Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of DMTV. This is the Faces of DM episode series exploring the people making up our movement, where we discuss their inspirational stories, why and how they took the step from citizen to activism and politics. I'm Johannes Fair, I'm coordinating volunteers for DM35 and I have the pleasure to host some of our Faces of DM episodes and we are actually here tonight with Federico Rodolce, hi Federico. Good to have you. He is a part of our coordination team in Italy and one of the members currently running a DM25 campaign on the ground in Italy with the name Lavorose, which means work if or something around those lines. Federico will explain. It's a campaign on the ground and it aims to radically change the world of work and we'll learn about that today. You find all the details about the campaign on lavoro-se.it, but before we go into what this campaign is all about and why it came to life, let's hear a little bit from you Federico. Who are you actually? Where are you? What do you want to share with the audience? Well, hi everyone. I'm Federico, 40 years old. I'm from Turin into the northwest of Italy. I work as a partner into an advertising firm. I have a background as an IT programmer and I've been doing this for more than 20 years. I've been involved in cultural and association site work for almost 10 years, but my political involvement is way longer. And as you said, I'm part of the Italian coordination team and we are trying to make a huge grassroot campaign called lavoro-se, which is a huge aim, which has a huge aim, which is to change the media discourse about an incredible important topic that involves basically everyone. And it's so important for so many people, which is the work, the jobs, and the job market, and the opportunity to emancipate from everything. Thanks. You already went into what the campaign is about a little bit. Thank you for that. I think you can see your excitement to speak about that. One step back, maybe first to ask you when and how and why did you actually become a DM member in the first place? When did you join? Well, like many others, of course, I've been highlighted by the incredibly struggle by the Greek people when Yanis Varopakis was being served. And that was roughly the moment when I started to realize that my view of the European Union was clashing against the reality that was developing in that moment. And I tried so long to make my heads up about this kind of thing, because my whole generation and the generation that came next has, I think, has an innate willing to see themselves as European. And we always told ourselves as European. But in the media discourse, Europeanists and pro-Europe was becoming something very different, because none of us wore that thing that happened to me to heaven. And none of us really wanted this institution, this European Union, to be the final step of what was the project at the beginning. And somehow I focused, I pinned down the idea that in order for my will, my desire of European Union to become true, I had to get involved and change what people were thinking about the possibility of Europe and what we were experiencing in that moment as a European Union influence in our life. And the Yanis view of that final project was basically what I was hoping for. And I'm sure that that is what so many people want. Yeah, I think so too, obviously. Thanks for speaking also a little bit about European Union. I think, of course, the current situation and the situation of the past years has all of us brought to activism and work for political change, since current situation is just not going to be sustainable in any way. Maybe going a little bit towards the actual current political situation in your country in Italy, I think much like in the European Union, you actually have a leading person of your country, Mario Taragi, that is has not really been elected, right? Like Ursula von der Leyen, he somehow came, I don't know, threw the back door somehow into power. And yeah, tell us a little bit about that and maybe also what the political situation is in the country. Well, no First Minister get elected. We do immediately have this system, it's a parliamentary system where you do vote your delegates, your member of parliament, and they choose First Minister with a trust vote. But thing is, this is, Mario Draghi is the last of a small series of technicians, the Prime Minister, and they are a symptom of a crisis of democracy, of the representative democracy, because although it's all very legal and it's, we have to admit, it's within the border and within the rules to have that. We are suffering from a huge crisis of representative because it's not ideal that a Prime Minister can not refer to a single party, not refer to a single agenda that has been put to the vote for the public, for the citizen. And he basically had the support of the media and of so many parties into the parliament that basically just one is left of the opposition. This is not healthy for the political discussion, for the political, for the trust that the public put into the political field, because they don't feel represented anymore. I'm sorry, they don't feel represented anymore, rightly so actually. And also because that support the narrative, the sole existence of a technician, support the narrative that there is a right way and a wrong way to do politics without ideology, that the right way is beyond ideologies, and it is just the right way to do, and that's false, because the agenda, that the technician they wrote and they put into the laws, it's very logical. And that's been proven wrong many, many times. I mean, we