• Pseudorealizm@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I think even the poor would be pretty pissed if you drove through their backyard making a mess of the land they take pride in maintaining.

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            1 year ago

            Alone, yes, but not necessarily if they band together in a large group to represent their interests, and traditionally rambler’s associations and other such groups have had strong connections to the labo​ur movement and s​ociali​st poli​tics for exactly that reason in the UK, and have been able to win certain freedoms (whether that’s about protecting ri​ghts of way across land, or about wor​kers rights, the “apes togethe​r strong” thing does actually have a lot of truth to it)

            My granddad, god rest his soul was very active in his local rambler’s association (and they won a fair few battles against land ow​ners, about keeping public rights of way open, and well signposted).

            You’re right that gover​nments don’t really care about or give anything to the com​mon people out of beneficence, that’s why organisi​ng communities and wor​kplaces is so important