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Re:Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot by peyton on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:54AM (#32025948)
State failure means loss of control over territory. Not conservatism or violence or car-centricity. It’s completely untrue to say the US is a failed state.
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Re:Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot by piva00 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:35PM (#32039971)
Not necessarily, for example from Wikipedia:

> A failed state is a political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government no longer function properly.

Depending on the philosophy you believe on what should be the role of the State the US has traces of failing on basic conditions and responsibilities to its citizens.

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