[HN Gopher] Berlin locals vote to expropriate real estate giants
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       Berlin locals vote to expropriate real estate giants
        
       Author : cyrksoft
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-09-27 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | fallingfrog wrote:
       | "...even if it does pass, that would only force the incoming
       | Berlin city-state government to debate the proposal."
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       | Putting aside my views on the proposal itself, I think I can
       | state with near 100% certainty that the city state government is
       | not going to respect the will of the people in this instance.
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       | The reason referendum results are always way more left wing than
       | the policies of the city government is that while you can't bribe
       | the whole populace, you can certainly bribe a representative
       | government.
        
       | credit_guy wrote:
       | Does Germany have a Supreme Court or maybe a Constitutional
       | Court? It feels to me you need a strong independent judicial
       | branch to act as a check against the tyranny of the majority. You
       | know there was that episode a while ago when a majority of the
       | German electorate was quite happy to expropriate a certain
       | minority, how did that work out?
        
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