Youtube comments of Lynott Parris (@DenUitvreter).

  1. The weird thing is that we have to pay 2000 euro at least to get a driver's licence to then share the road with Americans who got their licence for not crashing driving across a car park. That goes for expats too, American driver's licences should simply not be recognized by our governments.
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  2. The language issue in this is mostly that countries have different names in other languages so if asks for the letters in the country names or city names you have to think of the English name and ignore the ones in your first language.
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  3. It's cultural appropriation of the whole continent by rich Americans because they are desecendents of West-Africans, who have hardly any cultural or genetic ties to North-east Africa.
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  4. The beauty of the metric system is not in the origin of the meter but in the fact that a cubic meter is equal to a 1000 liter, and a thousand litre of water weighs 1000Kg. It's not how to meter relates to the earth but to other measurements. If you heat up 1 litre of water 1 degree, you have another measurement for the required energy.
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  5. 0.37 Alpine A110 1.36 NSU Prinz (orange) and Renault 8 Gordini (blue) 2.26 Affa GTV and Alfa 75 3.41 Fiat Ritmo (Abarth, probably) 5.20 MG B 6.06 Lancia Fulvia, looks super old and small (The V4 sounds lovely) 6.32 Renault 5 Suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedjnP4jZQ8 About the twin engined DAF trucks in the Paris Dakar rally.
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  6. Contrary to what the video claims the VOC didn't claim serious land. They were traders, not rulers, the deemed 'empire is too expensive'. They were happy with a stronghold to control the seas and therefore the trade. They let the local rulers do the oppression and exploitation. Only when the Dutch population learned about the cruel practices in the 1850's the policy of net profit at the end of year was left and they started to take control, really colonize Indonesia and 'civilize' it. That was well after the VOC went bankrupt in the 1790's.
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  7. The other landlocked Latin American country must be Paraguay.
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  8. Hij spreekt al best goed Nederlands, maar lidwoorden blijven lastig.
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  9. Great idea. As someone who has watched many YouTube history video's, don't forget to remind them that historians or sources from the past were often propagandistic and English is not the language most of the world's history has been documented in.
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  10. Dat slaat natuurlijk nergens op, dat de geheimhoudingsplicht is om de verdachten te beschermen doet aan die plicht niks af. Die heeft ze nog steeds. Dat het OM schijt heeft aan dat basisbeginsel in het strafrecht is al jaren duidelijk.
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  11. The Citroen DS, the single greatest step forward in automotive innovation since the invention of the wheel. I like this museum, this collection is obviously a tribute to all the designers and engineers that rethought the car, that thought outside the box and therefore sometimes came up with a tear drop, or with a box.
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  12. Far right? No, populist right, anti-islam right, nationalistic yes. But nothing far or extreme about the idea that the Dutch government should start serving the Dutch people again, it's their government, their democracy.
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  13. What the British miss here (as usual) is that the Netherlands is much more unlike Britain than they assume and has been for centuries. The Netherland is and has been much more equal and egalitarian, peasants have been discussing water management with nobles and merchant for ages. A lot of the British politeness is about not being inclusive, to identify people as lower class because they don't understand the complicated social rules and polite ways of conversation. The British middle and lower class have adapted to the upper class complex rules, the Dutch upper class was sidelined by the merchants, often from humble beginnings and the peasants. Don't forget the Pilgrim Fathers didn't flee England directly, first they went to the Dutch Republic with it's religious tolerance but they fled the religious freedom there, they were worried about the influence of the Dutch sexual morale on their children (this was nothing wild, just that sexual joy was fine within marriage and public display of affection was allowed for courples and fiancees). The British and the Americans are the exception here, they are the prudes. Germany, France, Scandinavia, are much more like the Dutch than like the British and the Americans.
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  14. In the Netherlands the visitors of the Formula 1 GP come by bicycle and train. Peace between bikes and cars broke out a long time ago and that's a matter of culture that's essential to the infrastructure working.
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  15. The word was that the perfect speed for a typical 90's Dutch speed bump was 62 km/h because it matches the distance between the wheels ideally for the suspension to entirely smooth it out. Some say it was 66.6 km/h but I believe that's only true at full moon.
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  16. The people who just walk around to watch are the problem, they are not partaking in a exchange of offers between consenting adults, but treat the girls like they are in a zoo. There used to be different regular night life around it only 2 decades ago, and then people just walking from bar to bar was no problem either. But overtourism and of course the British are the problem. Mass tourists destroy what they come to see, Amsterdam is just another victim.
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  17. It must be named after Maria of Burgundy, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Duchy of Burgundy ruled over a large part of the Low Lands (today's Belgium and Netherlands) for about a century and this was a bloom time. Maria was the last one and gave the cities a lot of freedoms and privileges, was popular back then and is remembered fondly.
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  18. It was the patriottic frenzy after 9/11 that led to wars. It's the patriottic habits of signing anthems and have fighter jets fly over at sports events that is continuous war propaganda. If we look at the meaning of both words it makes more sense to claim it's the other way around. Patriottism comes from patria which means fatherland. So that assumes a blood line that connects a person to the country. Nationalism comes from nation which refers to place of birth, so that doesn't have a genetic component per se. National is opposed to international or supranational, so it's really quite a neutral political term to describe a policy or phenomenon, while patriottism is more about a feeling, a feeling that can be dangerous. This Harris guy makes a useful distinction in attitudes towards one's own country, the names he put on it seem random at best. You can't blame people for using the word nationalism because you picked the word patriottism instead ignoring both's words etymology.
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  19. What this transition of minors including puberty blockers also does is prioritize physical attractiveness over physical health and sexual joy. That's quite a choice to make for adults, and an impossible choice for minors who haven't had their puberty yet and hardly know any sexual joy without matured genitals and natural hormonal development.
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  20. Schumacher was known for making lots of tiny corrections with the steering wheel, Vettel is known for being particularly sensitive with a planted rear, so with the pedal. So no matter how much (more) of a Vettel fan I am, probably Schumacher would just wrestle the 2020 a bit more, and be 0.3 faster than Vettel. Schumacher is best driver of all time, Vettel is up there with the other great names.
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  21. I think in Europe you're not really a customer but a guest, and you got to let the host treat you well. It's a bit rude to tell him how to do his job exactly. They already came up with recipes to please you, besides a few known personal preferences like rare or very rare, or allergies, who are you to overrule the host?
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  22. Basically the 2CV is the perfect car because it can't be improved upon. If you'd try to make it better it would lose it's simplicity and get too heavy. It only works in this window of weight, minimalism and simplicity.
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  23. It's also particularly interesting how a geographical disadvantate can turn out to be an advantage shortly after. Take the story of Flanders for example, it was a swamp no rulers took interest in because the soggy ground was just good for sheep, and soggy ground was difficult to control with horsemen too and it was plagues by Viking attacks. After a terribly romantic story Baldwin with the Iron Arm was allowed to make it his own new duchy if he deterred the Vikings and he did, hence the Iron Arm. Only centuries later it was an important wealthy international centre of the cloth trade, thanks to all the water and of course the sheep, and thanks to the free spirited people who no one had bothered to oppress before. This is the area where the Northern Renaissance centered around, the free spirit and abundance of water ways later resulting the creation of the Dutch Republic with it's modern capitalism, proto-industrialization, upward social mobility, science and religious tolerance, which they brought to Britain by invading it.
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  24. People with very ordinary income making a trip to a really good restaurant and spend hundreds of euros once or twice a year is also still not uncommon in French rural culture I understoond. With worth a trip or worth a detour, Michelin wasn't being metaphorical.
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  25. Ankie Broekers-Knol kon nog geeneens een gesprek met de Marokkaanse ambassadeur over terugname van illegalen regelen, de is helemaal ondersteboven van een beetje daadkracht.
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  26. "This freedom of speech conversation is distracting from the broader conversation..." No, we need to have free speech for the broader conversation, not narrowed down to where it can't hurt certain interests.
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  27. We have the same here with the word for debt and guilt in the Netherlands. I doesn't necessarily imply that debt is bad, but it certainly instills the message that you have something to do, to make up for it.
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  28. Is WNL weer vrolijk rechts aan het oorlogshitsen? Anders zoek je even uit wie er verantwoordelijk was voor het over oorlogsgebied laten vliegen van een passagiersvliegtuig. Of is dat te journalistiek?
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  29. Here (NL) there was this guy once who went to the local 'people bring art to experts' show with a clock he believed was weird but rather well made. In turned out to be a French clock from just after the French revolution with the metric timescale applied. This was only a short period before the French went back. So the clock was very rare and woth about 150.000 euro.
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  30. Louis de Funes was a great comedic actor, very mimical, very physical, often playing a hot tempered authority figure like the police commander. But France had and has very much it's own movie industry, and the movies are very French and a certain familiarity with Frenchness helps enjoying them. The biggest fan I knew here in the Netherlands was a friends dad, tears of laugther when there was a de Funes movie on tv allthough he had seen it before. That family went to France for vacation every year. He was restauring a Citroen DS, he got his son a 2CV to repair at 16, so it could be finished at 18. That was the first car I drove. Anyway, it's not that uncommon for Europeans to love France or be amused by the French, but it's also not to everybody's liking.
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  31. No, the one that cut it off was the same as the Nordstream bomber, Zelensky/CIA.
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  32. You know this is not a random sample but a collection of the right opinions for the video, do you?
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  33.  @efanferdiantowibowo9610  I don't know, also depends on the mindset. The Dutch were very modern, they knew right from wrong by almost today's standards, maby the local rulers didn't. Fact is that the Dutch hands off approach didn't affect local culture very much, while their actual colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century came from at least better intentions, but also was done by force with lots of victims because it was straight up war in some places.
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  34. I know the English like to pretend they were of huge importance in the 17th century, but the founding of the VOC was all about the 80-year for independence with Spain and Portugal. The English were just in the way sometimes later on but they were not out to destroy the Dutch Republic and it's religious freedom like the Spanish and Portuguese, nor could they rival the Dutch in trade. The VOC soon saw more opportunity than initially anticipated and didn't want to pay dividends but reinvest the profits in growth. That's why the stock market had to be founded so the poor shareholders could get ROI through selling their shares to rich merchants out to build generational wealth. The VOC didn't pay dividends for the first 31 years of it's existence. And what is with this 7.9 billion? Why are you regurgitating a bogus calculation by an obscure Canadian media company? The VOC didn't dominate global trade, it only had a Dutch monopoly East of the Cape and did most of it's trade within Asia, and a lot more than spices. The European trade was dominated by the independent Dutch merchants with 100 times more ships than the VOC, trading much more frequently. Even the good old herring fishery of the Dutch remained more profitable than peak VOC.
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  35. Stefan Bellof might have been a bigger talent than Senna, but he had a fatal crash in sportscar racing in 1985.
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  36.  @timothymattnew  Why should we build more houses for foreigners? Who does the government have to serve?
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  37.  @constantinethecataphract5949  The Zulu aren't native either. The Dutch are the indiginous people of Mauritius, and about half of the population of the Netherlands is less native than the Boers are to South-Africa, who are only partly Dutch. African time is not so special that it can be turned back. People can regress into plain hateful racism though and while at it lose everything they got from Western civilization like low infant mortality, modern farming, internet, cars, trains, democracy etc.
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  38. The French tend to use their mostly well trained taste buds instead of being pseudo-scientific about it. They also know how to consume oil or even real butter without having to repent, to feel some religious like guilt they have to punish themselves for. Their snootiness would be justified by this video alone.
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  39. In the Netherlands we had this guy who made his Manta into a one-seater so he could have both elbows out of the window. Lots of the Manta jokes were about the elbow out of the window as part of the social stereotype.
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  40. These small Polski Fiats look small but can actually transport a whole 3 generation family, I've seen them do it behind the iron curtain.
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  41. In terms of pure ball control, he and Maradona quite a bit above the other big stars football has ever known.
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  42. I'm guessing about the common etymology here, but it might be because it was considered the best what came out of the grain after milling, like in French fine fleur.
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  43.  @TheLux2077  Don't project your racism on the Dutch. Wilders is half Indo, Yesilgöz is a Turkish Kurd from birth, Omtzigt's wife is Turkish and one of Van der Plas parents is foreign too. Wilders party has been the biggest or 2nd biggest among the Surinamese in NL for over a decade. Dutch "right wing" parties don't have to do tokenism, they have natural presence of well integrated people with an immigration background. It is the left parties that have to drag in some colour and opt for those who put their immigration background on the foreground.
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  44. Waarom noemen jullie criminaliteit "overlast"?
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  45. Science fiction it was.
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  46. 5.19 I think that is Ronaldinho and he was insanely good, especially when it comes to pure ball control which is of course only a part of being a good player. He and Maradona are just wired differently between their super quick brains and legs, they operate in a different time from regular humans, they have always more of it. He takes all the speed out of the descending ball with the slightest movement of his big toe to have it dead on his feet for the next move, and than does an akka through the legs. That's so hard to do, the first touch is the hardest part of football and most about pure talent. Most very good highly payed technically good players need a yard to get such a high ball under control, he needs 1cm. The akka is beyond most good players too, no matter how much they practice, it takes both super quick feet and a great velvet touch. Through the legs is seen as an humiliation not to be tolerated by defenders even in practice, so that is very hard to do too.
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  47. Being opposed to slavery was actually the norm back then. "All people are children of god" was what the Dutch protestants, who were in power, taught and also the board of the WIC and especially main founder Ussellincx loathed slavery as a barbaric practice of those evil catholics. The VOC was already cutting corners and the WIC would change it stance on slavery in 1637, biblical excuses had to be made up, but slaves on captured Spanish and Portuguese ships had to be freed and there were quite a few blacks regularly employed by the WIC and coming to live in the Dutch Republic. It was not a big deal, Rembrandt had black neighbours in the Jodenbreestraat and the mostly males married Dutch women.
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  48. TVR is bonkers, and that's great if you are too. A friend of mine bought a Griffith V8 because he knew he wouldn't make it to 35 if he kept riding motorcycles. As many as their older designs the Griffith looks like a sophisticated stylish little cabriolet, it's not, it's bonkers. Dont let their hubris to build their own brilliant but flawed straigh-6 and this double 6 fool you, this TreVoR guy was building low budget supercars from a shed, with tubes, fiber glass, Rover engines, Opel Vectra rear light units turned upside down and made highly unusual designs out of it. TVR was probably the first to use LED lights because that was much easier and cheaper with a shed build. Bonkers by concept.
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  49. To be honest, as a Dutchman I always hardly registered that people basically don't cycle in foreign countries. Now it's picking up in Germany and France too and that I register, but I got there by car usually. I remember missing my bicycle as a kid with my parents on foreign vacation, but never wondered where and how to cycle there.
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  50. Immense riches from the Dutch East India Company and the tulip trade? You forgot the clog industry in your list of incorrect clichees. Actually, talking about Dutch clichees, at any point in Dutch history the herring trade was bigger than the Dutch East India Company and both were dwarfed by the Baltic Sea trade alone, not to mention the North Sea trade and the Mediterranean. Around 1650 the Dutch merchants shipped more than half of all goods in Europe. Wheat, cloth, wine, beer, paint, anything. How much nutmeg and cinamon did you think Europeans consumed at that time compared to wheat? The Dutch East India company is historically important because it globalized the independence war with Spain and Portugal and it was the first stock company ever, not because of it's economic importance for the Dutch Republic. Riches were immense indeed, which allowed for a tulip mania, not the other way around of course, tulips and speculation were for fun. The burst of the bubble had no significant effect on the economy. I quess your expertise is in naval warfare, but the little background information should be correct and make sense anyway.
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  51. I'm Dutch and in full support of the farmers, but this is not about climate but supposed to be about nature. Some say it's a land grab by government for much needed housing with ridiculous nitrogen norms and science as an excuse, I know it is not fair and it isn't based on proper science nor is it properly legal. But the Netherlands is about the size of Maryland and extremely densely populated, it's not feeding the world despite being the most efficient and environmentally friendly agriculture in the world and breeding pigs for Asia should really happen in bigger spaces. This is not about food vs climate change, this about government power vs the basics, not just basic rights but also basic needs and security. There are family farms that go back to the1300's, the Middle Ages, that will be taken. Almost all nature in the Netherlands is younger than that.
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  52. I don't care for hypercars much, but I admire Koenigsegg for their technological innovation. Their direct drive hybrids with a torque converter and free valve turbo, that's just incredible out of the box thinking and extremely innovative. It's technology begging to trickle down in "affordable cars".
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  53. The very first Countach, in a softer kind of yellow, was the only one without questionable additions. Great clean design, shame the louvres didn't let enough air in to cool the engine adequately.
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  54. We give far too many citizenships to people who let their countries be messed up. The Boers might have been an unlikable bunch, people that just settled to farm on uncultivated land are the least of problem or colonial heritage.
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  55. Citroen's most high end car was the SM, with the Maserati V6. It was a real Gran Turismo, not particularly fast allthough by far the fastest FWD of it's day and many days later, but a full four seater to cross the continent fast and in comfort. It was in the Porsche 911 price range, which was still a small light sportscar back then and not supercar class, but very popular with the rich and famous, sheiks and shahs because it was very special, far better at what it did good than any competitor. There was a rally special of the BX, but that had little to do with the regular BX. It made quick small hatchbacks too but Citroen excelled at handling in comfortable cars, and handling on very bad roads, not at handling for maximum speed, in that it was just one of many.
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  56. Yes, and killing the catalyst converter. Very costly mistake to make.
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  57.  @dunnowy123  Actually not. It comes from a 450 year old tradition of toleration, not enforcing rules when people don't bother anyone else or when it leads to nothing, the noble art of shrugging shoulders. The full legalization was unchararcteristic and because it got out of hand as both an international business as well as drawing an international crowd. I don't like prostitution as a concept but I do support it not being prosecuted, but somehow I ended up living or having gf near red light districts and not just in Amsterdam. Yes, ordinary people live there too, something tourists tend to forget too. The good thing about it is that there is an honesty about it of consenting adults, in which the women made a decision to make quite a bit of money this way (they are the business owners and employ a 'pimp' for different services like security). What they did not consent to is being in a zoo for your experience. It of course has a lot to with how you behave not partaking, but the partaking or potential to is what makes it equal, symmetric. A bit like a sauna or a nude beach, if you are nude too it's fair, if you are there for paid sex too you are both exposed. So apart from you individual behaviour and attitude, only with it becoming a tourist attraction it got really sleazy and degrading. It functioned for hundreds of years in the shade, in a legal twilight, now overtourism has put it in the spotlight and it's not becoming at all. It's also not fair that Amsterdam has to suffer all of the puritanism and hypocrite governments all over the world by being inspirational to the sexually oppressed. Same with drugs. And then there are the British with their sense of entitlement and not knowing how to get drunk properly despite centuries of experience and binging. It does not work, the Dutch have this freedom because they can handle it, the tourism shows why other people don't have it and can't properly enjoy it.
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  58. As an not so old angry man, I don't care it's still better than anywhere else, that's not an excuse to make it worse. I do care about your insights, don't get me wrong, but it's not a relevant benchmark.
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  59. 'Parasiet'? En dan gaan huilen als je de rioolratten van de pers genoemd wordt?
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  60. To be honest I think it's very unfair to have a thoughtful intellectual like Murray matched by someone not speaking her native language and a mediocre brain like Simons. Simons is someone who has, with a Dutch expression, 'fallen upward'. That often happens to the very privileged. In the wake of the economic crisis that hit the Netherlands pretty bad in the eighties most well off kids of her age studied hard to get some serious eduction with good job perspective but often not the most fun and interesting. Simons otoh was primarely concerned with dancing and jazz in the appearently not too deprived school. She quit high school after 3 of the 5 years, worked as a hairdresser shortly but was still allowed on a prestigious ballet school. Great of course, but she had the privilege to make such an uncertain career choice. But it's typical for the chances immigrants get in the Netherlands. Soon after she got famous as a presenter for TMF, an MTV like music network. She was very pretty and fun and she had a good career as a television presenter, usually the commercial low brow stuff. She did a book show once for which she wore glasses, looking even hotter, but she was out of her depth there despite it was a show for the 'popular' books. She wrote columns for the playboy but I never read the articles, but I suspect this had also something to with her looks. Over all those years she has consistently claimed that her skin colour worked to her advantage, and advantages she got, which can't have been surprising to any Dutch at that time. She also made some rather mean comments about black men and relationships in those days which could have been interpreted as racist. Anyway, it was the typical no nonsense assertive hot girl getting ahead in life in the post racial Netherlands of the 90's and 00's. And suddenly she was back as a radio DJ with 'the black list', a radioshow with only music from black people. I'm Dutch and I had never known the idea of 'black music'. I knew about seperate(d) audiences in the US but we never had that, jazz was embraced since the 20's: Almost all modern music is black in origin and played by people of all colours. We grew up with tapes and sleeves often not revealing the skin colour of the musicians. By far the biggest Dutch (language) band in the 80's that even caused a real mania was a ska/reggae band. Motown was also very well know since the 60's and rap hit the ground running. Even my guitar rock was quite black. It's not like 'black' music was ever overlooked and needed some extra attention. Soon after that she did nothing but playing the race card, she became a race card herself. Suddenly the Netherlands was a racist hell hole where non-whites got no chances and she even teamed up with the Turkish Erdogan fan party in the Netherlands because they are (supposed to be) not white. Now she is the princess of wokeness, making a job out of her skin colour and creating an industry of subsidized blackness in a process that oozes tribalism and clientelism of African size, not to say segregation. She's gone mental, entirely fact free and I mean seriously mental. The only explanation for her sudden change into a victim is serious mental issues that require professional help. Is that common among the woke? Do people become woke without mental issues?
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  61.  @hoogyoutube  It's not a free choice. In a representative democracy the treshold is what it is. There is a number of votes for each seat in parliament, otherwise it wouldn't be representative as in one man, one vote. An artificial treshold is undemocratic in it's nature, it's up to the voters whether they want smaller parties. And smaller parties can grow big, but not if they are artificially blocked out. The obvious reason big parties want tresholds is pointed out well above, but they use their own incompetence to work with the representation the voters put in and the ungovernability their own big party systems, which are not the product of the legal/constitutional system and even conflict with it, as an excuse.
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  62.  @julietfischer5056  The Dutch didn't, besides believing 'empire is too expensive', at that point in history their ethics were still quite strong and they were mostly interested in trade and trading posts with supplies as infrastructure for the independence war against Spain. They liked the native Americans, they found them handsome, tall, intelligent and friendly and had good relations with them, too good maybe. Not only did they have to prohibit serving native Americans alcohol after 8 in New Amsterdam (Manhattan) a few Dutch also fought on the side of native Americans in a tribal conflict, against their orders. This caused the other tribe to turn against the Dutch. But the Iroquois still celebrate a treaty with the Dutch untill today, the two row wampon it's called if I remember correctly because the Dutch never broke their word. I can't help thinking that the hide trick didn't really happen, but in native American oral history has become a metaphore for what happened to their land over many more years.
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  63. Maar dan komen ze aan de echte macht en institutionele belangenverstrengeling, al die VVD-ers die zowel commissaris zijn in de sector waarvoor ze ook fractiewoordvoerder zijn.
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  64. As Dutch civil servants of the ministry of Traffic and Waterworks tend to brag: The Netherlands is already completed, "Nederland is al af." There were already plans to dam off that North Sea bay in the 17th century. But it was also the access to many port cities including that of Amsterdam, the trade hub of Europe back then. The food shortage of WW1 in which the Netherlands were neutral made the government give the go ahead. Also Rotterdam was now the main port with it's direct North Sea access in the West. The Great Depression helped, lots of unemployed who had to be paid support otherwise anyway. It was finished 2 years ahead of schedual. The reclaiming of land was mostly done post WWII. I was ready and inhabitable in the late 60's and in the early 70's the first towns emerged, planned of course. The new province, Flevoland has now almost half a million inhabitants and one city of over 200K people, Almere. That is in the top 10 of Dutch cities by size. The Afsluitdijk is actually one of the less impressive waterworks technically, it's huge but also just a dam. De Oosterscheldekering (where the head wind cycling championships are), the Maeslantkering and many others are more inventive and sophisticated.
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  65. Nee, dat is niet zoals het altijd ging, dat is pas zo sinds de Democraten de verkiezingsuitslag niet meer willen respecteren.
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  66. The Gulf Stream from the Carribean is what keeps Europe relatively warm for it's latitude, the Mediterranean is a stabilizing temperatures too. But it keeps surprising me how much more Northern Europe is too. I live in the North of the Netherlands, when I fly full West the first American state I would cross would be Alaska. The billionaires living in a rather nice climate in Monaco, who could have thought? Number of days with rain is only one indicator of how rainy it is, half an hour of drizzle on a nice day, we can live with that. It's the weeks with rain all day all the days that are bad and that is often the case in Britain, the Netherlands and parts of Belgium. The Mediterranean is more like a lake concerning the weather. The ocean with it's currents has for example much more influence on the Basque country (South-West France and Northern Spain) where it's exceptionally rainy for the latitude, the Gulf of Biscaye is famous for that.
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  67. The gasfield was closed so Shell and Exxon could get out without paying for the expensive reinforcement of the buildings in the area, while getting out of paying for cracks and stuff too by mounting a bureaucratic wall for over 20 years, including denying causation on all levels. So it all could have been reinforced by now but the international shareholder interests were more important than the Dutch citizens or geopolitics.
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  68.  @JSK010  Dutch citizenship is the most valuable thing Dutch government can offer, they get it for being on welfare for 5 years living in house appropriated by government for them.
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  69. The land of the thousand frozen lakes and sauna fires.
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  70. The oil crisis was a factor but there was much more to it and government was basically forced to change it's policies through protests on many levels.
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  71. Een heel betrouwbaar en gerespecteerd bureau in Oekraïne..... Betrouwbaar voor en gerespecteerd door wie?
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  72.  @fabioartoscassone9305  I have no issue with a black, dark skinned or mixed Egypt, they were obviously a more advanced culture than race obsessed USA. I have an issue with rich Americans laying a claim to ancient Egypt just because they have an ancestry from an entirely different corner of what happens to be the same continent through having a dark skin in common.
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  73.  @tinylunaticinahugeworld  Most of Indonesia had nothing to do with the VOC though, it only controlled a tiny part. The Dutch weren't interested in empire and preferred to let the Indonesian rulers continue to oppress their own people like they had done for ages. That only changed in the late 19th century.
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  74. A busy walking and cycling city with fresh snow is lovely for the sounds alone. The snow absorbs all the noise and it's a lovely kind of quiet that makes you feel like you can understand conversations 200 meters away, and when there is also ice skating on the canals it's even more wonder winterland. Cycling in the snow is really not that difficult, it is slippery but doesn't take you buy surprise. Black ice and frozen up snow are a different matter though, that could seriously slow you down. Cycling in sunny Amsterdam would be fun to react too, lots of improvisations, negotiating and quite a few different vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8
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  75. In the Netherlands we used to joke that the dog rack was a structural part of the chassis giving it it's famous strength.
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  76. This is also about government treating the Netherlands as some kind of city state or future city state, with lots of immigration and globalist anywhere's, who of course ruin the climate with their air travel but somehow that is excused, and for nitrogen emissions too. The farmers have a different, more realistic opinion on that. Most of them know that it's nonsense to produce the meat for Asia in such a small and densely populate area, but they have been working within a very tight framework set by government and the bank (it's mostly one bank indeed) that forced their business model to be about more more more meat. They still managed to reduce their nitrogen emissions by 60% and many farmers take care of nature, but now have to stop farming because dodgy scientific models claim they are destroying the nature they created themselves Besides it's already proven the models aren't right, the Netherlands has hardly any wild nature. Just like the country itself most is manmade, it's nature is often younger than the farms that now have to end and the farming families that will get a berufsverbot on top of being disowned. There's an impliciti choice in this about what the government thinks the Netherlands is, what government is entitled to do with it and for whom, at the expense of what and who and that's much more profound than making sacrifices for nature (and climate). This is not really about protecting nature.
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  77. No, the Moroccans born from guest workers had a marriage arranged with their cousin in Morocco so a bigger part of the family could get access to Dutch welfare too.
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  78. I'm afraid the whole Dutch public and semi-public sector has become effort based, result is an extra. "They used explosives, we can't protect against that", "security people at night is not customary". Of course it's not, it's the Drents provincial Museum, Drenthe is the poorest province of the Netherlands, it was so poor it wasn't even a province until the 19th century when peat was found there. It's a museum about poverty mostly, and it's top pieces are 2 peat bog corpses. Art, unique art in particular is very popular among organized crime, it's used as pawn, for trades between criminals, as insurance and as change to negotiate prison sentences with.
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  79.  @Ikbeneengeit  Koffie, thee, cacao, avocado's en quinoa worden dan ook meegerekend. De vraag of een land zijn volk kan voeden is een andere en belangrijkere dan die van plezierconsumptie. Ook wordt iets van 30% van het voedsel weggegooid, maar veel daarvan wordt ook weer veevoer. Dat is prima te veranderen, maar dan moet je ophouden met je modelletjeswerkelijkheid, moet je natuur en klimaat niet met elkaar verwarren, moet je niet doen alsof boeren zomaar een economische activiteit zijn die uitwisselbaar is met yogaleraren en consultancy, en moet je met je grijpgrage tengels van andermans land afblijven. Dan moet je ook opdonderen met neoliberale globalistische met de grondwet strijdige verdragen als CETA en de veelvliegers die denken dat hun eten uit de fabriek komt de boeren de schuld laten geven van klimaatverandering. Binnen het kader dat boeren blijven boeren op hun boerenland is er heel veel verandering mogelijk als je die maar voorzienbaar, planbaar en werkbaar houdt, maar als je eigenlijk van boeren af wil dan werkt dat niet. Dat er teveel mensen in Nederland wonen kun je ook de boeren niet verwijten.
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  80. ASML met zijn 2000 vacatures per jaar blijft er ook maar ingegooid worden alsof dat het immigratieprobleem vormt. Die vergrijzing is ook een non argument, het enige wat deze immigratie doet is het probleem vooruitschuiven tot het nog veel groter is.
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  81.  @Baltic_Hammer6162  No. The story of Ham was used when the governor of Dutch Brazil, an otherwise very enlightened protestant, claimed he couldn't run that Portuguese plantation colony without blacks and asked permission from the WIC and the Dutch government to capture a slave fort on the African coast. That was the start of slavery by the WIC and that was in 1637. That's all very well documented. The WIC started out as primarily a war entreprise, financing the necessary ports and presence through trade. This was dominated by very staunch calvinists determined to fight catholic oppression by attacking Spanish income used to finance the war against the Dutch Republic. This was a matter of changes in leadership and moral corruption over the years, of double standards for overseas, hypocrisy in foreign policy, the merchant vs. the preacher as the duality is still called. The descendans of Ham were just as free in the Dutch Republic as anybody else, and the Dutch were no main supplier of slaves in general. The English weren't proper protestants but rebranded catholics. There is a lot of this weird apologeticism for the catholics of those days. The catholic Spanish, Portuguese and French together traded something like 20 times more slaves than the Dutch. 'But they were much bigger', no, not in shipping they weren't, also not together.
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  82. Of course not. No one noticed there are hardly any scandals anymore? It's not because lack of scandalous things coming out, but without the media allowing it to gain momentum they don't become scandals and therefore don't have consequences.
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  83. Google has not been a search engine for a very long time. A search engine is something you can operate to search what you are or might be looking for. Google is a result generator, it's not the result of your search but the result of your profile together with a search word and you can't operate the engine because it's working is a complete mystery. In the good old days of internet we had search engines. You could operate them by adding different words, plus, minus, quotation marks and you would get different results. There was even Dog Pile that let you operate several search engines at the same time, all coming up with different results because of different methods. I've used several different result generators the past decade, Google, DDG, Brave, but they don't search for me. I know because they didn't produce pages I knew to exist.
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  84.  @changingmyself  True, but the issue that I have with it is that we need a word opposed to internationalism, supranationalism or globalism to debate that matter. I don't think we should discredit people who use the word nationalism beforehand, because the word patriottism lacks that quality of describing a policy or attitude concerning the relation of a country/nation state to the rest of world. The nazi's didn't call themselves nationalist to be accurate in English (often words don't mean exactly the same in a foreign version anyway), because they spoke German and most likely wanted a name that appealed to the Germans of that time. Socialist wasn't correct either and national might have referred to the quite recently unified Germany of that time instead of to the different German states that are and were part of the German federation. Actually they didn't call themselves nationalists at all, but national-sozialisten. So to associate the word nationalism with Hitler is quite a stretch to begin with. Words matter, and they can also be abused to disqualify people from a debate and not have the debate at all, allthough it should be held and there are legitimate other views than globalism and internationalism. So the opposite view needs a word without beeing associated with the blood from the 'blood and soil' ideology.
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  85.  @miabussell0229  He's not doing culinary science here, there is a difference between doing science and picking some known or assumed mechanisms and claim that's all what it is about.
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  86. I believe he's selling this car a bit short on the handling too. Yes, it's unapologetically front wheel drive and build for comfort, but it's got a much better comfort/body roll ratio than any conventionally sprung car till very long after. The engine so far in front helps in the snow, it sits like a rock at high speed on the Autobahn helped by the onconventional steering and it can be thrown about without drama or surprise. It will understeer and roll, but keep going in the right direction, the rear will follow the front.
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  87.  @efanferdiantowibowo9610  We can't 'say that never happened, that's for sure. It doesn't represent the multi facetted history either. Many parts of Indonesia were only colonized for a few decades. Indonesia and the Netherlands didn't have a happy divorce, loving from at least the Dutch side but not happy. The Indonesian government, Java dominated, is politically invested in a certain version of history, in which Indonesia was one and is one I presume, otherwise the many islands would get the impression they just have a new colonizer now, which many people in Papua New Guinea, Ambon and East-Timor already do. Government also has to explain why the people are still relatively poor, and blaming neocolonialism and capitalism in general is much more complicated than blaming the Dutch from zero sum thinking. I don't mind that, it's not like human nature and politics are suddenly all great and fair post colonialism, but I already got the impression history education in Indonesia is not neutral. Dutch history education is pretty judgemental about the Dutch past, but the VOC was also a bit of it's own thing and letting the board in the Dutch Republlic and government know what was exactly going on where didn't have the highest priority. It was corrupt from bottom to top and reports took more than a year to reach Amsterdam and orders another year to reach Indonesie, in the best case. So some of the blur would be intentional, also because people were screwing their own VOC.
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  88.  @lasvegasotis6780  Nonsense, Americans are not Europeans and slavery is slavery. Some treated their slaves well, many didn't, Africans, Europeans, Americans or Arabs. Many Africans are in denial about their history of slavery and how the Europeans forced them to end such a huge part of their culture and history.
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  89.  @MastaGambit  If you assume kids too be dumb they will stay dumb and you have to keep on dumbing down. In my history classes at 14 or even younger, that's quite a while ago, a video like Harris' one would not even come near the class room. Stop lowering the bar, it only makes history less interesting.
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  90. I don't have a musical ear myself but I understood that 5 and 10 cylinders sound this great because of the assymetry in the cylinder bank, 3 vs 2, producing a two tone exhaust note.
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  91. Nonsense, the older generations had much better history education. Now young peopel who know absolutely nothing about Dutch history act like they have to teach and lecture them. But no, if your parents had to do slave labour in Germany government paying 200 million in subsidies to black peope, descendants of slaves or enslavers, is not the highest priority.
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  92. In the Netherlands you used to have to take the zebra if you were within 40 meters. But nobody cared of course, we're not Germans. This came together with changes in the liabitlity laws, both civil and criminal, to protect vulnerable traffic users. That basically results in the difference that a car or bicycle has to stop when someone is about to cross the zebra, but without a zebra the car driver has to avoid accidents or danger. So pedestrians forcing a car to stop on purpose crossing the street without using a zebra hardly ever happens. It happens but by accident, not paying attention.
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  93. He should have mentioned that there's probably Congolese blood in the making of this video too. Coltan anyone? The rape of Africa didn't stop after USA led neo-colonialism replaced the European colonizers. He should have mentioned the USA's involvement in the murder of Lumumba. I guess Americans prefer to be disgusted about a very old trainstation.
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  94. Shame it was in spring to late summer, no skating regiment in this one.
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  95. It's got it's origin in rugby, you have to get through the line of the opponent rather than just play the ball over it. Rugbyers can only throw the ball sideways, footballers can only pass sideways basically. But that's more difficult to see because in football the defensive line is only 4 players usually and the attacking line 2 or 3 players. But both sports are about gaining territory by moving your front line up and forcing the defensive line back. People who want to get rid of off side don't respect the having to move up towards the goal of the opponent over that massive field part of the game. That's why it's called of side, you moved into the other side's turf. One team is on the back foot and gets pushed towards their own goal, the other teams comes closer and therefore towards shorting distance, without off side you lose that aspect of the beautiful game.
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  96. On the matter of extremism, it's not just about government. The Animal Party could be seen as pretty extreme, and so could the SGP (the christian fundamentalists) and in the past we've had communists, anarchists and a quite radical farmer's party. Most of them have shown to be a valuable contribution to debates and often the outcome and laws from their position despite not having much power.
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  97. There is nothing radical right being opposed to the radical change of your country, let alone far right.
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  98. It might have been more restrained and sublte, when it came out it was a remarkable design. It might have been one the 90's semi-retrotrendsetters, but the big side outlets and C pillar angles were pretty wild for it's day. Not in a shoutabout away, but in origniality and being different of the design.
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  99.  @drummingtildeath  So how is faith in British people restored if you have no idea how long they had to search for these opinions?
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  100. I guess that would be a wafer rather than a waffle.
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  101. Duitsland is in de afgelopen 10 jaar economisch, demografisch en bestuurlijk radicaal veranderd, en dan is de partij die dat wil stoppen "radicaal"? Woorden hebben betekenis, noemt het nationalistisch rechts of zo, gewoon rechts, conservatief rechts, ouderwets rechts, genoeg over te zeggen dat wel klopt.
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  102.  @05ymarie  Normal in democracies all over the world. The US 2020 election was the exception.