are suffering, we are coming from two decades of economic crisis that shouldn't happen if they were right, basically. And the whole idea that you have to trust the technician because one plus one people's tube and everybody else support, all those ideas are just ideologically biased, poison the media discourse in a terrible way. It doesn't let you, the space to argue, to even discuss about politics, you just have to accept what has been given to you, because it was a technician's decision. And this is not working on so many levels and so many cases. So this came from a country that has an extremely conflicted relationship with the European Union, which is Italy. Italy has, thanks to a model two decades of political and media discourse extremely biased and poisonous to has a struggling relationship with Europe, because basically every politician campaign in the country against the European Union and then go to the government and then became part of the European Union government and do just what everybody else has done before. So here we have a common way of saying, ding a jalo, defront a man with two faces, because you tell one thing to the public, raising the public against the European Union, and then the day after you go to Brazil and decide the very same things that will make your country struggle. And that leads to a numerous party in the government area, which in time of election came anti-European. And then once they're at the government, they keep being pro-European, except they keep complainants about. So it's a nonsense discourse, political discourse, that led the Italian, the Italian constituency to be split into a false dichotomy. There is the anti-European, roughly composed by people who are truly nationalists, rightly we're nationalists, and people who just have lost all faiths into the uninstitution at the European level, that in their mind it will always be against the poor people. And there are the pro-European, which are not really pro-European, because they don't want the complete European Union with our European Union welfare and the European Union rights, they just want this crooked version of the European Union where they can decide everything they can impose an agenda decided elsewhere, and thanks to the democratic gap. So our way of thinking, the PM way of thinking, it's neither one of that, it's a third way, and it's the actual European Union complete democratic one, are united, are truly united, and a place that can actually decide for the people, by the people, for the common good. Indeed, you explained it very well. I think that is also what everyone can read in our new manifesto that we just published this year, and you can find it on dm25.org when you go about us to the about us section, to find why we are fighting for the many against the few, against the oligarchs, to actually change something in different countries here, where I'm speaking from in Germany, where you are in Italy, and in all the countries where there's the members, and yeah, there's a lot of countries where we are active. And after, thank you for describing the political situation, maybe now more specifically, because this campaign is about work. So what was it that you made you choose this topic of work as the topic for the campaign? Well, we do live in Italy in an extremely stressed situation on the job market, because we are one of the major country in Europe, but we don't have the industrial structure of the other major countries in the European Union, like France or Germany. We have so many small, little and micro enterprise, and very few big enterprise. And that's led to a lack of representation into the unions for the right, the worker right, and to national contracts. And this industrial fabric of entrepreneurs started very soon to try to keep up with the European economy by dumping all the cost into the labor cost, basically. And that's how we ended up in 2022 with a smaller, lower, medium wage than 20 years ago. That makes no sense. In every other country, small or big in the European country, the medium salary will level rise up, even though a little bit, even though only 5%, 10%, we are minus 3% for that. That's because we had several governments that tried neoliberal politics that disrupt completely the collective representation of workers. And that led to an incredible phenomenon, which is the working poor. People that are actually working are not unemployed, are not jobless. They are working, but they are so little represented, and they are so little empowered in terms of the negotiation with the employer, sorry, that their salary doesn't even is enough to raise from the poverty level. And that's a huge problem because when the government makes this decision and plans this decision on how to help the poverty and how to help the poor people, the people in need, for many, many, many years, the sole indicator was employment, employment rate. So if you're out of the unemployed, somehow you're good to go. We don't need to think about you anymore. But now we have new 3 million families that fell into the working poor area. Those are people who cannot access to government and state aid, and yet they cannot bring themselves up out of the poverty zone. This steps to a completely neoliberal working market, jobs market, and working right registration. We have to change that. We have to do it because meanwhile, this is the reality, but the media discourse is something that I can only describe by Orwellian, because the only thing that we are talking about is how the poor employer cannot find enough people willing to work for 200, 300 years a month. And they cannot find an employee for the beaches, for