Really cool.

Thanks to Femke who put a lot of work in it.

Somewhere between gen-z and millenial here:

Financial success for me is having a home and food and medical care for me and my partner, and no, I am not convinced at all we will be able to sustain this

For mine and a lot of niches there is :).

This is one of these, he believes in 1 good thing out of 99 bad things kind of situation.

Similarly to how Trump believes im being skeptical and of China.

I don’t know.

I use microblogging platforms to connect with people who have my disability, which includes lots of cognitive problems.

So the current customisation and exploration effort it takes to set up a working mastodon account is too much for most people with my illness.

An optional algorithm would help.

It’s similar in JP.

The discover feed isn’t anywhere near the “for you feed” on X, so the experience isn’t super personalised and gravitates towards us politics, as that’s the most popular thing on the platform (similarly to lemmy).

Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.

T-4 Program (Nazi Genocide of Disabled people) flashbacks

Honestly that’s technically what’s been happening.

It’s not like the 50 billion in aid have been going towards producing new weapons, but its just the value of the unused ammo boxes, shells, tanks who were sitting around in warehouses, the US have been sending to ukraine.

Despite the predictable dumpster fire of a comment section sharing this would inevitably lead too, I’m glad you shared it, it was a pleasant read.

Don’t worry. Exercise and healthy foods will cure the incurable disease you have.

(What, you exercised and healthy foods when developing the disease? And you still eat really healthy even though your diseases prevent you from exercising?)

Let’s ignore all that and pretend exercise and healthy eating will cure you so the government can say it did it’s job and completely abandon you regarding the expensive medical care you actually need.

Yeah the booklet in french was also quite shockingly oversimplified langauge that didn’t seem fair.

And when the best detailed argumentation you can find against is a pdf from the against group that’s not super well sourced, it really didn’t feel like a fair vote in the way it was presented and explained.

I was super suprised my canton voted nearly 60% against.

This round of referenda was a major shift to the left, I wonder why.

The federal government has no ownership. It’s owned 55% split across the canton’s and 45% private shareholders.

In practice that means basically if 2 cantons and the private companies agree on something, and the 24 other cantons disagree, the private companies get there way.

It’s an institutionalisation of corporatism.

In practice it loses billions of CHF in public funds, on purpose, to make sure the CHF doesn’t become too strong, the CHF becoming stronger benefits the population, but hurts the companies because their prices become less competitive. It’s a system made to serve the companies as much as the people.

(I say this as a disabled and chronically ill person)

Europe should sell ukraine energy at discounted prices.

your right my bad

I correctly predicted the electoral map lmao:

https://presidentialpickem.com/share-bracket/16ead2df-6737-4704-86d4-6f606d6e6a07

my map:

Official NYT Results

Nor is switzerland for some reason

Our political system might work better than most western democracies, but your claim is categorically untrue.

The elite have strong power in the Swiss system

• Our largest party’s rise to power was because it’s leader was a far-right billionaire. Ever since, that party has been majority billionaire funded.
• Our national bank is 50% owned by private companies.
• Our cooperate lobbying laws are some of the laxest in the western world.
• Our representatives consistently prove to be more elite friendly than the average person, as shown again and again by referendum results vs their government votes.

I’m sick of the upper middle classes in Switzerland consistently saying the system is representative of the wider population.

It’s representative of their classes, not those of us who get by below the poverty wage, not those of us stuck in oppressive nursing home setups, not those of us who fall through the cracks of a system which is so focused on stability it often ignores needed reform. We have some of the worst disability rights laws in western europe. We only gave women the right to vote in the 70s (and in parts of the country, the 90s).

It takes a fundamentally fucked up country where in the same village of population 10,000, disabled people can starve to death whilst being unable to afford medical care, while a 5 minute drive away, there is the villa of a billionaire.

45% is completely normal here. We have votes every couple months, you vote when you’re interested.

Our “yearly voter turnout” is around 76%