I suspect he is the embodiment of Arda Unmarred, ie. unspoilt nature.

I mean, you gotta start somewhere. If you have 10 people in a union, and work for about one year, you should be able to spare enough together for a few weeks of striking, provided that you lot put the contributions high enough. If the median salary of those 10 is about €40k, and took about 1/3 of salary for unions, you’d have €10k, enough to pay everyone

If those 10 work three years, they can get enough for one month of striking. Now, it might seem like a lot to contribute to, but one month of no work being done might put a business out of commission quickly unless if they pay up.

Demand higher and many more things than you actually want. Demand eg. a salary increase of 50%. Demand that the boss earn only 10% more than the highest earning workers. And so on. The boss will refuse all of the things, but be probably amenable to some of the aspects. Negotiate until he no longer caves in.

Do it during an especially busy week, and make sure the boss can’t hire temporary workers.

This isn’t true. The workers of the union can get paid during their strikes by the union through the worker’s contributions.

The more members and money the union has, while remaining decentralised and its leaders directly accountable — the more power the union has.

They can drop it once Israel treats its far right majority government like they treated the Palestinians, and once all Palestinians can return to their country, get treated as full citizens in every aspect, and the settlers are removed from the stolen land.

Israel and Palestine can live in harmony. The country standing in the way is the Israeli government.

LFI isn’t hard left, nor far-left.

It’s “normal” left. I say “” because in the past where you’d have more normal parties, they’d just be left of the mean, but nowadays are only normal because everyone else has turned insane.

So, let me rewrite it:

This decision was criticised by the LFI, with its coordinator calling Macron’s comments out as an anti-democratic coup.

The oligarch Macron has previously tried to slander the LFI as an “extreme movement” in an attempt to equate the centrist group with the far-right National Rally.

Jacobin is great. In the NL we have it too, but I wish we had a fully domestic news like that. Maybe I should start my own…

That’s what the police says.

What do the people themselves say?

How is that reasonable? If you’re protesting you shouldn’t have to fear being chased by the police.

You’ll have to make the way the non profit organisation is run or organised, also impossible to gather autocracy in.

Not just hard, impossible. No one should be able to mess with any aspects of the nonprofit, incorruptible, people-owned, affordable (NIPA) organisation.

And even if it is hard and not impossible, it should be made such that it is easier to get back to that situation, than to remove any of the NIPA aspects.

Check out AlternativeTo

I’ve been thinking of different browsers as well, but not sure which. Probably LibreWolf.

Def not Chrome or Safari though.

I definitely do, thank you for the civil and not personal at all remark.

Have you not seen the videos of eg. French protestors going out the way of ambulances?

When you block roads, it won’t kill people unless if you’re driving in on the protestors.

Protestors also typically do give leeway to ambulances and firetrucks.

Me too, thanks

Not to be confused with therians, a taxonomic group.

Very thorough and great answer, I’m curious though – what’s a she-wee? Is that the tool for peeing standing up when one isn’t born with the sausage?

Also, that coworker sounds affirming, when he told he thought that it doesn’t count as going after women - that’s kind of oddly sweet?

I also have a lack of omnipresent(?) dysphoria, though do have a bit there and there. Mainly not having the right organ down there and having too much hair, but other than that, it’s pretty much alright.

Mixed member proportional is nice, but it suffers from overhang seats.

I have a different proposal, but that one is pretty extensive.

It goes as following:

1. Replace the presidential system with a parliamentary one. Separation of powers is still as strict as it is. But it goes further. Veto power of the president, judges, anyone, it’s gone.

2. The head of government is chosen by both popular vote and consensus. The candidate with the most votes and approval from most members in parliament wins. They can be removed from position by parliament or by referendum at any time.

3. Change FPTP to proportional representation. Specifically, it should be party-agnostic, and have a 4% threshold, below which a seat holder still can vote and speak, but has less speaking time. Seat apportion will be according to the Hamilton method, and there will be an additional spare vote, so that main votes to parties falling below the threshold, will go to the voter’s spare vote, which is one likely to gain a seat. Party members can recall parlementarians, and people can do so too through referenda.

4. Abolish electoral districts. Furthermore, no person earning more than 3* the median US income (stocks and other earnings overseas and tax evasions included) may contribute to or participate in the elections in any way.

5. Split up the Democratic and Republican Parties into their ideological caucuses. Caucuses may merge, but no caucus may be bigger than 16% of the total US House of Representatives amount of seats.

6. Abolish the Senate. It’s a slog that slows down and only helps bureaucracy. The work it does can also be done by having a strong constitution (that actually does guarantee people’s rights to civility, safety, and liberty), and parlementary comi

7. Increase the House’s size to 700 seats. This way, the work pressure is smaller and the parliament can be more representative, and lobbying becomes harder. States’ seats will be degressively proportional in a similae way to the EU’s seats.

8. Faithless electors are forbidden, age limit. No officeholder shall serve a term beyond 5/6th of the median life expectancy in their residential region at their birth date - rounded down to the nearest year. In the US, median life expectancy is 76 years, so that’d mean 63 years.

9. More voting booths. One voting booth per area of 1000 voters, distributed such that as many people as possible have one within 1 km of their home. Remote areas with fewer people than this, will have a mail-in as default.

10. The US. Supreme Court of Justice is not appointed by any leader. This also goes for lower level courts. The court shall be appointed apolitically through multiple random ballots, out of a pool of all federal judges, whereas the latter shall be appointed by the same method, through a pool of all in their area, who have passed juridicial examination, whose passing requirements are determined by a commission of judges without any economical and/or political ties to non-judge figures.

The court’s size is determined as C•0.075 3sqrt(US current populace + 2), where C is the court size in seats. This would mean that there’d be 54 judges in 2020.

Which things for example? I’m curious…

Link for those not using TikTok

(at the end it features that vid)

That doesn’t look like a million euro house at all…

So it indeed is not the dying breaths of reactionaries, but a growing group.

Which we will push back against.