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  103. The special issue with European and American slavery is the double standards. Most European nations were already centuries past slavery and servitude and started to consider everyone born free (Scottish miners and a few other groups will disagree). So their standards at home didn't apply in their colonies and to the slaves for sale at the African coast and fit for dealing with European and American diseases., which were blacks. So they developped racism as an excuse for the double standards, the hypocrisy. So it does deserve special attention in the history of slavery. Also because the Europeans ended the worldwide slavetrade by force, led by the British Empire. So one might say that the Europeans spread their values over the world but to their own societies and people first. Sometimes their own class first, then all citizens and only centuries later to the rest of the world. Which is not an entirely unreasonable thing to do. The issue now has a Westerner I feel part of the progress made throughout history. Things were really bad in the past, from the Romans to the Dark Ages, and now it's much better and still getting better, and that's 'our' progress, we made it happen. I believe we've got to understand that many Africans or people from African descent don't feel like they have ownership of that progress, because their ancestors were passive in it, subject of it and subjected to it. So they don't see it as a development through time but as a development between Europeans and Africans. For me the colonizers are people from a different age, to them they are people from a different continent just like the current Europeans. And that's not unreasonable either.
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  104. In the Netherlands we have a lot of decorative bricklaying too, but those are variations in the masonry in brick laying for structure. Check out the Amsterdamse School for example. They broke bricks in different shapes and made arches and ridges out of it, or even entire bas-relief sculptures.
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  105. The Netherlands was called the anus of the world. It was one of the most inhabitable places on the planet that was inhabited. Once the solutions were found to build there, levees, dams, canals, locks, bricks, poles for foundation, it seems easy but it never was. We still have several towers as skew as the tower of Pisa.
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  106. It's actually in the more repressive cultures today where men can show their close friendship physically. Arab men holding hands for example, but also in the local Northern European bible belt here it used to be normal four young boys who were best friends to walk with the arms around eachothers shoulder. That was before my time, but not long enough not to learn about it at that age, it was still depicted in old children's books. My best friend and me both agreed it was gay. There is also Turkish oil wrestling, where men put their hands in eachothers leather pants to get grip. It's extremely manly in it's asexuality but a bit weird for Westerners. I'm not verry physical in non sexual relationshipts myself, but it would be nice if people who are could express themselves more easily without sexual preference being assumed. I have been kissing my male best male friends on the cheek on special occasions were they have to be congratuled like birthdays, weddings, phd's and new year's eve. It seems to me there is a bit of work to do for the LGBTQ+ activists there. Heterosexual cis men should be physically free in their friendships without homosexuality being assumed. They were actually very rude to Patroclus and Achilles.
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  107. I cycle two hours East they speak German, I cycle two hours West they speak Frisian.
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  108. Of course not, don't be silly. He's been in the best cars and by far the best cars with the best teams for much more years than any other. He's been beaten by Button, Rosberg and Russell and will be by Leclerc. The people that know get all their hopes up are the same as the people that predicted that Button, Rosberg and Russell wouldn't stand a chance. He's objectively the most overestimated driver in F1 history.
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  109. Social housing that even isn't the government's but is privately not for profit owned.
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  110. It's a Mercedes W108, probably a 280 SE. Sweden has a relatively huge American car subculture, but also lots of Volvos and Saabs of course. Appearently they have less of a rust problem with old cars over there because of the cold winters. Saab would be interesting to check out, it's engineers were a bit like Citroen's, 'we just know better'. Two-strokes, V4's, the first turbo, lots of safety features, simply different from all others.
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  111.  @randar1969  He must have been quite a good student. He did the highest Dutch level, the one with Latin and Greek, that's for something like the top 10 percentile, while karting all over Europe, his karting excursions limited by weather his grades were high enough.
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  112.  @alexh2947  The English ran, hid and defected. William invited himself and asked the lords to invite him to gain popular support. It was William's propaganda war more than anything, he was a show man. He paraded his massive fleet near the coast for everybody to see, his soldiers were under strict orders to behave well and never ever use the word invasion or conquest, he brought a regiment of black soldiers in whtite turbans to impress as a global empire. He himself rode a white horse (biblical symbolism) in shiny armour and held speaches on protestantism will promising religious tolerance. And he brought a printing press, just to make sure the message of liberation was even spread further. The Dutch Republic had already been a nation state for a century and had an 80-years war, not between kings but between the people of a republic and the Spanish Empire. The Dutch peope were extremely literate and the country extremely well connected by canals with tugboats, they had free press and printed more than half of Europe's books, they were highly experienced in propaganda. Papers, leaflets, satire, books, paintings, cartoons, songs, flags, battle reports, carrots, you name it. They used all that experience to prevent a catholic England that would pose another threat to the Dutch Republic and create a stable protestant ally much more lilke the Dutch Republic. And to great effect, helped by chauvinism and British propaganda in the centuries to follow, the British still believe what was Dutch propaganda.
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  113. After coming from Suriname Simons enjoyed the privilege of beeing occupied with jazz dance in a Dutch School, didn't finish school which wasn't of the highest level, worked as a hairdresser, got admitted to a prestigious ballet school and got a job as a VJ for TMF, helped by her undeniable hotness, and then became a more serious television presenter. She even got the chance to do a book show and the glasses made her look even hotter, but despite the show beeing about relatively low brow literature, she was out of her depth. In interviews she described her skin colour as an advantage and made derogatory comments about black men, which would have been racist if they'd come from a white woman. Suddenly, about 10 years ago, she was all about race, having a show about 'black music' on the radio(!). The Dutch of course didn't know 'black music', they know all pop music is black in origin regardless of the looks of the artist performing. And it got worse from there, and very racist. Maybe it's because she's out of her depth or she feels guilty towards so many other blacks in the world that haven't enjoyed her privilege, but I seriously worry it's mixed up with some mental health issue. She has gone into outright hatred for whites now. But if anything her career proves at least one black not so very talented girl got every chance one could wish for in The Netherlands. She has wat we call 'fallen upward'. I always liked her anyway and still do kind of, it's a shame to see her this confused and bitter, while sowing division between black and white the Netherlands has never known.
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  114. They also never were fully potty trained I guess, as in pee now because we will be on the move the next hours.
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  115.  @doposud  I had the outdoor/hikers and mounteneers version of the 3310, the 5210, that literally bounced back if it fell.
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  116. A higher turn out doesn't make the EU anymore democratic, does it?
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  117.  @percybedford6266  Not from the top of my head but you are referrin to the Kush I presume. The Kush didn't come from West-Afrika, there is over 5000 miles of inpenetrable rain forest between them and the ancestors of these Americans. The Americans are claiming it as theirs because the colour looks kind of similar. They were probably as different from the West-Africans as they were different from the Asians and Europeans. The fact that black Americans call themselves African-Americans in a confusion of colour and geography doesn't make this claim to the whole continent fair. Africa is far too diverse for that.
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  118. In general a small part of Europe is where something like 95% of the science and innovation comes/came from. Italy, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Denmark. That's where it happened.
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  119. Here in Groningen in the North of the Netherlands we have traffic lights that prioritize cyclists when those detect rain.
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  120.  @lasvegasotis6780  No they are not, I'm not a Caucasian and the Caucasus has little to do with it. The idea that slavery is wrong is an European insight, it's Europeans who ended slavery, first on their own continent and later wordlwide, it were Africans and Arabs who resisted and wanted to keep slavery, which they partly managed as it's Africa and Arabia where there's still some slavery, more than ever numberwise actually. You can blame the Europeans for practicing double standards, but at least they introduced good standards too. Standards they are now judged by retro-actively. I don't mind that but without those European standards it still would be simply the right of the strongest, the most powerful everywhere and the Africans would have nobody to complain to about their own failings, just like they don't complain about the Arabs, who traded and killed far more subsaharan slaves than the Europeans, or the Africans themselves who were far more dependent on slavery than the Europeans.
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  121.  @khairt1731  It's not medically recommended in the civilized world and it's safe in the sense of 'only 1 in 3000 will be mutilated by something going wrong'. Doctors have tendency to ignore small risks like that, I have no idea about the real numbers, because those are indeed irrelevanat in most of their work, the necessary treatments. For unneccessary treatmans the bar should be set much higher.
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  122. They started believing their onw lies, a guarantee to get things wrong.
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  123. Orange is a principality in Southern France. William of Orange, AKA William the Silent and not to be confused with William III or Orange who took the throne of Britain over a century later, was as a German noble steward (stadtholder) to the king of Spain for the Netherlands. Then he led the rebellion against that same king because the Dutch, protestant and catholic, wanted religious tolerance instead of the Spanish Inquisition. The colour derived from his name became the symbol of the revolt that would eventually be an 80-year war with Spain and Portugal before they also recognized the Dutch Republic's independence. The stadtholder, steward without a king now, became the leader together with the grand pensionary, not a noble and formerly the position of lawyer to the parliament of the Holland province. Nation states were not a thing yet, Europe was divided in monarchies and even the Dutch didn't know how to go about independent government at first and took 7 years between the declaration of independenc and naming themselves the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. All the symbolism and flags were royal too, so they had to come up with all that nationalist stuff themselves and the colour orange worked great. So that's also why the Dutch have the oldest tricolour and the oldest national anthem. Even the carrots got bred orange to boost national spirit. Later it became a symbol for the Orangists, the pro stadtholder and more national unity republicans, who were opposed by the "Statists" republicans, who didn't want a stadtholder and very autonomous provinces with power in the provincial parliaments (i.e. the parliament of Holland bossing). The Orangists won. The position of stadtholder was only heriditary in the sense that almost only men from the noble Orange-Nassau family were appointed stadtholder by the provinces parliaments or there was no stadtholder appointed at all. The stadtholder would be the commander of the army and in charge of foreign policy. Most of them delivered for the Dutch, some spectacularly well. They are related, but the current Dutch royal family is the product of the Napoleontic occupation and defeat, and the British wanting a buffer monarchy between itself and republican France. So it is a dynasty going back to the 1500's, but not a royal dynasty. They don't deliver for the Dutch anymore either.
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  124.  @percybedford6266  Because it's rich Americans from West-African descent claiming ancient Egypt and even Cleopatra.
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  125. She is actually Swedish nobility, didn't give up here Swedish citizenship and has never shown any interest in respecting the constitution.
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  126.  @seanmoran2743  It's not capitalism and it should care about national jurisdiction, but that's for the politicians to claim. Governments are acting like they own the land and can use it as for profit plantation colonies for the international megacorporations. Countries are being populated not just with workers but also with consumers, often on welfare or otherwise net detractors.
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  127. The American accent is a bit special I guess because it is already the product of accents from people with a different native language. It's also the only accent Dutch people take back home when they lived there for decades and speak Dutch with an American accent. I don't hear that in Dutch people who lived elsewhere for decades. Europe didn't used to be this multilingual. 30 years ago it was mostly the Dutch, Flemish and the Scandinavians who were this multilingual, and that was special to the people in France, Italy, Spain and even few Germans were fluent in English.
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  128. It's well document that the Dutch had an excellent relationship with the Ashanti slavetraders in today's Ghana. The Ashanti Bossed the slavetrade, they got the Dutch soldiers for their army, they intermarried and young Ashanti went to the Dutch Republic to study.
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  129. "Pregnancy is not a medical condition".
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  130. This video is entirely wrong on the Dutch monarchy. 1581 was the year of the Dutch declaration of independence, stating that a ruler had to serve his people and king Philip II of Spain had left the throne of the Netherlands by being a tyrant with his religious prosectution (the freedom to believe what you want was already codified in 1579) and denied the absolute rule of kings, the right of kings to determine how to believe in god, and the divine right of kings. This DOI materially was very much like the American DOI from 200 years later which was inspired on it. This led to the Dutch Republic that would feed Europe with new ideas for the coming centuries. The Oranges were often appointed Stadtholder (steward) by the states, it was an office of the Dutch Republic, not a hereditary title, the Oranges were princes but not from the Netherlands, they were princes of . At the height of the Dutch Republic's power, there was no Stadtholder but the son of humble woodstacker was in charge as kind of a prime-minister. The Netherlands only became a kingdom in 1806, when Napoleon made his brother Louis king after conquering the Netherlands. After Napoleon was beaten the then allmighty British Empire decided it needed a buffer state between France, and a buffer monarchy against republicanism. The Dutch, who ironically had given the UK today's constitutional monarchy by invading England in 1688, got an absolute monarchy from the British in return, the family picked was related to the Stadtholders. This of course didn't work with the republican traditions, and the Netherlands became a constitutional monarchy a couple of decades later, also Belgium split off as an seperate country again, as it was seperate during the Dutch Republic. This is of course very important to the historical significance and the possibilities for abolishment of the monarchy. Some say it's still a republic, but so tolerant it even tolerates a monarchy. It's also allows for an inbetween, we could go back to the Dutch Republic, and appoint a member of the now royal family as Stadtholder. We could keep the fun bits like the to be renamed king's day, and it's important bits like a family link with the past, a highly regarded figurehead in trade relations, and an important office that's not marred by day to day politics and political interests. We can also ditch the first born principle, and together with the Orange family select the most fitting and willing candidate. It would also allow for stopping them from being too greedy, and make sure the powers they have and don't have are formalized better. The poor research is really a shame. English sources often get Dutch history wrong, but the Dutch Republic is well documented even in English and the English wikipedia gets most things right.
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  131. Feit is dat de bevolkingssamenstelling bewust en opzettelijk veranderd wordt door beleid. Dat beleid zou in het belang van het Nederlandse volk moeten zijn want dat is het volk wat de regering moet dienen, niet de mensen die hier graag willen komen wonen. Dat is niet, vanwege het tekort aan van alles maar vooral woningen. De woningbouwverenigingshuizen en de volkswijken worden feitelijk wel omgevolkt of zijn dat al. Dan zijn dat vaak ook nog mensen die niet gewoon Nederlander willen worden maar inderdaad sterke gelijkenissen met kolonisten vertonen. Wat Rudy Bouma weer handig verzwijgt is namelijk de derde en inmiddels vierde generatie niet Westerse achtergrond, wiens voorgrond vaak ook niet erg Westers is. Voor een groot deel daarvan geldt dat het Nederlandse volk niet met hun immigratie gediend was. Ook verzwijgt hij dat niet alleen het geboortecijfer telt, maar ook het geboortecijfer per tijd. Als nu het meest en strengst islamitische deel van die tweede of derde generatie moslimimmigranten jong aan kinderen begint dan produceren die 3 generaties in dezelfde tijd als de autochtonen 2 nieuwe generaties produceren, en dan ook nog in aantallen dat het gemiddelde omhoog trekt waarschijnlijk. Dan gaat het hard met de groei van de conservatie moslimgemeenschap. Het ideaal van massa-immigratie is al dubieus, zeker in zo'n druk land, maar gaat uit van het idee dat achtergrond verwatert en men zich mengt, tussen de lakens dus. Dat gebeurt met veel moslims niet, die maken geen kinderen met niet moslims maar vaak met neef of nicht, en het moederland doet zijn uiterste best om te zorgen dat hun migratie achtergrond ook hun voorland blijft. Dus sippendrager van de macht houdt hier alweer een leuk maar niet zo eerlijk verhaaltje over wat iets niet is, maar niet wat het wel is. Hij doet zijn uiterste best om extreem rechts erbij te slepen en komt met sussende teksten, maar hoe het Nederlandse volk met dit beleid van massa-immigratie gediend zou zijn legt hij dan weer niet uit.
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  132. Fact is that those Dutch kids were healthier than the current generation, and that the adult Dutch who still drink quite a bit of milk, are much more healthy than the Americans. I am not saying incorrect claims weren't being made but it's a good product. Much more recent the corn syrup lobby in the USA did something similar, and unsaturated fat is blamed falsely for the health disaster that is sugar, mostly corn syrup, in everything. So why give the new and terrible development a free pass and make a hitpiece on the innocent milk?
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  133. He points out the problem with international criminal law, a lot of things governments tend to do are deemed a punishable crime, but only the enemies of the countries funding the criminal courts get prosecuted. Especially for African leaders this is a great risk, so they do what the criminal court was designed for and stay friends with the USA and the UK etc.
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  134. Nonsense, South-Africa has been a British colony since 1795 and they opressed the "Dutch" as well as the other people who lived there. The Dutch only had settlements there and never wanted to rule the native people. They even fought together with the Zulu's against the Brits at some point.
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  135.  @hanli5416  It was not the VOC that made it golden, the Dutch Golden Age was already half way through when the VOC started paying dividend. It was the European fair trade and freedom that made it golden and it was actually a golden age for the whole world as it gave the world freedom religion, modern capitalism, upward social mobility and a whole lot of other freedoms. Of course children should learn about the dark pages and in general understand that the world was pretty violent and the progress that has been made was huge and was hard work. But anyone who teaches one without the other, either way, is getting it wrong because the good and the bad are inseperable.
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  136.  @IA67676  The religion is though. Islam is not a race.
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  137. Also people in Vienna are known by other Austrians for not being friendly, approachable and not smiling ever. While Austrians are known by most Europeans as not the most friendly and approachable in general.
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  138. It requires well build windows. I guess for many American houses that would be an upgrade in quality besides the extra feature, which isn't cheap either. So for Germans and other Western-Europeans it's only like 50% more expensive than a regular window, whil for Americans that would be 300% for example. That's probably why they haven't seen it before.
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  139.  @pistonburner6448  In the mountains? The BX is a very light car that came into it's own with the 1.9, with it's great brakes and it's predictable handling I think it's very realistic. If you put a racing driver into a 6 cylinder BMW it would be faster, but you don't need to be a specially skilled driver to drive the BX close to it's limits.
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  140. In the Netherlands the catholics are the biggest religion, it has always been close with the protestants but they outbred them, these days many are not church going anymore but stay catholic, while lots of the protestant have quit their church entirely.
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  141. The Dutch population isn't growing, the number of foreign settlers is growing with about 300k every year. So demand isn't adressed, it's out of control. Stop allowing people in for one year and the shortage would be solved. Government didn't ask universities to stop taking foreign students, they asked them to stop actively acquistioning them. It's out of control too because refuses to take control of it's universities and for example use those to educate the Dutch well and not ruining student culture, the Dutch language and general education levels. The farmland is not the government's property, and the idea that you can just allocate that land to yoga studio's, housing of expat ICT workers or refugees on welfare is in denial of the fact in an economy the secondary, tertiary and quarternary sector sit upon the primary sector. Housing is also private, even social housing is property of private non profit associations. But goverment has appropriated those to house 'refugees', not from the wars in Germany, Belgium or even Ukraine, but people who crossed several safe countries to get such a house, by letting the surpass the waiting lists of between 8 and 23 years. It's not that agriculture shouldn't change, but the Dutch government is taking land, housing and education from the Dutch to give it to foreigners, abusing the welcoming and tolerant nature of the Dutch and demanding them to work harder to accomodate them. If you are a teacher, your job becomes much harder with every child who is not a native speaker. So the problem is much more fundamental. Dutch government is breaking the social contract, the foundation beneath democracy, the Dutch declared in 1581 that government should serve it's people and fought an 80-year war for that. Now this government is serving people from all around the world and serving many corporata interests, but not the Dutch.
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  142. We're mainly running out of competent politicians who don't want to destroy the country. Maybe inviting datacenters with their energy and water consumption while giving nothing back wasn't such a good idea.
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  143.  @brexistentialism7628  I don't mind perspective and a bit bias coming from it. I believe there is an obligation of an educational system to be truthfull or at least aspire to truthfullness. Otherwise it's not educational but propaganda, it's about not having false pretenses.
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  144.  @Kededian  We had a TV series in the 80s here about Shaka Zulu. Fiction and for entertainment, because he beat the British, but he was not portrayed as a genocidal maniac. It was probably a South-African production.
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  145. German has the advantage of compound words, they often get more precise and exact with the length, every added part narrowing the meaning down, like smaller circles in a Venn diagram. It allows for putting a lot meaning in one sentence without making it unreadable.
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  146. North Africans want to move to Europe, subsaharan Africans want to move to North Africa or Europe, no one wants to move to subsaharan Africa and not many proud black Africans want to stay there. Maybe you should start learning from more successful countries instead of leaching on them?
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  147. No, not really. It might seem obvious if you're ignorant about both history and the tradition. But there's nothing obvious about it.
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  148. It went live here on Dutch TV and I immediately got suspicious because they seemed to know exactly what was happening, like the story was already known to them. This is a broadcaster that often has Michel Vos on as an independent US politics expert, who happens to be Pelosi's son in law. Anyway, I got Reichstag vibes rightaway. It was too perferct.
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  149.  @Robalogot He was actually quite a poor free kick taker, he needed about 20 of them for a single goal. This one was a great one but the camera angle made it more legendary and made Roberto Carlos far more legendary as a free kick taker than deserved.
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  150.  @rvaneman  It's a statue from the late 1800's, it's got a text about what he did in the 1980's, when for example the USA was still supporting far worse slaughters in Latin America for it's business interests, to put it in perspective a bit.
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  151.  @omlg4svector No, he's one of the closest but his class is a bit less about ultimate ball control.
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  152.  @changingmyself  Fair question. I think it's the movement to promote further globalization, as in off shoring, production in low income countries, lots of transport around the world because of small price differences, no tariffs and including the tax avoidance that comes with it. That's not a force of nature but a political choice. A movement the left protested against until the last decade and for some reason unclear to me is on board with now. Worrying about the whole earth has little to do with it, it's more like using the poverty and poor environmental and labour regulations anywhere in the world by international corporations to make more money. That's not a force of nature but a political choice that should be debated. Personally I believe a 'nationalistic' approach ('patriottic' wouldn't work here, would it?) to economy where the labourers are also the consumers is much better for the environment and equality.
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  153. You can skip the hardest countries and try the next country until your correct answers map out the place a bit and then do the hard ones.
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  154. Never heard of the Vichy regime? The French communists put up quite a good fight but still small and mostly ineffective resistance. France in general during WWII was less than heroic.
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  155. It's not just the NHS. Those marriages are not only arranged to keep wealth in the family, but these days also to get more European citizenships into the family through marriage. Many marriages will be arranged with cousins from abroad.
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  156. That was my take too. All that mind reading and complex beating around the bush is something you have to be raised with to truly master, so the upper class can identify the peasants by their manners easily and exclude them. Anyone can learn straigth forward rules of politeness, so they lack that purpose, the complexity of communication is wanted. The British tend to overlook how classist they are and have been, and how equal the Netherlands has been for centuries. They ar looking for the common ground, protestantism, but that's actually not a common ground, and they feel to see the immense difference in the historical structure of the societies.
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  157. Moeilijk om een grotere aanjager van de energietransitie aan te wijzen dan Musk. De techmiljardairs zwermden om de Democraten tot Musk overstapte naar het kamp dat niet aan censuur doet.
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  158. Shutting off the pump didn't stop the earthquakes and was never going to. But it has allowed Shell and Exxon to get out wihout paying for a huge reinforcement project.
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  159. De man die ons verzekerde dat hij leraar zou worden of zo, hij deed het immers allemaal uitsluitend voor Nederland. Yeah right.
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  160. Of course this is a selection of the most ignorant answers, but it's still worrying.
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  161. Same here in the Netherlands, they haven't counted the many who rent a room in a different city at 18 or 19 to go study.
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  162.  @Alakablam  No, the freedom certainly contributed but it was the invention of modern capitalism including a de facto central bank in combination with the invention of the wind sawmill in 1592 that allowed the Dutch to build ships 30 times faster and trade with much lower interest rates.
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  163. In the days of Voltaire the Dutch Republic only had a small part of Java and a few small islands under direct control.
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  164.  @Feeber2  You are right, I didn't word that fully correct. But when I had to join rugby training in school we had to run in a line and then pass the ball sideways and I suddenly realized both games are bit like a turf war between two groups of men trying to gain territory on the other by moving their frontline up the pitch. It's not just about the striker hanging in front of the goal, the whole idea of moving towards the opponents half with all 3 lines depends on the off side rule.
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  165. I believe the coin trick is almost as old as the straight 6. Balancing out a W-engine is probably a bit more complicated. Interesting cars to look at? - The Koenigsegg Gemera, a drive train like you have never heard of before, amazing innovation. - Fiat s76, not smooth at all. You couldn't balance a wet towel on that engine. - Pre WWII Porsche hybrids - Jeremy Clarkson testing the Spyker (Audi engine but that's not the most interesting) for Top Gear. Top Gear at it's best because about the car. - Mercedes 600, der Grosser. The favourite of the worst dictators. Amazing engineering. - Citroen has also done some amazing engineering, with their hydropneumatics among many other innovation. The Citroen SM being the most interesting, especially engine wise. - Pre WWII Tatra luxury cars are something else too.
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  166.  @jamjamme  The Dutch had more merchant ships trading in Europe than the rest of Europe combined. The safe and frequent European bulk trade was far, far bigger than the global trade with it's year of sailing and many dangers. In the high risk high reward colonial trade the English and other European powers could compete a bit, in the European trade the efficient Dutch ships, build 30 times faster thanks to the invention of the saw mill in 1592 by a Dutch peasant, and low interest rates thanks to the Dutch central banking were a competitive edge no one could match. The Dutch would also do lots of the trade between Poland and Norway for example, or between two Swedish ports.
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  167. Cities look much worse because there is less of the city to see because of the enormous height of modern cars parked in it, and their similar metallic grey, black, dark blue colours. Look at old city photos, with a row of low cars in different often primary colours. A row of low cars in red, blue, yellow and green looks a lot nicer.
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  168. It's generally known as proto-industrialization but Britain didn't add much but steam power and steel. There was already proper industrial organization, with standardization and a high degree of specialization. There were other big industries like printing, lens manufacturing, cloth, weapons, fake china. The Dutch also already designed the internal combustion engine, on gunpowder, but that was too far ahead of it's time to go beyond a concept. It was the kick off of modern capitalism as we know it.
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  169. The man has a point. Deflecting blame and twisting reality is also what this channel does and it has found an audience among Africans. Maybe African youth does lack and understanding of the world required to be successful in it? This comment section is full of racism an 18th century European would be ashamed of. I agree Africans shouldn't take Europeans on their word, they don't deliver on their good intentions but do on their bad intentions. But the lack of understaning of their mindset is not very helpful and the understanding of the intentions of the Chinese, Arabs and Russians is even worse. Know your enemy, know your rivals. You can't profit from them if you are only concerned with knowing yourself and claiming some self obsessive pride.
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  170. And herring and whitebread.
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  171. Exposure at a young age makes language learning so much easier.
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  172. "Give me your money!" "Eh, wait a minute....." "You're frugal!"
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  173.  @RoninDave  Indeeed. I'd really like to stay away from all this race nonsense but actually the Irish are probably more close to the Romans genetically than West-Africans are to the East-Africans of Egypt because Africa is the most diverse continent. It's a bit like expecting the Jamaicans to dominate the Olympic marathon because the last winners were black too. There is a lot more to diversity than just colour.
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  174.  @shafaalya884  According to my sources At the end of the 18th century, and near the end of the VOC, it controlled about half of Java, a tiny bit of Sulawesi, a small strip of Sumatra and the Moluccas. Far greater parts of the archipelago were taken in both 1862 and 1920, well after the VOC ended. So 350 years of colonial is only true for a very small part of Java and quite far from the truth for most of today's Indonesia.
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  175. The volume difference between you and the F1 drivers is too great, makes it hard to watch.
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  176. It's a really clever car with an extremely clever suspension. It can be this comfortable because the front wheel being pushed up pushes the rear wheel down keeping the car level. Due trough how the front and rear suspension are connected this works perfectly at 62 km/h for a Dutch speed bump. Go a bit slower and you're going too fast for the speedbump. It's a lovely car to drive, it was actually the first car I drove. It keeps you very much involved and you have to work to get any speed out of it, but any speed feels speedy in this car. It rolls a lot in the corners but it won't roll over or be otherwise unpredictable, only in reverse you can roll it. You can get a lot of stuff in it with the roof open, and you can take 3 tall friends and one person you don't like. You can fit that one in the middle of the rear seat and hit a bump.
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  177. I believe Germans have lots of respect for education but not as in the highest'. They take vocational schooling very seriously too and respect a certified craftsman. They have 'Ausbildung' but also 'Bilding', so on top of being thoroughly taught how to do your job, they have also a more general education in arts and literature and stuff that has no direct use, but is supposed to help one develop oneself both privately and professionaly. The profession, Beruf is like Berufung, the (religious) calling of to be priests, monks and nuns, this is what you are meant to do in life. So you have craftsmen and women who have 40h a week devotion while being equipped to develop themselves in that.
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  178.  @earlofmar7987  Of course you have the right to defend yourselves, but you don't have the right to invade Iraq after you were attacked by 19 Saudi's. I believe the patriottic frenzy of that time prevented Americans from beeing truly patriottic and properly question your governments motives, actions and version of the facts. There's a lot more to question and not just about 9/11. Why can't the country with by far the mightiest army in the history of mankind do 20 years without war? Most weren't about self defence or the defence of others, were they? Maybe a bit less military glorification would help.
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  179. And when they admit it was an invasion they claim the initiative for the English. The invention by 7 rather powerless lords, come over to become king, you need to bring a fleet twice the size of the Armada and 40.000 soldiers though. But Dutch parliament had already decided on the invasion an paid for the fleet and army, their oppointed stadtholder Willem III van Oranje feared to much opposition as a foreigner and demanded to be invited as one of many propaganda efforts. The biggest political change in British history was a Dutch invasion for French reasons I'm afraid. Not that I learned that in Dutch schools, with the orange marches during the troubles in NI it was mostly ignored.
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  180. What do you actually know about the Netherlands role in slavery and colonialism?
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  181.  @martinwinther6013  There were a lot, build under licence in Poland, called Polski Fiat. Lots of these 126s in Poland especially, but I saw them in Hungary. The iconic boxy Lada is a licence Fiat too btw.
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  182. Bye bye democracy.
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  183. Should have asked whether to came to buy a barrell of crude oil, in that case they would have a point. Before the euro here in the Netherlands we used to accept Deutsch Mark 1 on 1 from German visitors. It was usually about 10% more valuable than the Dutch guilder. Easy money, easy for the tourist. No hard feelings either way.
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  184.  @Mantades  They are both short for 'soccer football' as opposed to 'rugger football' which is shortened to rugby. It's a British English word, it only got out of fashion there in the 80's.
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  185. Another glitch I guess, this time in the teleprompter.
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  186.  @eS._Te  No, obviously that Porsche.
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  187. It's the secret EU police....
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  188. Reconstructie is veel te veel eer voor een kwartiertje knippen en plakken, en over zijn mogelijke standpunten is de NOS ook weer erg selectief.
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  189.  @EconomicsExplained  The current leading party may call themselves 'liberalen' they aren't even in Dutch and it can't be translated to liberals. It's the conservative party although quite Dutch on social issues. Basically the aim of all their policies has been to shift money from those who work for it to those who own for it, whether it's real estate or stock or whatever. They have been very much involved in housing policy since the 80's with the aim above, and especially getting money to banks. You said 'government makes sure banks get their money back' but that's actually not the case because with the mortgage the money is instantly created and given to the bank. This has fuelled the financial sector for competition in the international markets. Every square meter of the Netherlands is claimed so with cheap money available and shortage of homes house prices have quadrupled between 1990 and 2010 and would have doubled in the last decade if it wasn't for the financial crisis. That policy including tax policy. This has of course increased the wealth gap but also effectively the income gap because the lowest income 20% tends to pay much more in rent for a small house than the over 100k's in mortgage and other house costs, even in social housing. There's a bit left of social security and goverment paid education but that's not where the taxes go these days. The total of all kinds of taxes and collective costs has only increased in comparison to more social governments of the past with far better social security and it's at record high of just over 50%. Presents and breaks for huge international corporations don't come for free I guess. There's good industry in the Netherlands, allthough per hour productivity is in decline which should be extremely worrying. The financial sector is not really industry of course, they might be really busy but they're not in the business of producing anything, just skimming off other people's productivity. And Could you stop obsessing over the VOC? It was a rather insignificant part of the 17th century Dutch economy. It's much more likely Heineken's wife's money came from the herring fishing, one of the many industries, investment in polders (farmland), the North Sea trade, the Mediterranean trade or the Baltic Sea trade. Especially the latter dwarfed the VOC.
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  190. Of course, Dutch farmers were an essential part of the origin of modern capitalism, which was introduced by the Dutch Republic in the late 1500's.
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  191. "Een bedreiging voor de rechtsstaat gaan vormen"? De rechtsstaat houdt in dat de overheid zich in aan de wet houdt. Hoe gaan zij ervoor zorgen dat regering, kamer en ambternaren de wet aan hun laars lappen, voor zover die daar nog hulp bij nodig hebben?
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  192. Well, England was back to it's old absolutist ways when the Dutch Republic invaded in 1688 and put it's first citizen, the Stadtholder, on the throne, and gave it it's parliamentary monarchy that still exists today, it's Bill of rights and the subsequent modernization of the English economy allowed for Britain to take over from the Dutch Republic as the supreme economic power. Basically the English got the rights the Dutch had already enjoyed since they declared independence more than a century earlier. Freedom of religion, freedom of print, seperation of judiciary and executive power. Allthough being appointed as Stadtholder by a parliament of commoners, William III had his own claim to the English throne through marriage, he was a noble, it was Dutch parliament who gave him the fleet and army. He played it well and avoided bloodshed, but an invastion and occupation it was. The Magna Charta was early, but the rights people enjoyed in the Low Lands (Keure van Kortenberg for example), including today's Belgium, were much more extensive, especially for the commoners. The Dutch parliament was already dominated by commoners in 1500's with the rise of the merchant class. Not by coincidence it was the Dutch Republic that started modern capitalism too. It was because of the fight against the absolute monarchies with their catholicism and religious intolerance that forced the Dutch Republic to free Britain from that, otherwise it would have been 1.5 million Dutch of mixed religion against 50 million catholics from France, Spain and Britain. So by invading Britain they got a powerfull ally, which naturally through it's size, modernization and the causes of the advantage of the Dutch being copied, took over as the world's superpower. Also because capitalists as the Dutch were, their enourmous wealth went just as easily into shares of British companies. The big change for the world came in 1581, when the Dutch rebels claimed inalianable rights to remove a tyrant (ring any bells?), king Philip II of Spain, and freedom to serve god according to one's own conscience. From there it spread, through the invasion of England in 1688, but also through philosphers working freely in the Netherlands (Locke, Descartes, Spinoza) and books printed in the Netherlands to France and it's thinkers.
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  193.  @flitsertheo  No, but it just isn't good for the taste and experience. Pooring at an angle is a huge improvement right away, and when I don't have the right class I take a big wine glass or something.
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  194.  @calholli  That's such a narrow minded view and not smart at all. Gambling is not a plan for wealth accumulation so don't judge it like that. I spend an amount of money I don't notice for a small chance on an amount of money I will notice and be thrilled about. That's a win. I could also save that money and then in 20 years I will a 1000 euro extra, probably worthless thanks to the gambling with my money but the central and other banks, but even if it's not, it will do nothing for my life, it won't even make my day.
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  195. Talking about racing, in 1981 Dubai held a Grand Prix and payed a lot of money to have all F1 drivers race eachother in CX-es. Many drivers soon found out that staying on track wasn't as essential as in a normal racing car, competitive as they are the F1 drivers started maximizing on the car's capabilities by driving off track and cutting corners a lot.
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  196. Netherlands vs Spain in the first round was great though. That was actually a real match, and only a destruction party later in the 2nd half.
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  197. Notice the headrests. It's not all brilliant engineering, it's also a lot of elegant simplicity that is simply well thought through for your comfort. You can adjust the head rest by undoing and redoing the snap fasteners on it's front cushion. Citroen kept using that until the 80's on the GS for sure and also the CX if I remember correctly.
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  198. The Dutch have always been fascinated with anyting from far away, the further the better. Most non white has always been seen as interesting and attractive. In the 30's the blacks which were mostly male had no problem getting girls, nor did the Chinese who were much more courteous than the Dutch men.
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  199. The brilliance of the Citroen engineers makes me mad at the marketing and board people, it's lack of sales killed real Citroens forever. - You got by the most comfortable car in it's class, why not also a longer version like with the CX? Then you have comfort as a statement and everyone who wants to work in the car would have to consider it. - You got different settings on the suspension, and then you make a 'sport' setting that's still too soft for motoring journalists who always like to be the keen driver/ hard suspension type. It's a luxury, comfortable car, but also the top model. Why not put a bore out the engine for the flagship model? The car gets introduced and has a disadvantage on the competition straight away. Yes, it excells on comfort but that's not an excuse not to keep up with the competition on power. They had a gem that could save Citroen as a luxury brand and as a manufacturer that did things differently, but they wasted it on a few wrong choices.
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  200. Indeed, pure misinformation. Most people unvaccinated will catch it sooner or later, get ill or not but certainly no hospitalization and with immunity afterwards. Will they need a 'booster' infection later on too? It's going to be endemic anyway, so people getting infected is a good thing. Just not all at the same time and not the vulnerable so the hospitals don't get overrun.
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  201.  @Ghandi12  Blijkbaar niet. Anders zouden ze geen Marokkaans paspoort hebben. Dat is om Marokko het thuisland te laten blijven.
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  202. I guess you avoided a lot of neighbourhoods, wisely.
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  203. We don't just 'get a black man' in the Netherlands, it has never worked that way here. It's just a very effective disguise for the tens of thousands of aunts, uncles, neighbours and friends (black or white) that play the magical duo of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet every year. Also the blacks have to paint their faces. We also don't just get a white bearded man to play Sinterklaas because that doesn't work either.
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  204. In the US conscentious objectors volunteered to be starved to research this and prepare for it.
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  205. Het mag helemaal niet. Onze grondwet verbiedt censuur. Nu gaan verdragen boven onze grondwet, maar het EU verdrag is met eenvoudige meerderheid aangenomen omdat het volgens de RvS geen grondwettelijke implicaties had, dus kan die dat ook niet krijgen.
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  206. I think most European men over 30 have been overweight several times. It's more like 'not in shape', it has happened to me more than once and then your team mates make fun of your little belly.
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  207. De EC zou voor de lidstaten werken. Er is geen gezagsrelatie, en al helemaal geen strafbankje. Dat is jullie zucht naar gehoorzaamheid, de kruiperigheid van 'journalisten'.
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  208. I have seen him ignore a Maserati Bora for the rear windscreen wiper of some Japanes compact. It doesn't get more down to earth than that, he did some nice old Citroen BXs too. But also more coveted classics lately. He also did an "every car worthy" festival in the Netherlands, which were mainly quirky cars, very invidual choices of ordinary priced cars that are a bit different.
