huf [he/him]

the tradition of atheist diaspora jews celebrating secular christmas instead of any of the jewish holidays…

this stupid meme needs to die, something like 30-40% of people lived past 60 in the 1600s…

with jk rowling as their lenin, yes

i’m so old i keep all my memes on my personal microcomputer, not my telephone.

Liberals should be labelled “Thinks they’re the leftists and that conservatives are needed for good bipartisanship”

ukraine is famously not paying the price for all this right now, no indeed. only if the slaughter stops will they be paying the price.

I’m partial to hanging these clothes on pegs like a medieval peasant

29 minutes of going KAAAAA-MEEEEE-HAAAAA-MEEEEE (trying to gather the motivation and focus) and 1 minute going HAAAAAAAA (actually doing it)?

the language is fine, the spelling just needs updating. which is easy, we just pick a dialect of english and base it on that.

which dialect? well, how about indian english. that seems fair.

The government can not directly influence anything that is done with this money.

ok. yes, this discussion is fruitless.

so the dutch government is terrible and does not base its decisions on human rights records, but somehow the journalists funded by them are unbiased. magically.

right.

do you see the disconnect here?

i’m not talking about the report, i’m talking about the dutch govt’s actions. you say they’re based on this report. i cant see how.

edit:
to try to explain what i’m getting at, i’m puzzled by this sentencve of yours:

Before you start bashing on it for it being biased because the TV program is government funded, a lot of Dutch politicians at the time strongly wanted to increase our trade agreements with China, this item was actively hindering that.

you’re going to have to explain how this item was hindering that and why only this item and why much worse violations of human rights committed by the netherland’s other trade partners do not hinder trade with those countries.

but again, it doesnt seem to bother either the politicians or the press when the netherlands trades with the worst offenders on the planet. and yet, in the case of china, it matters?

either the dutch are terribly inconsistent for no reason, or there’s something else in play.

or is it just me and this seems like a perfecly good explanation of their actions to you?

this seems strange to me. dutch politicians have no problems doing business with countries with awful human rights records. the absolute worst countries by this metric.

i think there has to be another reason here.

how was it hindering more trade agreements?

or you could learn to articulate better. the noise cancelling unit in my brain is sub-par.

oh sure, we could, but does it look like we’re going to any day soon?

our autonomy to gleefully assist in the holocaust? their strange trait of making us stop gleefully assisting in the holocaust? you’re gonna have to be less cryptic here.

it would defend itself if hungary decided to invade it again, and that’s just mean

we only got russians in our country the last time because we decided to be disgusting genocidal fascists and the soviets attempted to reeducate us. alas, it didnt stick.