4abc11 No.57
I'll admit this thread has little to do with political discussion, but i honestly can't find a better place to ask.
So i recently looked into the situation of some universally reviled national maladies of Germany. The GEMA,(the organisation single handedly responsible for the blocking of 60% of the most popular videos on youtube, because they demand higher tolls per view from youtube than anyone in the world, without paying the artists more, and whose monopoly on copyright enforcement is government protected since they got the monopoly rights in 1933 under hitler) and the Rundfunkbeitrag (a 20$/month fee every single place with four walls and a bathroom, be it a home or a companies storage facility, MUST pay to the public broadcasting companies regardless of the nationality of the proprietor, their financial situation, their desire to view public state television, or their ability to do so, because of blindness or having no television sets, without having any say in the program, with the program being biased often, the 'public' companies making a 1.2 billion € surplus illegally to their 8 billion € income).
And what does the german public do about these things? fuckall.
The Constitutional Courts have ruled the fees to be legal and 'not illegal taxes because everyone paying gets the muh privilege of 90 shit channels so it is muh privilege recompensation, which is legal' and the government in the Bundestag blatantly ignores petitions of hundreds of thousands of people against both causes, despite both blatantly violating international human rights.
And the most important topics asked about in political surveys? Euro zone, how Merkel deals with it, and how satisfied we are with the inner politics of greece.
My conclusion is that just like 80 years ago, the german people readily accept any curtailing of their human rights as long as they have not seen this type of attack yet, and as long as it's all explained away by some laws.
The only difference is that this time around only net-neutrality, free speech and their wallets suffer at the hands of media companies, instead of a minority group at the hands of a lunatic political group.
I realize that these are just minor issues, but the underlying tendency of politicians not working logically and rationally for the good of the people, and the individual being completely powerless against ridiculous laws being forced onto them, and any effort being blocked everywhere are so depressing that i actually started to question my application for dual citizenship.
So my question to you: Are there any countries that are NOT like this, and still modern and advanced? Canada comes to mind, but there some retarded asshole recently tried to gain favor with conservatives by RAISING the age of consent to an all time high instead of the rationally justifiable lowering, and people are completely okay with that over there too.
So i don't know.
Is this world fucked? Do i have to wait until a violent revolution happens somewhere?