I have solidarity with social democrats, democratic socialists, market socialists, democratic confederalists and anarchists.
I do not have solidarity with Marxist-Leninists. They are everything wrong with the left. There is no common ground to be had with them.
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.
My theory about V (in the graphic novel) is that
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V and Evie are the same person. Evie is a trans woman who was imprisoned in cell five for being "undesirable", like the lesbian woman in the cell next to her. The chapter where Evie is "tortured" by V is actually her V persona making Evie face the fact that this actually happened to her. The bad guys say "you're the man from cell five" because they are bigots who refuse to accept her as female.
Sexual liberation and autonomy is a big part of V for Vendetta. I'm probably wrong about my theory but I just think it fits the rest of the message of the graphic novel.
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.
Paladin Danse goes out of character in order to admire the U.S.S. Constitution (a robot-owned ship no less) even though the BoS hates the U.S. for nuking half the world. He then goes on to view Chinese ghouls as evil for being Chinese.
Hancock is not really a charicature or satire of American patriotism. The devs clearly want him to just be a patriot.
The minute men have blatantly nationalistic aesthetics (including their general dressing himself like George Washington). They camp out in the so very subtle "Museum of Freedom".
None of these things are done ironically. These people who live in a world destroyed in equal parts by the U.S. and China should logically hate everything the U.S. was and claimed to stand for. Instead, they constantly brown-nose a country that no longer exists.
Nobody in Fallout 1, 2 and NV (except for the Enclave) would ever consider pre-war U.S. as a force for good or something to look back to with pride. The Enclave are the bad guys for good reasons.
The only actual joke patriotism in Fallout 4 is Moe and his Swatters.
Todd Howard saw a scathing critique of the United States' red scare era and thought to himself "this game loves United States ultra-patriotism and the 50's aesthetics".
Yes-men are the least of his problems.
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.
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.