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The secret is the erosion of the welfare state, high unemployment levels, butchered unions, dropped funding for non-profit hobby/sports organizations and money laundering of tax money into "profits" through a messed-up voucher system for schools and hospitals.

Not to mention the extremely corrupt law of public contracting that always results in the lowest-bidding - and thus shittiest/sloppiest - business getting to do all infrastructure work (and inevitably messing it up and then charging extra for fixing their own mistakes). Ironically, that law was intended to combat alleged corruption. We had very low levels of corruption before that law was made.

TL;DR: thorough neoliberal destruction of Swedish society.

InkScape.

I don't fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don't. I love fiddling with vectors.

This is similar to the old Italian mercenary system. Get paid by one side to siege a city, then get paid by the other side to end the siege.

Socialism is when the workers directly own their workplaces. While there are strains of socialism that view government ownership of businesses as an indirect form of worker ownership, they only view it as socialism if the government also abolishes the profit motive from those businesses.

Corporate welfare is a form of state/planned capitalism. Private ownership, profits and internal organizing; with the state being the main (or only) customer and also the party that takes on all the risks.

Capitalism is when there is a capitalist class that owns the means of production in order to extract surplus value, and a working class that uses the means of production in order to create value.

The truest capitalism would be a society where one individual owned everything and everyone else had to work under that individual.

Capitalism does not care - and never has cared - about people's ability to buy stuff. That's why market crisises happen. It's the result of capitalists taking more than the workers can afford to lose.

There have been times when the capitalist class has cooperated with the demands and needs of the working class. That's called a mixed economy, and as the name suggests, it's a compromise between capitalism and socialism and therefore far from "true" capitalism.

Ne.

The "minimum support threshold" for Germany's MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.

Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it's extremely much better than FPTP.

That is not a proportional system of representation.

No system that creates a large amount of election "losers" can ever be fully democratic. If you vote for the second most popular party, or the third most popular, et cetera, you should still be given representation.

An ML propaganda source, an irrelevant youtuber with no viewers, a technically legit article but only about the "special economic zone" AKA the only place in NK with any prosperity, a random twitter user saying that the Black Panthers interacted with and were interested in Juche (that proves absolutely nothing about NK), a broken link and a joke video about haircuts.

Your sources are absolute trash and you know it. The only money NK makes is by selling arms to Russia, and hoping for naive tourists to bring foreign currency. They have relied on food aid from the US every year since the starvation in the early 90's.

We both know that you are an insane Marxist-Leninist who will discard any real sources as "cia propaganda" or "liberal lies" so instead I'm going to demand from you any proof for your insane ramblings that don't come from either North Korean propaganda or Marxist-Leninist sources!

I've had enough of ML bullshit propaganda! YOU need to provide sources for YOUR outlandish claims! We both know you're lying on purpose. You're refusing to see a truth that would only require a simple Wikipedia or Youtube search. Because you probably view all real sources as fictional and all fictional sources as real.

North Korea is one of the poorest, most corrupt and most oppressed countries in the world. You are delusional.

Are you saying that North Korea's ethnonationalist "self-sufficiency" policies have been a success?