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  209. Een andere leider eisen om met de vijand te 'kunnen' praten betekent dat je niet over vrede wilt praten en dus oorlog wil. Israel doet dat ook altijd in het Palestijns conflict zodat dat conflict aansleept en Israel sterker en groter wordt. Dus Zelensky wil geen vrede, ik snap sowieso dat gedweep met die kerel niet. Het niet is omdat Putin fout is Zelensky ineens een goeie kerel zou zijn.
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  210. Negativity and rudeness is often confused with being critical by the people who lack the competence to be so, most of the media. Van Gaal would confront them and then they hold a grudge for having the audacity questioning the mighty media and wait for a moment of weakness to come at him as a group of hyenas. It's the supporters who let the future of their club strongly influenced by those people, who only love to see that club fail and need it to be relevant and generate clicks.
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  211. Many of the Cape coloured feel discriminated against for not being black enough.
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  212.  @kamanashiskar9203  The UK went to rule the world because it took over most of what gave the Dutch such an advantage throughout the 17th century, modern capitalism (William founded the Bank of England), social mobility, all kinds freedoms and combined that with their medieval desire to rule which the Dutch never cared much for. With a population 4 times the size of the Dutch Republic the Dutch couldn't stay richer than the British and it was through money mostly that the small Dutch Republic could compete with far bigger countries. Nontheless, Napoleon got extremely lucky invading the Dutch Republic. Foreign invaders could take a lot of the country as they had done before, but Holland was protected by the Hollandic waterline, a system of inundation that would make wading armies sitting ducks and was too shallow for ships. Housing in the area had to be of wood so they could be burned down to clear the shooting lines. With Holland and Zeeland not taken, the navy would be able to retalliate and shipping would feed the people. There was an extreme cold and the Dutch couldn't keep up breaking the ice, so the French troops marched over the ice into Holland. So until the aircraft technology of WWII the Netherlands was pretty capable of not beeing taken, rather than defending all of it's borders. One the reasons it managed to stay neutral during WW1. But the Dutch Republic had been in decline since the 18th century and was left empoverished after Napoleon was beaten, the Dutch did more than half of all Europe's trade in the 17th century and had some pretty proto-industrialization, neither was going to last as a huge advantage because competitors catch up and couldn't be matched in size. The UK was calling the shots at that time with France beaten and Germany not unified. It was an ally but not really a good one. The Dutch gave the UK it's constitutional monarchy and the favor was returned by forcing an absolute king upon the Dutch. Luckily that was corrected within decades into a constitutional monarchy, but The Netherlands is still stuck with a royal house that is way too royal for it's republican past.
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  213. It depends on how you define country. If it's the nation state it excludes monarchies in which the territory is defined by the monarchs inheretance.
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  214. The Dutch golden age started well before the "Dutch East India" company/VOC, the 1570's while the VOC was founded in 1602, and was well past it's first half before the VOC started paying profits to it's shareholders. The city of Hoorn was relatively big in the VOC but it was the Dutch Republic's dominance of all European trade that made the age golden economically, the East-Indies trade of the VOC was just peanuts.
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  215. In addition. Stadtholder was a public office William was appointed in, not a heridatery title. His title as prince of Orange, a small principality in Southern-France, isn't very relevant, nor the fact that most states/provinces had a preference for appointing Oranges as stadtholder. So William was not only the product of a republic and used to sharing power, his enemy was catholic absolutism. The catholic absolute ruler Louis XIV was the main threat to the Dutch Republic, there were these German bishops in the East and with a catholic absolute monarch in England it would be the 1672, the disaster year, all over again soon. So he had England somewhat modelled after the Dutch Republic using existing structures and it's very unlikely parliament's demands surprised him. He sought political and popular support to avoid civil war and a chance for an absolute catholic in England again. He advertised himself carefully with is troops on strict orders to behave well, spending in the local economy well and speaking well, and of course he didn't bring a printing press with is invasion for nothing. He was on a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the English. What he did in England wasn't very different from what his great grandfather William of Orange (the Silent) did a century before what resulted in the Dutch Republic: Unite the people and the nobility behind the idea that a king can't be a tyrant but has to serve the people, that the people have freedom of conscience (i.e. religious tolerance) and can keep their ancient rights like the Great Privilege and the Charter of Kortenberg, which gave especially common people more rights than the Magna Charta. So basically he exported the Dutch anti-absolute values in which protestantism (and trade, science and arts) could flourish to keep the Dutch Republic safe and succeeded because he played the English well. In the process he also set up England to take over from the Dutch Republic as the supreme power and the wealthiest nation. But it saved the Dutch Republic from beeing taken over by the joined English and French absolute catholic rulers James II and Louis XIV, and therefore no one has to expect the Spanish Inquisition anymore. Quite an achievement.
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  216.  @xKumata  It certainly helps with the space. A lot of things here simply couldn't happen with car dependency and the Zandvoort GP is just one of the most obvious examples.
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  217. The Netherlands had the best pension system in the world, but the EU ordered it to be changed so they and their bankster friends can get their thievish fingers in.
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  218. Of course they hadn't had American culture yet with it's obsession about skin colour. I guess everybody from elsewhere looked different, different noses, cheek bones, chins, facial and head hair, why would they single out that often minor difference in colour? They weren't that backward. Of course it wasn't all white, but there wasn't global shipping either. In art we do see the difference between the countries of the Mediterranean, with their exposure to sailors from North Africa and the Levant, and the Northern European artists who relied on the people they had around them for examples of biblical figures.
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  219. Am I the only one having trouble getting YT to start playing Jimmy Dore and "similar" videos regularly? Is this a new kind of shadow banning?
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  220. Ask Mercedes that, they are bringing it up to silence criticism on Hamilton's poor sportsmanship. A gorilla emoji? No idea what it means, I don't do emoji's, but if it's racist than why does that emoji exist in the first place?
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  221. I didn't recognize my own Netherlands either with the IJsselmeer poldered in.
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  222. Of course the fire hose is a great invention (by an established painter), ingenious and useful with some good technological innovations for it's day, but is was only useful with canals all over the place. There was no network fire hydrants invented or something, it was basically a hand cranked pump with the a hose hanging in a canal. They were spread over the city though with guilds and volunteers to operate it who got systematically trained and had to do an exercise every year.
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  223. The difference is he not a candidate of the Banks promoting globalization and is therefore not the friend of the media who ignore the enormous rule of law breach the governments Rutte were but focus on a really minor point, an algorythm unlawfully using foreign citizenship, and portraying this falsely like it was about ethnicity.
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  224.  @ricardosmythe2548  Historiography is mostly a European invention. Most Africans only did oral storytelling and still many don't like facts.
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  225.  @AdeptusCrusade They were the first inhabitants of Mauritius. Native doesn't go further back than one's birth necessarily, and if you go back far enough no people are indiginous. You just want to draw the line after the Bantu migration and before the Boer migration, most likely because you are racist.
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  226. I'd give the 70's to the VW Golf. Not just for being up to the task of replacing the Beetle, but also because it set the front wheel drive, transveral 4-cylinder hatchback family car as the standard, also by it's hot hatchback, pretty radical and influential design by Guigiaro too. Yes, it doesn't look that radical in hindsight, because it was influential. The 20's are for Duesenberg, because it was incredibly fast for it's day, technologically very advanced but it also showed there was no limit in both cost and progress. It the was the roaring twenties, the Austin 7 didn't roar. The 90's I have to give to a car I don't like from a manufacturer I do like. The Mercedes W140, the S-class. Very heavy, full of safety features and comfort features and gadgets that have been copied by everybody. Also upped the norm for a top model car to a V12, a 6 to 7 litre. A 5 litre V8 was about the max for European cars outside the extreme luxury brands with small production. I agree with the reasoning about the 80's, but I go for the Espace because it was futuristic and was much less of a van than the ford. Vans with a sliding door had been around in Europe for ages, what made the new type of car was it's likeness to regular cars in every way except it's proportions and space.
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  227. The angry old man is a recent invention of the modern priests, those who preach the original sin, guilt and repent about nature, climate and somehow even the past. It's just to discredit those who complain the preacher and the merchant are messing up in their cynical cooperation.
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  228. No, just a continent full of minerals and cheap labour Africans have no use for themselves. It's the bottom of the production chain, the raw materials and a booming population of unskilled workers to dig for it. There is a huge difference between the bottom of the production chain and an ATM machine.
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  229. BS, he Dutch Republic wás a major European power, a world power even, the nation that dominated the 17th century in Europe, so no, it wasn't controlled by several European powers. The whole history section makes no sense without the split of the LowLands into the Northern Netherlands, the independent Dutch Republic, and the Spanish Netherlands which remained part of the Spanish Empire and later became the Austrian Netherlands in the South. Yes, Belgium was indeed the result of a big event, a huge event, the emergence of the first nation state that denied the divine right of kings, claimed inalienable rights including freedom of conscience (religion) and resisting a tyrant, and declared independence in 1581. That caused the Northern Netherlands and the Southern Netherlands growing apart in those 2 centuries. That's why the reunification was just a 15 year long failed experiment, a footnote in history. Except for the plunder and resulting poverty, France was not important in this at all. It was the British who were mighty because of that poverty that wanted a buffer monarchy in front of France, when that didn't work out they opted for two buffer monarchies and got another German to be king of the other part of the Low Lands/Netherlands. The North kept the name Netherlands, the South got the former Latinized name of the whole region, Belgica. If that's all too complicated, don't make a video. You can't just dumb it down into something factually wrong.
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  230.  @rockenroller9749  There is no such thing as a European population in this context. Go to one of these for example rural German medieval towns and see if you can afford one these peasants houses there. Farmers weren't poor, life could be pretty good.
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  231.  @Euclides287  Rosberg was beaten by Webber convincingly who was beaten by Vettel convincingly. Schumacher was untouchable until he retired. Hamilton simply never has come near that dominance as a driver that Schumacher had and that Verstappen has since growing out of his teens.
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  232.  @sperzieb00n  No, there has been a lot wrong with the housing policy of the 'centre right' but the Dutch population is not growing and the shortage of housing is about equal to the net influx of immigrants in the past 10 years. The government has been artificially increasing demand for housing, without organizing supply. Same for doctors, teachers, infrastructure, grid and elektricity, water, recreational spaces, police, whatever.
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  233. It's more like the Southern Europe taking Dutch money for years, through capo Draghi's QE among others, but now wants more and it has to be wrapped as a present. The richer than the Dutch North-Italians are demanding solidarity from the Dutch with the poor South-Italians they never managed themselves. Dutch people have to work to 67 to pay for the French keeping retiring at 61. The Poles that aren't by far hit as hard as the Dutch by corona have to get money out of a recovering Dutch economy too. If the Italians need cash they might try taxing their rich people, or sell some of their massive gold reserve.
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  234. Most have same other psychological disorder like autism or something at the same time. It's a desperate attempt to fit in it seems, purely superficial. For teenagers looks are much more important, how can they choose for looks at the expense at sexual function for the rest of their lives when they even haven't been in love yet, had sex and even the desire to is affected by drugs? The biggest problem is with the psychologists, they go well beyond their expertise. A kid feeling better after treatment is the measure of success in regular treatment, and rightly so. But this kind of treatment has effect for the rest of their lives, that can't be judged after a year in a teen's life when the kid gets lots of attention, believes it's going to fit in soon and has had mood changing drugs, which hormones are too. The bitter irony is that when treatment starts early, boys can develop a micro penis that has simply too little tissue to make a vagina out of.
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  235.  @DizzybyNature  Nee, wel een bloemrijke bloemlezing door Bloem.
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  236. I don't know this channel, but I give him an A for not being anglocentric, not regurgitating English propaganda from the past as serious history but make a well researched video that shows understanding of the Dutch Republic, unlike most YT video's on the subject.
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  237. If the EU wants to survive it must abolish policies that member states are not in favour of. The EU should limit itself to the common interest instead of the unelected wanting to govern the member states from Brussels.
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  238.  @jadoei13  Spreading the problem is just an excuse to no solve it. I heard the EU negotiators proudly stating that they had worked on some immigration deal for 7 years. But in those 7 years mass immigration continued, erosion of social cohesion continued, housing shortages increased and about 300.000 asylum seekers, at an average cost of 0.8 million per person to the Dutch tax payer were added. The more long term the solution is, the bigger that problem that needs to be solved because it keeps growing with every week without a solution.
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  239. Or youth or youngsters. You can't take scooters into a swimming pool to harass girls.
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  240.  @autumnjacaranda106  Only Dutch nationals can vote for these Dutch candidates for Dutch seats in the EP. You can try to slur nationalism to silence any alternative for globalism, but all our democracies are build on nationalism.
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  241. Can you still say that without going to jail?
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  242. Probably Europeans like to be understated more. They do care about what others can see but often don't want others to see a big spender, or a boy racer. When my accountant arrives in a 911 or a Maserati, I raise an eyebrow too. With a station car you never have to worry about the kind of impression you might make, unless you go to a car event. It can have 400HP, you still come across as a just another practical car driver.
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  243. Citroen is a manufacturer to do everything different all at once, but the USA has had it's stubborn unconventional manufacturers too. Studebaker, Tucker, Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg, it's more that the conventional big manufacturers survived I guess. The most unconventional manufacturers besides Citroen, which sticks out in any comparison, are Tatra, Saab, Lancia, NSU I guess and Panhard indeed. Pegaso is very exotic, and the 30-50's era has very interesting designs from coach builders like Figoni&Falschi, Saoutchik with DelaHayes, Talbot, Hispano-Suiza, Bucciali, the weird and wonderfully extravagant. Pegaso is also very unknown but spectacular Manufacturer. A shame btw, because I wrote about the DS earlier YT pushed me a video of two Australian guys driving the DS and chatting about it, with the owner being very knowledgable about the car, some background video's and demonstrating what it's capable of. Would have been a great fit for this channel but I didn't recommend it in time. For who can't get enough of Aussies or the DS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB-W-NxdDPo
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  244. I'm not a professional food taster, those small portions make me feel I am at work and have to concentrate and be analytical. I enjoy food in several spoonfulls, it's full taste and enjoyment only comes to me over several bites. I don't like wine tastings either, I need a full glass to fully appreciate a wine, the last sip is a different experience from the first.
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  245.  @kamanashiskar9203  Old fashioned kings with their divine right not but let's not forget that England was still stuck in the Middle Ages while the Dutch Republic was a modern capitalist nation with an appointed civil servant as leader no matter his heriditary title of prince, he wasn't prince of the Netherlands but of Orange in France. His Dutch title was that of the office of Stadtholder and that wasn't hereditary. He didn't have to accept Parliament rule, English soldiers weren't allowed near London and Dutch troops had it occupied and fully under control. With the constitutional monarchy he introduced England became a lot like the Dutch Republic in it's political structure. We should understand William's motives from that modern perspective. Not only had the Dutch Republic's survival been hanging by a thread only 15 years before, the future of protestantism and religious tolerance was at stake too. William was busy with far more important things than that alpha male king of the hill stuff and personal glory.
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  246. The British didn't invent anti-slavery. The Dutch Republic only gave up on it's objection to overseas slavery in 1638. Both this little and the big myth are blurring the issue as most clearly demonstrated by the Dutch Republic's turn on the matter. It's European hypocrisy, one set of rules and principles for us here in our civil and free societies, another set of rules and princpiples for the people in our overseas territories. The Europeans took 2 centuries to apply their principles to the people far away too. This same hypocrisy has been allowed to return through decolonization. It's not our jurisdiction anymore, so not our principles that apply. But using an I phone in this neo-colonial world is not less the product of slavery than the 19th century European eating chocolate or the 17th century European consuming sugar. So there is no ground to feel morally superior to our ancestors at all, and self flagellation over the past while ignoring the present doesn't make one a better person, on the contrary, just a bigger hypocrite.
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  247. I crossed there as a pedestrian once. The tunnels to the monument are not that obvious so we assumed all people there had crossed the road. Glad there were no American tourists driving there at that moment.
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  248. Hongarije houdt zich wel aan de regels, alleen niet aan de ideologie van de onverkozen EC. Een lidstaat uit de EU gooien is wel tegen de regels, net als de sancties.
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  249. It's also a passenger's car, the carpet is thick and soft and has about 5 inch of 'travel'.
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  250.  Water  Why it is that people want to be in Tunesia rather than in their own country. It's not like Tunesia has much going for it naturally.
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  251. He just can't wait to plough trough it with a Unimog.
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  252.  @enochbrent3777  I know quite a bit about Dutch slavery. The slaves used to be dressed for plantation work and they wouldn't be brought to the Netherlands because there they would be free by law just like everybody else.
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  253. I, as a Dutchman, kiss some friends on the cheek to congratulate them or wish them happy new year, but that is something, those are very good friends and just doesn't happen in the first decade of a friendship. You deal with them like you do with your father or brother, so that is special. The Dutch reach is not really a thing I believe, you just fail your driving test when you don't look out for a cyclist. This trick might help not to forget, but you just have to watch out and watch your passengers too because a passenger door will be even closer to the cyclist.
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  254. The gap was more to the outside of the corner, there was huge gap there.
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  255. Journalists like this are part of the problem too because they want to tell their own stories and have ignored the real problem. The victims weren't racially or etnically profiled, they were profiled on dual citizenship, which actually is a risk factor for fraud. They weren't allowed to so that is a breach of the rule of law and allthough serious enough by itself, it's a minor side issue in this case because starting an investigation into fraud wasn't what got people into trouble. That was the way the investigation was conducted and led to sanctions without getting a proper chance to defend oneself, with failing judges allowing cover ups by the civil service. If journalists had done their job like scrutinizing government and the judicial system rather than claiming racism where it's not it wouldn't have gotten this bad.
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  256. If it wasn't for the internet we just had to believe that this was a 15.000 extreme right protest after which the neonazi's stormed the Reichstag.
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  257. For the Netherlands traditionally the Democrats are to our right and the Republicans are off the scale, especially the conservative Christian part but also the sheer economic income and opportunity inequality right. Trump has been getting a worse press here than het gets at home from MSNBC. But lots of people knew the name Trump even before the Apprentice. Lots of people take an interest in 'Americana' like that just like they do in many other things. It's not lack of curiosity. The Dutch also have a low bar for segregatiion. Things like black and white neighbourhoods are a bit daunting and the Netherlands has probably more mixed race marriages than the far bigger USA. We know a lot has changed for the better the past decades but it has been a stain on "the leader of the free world" for very long here, the whole 2nd half of the 20th century.
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  258. De bevolking van Nederland groeit helemaal niet, er worden aan de lopende band verblijfsvergunningen uitgedeeld die de vraag opstuwen en zo de markt manipuleren.
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  259. I don't agree at all, it's great design, same language throughout the car, it's form follows function. It's is butt ugly but that's because the form follows the function. It's ugly in a convincing, unapologetic way because the exterior shows it's about interior space. They decided not to hide it's proportions but emphasize them, and it still looks better than all the ugly cars that try to hide their ugliness in bland anonimity. It's place in the MoMa is just as well deserved as it's topping the list of many ugliest car of all times competitions.
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  260. Four things I like about Skoda. - The 110R coupe, just a very pretty car during communism. - After being bought by VW and becoming a B-brand of it they got their own profile and looks almost right away. - Rear leg room as USP for the Superb, at a time when the Chinese market opened where rear leg room was a status symbol, good for European taxi sales too. That's just smart business. - The Yeti. Such an allround good car that even Top Gear started doing proper car tests again.
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  261. - Manhattan wasn't bought for 24 dollars, it was traded for 60 guilders worth of goods. In 1626 that would buy a merchant quite a load of iron axe heads, which were very useful to the natives who didn't have iron tools.10.000 guilders would buy you a magnificent house in Amsterdam in those days, which was by far the richest and most expenisve city in the world. They might have had a different view of private property of land, which is indeed a dubious concept, but they weren't stupid. They were very competent traders and walked in and out of New Amsterdam to trade too. The Dutch weren't stupid either, they knew there was much more money to be made from a durable good trade relation than robbing land like the still feudal English, French and Spanish used to do. The 24 dollar myth is just very poor historiography by anglophones projecting their own land stealing colonialism on the Dutch, who were no saints either and got worse later on in history, but mostly had a very different approach. They were only in it for the money and the independence war against Spain, and had little desire to rule a lot of land or people. - The foundation of the incredibly diverse multiculturial experience that is NYC today was already laid by the Dutch. New Amsterdan hasn't been anything else than multicultural, multireligious and multiracial because the Dutch Republic didn't have enough (poor) people to man their huge merchant fleet and settlements. -'Bronck's land' was most likely named after a settler in the Dutch settlement, but multicultural as is was it might have been a Swede, allhough names like Bronk, Bronck and Bronckhorst are not uncommon Dutch names today.
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  262. Having to stand trial is a bit of an exaggeration. It's a Dutch civil case so omni pecuniaria sunt, and there is not such a thing as punitive damages, it's mostly exchanging papers and there is no obligation to show up himself. It's importance might be in what we learn from the case and his lawyers defence, but even if the claim gets fully rewarded it won't significantly hurt him financially.
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  263. The protests were peaceful, the government was violent and CNN is not journalism.
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  264. Our grandfathers were nice enough to abolish slavery, the Africans wanted to keep it. We are even much nicer now than our grandfathers, but if that's not appreciated, we can go back to see who is the strongest. Spare me the tought talk.
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  265.  @laillosidgar  Probably not. Coen was bloody ruthless or ruthlessly bloody by Dutch standards of that time, but not by international standards of that time. No comparison. Daendels was a bit of despot, but in general governed well.
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  266.  @laillosidgar  Yes, I know a little about that perspective and I believe it's too political and nationalistic. Coen was responsible for a massacre but there was no Indonesia yet and if the other 'Indonesians' even knew about Banda, they probably didn't care while being oppressed by their own sultans or rajas themselves. Deandels was not a nice guy either, but forced labour and a few thousand people dying in big infrastructure projects is not exceptional in history, it even still happens in the Middle East today. The holocaust was exceptional in the scale, the cruelty, relative to it's time and in it's end goal.
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  267. Both Dutch Protestants and catholics revolted against the religious persecution by the Spanish. They had every right to do so, not just because of it's immense slaughter and torture, but also because it went against the Dutch freedom of conscience. That wasn't propaganda, that was an experience the British didn't have. Those were just safely on their island being declared 'protestant' by their king, the Briish never had to protest the Spanish Inquistion or blood councils.
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  268. No, more democracy and therefore far less EU is the future.
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  269. Misunderstood movies don't come cheap and Verhoeven is almost a guarantee.
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  270. Jongens, jullie zijn hier echt te dom voor. Te dom ja, de juridische kennis en begrip om uitspraken te doen zoals jullie doen ontbreekt ook, maar wat het zo dom maakt is dat jullie wel denken eventjes een bepaling uit het strafrecht te kunnen duiden omdat jullie een internetverbinding hebben die een bepaling te voorschijn tovert. Jullie weten niet wat de rechtsstaat is. De rechtsstaat is niet de rechtshandhaving door justitie, het is het beginsel dat elk overheidsoptreden is gegrondvest en beperkt door het recht. De rechtsstaat is dus slechts in zoverre in het geding dat bijvoorbeeld het OM, wat een overheidsorgaan is, zich niet aan de wet houdt. Jullie vertrouwen in de rechterlijke macht inclusief het OM is blind. Omdat het om Nederland gaat zouden die boven elke twijfel verheven zijn? Advocaten en rechtsgeleerden klagen al jaren steen en been over de spelletjes die het OM speelt en het gebrek aan rechtmatigheid daarvan, en niet alleen Weski. De rechters maken zich daar makkelijk vanaf en delen een sneer uit aan Weski omdat het ze allemaal te ingewikkeld werd. Zou het met rechterlijke dwaling, op dwaling, op dwaling, op dwaling van de rechters en blunder, op blunder, op blunder op blunder van het OM misschien zo kunnen zijn dat we wel topadvocaten hebben, maar geen toprechters, geen topofficieren van justitie en topstrafrechtspraak? Was dat al in jullie hoofdjes opgekomen of zijn jullie helemaal niet kritisch maar vooral autoriteitsgevoelig? Kruiperig zelfs? De vergelijking met De Brauw slaat natuurlijk helemaal nergens op. Ten eerste is grootte en geld geen maat van topadvocatuur, dat jullie moeten bedelen om geld omdat jullie zo kut zijn wil nog niet zeggen dat iedereen die goed verdiend ook meteen top is. De Brauw zit in een hele andere tak van sport, en daar is veel meer werk in meer in te verdienen omdat de meeste mensen zich niet bezig houden met criminele activiteiten om geld te verdienen, maar wel juridisch advies nodig hebben, en heel soms zelfs een rechtszaak. Ik ga niet op al jullie gestuntel in, het zou aandoenlijk zijn als het niet zo tenenkrommend was. Er zou een kanaal moeten zijn dat de snijtafel op de snijtafel legt, en dan niet zulk stomp gereedschap heeft. Maar om alle symptomen van het Dunning-Kruger effect in deze video te bespreken zou het een video van 3 uur moeten worden, en ook daar zit niemand op te wacht. Stop er maar mee. Het idee van de Snijtafel is leuk, en misschien kunnen jullie nog eens een simpel songtekstje aan, maar zelfs bij het bespreken van een programma als Jinek blijken twee scherpere geesten vereist.
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  271.  @LionClanChief  That's the American obsession with race and their confusion of colour and geography. The term African American has determined a lot of people's thinking and now rich neocolonialistic Americans claim ancient egypt for their West-African genes.
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  272. She wasn't advertising beer, she used beer to advertise here ideology. This has been going on for longer, brands not trying to simply sell as much but lecturing their consumers and willing to take a loss in the process. I don't think it's just dumb, it's scary. Just be greedy please, I understand that as a motive.
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  273. De nieuwe leider-eis betekent dat hij helemaal niet wil onderhandelen maar verder wil vechten.
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  274. No, Netherlands have gained huge wealth by dominating European trade and being the first free nation state introducing modern capitalism, but it was already very wealthy before. Coffee bean picking skills have never made anyone rich and still doesn't .
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  275.  Marty Lopez  I know, and it's debatable whether the USA is a democracy but the flagwaving, fighter yet cheering and 'support our troops' shouting masses seems to helps the military industrial complex and the politicians and media who monger those wars. Especially after 9/11 when the flagwaving peaked government and military could hardly be questioned. In the end it is all propaganda, the military doesn't let those fighter jets fly over packed stadiums to defend the country. They don't make military equipment available to Hollywood for anti-war movies. Things like that are unthinkable in Germany for example, because they now the connection between ostentatious 'patriottism' and war.
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  276.  @W1ldSm1le  Not the whole country. They have to build Jeff Bezos his yacht too, and have ASML, Philips, Shell, Akzo/Nobel, DSM, the biggest port in Europe etc too, so farming isn't really that big a part of the economy, 1.5% if I remember correctly. But a lot of land was created for farming and the last time it was to become food independent and not have a repeat of the 1945 famine. After the German occupation people were even encouraged financially to emigrate to shrink the population to a feedable size. Now farmland has to be expropriated to make room for even more mass immigration. But 'restoring nature' would indeed mean giving half of the coutnry back to the North Sea. There is practically no wild nature left, that has gone centuries ago. The country is hydro-engineering project that has nature like a garden has nature. Ironically lots of those nature area's were created by farmers quite recently. Otoh, change is needed. We have little space for lots of people and producing porc for China is not the most sensible use of scarce land. But that not an excuse to use nitrogen for expropriation, for government to get the land cheap. Because as soon as government owns the land and permits itself to use it for housing, the price per square meter goes op 30 times or something that order of magnitude.
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  277. Here in NL it can be studied at university as Finoegristiek, so Finnish and Hungarian basically, grouped together like Roman languages are often one faculty too. It's not a very popular study. As a kid, kids pick up languages much more easily, we went on vacations all over Europe and you pick up language stuff, learn quite a bit of words and get a feel for what might have been said. In Hungary not so much, maybe 10 words, there is a huge linguistical distance.
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  278.  @timothymattnew  If you build for your own people. Asylum seekers do not serve the Dutch people and therefore attracting them with free housing does not serve the Dutch people.
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  279.  @sperzieb00n  It was ruined by mass immigration primarily. Supply of housing is limited by nature, demand for housing in the Netherlands is infinite when government keeps splashing residency permits around. It's not the governments job to serve foreigners interest in living here, that goes against the constitution and the 'democratische rechtsstaat'.
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  280. The Ruyter's father was a brewery drayman, he became admiral on merit alone when the Engllish fleet still had be commanded by nobles. The Dutch Republic had nobility but social mobility unlike any other country, and that's how you get the right people in the right place with such a small population. Equality made the less than 2 million Dutch people the supreme economic wold power.
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  281. Lada Niva, disproving that no good cars came out of communism. A lot of bad cars did though.
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  282. No, not really. They respected local culture so they let the enslavement of people go on, and even bought the slaves. They did hardly any robbing and raping, that was not allowed and would hinder the exploitation, and they were still tolerant.
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  283. No it's not. He's just regurgitating 21st century American coup propaganda and posing as critical journalist by telling about older coups.
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  284. The trick was actually not to colonize but just control the trade and don't try to rule the people themselves. They just didn't have the numbers of Dutch for an empire, especially with life in the Dutch Republic beeing so nice and wealthy. They didn't care anyway, this was not a kingdom with a power hungry king, but a republic that was all about trade, money and the fight for independence and against catholic rule. The actual colonization of Indonesia only took place in the late 19th and early 20th century, partly because Africa was divided by other European powers, partly because their was outrage about the cruelty of local rulers the Dutch profited from.
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  285. No, people in shithole countries are in shithole countries because they don't understand the difference between building wealth and taking wealth. The Dutch didn't plunder anyway, but they did take wealth unfairly. But they got wealthy from building it, they were filthy rich before their colonial exploitation produced any ROI, and even the infamous VOC at it's peak was an insignificant contribution to the economy. The Dutch invented modern capitalism, they were the free country among the absolute theocratic monarchies, and they did more than half of all European trade with 1.5 million inhabitants. Only around 1800 the British Empire took over as the biggest trader in the world. That's what made them filthy rich, and hard well organized work. At no point in history the Dutch East India company brought in more money than the good old herring trade.
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  286. Het is een beetje als voetballers die klagen dat de scheidsrechter niet aan hun kant meedoet. De burgemeester moet nou eenmaal de vrijheid van demonstratie en meningsuiting faciliteren. Dat is uberhaupt de reden dat KOZP zoveel Sinterklaasintochten grimmig heeft kunnen maken. Je hebt geen recht om je zin door te drijven en je hebt geen recht om niet tegengesproken te worden. Het recht om te demonstreren is het recht om mensen proberen te overtuigen. Mensen die als Zwarte Piet verkleed 'black is beautiful' scanderen is iets waar je maar tegen moet kunnen en je niet zo over moet aanstellen.
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  287. No, I don't agree, he was appointed by the States, the parliaments of the Dutch provinces consisting of commoners. It was the States-general that paid for his invasion army and fleet, and the goal for both the States-General and William was not to annex England or have him rule like a medieval king, but to make England into a durable, stable protestant religious tolerant ally. That's why he asked to be invited and waged a propaganda war to get popular and nobility support. This was to prevent a catholic absolutist English king being treacherous again and teaming up in secret with catholic absolutist Louis XIV and German bishopries to annihilate the Dutch Republic like in 1672 when they came very close. He was somewhat king like because he was competent, had vision and had build a huge network in foreign relations, so the States let him. There also was no 'countercommoner' (William was a noble), a higly competent well respected figure leading the States like Stadtholder Maurits had decades before. The 'Statists' side with it's disregerad for heridatery posiitons had taken a heavy blow in 1672 because it made Holland to powerful over the other provinces and neglected land defenses there in the preceeding 'Stadtholderless Era'. William stepped in, took command of the army, flooded large parts of the country and kicked the French troops out, he saved the Dutch Republic from annihilation, catholic rule and mass murder of the protestants. The Stadtholder used to be the high command of the army and unifying force, while the commoners in charge of the Dutch Republic were all about Holland, trade and the navy. Holland was protected over land by the Hollandic waterline, a system of defenses by flooding area's. He was a rich man in an extremely rich Dutch Republic and showing off more than other rich Dutch people, in a royal style and he had a court like entourage. He once complained he felt like king of the Dutch Republic and Stadtholder of England because the English parliament was slowing his policies down while the Dutch States gave him more room to manouver. He might look like a king now, but that's because he changed what a king is through that glorious invasion, he created the constitutional monarchy. Back then, kings had the divine right of kings, denounce by the Dutch in their DOI more than a century before, they were king by birth and were absolute monarchs who decided on the religion of their people. Originally the Stadtholder was a steward to the king appointed by the king, and became a steward to the States appointed by the States once the king was declared to have left the throne for being a tyrant.
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  288.  @Valpo2004  Indeed, the waiting lists for families to adopt a grave are full. It's all very well organized now by volunteer associations throug their grave adoption registry, but citizens have been taken care of the war graves since the war.
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  289. I do agree the Mona Lisa is far too small for it's popularity. I am quite tall so I could look over all the other visitors but decided not to try to get close enough to actually try to enjoy it. Especially not in a museum with so much art that I didn't know yet.
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  290. Bicycles needs very little to move around efficiently, very little space and very little rules. This is quite an orderly junction and there are much more chaotic ones that only work because everybody is willing to improvise a little and tolerate one another to be a bit cheeky. There is a lot of non verbal communication with the leg movement, handle bars and eyes. Thomas Schlijper - unbelievably busy cycling crossing in Amsterdam- for example. There are similar videos'from Utrecht and Groningen too.
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  291. Actually, the 17th century Dutch came up with the idea of an internal combustion engine, on gun powder and precision metal work must also have been a bit of an issue, but still....
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  292. Unsubscriber here too.
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  293. If you weren't ignorant about history you wouldn't support Hamas I guess.
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  294.  @marimarianations9355  So why can't local drive a few months before they get their licence? You set a bar for road safety or you don't. If you don't meet certain standards you are not allowed on the road, unless you are an American. That's just not right.
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  295. Xenophobia has nothing to do with anti-mass-immigration.
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  296. I guess it takes an American to spot such minute nuances in skin colour that escape most Italians. Yes, Southern-Italians are discriminated against by Northern Italians, but that's socio-economic and cultural and recognized by things like accent, not skin colour. This obsession with skin colour is purely American, stop projecting and exporting it.
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  297. I don't agree. Because the ancient rights and priveleges also included the right of those to rule their cities and religious matters as they saw fit. Basically they just didn't want any zeal getting in the way of public order and money making. The had it going on and then this Spanish guy comes to mess it up with religious persecution. They wanted it to be a matter of public order so they could keep the peace. Also in the Dutch DOI from 1681, the freedom of conscience, for every man to serve god as he believed was right, was one of the inalienable rights the tyrant Philip II trampled on. The Spanish Inquisition was terrible. The climate of fear, the snitching but also just the torture and burning at the stake.
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  298. It's a bit of shame the cycling and public transport advocates here are too ideologically uptight to show this off properly.
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  299. If I try to speak German neatly with the littlest accent I can do as a Dutchman, it gets physically uncomfortable after a while, I get fatigue in different parts of the mouth and throat. When I switch to a heavy Dutch accent that discomfort is over. Dutch has more guttorals but and might actually be harsher, but we are not famous for shouting orders. Maybe if you get cursed at for walking in the bicycle lane people experience Dutch as harsh. Compound words are easy if you recognize the seperate words, and they are very useful. With every word added to the compound the meaing becomes more defined, narrowed down in meaning more precisely. If you can't put that precision in one word, for example in a legal profession, describing exactly what you mean precisely gets in the way of structuring the sentence, with compound words it doesn't so can have complex and precise definitions in complex sentences which can be very useful. In English you just can't do that and that limits expression. Compound words are therefore famous from the civil servants language.
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  300. Asked what I thought about the 1996 Romeo and Juliet film I said it was quite good but the dialogue was poorly written. I've had it in school as part of learning English, I've read two plays and a few sonnets, and it's all nice and great within the context of literature of that time, but "the most influential cultural figure of all time", how so? Is he more influential than Dante, Cicero, Goethe and Cervantes, if we limit cultural figure to European literature? What if we go beyond literature and/or Europe? Yes quite a few of his 40 plays are still played, and played around the world the past century. But are plays that influential? Did those plays change the world or something?
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  301. With peak VOC only having 140 merchant ships of the 20.000 plus Dutch merchant fleet. The VOC brought back interesting stuff from Japan, China, India and Persia and helped Amsterdam to be the absolute trading hub of the world, but made most of it's money by trade within Asia. The bulk of the money came from bulk shipping within Europe though, the VOC hardly contributed.
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  302. Traumatized by the famine of the 44-45 winiter, Dutch government encouraged people to move out because the country couldn't sustain more than 10 million people, and it made a hug slab of former sea dry to get more farmland to never had food shortage again. Now farmer's land is taken by government to house immigrants.
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  303. Citroen roughly had three "coach builders". Chapron and Heuliez for the fancy luxury stuff, Tissier more for the work horses. A six wheeler to get 1000 kg's of news papers from the printer over the high ways at high speed to spread the morning news early, things like that, some are converted to campers. They also did a DS van, very extraordinary looking thing.
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  304. And Ukraine is difficult to put together too.
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  305. Actually Gdansk is a very Dutch Polish city, lots of Dutch style and Dutch build houses from the 17th century, when the ship would very likely also have been Dutch. But Utrecht was a most important city in a slightly earlier era when the Baltic Sea trade wasn't dominated yet. This neighbourhood in Lemmer is actually not that complicated. We have a lot of so called spaghetti and coliflower neighbourhoods in the Netherlands since the 60's, they were designed to be very residential and pedestrian, kids playing, cars gowing very slow. Usually they are quite nice but people have died because ambulances and fire trucks couldn't find their way in time before sat nav.
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  306. No, the sleepwalking into dictatorship ended in november. You know any democracy without freedom of speech? You know any dictatorship with free speech?
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  307.  @e.i.l.9584  Feelings over facts? The EU is undemocratic and antidemocratic by design, the EP elections are democratic facade. Democracy is about power, not about having a say or feeling represented.
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  308. The model shown was a 2 wheel drive. Would also not have been very muscle car, a 4wd with ABS in the early 70's.
