It’s the same situation in the US. My own mother votes for the most vile Republicans against our interests because she’s been so stuffed with hate and tribalism from Fox news all she cares about is that dopamine hit from “my team is winning”. No amount of reasoning will overcome that addictive hit of dopamine.

It’s a carefully manufactured propaganda machine funded by people with power we could only dream about reaching out from here to the EU.

Even the youth here in the south vote against their interests because abortion and immigrants bad jesus good. Education has been dismantled and even if they knew what was going on our districts are so gerrymandered it probably wouldn’t matter.

People need to be inoculated against billionaire propoganda, but how do you do that when they control the media and schools?

We’re not going to get anything done done within the system because they control the system. Strikes and violence or extremely disruptive protesting are going to have to happen.

We vote, but it’s not enough.

I understand, but you guys are setting yourselves on fire to keep society warm.

In Japan when bus drivers go on strike they don’t stop the buses, but they stop taking bus fare from riders so the company doesn’t get paid. Maybe something involving medical notes so they can’t get billing codes.

I’m not okay with it but it’s the type of problem that can only be solved by them. They have to go on strike and protest.

What do they do?

I can somewhat read cursive. Takes me a long time, so I’m not going to bother with anything longer than a sentence. I can sign my name in cursive and can more or less write in lower case cursive but i doubt it’s easy to read and I take a lot of creative liberties.

Refusing to learn cursive and long form division in 3rd grade. Never needed either.