• Dojan
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      We don’t have a minimum wage in Sweden. Wages are mostly dictated by negotiations between employers and unions.

      Unions are important.

      • @[email protected]
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        thats also the reason the ones in power hate them so much!

        unions are definetly part of the solution.

        • Dojan
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          Yeah. We have an ongoing thing between Tesla and IF Metall, with a bunch of other unions backing them up. Tesla refuses to sign collective labour agreements, and they’re penalising strikers by taking away stocks they’ve earned. It’s hardly surprising that Tesla doesn’t want to adhere to the Swedish model.

    • @[email protected]
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      Fight for a better system but still vote democrats. Voting for the lesser evil gives you the lesser evil.

        • @[email protected]
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          That has mostly been the case in US politics since the founding. You gotta play the hand you’re dealt though.

        • @barsquid
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          If young adults consistently and reliably voted at all, we wouldn’t be in a position choosing between this and seeing what “Israel should finish the job” means.

          • @[email protected]
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            in my country voting is mandatory for everyone over 18, and we mostly suffer through the same problems as you when it comes to politicians. i wish it were as simple as getting more people to vote.

    • @fukurthumz420
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      45 months ago

      you’re gonna wanna skip the polls and start buying arms now if that’s your plan

      • @PugJesus
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        Imagine my surprise when the election comes and goes, one way or another, and these online revolutionaries continue to do… nothing of substance. Just like 4 years ago, and the 4 years before that, and…

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          see the university protests and unionization if you want an example in the us. we are organizing protests and actions, but doing systemic change is a collective endeavour.

          we actually need much more people to recognize its broken and be willing to help. that wont happen if all you do is begrudingly accept the progressively worsening lesser evils.

        • @fukurthumz420
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          i’m all for forcibly restructuring society, but yeah… we know these people will do nothing.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        Or don’t skip the polls. Both sides will shoot at you, but one side will shoot much sooner because it wouldn’t necessarily be political suicide for them.

        • @barsquid
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          25 months ago

          You also can’t do it if the backslide into full totalitarian fascism reaches the “first they came for the socialists” line in the poem.

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            totalitarian fascism is already there, the crackdowns on the university protests are looking a lot like it. violence towards the protesters, a pat on the head on the fascist counterprotesters.

            and honestly its looking a lot like trump will win anyway, at least that is what the polls are looking like.

            we should be bracing for impact.

            edit: how could i forget the treatment the us gives to the third world.

            • @PugJesus
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              totalitarian fascism is already there

              Fucking lmao

          • @PugJesus
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            -25 months ago

            Don’t worry - after Hitler Trump, their turn!