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  • Excactly. The safety nets are there to make it harder to opress people. If your boss treats you like shit, you should know that you can leave your job to look for a better one, without having to fear your kids starving or losing access to healthcare and education.

    The opressors are not the government, the opressors are the ones who pay to influence it.

    Which is why every American needs to take to the streets before midterms, to demand proper voting guardrails be reintroduced. If midterms comes and the guardrails that Trump removed aren’t reimplemented, democracy is dead in America. This is it for you guys.


  • I remember growing up, one of my dads friend ran like a pirated blockbuster. We would go to his house, and he just had bootleg movies on vhs, ps1 games, music, anything you wanted.

    I remember it like it was wall up and wall down in every room of the apartment, but thats probably just my childhood memory version lol.

    I remember getting my first ps1 for Christmas, already chopped (something you had to do before it could play pirates games, i dunno) and going to this guys place to pick out games.

    None of the games had covers, they just came on cd’s, with the title written on the disc. And like i was 7 or 8 years old, i didnt know any games, so i just picked a bunch of randoms, and my dad made sure to get a few known titles like Tekken 3 and Crash Bandicoot for me.

    He even rented out pirated movies too, lol. This guy had it figured out.



  • The funny thing is most republicans identify themselves as being anti-opression. That’s the core essence of what republicanism is supposed to mean. But because the education system has been gutted in rural areas, these people don’t understand how opression really works. They’re being told its their government, without understanding that government is just a tool, and that tool has been skewed to give more power to corporate opressors because of their misunderstood notion of what a small government was supposed to mean.

    Small government shouldn’t mean “small social systems but large enforcement bureau” it should mean the literal opposite.

    Republicans are just propogandized marxists.


  • To all Americans: you need to protest this now. I know Iran and Palestine are important, but if you don’t pressure your government officials to put in election guardrails before midterms, this is it. They don’t care if Trump survives his term, he did his part, gutted the American democracy, supported Israels brutal expansion, made America into a surveillance state that would make the Nazis cum in their pants, and used that power to kidnap and imprison, torture and rape innocents even children. Reporting them to countries they dont come from, just to be placed in prison labour death camps.

    They dont need Trump anymore. It doesnt matter who is the president, as all nominees will be pre selected for you.

    But midterms do matter. It has been proven time and time again that it is actually possible to get good people elected as governors or senators.





  • Thats why i said the only real democracy is the Swiss.

    In Switzerland you can appoint any person to be your representative, not just the pre-selected candidates, and you can keep them as your representative for as long as you trust them to actually represent your opinions.

    If you know that you differ in certain topics, you can you say “hey, i’m gonna make this decision myself buddy” and then you vote on the law yourself, and he can continue to represent you in the elections you agree on.

    Or if your representative betrays your trust, you can say “fuck you, i’m finding someone else” from day to day, not having to wait another 4 years to vote for another pre-selected candidate.

    Democracy is supposed to mean that the people govern. Any model of democracy where your vote can be used to make decisions you disagree with, is not democratic.

    Representative democracy might have been the best model 200 years ago, but in the 21st century it is dated and abused.


  • No, a “viable third option” will never exist in the current system. Your democracy isn’t democratic.

    In Europe we don’t use a winner-takes-all system like in the U.S. Instead, we use proportional representation, which means parties get seats based on how many votes they receive. That’s why we have many parties in parliament, not just two.

    But even the European system is in my book not a true democracy. Its simply the best democratic system we could come up with before industrialisation, but the world is different now.

    The only real democracy in the world, which i wish my country would adopt, is the Swiss.


  • Ours is just a little over 100 years old now, and even back from the start, the building won some prize, i dont know what its called but something like best building made in copenhagen from recycled materials in 1918.

    We also had own bathrooms, both toilet and showers, from the start. Most other buildings around here had it installed in the 80s.

    And many other buildings also had backhouses that were eventually demolished to make room for common areas, where ours had the foresight to never build one.

    Oh, and of the 250 apartments, about 70% are still owned by the same families who came together and built the building. That means that when the laws around pricing in andelsboligforeninger changed, people here chose to keep the old low prices.

    “I might be able to become a Millionaire today, but then my 3 children would all need millions each to own a home” has been the consensus around here since then. (a million dkk is about 140.000$)

    I am very proud that the families all came together around that decision before my time. Its literally one of the only places in Copenhagen where a normal person can own a home without millions in debt.


  • I live in an andelsboligforening, thats kind of the same i think.

    Imagine if an association owned an apartment complex, and the association was owned by the members.

    So i dont technically own my apartment, i own a specific part of the association, that is connected with this specific apartment.

    We have the same for city gardens called Kolonihave, its actually very common in Northern Europe.