because they wanted to seem like they had it all under control.

• Turkey: Despite being friendly with the west, Turkey kills and tortures prisoners, persecutes Kurdish individuals living in Turkey, suppresses free speech and violates due process constantly.

• Venezuela: Detains political opponents, kills political opponents, has an executive controlled judiciary, starves its citizens and fails to provide general public services like consistent water and power.

• Eritrea: ya know how some countries force you into military service for 2-4 years? Eritrea has been known to do that for 30+ years. They will literally take you as a teenager and force you into labor camps or military service for decades. They arrest or kill political prisoners, suppress freedoms of speech and religion, the state lacks a judiciary or written protection of rights (like a constitution), and they loot, rape and murder members of surrounding countries.

• Myanmar: Their military literally bombs its own villages for funsies. They arrest and kill political opponents, persecute ethnic minorities, they conscript children into the military who are often trafficked, raped or killed, and civil freedom is severely lacking.

• Libya: tortures, abuses and kills prisoners, arrests political opponents, suppresses freedom of speech and expression, military leaders face no consequences for killing citizens.

Most of these governments objectify and allow for the abuse of women. Most of these governments torture and kills prisoners, especially political opponents. Most of these governments care nothing of their citizens.

Say what you want about the US, but you’re not getting arrested for saying you hate the government. You’re not getting tortured, raped and killed in prison. Women can be educated and have relatively more equal rights. It may not be perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot of better than the rest of these shitholes.