private train operators warned nationalisation could increase costs
Who the fuck do these people actually think still believes them?
Holy fuck I wish my country (South Africa) would start renationalizing stuff - but our two largest factions of political racketeers are as neoliberal as it gets.
as it is unrealistic to have a referendum for every single decision
Oh, there was no decision here... Germany has been supporting Israel's ongoing genocide for a very, very long time now. Enabling Israel's white supremacist genocide is no less a matter of policy in Germany than it is in the US - and none of you will ever get to vote on it, just like USians don't get to vote on it in any way, shape or form.
Let us be very clear... knowingly enabling genocide is no different than perpetrating genocide oneself - and Germany endorsing Israel in their genocidal project makes it blatantly clear that Germany is as fundamentally white supremacist and imperialist today as Germany was when it perpetrated it's first genocide in Namibia. It doesn't matter that the people signing the papers are wearing overpriced designer-label suits instead of grey uniforms, and it doesn't matter that the politicians are flashing liberal pretend-smiles for the cameras instead of throwing fascist tantrums from a podium. It's all the exact same white supremacism still at work.
There have been multiple demonstrations against Israel’s actions
Yeah... I saw. And the fascist goon squads were there, too - to perform their true function and ensure that actual democracy doesn't threaten the precious status quo while it's hard at work enabling genocide.
lot of people who think that Palestine should be blown up.
Isn't it an amazing coincidence that the biggest parties in every (so-called) "liberal democracy" are almost always regurgitating the exact same narratives that rich people themselves want regurgitated?
It's almost like... actual democracy isn't compatible with a society where a small, rich elite gets to dictate what everybody believes, eh?
I hate to be the one to break it to you - "liberal democracy" is about as "democratic" as the Soviet Union was "socialist." Liberalism, capitalism and imperialism is violently incompatible with any society that can be described as democratic with a straight face - and always has been.
If the elected parties fund a war, morally correct or not, it is still democracy as they were chosen.
Did Germans collectively agree to this genocide that is being funded in their name? Do they even really know what is being done in their name?
No?
Then there's absolutely nothing democratic about it, is it?
Does that chart include all the violence perpetrated by the police on a daily basis? If it doesn't it is utterly incomplete, as all police violence is right-wing violence.
You mean those things that aren't public transport? Those things?
Tesla saw an opportunity to make money, and it paved a path to lower carbon emissions (eventually)still profiteering from privatized transport while pretending it was fixing anything.
FTFY.
Capitalism isn’t all bad, it’s the greed it breeds that’s bad.
Capitalism is literally just a set of excuses and pretexts to justify gross economic parasitism - old-style concepts such as "greed" doesn't even hold a candle to that.
Riiiight... until you threaten their precious private property, capitalism, and/or imperialism. Then you quickly see liberals singing the same song fascists do.
Wold be nice if "liberal democracy" consisted of anything that can be called democratic with a straight face - perhaps then Germany wouldn't be one of Israel's most vitriolic genocide enablers.
You can't vote against fascism. The French fascists are still there, gaining power - the voting didn't weaken them in any way whatsoever. And they'll keep on gaining strength until they figure out how to get into power despite so-called "liberal democracy."
All the voting in the world isn't going to change that.
Ummm... all violence perpetrated by the US police is political in nature.
They were, after all, invented to protect the property of capitalist parasites from the people the capitalist parasites exploited in order to become rich in the first place.
Who the fuck do these people actually think still believes them?
Holy fuck I wish my country (South Africa) would start renationalizing stuff - but our two largest factions of political racketeers are as neoliberal as it gets.