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Millions join Spain’s first general strike in 14 years in protest at housing costs
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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Americans ... doing something about a dictatorial government?
Pfft. Yeah, right.
The number of people voting blue in the election gives me hope....although I know some probably didn't vote for the right reasons
IMHO, outside the ones who voted for modern progressive (the ones who are openly Social Democrats and Socialists and against all kinds of inequality including wealth inequality, not the pure Identity Politics liberals), voting blue in the US is just voting to restrict the more over iron-fist dictatorshiping to foreign countries whilst at home the riff-raff is controlled via a captured media and propaganda.
In the anti-Democratic voting system in the US the most democratic part isn't the election, it's the primaries, so the real thing that might give one hope is the increase in the number of genuine lefties winning Democrat primaries so that they were there as electable options in the actual election rather than one of the usual hard-right neoliberal in the pocket of the rich vs far-right fascist in the pocket of the rich "choice".
Same ones didnt show up last election though. Best i ever seen it put: the US has been sober a few days. Or have they even? Too early to tell.
Voting blue isn’t going to help the housing issue. Voting red was supposed to but didn’t. We just need to build more, fuck the little endangered turtle no one cares about and put up so,e condos and apartments, that’s how you fix it
If you believed that, I don't know what else to do other than assume you're either too dumb or too young to know better.
Nah, fuck you.
That's not the problem in Spain. Housing in desirable areas, like Madrid and Barcelona, is being bought up by speculators and AirBnb rapidly, meaning that rents doubled while salaries stayed the same.
Population has not doubled, so blaming a lack of supply doesn't make sense.
Untrue.
No.