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  309. In more densely populated areas it's usually lack of spatial planning. In the Netherlands it's often along a canal, in Belgium mostly along roads. "Linear settlement" is seen as undesirable because it urbanizes quite a bit of the country side without housing many. It is not a good shape for community and efficiency within it, and means there is a road to cross for many people very often and that will lead to more accidents.
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  310. Rutte wil Nederland vooral naar de afgrond leiden. Maar WNL is nooit te beroerd om weer een verdediging op te trekken, dat deed de Telegraaf ook al deze week.
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  311.  @Teutathis  Northern is not a word that can be spoken strictly culturally, contrary to Scandinavian or Western. I believe the Netherlands is Western-Europe or North-Western Europe but not Northern Europe. I don't agree either. I don't feel close to Scandinavian at all. Of course there are similarities, but those are there with Poland and France too.
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  312. "The Prince" review reminds me of me at 11 years old picking up Hendrik Conscience's The Lion of Flanders, or the Battle of the Golden Spurs expecting some kind of Ivanhoe adventure.
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  313. The French "Creme de la creme" is still a Dutch expression for the best, the top, of something. Never realized that could be an actual thing rather than just word play.
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  314. It's branded as a Volvo here, a later one therefore. The dark green one. It had the first CVT, very smart and simple system. It also ended up in a race car and was about to enter Formula 1, but it was outlawed because it would be much faster than the others. They could have tuned the engine for one specific rev number since the CVT would do the rest, and that's too much to work with for an F1 engineer. The same speed in reverse was just the outcome of the system used. Because it was so easy to use in the days of double clutching in small cars, and quick of the line, the engines were kept small and it was very popular among not to keen drivers, women and the elderly. This ruined the image of the car after a few decades. It was called "old tart shaker with suspender belt drive". DAF came up with the Marathon coupe, a sporty and quick version that did well in rallies, but it was too late.
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  315. Om te fileren heb je een scherper mes uit de la nodig dan Wopke Hoekstra. Hij fileert hier dan ook helemaal niks, hij vertelt braaf wat de houding van de EU is, maar haalt dat door elkaar met 'Europa'.
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  316. There used to be more and much more advanced civilizations but what makes Western civilization unique is that it stumbled on a path of ever accelerating development through the combination of the printing press, science, innovation, shipping and cultural exchange. Civilizations used to develop linear but the West was the first to develop exponentially. This has also made it's global reach. The whole world can join in and profit from it, at most of the world does in one way or the other. What the West now gets blamed for is spreading it out, and therefore started with making things better for themselves, while the rest of the world had to wait a little longer for values like freedom, humanity and equality to be brought to them too. But even before that, there is no way there could be this many Africans without Western medicine and agriculture.
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  317.  @tripleceven  No, the Dutch didn't bring segregation. Where would they have brought it from? There was no segregation in Dutch Republic or in any of it's settlements or trading posts. Apartheid is an invented word from the 20th century. De Boers are of Dutch, French and German descent and Afrikaans is a language from Dutch origin. It's typical for the English to occupy the whole country and rule all people living there. Dutch colonialism was about trade, with some crimes on the side. It's a bit simplistic to go by such superficial relations with Dutch don't you think?
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  318.  @klebitzboy6913  Dutch New Amsterdam is also an important economic center nowadays, called New York City. Cape Town is also an important economic center. Besides the fact that the Dutch knew to pick their spot for a trading post, they've also developped those spots into economic centers. A lot of things have changed between 1602 and 1948, in the word and in Indonesia, and most changes in Indonesia were done by the Dutch, including making it into one country. I don't believe a Javanese sultanate was the center of an Asian trading empire before the Dutch arrived.
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  319.  @Ann_niana  They didn't have much choice because New Amsterdam wasn't protected well. The English hadn't declared war yet, that's why there was negotiation, but at gunpoint. It was very important to the English because New Netherland was a wedge between English settlements. The point was that the importance is also the product of the Dutch settlers influence. Manhattan was nothing special untill the Dutch decided it was a good spot to develop.
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  320. You got a great country full of natural resources, Dutch quality infrastructure and 30.000 euro per inhabitant in aid, especially and explicitely because of slavery. Still half the population went to the Netherlands to enjoy all the opportunity, the free university education and especially the welfare there. The Dutch were early witht abolishing the slavetrade, it was the first thing the new Dutch government after the French occupation did, but late with ending the remaining slavery. Dutch children are taught about slavery and other dark pages in our country's spectacular history. But we see it as something from the past and are glad things got much better over time, for the whole world and they have the Dutch to thank for that most (allthough the latter is not taught, that is my insight). We don't moan about the Spanish Inquisition and the massacres of whole cities anymore, we don't moan about the French occupation and tens of thousands of deaths, we don't even moan about the Germans killing 300.000 and actually forcing people into slave labour. Yes, there are Dutch still alive that have done slave labour, and they are white. And now Dutch blacks, who didn't do any slave labour nor did their parents or grandparents, and are often descendants of African enslavers and slavetraders, want money from the people who did slave labour themselves, because they are black. It's sickening racism.
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  321. Like what? Threaten to refuse Dutch aid or stop sending 'refugees'?
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  322. Those major powers did attack several times, even together, but mostly failed. Partly because it was in the time war was fought by mercenaries and the Dutch were rich so their small population didn't matter. It was one of the powerful countries itself. It also had the best sailors, the navy was compromised, big gun ships had too much drought for the shallow home waters but that was compensated for with tactics. Als the West part of the country with it's ports could be and was protected by flooding the surrounding farm fields. That protected the Netherlands until the aircraft technology of WWII. Napoleon's invasion succeeded because it was an exceptionally harsh winter and the flooded area froze over quicker than the Dutch could break the ice. The Dutch Republic was the biggest economic power for over a century because it dominated all European trade, they basically took over the Hanseatic League with their industrialized ship building en the early modern capitalists, no one could compete. The spice trade was tiny in comparison. Actually the VOC, the "Dutch East India Company" started out to defend against the most powerful country in Europe, the trade financing the military presence to fight the Portuguese, who were part of the Spanish Empire. The Dutch Republic was the first modern country basically, and shaped the world through it's capitalism and freedom to fit it's own geography. But as an Amercian you probably learned European history from the English, who like to pretend they were always first in everything and at the centre of everything. Not in the 17th and 16th century they were.
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  323.  @lieke9374  The Dutch Golden Age was from the 1570's to the 1670's and the VOC had little to do with it.
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  324. No one spreads ignorance around the world like the British.
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  325. Shell has been a Dutch-British cooperation from the beginning, but it used to be a Dutch company until it moved it's headquarter to the UK for tax and legal reasons very recently. Their main operation is still from the Netherlands I guess, because of Rotterdam. Airbus is mostly legally registered in the Netherlands for tax or French-German neutrality or something. Netherlands is an attractive country for Intellectual Property law especially in relation to tax too apparently. There is a research division there too but Airbus manufacturing is not happening there.
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  326. Except that it would be BS. The Dutch did more than half of Europe's shipping, that's where the wealth came from. The colonial trade was peanuts in comparison.
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  327. Totalitarians unite.
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  328. Indeed, these millions of Chinese and Indian tourists are admiring the Notre Dame or another one of thousands impressive churches or other buildings because pre Columbus Europeans were just poor peasants? Yes China was far ahead initially, but India was regressing, Japan similarly feudal, the difference is that European development suddenly accelerated and kept acceleration through book printing and science.
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  329. Excellent video but by now primary sources have shown that William contacted the 7 lords and asked to be invited, while the States-general had already an invasion fleet build and was assembling an army. William knew of the English sensitivities of being invaded and being ruled by a foreigner, and since it was a stable ally he was after, and threw all the propaganda tricks known from the 80-years independence war at the English people. The invitation was only one those, his soldiers were forbidden to use words like invasion or conquest, he called himself liberator, he rode a white horse in shiny armour, he brought a regiment of black soldiers in white turbands to impress as a world power, he held speeches, he promised religious tolerance for the catholics. He also brought John Locke over from the Dutch Republic where he had lived and written his important works. Het actually acompanied Mary on the crossing. So revolution is a bit of a stretch, to put it nicely, but the product of the propaganda of it's day and after. The idea of parliament picking a king to serve the people was not complete in the sense that the legitimacy had to be claimed ot mary's blood line and only could because the legitimate king had left, it also wasn't that radical anymore. The Dutch Republic originated from the idea that a monarch should lead and protect the people like a shepard his sheep, respect their inalienable rights like the freedom of conscience (of how to serve god and therefore freedom of religion) and that a legitimate monarch that trampled those rights and the ancient rights and privileges of the cities (including managing religious affairs as a matter of public order) was a tyrant to be removed. It's all in the Dutch DOI of 1581, which isn't as catchy a read as the American DOI but very similar in substance. This infringement on the divine right of kings by the Dutch had not lead to god's wrath, on the contrary, the Dutch Republic had faired extremely well since, of course money and guns talk and the Dutch Republic was by far the richest country. The stadtholders of the Orange family gave the European monarchies nobility to talk to instead of just a republican peasant like DeWitt, while it didn't challenge the concept of European monarchy directly nor did they betray the system of bloodlines by claiming to be king themselves. So it had been a bit of a balancing act in the century before.
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  330.  @matthowells6382  England was quite poor compared to Flanders for example, were they sailed to to get bricks. They were pretty experienced at warfare, also naval, but as an economic power they only got big in and towards the 18th century. Most societies were feudal but England was not early with change.
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  331. 7.40 The Dutch took over from the Hanseatic league not that gradually, but in a matter of decades by industrialized shipbuilding, an efficient merchant ship and low intrests through central banking. Britain might have gotten navy supremacy at the end of the 17th century (when the Dutch Republic had taken the English throne btw) but the Dutch kept dominating the trade in the North Sea and the Baltics for much longer. Global trade didn't take over from the Hanseatic League, the Dutch did, the British nor any other couldn't compete and moved onto the oceans. The Dutch moved onto the oceans too, but initially to take their 80-year war with Spain and Portugal over there, not instead of their European trade but on top. Trade with East-Asia took a year sailing and another year sailing back, the Americas about half of that, that remained a tiny part of the trade until the steamships.
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  332. It's such a nonsense. We don't vote for parties, we vote for individual candidates and the lists they are on. If she had only said '"Yes" we would have had Marga Klompé as the first female PM in 1967, but she said at that time a more social economic expert as PM was what the country needed. Now that is a great woman, putting the country over her own ambitions. It's just not an issue unless a left leaning unpopular female politician wants to cry misogyny when criticized. We had an immigrant speaker of the house twice, the highest job in the Dutch state actually, and we have had many immigrant background ministers. Actually, the first black cabinet minister was in 1903. This is the Netherlands after all.
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  333. We have had that here in the Netherlands for years: people not agreeing with government only have feelings, they aren't capable of reason and analysis. Especially Americans also seem under the impression that GDP is a useful indicator and that the stock market is important for the economy.
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  334. The Europeans made slavery something of the past, but the Africans keep thinking in terms of race about slavery. That's just factually wrong. Should the Europeans have expanded their civilization, as in all people are born free, over the world sooner? Probably. But in the thousands and thousands of years of slavery, those few hundred of years are marginal and did lead up to the abolishment of worldwide slavery.
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  335. To me the weirdest thing about 9/11 was that the attacks only could be pulled off because there was a military exercise that day following a similar script. So there had to be security leak that wasn't investigated. Removing the whole crime scene as quick as possible to let the rubble float arond on the sea for many months was also vere strange. Aren't there rules for investigating a mass murder?
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  336. Jullie hebben echt totaal geen flauw benul waar je het over hebt. Een grondwet is niet om grondrechten uit te delen, de grondwet vertelt de staat hoe die in elkaar zit en moet werken. Het is daarmee de grondslag van de staat en dus ook van de rechtsstaat, maar dat begrip zal ook wel te moeilijk voor jullie zijn. Dat is allemaal best belangrijk en kan ingewikkeld zijn, dus het zo opschrijven dat de allerdomste Nederlanders het ook begrijpen is geen prioriteit.
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  337. We don't vote for the prime minister, a primus inter pares, but for the house that appoints a cabinet including a prime minister. The VVD is not liberal, it's conservative, hard neoliberal right economics and authoritarian. Social progressiveness has been throughout the whole political landscape for many decades, with only a tiny christian party and the muslim party as exceptions.
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  338. Call out Johnny for sneaking in women's football. No, that's not the most world's most revered sport. The universal language, the cheering, the crying, the identity does not apply to that either. Women's football is a heavily subsidized but still struggling entertainment in mostly Western countries and has nothing to do with Qatar.
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  339.  @mmarques2736  Islam is anti-Dutch values like freedom of religion, freedom of conscience and equality. Allthough those are the only reasons there are muslims in the Netherlands in the first place. It's for the Dutch muslims to make it work. That's about time.
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  340.  @cmcmanus1974  I'm well aware of the distinction but one of the B's in BBC stands for British. My point was that they missed the class angle because they assume a similar development towards a more equal society, while the language goes back to a time with far greater differences between the countries in that respect. I don't see what his has got to do with your personal experience.
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  341. It's where the water from the mountains flows too. In the Middle Ages it was called "the anus of the world".
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  342.  @malaskomen9204  I get the impression the Dutch did a better job of leaving the Papuans alone than the Indonesians. The West is not one single static culture with a view of the world that hasn't changed in 500 years. Dutch colonialism was different in the 1600's compared to other Europeans, much more the same in the 1880's, changed again in the early 1900's and towards Papua New Guinea, like 'let's not ** this island up too'.
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  343.  @wenderis  No, I said there was serious colonial crime, not a claim to serious amounts of land. Not because the Dutch were such good people, because it was not their style to want lots of land and rule lots of people. That's the simplification in this video that is factually wrong and dumbing down. Coen killed 1200 Bandanese in retalliation for the murder of a Dutch delegation who went their because the Bandanese went behind their back. If you have to go back that long and that massacre is the worst you can find, it can't have been that bad. But Coen got told off by the VOC, they saw themselves as much more peaceful and believed he had used excessive force. The Dutch regaining control over Indonesia by military force is frowned upon these days in the Nehterlands. And I agree with the principle they should allow self rule and the Geneva convention should have been respected. On the other hand, the Indonesian nationalists were on a slaughter of anyone that wasn't pure blood Indonesian. The Chinese, the whites and the mixed race had to be protected too. Order needed to be restored.
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  344.  @EmeraldMara85  Very interesting but he East India Company you are referring to is English, not Dutch. The Dutch East India company is of course not called an English name, it's often called that because the British and Americans can't handle more than one language, but it's name is "De Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie" or VOC. The Dutch colonial empire is not some miniature version of the British empire, it wasn't even an empire and certainly not for the first 300 years. The British might have appropriated the 17th century, they were just a backward feudal and mercantilist bunch of poor classist violent people stuck in the Middle Ages until the Dutch invaded and cleaned up. The Dutch were the inventors of modern capitalis, the Dutch were a republic and had no king wanting an empire and didn't have the feudal reflex to have more land and control peoplle , the Dutch wanted free trade on the open seas, the Dutch were only with 1.5 million people and didn't have the man power to rule lots of land and people. "Empire is too expensive". They were traders, the country was run by merchants and it was in a defensive existential war with Spain and Portugal first, and with France, Britain and parts of Germany later. That is the background of the Dutch colonial cirmes. Not grabbing serious land, but monopolizing trade routes with a few strongholds and forced monopolization of certain trade goods. That's also why the Dutch were allowed in Japan and the others weren't. That's why I wrote what I wrote, this shallowness this dumbing down of history by the video. The colonial era is shaped by both capitalism, beginning with the Dutch, and feudalism and mercantilism from the backward countries among the colonial powers, and is has been shaped by wars among them. But Harris in his eagerness to show what a good person he is by telling how bad the Europeans are, ignores all this complexity and the differences to make it simplistic.
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  345. Hittegolven zijn geen extreem weer en ze komen ook nauwelijks vaker voor. Wat wel veel vaker voorkomt is hittegolven voorspellen er dan een week lang over drammen alsof het klimaatverandering bewijst waarna de hittegolven dan vaak uitblijven.
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  346. The Dutch East India company was important for the survival of the Dutch Republic because if Spains partner Portugal would have kept the spice trade the money would be used to finance the 80-years war against the Dutch Republic. It started out for the war effort in the first place, war and trade were closely related. But it was hardly of any economic importance, and no point in history even matching the Dutch herring trade and dwarfed by the Baltic Sea trade. The Dutch shipped more than half of Europe's goods, were shipping all over the world and had quite a bit of industry too. Peak VOC might have been close to 1% of the economy max. Slavery is a bit complicated because the Dutch saw themselves as traders rather than colonizers and didn't bother with ruling very much, so the slavery was the responsability of local rulers and when they worked for the Dutch they got (called) a different status.
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  347.  @GS-km9cm  So the Dutch people who build schools and introduced the idea of schools to the Indonesians to give them a Dutch style schoolling named the schools after Dutch people. How cruel.
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  348. De EU heeft weer zijn eigen crisis gecreeerd die alleen maar kan worden bestreden met meer EU. Het is het volgende bedrijf in de staatsgreep.
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  349. I didn't know that one, I like the 110R coupe very much. I always had a soft spot for the Czech designs of the communist era too, because the car industries in other Eastern European coutries showed how tough communism was for car industries.
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  350. Don't forget what the American government has done recently. It's a trend in the West towards totalitarianism and indeed the UK is leading.
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  351.  @Alakablam  No. I have not forgotten that the invention of the wind sawmill in 1592 that allowed the Dutch to build ships 30 times faster and the development of modern capitalism here that allowed Dutch merchants to work cheaper because the de facto central bank kept the interests low. Freedom of and the end of Spanish oppression helped to of course, the Netherlands were already thriving before Philip II.
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  352. A bit stereotypical about the French, it's quite a robust car, it used a lot of new materials but those were still high quality durable plastics. The hydropneumatics were very reliable too, just not foolproof. The USA had too few mechanics that actually understood the car. It was a luxury car, but in the spirit of egalité and Citroen being an engineering company rather than marketeers doing branding, it had no issue with making both the flimsy 2CV, also a reliable car btw, and a car good enough for the president at the same time. In the 60s Citroen contemplated the idea of a disposable car, as in all of it wearing out around the same time. They threw that idea out but it appears to have had it's effect on the materials used in later cars, as well as other French manufacturers cutting a few corners too many making light cheap cars. But the DS is not the product of fashion designers making a car and giggling about it, France is also a country of bridgebuilders, industrialists, lathes, metallurgy, aviators, who are just a bit more playful and bold when it comes to looks. Between the British starting the industrial revolution and German engineering becoming iconic, the French were leading the way. The Netherlands has been the biggest market for Citroen outside France after WWII. I still see DS's regularly, they are just not daily drivers anymore and most stay indoors for the winter. The ones remaining have moved up to more cherished and less used classics.
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  353.  @aphextwin5712  Yes, but countries and cities that have been most important in the past tend to be named in different languages more. We know Cologne must have been an important city for many non German speaking people.
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  354. This video nor the comments do justice to the brilliance of the CVT. You might not like it, but it's still brilliant and it has hardly significantly improved from the Variomatic. There was hardly any automatic option for small cars in the 50's, lots didn't even have 4 synchronized gears yet. In actual daily traffic up to about 70 km/h the undermotorized DAFs were quicker than most. The variomatic also served as a limited slip differential. It's driving ease and favouring by old people, lots of them who got their licence at later age, gave it the wrong image. DAF tried to save that by rallying and introducing the Marathon coupe, but it was too late and they kept using the CVT to compensate for lack of power and torque.
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  355. It's such a charismatic car. I saw the later restyled version driving through a narrow inner city shopping street once, and all the people on the sidewalks turned their heads. Mostly women, who switched their attention of shoes and cloths in the windows to a car, that takes something.
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  356. John Frankenheimer, basically laid the foundation for car chase cinematogrophy with 1966 "Grand Prix" which is a ridiculous story in itself. Camera men stripped to F1 cars, the actors had to drive the race cars themselves. The dubbing of the 6.9 bothered me though.
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  357. Piet Hein for example is also interesting because he represents a few new idea's of that time just like WIC and the government of the Dutch Republic did. Just like the whole board and particularly it's main founder Willem Usselincx he was a stern calvinist to whom allthough religious tolerant catholicism and therefore Spain was an existential threat to be fought with war and trade. In this Dutch protestantism all people were children of god and therefore slavery was a barbaric practice of these evil catholics. In the Dutch declaration of independence it was explicitly not being treated as slaves that was a main argument. He also believed it was terribly unfair that natives everywhere got caught up in these European wars. He also represented the Dutch Republic becoming more meritocratic. The still very well known celebration song states "Piet Hein, Piet Hein, zijn naam is klein zijn dade benne groot. His name is small his deeds are great. Small name refers to him not being a noble or even from a rich merchant family, but just an ordinary guy and obviously the people liked that enough to put it in the song. The bitter irony is that the money was not only used for the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch but also for a WIC campaignagainst the Spanish alliy Portugal. Johan Maurits conquered what was to be named Dutch Brazil and became governor. He was probably one of the most enlightened men of his time, he fall madly in love with Brazil, he shipped in painters and botanists to study it, he wanted to build an university there and he called the native converted to protestantism the true Brazilian. But he also wrote the WIC board that he couldn't run that Portuguese plantation colony without oxes and blacks. So in 1637 he asked and got permission to get slaves and he captured the slave fort of Elmina on the African coast from the Portuguese too, today's Ghana. His permission to practice slavery was conditional, free after 7 years and teach them in protestantism. But the colony was lost soon after, and the slave fort was not and great relationships with the selling Ashanti were established. Peace with Spain and Portugal was signed in 1648 so no more privateering, the agricultural settlements of good protestants in today's New York state weren't much of a success either because life in the Dutch Republic itself was just to good and rich, so there wasn't much to do for the WIC other than shipping slaves to mostly the foreign plantation colonies and industrializing the triangular transatlantic slave trade in the process. They were even the biggest Atlantic slavetraders for a short while until the English copied them but through better understanding of hygiene managed to keep more slaves alive giving them the competitive edge. Piet Hein didn't live to see how terribly that had evolved but Ussellincx did and went to Sweden desillusioned.
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  358.  @jeffblackard9753  They could build ships 30 times faster. It was much more important for doing more than half of all European shipping than for global shipping. In the high risk high reward trade with Asia or the Americas that competitive edge wasn't so important. But the big money was in the far more frequent, far bigger European bulk trade.
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  359. It's very much recent Dutch political culture and that of the (semi) public sector. They think it's their job to do something about security, not to effectively secure the artefacts. We have a camera, we have done what is customary and that is no guards at night for the regular cheap stuff there, so we're good. No one felt responsible for making sure it couldn't be stolen.
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  360.  @katie7748  That, but also sexual joy specifically. In it's natural state it all works great and give great pleasure, I suspect there is some prudeshness under the surface that explains the contempt for the natural genitals in that ideology and the desire to replace them with something that mainly just mechanically works.
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  361.  @vbscript2  Those two probably made it into a revolution because of it's impact on ordinary people's lives, but there's the industrial revolution and there's industrialization. The latter, as an approach to production, already existed, just like modern capitalism. The steam power allowed for production to pick any location and for the power to be fully controlled, the steel allowed for smaller tolerances. That's a big change so it seems fair to me to make the distinction between the industrialization of the industrial revolution and the proto-industrialization from before, which many historians do. That was what I was saying.
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  362. Poorly researched..
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  363. Had nothing to do with muslims. The Dutch always respected the local religions and the Indonesian nationalism also had nothing to do with islam. I might be a shock to many muslims, but it is actually possible to respect other people's religion even when you're in power. Ironically, the Indonesian nationalists sided with the fascist Japanese. And after the Japanese were beaten they claimed to be ready for independence and showed this by going on a slaughter of everybody that was not pure blooded Indonesian. About 30.000 whites, mixed race and Chinese were murdered because of their skin colour. This was the reason for the Dutch military action. That was successfull, they had almost full control back and the slaughter of innocent civilians had stopped, but the christian American government forced the Dutch to move out to have Indonesian independence immediately rather than let the Dutch take their time, who had already decided upon eventual Indonesian independence decades earlier. The USA wanted to end colonialism to make way for their neocolonialism, same exploitation, but without the responsibilities. So the Dutch had a racist slaughter by the Germans, no, not on their way to France (why keep people making this bullsit up?), then a racist slaughter by the Japanese and then a racist slaughter by the Javanese. The Javenese subseqeuntly colonized the Moluccas and Papua New Guinea, where the people still rather have the Dutch in charge. Still, nothing to do with muslims whatsoever, other than that thanks to the Dutch legacy, Indonesai is the only muslim majority country with freedom of relgion.
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  364. I believe you. Lots of people forget that maintaining fitness is much easier than gaining it, especially at 60 or 70. 30km a day is not much, it only takes 5 km/h a hour, a slow walking speed for anybody the old and 6 hours. I assume I will be able to do that in my 60's. Walking is really not that hard when you keep doing it all your life. It's not hiking, it's just walking.
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  365. Onhoudbaarder? Onhoudbaar heeft geen vergrotende trap, onhoudbaar is onhoudbaar. Onze taal wordt geweld aangedaan om maar niet te hoeven vertellen dat het wel houdbaar was maar er een andere keuze gemaakt is.
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  366.  @yousef.al-assaf  So what's the context that makes it racist in this case?
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  367. Gelul natuurlijk, het VN vluchtelingenverdrag kan gewoon opgezegd en hoeft dus niet gewijzigd. De wet biedt ook heel veel mogelijkheden, maar dan moet je wel willen en niet elke activistische interpretatie van elke rechter heilig verklaren.
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  368. I learned recently that in and after 1672, the disaster year in Dutch history, the immense art market completely collapsed never to restore, and that Vermeer suffered hugely from that because he was also a big art dealer. He sat on lots of paintings by others he couldn't sell.
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  369.  @SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1  At least I listened: "It's been nearly a decade since Dutch waters have been covered with such a layer of ice". Simply a lie because 3 years is not nearly a decade. Not very long ago we used to ridicule climate deniers for pointing at the cold weather and rightly so, but now the climate alarmists are in denial of the weather and trying to create false memories. This cold has been called exceptional from the start while it's just winter and even not very cold.
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  370. It's policy. Typically neoliberal policy, make money off what everybody needs and is mostly already put there by previous generations and businesses. Innovation, new products that people desire rather than need is a far too difficult way to get rich, especially when you're educated in finances and tax evasion. There are thousands of free euro's printed per Eurozone citizen each year and given to the financial sector, this goes partly into real estate raising the prices because that's a rather solid, secure investment to counter for the effect of all that free money. This solidity is there as long as demand for housing keeps increasing, so the mass immigration is supporting the mass scale free money printing and preventing the financial sector from falling over.
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  371. Perez finding his mojo and challenging Verstappen has always been a bit of a British myth because they wanted it to be about the car and not the driver. It is a spiralling exaggeration of the speed difference though, it can easily go from 3 tenths to nearly a second. Schumacher did it even worse with his infamously instable Benetton, many teammates got 1.5 seonds regularly and even more. It's also what they do with fighter jets to make them more agile, they are made so unstable that they need a computer to fly them. Verstappen doesn't need one, Albon, Gasly and Perez do need help with the instability.
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  372.  @Bifocal_Burrito  That depends. I don't think it's appropriation if you credit the creators or originals of the story. If you just use white actors for Middle-Eatern characters just because that's what you have hanging around or who are your stars who wil make your movie a profit, it might suggest they were white but that's all. That's different from making the claim that Moses was a blond haired white man or making the claim Cleopatra and ancient Egypt were West-African black.
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  373.  @HaldirMark  The West Africans that took the Zambia route? That was even after Cleopatra, the Greek queen of Egypt.
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  374.  @tripleceven  I don't. India? I believe they had some trading posts there but you know the East India in the English term 'Dutch East India company' refers to today's Indonesia? Small parts of Indonesia had an unusual degree of Dutch control but in general they let the ruling and committing of atrocities to the local rulers. There was the Banda-Atjeh massacre of course, the Bandanese broke a (probably unfair) deal, ambushed a few Dutch and beheaded them, and the Dutch retaliated killing 1200. The Dutch believed empire was too expensive. They had no desire for empire and didn't have the manpower for it. They couldn't even run their trade fleet with Dutch sailors, the VOC (Dutch East India company) mostly did inter Asian trade and often more than half of the crew was Asian, got paid the same as the Dutch and other Europeans. You should also not project the balance of power of the British Empire on the 1600's when the Brits still needed the Dutch to save them from catholic absolutism and feudalism. With guns that only had a chance of wounding someone within 5 meters they couldn't just conquer a part of mighty empires in India or China. They had to make sure they sent the right people with diplomatic skills. It's not like the people in India with their silk clothes and fine manners were impressed by 30 sweaty smelly Dutch sea peasants. The Dutch colonization of Indonesia actually only happened in the late 1900's and early 20th century, because profitting from the cruelty of the local rulers didn't fit the Dutch self image so they had to take control and 'civilize' the whole country, in a condascending way of course. Dutch history isn't plagued with trade, it's the history of modern trade. They did more than half of Europe's trade, that where they got stinking rich from, and they created a global trade network with Amsterdam as the main hub where you could buy anything from over the whole world. The Dutch very well knew you could only rob people once while you could keep returning profit from a solid trade relationship, a fair or unfair one. That's why they were the only ones allowed in Japan. They didn't let race get in the way of profit just like they didn't let class get in the way like the European kingdoms with their feudal mindset. The Dutch were the modern capitalists, with their republic, freedoms, religious tolerance, civil rights, equality and social mobility. The Dutch did their own crimes and atrocities and you can judge those by a fair historical standard, but they had a different kind of empire than the other European colonial powers resulting in far fewer atrocities and more trade and more profits. They were in a rather lengthy and important war for independence and freedom of religion and most of the Dutch violence was at the expense of the Spanish, Portuguese, sometimes English and French, and the Ottoman empire and the Barbary pirates. When the Dutch took over a settlement from the other Europeans, often the Portuguese, this usually was an improvement for the locals.
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  375. We've had an overrepresentation of non white players in the Dutch national side since the 80's. This was always welcomed because they were Dutch and made the squad stronger. There are different factors in the overrepresentation but if it's too extreme it means the still mostly white country side is underdelivering on talent. So the squad would be stronger if the rural areas would deliver like the urban areas do.
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  376. The DTM's regulations provoked the big wheel arches in the 90's, and then Audi took that to make the gorgeous TT in the German design tradition of Bauhaus. Not Audi's design biggest fan, especially not with all the aero pieces, but with the TT I understood earlier models a lot better all at once, it was like it suddenly came all into it's own.
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  377.  @schorpioen7466  It is, and they all falsely claim that Dutch wealth was build on slavery, which simply isn't true, to give all black people a claim on Dutch wealth. Not Asians of course, although those actually contributed a tiny bit. This does not only lead to racial divide and a false claim by any black to have a right to live there. It also denies where the wealth did come from and miseducating people on that, to help them stay poor.
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  378.  @t8365  Indeed they have, when Lewis was in a more dominant car he had trouble beating a Perez class driver by more than a tenth. The young Verstappen was a bit wild back then, high risk, high reward, he showed special skill too.
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  379. We? Descendants of Dutch slaves already got reparations so long ago, the money is already gone.
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  380. There's still a huge gap left. This video is a misrepresentation of how and when the Low Countries got split.
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  381. There is a bike path over it of course.
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  382. Anglocentric distortion. It was all about the European trade for the Dutch, the volumes and the number of ships were a 100 times bigger. That's were the saw middel and the modern capitalism with it's low interests and reliable money mattered. In the high riks high reward trade with gunships with the Far East even the English could compete. They seem to think European trade was replaced by global trade there, but they simply couldn't compete in the week in week out bulk shipping where the real money was. The VOC didn't start the Golden Age, it only payed it's first dividend in 1633, 60 years into the Dutch Golden Age. It was a niche market, the Ottoman's had blocked the silk road and the Portuguese enemy blocked Lisbon to the Dutch, so spices where hard to get hold of and prices soared. Dutch parliament got involved to fight the Portuguese enemy in the independence war. Only once established over there, the Dutch saw much more possibilities and profit was reinvested. The often very ordinary shareholders of the VOC from all over the Dutch Republic (it was also a nationalistic entreprise for the young nation state) couldn't wait for dividend that long, so the stock exchange came about and the carpenters and maids could cash in as the merchants rich enough to wait out the VOC's growth could buy their shares for generational wealth. Still it remained a tiny cherry on a huge cake, and the Dutch remained the world's greatest sea trader until the 1790s, thanks to it's dominance of the European trade.
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  383. National identity is under attack, because the imperialists (globalists) hate strong nation states and hook up with tribalists to undermine them. A specific Dutch problem is that an international mindset, open and welcoming to the rest of the world and the exotic, is part of our national identity. Being a small country among belligerent European powers is also a part of that. With the changed numbers of natives vs immigrants we don't know how to defend our language (also against our own government btw), we don't know how to say 'you're not welcome', we don't know how to defend our 450 year old freedom religion against immigrants for whom it isn't that self evident to keep your religion out of someone else's sphere. We expect immigrants to like the Netherlands and become more Dutch, since they came here and we are indeed awesome. We expect them to want to be part of the social cohesion, to become part of our also 450 year old tradition of literacy and great education for the masses. We have to defend and identity that is not defensive in it's core.
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  384. Yes, he remained stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He worked two jobs for the future of his beloved protestantism (and religious tolerance). He once sighed that he felt king of the Dutch Republic and stadtholder of England because of the English parliament being so much more of a nuisance.
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  385. That also has/had to do with the power plants. Countries like the Netherlands and Belgium had excess elektricity at night while shutting down plants and start them up again in the morning would be a hassle and more expensive, so they decided to light a lot fo roads.
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  386. I vaguely remember something with a voting app and Buttigieg beating him too.
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  387. Speaking of Top Gear, their item(s) about the Skoda Yeti was great, because they did something like a proper car test again and the Yeti came out with flying colours.
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  388. Here in NL it's about 7 euro's for a four pack, but it is on discount at a supermarket chain here regulary and then it's 5.50 so £1 a bottle I guess.
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  389. The Range Rover was the start of the luxury 4X4 in Europe and about the only one for a very long time. It was designed with country side upper class going hunting and stuff like that in mind I guess and comfortable but also very capable. Legendary drummer Ginger Baker from Cream bought a very early one at his local Land Rover dealership in the UK in 1971 to visit and drum with the upcoming Afro beat legend Fela Kuti. Fela Kuti was in Nigeria, allthough starting is own seperationist republic, so Baker drove it to Africa, and simply drove the luxury car through both the Sahara, as a ginger, and the jungle to get there and start a legendary collaboration.
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  390.  @grapeshot  No, it's nothing like when Spain simply took the silver and gold from South America, that was like an ATM machine. The world still has to do all the difficult and important work with the resources to produce something of high value. They get them too cheap, I agree, but they will get it as cheap as the Africans allow them to.
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  391. Japan is famous for it's vending machines, even some with live crabs. The Dutch have besides strawberry vending machines in the country side also hot fried food vending machines, especially at night they are very popular.
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  392. Nee, het is niet relevant voor jullie om te weten hoe het er achter de schermen aan toegaat, jullie moeten de macht controleren. Dit is een soort een RTL Boulevard vraag van de VVD-propagandazender.
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  393.  @changingmyself  All those things are related, no probs. If the word nationalism is hijacked by people who mean something else, something dubious, than there has to be another word for the political stance that a national government is the product of a national democracy and should act in the national interests, i.e. the people of the country. That also means national power over international corporations for example, they might even force them to pay tax. I'm not an American and not even a native speaker of English, but it seams odd to me that when in fact the world is organized in nation states to use the word nation in a tribal way. It's only fair to refer to the different native American groups as nations but that's not how the world is organized anymore. The six nations is a rugby tournement with France, England, Wales etc. Nation of islam is not a nation, because it's about religion. White nationalism is not about nation either, because it's about race. We already have words for things that are not a nation like religion and race. These days a lot of people take the benefits of the nation state for granted while attacking it. It's extremely radical to discard the nation, as it is at the core of modern Western civilizatioin. You're born somewhere and therefore into a social contract with the others that were born there and the state as an organization. Not because of your blood but because of the soil you were born on. That soil is within borders, because you need borders for jurisdiction. Only within borders things like citizenship, democracy, rule of law and organized education and infrastructure are possible. It is only within borders governments can do good things like that facilitates the pursuit of happiness for it's people. It's when governments start to rule outside their borders when bad things happen. There can't be environmental regulation or labour laws without a nation on a territory. You can't be inclusive without also aknowledging that people are excluded from your social contract and have their own connected to a different territory with a different government. If that government does a worst job and they want to migrate that's a matter of mutual agreement. Migration can't be limitless for numerical reasons and people have to keep trying to make their own nation and government work better. If you say Mexicans are native to the America's, which is not true btw, and white Americans should go back to Europe, you make it about blood again, instead of soil. It's a natural right to be able to live where you wore born, the right to live somewhore because of your race isn't nationalist, it's NaZi. As an American you are enjoying the benefits of two centuries of nationalism. Others don't enjoy the same benefits from their nation but if you believe that's a reason to discard the concept of nation states, that will lead to no one enjoying the benefits of a nation state.
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  394. They were for captured by Africans and put up for sale at the African coasts, so besides the trip in the boat, life wasn't made any worse for them than the Africans had already made it.
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  395. It was really needed in the French country side. Besides the general Michelin map of France, which was really good but not detailed, you had books of maps for every region with all the little side roads. So you bought the one for the region you were staying and used the general map for getting to that region. There were about 30 of those yellow books with detailed maps to cover the whole of France. I don't know the exact number, I only bought 4 over the years.
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  396. If you sent dumb people to university because it's an entrance fee to the good part of the job market, they are still dumb people but with a false sense they're able to think for themselves.
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  397.  @rozburg  RB has only been the dominant car for little over a year now. Ferrari started out 2022 as the dominant car, but got knocked out by Verstappen and RB doing a much better job on strategy and avoiding errors. And still, Perez, a very decent midfield driver by any measure, is not getting 2nd that much or that easily. The RedBull is dominant but not untouchable, Verstappen is.