the restaurant, for the... And they are starting to, like every summer, discussing the possibility of giving visa, work visa, to migrants because migrants are willing to accept such lower wages. That brings up the migration problem, and that makes the racism toward the migrants' ways, because they are stealing our jobs, except they're not jobs, they're slaves. They are only accepted because in that way they can come up immediately in the European Union. They are basically working for free and they know that, but they are willing to do it anyway. And this is a way to ruin a country, to make people look anger and anger and always more to the right if you don't manage to make them aware of what's happening on a bigger scale. This is why we launched a campaign, which is extremely provocative. We know that. It's a campaign that, as you just translated it, I work only if, because we are too used to accept everything, non-paid internship, more than 20 years of work a day. This is an recovery, but not so much because when you work into the restaurant field, you can do up to three, four shifts consecutively and they add up to basically 40 hours of work in three days. And you have no time for yourself, you have no time to disconnect from your job. When you do an office job, you have always to be reachable. And all of this without a real perspective, without a security, without the security to know that, okay, you have this salary as small as it can be, you will always have it. No, you don't have that security anymore. You don't have the chance to hope for a raise in the future for a growing position because we don't have that kind of possibility. Because we have accustomed our whole country, industry, fabric into not invest into the human capital and therefore make them grow. But just to exploit the human labor to compete with the southern eastern market and southern eastern producer, which is nonsense. And we need to change to revolution at least the way we talk about job. We need to be aware again that we can fight. We can say no. We can say we don't deserve this. We don't deserve to be treated like this. We don't deserve to be treated like meat, just work meat. We have a right to live our own life to have hopes to accept a level of dignity. Only offer the kings up on a very low, at least a very low level of dignity. Because otherwise makes no sense. And people would do what young people are doing a lot in the last 20 years, which is leave the country. Thanks. Actually, a lot of things that I again relate to since also for part of the workers, the same, of course, is happening here in Germany. And I think, unfortunately, it is also part of the EU that, you know, you let the different regions, countries, people work against each other, which, of course, doesn't lead anywhere good. And yeah, this is something that we are working against. And I'm glad that you're doing that in Italy. And thank you for putting in the time and keeping this campaign running. And maybe more concretely now, what is actually the work that you're doing with the campaign on a day-to-day basis that the team, you and the team. Yeah, I extremely happy and numerous team of people, which are contributing. And we are trying to work on a different level of action. We are organizing small events into every city. You know that Italy is a country with so many cities. So there's many little towns. And we try to be present as much as possible in every town to try to wake up the population. You're not alone. And we think that we know you think these two. And we can join and we can show to the rest of the country that we can hope it's something better. We are trying to, and we are a small city involved with the small unions, local-based unions and not confederate unions, which are new unions. For example, the unions that support the riders, right? And the unions that support the fieldwork for farms and all the agricultural summer work that are usually migrants, by the way, just like the riders. And I'm not saying that we're trying to unionize, but in the end, somehow it will happen. And we will try to run some big events after the summer, with all these association work together. And we will try to do something a little bit greater marketing, like stickers and washable spray paint on the advertising of work, of terrible work, jobs that we find around the cities. We need to be heard somehow, because we are fighting against a rubber wall of the media. Although every time we talk to people, new people, common people, everybody knows that this is the main issue. Everybody knows what the reality is. And very few people are willing to accept it. So we are fighting a good response, and we are hoping in the end to gather so much signatures and support to ask at least to be heard into the labor committee in the parliament, so that we can publicly say what's going on. We can probably say that economies all across the world found and proposed a real solution to this, that some in some place somewhere someone is trying to apply and they're given good results. And so that there are good practices that we don't have to wring the wheel. We just have to see that in other place these kinds of things are working, working out, and try to, for once, try 100 degrees and go the other way. If we do that, if we manage to put the parliament facing this issue for the first time, then it will be up to there to reply. They won't, most surely won't. And then we'll see. And then we'll see what we're doing with that. Yes, I think it is just very, very important, especially if in the media there is not much talk, which is a common thing. I think a problem that we have everywhere