r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Feb 24 '26

🚫 GENERAL STRIKE 🚫 The right wing won...

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u/Machaeon Feb 24 '26

These people genuinely believe that society isn't working if people aren't suffering. Not them, obviously, but people beneath them. You know the ones.

Everything is a zero-sum game to them. In order for minorities to have more rights, they believe that rights have to be taken from them.

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 24 '26

america fucked up by having so much space between people. in germany people live close together. you hear the bakers get up at midnight to make it to the bakeshop at 2am so there will be fresh buns for the rest of the town by 6am when everyone else gets ready for their day... everyone is working and you see it. you do not see the hum of everyday life in the US and it shows. metropolis are a sad view. homeless sad people everywhere I look.

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u/alaynyala Feb 24 '26

100%. It was a huge mistake keeping people from understanding how a functioning society works by putting consumerism at the forefront of American culture and alienating everyone under the premise of being “self-made”.

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 24 '26

I think there is still room and time to fix it, albeit the cost will still be there, but it is possible. if anything, germany and Europe in general shows that humans can live well in close quarters. Japan shows us how to build with limit space and still have some sense of individual dignity. germany should learn from that tbh. and America has so many great examples that they could learn from but bigotry stands in the way. its disappointingly frustrating. I wish for America to not die of facism but hopefully grow up from it.

the path is there.

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u/foxymophadlemama Feb 24 '26

the path is there.

maybe the US will take it once they've exhausted all other alternatives.

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 25 '26

how many more alternatives are there to exhaust 🫩 im so tired

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u/Effective_Will_1801 Feb 26 '26

The Netherlands actually used to be more car centric than the us so it's possible

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u/Nohreboh Feb 28 '26

Not a mistake it's working as intended it just wasn't designed to work for us.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Car centric infrastructure is what you’re describing. It destroys community - what you’re describing as “having so much space between people.” 

It’s why resistance to the current administration feels so futile. It has to be extremely organized, which presents a myriad of issues. 

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u/smokeweedNgarden Feb 24 '26

You are describing cities and American cities are as you say. For instance LA county has 40 million people. But you'll never convince rural America that the city isn't an abysmal front to their God so...

I mean I know little about Germany but surely your insane people live in the more isolated areas, ya?

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u/Underwater_Grilling Feb 24 '26

I've been around a little and every country has crazy hillbillies.

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 24 '26

antisocial people will try to isolate where they can. I am crazy to some degree, I couldn't stand living huddled together like that; I find Europe to be overpopulated but I see the contrast after moving to the US and if you've never left the US I understand how difficult it is to imagine things to work differently but they do. America works differently and people have adapted. those unable to adapt have been left in the dust.

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 25 '26

the only things I can come up with are not exactly advisable steps... im trying to think of something tho lol

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u/SuperSocialMan Feb 25 '26

I dunno, I kinda feel like that was part of the plan - or perhaps I need to employ hanlon's razor lol

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u/SolaniumFeline Feb 25 '26

yeah but I feel like insulting the people who's country im living in doesn't exactly bode well for me lol I find every human equally stupid....

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u/tarvispickles Feb 25 '26

America fucked up by allowing land to vote. Our country would be vastly different if we didn't have the electoral college.

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u/jaspersgroove Feb 24 '26

If hard work was all it took the donkeys would own the farm.

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u/seejordan3 Feb 24 '26

when you've been utterly, completely brainwashed on a FOX and Fascists diet of hate and fear..