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  398. It's the most efficient and environmentally friendly agriculture in the world by some margin. There's simply not enough environment to feed China with pigmeat. The Netherlands should be exporting food technology, cheese and flowers. So it's not a question that Dutch agriculture should change further, as it has been changing for decades and rather quick. But now nature and the quasi-scientific nitrogen models are used to rob farmers of their land, which is needed for housing. Rutte sees The Netherlands as a kind of city state he can fill with immigrants. He needs to because of after 10 years of Rutte productivity per hour has decreased. Education is in the biggest crisis since the invention of the printing press so that's not going to change soon. He simply needs more people to have GDP 'growing' for the international corporate world to skim off. This has all to be enforced by a police that has gained a lot of power over the people especially in the last 3.5 years while his government has been ignoring the rule of law systematically while are democracy is taken hostage by the smallest of parliamentary majorities, the EU and activist judges.
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  399. And since the recurring theme of this channel, inspired the communists to name a manufacturer of 2 stroke sedans after it.
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  400.  @dnocturn84  It sounded like Das Kapital to me, but German is not my native language.
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  401.  @nosop3  Ik heb nog een tip. Hou eens op met je geschiedvervalsinkjes. Nederland was niet een van de laatste landen die de slavernij afschafte, Nederland zat in de Europese middengroep en was daarmee een van de eerdere landen die de slavernij afschafte. Nederland was er vroeg bij met het afschaffen van de slavenhandel in 1815. De Ghanezen, Nigerianen etc moesten met het nodige wapengekletter overtuigd worden en de Arabieren waren pas rond 1960 zo ver, en zijn nog steeds niet helemaal overtuigd. Er is niet altijd verzet geweest tegen de slavernij. Er zijn altijd slaven geweest die zichzelf wilden bevrijden, om dan soms zelf slavenhouder te worden, maar dat is wat anders. De golf van eind 18e eeuw had veel te maken met de ideeen van de Franse revolutie en de Europese hypocrisie, het meten met twee maten tov de kolonien. Beide volkomen terecht natuurlijk, maar laten we niet doen alsof elke slavenopstand of ontsnapping uit morele verontwaardiging over de slavernij voortkwam. Wist je trouwens dat de bedenker van Zwarte Piet ook bij die clubs hoorde die probeerden de slavernij te stoppen? Die antislavernij activisten en antiracisten mochten dan het hart op de juiste plek hebben, paternalistisch en neerbuigend waren ze vaak nog wel. Je kunt wel voor een grachtenpand gaan staan en doen alsof die rijkdom alsof die van de slavernij komt, maar dat is niet waar. Ook niet van de VOC trouwens, het grote geld werd verdiend met gewone Europese bulkhandel waarvan de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provincien meer dan de helft deed met zijn 1.5 miljoen inwoners, hout, laken, graan, zout, dat soort dingen. Op geen enkel moment in de geschiedenis bracht de VOC meer op dan de Nederlandse haringvisserij en de WIC was al helemaal geen financieel succes. Je vergeet even te vermelden dat de WIC in eerste instantie helemaal niets van de slavernij moest hebben, dat was een katholieke misdaad. Tot de verovering van Nederlands-Brazilie op Portugal, het was namelijk oorlog, was de WIC een slavenbevrijder met echte zeehelden als Piet Hein die er zelf ook nog menigeen heeft bevrijd. Dat is natuurlijk lastig als je de geesten rijp probeert te maken voor herstelbetalingen. Ik ben op zich niet tegen het concept, maar als je niet concreet vermogenssschade bij levende mensen kunt aanwijzen krijg je de bizarre situatie dat mensen wiens voorvaderen nooit aan slavernij hebben gedaan en wiens familie soms nog wel dwangarbeid in Duitsland heeft gedaan, geld moeten betalen aan mensen waarbij de kans veel groter is dat hun voorvaderen aan slavernij hebben gedaan, namelijk zwarte Nederlanders. En dat alleen omdat de een blank is en de ander zwart. Terwijl natuurlijk juist de nazaten van de Nederlandse slavernij de mazzel hebben dat ze daardoor in Nederland kunnen wonen. In vrijheid, wat ze ook weer te danken hebben aan de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw en het winnen van de 80-jarige oorlog. Niet alleen dat je niet op de brandstapel komt omdat je op de verkeerde manier in god gelooft, maar ook het idee van sociale mobiliteit, dat je een achterstand mag inlopen en niet bij je geboorte veroordeeld bent tot een onderklasse, is een verworvenheid uit de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw. Dus misschien kunnen we de rekening doorsturen naar Spanje?
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  402.  @Ned-nw6ge  That 5% is as far as join the hype academics managed to stretch it, by not beeing very scientific. They didn't just pick the 'best' year late in the 18th century in dire times to suggest something about Dutch wealth that originated in the 16th and 17th century, they also counted all the products made by French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and American slave plantations that were traded or shipped by Dutch as Dutch income, which of course it isn't. Then the totall GDP of all the countries wouldn't add up and the value of a ship of suger in a Dutch harbour is much more valuable than that same sugar at a harbour in the Carribean. So it's another nonsense calculation to make a headline. The saddest thing about Dutch slavery is probably that they could have done without, economically but also in the war effort against Spain and Portugal. After the WIC gave up on it's objections to slavery it became a big player within decades, but the English copied the Dutch and took over soon, after which the WIC went bankrupt. After that Suriname wasn't really a cashcow either, they did quite a bit of investment like digging a nework of canals, of course slaves did most of the digging, but ROI was very disappointing. Slavery just isn't a very good economical model, slaves aren't spending consumers creating growth, and you can't sack them when there is no work like free poor people but have to spend on their housing and food. The Dutch were already filthy rich in the 1630's before they went into the slavetrade, and became quite poor after the Napoleontic occupation and after the German occupation again, and they got very rich again while the colonies and former colonies only costing money.
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  403. I think with only a bit more knowledge their brain wouldn't panic into chaos and they'd be able to make educated guesses. It would also give them a bit of structure to help them process new information and store it properly in their head.
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  404.  @smq2051  Afrikaans isn't Dutch and Afrikaners aren't Dutch, just like the Zulu aren't central African. Apartheid might sound Dutch, but it's not a Dutch word. Afrikaans is also not the language of the colonizer like British is, because the language of the Dutch colonizers was Dutch. It's the language of the settlers that said FY to the Dutch colonizers and the language of the Cape Malayans. I don't believe the Dutch enslaved Khoi Khoi, as I said when the Dutch wanted slaves they bought them elsewhere and shipped them in. They didn't have a habit of enslaving locals or enslaving people themselves at all, there wasn't a title for enslavement in Dutch law either. They could be bought and they could be born in slavery. Captains of Dutch slave ships have gone to jail for enslaving people themselves.
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  405.  @alphacause  I think their inferiority complex is wrong to begin with. Civilizations have always been developping, but the Western European civilization of 500 years found a path of ever accelerating, exponential development. That was a first, and of course it did happen in Europe with it's population density, waterways, exchange of knowledge, printing press and emerging religious diversity that made science, innovation and society progress significantly every year and ever more the next years. Eventually that spread all over the world and benefitted all, but from the origin outwards and not as quickly as possible, because Europeans are not fundamenally better more noble people than the rest of the world. Their culture might have developped to be though, I mean it's basically European values the Europeans of hundreds of years ago are now judged by, on Western inventions like computes and internet.
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  406. Or the Innocenti De Tomaso, Ritmo Abarth, and the Alfa 33 is a hatchback allthough 4 door, the Alfasud looks like it could have had a hatchback but only the Sprint coupe did, and just like the Civic CRX that apparently does not count as a hot hatch because it's too much a coupe.
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  407.  @arturobianco848  The Netherlands and to a lesser degree Flanders are the product of rebellion, ordinary people not letting themselves be boss around by nobles. No matter the upward social and mainly financial mobility and some kind of class redevelopping from it, ordinary people have jobs that don't allow for politeness and beating around the bush because there is danger and there is instruction. Traders can't let eachother guess about the deal either, and with people speaking different languages (natively) the first that gets skipped is the politeness and other complexities.
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  408. I was a Ferrari fan, I forgot how gorgeous this car was. It's such a clean, tight design, there's even a Japanese aesthetic to it.
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  409.  @bionicle37  It has nothing to do with pride or other feelings. Nationalism is striving for or keeping a nation state. A nation state is a territory a govenment has jurisdiction on to serve the people who live there. The nation state has brought us democracy, worker rights, environmental protection, cycle lanes, international relations, education for all, health care for all etc. The world order is that of nation states, the product of natiionalism, some want to destroy that order for globalism and smear nationalism to advance that, but democracy, the rule of law and government serving the people can not exist without nation states and therefore nationalism.
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  410. The EU members have freedom of speech too, either constitutional or the ECHR treaty, and it's only marginally more limited than in the USA. The problem is that the executive and legeslative branche no longer respect the rule of law, especially since covid, and judges believe their opinions are above the meaning of constitutions and treaties.
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  411. The VOC was a Dutch government initiative, Spain with it's ally Portugal was still fighting Dutch independence in the South, partly with money earned overseas, so they could send the Spanish Inquisition on them again. That's why Coen believed he was doing the right thing, there could be no war without the trade. The English didn't have a stake in that game.
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  412.  @tristanvoltaire2058  Technically, but it only took a few years to have the same prices in euro's as in DM or guilders.
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  413.  @r.m.t.veenstra863  The truck driver saw her and waited for her and she knew.
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  414.  @DamianIbberson  It has never been a measurement for individuals. It's useful for what is was for, population statistics, because then the rugbyers will be compensated with the fashion models.
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  415. Cadillac has made a V16 too, but got topped by the Duesenberg straight-8 4 valve per cilinder supercharger with it's 400HP as the ultimate car. The 20's roared in more than one way, especially at the top end with lots of insanely rich people before the war at both sides at the pond. V16's, superchargers, multivalve, mid engines, 250 mp/h, hybrids, front wheel drive, folding rooftop convertibles, ABS (crude), pop up headlights, it all happened already before WWII.
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  416. Onzin natuurlijk. Een stad is in de plaats voor de inwoners en in de tweede plaats voor de regio. Het belang van toeristen doet er niet toe, hooguit dat een heel klein deel van de bevolking aan ze verdient.
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  417.  @zeppie_  The glorification of the VOC was very 1880's. The problem is that the colonial era started when the Dutch Republic was a beacon of light in a very dark world. We now judge the Dutch past by the values that are the product of that Dutch past and it's influence on the world, which was huge. Celebrating the Dutch Republic itself was a bit difficult in the recovering Netherlands that had become a kingdom. It was also at the time when Indonesia was not (just) for profit anymore and in a campaign of full control over all the islands to 'civilize' it. The VOC was the origin of the Dutch-Indonesian relationship.
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  418.  @malaskomen9204  That's the point, the Dutch weren't allowed to give Indonesia independence in it's own time, but the Javanese and US American neocolonialists wanted the pie for themselves. People are responsible for their own mindset. The Dutch weren't unreasonable at that point in time, Suriname and the Antilles were decolonized in a much more peaceful and orderly fashion, they got a lot of money, still get money and relations are good. The Indonesian nationalists had a chance to split as friends but they refused. That's that then. The decision to not get compensation is already made many decades ago. We see that all around the former colonial world, people demanding independence, rightly so by itself, we want it all and we want it now, and yes we can do it all ourselves and succeed in this world shaped by nation states, capitalism and otherwise the West. OK good luck, and now they failed, messed up or are disappointed by the result they start moaning about the West again. That's not fair, you got the deal you wanted, deal with it. No, the post colonial land of milk and honey with an easy life for everyone didn/t happen, what a bummer. I don't like colonialism or neocolonialism, and I acknowledge the suffering the Dutch caused in Indonesia or were complicit to. But damage to today's Indonesia? The railways, the hospitals, the schools? The freedom religion, pretty unique for a muslim majority country? The coffee industry? Even Indonesia itself as a unit is a Dutch inheretance, Indonesia didn't exist. You could of course go back to the way it was before the Dutch (and Portuguese) arrived, or even before the Arabs arrived. It's the choice of the people. Europeans think differently, they think in terms of progress because they made that happen. Looking back it was always worse, terrible even, everywhere. Life on earth has never been better than in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Disease, massacre, natural disasters, torture, genocide, hunger, slaver even with far less people it was worse, but especially since the 1500's it has improved fast, and steadily faster, for basically everyone.
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  419.  @gysgijsbers4202  Yes, and that's also because they pick on the small one. It became a British colony in 1795 and what did those Afrikaner, the Boers, actually do? Yes, they took some land but they settled on themselves to farm and had some conflicts with the natives, but they were colonized by the British too while they never ruled over the natives themselves, did they? They fought the British alongside the Zulu's in a few occasions. And now Afrikaans is the language of the colonizer while English isn't?
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  420. Traditionally especially German cars were sold barebone to make them attainable for the most customers but also because they wanted to be seen as worth the engineering, the reliable machine that you need rather than being about your desires. People could subtly show of their wealth with more luxury and bigger engines. In the 80s if you spend a median annual salary on a 2 litre Mercedes you would have to spend another 2800 on a fith gear, 1300 on an arm rest and 700 on a map reading light, numbers like that. There is one McDonalds with two buildings for both directions of traffic I presume.
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  421.  @GS-km9cm  I guess the huge parts of Indonesia that only have been colonized for a few decades are much wealthier now than that small piece of Java the Dutch colonized since the early 1600's?
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  422. They just hadn't worked out how to design a cup and saucer holder yet.
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  423. My grandfather was manager director of a cooperative too, in the capitalist West. Basically the farmers were the owners who brought in their milk, and employed him to run the factory. He drove a few American V8's, as one the few in the village to own a car.
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  424. It goes much further back. Over 20 years ago an anti-immigration politcian about to win was murdered, a gay and very dandy intellectual who slept with Moroccans he said, but was extremely popular with the lower classes, the football crowd, the lower educated, that's also the Dutch. Then Wilders came, but he was coarse, radical and loudmouthed, which had many people worry he had evil plans. Now we know him a little bit better and have seen him interact with all kinds of minorities including muslims, we know he's a decent guy, just a bit coarse. He's very popular with muslims btw. It has taken so long because the VVD of Rutte that has governed the past 13 years, always claimed to kerb mass immigration. They never intented too, but this election was lying about the same subject one time too many. They even ended the government over the immigration issue to win the electio with their immigration lie again, but everybody except the stupidly loyal 13% they still got.
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  425.  @Moreso_fly  It's a charicature but not free from truth. Much of the Moroccan community's growth has come from marriage with a Moroccan and the resulting children.
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  426. BS. Apartheid does not come from Dutch but from Afrikaans and the word as well as the system was introduced 150 years after the Dutch left. The word apartheid could be construed in Dutch too, but then it would mean something like peculiarness. So stop spreading you ignorance in the langauge of the colonizer, English.
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  427. I'm not trained at all and I saute them but I always go by the rubbery sound when pushed around in the pan. I never minded or even noticed a firmer texture because I like them sliced thin, on light toasted bread with parsley and spring onion. I don't think it's a sacrifice, it fits the umami and it's not a plant with plant texture. But that broth to syrup part sounds very interesting. I'm going to try that.
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  428. It's not trying to serve the people. The last time that happened here it was the king of Spain who was the government, and that was the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire.
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  429. Of course Erasmus has always been a program to create a 'European' (EU actually) identity at the expense of national identities. Ironically paid for by national tax payers and at the expense of the level and opportunities of the national students and research. Yes the Dutch are good at English, no their English is not good enough for a truly academic level. I don't mind student exchange, but traditionally it was for the brightest who impressed with that on their curriculum because they had to reach an academic level in a foreign language. Now it's just another way of dumbing down.
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  430. Rudolf Caracciola, the original Regenmeister.
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  431.  @vers9034  People confuse the two a lot lately, and have no clue about Dutch history at all.
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  432.  @bakkhan5733  Fact is that the country with Zwarte Piet is probably the least racist country on earth. So if you're looking for a causal relation it's a positive one. The strange thing is that people who's family hasn't done any forced labour in their lives and are often descendants of slave owners are blaming people who actually did forced labour for forced labour of centuries ago, just because they are black and the others are white. That seems racist to me.
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  433.  @bakkhan5733  It's more racist now than it has been in a time because all the many and big immigrant communities are far more racist than the native Dutch. And many of the leaders of the ZP protests are from Ashanti descent and those were much bigger slavetraders than the Dutch, they hook up with the Turks and Maroccans who were also far bigger slavetraders than the Dutch to shame Dutch history, while besides a little slavery the Dutch have brought the world a lot of good. And those people want apologies or money from people who actually had to do slave labour during the German occupation.
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  434. Fiat 126 small? I've seen a family of 7 plus grandma climbing out of one. This was behind the Iron curtain as a Polski Fiat, but the same model.
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  435. Why would you hit a mosquito? They are agile enough for evasive action.
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  436. You can't educate people into engineering rocket catchers, you need a big pool to fish great and already educated talent from, it's not truck driving and in no way comparable to illegal and therefore unselected workers. It's all about how highly skilled and the balance in the numbers.
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  437. Tokyo probably, that has >20 times more people of course but also quite a cycling culture.
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  438. They are not really council estates. Despite government trying to appropriate the housing for it's political plans lately, social housing in the Netherlands is done by private not for profit associations and foundations since the beginning of the 20th century.
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  439. This was a jew hunt. Maccabi misbehaving was to be expected, but the jew hunt was planned and organized before Maccabi arrived and after the riots it was just an islamic jew hunt.
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  440. The research on this one was far from professional. She claims the Dutch monarchy was founded in 1581, but that was the year of the declaration of independence and the beginning of the Dutch Republic. The Dutch monarchy was only established in 1813. Allthoug often wrong on Dutch history, even not so hard to find anglophonic sources like Wikipedia get this one right.
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  441.  @niek024  No, but milk was a part of a different diet and lifestyle approach. Children didn't get melk because they liked it particularly. At home I was allowed to take milk, buttermilk or yoghurt anytime I wanted, a glass of cola was a saturday night special, just as crisps were. On holiday in a warm country a could have one glass of cola or other soda a day. Appearently also milk could have done with a bit more moderation, but it's not unhealthy and it's nutritious.
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  442. What about the kid in the middle? Where is his ash tray? Should he reach over the other passengers? That's not luxury.
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  443. Central Europe was behind the iron curtain in the 80s. There were no Slowakian or Hungarian immigrants in the Netherlands.
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  444. Just keep importing 300.000 people a year. Doesn't matter the Dutch have to pay for a large part and they are given our housing, it rises the GDP so Kaag's international masters are satisfied.
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  445. What is there to think about? Just some envious slander from the British.
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  446. Indeed, stop begging and moaning and start adding value.
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  447. He was speaking about the jew hunt that followed and was prepared and organized before. Amsterdam has a problem much bigger than foreign football hooligans.
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  448. Er wordt zo negatief gedaan over al die gillende meisjes, kinderen nog. Het was ook sneu voor de band maar die meisjes groeiden op om de Betsy's, Babettes, Sabines en Kleine Tine's van jongens zoals ik te worden. Ze schaamden zich dan dat ze ooit zo hysterisch waren geweest, maar ze hadden wel allemaal een fatsoenlijk ontwikkelde muzieksmaak waarin geen plek was voor een suffe bas en levensloze drums. Wat waren en zijn ze bevoorrecht dat hun hormonen hen naar Doe Maar leiden, terwijl zoveel meisjes ter wereld het met Take That of the Backstreet Boys hebben moeten doen. Alleen al om mijn genoegen om als twintiger in bed gezelschap met muzieksmaak te hebben verdient hij een dikke pluim.
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  449. When Ajax got their new Stadium in Amsterdam about 25 years ago, people complained it lacked atmosphere. The supporters took it upon themselves to improve the atmosphere about 10 years later, the club cooperated, and now it's famour for it's atmosphere around Europe. I myself am I fan rather than a supporter, they don't always manage a good job, but they try to help their team win rather than reacting to the entertainment. Basketbal in South-East Europe gets heated too.
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  450.  @dylanvogler2165  I hope you pay more attention studying history than you do reading my posts, because I didn't write anything like that. The claim in the comment topping this thread that slavery wasn't mention in school in the past is simply false, ignorant and arrogant. We were always taught about the dark pages, but they stuck to the facts, teachers didn't feel the need to express their disgust, and what a good person they were, by making stuff up and make it look worse, or make it far more important than all the other horrible stuff of the old days. The king no longer being able to chop of heads and tell people what and how to believe was the point of the whole war that the Dutch Repuclic took the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the first place. I do know better what the education on Dutch history was like, because I got it. But for this generation the Dutch 20th century does not appear to exist. They seem to believe it was like 1930's Alabama here. That's no coincidence because this whole slavery and colonialism thing as central to history and the modern day is the product of importing American activism with an American narrative, this whole comment section is loaded with examples. Historians, teachers, politicians, museums media are all groveling, they do their professional equivalent of a plantation reenactment for whites with chains and all. It flagellation and submission to the American narrative, a competition of who can express his disgust the strongest and make up the worst narratives. If that trend of the past decade escaped you, you weren't doing your job very well. I've read a few books since my school days btw, but I still remember very well what me and my generation learned in school. Our perspective was indeed that the past was generally far more bad, but also when that past was and how an when things changed for the better. It's not like we were waiting for a more poorly educated and shallow generation who believe they can know the 20th century from the internet, allthough only becoming a source 3 years before the end of it. If you willfully stay ignorant about the past, you can always be the first, congratulations.
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  451.  @CaptainKevinDarling  Yes, it comes from the Persian word for the orange fruit, but by then they were also the same word for the colour and the principality. The Dutch have skipped the fruit, that's called a Sinaasappel, China apple.
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  452. @@Besthinktwice Especially the national politicians, they have still have some loyalty to their people. The foreign politicians don't. They should not decide what happens to a different people, that can't vote for or against them.
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  453. I did have a Countach poster but I never liked it, it was a present. I love the original prototype Countach, in yellow, with the louvres for air intakes. It lost it's clean, pure lines because of cooling issue and the wings and wheel arches kept making it worse. My taste developped rapidly in those days, especially under the influence of a book with concepts by Guigiaro, Pininfarina, Bertone and Ghia. So I would get a book about Ferrari as a birthday or St.Nick gift when already my interest had shifted to Maserati and Lamborghini. My uncle got it right though, we didn't speak that often so he had to go by his own taste and brought me a poster, framed with glass, of a Mercedes 300SL roaster. The 80's is an interesting decade and the decade of my teens, but during that I grew very fond of the clean edgy 70's designs, starting in the late 60's, and the 50's with Vignale, Allemano, Frua, Ghia the last coachbuilders with their mad ideas. Even Pininfarina went totally bonkers with a Maserati back then, and Pegaso cars from Spain deserves a mention too. I also love the Art deco era, in both the USA and Europe, Cord 812, Auburn, Hispano-Suiza, coach builders for Talbot and Delahaye like Figoni e Falaschi, Saoutchik, the Buccali V12 front wheel drive for example.
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  454. No, a V8 of over 4 litre. It's the 944 that had the 4 cylindre as was designed for Audi.
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  455. Is de NOS een religieuze omroep geworden in de mediawet? Optiefen met die hoofddoek dan.
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  456. Klimaatfonds van 25 miljard stond niet in de verkiezingsprogrammas.
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  457. Most of them are either neo-renaissance style or art deco, as they were build between the 1860's and 1930's.
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  458. Difference with Meloni is that the Netherlands is the biggest net contributor to the EU and the prime victicm of the ECB's money printing scheme in breach of it's foundational treaty.
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  459.  @jdavis11576  So which context it's exactly about? What does the gorilla emoji stand for in an acceptable context? If it can't be used in any context there's a black person involved it shouldn't be an emoji. I don't know the intent, I just think it's a bit strange to claim to be the victim of racist abuse just because of an emoji that's appearently all right in all kinds of contexts to exist. If the emoji alone constitutes racial abuse it's a bad emoji, if it's about a specific context be specific about the context.
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  460. Germany and especially München keeps popping up with 70's musicians. Queen resided there for a while, Bowie I believe.
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  461. If we zoom out it's basically rich Americans claiming North-East African culture as theirs because they are from West-African descent and have incorrectly claimed to be 'Africans' in a mix up between geopraphy and colour, while both the cultural and genetic ties to that culture are insignificant to non-existing. It doesn't get much more colonial and cultural appropriation than that. I can't imagine actual West-Africans laying such claim, it must take an ignorant and arrogant empire to be that bold and rude and belittle Africa's diversity like that.
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  462. The anglo Dutch wars were started by the British because they couldn't compete with the Dutch in the free European trade, no one could. Ironically they claim the Dutch got rich from colonialism, while for the Dutch is was just a tiny cherry on a huge cake. Still it was capitalism that made both of them rich, first the Dutch who brought it over to England.
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  463. I was passenger in of these when I hitchhiked through Germany, it comfortable cruises at 220 km/h I noticed. To be honest in the late 80s and early 90s American cars were far behind. Not even interesting to people who liked the soft suspension and size. Audi had a habit of technically advanced but understated, business like cars, and they didn't shy away from the classic 3-volume sedan, and that looked pretty good often.
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  464. No. Before WWII he was supposed to scare the naughty kids a little, but he has become very friendly after the war. It's more like the happy go lucky stereotype, allthough the Dutch aren't familiar with that stereotype because it's a foreign one. Judging by the outcome, it must be good for kids because I don't believe you can name a people less racist than the native Dutch.
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  465. Fake news again, there was a lot of skating on the many canals, ponds and lakes only 3 years ago.
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  466.  @j.k.3599  The false impression is given that it has been more than a decade since it was possible to skate, simply not true. A few centimers more or less ice than in 2018 or 2016 is not the issue. The fact that Step Vaassen works for a broadcaster owned by a theocratic Middle-Eastern state doesn't make here less Dutch, only less of a journalist. It's not just simply an honest mistake. The whole narrative was that this was exceptional and very special. It isn't, it's simply something that doesn't happen every year like it never did. Besides that, global warming can lead to more extreme weather too. And from the first frost this was pictured as extreme weather, but it wasn't. It was simply moderate frost by quite a margin with some peaks at night in some places of harsh frost. Not everything or every weather is related to or proof of global warming. That might be disappointing for media who want to use the weather to convince people of global warming. I don't need convincing anymore since 1993, I want journalists to stop trying to BS us.
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  467.  @Bleilock1  Mass immigration is neoliberal.
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  468.  @willem504  Dat is niet iets doen. Dat is nog wel het meest ergerlijke aan het asielbeleid, het is wereldverbeteraars onwaardig.
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  469.  @genericlozfan9862  The WIC certainly wasn't made for trade in slaves. It ended up trading slaves, but that was not all what it's founders intended. WIC captains had to free slaves from captured ships and captains like Piet Hein did. They often ended up as employees of the WIC since they couldn't return. Only with Dutch Brazil in 1638 the Dutch officially went into the slavery and only on the condition that the slaves had to be freed after 7 years and got educated in christianity inbetween.
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  470. Daar maakt WNL zomaar even een goed punt. Een huis bouw je voor honderd jaar, minstens, we zijn geen tentenvolk en publieke ruimte bouwgrond zijn schaars, dus moet het de eerste keer meteen goed. En bouw dan ook meteen mooi, smaken verschillen maar ik woon in een eeuw oude buurt en er is gewoon veel extra moeite gestoken in het metselwerk, niet om de wind buiten te houden maar gewoon voor de sier. Als je de meerkosten deelt door 100 is dat echt een schijntje per jaar en iedereen heeft er nog steeds plezier van want baksteen wordt mooi oud. Maar eerst zal onze minister van volkshuisvesting moeten leren wat het te huisvesten volk van zijn ministerie wel en niet is.
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  471. A reliable one that keeps working until it's empty and does not give the false impression it still works after that. Seems fitting.
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  472.  @laillosidgar  That kind of sums up most of world history, but not the holocaust.
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  473.  @schorpioen7466  I don't see how the past is still working in the present. The descendants of Dutch slaves do much better than the descendants of the African and Asian enslavers that live in the Netherlands. The Surinamese do much better than the Moroccans and Turks, better than the Ghanaians and better than the Antillians. Where is that slavery past having it's effect? This is a claim being made often but never substantiated. There is racism again more than still. The country hasn't been this racist for a 100 years as it is now. That's because of all the immigrants, who are much more racist than the Dutch, and because of the import of an American activist narrative projecting American history on the Dutch. They have made skin colour relevant to having jobs and opinions, something entirely new to the Dutch 450 year history. Zwarte Piet's link to slavery is that of the creator being an abolutionist trying to get a positive image of blacks across to Dutch kids. Now I'm not in favour of keeping the traditional Zwarte Piet, but given the fact that the Netherlands has been the most antiracist country in the world for over a century, so I guess he succeeded.
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  474. You realize you're judging Europe by the values Europe developped and introduced to the world?
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  475.  @chisomokhuvulo6442  No, no Europe no chocolate. Try selling raw cacoa to the people, it's worthless without people who know how to make chocolate, that's why those people earn more. So learn to make chocolate, the Europeans already found out how over a 100 years ago so you only have to copy, can't be that hard.
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  476. My mother experienced only mild hunger as a child thanks to living in the rural East, but just like Audrey Hepburn she could simply not get fat. She would always look positive on fat, push it in the sense of 'sure you don't want any more molten pig fat over your sauerkraut mash?'. She didn't like me being ripped, she associated it with malnutrition instead of fitness, just like she never got to like really short hair. She also hated excess, was disgusted with all you can eat or loads of meat bbqs, she even didn't like meat on meat dishes for just being wasteful.
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  477. A bit strange to make a video with a man who's still in denial about his own people's slavery past. Akwasi that is. His parents were welcomed as refugees from Ghana despite crossing many safe countries. He whines about beeing called Aquarium in school as a racist name joke, while he has also said he went by his real name of Anton back then. He whines about black kids not beeing sent in high enough education while his education was too high for him and didn't manage to finish it. He whines about how the Dutch got rich from slavery, not true, but can't accept his own Ahsanti forefathers beeing far bigger and worse slavetraders than the Dutch. He comes to Amsterdam and claims the canal houses should be his because of slavery, allthough they were build with money from the Baltic Sea trade and not with the slaves his ancestors sold. He acts like he wants to have a reasonable conversation about racism but threatens with violence and has been doing so for a decade. He's such a fraud.
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  478. Not true, the VOC had the Dutch monopoly from the Cape eastwards, the WIC had the Dutch monopoly on the Atlantic. It did an expedition to find the North passage to the East-Indies for which they hired Henry Hudson. European trade wast still much, much bigger and that was dominated by the Dutch merchant fleet consisting of thousands of companies that had nothing to do with the VOC.
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  479. Sounds like Obamanomics to me, he could just copy that.
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  480.  @yakoobski Other players must have looked to be in slowmotion to him.
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  481.  @dxfifa  Indeed, if Hamilton had the gap to his teammate Verstappen had in quali he would have had pole. If Hamilton had done a good inlap the undercut wouldn't have worked. Hamilton's inlap was too slow compared to Bottas too. Mercedes still has the edge, just not enough to make their drivers look better than they are like in the past 7 years.
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  482. The GS was small light saloon, a 1000kg car. This kind of ride quality was even more unique for this size, but with the birotor wankel engine it would have been faster than the Golf (Rabbit) GTI of a few years later. I agree Citroen somehow always ended up with an underpowered model range, often only introducing the bigger engines later giving the cars a reputation for not being sporty enough. If the BX was introduced with the 1.9 it would defenitely been car of the year, but is was introduced as 1.4 to 1.6 litre car.
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  483. The combustion engine was also a 17th century Dutch idea, it just didn't work well with gunpowder and 17th century metallurgy. But especially the British and Americans have a habit of making a slight improvement or just naming it and then claiming they invented it.
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  484.  @Euclides287  When he was out for a big part of the season with a broken leg. He turned all those drivers into average drivers, they were seen as promising talents before they got 0.3 to over 1.5 seconds benind, almost every race, lap after lap. He beat Senna in the better car. He won the WDC in teams that couldn't without him. He never came back as good as he was, by far. But he entirely dominated his era, all challenges to him being the dominant driver failed for 15 years, by a mile. It was Schumacher against the best car. Schumacher against Williams, Schumacher against McLaren, Schumacher against Williams again. That's something Hamilton has never managed, on the contrary, he has lost several WDC's in the best car.
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  485. The Turks and Moroccans had to be paid the same too, and they did the same jobs with and next to Dutch people. It was just about the numbers, and employers not wanting to innovate or pay higher wages to get enough employees.
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  486.  @RealConstructor  The Dutch were early with most things. They were the first with objection to slavery, but also the first to develop hypocrisy in foreign relations, acknowledging slavery was wrong but looking away from it being done overseas. It was not up to our standards of back then either. This hypocrisy has been copied by all Western governments up to our current time, it's what allows us to walk on Nikes, use Iphones and drive a Tesla while feeling good about ourselves. .
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  487.  @Rowlph8888  You got the parliamentary monarchy and bill of rights throug an invasion by a much more modern country.
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  488.  @Rowlph8888  Why do you think English history has had the most impact on the world? After a bit back and forth England was back to absolute rule again, and then the Dutch Republic invaded. The Dutch Republic that had codified the freedom of conscience and therefore religious toleranc in 1579 in what was to become it's de facto constitution. In 1581 It had declared the people had inalienable rights and a monarch had to serve the people, denouncing the divine right of kings, and claimed the people's right to no longer recognize it's monarch when he had become a tyrant. This was the place where the parliaments were made up of commoners, there was upward social mobility, servants nor wives could be beaten, the home originated and besides men like Spinoza, Descartes John Locke could freely live and write on his social contract, inspired by his surroundings. After which he accompagnied Mary to England for her coronation and the signing of the bill of rights. This was also the republic that founded New York and introduced reglious tolerance, multiculturalism and upward social mobilty to the America's, from which the USA later used the Dutch DOi of 1581 as a blueprint. These values were not carried by law, but on one hand by the freedom of the printing press there letting the enlightenment ideas spread of Europe, on the onder hand by the modern capitalism it had invented too, the commercial success and therefore strength. So it changed London and New York directly, and Paris indirectly into places with individual freedom as we know it now, so without having to stay in your class, in the position god, king and nobility had decided for one. The term 'glorious revolution' might give the impression it was a process from within, but that came about because being invaded was already a sensitive subject back then. It's no coincidence the breakdown of the feudal structures that had been there for ages came from the LowLands, including Flanders at first, because feudalism was based on land and didn't work with so much water around. The modern society had been brewing there for ages only waiting for the printing press and protestantism to explode over the globe.
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  489.  @MelQ  Many slaves were treated in an equally or even worse barbaric manner. Many more even, because the African on African slavery was much bigger than the transatlantic slavery. Just like cruelty there was also humanity in the African slavery. It's not like there were no well treated or released slaves in European's and American's slavery of Africans. But it's time you face your ancestors past too. Stop making excuses. Terrible things were done by humans all over the world, and it was European civilization that changed that for the better allthough not entirely. First for Europeans, a few hundred years later for the whole world when they had the power to do so.
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  490.  @lordyoda607  They display themselves to potential customers. A clothing store displays it's clothes and let you try them on because you are interested in a purchase. If you just try them on knowing you won't buy just because you get a kick out of leaving your smell on them, you can also claim they consented to let you fit the clothes, but others can also claim you're an asshole for exploiting that for your kicks. I'm not saying everybody who is just curious for the red light district is an asshole, but you've got to take responsibilty for your own role in the whole thing.
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  491.  @LIEFDESMORGEN  I understand how you feel about it, but you can't make up facts to fit your feelings.
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  492.  @Matruchus  But this is a Drehkippfenster, that opens in two directions. That only spread widely in the past 20 years.
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  493. A overview of the naming and the related history. It's not short, I'm afraid the Netherlands as a lot of history. - The Netherlands (meaning low lands) was the name of the area including today's Belgium which was part of the Spanish Habsburg Empire. - In 1581 7 of the 18 Netherlands declared independence from Spain under the leadership of William of Orange because they preferred religious freedom over the Spanish Inquisition and became the Republic of the 7 United Netherlands (the American DOI is actually very similar to that Dutch one the founding fathers studied). Because this was the first modern nation state, it had to come up with a national anthem, a national flag (rather than royal flags), non royal leaders and orange carrots. So they showed France the way. - The Dutch Republic as it was know in English was quite a success. It did more than half of all European trade and mostly with ships from the Holland part, so that name spread the most. The British also made the name Dutch exclusive to the Netherdutch, the Middle Dutch and the High Dutch, the Germans upstream, still call themselves Deutschland though. - In the late 1700's the Dutch Republic was fading on the world stage and under influence of what was brewing in France became the Batavian Republic in 1795. - Napoleon, as a result of the French revolution occupies the Netherlands and makes the republic into a monarchy ironically. So in 1806 Royaume d'Hollande, the only time Holland was used in an official capacity since Napoleon was only interested in the money and Holland had a reputation for that despite the decline. His brother Louis was made king, but he was actually a very good king given the circumstances, he was enligthened and loved the Dutch, the Dutch loved him back and Napoleon sacked him. - Napoleon was beaten, the Netherlands was bankrupt, Britain wanted a buffer monarchy in front of France and after 233 year of seperation the Northern Netherlands were reunited with what is now Belgium to become the Kingdom of the Netherlands. There was still a member of the Orange Nassau family haning out in Germany and he became king Willem I. - The Northern Dutch and the 'Belgians' had grown apart in those 233 years of seperation and the Belgians revolted and split off in 1830, supported by the British. The Northern Netherlands kept the name Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Southerners took the latinized name for all of the Netherlands, "Belgica", and became the Kingdom of Belgium for which the British appointed a German noble as king. There was some stuff with Limburg and Luxemburg I don't really know enough about, but this is about the situation that remained until today.
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  494. Als de schoonzoon van Pelosi de meest gebalanceerde is dan zegt dat vooral veel over de rest.
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  495.  ReddoFreddo But we do have the word waffel too.
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  496.  @jimmypad5501  Yes, but it's also the finest product from that botanical flower, the more coarse or impure products from that part are not called 'bloem'.
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  497. He's inaccurate because he lies of idiology. All whites are bad (Northern Europeans, the 'hispanics' get colour points), so the Boers (he confuses with the Dutch) have to be just as bad and imperialistic as the British. But the Dutch nor the Boers wanted to rule the indiginous people. They just wanted land for themselves and their own very religious rural societies, apart from indigenous peoples or earlier migrants like the Zulu.
