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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Social Democracies in Europe are showing that you can keep people complacent as long as the oil and the african gold don't run out. Whoopsie.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Must be forgetting about Finland, whoopsie.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, "countries" the size of an American suburb don't matter. Euros are always like "but what about shitsteinburg, a country with a proud national tradition and a population of 37!" Nobody cares.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

You don't think Finland benefits from the victimization of the global south?