SlayGuevara

Lots more is still unclear and I'm expecting tons of budget cuts all throughout different sectors. I guess that for propaganda purposes they cannot announce it just yet. February 13th will be another strike so I hope it will draw great crowds again.

A breakdown:

There will be a tax cut on wages, meaning we will pay less taxes on wages. How exactly this will be implemented is not yet clear but it is said people will keep more money for themselves.

There will be a 10% tax on stocks and other types of investments and dividends. I'm guessing this is what the socdems fought for so that they can say that they are 'taxing the rich' but the rule also targets your average joe investor with some spare change in a fund.

Automatic wage indexation according to inflation will be maintained thank fucking god

Unemployment benefits will be cut off if you are unemployed for more than two years. A lot is unclear how it will be implemented but this sucks. This has an influence on my own job. It does nothing but shift unemployed people into government welfare which is lower, creating more poverty. It also doesn't create jobs either so fuck this rule.

They are still debating on abortion rights and possibly changing them

Immigrants will now get a reduced social benefit status for the first five years they are here. What the fuck.

Nuclear energy is on the tabel again. The closing of the two nuclear plants we currently have is being discusssed and they want them to stay open. The thing is, they are now privatized by those same neolib parties and the French company running our Belgian plants is refusing to let them open as they don't see profits in nuclear energy. This is the quintessential liberal mindset of selling of your things to private owners only to be held hostage by those same owners. Fucking genius ideology.

Budget cuts all throughout. Except for, of course, police and army, which will see a boost in investment. Because you can live in a tank, you know.

They are freezing governemnt funds to political parties, which is actually funny as our party is one of the only ones that manages to exist without them due to our number of members and their own contributions.

Well looks like Belgium has a new government finally. It's a really right wing neolib one, but it includes a socdem party too. Not that I have any expectations from them.

My job might be in danger, which sucks I guess. February 13th will be another massive strike which I will join. Up the barricades it is.

Lemmygrad admin here. I normally don't look at reports from other instances but for this I had to make an exception. Probably the dumbest shit I have read so far lmao.

Checkmate vegans 😎

I have formally been asked to join the free masons. Not sure if I'll do it but I guess it would be funny.

Never would've expected this from Nancy 'Inside Trading' Pelosi

It's scary and fascinating at the same time watching fascism unfold in real time. You'd think it would be fast and spectacular but it's slow and sort of boring. One freedom robbing law after the other gets implemented. One fascist puppet gets put in a position. Slowly but steadily life gets harder and more miserable. And the majority of the people is just passively watching it unfold.

Ever since the elections are over some of our party leaders are doing side quests lol. Some of em are currently in Cuba doing God knows what. Curious to see what it's all about.

Though it does seem like a battle for natural resources which has been going on for many years now

Seems like shit is going down in Congo right now but I haven't found a good source on what exactly is happening. It says Rwandan backed rebels are taking a city.

Read: some poor developers are locked in doing 24h workdays now so that Zuck can stay a rich shit