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@Tim_AveEuropa Incredible stuff. The more support they lose to the AfD the more they double down on doing the exact opposite of what the people want. Why are they like this?
@cornu__copia@Empty_America When also considering the previous Finnish culinary abomination you posted, it becomes really obvious that your food culture has been crafted by alcoholics, for alcoholics.
@foxofreason It's difficult because you don't want to interact with a certain kind of tragedy porn too much, but at the same time you shouldn't only focus on positive stuff and pretend bad things aren't happening. Balance is often quite hard on this site.
Terrible examples. The Portuguese flag still retains complexity and Lithuania usrs the old flag as the state flag. The Austrian red-white-red triband is actually older than the Habsburg flag and is even visible on the shield of the latter. Austria also uses this state flag.
> Complains about climate policy hypocrisy
> Cited policies have nothing to to do with fighting climate change
> 100K likes
Large swathes of the population don't even understand that not all environmental protection policies are about climate. These people are allowed to vote.
@vanhanenist@eurochallenges Even now I don't think boomers are seen by most as evil, which is why it's hard to actually fix things. Boomers only (deservedly) get the hate they do because of their open contempt towards younger gens. Gen X is just as bad or maybe worse, but they tend to fly under the radar.
@Wolfgang18842 Imagine going somewhere visited primarily for it's vibes and for being a window to the past, and then complaining that it isn't just yet another modern generic hipster café.
Also, Café Sperl isn't even the most touristy Viennese coffeehouse; lots of locals still frequent it.
@cornu__copia > Pro migration
> Complains about immigrants changing things
He didn't even go to a particularly touristy coffeehouse either. I was in the exact same one yesterday, and it was mostly locals. You also don't go to these coffeehouses for the food/service, you go for the atmosphere.
My most "blackpill" opinion is that pensions are far more likely to collapse the system than be reformed. There's no serious support for a fix, from anyone.
The best we can maybe hope for is that once it happens, we'll be in position to create a better and less parasitic system.
I'm not strongly opposed, but extra votes could come with its own problems, so I'd rather cap the voting age. But I don't think voting reform is realistically happening; if we theoretically had the power to do that, we would also already be able to reform pensions outright.
Aside from pensions collapsing the system, I think the most realistic scenario for reform requires a party that's willing to selflessly "take one for the team" by doing the unpopular but necessary reforms, sacrificing their next election cycle. If such a party comes into power with an extensive plan already in place, they could immediately start implementing changes, and if the benefits to young people manifest fast enough, negative opinion might even be offset before the end of their term. Hell, if they time it right, a good portion of the boomers might even be dead before they can punish them at the ballot box.
Arguably though, this is all speculative fantasy. Reform is easy, getting support is hard. There's not a single serious party anywhere that's campaigning on youth issues, and getting it onto the agenda is nigh on impossible with the boomer party leadership. Even the youth themselves oppose pension reforms because they get scaremongered by stories of grandma freezing in winter, and also think they'd be screwing over their own retirement (as if we'd ever get to retire).
The uncomfortable truth is that the youth are part of the problem. It's the biggest reason I'm not optimistic that we'd be able to solve the problem, and also part of why I think extra votes won't help.
I'm not strongly opposed, but extra votes could come with its own problems, so I'd rather cap the voting age. But I don't think voting reform is realistically happening; if we theoretically had the power to do that, we would also already be able to reform pensions outright.
Aside from pensions collapsing the system, I think the most realistic scenario for reform requires a party that's willing to selflessly "take one for the team" by doing the unpopular but necessary reforms, sacrificing their next election cycle. If such a party comes into power with an extensive plan already in place, they could immediately start implementing changes, and if the benefits to young people manifest fast enough, negative opinion might even be offset before the end of their term. Hell, if they time it right, a good portion of the boomers might even be dead before they can punish them at the ballot box.
Arguably though, this is all speculative fantasy. Reform is easy, getting support is hard. There's not a single serious party anywhere that's campaigning on youth issues, and getting it onto the agenda is nigh on impossible with the boomer party leadership. Even the youth themselves oppose pension reforms because they get scaremongered by stories of grandma freezing in winter, and also think they'd be screwing over their own retirement (as if we'd ever get to retire).
The uncomfortable truth is that the youth are part of the problem. It's the biggest reason I'm not optimistic that we'd be able to solve the problem, and also part of why I think extra votes won't help.
@EuropaAdAstra Football ultras are the ultimate goycattle. They don't give a toss about migrant gangs, but will coordinate and use their energy to burn down your city to show support for Ngubu FC.
But at least it dispels the myth of modern Europeans being incapable of violence, I guess.
@MaximoMustero@eurochallenges In an ideal world maybe, but I think it's too optimistic and relies too much on mass secrecy/coordination. The boomer establishment hates nothing more than "youthful dynamism".
I'm no doomer, but I think realistically the only way out is through collapse and the boomers dying.
@MaximoMustero@eurochallenges I'm honestly unsure if anything short of cutting exorbitant pension spending could ever provide enough relief to younger people.
But my question wasn't really about specific policies, but how to prevent the policies from being killed at the ballot box. Nobody wants the cure.
@zhoro_x You should try Friz-Kola with some freshly squeezed lime juice (and a slice of lime), over ice. It makes for an elite-tier refresher on hot summer evenings.
One of my in-laws' friends is a rootless progressive that has no children and retired from her cushy EU job at 58, yet she still complains about the unmotivated youth. To top it off, she and her husband own 2 flats and mostly use one for storage.
Boomers are a different species.
Is there any serious push or proposal from the American right to solve the African American problem, or is it just going to be white flight and online memes for the rest of time?
Europe's migrant problem pales in comparison, and is theoretically easier to fix using repatriation.
🚨#BREAKING: Footage has emerged of the arrest of the man who randomly st*bbed a woman to de*th on a train in Atlanta GA.
He is a Black male.
The knife used is laying on the ground and appears to be a small pocket knife.
@PompPatrician This place is so cooked, oomf. I think it's time to find a different addiction to kill time. I hear alcohol is a good one; it at least makes you feel all fuzzy and warm inside.