Hi, I’m looking for a country whose people or government mainly support my values. I’m looking for a country that:

  • supports wildlife protection

  • supports eco-friendly things and solar/wind energy

  • supports freedom of expression and does NOT criminalize queer people, be it trans, gay, bi, pan, intersex, asexual, etc.

  • peaceful, low crime

  • community-oriented

  • equal and just

  • very friendly towards animals, filled with animal sanctuaries and no-kill shelters

  • free education and/or healthcare (preferably education and healthcare are free/government-funded)

  • high taxes are therefore fine to me

  • compassion-oriented

  • affordable food with low unhoused rates and high employment rates

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
      34·
      2 days ago

      Well, Merz is a rich right wing politician most Germans didn’t vote for who is fearmongering to pin it on the poors, disabled people and foreigners, instead of the rich ruling class he’s actually part of.

      That guy voted against parts of legislature which made rape within a marriage illegal (especially an “oopsie don’t want to press charges” clause) in the 90s. Women are organising a strike against him and similar people on the 9th of March 2026. He made some remarks on the cityscape being ugly, insinuating he wants to eradicate foreigners and homeless people to make the cities look nicer. Just some of his “achievements” to undermine my opinion:

      I’d never trust anything this snake spits out before verifying with at least ten different sources, even if he’s telling me water is wet.

      This is not about the Right ruling Germany. It’s about the rich elites. And again, Merz is not representing a majority of the country.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        92·
        2 days ago

        Germany isn’t ruled by the majority, but by capitalists, same as the rest of the west. Merz directly stating that they are cutting welfare and implementing austerity is because imperialism is decaying, and the capitalists can’t give out some of their spoils as bribes any longer. The solution is socialism, not trying to keep imperialism going strong.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
          15·
          1 day ago

          No, actually Merz is just fearmongering. They have the money to solve lots of issues in education and healthcare, but choose to spend it elsewhere (on war and tax cuts).

          The German economy is doing great compared to how it should’ve tanked under rampant mismanagement in most companies, it’s actually just rich people, inequality, incompetence and bureaucracy standing in the way of the welfare state.

          But surely you know more about Germany than me, I’m just a local lobbyist, not a federal one 😅

          One thing you actually got right: the solution is socialism (not communism, that never worked so far, maybe in a few hundred years). We need to tax the rich until there are no rich people left, only wealthy ones.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            51·
            1 day ago

            Merz is explaining that they are going to cut welfare. Why? Because wealthy capitalists run Germany, and their gains from imperialism are drying up, so they force austerity to keep their own rate of profit while making the working class pay for it. This is the nature of late-stage capitalism. The inequality, wealth disparity, incompetence, and bureaucracy are all intrinsically tied to the mode of production, imperialist capitalism.

            Yes, Germany could have welfare without imperialism, this requires socialism. Socialism isn’t taxation under capitalism like you seem to think it is, though, it’s a fundamentally different mode of production. Where capitalism is a mode of production characterized by private ownership as principle and capitalists ruling the state, socialism is a mode of production characterized by public ownership as principle and the working class in charge of the state, like the GDR.

            In capitalism, you cannot simply “tax the rich until there are no rich left,” because the system is dictated by the rich.

            Communism is a post-socialist mode of production where the contradictions within socialism have been resolved into a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Communism as a mode of production has never existed, only socialist states guided by communist parties working towards communism. Socialism absolutely does work, and is guiding the largest economy in the world, the PRC.

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
              2·
              1 day ago

              It seems the problem is most people can’t begin to imagine what actually existing socialism looks like from the inside, without suspending their belief in generations of propaganda fed to us for several generations by our own states, and while we may be able to imagine how to work differently within the framework we have, can’t imagine discarding that framework without something better to replace it. We can imagine bending the framework, but not building a different one before or during the process.

              I wouldn’t be surprised if most people imagine a socialist replacement looking a lot like what DOGE did, but here’s a thing: we already have a blueprint for reimagining the existing framework ala New Deal, while we can also work toward building and implementing a new framework based on blueprints from AES states. Nobody is talking about taking a chainsaw to the current framework on day one.

              Maybe what I’m saying isn’t realistic, either but I’m open to having it picked apart.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                4·
                1 day ago

                The major difference between the New Deal and what socialists want is the replacement of bourgeois rule with proletarian, which does require axing the state and replacing it. The Party for Socialism and Liberation has a book called Socialist Reconstruction that goes over what that would look like in the US, including nationalizing the top 100 companies immediately.

                • Maeve@kbin.earth
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Well I’m good with immediate nationalization of top companies, and cutting away bourgeois rule, too. I was offering a gentler transition, but now that I am thinking about Trotsky, that’s a poorly thought idea.

                  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                    3·
                    1 day ago

                    Yep, the jump from capitalism to socialism is a qualitative leap before gradual quantitative buildup to a qualitative leap to communism. History progresses by leaps and bounds.

            • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
              12·
              1 day ago

              Socialism isn’t taxation under capitalism like you seem to think it is

              I never said that.

                • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  15 hours ago

                  Ah, got it. That’s oversimplified. Obviously the money needs to go to education etc, and money isn’t the only instrument of class warfare.

                  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                    2·
                    10 hours ago

                    I suppose, but just so we’re on the same page, you understand socialism to be when public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working class in control of the state, right?