Unironically because of the Ukraine war this time?

Damn Mexico about to go wild then

Anyday now it will trickle down. We just need to go through one more round of budget cuts in the healthcare and education sector and then we’ll probably be fine.

I don’t know why but when I think of leftism I always picture them on the right sight of the political compass picture for some reason so when I saw this meme I was like: ‘wait why do right wingers want universal healthcare’ and I uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyway, this is what I always think when people call our party extremist. Extremist to whom exactly?

Every year another decade long weather record gets broken over here and I keep wondering when these records will only last one or two years. Global warming is no joke.

Enough to run The Netherlands for the next 2.5 years. And this is just the INCREASE of the wealth for one year.

Had an argument on the Dutch socialist sub that this is because the submarine is such a one off unique thing that it DESERVES all the media attention it gets!

Says enough that 750 people drowning at sea is normal for Europeans.

I’m a bit split on this. What we see now is that they manage to attract lots of new people with their actions. And these people get radicalized at their actions as well, with one person being quoted this weekend: ‘Next time I will get myself arrested as well’. I’m afraid if they’d directly become more agressive, that they will lose their momentum. They grew from a 1000 person protest to over 3000 in a few weeks.

I’m all for revolution but unfortunately no left wing group is in a powerful enough position. And we need more people on our side. We don’t have to be nice against the capitalists but we may need to be nicer to the many people that are currently on the fence.

For context: XR was protesting against endless fossil fuel subsidies given out by the government. They did so by blocking a highway (which was announced) and by having all sorts of people join the protest. They played music, kids were playing everywhere, singing songs, being peaceful.

The farmers are protesting laws that will limit them in their nitrogen output, meaning lots of farmers have to stop farming (or close their mega factory like stables with animals used for meat, which we don’t need in The Netherlands anyway). The laws will take place because with current nitrogen output, building of new houses has been delayed and our nature areas are starting to grow monocultures of plants, destroying entire ecosystems. The farmers are backed by big agricultural companies and far right parties, of course.

The farmers were not allowed to protest with vehicles like they did the last few times. But they broke through a police blockade and entered the area with heavy trucks. Police did nothing, whereas the police force at XR’s protest just arrested hundreds of people.

Is this the innovation people keep talking about