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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You forgot our national blackface holiday

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I went to the Netherlands around christmas to visit a girl I was dating and got pretty freaked out seeing those things performing in the middle of the train station. Like I felt more racist just for being able to see them.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you want to tear the mask off of the enlightened civilized EU smuglords, bring up Roma.

    The results are almost instantaneous. frothingfash

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If the Roma people existed in amerika they would be murdered in the streets en masse. A marginalized group who's way of life infringes upon the amerikan god of property rights? They wouldn't last a week.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    A marginalized group who's way of life infringes upon the amerikan god of property rights? They wouldn't last a week.

    First Nations peoples have persisted for centuries after the initial colonial invasion and endured many such attempts.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    technically still an improvement

    if only a small one

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, that's all true, and yet they're still light-years ahead of the US...

    Also, in guessing this was made by an American, because nobody outside of there would call left parties liberal. Liberal parties are to the right, it's just that the US doesn't actually have an actual left.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're all liberal parties though. There are no left parties in NL. Irishman here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are social democratic parties and to call them liberal would be a bit too much

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is there a difference between a liberal and a social democrat that amounts to a distinction?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In practice, no. In theory, liberals believe in the free market while the socdems do not. But both will defend the market as such, which is why socdems are ineffectual and easily duped by bourgeois interests.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Progressive in appearance only

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Americans seeing this

    mission-accomplished-1mission-accomplished-2

    mission-accomplished

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I'd still much rather be there than here lol. (Been talking to a friend about escaping to them).

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    portugal, a "social-democracy", isnt doing much better with its increasing privatization of national industries and growing wealth gap of the poor and the rich....all supported by the, i kid you not, "socialist party of portugal".

    Shout out to the cuban doctors tho, my entire family in portugal is getting treated by cuban doctors as portugal lacks medical professionals because people with degrees keep emigrating from portugal to go somewhere where the wages are better.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    if Homer was in blackface it'd be much more funny

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    They are still lightyears ahead of the us lmao, they will most likely ban non-electric cars in the whole country, they mostly use bikes and use recycled materials for building roads also its mainly powered by solar/wind power

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    It's too late. The grasp of finance capital on the US' state of political economy is so strong that the ruling elite scoff at the notion of even providing some crumbs of the pie, i.e., imperial super profits, to placate domestic labor.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    the dutch are the americans of europe

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    On the upside, immigrants can't freeze to death during winter if there's no more winter which there won't be anymore soon

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