Although there are exceptional cases such as Germany’s, where large enough companies must assign a percentage of the BoD positions

Codetermination/worker representation is a thing in some countries, but with the exception of Germany, it’s not half of the BoD.

I’d probably put Sanders left of plenty of European social-democratic parties

I’m sure there are members of social democratic politicians who are as left wing or even more left wing than Bernie. I think if he was European, he would be in the left wing of a social democratic party. But what many people don’t seem to want to realize is that we aren’t living in the 70s anymore… Europe might have some remains of social democratic elements left, but barely…

And it certainly isn’t “standard governmental procedure”. And I do wish Bernies policies were the norm in Europe, but they simply aren’t…

The comment wasn’t about whether worker councils are a thing or not, the comment was about Sander’s policies being “standard govermental procedure” in Europe… They aren’t… I wish they were, but they aren’t, and I don’t understand how denying reality is in any way helpful…

So in Europe, it is standard govermental procedere to transfer 20% ownership of big corporations to employees? It is standard govermental procedere to have 45% of BoD elected by workers? Are you sure about that?

Also, most workers are so deeply alienated because they know that they aren’t working for themselves, they are working for someone else. Which is why most people simply stop giving a fuck at some point.

There is so much inefficiency because most who do the actual work don’t have much motivation to do a decent job, yet alone think about what they are doing because you simply get punished, or at least don’t get any reward, for thinking. And they people who (should) do the thinking often don’t have a clue as they live in a bubble.

And of course there is all the bullshit about shipping stuff across the world to do different stuff when it is completely unnecessesary…

Or just oligarch or power addict. In the eyes of most people, wealth is about luxury, material goods and fancy toys. Of course that’s part of it, but at a certain point, wealth is no longer about luxury and toys, it’s about power and having control over resources everyone else depends on.

Again, my point isn’t that poor people are happy or happier than the wealthy. My point is that our system doesn’t even beneft those who are (supposed to be) in charge. They think it does, but it’s more like an addiction that controls and destroys them.

Nah, there is definitely a truth to this. I grew up in a working class family who moved into a wealthier region at some point and I would never trade places with people who grew up wealthy. Pretty much all wealthy people are constantly unhappy, are obsessed with control to the point where they alienate their families, they are constantly scared of losing their control, status and wealth, constantly paranoid towards everything and everyone and often engage in self-destructive behaviour.

Of course, not having enough money sucks, it generates stress and restricts autonomy. But a similar thing happens at a certain level of wealth.

I don’t think there is any “brigading” going on here… Just to be clear what brigading actually is:

On reddit, there was a time when there were coordinated and organised efforts to “invade” another communities. For example, there were threads on 4Chan where users linked to subreddits or posts with the aim of having a bunch of users post similar stuff at the same time.

There was also brigading within reddit when one sub would make a post where they coordinate users to post specific comments in specific threads or post similar stuff in a specific subreddit.

As far as I can tell, that’s not what is happening here… There is no coordinated group effort here, it’s just that the vast majority of users on lemmy are not conservatives.

Probably neither:

“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members,” Harris told Politico, referring to Greene’s profane exchange with Boebert.

“I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was publicly saying things about another member in terms that no one should.”

And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe?

I mean I get your point, but if you instruct your kids how to use a tool for managing pirated games, they are probably going to see a lot harsher stuff than the word “crack pipe”…

Sorry, english is not my first language. I meant “trans people existing”.

It’s incredibly how fast conservatives seem to give up on even attempting to make an argument… As soon as your views are slightly challenged, you default to a “LOL, you are crazy” mindset…

Despite some accusations, Trump’s kids were never legally challenged in the way Hunter Biden is/was, despite multiple accusations and them being much more directly involved into their Father’s political actions…

I don’t get it, Biden is already a pretty big joke of a president. There are so many angles where you can constructively criticize Biden and get people, even from the left, to agree. But you don’t do that, instead you go after his kids because you somehow have to equate his actions with Trump’s actions and somehow justify Trump’s actions.

Well isn’t this sub a good example? OP comes to a left leaning space, creates a community where 90% of the content is about how “the left” or “them” are crazy and dumb. Get’s mad and offended when people don’t share his views. Starts a new sub where only opinions he likes are allowed.

You mean like how conservatives are offended at trans people exiting or history being taught at school?

kind of ironic really - BLM protests were a big thing in my area,

Not really ironic at all… More like one has nothing to do with the other… The_Donald was already quaranteened in 2019. So why are you changing the subject?

protests that quickly turned into anit-police riots

You mean anti-protester beatdowns caused by a few bad apples?

all swept under the rug

All swept under the rug? The site was full with videos of people rioting and/or getting gassed/beaten by police…

these actions were widely lauded on reddit & had quite a lot of support in the media.

The murder of Floyd was mostly condemned on reddit, but that was the case everywhere… That’s not the same thing as people calling for riots… People who directly called for violence were banned, this included left wingers…

Acab is not a call for violence. “Defund the police” is not a call to violence…

Even before 2020 there were some on reddit calling for violence against the far-right. Reddit threatened to ban communities that did not remove those comments and banned users/communities who spread those comments.

now the metro area is crime-ridden shithole, and just about everyone I know does WFH so they dont have to visit that hive of scum and villainy.

What has any of that have to do with what we are talking about?

No, calling for harming people is not normal speech. The_donald did repeatedly and openly disregard the rules in regards of brigading, calls for violence, etc…

Just because you automatically reply to any accusation of hate speech or calls for violence with “not everyone who disagrees is doing hate speech” doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist… And reddit also banned left wing communities that disregarded rules.

Reddit really didn’t want to get rid of them, they generated a lot of traffic, but they routinely caused bad press and caused trouble with advertisers. If I remember correctly, the last straw was calls to violence of police officers.