SugandeseDelegation
Dutch Media and politicians have you believing these were all honest family men enjoying a nice stroll through Amsterdam drinking coffee and eating cute little pastries when a violent mob attacked them out of nowhere just for being Jewish
Not just Dutch media sadly, it’s been on international outlets and TV, trying to draw parallels between this and 20th century pogroms
I’m jealous of these morons sometimes. Must feel real cushy thinking you live in the best system ever and being served endless media confirmation of your prejudices against the countries the US has gone on a crusade against
Good times when the empire propaganda drowns your brain and prevents any cognitive dissonance from arising
Classic lib move by Instagram
I admit I didn’t expect you to go into the specifics of it but this is some next level shit that never crossed my mind!
Tbh I’d chicken out trying to do that now, but I’ve definitely been in a few jobs where it felt like I could get away with it. Makes me miss even more the days when you could easily work fully remotely. Maybe one day…
Reading through the other comments I was thinking “is this the cursed island?”. What a surprise, it is indeed this shithole…
This was a scary read, can’t even imagine what you must’ve felt like then and afterwards. I’ve seen my fair share of dodgy people on the streets and from all the horror stories I’ve read online, I’m always super paranoid and get uneasy whenever I’m out after 8-9pm, and see someone sitting in a car parked on a quiet road at night, or just standing around… and I’m not even in the “target demographic” for these kinds of harrassments.
Can’t even imagine what it must be like to go out every day knowing this can happen to you and nobody will do anything about it, it’s infuriating. And to think you weren’t even in a bad area, nor was it that late… not that it seems to matter much recently. One thing I’ve noticed (and maybe I’m reading too much into it, or maybe it’s something obvious that I’ve just discovered now because it’s not something I had to worry about for myself), is that many women walk with their arms crossed, even in busy/safe areas; I’ve seen almost no men doing this. I interpreted it as them being uncomfortable, tense, anxious, or just “on the defense” in some way. And if it’s that, it’s truly terrifying - literally everywhere you go, you’re made to feel like that, day in and day out?
It seems increasingly difficult to have a normal life on normal island…
Maybe a few will develop class consciousness.
Most of these types I interact with are blaming the poor or some specific government “bad apples”. A few do seem to almost “get it”, but still have way too many liberal brainworms and draw some milquetoast or outright reactionary conclusions
It’s an uphill battle trying to instill any sort of class consciousness in these people, as expected due to their material conditions
This has been 100% my experience as well. Most of the really good coders I’ve met are the types that also do it as a hobby outside work and also are reactionary/turbolib empire bootlickers. Literally regurgitating MSM slop and thinking they understand societal problems because they’ve read an op-ed in Bloomberg about why we need AI to fix the economy rather or something like that.
I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world
I’d also add to that the fact that this one thing they focus on has often been put on a pedestal (like coding for instance), which gets to many of them and makes them overestimate their abilities in other areas (“society says coders are smart, I’m a coder, I make good money, maybe I really am better than others, even at other things too” - an attitude I’ve encountered quite a few times).
