Republican officians promote a long list of policies that tend to shorten Americans' lifespans (especially poor Americans and disprivileged groups). It's mostly because they are hand-in-glove with racists, religious fanatics and greedy billionaires.

However, when the wrecker was president they got even worse. Nowadays they support policies that make America more deadly, because that gives their followers a chance to enjoy being jerks.

The UK government tested flammable cladding materials 15 years before the deadly fire of 2017. Somehow it neglected to take steps to update the fire code to prohibit use of those materials.

The UK government under Tory rule has shown a pervasive tendency to fail in ways that screw individual and let businesses get away with murder. This is one example. Another is the privatized "jobcenters" that default to punishing welfare recipients for any technical violation of the onerous rules.

Taiwan became a democracy only in the 1960s. For decades after World War II, it was a repressive dictatorship run by the rulers recently defeated on the mainland. Taiwan is now beginning to examine the repression of that period.

*Egyptians seen in jail "torture" videos charged with spreading fake news.*

This illustrates how completely Orwellian many repressive governments have become, including Russia. China, Egypt, Nicaragua and more. Republicans have tried some of this in the US.

The ACLU is suing to stop Texas Republican officials from persecuting the parents of transgender children for giving them drugs (that they requested) to delay puberty or alter their secondary sexual characteristics.