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[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I assume that the reich-wingers will use these protests as justification for crackdowns.

Here in Finland we had months of strikes against our current extremely conservative government's cuts to public services, welfare etc. – naturally their reaction was to refuse to negotiate and make political strikes illegal, and to use the strikes to vilify unions and as scapegoats for poor economic performance

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 13 points 5 months ago

Sounds abut right (wing). This is the kind of shit I see coming for a lot of Europe, including German (where I am located). The funny thing is that they can't stop talking about "Eco Fashism" here and how the Greens are trying to dictate their every day live (like what to eat and what to fuel their cars with) and how that is a left green dictatorship. And then shit like you bring up here the second they get elected.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah this is absolutely the most fucking infuriating part about conservatives. They'll crow about how "leftists" (ie. what seems like anyone left of the Strasserites) want to have a one-party fascist state that controls every aspect of people's lives, and when they get in power they start doing exactly what they accuse leftists of wanting.

They also have a real habit of blaming all of their own fuckups on the left; our current extremist government got in to power by claiming that our previous leftist government caused some sort of massive debt problem (government debt did increase, but they had COVID to deal with), when the reality is that it has been the previous 20 or so years of right wing governments who have consistently cut taxes for the rich and sold government property to cover for the budget deficits. Conveniently reich-wingers ignored the part where their ideology is the one that wants to cut taxes, leading to higher debt and cut social programs and public services, and somehow they're stupid enough that they don't even see it themselves and they believe it when their lying politicians claim it is all the evil leftists' fault that our public healthcare is now completely broken and the welfare system is among the worst in Europe.

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Sadly political strikes have been forbidden here for a long time already.

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