that these issues of the day-to-day people of the working class in the end are not often discussed. I also have an example that just came to my mind from the west of Germany where the workers in the hospitals are on strike at the moment. And I'm following a little bit on social media since I'm not there. But I also hear them saying, like, what the fuck? We are on strike here and nobody talks about it. Heroes, remember, they used to be the heroes during the pandemic. Because they wouldn't talk now, nobody listened to them. And then, of course, it's not just Germany. We had the same situation months ago. Okay. And we are, take two more than 12 years of expending restriction from the EU Commission. We have downsized our health system for so long before the pandemic. Then when suddenly we need, we need to hand the people back, the doctors back. We didn't have any. So the actual doctors went double, triple shifts, and half of them burned out because we didn't have and don't have anymore enough public health, the employee. And that's ridiculous. We are still ending a pandemic. And, nonetheless, we still can face the fact that there were conscious politics put in place to downsize salaries, places and funds for the health system, national health system. That cost us lives. Big time. Yeah. And that's, that's the, that's a very sad truth. And I can again, just say, same happening in Germany over the last years.  About your campaign, what can people concretely do? What can you tell people out there that are watching now? What should they, what, what should they do? Even if they are maybe outside of Italy, but especially if they are in Italy? Well, of course, like I said, we are organizing a lot of events. So everyone who wants to bring this issue to their city, we will more than have to, more than willing to help them in any way to come to their city, help them organize, and hold up an event to explain the campaign. But even though from, in front of a PC, everyone can go to the website, sign the petition, of course, sign the manifesto, go look up into the heart proposal and start to make some noise by tweeting, by directly writing to the member of parliament who are into the Labor Committee. Start pressuring them, start making feel anxious, start making feel like the public is realizing that this is the reality and we can no longer stand for it. We can, you can use the tool on the homepage to tweet to our Labor ministry, Orlando, or to write an email directly to every member. There's a tool where you can choose your own region and try to do a little local pressure, even though we don't have an election system where you can choose your own deputy light, for example, in the United Kingdom, but still, we think that every, every member of parliament from the right to the left wing can be a little sensitive with people from their own region is writing them to tell them we can go on the side for it, we can don't, we don't hold them anymore. And so you can tweet, you can show social, you can of course donate so that we can have the resources to keep up this fight. And you can contribute with videos telling your stories, because something that we found is that the more you go deep into the stories of common people, the more you get enraged. So we are collecting a lot of single stories, but there are tons, tons of example of how the system is not working. The system is brought us nothing but misery. And we are collecting a lot of videos, we are collecting a lot of proposal for what the people will like to do if they had some more free time, like for example, eight hours a day or three times, dreams like this. And of course, the more you talk about it, the more you support like writing the hashtag or Facebook or Instagram, the more, the more noise we make, the more possible it's for us to achieve an audience into the member committee. Great. Thanks.  It's made by the people like Federico and many others, for the people, for you, or you can join the buy the people site and be part of the campaign. I think, yeah, you should do that. And if you want to get in touch directly and help out in your city, I can, I will be able to connect you with Federico if you want to reach out, volunteer at dm25.org. I can always make the connection since I'm reading those emails. And also, of course, if you want to help dm25 in any other way, maybe to finish, let me please know what being zooming out again a little bit, where would you like dm25 to go the next years and what are the most important issues that you think that we should solve? Like I said before, Italy and not just Italy is victim of this false vision. We do have a vision that nobody else does. We are basically the only one who are truly willing to proceed it. So my vision for the future is to give the people the opportunity to know that there are other options other than those two, that there are a third way, that there are someone who is really fighting for a working European Union that works for the working class, that works for the poor, that works for the young, that works for the women, that works for the migrants. And because everything I just said is for the common good. So I think, and I'm willing to hope that dm is the way we can finally break this charade and bring some hope again into the political discourse, into the media, into the people, and into the politics as well. All right. I think there's nothing I can add here of value. Thanks. It was a very nice conversation and very inspiring to hear from you. Keep up the good work and you are there. If you want to join, go to dm25.org and subscribe to this channel. Tune in the next time. Carpe diem and bye-bye.


