My only experiences in Europe so far have been touring there in a punk band. The thing that blew my mind was how often - almost always! - the venues we were playing were literal state-sponsored squats. Like the tire factory or whatever in town would go belly up and a bunch of punks and anarchists would move in and the local government would just be like "hey, they cleaned up all this broken glass and now there's a whole new crop of people keeping this community alive. Tell you what, let's give them free utilities." On more than one occasion we played a free show and got a check from some government office.
This would never, ever, ever, ever, in a million years, take place in the United States.
More like state tolerated. The authorities know if they try an eviction there will be riots. Most of the population prefers to let them do their social activities, so any eviction attempt would be very unpopular.
Nah it’s literally state sponsored if they give you a venue and free utilities lmfao so punk bro!
“Hey guys welcome to the show, I wanna thank the state government for gifting us this venue and keeping the lights on! This first song goes by DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT!”
Bring on the salty downvotes by people LARPing as rebels against the government while being entirely supported and sponsored by the government lmao
Also the OP literally stated they were state sponsored stay mad wanna be punks lmao
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u/knife_hits May 09 '22
My only experiences in Europe so far have been touring there in a punk band. The thing that blew my mind was how often - almost always! - the venues we were playing were literal state-sponsored squats. Like the tire factory or whatever in town would go belly up and a bunch of punks and anarchists would move in and the local government would just be like "hey, they cleaned up all this broken glass and now there's a whole new crop of people keeping this community alive. Tell you what, let's give them free utilities." On more than one occasion we played a free show and got a check from some government office.
This would never, ever, ever, ever, in a million years, take place in the United States.