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Besides the housing problems, what would you say are the biggest developments in the Netherlands over two decades?

An increase in right-wing extremism and racism, public transportation that is falling apart and ridiculously expensive, the water quality going downhill due to pollution, costs increasing far more than neighboring countries for seemingly no solid reason, a complete disregard for the climate and the EU regulations we're supposed to meet, and a lot more.

Of course, because this is a democratic place for open discussion (irony)


The guy is literally photographed inside a plane with Epstein. And supported him after accusations had been made.


Did this letter change anything for you? Being on his plane is by itself a crime?


Chomsky spent the latter half of his career decrying the capitalists and telling us that we should be suspcious of them. It certainly shows that he didn't walk the walk.


I don't think Chomsky's relationship with Epstein is in any way defensible, but I've seen similar comments to yours all over the interwebs and I'm confused by them. Chomsky never decried capitalists or told us to be suspicious of them on a personal level. Or at least, not in any of his political work that I've ever read. He was anti-capitalist, but he didn't have a simplistic view of the world where individual capitalists were inherently evil.


That would have made his grift awkward.


Thank you for your comment. I think that can help many people.


How are you using Nitter? I’ve tried, but it’s a headache to host it.


It was always in their hands.


Origin feels much faster to me than Wipr


I’ve been testing it in beta for a month or so and I can report that at least to me websites load much faster than with Adguard or Wipr.


That’s a reasonable argument. But in this day and age there are no shades of grey.


The attention economy is killing society. Current social media feed algorithms are incredibly harmful.

This isn't a new topic but ironically it is not given the attention it urgently requires.


That’s my experience too. I wonder why. Too much freedom given to the kids here?


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