mantas

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by mantas 4y ago
Hitler was national socialist for a reason :) Mussolini roots are in left wing too and was sort of socialism without internazional element. And yes, ultimately left wing is collectivist. It is fair that people who contribute more get back m
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by mantas 4y ago
Depends how you define left wing. It was highly collectivist and little private property. It was also working hard on building the new homo sovieticus. And the idea of world domination never really went away. It was also equally poor, espe
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by mantas 4y ago
Start advocating for the same on issues you care about?
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by mantas 4y ago
As living in such place.. It's still „oh let's drive to bigger shop or THAT butcher this time“. Or „other“ restaurant. And people living downtown still do the same - driving to same big malls in outskirts, restaurants in other tow
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by mantas 4y ago
You may want to look into housing prices in european or asian cities :) Less drivability -> harder to move out to suburbia -> more demand for in-city housing -> increased prices
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by mantas 4y ago
The schema how they're appointed and which country appoints which is.. muddy to say the least. And then EC bureaucracy has a lot of weight with appointed commissioners (who frequently know jackshit about assigned fields) acting as PR f
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by mantas 4y ago
I know that part. But in this case another user, who seems to be european, calls my experience in Eastern europe „American paranoia“. It feels like some people have such a strong irrational love for certain political system that they can&#x
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by mantas 4y ago
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by mantas 4y ago
How many of those who you call conservatives where left-wing when young? Maybe they changed some views, but retained the love of total control :) I'm not sure about current EC, but the one under Juncker had plenty of far-left-when-youn
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by mantas 4y ago
The problem is this project already in pipeline for a good decade :) As the old drunktard Juncker said... We'll keep pushing unpopular solutions over and over again till it slips through once. And then nobody can get rid of it :)
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by mantas 4y ago
Silly fear of communism/socialism? :) Why would we be afraid of the thing that messed up with us for 50 years? :) It's funny when Westerners who have no practical experience talk down to us how we should throw away our practical e
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by mantas 4y ago
Rather a lot of them were young and naive left-wing supporters who looked at USSR through rose glasses. Wouldn't you want to be bureaucrat in late USSR? No threat of purges above you, only endless opportunity to play with your minions
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by mantas 4y ago
Trains run on electricity and electricity price is skyrocketing... And then some trains run on diesel... That's before looking at how much of that €€€ was thrown at long-distance trains. While commuting was an afterthought.
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by mantas 4y ago
Short term positive, long term destructive. Ergo negative. Addiction to cheap resources prevented politically sustainable energy sector development. On top of that, it's likely that corruption was involved. Which is cancer that tends t
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by mantas 4y ago
At the end of the day, law is morality. Both inspired by (a part of) society's moral code and enforcing (a part of) society's moral code. Some people might think that life isn't fair, thus law shall not be fair either. But ot
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by mantas 4y ago
Looking at certain EU members friendliness towards Russia, several other states shall be kicked out...
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by mantas 4y ago
Transfers as in better-off regions supporting worse-off ones.
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by mantas 4y ago
If people who understand these issues don't procreate, then people who don't understand this will dominate and keep ruining earth into... ground?
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by mantas 4y ago
Healthcare is insurance for possible future accidents. A may have higher risk of breaking a leg, B may have higher risk of cardiovascular accident. Eventually it evens out. No matter how healthy lifestyle you lead, you've a risk of end
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by mantas 4y ago
If person A paid back his student loan, why would he have to cover other's student loan by his taxes (or price increase or whatever)?
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by mantas 4y ago
One of the issues in my country is „student's money“ where public schools get paid per-student. „2nd year“ if student performs very poorly vanished as a result. 3 decades ago it was pretty common for kids to repeat the curriculum. Now
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by mantas 4y ago
Globally, the root cause is definitely not „christian fascists“. For example in my country it's woke neoliberals pushing the notion of schooling freemarketisation. At the same time claiming that teachers' salary increase won'
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by mantas 4y ago
As amateur cyclist who used to compete at relatively high level.. Sports, even amateur sports, is not healthy beyond certain point. Competitive amateurs probably reach that point much sooner because most of them don't have proper super
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by mantas 4y ago
True. We needs massive propaganda campaign to highlight teachers. And, of course, show respect by paying them accordingly. Another semi-related issue is school system used for virtue signalling first. For example „special needs“ kids integr
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by mantas 4y ago
The garbage is education system, not teachers. The art is not lost. But people who want to be Teachers get forced out of the system. Too much paperwork, too strict rules, too much content, too many students... No place left for performing t
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by mantas 4y ago
It's not much better in many parts of europe... :(
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by mantas 4y ago
Paying more will solve the appreciation problem. My wife is (ex)teacher. Parents would flat-out say that they can't respect her because of her salary. Along the lines of, if you're smart and can do stuff, why the hell are you work
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by mantas 4y ago
Problem is we all chip in to keep alive those choose to not lead healthy lives. Should we stop treating lung cancer for lifelong smokers? Cardiovascular diseases for obese? We could use those resources to treat other diseases.
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by mantas 4y ago
Also, a glowing touchscreen is a distaction at night. Compared to physical button that just sits there.
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by mantas 4y ago
+ job hopping. Moving to factory town is fine if you can see yourself working here for decades. But nowadays when people are expected to switch jobs frequently... Both sides could win a lot by agreeing to loyalty.

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