NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.
What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?
When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.
the dutch are historically one of the most evil nations that has ever existed, any opinion from those subhumans must be regarded with a mountain of salt
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no way this fucking bonobo did a "North America is my city"
he's canadian but lives in amsterdam now
even worse, any cracker who willingly goes to the Netherlands to live deserves to be keelhauled
Isn't the Netherlands the country which polls as the most proud of its colonial empire? Like somehow even higher than the UK
technically he did a 'north america is not my city'
Ya I wanted to say this. I know enough Dutch who are cool. But the casual racism, the anti mask and vaccine shit, the rise of the far right... I don't love the Netherlands by any means.
Why tho? I know the Netherlands for their resistance against Germans in WWII
they aint cool folks
And in more recent memory, they moved in the
to deny Southern/Eastern European countries any covid assistance, citing "well, if they weren't as lazy/spendy they'd have money to deal with an unknown pandemic". Then proceeded to have a half-assed lockdown and were one of the first nations to outright say "personal freedom and the economy is more important than your grandma living".
They have one of the largest dairy/agroindustrial sectors in the world, continuously pushing for the deregulation of the global food production landscape, for further precarization of farm and food industry workers, and for the trivialization of any and all regulations that might make agriculture a bit less poisonous for everyone involved.