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Comment · 1 year ago
To be perfectly blunt I would rather deal with machines than the US border Gestapo. Anywhere else my Dutch passport and white skin gets me through in a blink.
Comment · 1 year ago
As if motor cyclists are known for their decency.

As soon as the first nice weather comes on in spring they start driving around in their loud death machines swerving through traffic.

Comment · 1 year ago
Its a lot easier to "bootstrap" yourself in a country with a functional government.

The ultra rich don't want to pay the taxes that keeps civilization running. People like Elon Musk would not be on top in a Mad Max world.

Comment · 1 year ago
I was reading the obituary of the Dutch guy who helped Pakistan get its nukes a few weeks ago. Thanks to him and a few visionaries the balance was maintained Harper style!
Comment · 1 year ago
Ask one of these famed Catholics how they feel about democracy or gender equality and they are just like all the other Christians. After all they get their orders from the same book.
Comment · 1 year ago
All of Europe celebrated May day. All of Europe? No one village stood against the lazy commie legions!
Comment · 1 year ago
I recall Apple's commercial slogan "There's an app for that"

Apple did not write those apps themselves.

Comment · 1 year ago
People remember those days because the Republicans hadn't destroyed trade unions and the pension system yet.
Comment · 1 year ago
Giving up your economy for a future war with China that may or may not happen is frankly idiotic. The US already has thousands of nuclear warheads in storage so what are you afraid of? This is basically how the USSR collapsed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nobody in Beijing or Brussels was surprised they had plans. Observe how neither of them is kissing his ass at the moment.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you it seems everyone has already forgotten project 2025.

Look I don't want to be too harsh on Americans nobody took the Nazis seriously when they had already written a book about how they saw the world... But none of this is shocking.

There is an ideology behind what Trump is doing and he never hid it from the world.

Comment · 1 year ago
I disagree. The root cause is obviously Israel founding which was the the last colonial project that Western European countries undertook.

I predict that in the next decades Europe will cut ties with Israel completely but until then we reap what we sow.

Comment · 1 year ago
This Yemen situation is quite interesting. In 1948 nobody could have conceived a situation in which white people wouldn't be running the world, Dutch people were still religious and public opinion was pro Israel. Hopefully when the last boomers die we can finally extricate ourselves from this self imposed fuck up.
Comment · 1 year ago
I always think that if you have a very expensive dress you're better of bringing it to a professional dry cleaner service anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
Culture can be changed. That's the power of Western countries- constant change. Nothing is ever set in stone.

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