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by selfmodruntime 11mo ago
Your claim is blatantly false. Any claim of the contrary is wrong. I won't go as far as to insult you in the way you did. I was talking about violent crime, which is indeed on the rise [1] (here sourced by the far right "Tagessc
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by selfmodruntime 11mo ago
> facts are just other's propaganda against their emotionally held beliefs, This is dishonest at best. It's a matter of opinion. I rarely - if ever - think of anyone who disagrees with me as spreading "propaganda". T
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> The crux of it is that they are not anti-democratic. Die Linke tolerates antidemocratic hate groups within their party and is a financial sponsor of others. All of this is common knowledge, all of this can be looked up easily. > Die
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Nuclear energy is not to be replaced with fossil energy, but with renewables. So that "advantage" is completely irrelevant. This is exactly what Germany did tho.
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> You just said that "anywhere in Germany" you will pay 50% of your income in taxes, so I'm asking if your average worker actually pays that I earn about 60k (the government pays me, so you can look this up) and that is my
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Believe it or not, but for multi-national companies job offers in France are smaller for this very reason: you have a fixed budget to hire an employee, you subtract the "employers contributions" and calculate the gross salary
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Is not your salary. It IS your salary. If the employer didn't pay it, YOU would have to pay it anyway. If you are a freelancer, you will have to pay that employers share anyway. It's the cost of social security systems, and s
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> It feels disingenuous to me to see "someone else pays tax, so that counts as a tax on me" leveled as a serious argument. They don't pay tax . They pay half of the social insurance fee for their employer. Of course tha
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Then you should really have a look at either your payroll or this simple calculator: https://www.steuertipps.de/service/rechner/brutto-netto-geha...
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Yea, and it's the guy above ironically. If I add my net here [1], I can see that I land pretty much exactly at 49.7% of my wage being deducted from when my employer pays me to where it lands on my bank account. [1]: https://
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Not sure why you are downvoted. Because the reality of this is unpopular for critics of capitalism. Most people rarely have an idea how far removed from laissez faire capitalism European countries are. This doesn't stop critics fr
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> If you are talking actual libraries here: Nope, sorry, I made a mistake. I was writing about the public toilets from the sentence before.
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> so it is not socialism, the whole point of this discussion. No, the whole point of this discussion is that someone claimed Germany was capitalist. Which it isn't. It's in between systems.
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
I was never talking about absolute freedom. You have moved the goalposts.
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
No, it adds up to almost 50% of your wage . People who make millions of dollars (freelancers, company shareholders, etc) pay capital gains taxes of 25%. High earning people have capital, not a wage, either by way of company shares or asset
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> By your own definitions the USA isn't a capitalist economy due to regulations and their social welfare policies. If that's where you stand then any further discussion is going to be pointless. Those are not my definitions. &g
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Sure, I have painted the incident, let‘s paint the norm. Just two ministers of the last government have sued 1400 people using 188 StGB [1]. An FDP politician sues 250 people this way in a month alone. We have seen an increase of lawsuits u
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Well, correct me if I'm wrong - but according to this random website I found in 5 seconds of googling: I will, because you are! Unfortunately, it's really easy because the German government applies a simple slight of hand. Th
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> What percentage of German companies are owned and managed by its workers? This sentence does not apply because "social market economy" does not imply that companies should be owned by their workes. > What percentage are ow
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
1 second google search -> https://www.die-linke.de/partei/programm/ -> Marx's manifesto is cited among the first paragraphs -> the literal first sentence in point 3's second paragraph -> &quo
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Germany does have limited Freedom. I won't move an inch in this matter. The exact paragraph behind the Habeck or Grote case is now being abused by the literal thousands each year. And violent crime is on the rise, we are currently back
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> But if you think that Herr Merz, who I haven't voted for and politically dislike, is anything close to a tycoon, well I think we're swinging in two very different planes of reality. Of course I don't. I actually like his
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> Even public libraries aren't free! Because they aren't public. They are provided by a company. > And let's not mention the health care system, which literally has two tiers, one for the poor and one for the rich, wit
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Yes and North Korea is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Names don't reflect reality. Our model came first, then came the name. I explained it's origins thoroughly, it is rooted in economic theory and it
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Nuclear is not clean The EU court agrees with me. I trust it to have more knowledge than either of us. Nuclear is low-carbon. End of story. You can deal with toxic waste easily. [1] > adiating the humans of the future. Gas and coal
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
I have no idea how we came to a situation where something that was designed as a trade union can now repeatedly try to restrict my freedoms.
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
> Yet we don't have too many runaway billionaires that are more powerful than governments, and we are still ALL a bit better off because of that. It's boring, but it works. A literal millionare is chancellor. > reedom for us
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Your comment has been debunked countless times. This man's home was not raided for his antisemitism (which is really damn bad!) but for calling a guy an idiot [1]. I suggest you stop spreading lies. [1]: https://www.br.de&#x
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
They are true though? Someone just had to shell out 16k because he posted that a politician's head was experiencing a drought [1] [1]: https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/meinungsfreiheit-in-gefah...
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by selfmodruntime 1y ago
Someone calling Robert Habeck a dunce. And please, don't counter with that old Spiegel article that has been debunked a million times.

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