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Cake day: September 5th, 2023

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  • As another European, I don’t think it’s as bad as it seems. I personally don’t think most republicans are fundamentally fascist, more so convinced that Trump is playing 5d chess.

    If you where to ask most Republicans if they supported democracy, right of law and freedom for all, they would say that they support it.

    However, due to the tribalism of current American politics and the cult of personality around Trump, they aren’t seeing how that is being infringed.

    Trump is almost 80, and will die eventually. With him will his cult of personality die. Some hardliners will probably latch on to Trump Jr or Vance, but most republicans will probably quietly switch over to supporting some more moderate dumb fuck (think Mitt Romney).











  • Not really, for example I recently learned that both property-tax (a yearly tax based on property value) and property-transfer-tax (a one time 3% tax on every property transaction) basically kills speculation on properties.

    As a result, houses prices are actually humane (between 50k-300k, depending on age, surroundings, size, etc. To compare, the median income is roughly 45k per year).

    Of course there is still a capitalist class, but they are nowhere as parasitic as they are in the US/UK. Though if that is due to the welfare culture or a thought out tax policy I can’t say.


  • Note that I used Finland is this example. While not perfect, Finland is pretty good at taxing the wealthy (for example Mikko Kodisoja, Supercell founder payed 13,2m€ of his 35,3m€ paycheck as income tax in 2022. Still 20m€ in hand, but another quarter of everything he buys will be taxed as VAT).

    Outside the theocratic libertarian hellhole USA, shouting “Tax the rich” isn’t really a solve-everything-button.