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  498. Als ik de mondelinge uitdrukkingsvaardigheid zo eens beluister dan kan ik me voorstellen dat er andere redenen zijn voor de achterstand op de arbeidsmarkt dan racisme.
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  499.  @Highlight260  No, the Dutch didn't enslave natives. They didn't enslave anyone but bought slaves from African and Arab slavetraders.
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  500.  @sunnya4310  You don't understand the concept of trade. You buy something from somewhere and bring it to a place where demand and price are higher. The Dutch excelled at that, so despite having quite an industry themselves, they shipped a lot between other countries. In the mid 1600's the Dutch had more merchant ships than the rest of Europe combined. The absolutelely dominated the Baltic Sea trade, which was huge because allthough far less rich than the Dutch Republic, Northern Europe from Flanders to Sweden, Denmark, Poland to Estonia and Russia was doing well. They also dominated the North Sea trade and they were the biggest player in the Mediterranean allthough that was quite a hostile sea with the Spanish, Ottamans and Barbary pirates there. And they still owned the herring trade of course, which was highly nutritious and the Dutch knew how to preserve it, the foundation of early economic success and financial innovation in the 14th and 15th century. At no point in history the entire Dutch East India company was bigger or more profitable than just the herring trade. The VOC was unjustly glorified in the 19th century for political, nationalistic reasons, and also in the 17th century it captured the imagination, but in fact was only a tiny part of the economy of the Dutch Republic, somewhere under 1%. The VOC was more the product of Dutch wealth than the cause, as the Baltic Sea was saturated with Dutch ships so merchants were looking for new endeavours and among it's first shareholders there were rich merchants, but also bakers, butchers and maids that put their savings in. The Dutch were the first free people and free market capitalist in a mercantilistic and feudal world, they had the first big spending middle class, of course they were much richer than any other country and all kinds of industries emerged. Ordinary craftsman wouldn't buy Rembrandts but they would buy paintings and more than half of all Europe's books were printed in the Netherlands, especially the controversial ones.
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  501. We have hills and bridges, just not many people looking for excuses.
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  502. I think if you know very little about the rest of the world after finishing school, there is no structure, no order to connect new information too. If I learn about some new country, either because it has become independent or is some small Island nation, that information fals on a grid of knowledge, it hooks on. Without any pre-existing structure it would be much more difficult to remember.
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  503.  @aheroyaheroyalproductions7631  Sweethearts have a habit of not becoming rulers.
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  504. It would be much easier if all the descendents of slave traders and slave owners would admit they took part in the practice and often in much greater numbers and more cruel than the Europeans. It would also help to acknowledge that it's not what made Europe wealthy. If that was the case, the Arabian countries would have been filthy rich before they found oil and for example Ghana would be an economic superpower.
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  505. I'm afraid you got it the wrong way around. The Dutch Republic changed the world, and spices were just one of the things they traded in. It was an important part of the global trade allthough the VOC shipped all kinds of stuff from and in between China, Japan, India, Persia and what's now Indonesia, mainly in between actually, but global trade was very small compared to European trade. It was the European trade, mostly bulk goods, that they dominated and that made the Dutch Republic extremely rich and powerful enough to shape the modern world with it's religious tolerance, capitalism, upward social mobility, civil rights and governments having to serve their people. -The Dutch government got involved in the VOC to take the 80-years war (for independence) to the Spanish Empire's earnings overseas. - It was a public company all over the country as a nationalistic war enterprise when the first nation state was forming by lack of a king, who was ousted for being a tyrant, in a still raging war. - What the English ate was not relevant to the Dutch spice trade because the Dutch ate much better than the rest of Europe which was much poorer. And it was not the nobles but the wealthy Dutch middle class who consumed the spices, which got much cheaper anyway after the VOC took over. - The VOC wanted to grow, and the often ordinary shareholders didn't want to wait for dividend, hence the stock exchange. The VOC managed not to pay the legally obliged dividends for the first 31 years. - For a single company the VOC was big, but with less than 200 merchant ships at it's peak, it was less than 1% of the Dutch merchant fleet. Global trade was far smaller back then compared to the European trade the Dutch dominated. -The VOC traded much more than spices, and actually did far more of it's trade within Asia than to and from Europe. - The VOC didn't conquer much. They were Dutch traders, not British imperialists. Banda was an exception rather than the rule. They preferred smooth and profitable over bloody and costly, with ruined relations, and the Moghuls, Chinese, Japanese and Persians were easily up to the crappy guns of that time, they often had to grovel. That's also why they weren't a very deadly company at the bottom line. - The VOC only had a monopoly East of the Cape, the WIC on the Americas and the much bigger European trade was done by tenth of thousands of small companies or individuals. - JP Coen had a massacre followed by ethnic cleansing, but it wasn't genocide. - He got reprimanded by the board, after his report took a year on a ship, and the answer a year to get back, but they were happy with the result too. - The Dutch were hypocrite rather than indifferent. They refused to get into the Transatlantic slavery until the late 1630's because that was something those evil catholic Spaniards did. Double standards for overseas were developped over decades. - Coen was a stern calvinist, believing he was doing god's work in defending the Dutch Republic against the catholics. - His statue has had a text explaining he was a human rights violater since the 80's, and even when the statue was erected in his hometown in the late 1800's, an era of VOC glorification for a number of national reasons, there was lots of opposition. - The statue thing is mostly imported by kids without historical knowledge copying the USA, they do have a point with Coen allthough it already has been adressed long ago, but the other statues they have targetted makes it very silly. - No, the Transatlantic slavetrade didn't spiral into kidnapping and conquest for the simple reason that Europeans couldn't get inland without shortening their life expectancy to 11 months through diseases. That's an American myth, to avoid other uncomfortable truths. Slaves were for sale at the coast, enslaved by Africans.
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  506. As an honest shop employee he should have warned here that most Champagne is not the kind of fine wine that ages well. 4 years is tricky, 8 years is very risky.
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  507.  @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich  It's simply not true. The Dutch East India company only started paying dividend in 1633 and the Dutch West-Indies company didn't give up on it's objection to slavery in 1637. The Dutch Republic was already filthy rich by then, so wealth was build on industry and fair trade. Plundering was something they typically didn't do, also not later on when they did some pretty unfair trade and unfair labour practices in the colonies. Plundering doesn't build wealth, you can only do it once, when you extort you have continuous ROI, which does help build wealth allthough it was just a tiny fraction. The Spanish did plunder, because they were zero sum thinkers, and that's why they soon lagged behind in wealth build. The West-Coast Africans did plunder too, but that didn't build them wealth. They sold their slaves or used them as consumers, that didn't build wealth, the Europeans used them for production, now that did build wealth, allthough relatively little. So it can hardly be a surprise that the biggest increases in Dutch wealth came from both the precolonial and the postcolonial era.
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  508.  @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich  Not with plunder, with but not through corruption, extortion, slavery and the odd mass killing, but that's about it and that was a tiny contribution to the wealth that has been lost, taken actually, again. The wealth was build with fair trade and hard work first, and rebuild without colonies.
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  509.  @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich  The Dutch Republic actually went to the far East and the America's to take their war for independence against the Spanish Empire, including Portugal, to them and to the seas. But you can't wage war that far away without a network of harbours and refreshment so you need a trade network to support that presence. That's what they did the first decades, simply trade and rob the enemy ships (and free the slaves that were on it). The Portuguese went to Asia themselves because the Turks were their enemy and blocked the silk road in the Levant. So their whole chain of trade in Asian goodies would collapse if they didn't, just like the Dutch Northern European trade in Asian goodies would collapsed when Portugal joined the Spanish Empire and closed off it's harbours to Dutch ships. So if it wasn't for war, the trade would simply have been trade like it used to be with no one colonized and the Europeans also getting filthy rich. Most colonization happened because European kingdoms and a republic were at war with eachother or feared war with eachother. Settlements were needed for the trade anyway, they had to make sure ships could get water and food, but also served to monopolize the trade against their European enemies. Of course this monopolization did not make the locals get the best price. It wasn't really that profitable, the Dutch West Indies company went bankrupt several times, but got government financed again because of geopolitical interests. The VOC (East Indies) was more successful but they actually used today's Indonesia for the trade with Japan, China an India which they had no power over at all. They had to bow, bring presents and leave the gunship escort on the open sea to get a chance to trade. So if it's the colonial oppression that was profitable, why did they only take such a tiny part of Indonesia and didn't they leave Japan and China alone? Exotic goods were rare, and they were profitable because they were taken halfway round the world to people with money. The profit comes from getting it to the right place, the shipping, not from the production. Most of the VOC's trade was within Asia, they simply were better at trading and traded between India, China, Japan and Persia and earned a profit with that.
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  510.  @smq2051  Afrikaans is not Dutch. Yes I know Afrikaans, I can understand most of it so I know it's not Dutch. Afrikaans is the language of the Dutch, German and French working class in the colony, the farmers and the cape malayans. First script Afrikaans was written in was Arabic. It's not a Dutch word but could be construed, than it would mean 'peculiarness' in Dutch.
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  511. No, Vettel is special in developping the car with the team, he's a real teamplayer, towards a specific balance with a planted rear. So he increases the gap with his teammate towards the season, if they fail to get him that balance he's not the allround natural talent that drives around that. That's why he was beaten by Ricciardo and went to spells with Ferrari that Raikkonen matching him instead of the usual 0.3-0.5 behind. Vettel is a not so very great driver that performed absolutely great in about 7 seasons. That's why I am a fan.
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  512. Hoezo zou de NOS zelf dingen moeten beargumenteren? De NOS moet verslag doen.
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  513. Nothing in the geothermal energy was invented by you guys?
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  514.  @clemfandango619  We didn't learn English out of admiration or to please you. It is that sense of entitlement that seperates the British from the other tourists. They haven't made that much progress since the more sophisticated Brits doing their grand tour broke off architectural ornaments in Italy to take home as souvenirs.
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  515. You could also take the seats out for a picnic.
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  516. This fashionabe self hate is a historian unworthy. No, it wasn't all pretty, but genocide? No. 5.2% is anonsense calcution, equally fashionable. Peak VOC, a lot bigger financial success than the WIC, was never more profitable than the herring industry and the Dutch Republic (already a guiding nation, relgious tolerance, upward social mobility, equality, interracial marriages, freedom of conscience, thought and print, lot's of women's liberties) got rich from European trade. The whole colonial enterprise was peanuts and allthough colonial crime happened, most of that was about regular trade too. Most slaves shipped by the Dutch went the other colonial powers colonies, the Dutch were never big in the plantations. Suriname was handed independence, togehther with a huge some of money especially because of slavery, which was squandered by the Surinamese government. The Netherlands was the only occupied country that went on strike against deportatations, and has by far the most people who risked their lives to hide jews. But ylou of course, with your cowardly confirmist and fashionable version of history would have stood up spoken out, be tortured and get shot, just to make a point and become one of the 200.000 gentile Dutch war deaths. Yeah right. The Dutch by then weren't particularly ruthless anymore in Indonesia since the late 1800's, the guerilla war got dirty indeed, as they always do, but the slaughter of tens of thousands of non pure blooded Indonesians, whites, mixed race and Chinese, by the Indonesian nationalists was a bit of an issue as you can imagine. You know very well Zwarte Piet wasn't an issue at all until 2011, when the false comparisons with American blackface begun, you know very well Zwarte Piet and Sinterklaas were and are celebrated in the former colonies in the same way by the black people there too.
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  517. No, it's not about being part of the EU. Actually the EU has replaced international cooperation with a bureaucracy of the unelected.
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  518.  @vullings1968  You are confusing the EU with the EEC, your are confusing mimicking democracy with democracy. The EP is not a legislator, and we can't vote for nor are we represented by the vast majority of the elected. Policy is not decided upon by national ministers anymore since the treaty of Lisbon, rejected by both the French and the Dutch voters, in which the veto was ended. So it's you that lacks knowledge and is easily fooled by the EU propaganda.
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  519. Actually, it was the last country to join the global slavetrade, because of ethical reasons (the Dutch had more ships than the rest of Europe combined), and as a European nation, one of the earlier to end it, and helping the British enforce the ending of the slavetrade worldwide with gunships. It was probably the first country abandoning racism and most likely the firmest on it. That propably explains why this tradition made it into the 21st century and is still celebrated by the black population of Aruba, Curacao, Suriname etc. That doesn't mean it has to continue like this and I prefer it to change. But the idea that the Netherlands is behind on countries like the USA or UK when it comes to race is completely ridiculous to the people who actually know a little about the Netherlands.
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  520. Geinformeerd? Doe niet zo gek.
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  521. To Vettel wasn't it?
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  522. That's also the Dutch nickname for the 2CV.
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  523. I have objected to the use of the word populist for anybody who wanted change through democracy, but in case of Wilders populism is indeed a big part of his style.
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  524. Not to downplay your 35 years of study, but I think there's much more knowledge about psychology and mass psychology in those who have much, much more data only need computers to analyze it. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, how could they not have learned more about psychology in the past 5 years than you in 35 years?
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  525. The VOC had 140 merchant ships, around 1650 the entire Dutch merchant fleet consisted of about 20.000 ships, so that's 0,7% of the Dutch sea trade of that time. Sea trade was a huge part of the Dutch economy, but just a part. So it's fair to say that the VOC was never more than 0.5% of the Dutch Republic's economy. But the Dutch Republic's economy was huge, the world was poor but the Dutch were extremely rich. So the VOC's part of the world economy might have been over 0.1% at it's peak. It wasn't in a time before proper economics existed, the VOC was a result of 'proper economics' taking off. At the VOC's peak, it was still significantly smaller than the Dutch herring trade of that time. It's turnover and profit was dwarfed by the Baltic Sea trade in particular, the 'mothernegotion', and the Dutch trade on the North Sea and Mediterranean. But they weren't organized in one company because there was no military necessity and the routes were shorter and safer. At the time of the foundation of the VOC the Dutch Republic wasn't a colony of Spain anymore, it was an independent republic for about 30 years and was already extremely wealthy. The kings of Spain, France, Germany and England beeing in denial doesn't change the factual situation. Many shareholders of the VOC were normal people, craftsmen, bakers, maids who had savings to invest as the records show. It wasn't an insignifacnt power either, it's just that the Spanish, French, British and Germans didn't understand yet what power was to be about in the late 16th and 17th century: trade, not land. Armies were for rent and the Dutch general Maurice of Nassau developped 'modern' warfare in the last decades of the 16th century to get and keep the Spanish out, well before the VOC. The historical importance is political and military because it was part of the war effort, a globalized war effort, to remain independent and keep freedom of religion, speech and press while showing Europe that absolute monarchy isn't the way to go. Also stocks were something new but related to other banking innovations, and the shareholder model was also used to create farmland by pumping water out around the same time, the Beemsterpolder. The VOC's economic value was very modest. So these anglo YT-video's should stop obsessing about the VOC, and start taking an interest in the Dutch Republic, much more interesting and truly a turning point in history. Not just economic history.
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  526. Dit ging duidelijk boven jullie pet. De grond in grondwet staat voor de grondslag van de staat, die als rechtsstaat in wettten en regelingen is vervat, het is een instructie voor organen van de staat inclusief regering en parlement als wetgevers. Maar de grondwet kent ook burgers fundamentele rechten toe, en instrueert de staat zich van inbreuken te onthouden en die is dan ook de normadressaat van de grondwet. Dat noemen we grondrechten en daarvan zijn twee soorten, de klassieke en de sociale. De klassieke komen er op neer dat de staat iets niet mag doen, de sociale dat de staat zich er wel om bekommert. Maar driekwart van de grondwet gaat niet over grondrechten. Niks cirkelredenering dus, gewoon gebrek aan begrijpend lezen en achtergrondkennis. De rechter mag en moet wel degelijk aan de grondwet toetsen, maar alleen de formele wet goedgekeurd door TK en aan de grondwet getoetst door de EK niet, alle lagere wet en regelgeving wel. Het discriminatieverbod betreft dus ook alleen de overheid, en hoewel ideologisch geformuleerd gaat het wel om gelijke gevallen gelijk beoordelen en ongelijke gevallen naarmate van hun ongelijkheid. Dus dan komt het verschil tussen het aangeboren ras en de gekozen religie er al snel verschillend uit. Overigens wordt ook levensbeschouwing gelijkgesteld aan religie, dus dat is dan wel weer interessant. Plassterk had helemaal gelijk, want de grondwetgever wilde niet alleen die duurzame brede overeenstemming, die wild grondwetswijzigingen ook aan de kiezer voorleggen. Daarom moeten er verkiezingen tussenzitten, en dat kun dus niet met twee verkiezingen ertussen. Kandidaten moeten de gelegenheid hebben de verkiezing in te gaan met "als wij genoeg stemmen krijgen, 1/3e dus, dan gaat de grondwetswijziging niet door." De verdragen en besluiten betreffen ieder verbindende bepalingen, daar lazen jullie maar weer overheen, en daar bestaan verdragen doorgaans niet uit, noch geven die vaak de bevoegdheid dergelijke besluiten te nemen aan internationale organisaties. Dat is namelijk nogal snel in strijd met diezelfde grondwet. Een verdrag dat strijdigheid met de grondwet oplevert kan alleen met dezelfde gekwalificeerde meerderheid worden goedgekeurd, maar dat gebeurt niet. Niettemin is het een probleem aangezien veel politiek actoren de democratie willen omzeilen en via verdragen technocratisch willen regeren. En dat lukt, mede dankzij het niet zo onafhankelijke EHRM, antidemocratische kamermeerderheden, grondwetnegerende kamermeerderheden, een politieke RvS, de EU, en rechters in het algemeen die de democratisch geratificeerde teksten steeds vaker los laten om een eigen afweging te maken. We hebben effectief dan ook geen grondrechten meer over, want via het leerstuk van de botsende grondrechten dat ook niet van een democratisch verkozen wetgever/verdragsluiter komt, wordt een grondrecht al snel iets waarvan de staat/rechter af moest blijven tot iets onderworpen aan diens afweging. De rechters maken steeds meer zelf algemene regels naar aanleiding van een individueel geval ipv de algemene regel van de wetgever daarop toe te passen, daarmee zijn het de rechters die op de stoel van de wetgever gaan zitten als onverkozenen en de machtenscheiding aan hun laars lappen. Dit gevaar komt niet van Baudet, maar van de politici van D66/VVD, RenewEUrope, de EU technocraten, de NGOs, de door farmaceuten gefinancierde WHO. Allemaal zo'n moeizaam bereikt onderhandelingsresultaat dat ons parlement eigenlijk niet meer terug kan nadat het tot dan toe geheimgehouden onderhandelingsresultaat krijgt te zien. Allemaal goedbedoeld natuurlijk, maar in vele lagen van regels ben je dan uiteindelijk een stuk democratie en een paar grondrechten kwijt. Kijk naar CETA, kijk naar het verdrag van Lissabon, en kijk vooral naar het debat met Pia Dijkstra over de WHO verdragen en huiver.
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  527. Die Holländer mit ihre Bumscontainer...
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  528. I know a guy that is a pin striper and rust painter and he has plenty of work, mostly on American cars of course and he owns two too. And that is in the Netherlands, while Sweden is known for it's huge American car scene. Apparently Swedish winters are quite mild on cars too. A classic American V8, up until the 80's, is a stand out car in Europe simply by it's dimensions and sound. And not just compared to other cars, but they make streets look small too. They have total different experience inside and handling too. There have always been people that collect Americana. It's not that unuasal for Europeans to have a foreign country's culture as kind of a hobby. Someone with a car like might also have a jukebox at home or something like that.
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  529. Lancia had a V4 in the 60's and 70's, the gorgeous Fulvia coupe, and the Saab had a V4 to replace the 2-stroke in the Saab 96, it was also put in the Sonnet. Ford appears to have had one to, but there is no modern V4. I think the main advantage was it shorthness for placement entirely in front of the front axle, longitudually, which worked great for those very light fwd's. The Lancia had a very narrow V so it had one cylinderhead with two cam shafts.
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  530. Nothing wrong with raindrops. Citroen has been doing proper raindrops since the 50's, as in much narrower at the rear axle. If you look at the early 80s the most aerodynamically efficient cars were the Citroen CX and GSA, the Mercedes 190 and 200-300 series with their high trunks, and the mentioned bid Audis. They all looked very, very different.
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  531.  @TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd  An English wheel and lots of highly skilled but affordable craftsmen I guess, or maybe it's all hammered. But it's a very interesting era in car design with all those coach builders around. Saoutchick is a nice one too, and just after WWII Vignale, Zagato, Pininfarina and Ghia were still coachbuilders that did the wildest stuff.
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  532. Maybe, but this video ist mostly aimed at work culture and there is a huge difference between the hierarchical German work culture and the egalitarian Dutch one, also concerning directness of course. You can also tell your boss his idea sucks. This is also the flipside of Dutch efficiency, in the Netherlands everyone 'has to have his pee over it'. The decision might already have been taken or will be taken at another level, but still everyone has to have a say, being at least heard.
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  533. "All" countries had their own racing colour for the manufacturers. Italy-red, France-blue, German-white (silver), Netherlands-orange and Britain-green.
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  534. Yep, bonkers in their own special way too.
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  535. I certainly enjoyed the video. There's also an early account of meeting the native Americans by a Dutchman. Might be nice to have a video about that one too and compare.
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  536. @ Yes, but most car people are very bad at looking at cars.
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  537. Yes, but that was probably also down to a cultural difference. A big international company being arrogant to the small single diner, first ignoring it and than assuming it's just a matter of money. But then owner was already disgruntled and made it about his right and not money. Judges not impressed with the big money argument either, so that was that.
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  538. Waarom is niet iedereen tegen deze corrupte antidemocraat?
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  539. Sea levels at Rotterdam are rising by 1.9 mm/year. Being a tax haven is not much good to the country, rather the product of the neoliberal ideology of recent governments. There is a lot of service industry that indeed needs goods production elsewhere but there is a strong, diversified export economy too. A lot is just not consumer end product but a lot of intermediate goods.
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  540. Part and Parcel of living in a Duits provinciestadje.
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  541. Still 2 against 1 in a language that is not his first one is not a particularly good look.
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  542. The apology isn't clear nor precise in Dutch either. Let's keep it vague and just hand some subsidies to moaning black activists who descended from Ghanaian slave traders. The BBC joins in the overall vagueness by putting the statue of Piet Hein in the thumbnail. He predates the Dutch giving up on it's objection to the Atlantic slavetrade, he loathed slavery and any natives becoming victim of European conflict, he freed many slaves and he was enslaved himself.
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  543.  @frankmueller2781  No I'm not. I' see modern values as a product of the past, I'm just pointing out that that might nog be as self evident for cultures that weren't responsible for that progress but only subjected to it.
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  544. 4.59 Skoda 110R. When I saw that behind the iron curtain in the mid 80's I realized communism couldn't kill all spirit. Funny thing though was that we were there with hydropneumatic Citroen, which often drew a crowd when started and rising up.
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  545. A lot of Dutch muslims have voted for him because they share the same problems and neighbourhoods, among other immigrants he was already huge in previous elections. The Netherlands has know religious tolerance and many religions since forever, it's desire for religious tolerance was what made it and independent country. Religions have existed in peace for over 4 centuries but only decades after the muslim immigration from the Middle East and Africa there were religious killings. It is many muslims desire for islam to rule public space and public debate, to rule all, that is the problem. The Indonesians have been perfectly integrated for decades now, those aren't the problem. But also many muslims start just taking their place with their religion in society, just like the catholics, jews, hindus and 421 denominations of protestantism have for the past centuries. No one cares if you go to a mosque or a temple or synagogue, religion is a private matter. The head scarf is a bit of a problem though, because muslim men have a habit of harassing women without a headscarf. That's what the headscarf does, distinguish between chaste muslimas and "whores" and the muslimas who wear one are accomplices in that.
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  546. If you don't know how to make batteries, cobalt is not a resource to you, just something in the ground.
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  547.  @ReinaAfricana  Western and Asian manufacturing makes it into a resource, otherwise cobalt are just rocks. So it's actually an opportunity offered by the West, to make money off something that was useless before. That opportunity would be best used by using the power over the wanted resource to get the technology in to do more of the manufactering chain. But for that you need capable non corrupt government.
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  548. The VOC as it's called didn't dominate world trade. It was dominant in Asian trade, also between Asian nations often, but the vast majority of the trade was much closer to and within European seas and that was done by individual merchants or small companies. But because the risk, the one year journeys and the war effort, Asian trade was organized in one big state supported company with a monopoly on trade East of the Cape. It was very important culturally, strategically and for the history of finance, but only a tiny part of the Dutch Republic's economy. Even in it's peak year it wasn't as profitable as the good old herring fishery. The VOC is a bit of a British obsession, but if the English hadn't been outcompeted on the Baltic, North Sea and Mediterranean, they would have encountered the real moneymakers a lot more often.
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  549. Ja Nederland is vol, nee het is geen stad. Nee, dat mag niet worden bestuurd als een wingewest met zoveel mogelijk mensen en voor iedereen die hier wil komen wonen, we leven immers in een democratie en onze volksvertegenwoordigers vertegenwoordigen volgens de grondwet uitsluitend het Nederlandse volk.
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  550. We should remember that the British are the biggest prudes of Europe, the Puritans were more prude than the British, then they went to the Dutch Republic (the city of Leiden) because of it's religious freedom. But they feared the influence of the Dutch sexual moral, who were pretty strict calvinists back then, on their children. So they went to America as the Pilgrim Fathers where they thought they could be their prude and puritan self and enforce it on others. So in international Western comparison, the USA is extremely prude. The sexualization might be a counter reaction, it's not a reaction that desexualizes nudity.
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  551.  @FloofersFX  You don't have to read between the lines very carefully to what part of the culture was the biggest threat to their kids. The Dutch were good christians with monogamous marriages too, but sexual joy withing that marriage was not frowned upon but seen as something good, the Dutch word for the clitoris is older than the 1600's for example. Also the youngsters looking for a future wife and husband were allowed quite a bit of liberty. Husband and wife and fiancees were showing affection in public, women and girls travelled unacompanied. That was all unheard of in England. Anyway, lots of things change over time, but the Anglo-Saxons at either side of the pond were consistently among the most prudish of Western civilization.
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  552.  @kudraabdulaziz3096  My idea, after I watched a Thomas Sowell video on how unfortunate Africa was with it's geogaphy for it's development. Not many all year round navigable rivers and lots of tough terrain. Not too much wind if I'm not mistaken. With the labour situation, maybe the old fashioned way of landing and releasing airships might also be an option.
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  553. @GlobalDataConspirator I agree, no idea where all the helium went but hydrogen has gotten a bad rep because of the Hindenburg, which crash actually went rather well compared to other aircraft when it comes to number of deaths. Most passengers survided, and it was the paint that caused the explosion, the hydrogen only fuelled the resulting fire.
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  554.  @chrislittle2366  Yes, very different from his elder brother. He was a gentle and very enlightened man, as in embracing the enlightenment. He really loved the Dutch and was loved back and started modern monarch, he started Dutch monarchy overall of course. But putting on his wellies and visiting a disaster scene for example is still core business of our royals. That why Napoleon sacked him, he was only interested in the money and didn't realize "Holland" wasn't as filthy rich as in the 17th century anymore. Louis moved to Weimar were he became friends with Goethe.
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  555.  @chrislittle2366  History with Hilbert has some nice video's on Dutch history. Hilbert reads Dutch and that helps a lot. Especially the 17th century and the late 16th are interestiing. Lots of war, politics, intrigue, but also lots of social and economical change, freedom, the Dutch Republic putting the modern into the early modern period. In the lacklustre 18th century it was a country of rentiers and beggars, the most improductive people according to Voltaire. The 19th century it was in crisis, turned inward a lot, late to new developments, socially conservtive and lots of poverty.
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  556.  @MedjayCommander  There is no robbing, it's being sold far too cheap by fellow black Africans. They are also only valuable resources because the Europeans know what do with it. That's called getting lucky. Why is it Tunesians or whoever don't want to move there?
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  557. No, the particracy is the problem. Stretching the coalition talks forever is what parties do when they don't want the election result to change anything.
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  558. Nothing honest about your 'facts'. The Dutch didn't enslave any Africans, they bought them pre-enslaved by other Africans. Dutch who did enslave Africans themselves ended up in jail. It weren't 1.7 million, they shipped about 550.000, most to other European colonizers btw. This certainly did not represent 40% of Dutch wealth at any point in time and especially not today. This is probably some African economics that came up with that percentage, but the whole colonial enterprise, including all slavery was less than 1% even at it's peak, and the East Asian colonies were much more profitable than the transantlantic. The Dutch, with only 1.5 million people, did more than half of all European shipping. That's how they were filthy rich before any involvement with the Atlantic slavetrade. They were piss poor after being looted by France in the early 1800's, and got filthy rich again with the slave trade abolished immediately after the French occupation. Then they got plundered and destroyed by Nazi Germany, and got filthy rich again in 75 years since, without even colonies and with the former colonies only costing a lot of money (yes 'reparations' have already been paid). It's this ignorance and begging mentality that keeps Africa poor. You can't be a significant part of any economy when your labour is hardly worth anything. Whether that's cutting sugar cane as a slave, picking cacao beans as a free African in an independent African country, or digging for cobalt as a child. Anyone can do that, and the raw material isn't worth much. So you better look at what the Dutch did besides slavery and colonization and what they really got rich from, you might learn something.
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  559. Luxembourg is the gas station of North-West Europe. Fill up the tank cheap, buy cheap cigarettes and have a coffee before continuing the trip. i
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  560.  @shaggybaggums  I don't know, I just wanted the sturdiest one and thought it was cute. The 3310 wasn't as well known for it's indestructability as it is now. People have to find out first. But later one when someone needed to use my phone or speak to the caller, and just threw it knowing it wasn't a big deal if they didn't catch it.
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  561. Many people seem even to be able to remember slavery they never experienced.
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  562. There are a lot of weird boat lifts in Belgium and Eastern and central Europe. If you balance it, which is the point of this construction, you only need a couple of horsepower. Same for bridges. It's typical late 19th century when lots of heavy stuff needed to be shipped through industrializing countries with canal and river systems seperated by a huge height difference. We have lots of lock systems in the Netherlands too, but usually it's about 30cm. If you have to make a 70ft height difference that way you need an awful lot of locks. Here we just build canals over roads to keep the right height. The most spectacular engineering is in the flood defences though.
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  563. Mr. No became Mr. Yes mein Führerin under Rutte of couse, as predicted. But keep regurgitating EU propaganda.
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  564. But the English looked in England for an English recipe and found one so that must be the first. That is was a pie with a whole lot of other stuff in it and very little apple doesn't matter of course. Britain first!
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  565. Ze nemen de bij uitstek bepalende factor voor gevangenisstraf niet mee in het onderzoek: Recidive. Dan ben je dus geen onderzoek aan het doen om iets te weten te komen.
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  566. Should have explained that the Dutch hadn't declared their king unlawful, but had established that the king by trampling on the Dutch inalienable rights like freedom of conscience (religion) and becoming a tyrant, had left the legimitate Dutch throne himself. This Dutch DOI of 1581 translates as the "Act/Plackard of Leaving" but this is often (not that often, the Dutch don't care and Americans, French and British like to pretend they came up with the good stuff themselves) wrongly interpreted as the Dutch deciding to leave the Spanish Empire and become the Dutch Republic, but it was the king of Spain that did the leaving according to the Dutch.
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  567. Omvolking en omvolkingstheorie zijn twee verschillende woorden met verschillende betekenissen, is dat nou zo moeilijk? Zijn jullie dom of vals?
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  568. Voetbal.
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  569. Het was toch echt de VVD Eerste Kamerfractie die het door het congres aangenomen verkiezingsprogramma bij het grof vuil zetten.
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  570. Of course, it was the century in which the Dutch Republic invented modern capitalism, created religious tolerance, mare liberum, upward social mobility, invaded England and freed that of the divine right of kings and absolute rule too, gave it it's bill of rights, religious tolerance and the current constitutional parliamentary monarchy. Their freedom of press kick started the enlightenment and their declaration of independence of 1581 was the inspiration to the founding fathers of the USA, who almost copied it materially. But most importantly, the Dutch already knew slavery was wrong and that's why they refused to join the Atlantic slavetrade until 1637. They gave the world the hyporcrisy in foreign relations every Apple user, Nike buyer, oil burner, and Tesla driver enjoys until today. Without that hypocrisy we couldn't enjoy those products. At least the Dutch made 99% of their wealth from fair trade and industry.
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  571. They, and I believe Madison in particular, studied the Dutch Republic from which they almost copied the DOI, but they were not impressed. And rightly so, it was made up on the go during an 80 year independence war, it still had semi heriditary powers, the document preceeding the republic was still the de facto constitution allthoug never designed to be one, and of the Dutch states/provinces kind of doubled up as one province and the framework of the united provinces. So they wisely decided to start from scratch, and not grow into a compromised system, make a clean, clear, principled set up of a federation of states.
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  572.  @asnark7115  Not where airliners and private jets put the CO2, there are not plants at that altitude. There it's where it has a much bigger greenhouse effect relative to it's many tons in CO2. But climate change is not urgent enough to hinder globalization of course. That's why air travel was left out of the Paris agreement like it doesn't count.
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  573. True. There used to principles like that if you accuse someone of something really bad, you had to stand up for it and be specific, so the accused got a chance to defend himself against false or mistaken accusations. These days the verdict comes with the accusation alone and that might be exactly what a political activist or a disgruntled sub wants. I believe Jans should have dealt with the sensitivities of the culture he chose to work in and if he failed he surely needs to apologize, but we're not allowed to know if and how he dealt with that. He's not even allowed to know himself.
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  574.  @mr.cogito7167  There might have been cracks in the iron curtain in the late eighties, the Austrians were the only central Europeans that could travel freely. The others needed special permission from the communist party. We had Hungarians and the odd Czechoslowakian, but those were refugees from 55 and 67.
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  575.  @stupidcommentmaker  The Dutch traded with India, but had to be careful. You know, those swamp peasants with their smelly outfits meeting the sophisticated Indians with their fine manners and silk clothes. That took a bit of diplomacy, and convincing the Dutch actually had some goods interesting for them.
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  576.  @nox5555  For foreigners? Let them do that themselves.
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  577.  @elliottcovert3796  No the French had clogs too. They were actually early safety shoes and pretty comfortable, but the the British never cared about the under class losing feet or whatever. In Britain the workers were disposable, in the Dutch Republic and France their shoes, which after wearing out could be used to heat the house.
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  578.  @e.i.l.9584  No, democracy is about real concrete powers of the elected so the voters can change the way they are governed. For it to be a democracy the elected should have full legeslative powers and appoint and sack the executive power. They should also be elected by the people they decide over. The nationalistic candidacy is a form of divide and rule on top of that. The fact is that I can't vote for or against the vast majority of the people who are going to decide little over me as they are in parliament, and not all for the ones with the real power, the EC. Going trough the motions of democracy, like voting at a polling station, does not make a democracy. Kim Jong IL, Stalin, Putin, Ceaucescu, they all knew that.
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  579. I think the printing press had it's main relevance much earlier, in the rise of literacy and protestantism. The enligthenment was in need of the freedom of print that was the product of those two.
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  580.  @Kilian600  First internal, Cugnot used an external combustion engine, steam.
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  581. Amsterdam does not have it's own jurisdiction with different laws from the rest of the Netherlands.
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  582. A mostly peaceful war though.
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  583. Gravenberch is alweer vrij lang een heel groot talent. Ik denk dat het meer een kwestie is van een rol vinden bij zijn overduidelijke kwaliteiten, dat kwam er bij Bayern blijkbaar niet uit. Dat gaat niet alleen om vertrouwen geven maar ook over vertrouwen hebben in je rol op het veld.
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  584. Bullshit EU propaganda. It wasn't a proper constitution because it didn't limit powers of the different institutions towards eachtother and the member states. They had done a terrible job to allow for an ever growing dynamic of integration, a continuous shift of power from the elected to the unelected. It was designed to make the people of the member states have less democracy, not more. The Dutch people didn't vote for the replacement treaty, that's a lie. The referendum was ignored with the treaty being different used an excuse. So what we have now is the constitution we voted against in a large majority, and we have lost our souvereignty and therefore our democracy, so the No voters are proven to be right. It was forced through by the political parties that supported the constitution. Corporate profits have soared, people pay more in taxes for less, social cohesion is down the drain and the people on food help have more than tenfolded.
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  585.  @gustaveliasson5395  I don't know, the 2CV is relatively safe in collision with another 2CV, traffic would probably be a lot safer if everybody drove a car like that. Of course it's not's clean enough for a modern car. * If you want it up to modern standards you would have to go watercooled. Not only much heavier and requiring space for a radiator, you would also have to install a heater, as the engine doubles up as the heater. It's a 2 cylinder boxer so you would lose space by mounting it transversally. * Airbags add weight. * With it's arcs it's already very sturdy for it's weight, so not very sturdy. You know the roof is retractable to save weight? Crumple zones add weight too. Let's say you'd all do that, it would add 150 kilo at least. That would require heavier construction of the chassis, suspension, springs, dampers brakes, bigger engine, axles, gears, more fuel consumption so bigger tank, bigger wheels, adding another 50 kilo at least. The steering will get heavier, is there space for a bigger steering wheel or do you want to add power steering too? That's what sports car makers have to deal with too, once you add weight you have to keep adding weight to deal with the added weight. So the 500kg car becomes a 700kg car, with that high center of gravity. It will roll even moren. Will it fall over now? Will it still be comfortable? Does that unique suspension even work with that weight? Maybe, but certainly not as well. So I stand by my opinion that it's great within this window and won't work if you go outside. You should check the Citroen Oli concept. It's a prototype of an electric car partly based on the same kind of thinking. Simplicity, weight saving and practicality. But it's a 1000kg car in this day and age because of how cars have improved in passive safety and clean engines.
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  586.  @gustaveliasson5395  It's only a testament to the 2CV's brilliance that it could drive at high way speed, was roomy enough for 4 adults and was comfortable. One would expect that with engine evolution and light weight materials a better modern version would be possible with the modern environmental and safety requirements, and then I leave the off road capabilities out of the equasion. But it's the brilliance and the imagination we lack now. If you start with a car needs electric windows, touch screens, speakers, sound proofing, 100 hp, it's going nowhere in terms of light weight practical and minimal cars. That's why the Citroen Oli is interesting.