You know, putting Android 17 into Dragon Ball FighterZ as one of the final two DLC characters for the first season is almost as genius as Android 17 realizing that Jiren's weakness is that you gotta hit him really hard. I mean just think about it, having 17 in the game is like a taste of what could come if there ever is a second season for fighters. You want those Tournament of Power characters, then you're gonna have to wait for the second season. But hey, in the meantime subscribe to our YouTube, our Twitter, and our Facebook for an additional chance to win a deluxe edition of Dragon Ball FighterZ. The point is, it's a great way to get our attention. Of course that only works if 17 is good in Dragon Ball FighterZ. And he's actually really, really good, so damn, one season two Bandai. Of course just because he's pretty good doesn't mean Android 17 is the perfect character. He does have his fair share of pros and cons, and this video is dedicated to focusing on those and talking about whether or not Android 17 might be worth your time as a player. Let's go ahead and start off with the cons for Android 17 because I feel like the few he does have are super noticeable as soon as you start playing the character. The big one that I want to talk about is Android 17 in Neutral. Sure the character can spin around in place and look very confusing, but that's not really doing you all too much from full screen. At that range you'd much rather prefer a Beam or a decent Keyblast. Android 17 really doesn't have either of those. His Keyblast in the air is alright, but it does come across as a lesser version of a Super Saiyan Vegeta, and that pretty much places him with everybody else in the game that has a worse air key than Vegeta, so pretty much everybody. Except 16. Being bad during Neutral with 17 is super noticeable because he's a character that excels so much when he gets in on his opponent. As soon as you pick this character up you'll notice extremely quickly that the ease of the game depends heavily on how close you are to the opponent. To help new 17 players get a better idea of where their character is at his best, I've come up with a little chart that can be remembered as so. If you're in green, you're looking clean. If you're in yellow, you're feeling mellow.  Another con if you can call it that for 17 is that he definitely isn't the easiest character in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Now I'm not saying that 17 requires a PhD to play, but he's definitely a little more thought provoking than let's say someone like Super Saiyan Goku. Being super optimal with this character is something that I don't even think we've seen yet, partly because I'm doing this video super early. But regardless, that does go to show that to get the most out of this character you really do have to put the work in. Now we can move on to the pros of playing 17, and like I've been alluding to this whole time, once 17 gets in on his opponent he turns into a really amazing character. And this is due to his Wrecker system, or as I call it, the gear system, which allows him to put constant changing pressure on his opponent. Now, of course, when you go for that overhead, you do have to be careful and throw out an assist, otherwise your opponent could punish with a down heavy and that, uh, that's not a good look. To emphasize a little more on why this system makes him so good when applying pressure on his opponent, it's because it allows him to go for a low or an overhead, depending on what buttons he chooses. He can also go for a Gohan style fast fall with his 2L that actually does hit low. I know Arksis is really killing it with this character, dude. So anyway, the main point I was making here is that if you're blocking against Android 17, just give it a few seconds. He'll most likely be getting opened up pretty shortly. The other pro of playing Android 17 comes in the form of his raw damage. If he is able to open you up as long as he has an assist or any sort of extension left in him, he can get a decent amount of damage out of this, especially if he does hit you with a standing medium and goes into his 3H. That move can be especially deadly when it comes to scaling. It also helps to be into flashy combos if you are going to main 17 as a lot of his best damaging stuff also looks great as well. And now we can move on to where I feel Android 17 belongs on a team. And if you can't tell, I think this is definitely a character that you want running out on point, whether it be because his neutral isn't that good and you want to supplement it with assist or you just don't want to get, yeah, that. Either reason is good enough to run Android 17 on point when you consider that his mix-ups only get deadlier when you add in extra assist. Personally, I like to run Android 17 with at least a beam assist to make standing in that red area a little less scary. And then this may just be my personal bias coming through, but I also feel that Android 17 works wonders with Yamcha. A couple of teams I recommend running are the exact one I just mentioned all put together. Team Android 17 forces you to block. And of course team, we need an adult badly. When it's all said and done, I think Android 17 was a fantastic addition to Dragon Ball Fighters as he shows the raw potential that the future of this game has. Seeing characters like Jiren or Ultra Instinct Goku given as much attention to detail and a unique playstyle like 17 would be more than welcome to see in a future edition of Dragon Ball Fighters or just in a future season. And I would say that if you want a more unique rushdown style character in a game already about rushdown then you should definitely give Android 17 a look. And that brings us to the end of this Should You Play video. Go ahead and let me know down in the comments what you think about Android 17 and who you want to see me tackle next in this format. And if you like this channel and want to support the videos I make, then make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel so that you never miss one. And hey, maybe check out a few of the other videos on the channel that should be on your screen right now. I'll be down in the comments as always and I'm Dato Doha and I'll see you in the next video.


