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[โ€“] xNIBx@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only reason gay marriage wasnt already legal, was because they(the current government) opposed it in the past. Civil unions for gay people was voted by a previous leftist government DESPITE the current government opposing it. I dont understand why people celebrate this as if it is a big step forward. They are the ones who held Greece back.

They just did the math and figured out that voting for this is "profitable", since the main opposition is the Left and gay marriage is one of the Left's "weapons".

They are trying to pinkwash their future constitutional changes, probably supported by the 3 far right parties that recently joined the parliament. They and Troika have made Greece a conservative country, i hope they are happy now that most young and educated greeks have left Greece. And that all remaining leftists are disappointed, disgruntled and broken.

Greece is 1 Orban away from becoming Hungary. The system is already in place, all media are controlled by the government, Greece has one of the lowest freedom of press in the World, not just in EU or Europe. The Left is split and in disarray and the demographics are beyond fucked. Noone is having any kids and tons of young and educated people have left Greece.

It's not as if Greece has any other choice. Vote for Left and you get your banks closed and liquidity turned off. Vote for the Right and here have some negative interest bonds and infinite money(even though the debt is higher than it has ever been). Democracy in action.

Ask yourself, is Greece a sovereign nation? Do greeks vote for their government? If you have a gun to your head, are you free to vote? How can Greece issue negative interest bonds when the debt(per gdp) is as high as it has ever been? Why is noone talking about the greek debt anymore? Where are all those brave dutch politicians to tell us how fucked the greek economy is? Why are they celebrating "return to normality" when the only government that had a primary surplus was the hated leftist one?

How come the current conservative government can afford to give away so much money when the leftist government was forced to take insane austerity measures, that even the IMF opposed(but the other 2/3 of Troika demanded).

If the fucking IMF is going "yeah, this austerity is too much and counterproductive", maybe you are doing it wrong. But thats what you get when you try to moralize economics.

[โ€“] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Totally agree, you stole the words from my lips.