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  587. A student studying Dutch had to do her master's dissertation about a Dutch renaissance poet in English on the basis of an English translation. Dutch universities are basicallly being sold out. This is not about getting the most talented foreign students and doing subjects in English because the discipline is mostly in English. This is about dropping the education levels, wrecking the language and give Dutch students a disadvantage.
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  588. It's also often a tactic to not have the other's argumetn heard, prevent a nice soundbite that spread. But this guy is just pathetic.
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  589.  @ThePresentPast_  So why are you willfully miseducating people with these videos?
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  590.  @sebe2255  Besides it's not true. The older generation had a fact based education, the younger generation gets a judgement based education. The maker of this video is so eager to be judgemental that the facts don't matter.
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  591. No, don't get carried away with your blown up view of American importance. We have always seen American politics as a freak show of the corrupt corporate henchmen. Geert Wilders was already a significant power in Dutch politics when Trump was still making tv-shows. Your view on European history is very silly.
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  592. I think the trick was in their transgenerational thinking, every lord building further on their mighty noble family and a mighty building to keep also future generations safe and mighty.
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  593. The British being British again, they looked into British recipes and found one of a pie with apple and a lot more stuff in it, the Swedish and Dutch versions were acknowledged but that those were much more apple pie as we know it today not and colonists to America were Dutch and Swedish too. The sandwich already existed for centuries before some English dude discovered it and arrogantly gave it his own name. The chocolate press and bars are a Dutch invention. Doughnuts is a nonsense claim too, as they didn't find nor investigate when the Dutch made them first, only that when the Dutch brought them to America the English had also been introduced to them. Cinema and photography are French inventions. Submarine was also a Dutch invention by Cornelis Drebbel in 1620. I'm sure French, German and Italian people can name a few more things the British stole from others than the Dutch. The British are no better than the Americans in taking credit for things they copied themselves.
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  594. Increased GDP mainly through increased population through mass immigration, quite costly for the Dutch. That's not prosperity.
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  595. My take away is that the relatively short distances of the Netherlands are used to promote the idea that it's a city state which it is not. The idea that km's determine the difference between a city and a country is nonsense. This city idea also comes with the claim that you can govern it like a city and it can have it's big city problems. What a coincidence, just when government is trying to get the farmers out with made up crises and keeps adding to the population like it's a force of nature. The Netherlands has been and is such a success because it has it's two sides balancing eachother out. The dry parts and the wet parts, the country side and urban area's, the down to earth people and those with their head in the clouds. It's in that interaction between those the country emerged, the first country as such in fact, the first nation state in fact, a country as we've come to know countries. So the place that came up with the idea of being a country is not a country but a city? Yeah right.
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  596. Lancia Sibilo concept by Bertone.
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  597.  @tamiozdemir  My grandparents had nothing to do with Indonesia. Why do so many Indonesians seem to think that what eventually became their country was of huge importance to the Dutch? I don't feel guilty, the whole idea of people ruling themselves, which I support, originated in the Netherlands. I'd like to have seen independence for the different peoples of Indonesia come about in a more patient and orderly fashion, and the Javanese government be less of new colonizer.
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  598. Nu ze lekker aan het oorlogshitsen zijn is de democratische rechtsstaat ineens niet belangrijk meer. Zijn argument dat de toekomst van Europa op het spel staat: "Dat is gewoon zo."
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  599. The Hungerians probably have seen what has been happening in Germany, France and Sweden and are craving cultural enrichment too.
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  600. If I might add, the Nederdiets/Niederdeutsch/Netherdutch had already become a nation state in the 16th century. "De Republiek der Zeven Vereenigde Nederlanden" was a bit too much to ask from the linguistically challenged Brits so they translated that to "the Dutch Republic" making 'Dutch' originating from that country, while there were no other entities with Dutch or Deutsch in the name as they were monarchies or duchies. They also had to deal with those a lot more since those Dutch had a hundred times more ships. Even when the British would come across a German, he was most likely from a Dutch ship. So the British are somewhat excused in this, it's not that they didn't differentiate at all.
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  601. Brits look into British history and then declare what they find a world's first no matter how backward they were in the period it's from.
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  602. This has nothing to do with white. The Netherlands has never been fully white since it became a country. But we have no historical obligation to Moroccans whatsoever, they were the Barbary pirates, they enslaved tenths of thousands of Dutch sailors. The Dutch have always respected islam anywhere in the world.
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  603.  @jdavis11576  So there's an emoji that is entirely all right, but not in a message about a black person?
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  604. It's the paradox of beautiful old buildings, it's awesome they have survived this long, but only because there have been and still are so many dangers over the ages.
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  605.  @svenhaheim  And so did other civilizations. But great scientists were almost absent until about 500 years ago, in all civilizations. Civilizations used to have one society changing invention every 1000 years or every 100 years at best, the West went rapidly to one every 50 years to one every ten years to one every year. That's what sets Western civilization apart from earlier and often more advanced ones, it's self developping at ever higher speed, and that allowed to spread it global in the process. That happened in Europe first and therefore it is too late for it happening in any other civilization now or in the future. Name me one civilization that changed as much as we did in the last 500 years, or in any century of those 5. Great buildings and craftsmanship had been there anywhere over the world, that's not what made the West unique.
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  606.  @GlasPthalocyanine  I can't agree. Western civilization did thrive under very intolerant catholicism, it took freedom to get into a chain reaction and explode like it did. That's the unique thing about Western civilization, that it stopped merely thriving. The thriving already started in many places around the 14th century with the craftsmen, farmers and merchants taking more and more power from the nobility and the church. The golden age of islam is also about thriving, and that took a turn for the worst when the intolerant islam took over from the tolerant. Maybe social mobility instead of birth rights is more important because that is how you get talent working for further development?
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  607.  @GlasPthalocyanine  Exactly, Western Europe was not a very good spot to live in, until it became one. It's compact, everything is relatively close, roads are possible, wheels are useful, and most of all navigable water ways and seas. But the exchange of ideas would be much less when monks had to write all the books by hand and keep an eye on them.
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  608. It's mostly Western propaganda that makes Russia bigger than it is economically. For Russia's self image economy size is not important. Russia thinks in terms of land, which they have a lot of, in terms of strategic value of oil and gas, and of a big army and a lot of nukes. The state of their economy means their huge army is cheaper to run too.
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  609. WNL "Het gaat van kwaad tot erger met FvD, een nieuw dieptepunt noemt onze premier het" . De eerste 5 seconden van een item en de journalisten verklaren al de lijn van de regering te volgen, zonder dat dat blijkbaar enige toelichting behoeft. Dat is dus het probleem en daarom is het niet gek dat mensen geen respect meer voor 'de journalistiek' hebben. Zeker ook als die geen enkel kritisch woord over hebben voor een collega die met desinformatie een volksvertegenwoordiger in de val probeert te lokken. WNL vind het net zo vanzelfsprekend om de criticasters van de macht aan te vallen als SBS6, dit is geen journalistiek, dit is regeringspropaganda.
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  610.  @devnull1013  People were skating on lakes and canals in 2018 too, and if I remember correctly it was even possible for more days. In 2016 there was some skating too. There's always some record to find in a lot of data, like a very low temperature in some little area while it's much warmer elsewhere. Most of the country has only seen 'moderate frost' this year, day and night, and it's not called moderate for nothing. It was called 'extreme weather' right away when it was only -3C or something. No papers getting delivered, no trains and stuff, I wished people were that easily impressed when I was a paper boy cycling at -11C. Simply weather for gloves and ear muffs and maybe some layering. Nothing special.
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  611.  @Bleilock1  Mass of course. People will always migrate for very individual and personal reasons. Mass immigration happens because of economics. But immigration describes a dynamic process, not at static state, so a country can't have keep the same mass immigration without changing massively. Either NL changes it's immigration policy radically, or it changes itself radically. The suggestion proponents of mass immigration often do is that it's something static and we can just stay the same with the same immigration policy. It is neoliberal because for the international corporatocracy an asylumseeker on Dutch welfare consumes more and generates more profit than being middle class in Africa or the Middle East. GDP has to increase for them, not GDP per capita, and not Dutch wealth but how much money is made off the Dutch and other people living in the Netherlands. Housing getting much more expensive is free money to those who own, and free money for the banks. And people can't say no to housing, everybody needs it, so you can make money without having to come up with something that people want, you only have to own what people need. Hardcore neoliberal. Mass immigration is not serving the Dutch, it makes them poorer, unsafer and less of a society, so who was the last government really serving?
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  612. Het is dan weer heel makkelijk uit te leggen dat de vaccins niet werken. Na twee prikken zouden we van de coronacrisis af zijn. Eerder al zelfs want als de 70-plussers beschermd zijn gaan de 70-minners nooit de ziekenhuizen overbelasten omdat daarvan veel te weinig echt ziek worden. Ja, ze doen wel wat, eventjes, maar dat is wat anders dan werken. Daarnaast is dat 50.50 alweer achterhaald en gaan we gewoon andere landen achterna en verdwijnt het verschil tussen gevaccineerden en ongevaccineerden. We weten de echte cijfers ook niet want De Jonge houdt de ruwe data geheim.
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  613. Not really. The Brits might feel similar but what do they know? They are much too self centered and entitled and feel estranged by Germans and the French. For the Dutch they all three are a bit weird and backward. Economically the Dutch are far closer to the Rhineland model than to the Anglo-Saxon model of the winner takes it all and the let the lumpenproletariat stuff it. In finance and state budget there is a divide with France and Southern Europe between the careful and the savers up North and the Wein, Weib und gesang spenders in the South. So euro wise, it's allegience is with Scandinavia, Germany, Finland. Military wise, the huge military power of the USA makes the military superiority of France, Germany and the UK far less important in international politics, so that's nice for the Netherlands.
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  614.  @dranchd6571  The inferior mentality is the problem here. We have superior technology, education and economy, that is a factual matter. How you feel about is not important. Around 1400 parts of Africa were at least as civilized as Europe, only European shipping was superior and that changed the world, while Europe got a scientific revolution speeding up progress tremendously. The Europeans experienced something similar with first the Romans and later the Moors, the North-Africans. When they started exploring the globe and came to Benin, Togo or India and Japan, they were seen as inferior in culture, despite their shipping skills. But the Europeans learned from the Romans, the Moors, the Chinese etc. Just like the Chinese learned from the Europeans recently. But the Africans don't because hurt feelings and pride are in the way, and they prefer to blame and beg. Thats'a cultural issue holding Africa back, no mattter injustice was done.
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  615.  @easymoneycresus  No. Rebellions were a minor inconvenience, and they were already too nice to crush them at all costs. The Dutch could only stretch their hypocrisy so far. They had their nice little country where all people were equal and children of god, including the blacks that have been living there since the late 1500's. And overseas was a different world they knew little to nothing about and didn't want to know about. But in the end the reality of the situation the government was responsible for got through anyway. And then there was outrage and things had to change. One of the big advantages of the triangular transatlantic trade was that ordinary cargo ships left Dutch harbours for the African coast. There the goods were traded, the ships converted to slave ships with our Ashanti friends who sold us the slaves, and then sailed to the America's, where they got reconverted to ordinary cargo ships and the cargo was shipped to the Netherlands. No one in the Netherlands saw a slave ship there. They knew there was slavery, they just weren't confronted with it. That's how it still works. No one driving a Tesla is confronted how children dig for the raw materials in the Congo the batteries are made of.
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  616.  @easymoneycresus  That was the whole point, the descendants of slaves are just as lucky I was being born here. It's the descendants of the enslavers that have the short end of the stick now. One of what I consider backward ideas in African culture is this thinking in terms of race and continent rather than in time and progress. I don't care some of the greatest civilizations didn't come from Europe, but Europeans were the ones taking care of it's legacy and it's the latest European civilization that has become global. The Yoruba, Bantu or KhoiKhoi have as much or even less to do with ancient Egypt as the Dutch, but you want to claim that for a certain race through a distant geographical connection that goes beyond race. Whatever makes you feel better about yourself. I don't transfer technologies because they are not mine and they are valuable, and you will have them stolen by the Chinese. All the Europeans with good intentions have to deal with forces much greater than them too. In the late 20th century there was the genuine idea of helping Africa, but by now it's becoming clear we are incompetent in making Africa progress. So we shouldn't make promises we can't keep anymore because we don't have the power and the competence. Intentions are only worth so much. African poltics didn't help either. They claimed to be ready for independence, everything would get much better, and now they failed they blame Europeans again. And why don't you have you own technologies? What you don't understand is that the past 150 years you've seen Europe's friendly side, soft side even. What did we get for that? Ungrateful beggars for money and technology. Refugees from bloody conflict and genocide that have to be fed and housed, often for life. Illegal invaders, crime, overpopulation, making China more powerful, racism and tough talk. It's not like we're not capable of acting like the Arabs and the Chinese. We could also sink all the boats with Africans trying to invade, we could shoot all the people trying to get across the border illegally and deport all illegal Africans, dump them somewhere in Africa. We don't, because we're still playing nice. But now we have Africans being triumphant about it, like they conquered Europe. No, they took advantage of people being nice, people valuing African lives more than the Africans, and there's a limit to that.
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  617.  @LarrlLou  I never said anything like that, I'm just saying pyramids are not part of West-African culture.
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  618. Large windows have become a lot cheaper over the ages, often during more peaceful times. So some might have added palace like things later in of many extra builds. In that sense vulnerable palaces displayed more power, 'I got everything under control here, no one comes near with a trebuchet'. But many are fakes from the 18th and 19th century medieval romanticizing.
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  619.  @shafaalya884  Facts.
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  620. No, Americans mix up geography with race and ethnicity, Europeans don't.
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  621. 4WD and twin engine. The terrain in this video wouldn't be challenging enough.
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  622. The Dutch stood up against the king's tyranny and for inalienable rights in 1581. The Americans stood up against the king in 1775. The French stood up in 1789. The Germans didn't stand up when they should so I wouldn't count on them.
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  623.  @schorpioen7466  Indeed. I'm open to discuss what kind of hypocrites the Dutch were for giving up their objection to the transatlantic slavery in 1637, or why they procrastinated the freeing of the remaining slaves for 50 years after abolishing the slave trade. It is a moral issue and the Dutch can't hide behind 'we just didn't know better' like some primitive society. But this whole 'we got to get our wealth back that was stolen from us' back is completeley ignorant.
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  624.  @geoffstockton  Call for scrutiny of the election process, that's always a very democratic thing to do. Just not because you lost and believed the media lies.
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  625. Let's also not forget about the American conscious objectors who volunteered to study the effect of this famine on the people while it was going on by suffering starvation themselves to better plans for food aid and recovery. It's called the Minnesota starvation experiment.
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  626. Je hebt anders net ingeschakeld bij de teflonlaag van de VVD, de NOS met 'duider' Noorlander voorop.
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  627.  @Dewis2023  17th century, and he wasn't a Dutch king but appointed by Dutch parliaments as stadtholder. So it was kind of a Dutch civil servant that took the British throne and gave them their current constitutional monarchy and bill of rights.
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  628. The Dutch don't have a particularly good squad by any standards, not just Dutch standards. But it's probably the team that has created the most chances of all. They haven't played well for the entire 90 minutes yet, but at least they have played well.
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  629. That has been used to give us more and more to tolerate. Tolerance is a virtue but situation in which you have to tolerate a lot are not good things. We shouldn't be stretched to the max by our government.
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  630. Bit of shame it missed the huge advantage of aircooled, it's weight. Which allowed for putting it behind the rear axle, that did not only save space and let one leave the heat noise behind literallly, it also made them great for off road.
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  631.  @gert-janvanderlee5307  No. The natural gas was actually detrimental to the Dutch economy and when turning point came regarding to cycling, in the 70's, that effect was already strong.
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  632.  @gert-janvanderlee5307  Initially yes, but it also increased the value of the guilder, the currency making the manufacturing industry dependent on export less competitive. That is the original "Dutch disease". That was already in effect when the turn towards more cycling instead of letting the car take over was translating to infrastructure adaptation.
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  633.  @gert-janvanderlee5307  That you didn't know it doesn't make it nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
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  634.  @kleineteen8043  It's spelled "jaaaaaaa" around here. But no, I not born and raised around here.
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  635.  @MihzvolWuriar  Make that two. I know many people think it's beautiful but to me it sounds like they are complaining and moaning all day.
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  636. There is huge British Hamilton bias in both. Sky has been pushing the narrative that Perez is not himself and therefore doesn't do great in this magnificent Red Bull. They all do it, but Perez has never been on par with Verstappen, not in 2022 and not in 2021. Verstappen is in a league of his own, the Red Bull is not good enough to carry the 2nd driver to an easy 2nd place. But for Sky it's always the car that makes the difference unless it's Hamilton, then it was the driver despite only edging out Bottas. Something Zhou manages quite well too.
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  637. Philips even left it's mark on the demography. It got many poor people out of their mud huts in the Northern Drenthe province and gave them a nice labourer's house in the Eindhoven region together with the job, the sports clubs and the university fund for their children. Philips continued to be a very good employer until the 90's.
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  638. "Forcibly exported Irish already present in New York in 1665? New York was Dutch until 1664, so they only could have been there for 13 months. This doesn't seem to be correct.
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  639. Yes, it really need some Medieval mercantilistic, classist, racist, prudish rule. It already flourished, the hustling culture, the egalitarism and upward social mobility and the melting pot were already planted there by the Dutch. It flourished despite the British, because the British mostly let it be Dutch as was the deal.
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  640. This video is full of shit. - There was no hundreds of years of Dutch colonial rule. There was hundreds of years of colonization as in settlements, that's different. The Dutch didn't do empire. You confusion is just not knowing the facts. - It was the VOC, it his known as the Dutch East India company by anglophones who can only understand things through British 'equivalents'. - It's main purpose was to take what would become the 80-years war overseas to the Portuguese and Spanish. Had a hot spike up your but for not being a good catholic recently? No? That's because that war was won by the Dutch. - The stock exchange is from 1611, because the VOC wanted to reinvest instead of paying dividend, and many of the initial investors were very ordinary people who didn't want to wait decades for ROI. - The Dutch were relgiious tolerant, unlike the others, they weren't killing people for believing in the wrong god, they accepted local customs and law, and were basically just traders and capitalist with a ony a bit of colonial crime on the side. - The VOC was nationalized, after bankruptcy, in 1795, not in 1800. - No, not over the course of the 18th century. There was a fundamental switch of policy and only around in the very late 19th century, to leave the net profit policy, rule the entire archipeloga themselves and civilize the people, for eventual independence. So when WWII broke out, there had only a been a few decades of Dutch rule in most of it including it's school building. - There was no chicken and egg problem, there was a problem of very few schools build yet. - Inlander just means indiginous or non-coastal. Of course the Dutch new they were all different. There's nothing paradoxal about that. The Paradox is with the Javanese nationalists claiming them all with their islands. - The Dutch reasserted control, which was necessary, because the Javanese nationalists showed they were ready for independence by mass killings of anybody not pure blooded inlander, whites, mixed race, Chinese, they were killend in racist slaughter by the tens of thousands. The Dutch were forced to accept premature independence by the USA, which of course wanted to end all European colonial rule so it could itself exploit the world VOC style. Indirectly, through local rule, with respect to culture and religion, but with their own language and violence when necessary, lots more of it.
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  641. Why do all British have to force Hamilton in like this? Hamilton teammate comparison will be looking very different from Verstappen's and Schumacher's. Adding Vettel to make it look less like Hamilton promotion doesn't help. Make those claims about Hamilton, well, make video about and actually show how he did against hastily found replacement teammates like Bottas and Kovalainen, but also Button and Russell.
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  642. Totaal niet mee eens, de NOS moet verslag doen en heeft allerminst de autoriteit of de deskundigheid om te bepalen dat het een feit is dat dan de checks and balances en de machtenscheiding ten einde zouden zijn. Ook youtuber Kasper C. Jansen mist die deskundigheid want het stelsle van checks and balances is veel groter dan dit en dit zou niet zozeer de machtenscheiding raken als wel de machtsverhouding tussen de machten, ook wat anders. Er is ook helemaal niet zoiets als "de machtenscheiding", net zo min als dat hetzelfde is als checks and balances. Machten zijn in bepaalde mate gescheiden in alle democratiën maar allemaal op hun eigen manier. Montesqieu was voor de Amerikanen een belangrijker inspiratie dan voor de meeste landen maar zijn idee over machtenscheiding stoelde op een naief idee van rechtspraak waarbij de rechter eigenlijk alleen maar de wet hoefde op te lezen en verder geen beslissingsruimte had. Zo werkt het nergens. Je kunt elke Amerikaanse professor wel een geleerde noemen, maar ook de Amerikaanse rechtswetenschap bestaat voornamelijk uit en in meningen, die dan ook weer politiek gekleurd kunnen zijn. Waar is de in andere verbanden zo vaak geclaimde wetenschappelijke consensus als de heilige graal gebleven? Is bij rechtswetenschappers het aantal ineens niet meer belangrijk? Betere journalistiek was geweest om verschillende professoren met verschillende standpunten hierover naast elkaar te zetten.
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  643. You probably didn't go fast enough over the speedbump. Due to the nature of the suspension in combination with the size of a regular speed bump and the distance beween the axles, 62 km/h neutralizes the speedbump almost completely.
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  644. Including the many muslim immigrants and other immigrants who voted for him.
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  645.  @bloodndestroy  Where is all the wealth now? Why aren't all those coffee pickers rich now they are independent? Trade and innovation made the Netherlands rich, not Indonesia, the whole VOC was peanuts compared to the Dutch dominance of the European trade.
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  646.  @focusinc4266  You are the one still thinking in terms of bloodlines. Don't pretend you're any better then.
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  647. Dacia basically adopted the 70's idea of not investing in new technology, but use the good technology of the past decade because it only improves little and you get more value for money that way.
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  648.  @larsrademakers6070  Yes, and that came from free trade in Europe. 60% of the entire European merchant fleet was Dutch. The income from the colonial trade was peanuts. War was a huge cost, theft was not really the Dutch style.
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  649.  @Hustlin87  Nonsense. That's just Americans obsessing with race while not knowing geography.
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  650. I do actually remember it from the 80's allthough not being an adult then. But I remember it as an Austrian project from Steyr Puch. Maybe I remembered wrong but Steyr did a lot of 4x4's, there's some connection to the name Magnum I believe. Anyway, the car magazine described it, an early version, as meant to be a Range Rover competitor, but judged it to handle poorly, not being comfortable and way too expensive, so I guess it's the same car.
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  651. Why? The tulip crisis was a crisis in the tulip market, not in the Dutch Republic. Only a speculators, and growers were affected, the special tulips were just a playground for the rich. They got rich because of capitalism, that gave the Dutch the edge to do more than half of all European shipping.
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  652. Yes, but those could also wear a hat on sundays. It's quite roomy for tall people, especially compared to other small European cars of that time, but it's less roomy for buff people.
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  653. So land that is 6 meters belove sealevel is threatened when it becomes 6 meters and 2mm over a year? Yeah right.
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  654.  @grantgerson2492  It's not like Africa needed lot of help with that. It has used Western Medicine to quadruple the population, so now you have the share the continent's riches with three. And the abundance of labour doesn't push wages up either. It's also a choice to stay at the bottom of the production chains. But much more value is added higher up the chain, so that's where the money is. The West would love the many Africans to be big consumers, but the ones who would like to sell to Africans are not the ones that buy cheap from Africans.
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  655.  @Yvolve  No, 1200 Bandanese men were killed, the rest of the tiny population was shipped out to prevent future resistance. This was a retalliation for the slaughter of a Dutch crew a few years before. It was a mass slaughter followed by ethnic cleansing, so no genocide. Primary sources are ignored here to replace them with estimates to make it look worse. Otherwise the most famous atrocity in Dutch colonial history of 1621 wouldn't be bad enough I guess. History classes have been the product of reflection on our own history since at least the 1960s, but people like to import foreign issues and project them on the Netherlands so because the USA had to review it's history only far more recently, we had to do that all over again and of course even more negative. This is also used to sell the mass immigration of people who have nothing to do with our colonial history. It's the desecendents of far bigger slavetraders and imperialists from Africa and the Midddle East that make Russian tourists feel unsafe and litter more. The motive wasn't primarily financial either. The fate of the natives was collateral damage in the 80-years war fought across the oceans. The tiny Dutch Republic was existentially threatened by Spain and Portugal, England, France and parts of Germany, sometimes many of them together, and the Barbary and the Ottomans were enemies too. All in all the Dutch were the good guys of that age, if you appreciate freedom of religion, free trade, international law, upward social mobility, civil rights, capitalism, freedom of expression etc. you have to be grateful the Dutch Republic held up in that wild world because that is where the values come from the Dutch colonial past is now judged by. There are dark pages in Dutch history, but the Dutch Republic was still a beacon of light in very dark times.
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  656. What makes you think this was about you? Of course he didn't apologize to Africans, they sold the slaves. The Dutch and the Ashanti were good friends and the Ashanti bossed the slavetrade. There was one Ashanti activist reacting to the apologies, who was welcomed as a refugee as a child, despite crossing several safe countries after there was another bloody civil war in his African country, but he's in denial about Africa's slavery past.
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  657. Bridges tend to have steep inclines there.
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  658. Good riddance, no courage to spot whatsoever, just gratuitious virtue signalling. And then the demagoguish scoreboard historiagraphy at the end, the embarassement is that she was hired in the first place.
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  659. No one has William van Oranje as king now.
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  660. Nonsense, his Anglo prejudice shows by telling the story of slavery through the Dutch, while Britain got rich from colonial crime and slavery. The Dutch didn't join the transatlantic slavetrade until 1637 and already were filthy rich from dominating all European trade. They were huge in the fair trade and tiny in the unfair trade and the slave trade. The British were huge in the slave trade and unfair trade, and incompetent in the fair trade in Europe.
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  661.  @moca645  No, it was already the richest country in the world before there was any profit from the indeed not always fair trade with Asian nations and before it gave up it's objection to the slave trade. They were already very wealthy before they started to dominate the European trade. The non European trade was peanuts and the Transatlantic entreprises are probably a net loss. If people got rich from slavery Africa and the Arabs would be much richer because they did a lot more of that over there.
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  662.  @fh1952  Yes, it completely dominated the then important herring fishery, it was huge in the cloth industry, it had just had it's agricultural revolution, it had a high degree of specialization, it was huge in art, science and innovation, they were literate, it had modern central banking, printed half of Europe's books and most of all, they had more merchant ships, in the ten thousands, sailing the European seas than all other European countries combined. The Dutch were so much more efficient in shipping that they even did the trade between foreign ports in the same foreign country. Even at it's peak the whole VOC and therefore all Dutch Asian trade including the fair trade with empires like China, Persia and Japan, didn't bring in as much money as the good old herring fishery.
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  663. I think McDonalds was very smart to market it first in the Netherlands and I assume France to teenagers. They liked something new and Murican, they are always hungry and not very picky on taste (France) and especially being around other teenagers and no chance to encounter their parents or their parents friends there. Now it's a family restaurant here too, but that took 20 years and the teenagers growing up. The work culture was still too much for me though, very hierarchical, uniformed and we were supposed to look up to the McDonalds university and the assistent 2nd floor manager. That simply did not work for a to be very well educated Dutch youngster wanting a job to make a buck after school with Latin and Greek. Amazon is getting through a bit here finally, but just like Ebay they simply weren't the first. The Netherlands has had great internet througout the whole country since the late 90's. The alternative webshop and 'auction' sites were already very well established and Amazon and Ebay weren't improvements. 'Wendy's' was already taken by a single diner named after the owners daughter or something. So that name was taken for the whole Benelux. The big Wendy's simply didn't take his claim to that name serious enough and pissed of the owner, and money only matters when both are willing to negotiate. Courts ruled in favour of the single diner in a very straight forward decision that didn't bankrupt the owner in legal fees. A cultural issue I gueess in how money is not seen as all determining.
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  664. That straight 6 was something, only little smaller than the V8 and all about responsiveness.
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  665. Far right? The right won, the pro EU left ( a contradictio in terminis actually) lost but that is obscured by their fusion and the greater number of seats thanks to the mass immigration since the last EP elections. It is not the landslide as for the real democratic elections of november, but that's because of the low voter turnout for this democratic facade for the EU. We know exactly what the EU shills are trying to do here, but the shift to EU skeptic right has been confirmed.
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  666.  @VandepoelM  Dat doet er niet toe. Of je hebt vrije media of je hebt die niet. Een overheid die meer of minder streng is hoe dan ook fout want dan heb geen vrije media.
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  667.  @lknanml  "When people ask who the best driver in F1 history is the first metric they look at is who has the most wins." No, when they still had Jim Clark as their best driver ever the British refused to look at the most wins, that has all changed now. Great drivers elevate a car to a title contender, while their teammate can't. Schumacher has won titles without the best car, Hamilton has lost titles in the best car more than once. No driver has had the best car so often, espciallly when paired with a weak teammate. And also in time with much more races to win. There is another pattern with the greats, their teammates get reevaluated after losing (big) as less good, like Piquet, Jos Verstappen, Irvine, Barrichello or Massa, who were al said to give Schumacher stiff competition before. Hamilton's teammates gets reevaluated too, Button was much closer than expect, Rosberg was much closer than expected, Bottas became a very fast driver, and then lost to Zhou only because he had lost his mojo of course. I think the Hamilton hype doesn't show any respect to the greatness of drivers in the past. He simply had extremely fast cars extremely often and didn't get the most out of it and didn't make big gaps with a teammate for a driver that is supposed to be naturallly extremely talented. Credit where credit's due, he's one of the best drivers of his generation.
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  668. It were the national elections for the national house of representativis which is constitionally obliged to represent the Dutch people, by making laws for the national jurisdiction and therefore on the national territory, often called the Netherlands. So she is being silly with moaning about nationalism. Our elected are not elected by or for those who would like to come to the Netherlands pretending to be refugees.
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  669. From the thumbnail I thought it was a Volvo 480 ES, but the sleak pointy front was the result of a few crashes. The 850 is quite a car and basically did what the 480 was supposed to do, get rid of Volvo's boring image, a market survey had shown that 95% of Volvo drivers wore white underpants. Because of it's powerful and nice sounding engines and handling it didn't just make Volvo's cool, it made the wagon, 'the dog house' cool for the first time in European automotive history. It also made the boxy shape of previous Volvo's cool retroactively. So it was quite an influential car. It's actually not that roomy allthough the boot is very usable, it's not that heavy either. It's not only sturdy but also reliable and very, very durable. A friend of mine bought one around 97 second hand with over 100k as his first car, he sold it 2 years ago. Not because it failed but because expensive maintenance was coming, exceeding it's value. They are very cheap because they are thirsty and expensive in road tax, and are the go to car for people who partake in one of these cheap car rallys across Europe.
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  670. Typisch voor Cruijff ook dat hij hem wel in een winkelstraat herkent.
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  671.  @Garbox80  And the walls and floor are still a bit chill from the winter.
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  672. Verzwijg maar dat de VS al meer dan 3 jaar wordt geregeerd door iemand anders dan de verkozen president, want die is al een tijdje seniel.
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  673. Like what? If the Dutch had colonized Africa, you'd probably be better educated.
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  674.  @joejones9520  Amsterdam gets the fall out of overregulating governments everywhere else.
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  675. Stole? They liberated the patents.
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  676. He gives Britain an almost free pass on the slave trade too by projecting it on the Dutch Republic, while getting almost all his facts about the Dutch Republic wrong.
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  677.  @bossogg6915  The Netherlands hardly teaches it all and certainly not as an invasion. Not in my time for sure, for specific Dutch reasons I assume. Objectively it was an invasion by any standard. That can't be a matter of debate. The question whether it was an invasion on invitation (come over, and bring a fleet twice the size of the Armada and an army big enough to beat the English army) or an invasion that involved an invitation is alreay answered too. The invasion was already prepared well before the invasion by the Dutch Republic, Dutch parliament had already commissioned the fleet and was the one paying for it. William was more hesitant and wanted to be seen as a liberator for lasting support, and took the initiative himself and made clear months before the invation came that he wanted one from high profile influencial people. That is not contested by British historians anymore, the proof is there. It's just that the narrative changes much slower, also because the new one isn't liked that much.
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  678. Ik heb het idee dat het niet zo opschoot met de carriere van groot talent Gravenberch dat hij alitjd geweest is omdat hij zijn rol in een team nog moest vinden.
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  679. It's a very open system by design. The beauty of it is that the voters and candidates have decided to make it not really a thing, but they could if they wanted to. Just like the voters and the candidates have made political parties into a thing, the systam allows for that but doesn't force it upon the voters.
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  680. I think it was designed to compete with the Peugeot 205 and Ford RS200, with all respect to Audi's quattro innovation, it was relatively understeered with the engine up front and up front that much. Peugeot and Ford already went mid-engined, to have a competitive edge on that, Lancia campe up with the volumex-turbo combination to cover 2 rev ranges and have a really big turbo. I think through a cross flow engine but I'm not sure. They even worked on a 800hp successor in the triflux engine, that was with twin turbo's but would steer all the exhaust gases to one turbo to spin that up first. I loved the S4, I just wanted Lancia to win but also because of it's total madness and the odd combination of a little tight, clean elegant design on disproportioned purely functional monster.
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  681. No idea why Hamilton had to be forced in into this video and discussion about these two greats.
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  682.  @norrinradd2364  I don't agree. It's cuture that breeds many inventions. The individual genious maybe not so much but when a lot of inventions are done in a certain era, there's something right about the culture and you can celebrate that and to a certain degree be part of that. As a supporter when it's in the present or as a fan when it was in the past. When you celebrate those from the past, some might be just have live a few km's down the road, that's also a message to kids and parents around you. There is a collective angle to it.
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  683. In 1932 it was made the national anthem by law, but it already was. It started the concept of national anthems, there was not such a thing until the Dutch Republic.
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  684.  @gergelystechnicmodels8565  Or Top Gear with James May on it in the greatest car of all time. I don't even think it's pretty, especially not with the old head lights. I love the SM much more. But it's such a charismatic car, it's always eye catching, you can park an old rusty one among very expensive cars and will catch everybody's attention.
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  685.  @floatingfInishtech  It was actually a well build car, not the flimsy French style of later Citroens, but a problem with the hydropneumatics often meant an overhaul of the whole system, taking much of the car apart. Luckily the engine and gearbox were solid, simple, reliable and easy to work on. Not much of a challenge. Citroen fixed that by putting a Maserati V6 in the SM. The garage owner is right in the sense that both are specialist jobs. But if you know Citroens, it's really not that bad.
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  686. De Atjeh oorlog lag wel iets genuanceerder. Het was een piratennest dat bestreden moest worden en later ingelijfd, en er waren ook nog veel opstanden. Het was wel bloedig, met figuren als Van Heutsz enzo, maar met 50.000 doden over de gehele Nederlandse periode in die regio ben je er wel ongeveer.
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  687. As I have been saying for years and also the channel NotJustBikes has argued, Americans better take Copenhagen as an example than Dutch cities. The Netherlands has much more cyclists, less car traffic and cycling infrastructure that is already in the phase that cycling lanes are removed because they mostly facilitate car traffic going fast. America and many European countries still have to go through the previous phases of a good cycling environment.
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  688.  @intelligencefactor03  Yes, I do want you to be precise.
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  689.  @intelligencefactor03  My point was to make a distinction between the imperialistic colonialism of the British that included ruling the people and the settlers colonialism of the Dutch that was limited to occupying lands. I do make a distinction between indiginous and non indiginous people but the distinction between coming by sail boat and over land like the Bantu I don't see is relevant, and is probably coming from racism. The indiginous people welcomed the Dutch at first and Cape Town was the product of an agreement, so I don't see how their descendents would have less right to live there than for example the Zulu.
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  690. The economy doing good for you is so very 1990s. GDP means that a lot of money can made off the Netherlands. It's not even GDP per capital. We have got a lot of foreign workers making profits for foreign shareholders using Dutch tax payers infrastructure and services to get Dutch tax breaks.
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  691.  @timurkuseli5100  I don't know. There is a huge income and cost of living gap, we already got Eastern-European criminal gangs here who know crime is more profitable here. Not all immigrants come to be part of society, there are the ones that fail, but also the ones that don't want to at all.
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  692. Nee, dit is niet wat de voedselketen is, dat is een ecologisch begrip. Misschien een idee om geen laaggeletterde jongeren video's te laten maken waarin ze iets 'uitleggen'?
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  693.  @scroopynooperz9051  There are quicker drivers than Perez, but the size of the gap is made by Verstappen. And no, it's not the current regulation era. Ferrari of course imploded spectacularly and Leclercs personal errors contributed to that, but let's not forget that Verstappen knocked them out while they were still slightly on top. What Verstappen does to Perez is what he did against Albon and Gasly before. Both happen to impress in the midfield regularly.
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  694. 16.17 If we indulge in populist policies where expertise is not really valued and not resolve the challenges in a sophisticated and effective way? Those people with 'expertise' were actually quite dumb and very incompetent and the sophisticated approach has caused all these challenges. Brussels is disconnected because the EU circumvents democracy to serve corporate globalism. You have given us financial crises, huge inflation, made a local Chinese epidemic into a pandemic, got us war on the continent, destroyed fishery and agriculture, made a heated house a luxury, made 100.000's of people homeless, given us beheaded teachers and Merkel lego, street harassement and gang rape of women who don't cover up, sharply dropping education levels, 0.8 million costing fake refugees, p.p., preaching and disinforming media, replaced border control with full permanent control of everybody in their home country, rising crime, eroded human rights, attacked free speech, poisoned our waters, air and food and made all the scientific and economic progress disappear from spending power. You made a mess, and even if it wasn't on purpose, you can count yourself lucky not to be torn apart by a mad bloodthirsty mob.
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  695. The video makes a fair point, but it's the history of automotive engineering. For the most part we have engineers making flawed concepts work very well by putting many hours into it by thousands of great engineers, including the Otto motor itself. On the other hand we have the brilliant engineers that come up with the great concepts, to which the hours put in and experience with is where it's flaws come from. So it's a combined effort of progress by the millimeter at the time, done by many, vs the breakthroughs by the small minority with huge steps. I believe we should cherish that minority, for their brilliance, for their thinking outside the box, for a possible trickle down effect and for yet to discover advantages in combination with other tech they might have, and even for the mirror they hold up to the rest of the automotive engineers. That goes beyond boutique quality. I agree with not getting our hopes up too high, but let's celebrate the total rethinking, the out of the box, the people starting with a blank paper again to get to the optimal concept.