When the narcissist sees you with someone new, when they see that you have moved on, when they see that you have found someone else, and you're happier without them. When the narcissist sees you with someone new, they will be very envious and jealous. They will feel like something has been taken away from them, and they will have a desire to take something from you. Once you have been with the narcissist, they see it as though that's it for life. They see you as their property, as an object that exists to serve them. In their minds, they invested a lot into you, so now you belong to them. Even if all they did was cause problems and inconveniences in your life. They don't believe they did anything wrong. They don't reflect on their own faults or mistakes. So in their minds, you had no right to leave. You had no right to move on and find someone else. Even though all they did was make your life miserable. Even though they may have discarded you. They don't want you to move on and be happy. They don't want you to be successful. They want you to be miserable just like them. So they will try to come back. They will try to get back in your life again when they see that you're moving on. And they will try to sabotage anything that you're trying to establish. They will either come back on their own, or they will get one of their flying monkeys to do their bidding, because they just can't stand to see you moving on. They just can't stand to see you being happy with someone else. They're very envious and jealous people. When they see that you're happy, it just reminds them how miserable they are. And they cannot deal with their own negative feelings. So they will try to destroy whatever it is that's making you happy to regulate their emotions.  They will also come back out of curiosity, with a strong desire to learn or know more about your situation. They will want to know if you're really happy without them, or if you're still attached to them, because they want to feel like you still want them. They want to feel like you still desire them, not because they care about you, not because they want to make things right, but because it feeds their ego. Narcissists want to feel desirable. They want to feel wanted by someone. They may act like they don't care or as though they've moved on, but they're still thinking about you. They're still competing with you. They never move on. They never forget about you. As soon as they start to see that you're moving on, they will come back with their love bombing, or with threats and intimidation. Whatever they think will get you under their control again. The idea of you finding someone else, makes the narcissist very uncomfortable. They can't stand to see you being happy. They can't stand to see someone else having a strong influence on you, someone who is outside of their control. The narcissist will come back and try to get this person under their control. They will try to sabotage your new relationship, or if they can't do that, they will try to befriend your new relationship partner. They will try to bond with them, because they can't deal with the idea of not being able to be an influence in your life. There's something constantly triggering in their mind, where they're always wondering what they might be missing out on, so they just can't stay away. They always have to come back to see what's going on, to see if you're still thinking about them, or to see if you've moved on. They never wanted to do what's right for you. They never had your best interest in mind, but their worst nightmare is someone coming along and doing what they never did for you, someone treating you right, because that translates to them that they were not good enough. It tells them that someone else is better, and it makes them feel small, and it's that feeling of inadequacy that they cannot deal with, which is why they come back, which is why they try to destroy your happiness, because they could never make you happy. They were too insecure to do that for you, but if you've moved on and found someone else who is secure enough to witness your happiness, it just reminds them how weak they really are, because they could never sit in that space for you, but when someone else can, it just reminds them that something is wrong with them, and they don't like how that feels. When the narcissist sees you as someone new, they can't accept that you are happy without them. They have to tell themselves that something's wrong. They have to tell themselves that you're not happy, that you're just pretending, or you're just settling for whatever you can find. They cannot accept that you're happier without them. They're very selfish. They need you to be constantly focused on them, so when they see that someone else has your attention, they will come back to cause disruption, because they just can't deal with the idea that they have lost control of you. They're no longer influencing your life. They're no longer important. They're always lurking in the shadows. They're always waiting to see just how important you are to them. But when they see you with someone new, it's a wake-up call for them. It brings them back to reality, and that is something they don't want to deal with, so they will entertain their delusions. But you just need to keep moving on. Keep doing what makes you happy, and let the narcissist do what they do best. Let them watch. Let them study you.  But now you've found someone who can. This may trigger the narcissist to reflect on their insecurities, but that has nothing to do with you. Just keep doing you. You shouldn't have to tone down your happiness to make someone else feel more comfortable. Your life is yours to live. They had the opportunity to share that with you, but they threw it away. They took it for granted. Just never miss what they have until it's gone, but you can value what you have. You can give it the nourishment it needs to grow, and that is a beautiful thing, so enjoy it and let the narcissist hate.   After everything you had to go through with them, live the life that you deserve.