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.

  • mustardman [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    the dutch are historically one of the most evil nations that has ever existed

    Why tho? I know the Netherlands for their resistance against Germans in WWII

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      1 year ago

      a big part of the spawning of capitalism itself within europe (src: :large-adult-son:)

      colonized southeast asian countries like indonesia and taiwan

      colonized south africa and created the afrikaaners, one of the most barbaric peoples to ever exist, they literally did apartheid

      facilitated the atlantic slave trade with their ships

      the people are generally assholes

      they aint cool folks

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        And in more recent memory, they moved in the eu-cool 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.