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Trying to imagine explaining to someone from a civilized country why I'm filing an amended tax return:
"The instructions were so confusing that I got it wrong the first time around. The IRS told me it was wrong and I had to fix it."
"But if they knew it was wrong, why can't they fix it?"
"Tax-preparation help companies keep them from doing that; it'd decrease their profits."
"Wait, who runs your country?! The government, or the corporations?!?"
@emmah@wandering.shop@kagan in December of 2020 a bewildered Australian tourist couple asked me how the US electoral system worked, and became increasingly horrified as I explained that each US state is responsible, and then delegates that to each county or parish, and that the whole system is run by partisans.
I find it easier to explain that while Australia was colonized by people the Crown wanted to get rid of, America was colonized by crooks and grifters who then kidnapped labor.