PsihoKekec
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So after they put all of us in mass graves, they'll get mass graves of their own. Certainly something to look forward to.
EU Dutch Farmers Protest Megathread
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Ixian
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Historically farmers are almost always the enemies of left wing ideologues.
In no situation do they win in the long run.
In a conservative victory after they provoked a civil war they get exicuted in mass
in a moderate one they end up behind bars.
In a left victory they get purged.
If they win its the french revolution and then some one rises to purge them just to stop all of the murder.
They dont get to win its how many innocent people will die before they are stopped thats the question.
Oooh, I predict a lot of dead and missing antifa goons. I'd even bet that their parents won't bother putting out a missing person report for them.
PsihoKekec
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We are not talking about far away farms in remote areas, we are talking about farms near the urban areas, where antifas will have full police protection.
Dutch city becomes, I kid you not, the first to ban ads about meat to fight climate change
One Dutch city has just become the first in the world to ban meat adverts from public spaces.
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Dutch city becomes, I kid you not, the first to ban ads about meat to fight climate change
One Dutch city has just become the first in the world to ban meat adverts from public spaces.
I shall clear the shitty taste of this with a late steak dinner.
Robovski
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Like meat needs adverts.Dutch city becomes, I kid you not, the first to ban ads about meat to fight climate change
One Dutch city has just become the first in the world to ban meat adverts from public spaces.
Robovski
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Amtrak has cancelled long range routes. This has been building for a while and has the potential to be hugely disruptive or the US government will crush some more rights. Time will tell.
Robovski
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From: A Massive Rail Strike Looms As Unions Fight For Sick Leave
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Two unions representing freight rail workers say people are being penalized and even losing their jobs for going to doctors' appointments. "
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"What’s the dispute about?
A collective bargaining agreement has many moving parts to it during negotiations: wages, health care coverage, retirement benefits, paid leave, work rules and more. Those pieces can all be in flux with one another until the moment a deal is reached, but the unions say the disagreement at this point is primarily over leave and scheduling policies.
The unions say workers can end up on call for up to 14 days at a time and face draconian attendance requirements — including losing their jobs for going to the doctor or tending to sick children.
In a joint statement, two of the unions at the center of the fight, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), said the rail carriers’ policies amounted to “harassment.”
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oh I know it will suck but I hope this blows up in the dems face.
I really hope this results in the demorats and their voters sitting in the dark, being cold and miserable and starving, while our people feast in warm and bright homes. Let them suffer the consequences.
Skallagrim
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Protests have winded down rather a lot, because of the obvious reason I mentioned back when it started: the government can just wait them out. Farmers actually have to work to survive, and they're barely making ends meet as it is. They can't afford the "luxury" of taking time off from work to protest. They had to do it, because the legislation is going to kill them... but they could only keep it up for a while, because otherwise, not working would kill them just as much.
The government, on the other hand, lives off plunder (that is: tax money), forcibly taken from its victims (that is: the taxpayers). It can just wait them out, while suffering no great decline in income at all. So the protests have started to fizzle out, and the government remains untouched. No jackboots needed if you can literally force your critics to starve to death.
On the other hand, the current administration has the lowest popularity rating since such things have been structurally recorded. Yesterday was Prinsjesdag ("Princes' Day"), the third Tuesday in September, on which the annual budget is laid out. For the first time in a very long while, the royal carriage was greeted with jeering and booing by a significant segment of the crowd. It's not just angry farmers, either. People are unable to survive the current economic situation. A considerable proportion of small businesses will go bankrupt during the coming winter. Gas prices as they are now will literally cause people to freeze to death because they can't pay.
The government remains in power, but it is steadily dooming itself. As I also mentioned before: farmers alone can't do anything to the government, and way too many people still have way too much to lose. But that's changing. As things get worse and worse, the proportion of people for whom anything would be an improvement will steadily increase. The government's policies stave off all reform, and allow the establishment to hold onto power with a deathly grip. But that exact course of action makes a violent outcome inevitable. They'll keep it down for a good while longer, by ever more cruel means. But they cannot stop it.
In Dutch (and German) we have a phrase for what the elite is doing (not just here, but globally):
Dancing on the volcano.
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Skallagrim
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Well, it's incredibly hard when you're an asshole...
Government is basically a congregation of assholes, since decent people don't want the job.
Typhonis
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Power is a heady drug and they do not want to share.