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Fuck all the greedy landlords. Kudos to all landlords out there who charge rent based on a persons income and don't feel a need to charge what "The Market" dictates.
My super conservative in-laws in Spain are all flustered by this! They think these people are being paid and that they are armed and dangerous and out to pillage, kill, and raze the country.
Spain is weird in that their Fascist dictatorship wasn't overthrown by a Revolution like next door Portugal but instead those in power decided themselves to let go of power (after making themselves stupidly rich and then passing some laws to make themselves immune from prosecution for all they did), so IMHO the right-wing there has always been pretty Fascist-adjacent because certain things weren't cleaned up.
The sons and daughters of the Fascist elites too created their own political party in next door Portugal - currently in power - but its ideology was never this weird moralist know-your-place "conservativeness" that you see in traditional Fascism.
The strike is weird because it has been done after flash elections were called due to the government not being able to push a (meh-tier) housing affordability law, so, in good spanish fashion, no one will take responsibility for it.
Americans, take notes, in case of a hostile dictatorship takeover
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
Voting red was supposed to but didn’t.
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.
fuck the little endangered turtle
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.
Voting red was supposed to
Untrue.
fuck the little endangered turtle
No.
Way to go, Spain!
At the centre of Wednesday’s nationwide 24-hour stoppage, singularly called for by tenants’ associations and later backed by workers’ unions, is a pushback against Spain’s deepening housing crisis.
Sandra Mora, of the Madrid Tenants’ Union, told the broadcaster RNE: “It’s extremely important to remind people that we, the workers – who are also renters or who also pay mortgages – are the ones with the power to halt production and bring the economy to a standstill.”
While workers’ unions reported high participation in the strike across several sectors, including 90% in the automotive and port sectors and 82% in waste collection, they said participation was uneven across the country. The strongest support was reported in coastal regions, such as Catalonia and Andalucía, where the soaring cost of housing has been particularly acute.
Hey USians, you see this? It CAN be done. It CAN happen.
USians
Oh, shut the fuck up. That will never become our demonym. All it does is make you look like a terminally online moron.
Does everything always have to be about the US?
USians voted to change the government. We'll see in two weeks what Spaniards will do in their elections. This strike is mostly meaningless.
They did? They're not neoliberal any more?
Nope, fully communist now.
Taft-Harley act made general strikes illegal, among basically any strike not directly related to your specific employer. Violates union contracts.
this is both true, and no excuse
So it's illegal? Who cares? Do it anyway. What are they going to do, arrest millions of people? Fire all of them? I don't think so.
Violates union contracts? Unions exist to enable these things, not to stop them. What is the fucking point otherwise?!
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Of course the government would love to stop people from protesting/striking/whatever. The whole point is to not let them. Use your numbers against them, together you're strong, that's what they're trying to stop. If striking didn't work, they wouldn't have to outlaw it!
All strikes were originally illegal. Ultimately that wont stop us.
Good on them!