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  696. I lived in a studio in the old part of Amsterdam, which is actually not an old city, and I had to move out because I didn't walk up straight anymore. I wouldn't hit my head in most of the room but the lack of head room changed my posture in an unhealthy way.
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  697. @dn3087 En Nederland natuurlijk dan ook, en Swaziland.
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  698. It's a disgrace. FIA bowing to the hysterical British chauvinists again for a decision that didn't even affect Hamilton. But they have been so scared of all the noise the entitled Brits make that they always favoured him, and for one time the decision wasn't to his unfair advantage, and the referee gets sacked.
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  699. Maybe people like old cities because the houses were build for many generations to come, and therefore they made an extra effort and expenses to make it look good. Still I don't like the architecture in Amsterdam's city centre, the canal houses, by themselves. But all together with their diversity, it's a really pleasant environment that looks good. I think a lot of good architecture that is pleasant to be close to and not just admire and photograph, is about ratio's. Height width ratios of windows, of the whole building, height of building vs street. If that somewhat matches you can have a lot of different buildings next to eachother giving it a very human scale and amusing the eye, as in having to look and take all the different shapes in rather than 'getting' the whole building in the blink of an eye Not that I don't like post modern architecture, it can be breathtaking, but also be alienating, more to admire than pleasant being in the midst of it.
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  700. Or simply living in fear?
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  701. The lack of understanding of capitalism and world politics is more of the issue.
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  702.  @KristoferOlsson  Of course, what was I thinking? I saw only the thumbnail yesterday, wondering whether it was the 6.3, which is still raced sometimes. Then I watched this video and heard a straight 6, defenitely not a V8, and drew my conclusions without even taking a proper look.
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  703. All very nice, but they'll soon need some EU support again at the expense of EU member states where people have to work untill 67. Not that I don't think that Western countries economies couldn't afford retirement at 62 or even younger, but they are rowing up a stream of corporate and finance theft too, they are just rowing more aggressively.
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  704.  @Highlight260  They aren't Dutch, they have been developping seperately from the Dutch for hundreds of years and have been under British rule since 1795. De Boers just settled on the land they needed, maybe not fair but it was the British that took the whole country and ruled over all the people, including the Boers.
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  705.  @papalaz4444244  The Dutch simply put going places above comfort. They also don't feel the need to show off their wealth, class or maturity by driving.
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  706. We already did in the 70's, but all that money got squandered, surprise, surprise.
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  707. They didn't have gin themselves, where would the Brtish be without the Dutch anyway? The Dutch used to be "the frogs" which does make more sense of course, but that was transferred to the French when France became the place of envy. My personal derogatory name for the Netherlands is "the anus of the world" when it was to still to become a superpower.
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  708. The English parliament decided that the Dutch Parliament would build an invastion fleet twice the size of the Armada, and get an army of 40.000 together and have London occupied with no English soldiers allowed near it? The same parliament that was sidelined by a catholic absolutist king while no protestant had a legitimate claim to the throne? The Glorious Revolution myth as the birth of your current parliamentary monarchy as an English development coming from within was hanging by the thread of 7 lords inviting him, but even British historians have acknowledged that Willem contacted them and asked to be invited for propaganda reasons. No, for Dutch reasons this is hardly part of Dutch education and the self serving British version has been mainstream for ages. The facts show it was a Dutch Republic's initiative because of enemy France, it was not even about the English throne. The Dutch had been beyond that medieval shit for over at least a century. We see all of these self serving anglocentric chauvinistic falsehoods popping up in history videos here. The British had only global trade left, so the European trade must have had disappeared and wheat, wood, wine, beer, cloth, rye and whatever was now shipped from Asia in a full year of sailing instead of a couple of weeks sailing to the Baltics? Yeah right. The British shifted to global trade because they couldn't compete, not the trade itself.
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  709.  @lokischeissmessiah5749  I was just saying that the idea that global trade took over from the Hanse (hanseatic league is an English pleonasm) was anglocentric nonsense, as well as the idea that nayvy superiority was the same as naval dominance. That wasn't relevant anyway because at the end of the 17th century Britain and the Dutch Republic were united in their rule as one can phrase it to not offend any Brtish in their toxic chauvinism. I don't claim British success was done to one man alone, Dutch parliament paid for the fleet and the army, getting all that money together from the Dutch was no small feat and it was not done because they liked the Britis so much but because of the existential threat France posed when it would ally with the English again. The English never protested anything, not even being declared protestant by their king, they were heading for absolutist catholic rule, had never known freedom of religion and print, didn't do free trade but war, had no central banking and was uncompetitive, that all changed just after the Dutch invasion. After which the Dutch had more opportunity to get ROI and got caught up in wars less so that is not what caused the decline. The Dutch Republic kept having a similar GDP to the UK, despite having only a 5th to a 4th of the population. There was no such thing as the Dutch East India Company, that is projection of the East India Company onto a Dutch organization, it's not a translation and it doesn't describe it well either since it had little business in India. It's most infamous human rights violation is still the retalliation killing of 1200 Bandanese men in 1621, I'm pretty sure the British can top that. Everywhere the British took over things got worse very quickly for the natives or non whites, New York, Cape Town, Ghana. Culture relevance, again you seem not to know a lot and short sighted. You just take it all for granted or assume it's British in origin out of ignorance. Capitalism, upward social mobility, equality, the nuclear family home, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, all Dutch. You really want to move into art territory? Art about regular citizens and for regular citizens came from the Netherlands, while the British kept painting nobles, nobles horses and nobles dogs. Don't start these chauvinist far pissing contests, you're not equipped for that, I know what the British have told themselves and have no clue about the French contribution to the Industrial revolution.
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  710. In defense of those Dutch people, it is sometimes hard to identify Dutch culture because we import a lot from our neighbours and friends and from all over the world as a cultural trait. We eat French, Italian and Indonesian, we drive German, we watch English spoken entertainment. Also we have been so successful exporting Dutch culture we don't see it as Dutch anymore. From religious tolerance and LGBT tolerance, modern capitalism, equality and upward social mobility, multilingualism and internation orientation, those have been embraced so widely over the West those are not recognized as Dutch culture anymore.
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  711.  @pistonburner6448  The BX is basically a 1000kg car while contemporary BMW and Mercedes that can carry 5 people are 1300-1500kg cars. That matters in the mountains. I do agree about BMW actually. It's a much more driver and speed oriented car. But I'm not going to exploit it's entire driveability in the Norvegian mountains. I don't want power oversteer where there is big drop off a few meters away. The BX is easy to drive and rather foolproof so you can safely get pretty close to it's road holding limits. Maybe a bit of understeer if you were too optimistic, no drama, no adrenaline rush. He was not speaking about lap times on the Nurnburgring. The weight distribution is excellent, allthough not as extreme to the front as in the CX. A 50/50 weight distribution is great for a car at the limit, but that does not mean that every car is better the closer it is to it. Citroen never wanted that, it's all about the front end and the rear just follows. That's a good road holding characteristic, it's just that a skilled driver on the limit can go much quicker in a 50/50 rear wheel drive, especially when he knows that Norvegian mountain road well. Citroen was not in the market for the BMW driver, the people who want/pretend to be skillfull at the limit and want to get as much feedback from the road and don't mind loosing a few fillings and wear a kidney belt in Belgium. But that doesn't mean it isn't a joy to drive quickly in the mountains in it's own way.
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  712.  @pistonburner6448  Yes, but the hydropneumatic system has a much smaller trade off between comfort and road holding than coil springs, because it's both progressive and self levelling, regardless of the priorities. But if you were to prioritize handling, the system is a bit less superior and probably won't give the same feel as coil springs anyway, so Citroen didn't. If you want the same comfort with coil springs, the road holding would be terrible, so terrible it would be uncomfortable. I'd say it's pretty competent and enjoyable in general, and it takes very good specialized driver's cars like BMW's and Alfa's to be more competent, when the driver pushes it. Only some Mercedes. It's only 0.3 but the 1.9 really elevated the BX much higher, it came into it's own. I just recognized his feeling, there you are in the mountains with your rather cheap 100hp saloon and you just don't see any cars being superior for that road. They might be, but it takes a skilled driver and race to show. You interpreted as that as it was better for mountain roads than a BMW, I don't think that was what he meant.
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  713. The EU has not substantial benefits by itself, but if you don't obey you get punished by being excluded from free trade with your neighbours.
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  714. It's was the electric starter motor that made the ICE take off.
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  715.  @ericvardek4108  Simon Schama, Russell Shorto, Jonathan Israel, Carl Sagan, John Adams and James Madison knew for example, but a lot of English sources attribute it to the British implicitly or even explicitly. Besides the natural exchange of ideas, the Dutch Republic had free print and did more than half of Europe's books too, it went from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam but also to London through the invasion of 1688. The issue here is that the same mechanism also tends to depict Dutch colonialims as some miniature version of the British Empire, but it was very different. Not necesserarily better, but different in nature.
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  716.  @perfectallycromulent  It's also important to keep in mind who discovered them and how. Especially on YT it's by people who don't have acces to the primary sources and the most relevant secondary sources because they only speak English. The British were pretty impressed with the VOC back then because they encoutered it a lot. They didn't encounter the bulk of the Dutch merchant fleet because they couldn't compete in the Baltic and the rest of Europe. So they tend to make the VOC much bigger than it was. There's even a YT video about how the VOC was big in shipping tulips. That's a matter of 'I know only two things about the Dutch Republic so they must be related' , if they get the republic part right that is. More serious historians and even YT-video's are also limited to English sources and we have to realize that historiography used to be propagandistic for very long and objectivity and neutrality only became paramount in the 20th century (to disappear in the 21st century again?), and still the British were quite poor at that. But because of the nature of English, it's hardly ever percieved as the limitation it is by English speakers, they appear to assume all there is to know is available in English. This particular atrocity was a massacre followed by ethnic cleansing as a retalliation to the Bandanese being not very nice either. This is an interesting story but in the history of human conflict, 1200 killed in a conflict is a minor affair, no matter how atrocious it was. It's not like 'how did the world not know about that? How could we have forgotten?" There have been tenth of thousands massacres on that scale and many much bigger, it's the fabric of history. Yes, it should be taught in Dutch schools and it is because it's a significant part of Dutch history, but too small an event to be an important part of world history. It can be interesting in a bigger context or story, but that doesn't make it 'forgotten' like this should have been known widely.
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  717. Portuguese cheese is underrated, probably because they let so few out of the country. Their share of the Transatlantic slavetrade is underrated too, no idea how in today's age they get off this easily with being the greatest Transatlantic slavetrader of all, by some margin.
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  718.  @EJavierPaniaguaLaconich  I did, people from shithole countries keep coming up with zero sum thinking, and zero sum thinking keeps countries poor. That's also why the Dutch Republic got filthy rich in the 17th century while the zero summers (mercantilists) lagged behind. Since then the whole West has adopted the tactics and the values of the Dutch Republic. The Spanish colonial power plundered, they took gold and brought it home, the "Americans" had less gold, zero sum, and that didn't make Spain wealthy. If we look at the Dutch unfair practices, which were despite being a tiny part of the economy, they had raw tobacco from plantation colonies. They shipped it, processed it and made fine cigars to ship and sell to rich. That makes for 99% of the value coming from their own work and 1% of the value from the oppressive colonial part. So 1% is taken unfairly but 99% is build wealth. And now the 'victims' (they weren't, their ancestors were) claim the 100% being taken from them, because they don't understand how wealth works.
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  719. I'm an ignorant Englishman who only knows two things about the Dutch Republic, so they must be related. Let's make a video about that and get all the facts wrong and just make stuff up!
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  720. The question is now whether a rapist belongs in a women's jail when it's a women with a penis.
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  721.  @smq2051  Segregation and enslavement of the indiginous people started as soon as the British colonized South Africa. Apartheid is not a Dutch word.
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  722.  @Jblah  Het is een leenwoord uit het Afrikaans zoals computer uit het Engels komt. Waarom zouden Nederlanders een Nederlands woord maken voor iets wat ze helemaal niet kennen?
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  723.  @allthingsinteresting7563  No, the British took power in 1795 and started to really colonize the place in the sense of ruling over the land and the people. The Boers fought the British they saw as the oppressor too, more than once they fought the British together with the Zulus. But in the end they lost. South Africa as a country and it's history of apartheid is the product of the British, the fact that the Boers are from mostly Dutch descent and are conservative christian racists often doesn't change that.
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  724.  @Sceneemofemboy0666  I think most brands had one, but Fiat and Renault were among the more inspired ones. The Renault was a really pretty little car with the hot hatch package suiting it very well.
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  725.  @samuelrudy1776  There is also the weight spiral. If you want to have the luxury of lots of torque which is easily achieved by big heavy V8's, you need a big car, with stronger and therefore heavier suspension, wheels etc. With turbos and superchargers you can give small light cars with good handling similar power, not the torque, not even with a supercharger. You want that luxury feel of lots of big V8 torque, you ended up with an entirley different kind of car with far more weight.
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  726. These special 500s maybe not so much, but the w124 are probably the last of the great well made Mercedes in terms of build quality and durabiltiy. Many will do over 500K, some diesels over a million and then the sunroof will work without squeeks, all the buttons and switchts click nice. French cinema also had a long tradition of heist movies, and of course the smartness of it has to be stepped up in later movies.
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  727. The Germans can't do organized crime, the can only do very organized crime. At state level for example.
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  728.  @malaskomen9204  Java was also the stronghold, a foot on the ground in Asia, a hub for all the Asian trade. The VOC did most of it's trade in Asia and was created with the monopoly on all trade east of the Cape to wage war against the Spanish Empire. Greed is always a factor but the Dutch dominated European trade and were getting filthy rich from that. Government got involved with the trade because the Spanish Empire, including Portugal, was using overseas money to fight the Dutch Republic's 80 years war for Independence. Because of the distances, this war and trade hub had to be self supporting.
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  729. Why? Those people, including Californian 'refugees' btw, want to come to the Netherlands.
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  730. This is also about everything starting to look like a nail because you only have a hammer, marketeers making it all about marketing, both the Jaguar wokies as well Sutherland himself. He acts like the brand and the ad are the car, but car purists aren't involved when you don't show them a car. You can't just leave the product out because you are a branding and marketing expert.
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  731. The Dutch already gave that. For over a 100 years anybody from the colonies could come over and study at one of the prestigious Dutch universities and since the 70's they would get an allowance to study, just like the Dutch working class kids. I know people like their backward American projections on all whites, but after the Dutch were late with ending the remaining slavery, the decided to abolish racism with it. In 1936 the boss of the Netherlands most prestigious university, Leiden, the university of the royal family, was a black man. The first black cabinet minister, the minister of Navy, was a black Surinamese man, mixed race, in 1903. First compensation for racial discrimination was paid in the 1850's, for a black engineer that worked for the Dutch government in the Dutch indies and was racially discriminated by his superior. The king himself made sure this was handled correctly.
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  732. @ In the village of Aalten for example 1 in 5 inhabitants was in hiding. That is in a rural area but I have no idea how they pulled that off with the food. Some very good food stamp forgerer probably.
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  733.  @HerbaSanitas-zq1su  No, not market principles. Market manipulation in favour of the rich. Many immigrants voted for Wilders but what people don't seem to understand is that if you don't change the immigration policy, the country will keep changing, massively.
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  734.  @johnlewis9158  No, that's propaganda. Dutch propaganda that is, Stadtholder Willem III invited the English lords to invite him while already preparing the invasion. He was aiming for a stable protestant power more than anything and knew the idea of beeing conquered nor bloodshed would help his cause. John Locke who was one of the enlightenment philosophers living and working in the Netherlands because it was free, was part of the conspiracy too. With the 80 years war for independence against the Spanish in mind, he was well aware of the value of popular support, nobles support and propaganda. As a Stadtholder, him beeing prince of Orange was irrelevant to his capacity as elected leader of the Dutch Republic, he was used to sharing power and did not object to forming a constitutional monarchy. So he put on a show, starting by asking the lords to invite him, but also his troops were under strict orders to treat the locals with most respect and never ever use the word invastion or conquest. He paraded his massive fleet along the coast, he rode a white horse and shiny armour like he was the saviour himself, he brought a regiment of black soldiers in white turbans to impress as a global power, he held speeches and he brought a printing press to further get the message across that he was liberating England rather than conquering it.
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  735. If you chose the Netherlands you are not a refugee but an imposter.
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  736. "Tot we de basismaatregelen te los lieten" Nee hoor, gewoon wanbeleid en dat smoesje dat het aan ons zou liggen om politiek gezichtsverlies te vermijden hoef je niet schaapachtig na te blaten. Politici zijn vaak niet eerlijk, wanneer dringt dat de NOS door?
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  737. Gravenberch heeft duidelijk de vorm even niet. Aannames net niet lekker, mistimed zijn schoten, gewoon een beetje ruzie met de bal. En dan toch complimenten krijgen voor zijn spel, dan is er iets in het team dat heel erg goed gaat. Ik heb een zwak voor Mazraoui en ik zie hem heel graag blijven maar die jongen moet ook gewoon nog naar internationale topclub met dito salaris, vijf of tien keer zoveel verdienen en je ontwikkelen als voetballer (en mens). Zo'n jongen als Antony komt hier spelen omdat Ajax een korte weg naar de absolute topsalarissen is. Dat moet wel zo blijven dus er moet doorstroming zijn.
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  738.  @vullings1968  Directly elected parliament. Not comparable. The Netherlands is no democracy anymore because of the EU power grab.
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  739.  @vullings1968  Because that treaty brought it under EU rule. The EU is a seperate entity and the Netherlands has always punched far above it's weight when the EU was still a corrupt bureaucrats wet dream.
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  740.  @buddy1155  Of course, you can't have free trade with those neighbours unless you accept EU rule with the ideology of the unelected. It's a punishment unless you are in it. All those cheap day labourers from Eastern Europe far away from family and friends to be exploited in the rich EU countries have made their countries richer too.
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  741. Kudo's for having researched Van der Plas' Irish ancestry and pronouncing her first name Caroline in English and not in Dutch.
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  742. Here during the liberation of Groningen, the Northern most city, more locals died than Canadian soldiers because they were cheering them on. People were also cleaning up the streets from debris and shards while the front had only moved to the next street. I guess it's a really different mindset after living in fear for 5 years.
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  743. Mercedes own explanation was precision, the very unAmerican concept of your hands being better than something electric.
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  744. Is it true that Finns don't understand the concept of uncomfortable silence?
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  745. Afrikaans is not a dialect, just a different Germanic language from a shared origin.
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  746.  @Drecon84  Daar kun je best gelijk in hebben, maar ik denk juist dat deze video het product is van een cultuur waarin er altijd maar aardig gedaan moet worden tegen mensen die nogal arrogant zijn in hun eigen onbegrip. Deze jongens zijn dusdanig ondeskundig dat ze het denken te begrijpen, dat had al eerder gecorrigeerd moeten worden. Dat laten we niet toe bij een loogdieter, elektricien of automonteur want daar komen ongelukken van als de ondeskundige het wel eventjes denkt beter te weten. Dat je kunt lezen betekent net zo min dat je het recht begrijpt als dat je met je stoppenkast aan de slag kunt omdat je stroomdraadjes kunt strippen. En hier komen ook ongelukken van, het is geen toeval dat sinds iedereen maar in de grondwet loopt te graaien alsof het een grabbelton is met bevesting van de eigen ideologie dat we een forse crisis in de rechsstaat hebben. Dit zijn dingen waar we zuinig op moeten zijn en die beschermd moeten worden tegen het onbenul met de grote bek. Dat kan inderdaad niet effectief genoeg gecommuniceerd worden maar er is hier helemaal geen plek voor opbouwende kritiek, omdat de oorsprong in onbegrip ligt. Dit moet helemaal bij het grof vuil, en dan helemaal opnieuw beginnen met een heel andere houding, met de gepaste bescheidenheid van een leek.
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  747. Without the Northern Netherlands you'd still be expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
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  748.  @joskoeleman950  Which isn't actually fraud but suddenly this paper and a hospital start to worry about private profits from publicly financed research...
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  749.  @NaSaSh1087  Neoliberalism is the political trend that started with Thatcherism and Reaganomics and promotes offshoring, tax havens, globalisation, upscaling, speculation with money, real estate, food etc and shifting money from labour to capital. It also prefers making money the easy way, from what people need rather than want and freely choose for like health care and housing. City state The Netherlands and mass immigration fits perfectly in that. Socially progressive is hardly a thing in the Netherlands. The Christian-Democrats weren't very anti-gay or anti-abortion for decades either.
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  750. A bit weird to start with the French. The Swiss federation was recognized in 1648, the Dutch Republic had been independent since 1581 and was arguably the first modern nation state despite being a quite lose federation. It has the oldest national anthem and truly national flag (as opposed to monarch's flag) for a reason. Later Britain became the UK, also a nation state rather than just a monarchy. France kind of developped towards a nation state through the centralist power of an absolutist monarch first.
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  751.  @tissuebandit6681  Ukrainians couldn't apply for asylum. This refugee industry is not for real war refugees.
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  752. Actually Locke wasn't that original. He wrote most of his stuff living in the Dutch Republic. The Dutch had already decided a 100 years before that: - There was no divine right of kings - A king had to serve his people and respect their natural and ancient rights - One of those rights was freedom of conscience and therefore religious tolerance - If a monarch did not respect those rights and had become a tyrant, the people had the right to no longer recognize the king and get him out. So Locke was already living in the product of very similar ideas about people and the state he is said to have fathered. Of course he deserves credit for writing it all down properly and refining it a little, but he was also a hands on philosopher. He was part of the conspriracy to invade England and replace the absolutist catholic monarch with a protestant constitutional monarchy with a bill of rights, religious tolerance and freedom of thought and press. He even accompanied William of Orange's wife and future queen to England after William had occupied London. William was prince of Orange but his power as head of the Dutch Republic came from his election to stadtholder, a public office, not from the small principality in Southern France he inhereted. For reasons of stability, legitimacy in the light of the underlying philosophies and peace, it was presented as a liberation/revolution and an act of the English people rather than the invasion it in fact was. William had planned it brilliantly as a propaganda campaign to win the hearts and minds of the people that there was hardly any fighting in England. But he came with a fleet larger than the Spanish Armada and 40.000 troops.Lock's writings were further legitimation after the fact of the invasion/liberation/"Glorious Revolution by the Dutch Republic. This also explains why the American Declaration of Independence is materially almost a copy of the Dutch DOI of 1581, het Plakaat van Verlatinghe or Act of Abjuration. The British constitutional monarchy is the odd one out in between for British reasons of legitimacy and William didn't mind playing king either. He was not a devote republican, for him it was about the threat of absolute catholic monarchs to protestantism, freedom and the Dutch Republic.
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  753. Small correction on the correction. During the Napoleontic occupation of the Netherland it was made into the "Kingdom of Holland", with his brother Louis as (a remarkably good) king. Napoleon thought it was still as rich as the century before and only wanted to plunder the riches, and most of that were in Holland, so that's probably why. He couldn't care less.
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  754. It's the government that wears boots to lick in your metaphore.
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  755. For over 200 years actually. Check the size of the European merchant fleets and of course it were the Dutch to do Japan too.
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  756.  @vanCaldenborgh  Bull shit. It was about religious tolerance, they just didn't like to see their business partners and neighbours burnded at the stake by some foreigners who acted like they had some divine power over the land that they made out of the North Sea themselves. The Dutch Republic only gave up on it's objection to the slave trade in 1637 and expanding it's dominance of the European trade to Asia and the America's was because of the independence war.
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  757. No, he lacks depth of knowledge. He confuses how the system worked for the past decade(s) with the system. The system is very open and can made to work in different ways depending on how the majority wants it to work. - The PM is primus inter pares legally, he only has as smuch power and influence as the house and the other cabinet ministers hand him. - The PM does not have to do foreign affairs. We have a minister for that, and in the past we've had a real heavy weight there who had as much international influence and respect as Rutte has now. - The working of the establishment parties in past decade is not the working of the system, and that includes the formation of a cabinet. 9 months was not normal, and abuse of power by extremely disciplined party members, an authoritorian goverment. It does not need to be like that. In earlier videos he already showed his lack of knowledge of European history. The Dutch have been a military superpower for centuries. They invented 'modern' land warfare with their military revolution and invented the marines, they brought the Spanish Empire to it's knees, defended successfully against a combined French, English and German states attack, they successfully invaded and conquered Britain to give it it's current parliamentary monarch and bill of rights for the sake of becoming an ally against France, and they managed to stay out WWI and keep neutrality. This was because of the navy and the flatness of the land. Until bomber planes, the flat lands made them almost impossible to conquer because they'd simply flood the lands and protect the harbours. So the Dutch military weakness or strength depends on the future of warfare rather than their current and actually young military vulnerability is an eternal given. The difference is that the Dutch were never imperialistic ("empire is too expensive"). They were the first modern capitalists, they didn't care about ruling as much land as possible, water was more profitable and it was something kings wanted, not the Dutch Republic. So they have always been in the heart of European business and trade and right between the three superpowers after Spain. They want peace so they can make money, if it's war they try to profit too, but they find all this territorial agression rather silly and play the geopolitical game to stay out of it as much as they can. So the foundation of the ECSC was exactly what the Dutch wanted. The past decade in particular, the Dutch leading politicians have gotten carried away with their leading/broker role in European and world politics and sacrificed Dutch interests to gain more influence. If you are more respected by foreigners than your own people, you're not sticking to your job usually.
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  758. The Dutch anthem is not such an issue, that one gets very old. It is the oldest one in the world actually and for the Dutch it's mostly a sports fans song anyway. This is about what kind of sport this is, is it like football were you support your team and verbally attack the other, or is it a sport in which you support all of them just your own favourite a lot more? They are still risking their lives allthough not that much anymore, and no one boos a marathon runnner because they want another to win more. I could be all right with both, but it's in between now and that makes boos not just regular but like there is a special reason for it other than just not being the personal favourite.
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  759. It's raw milk as in unpasteurized. Much more tastfull but only a risk for pregant women because there is a small chance of listeria that can cause miscarriages.
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  760. Who does really care? Who's eating child slave free chocolate?
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  761.  @libshastra  Not really. But they have claimed to be direct descendants of the William of Orange who as a non royal initiated independence and the Dutch Republic. But the lineage isn't that direct nor was the inheretance. This part of the Orange family ended the slave trade in it's first year of government in 1814. It was hard to benefit from the transatlantic slave trade, and slave labour was only a tiny contribution to the VOC's profits.
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  762. Japan is also a cycling country, I would not like to pass a parked car in the dark and suddenly have a piece of car inches from my head. No matter how little the door sticks out, cyclists can pass parked cars very closely and you just don't expect something there.
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  763. Of course his NSB was full of patriottic narrative and glorification of Dutch history, so it would have been very "unDutch" to make Dutch fascism about antisemitism and racism. The NSB never became popular with jews though, but only shortly before the German invasion and after it's decline in popularity it copied the antisemitsm of it's German counterpart too.
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  764. Foreigners are a huge problem to this country, and parliament is not to serve foreigners.
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  765. The British cultural trait of appropriation is not helpful spreading the message, it's always coming down the Brits as some special breed everything came from, almost an idea of British supremacy by DNA. Not true. Liberty, capitalism, upward social mobility, the nuclear family home, freedom religion and thought and even democratic institutions and industrialization (not to be confused with the industrial revolution) came from the Low Lands in general and the Dutch Republic in particular. From there it was brought to Britain and North-America. The English weren't protestants of the protesting kind, they were declared protestant by their king. That didn't come from reading the bible like in many places on the continent. Nations boom and bloom or fall behind and learn from other nations and pass them. If you want to promote that nations all over the world can learn from the West and advance and even go past them you should not falsely portray it as all coming from Britain out of some anglocentric self-aggrandization.
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  766.  @howlsatdesertmoon9840  No, not really. What I think is happening is that it's mostly American ideology and therefore the Spanish and Portuguese enjoy protected status as victims, and it all comes down on the less dark haired Northern European protestants, from which the British were the biggest and most influential colonial power of course. Discourse between France and it's accusers is mostly in French, because the former colonies still speak French and the language is somewhat of a barrier to American ideology.
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  767. Nice video, but it's actually a bit hypocrite. In your own video you also distort and leave out facts and nuances to make Europeans look even worse. So you're basically doing the same thing only Harris is shallow by character and caters to an audience more ignorant so he believes he can get away with more distortions.
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  768. The Dutch system has an expanding bureaucracy of insturers who are playing entrepreneur with forced demand by law, burdening the actual care workers with huge bureaucratic obligations so the insurers, financial sector institutions basically, can calculate the profit per patient per treatment action which they are not allowed to cash in. Lots of careworkers spend 40% of their time on the bureaucracy, and the patients have to go through a lot of papers too. In all that bureaucracy, less than noble entrepreneurs are getting filthy rich very quickly by overpricing and underdelivering, the so called zorgcowboys or care cowboys. The quality of the care is declining fast. Nurses are levaing, real doctors who have already finished their education are scarce. People have to travel further and further for a hospital and have to hope for a still well functioning part of the hospital. There are big waiting lists and it's running mainly on many people's inner desire to help other people, but it's not durable. People do get in trouble for not being able to afford their health costs. The system was introduced to end waiting lists, but the waiting lists are bigger than ever and not because of covid. It is Americanized in the sense that it's designed to have people make money on the need of care by people who don't provide any care, or care at all. It's just right wing government being incompetent organizing a health care system leaving it to market forces, to then not let market forces work but protect institutions from the real whip of the market.
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  769.  @zoolkhan  I was being sarcastic.
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  770. No, he wants to help turning the jungle into a garden to prevent it overgrowing his garden. This will of course never work, because a garden to benefit another garden won't benefit it's own growth. He's just scared to stop the jungle overgrowing his garden because it means he'll have to do the hard and sometimes ugly work.
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  771.  @TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd  Speaking of that thing, covering the rear wheels is easy and makes the car more aerodynamically efficient, but they don't really care enough.
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  772.  @TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd  Check Figoni e Falaschi Talbot and Delahayes. But the wheels tucked inside like that does not work anymore. The rear wheel covered works best with designs that show off they are front wheel drive like the Citroens did.
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  773. They weren't. South Africa became a British colony in 1795, apartheid is from the 1940's. The natives were only enslaved and ruled when the British took over.
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  774. Reminds of this video I ran into once. This guy really gets annoyed with the number of inventions and discoveries and doesn't believe it. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qly9mDPh8oc&t=362s I'm Dutch and it seems pretty correct to me. But many Americans believe the car was invented there, better not tell them the Germans might have a claim on the airplane too.... I think they got that from the British, they have the habit of claiming inventions and discoveries as their own too just because they learned about them and renamed them in English.
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  775. Muslims? No. Jews, yes.
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  776. First car with a straight 6 was Dutch, not the V6.
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  777.  @thijmstickman8349  Yes, Coen killed 1200 and shipped out the rest. I said they did serious crimes, but not serious claims to land. That's because Harris wants to simplify everything to the point it's factually wrong.
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  778.  @malaskomen9204  You sound like the worst of the 17th Dutch colonists about the Indonesians. Indonesia has colonized Papua New Guinea, the Dutch also did, but at that stage in history, the wanted minimal impact on the people. Indonesia doesn't follow that example and that's a shame.
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  779.  @gertvanderstraaten6352  I have no interest in sugarcoating anything, I just can't stand the pseudo-moralistic simplism of evil racist Europeans wanting to grab as much of the world to rob and rule as they can. That's for people who don't want to learn from history. When we ditch the simplism and not try to show what a good person we are by being judging people from the past by the values they helped establish, it becomes much more about hypocrisy, relatively decent people looking away, of rather cynical practices that did less harm than good or at least better intentions quite often, of mechanisms that didn't take particulary evil people to have evil outcomes. That would make people reflect and probalby conclude that the current American empire is really very similar, and that the current neocolonialism is actually more like the VOC days than the colonial era of the 1880's. It's the continuation of the 17th century Dutch hypocrisy, it's looking away by looking to another time, to the past. Harris is very much like the 17th century Dutchman pointing at what evil the Spaniards did.
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  780.  @cjyoung4080  That's what annoys me, the current American empire is very similar, including the hypocrisy of double standards for overseas and looking away. And then you have these Americans dumbing Dutch history down and judging 400 year old history by standards they can't even hold up for their own country today.
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  781.  @karan.kunwar543  Ask the English, it's their name in their language for a Dutch entreprise. In Dutch, before they properly mapped the world, India was some mythical wealthy empire somewhere east of the Levant. They knew there was a China, there was Persia and the rest was Indies. Basically everything East that isn't China. What is now Indonesia was called Oost-Indië or Nederlands-Indië in Dutch and India was called India. In Dutch a person from India is called an Indiër, a person from former Nederlands-Indië is called an Indonesiër, a restaurant with Indian cuisine is called an Indiaas restaurant, with Indonesian cuisine an Indisch restaurant or Indonesisch restaurant, and Indiaan has become the word any native unassimilated to Western culture, especially those of the America's. So no confusion in Dutch since we got that part of the world map worked out.
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  782. Blackface is an English word for an American racist tradition, it doesn't apply to the Netherlands where traditions typically have nothing to do with the USA and are not named in English.
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  783.  @lovegrace5466  Many people from the East of the country, bible belt protestants mostly, have driven to Amsterdam that night to bring the Israeli fans, not all hooligans btw, to the air port because they couldn't trust the Amsterdam muslim taxi drivers. Many of those taxi drivers were part of the planning of the jew hunt and messaged where the Israeli jews were spotted and where they stayed so they could be beaten up in their hotel rooms.
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  784.  @mhamedkhattabi5863  They were also huge in the Barbary plunder, slave trade, and hunting sex slaves. These days in the Netherlands they are great in street robbery, house robbery, drug trafficking, rape, gang violence all on one, disturbing holocaust education, welfare dependence, inbreeding and dragging down education levels.
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  785.  @KimoraJaed  It wasn't really aimed at fixing those problems, it was aimed at avoiding 3.5 years of unprecedented and stimulated illegal immigration remaining an election issue.
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  786.  @Prograz  Het gaat ook wat ver om te zeggen dat er vrede was in Oekraine voordat Rusland binnenviel, dus hoezo zou er nu dan ineens wel vrede in Oekraine zijn als Rusland stopt met vechten.
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  787. This is a report on the origins of the movement. https://youtu.be/QRzghXihZNw
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  788. I'm already glad they don't ignore the Dutch Republic in this and appropriated all Dutch progress as their own. Most Anglo Saxons believe they invented the sandwich, capitalism, protestantism, religious tolerance, industrialization, chocolate, the scientific revolution etc.
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  789.  @joepvandijk7949  No, religion is not a race and to treat muslims like they were born that way and have no power over their beliefs is actually pretty racist of the condascending kind.
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  790. They don't have bumpers for nothing, it's like Amercan footballers, they wear protection because it's a contact sport.
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  791.  @Nuclearnadalah  Yes and no. At first the WIC was much more idealistic and less cynical than the VOC that practically made it's own rules almost from the start (slavery wasn't allowed by the Dutch Republic). Only after Johan Maurits captured Dutch Brazil from the Portuguese and claimed he couldn't run the colony without Africans the WIC board gave him permission to capture an African slave fort from the Portuguese too, and only conditionally (free after 7 years and education in christianity). After that colonoy was lost, Manhattan didn't draw enough settlers and was lost to the English and there were no Spanish ships to rob because they signed the peace and finally recognized Dutch independence, the slave trade was one of the few things left to do. They became the biggest transatlantic slavetraders for a few years until the English took over.
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  792. Brussels has a minority of Belgians anyway.
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  793. Selling fish from British waters to the British and then the British call themselves industrious.
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  794. They tried in the 70's, they tried it in the 90's. Maybe it just has to resonate with a culture, a billion of Indians prefer cricket too. Soccer football is not ideal for commercial television because of the format, and you have to take the boring and frustrating matches with the great ones too, entertainment is not assured. So you probably need local clubs with local fanbases European style wanting to do better than other cities clubs. It's a tough sport, it's important the kids best at sports are going to play it, not just the ones not good at basketball and American football. People want to watch the best and toughest athletes. It will probably have to come from the number of Hispanics growing, bringing the passion from Latin America. .
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  795. De EU is gemaakt om de lidstaten te overheersen, niet om krachtig te zijn naar de buitenwereld.
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  796. The Dutch gave the world the concepts of religious tolerance, upward social mobility, free trade, modern capitalism, freedom of thought and print, international law, microbiology, art for and about ordinary people, equality, and they dominated all European trade. The Asian exploits had some dark pages, but in darker times anyway, and went togehter with genuine exploration and also fair trade in many places, while just being a tiny part of their economy. A few dark pages in a beacon of light, when there was mostly darkness all over the world, from the Arabs to the Chinese to the Africans. Don't claim you were any better than the Dutch.
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  797. I once bought a vintage Sansui timer, so I could use the amplifier and radio as an extra alarm clock, which was necessary. To my surprise it was 12 minutes off every hour. Turns out the clock ran on the frequency of the grid and there was a switch on the back to change between European and US/Japan. I never knew elektricity had a frequency and I still don't understand how. A friend had internet through the electric circuit in his house, he's kind of a techy, that surprised me too.
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  798. They were, the video is BS.
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  799.  @WendallExplores  And exposure from a young age.
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  800.  @lucyh4355  It has all been dumbed down to white bad and black helpless victims. That's not just simplistic and false, it's racist too.
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  801. De formele wet is de op één na hoogste rechtsregel in ons stelsel, die mag niet getoetst door de rechter omdat de TK die zo heeft opgesteld en de EK die toetsing aan de grondwet al zou hebben gedaan. Alle lagere regels, van koninklijk besluit, AmvB, gemeentelijke APVs etc kunnen wel aan de grondwet getoetst.
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  802. The land of fries is south of the Netherlands. Friesland is where the Frysians live.
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  803.  @suedavis1613  Suriname got by far the most money of any former colony, explicitely because of slavery, but squandered it. Half of the population came to the Netherlands and had all access to free higher education, but many squandered it and are on welfare. And some now are begging for money again. I guess that if you are a beggar you will remain a beggar.
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  804. The Dutch might have the most important inventions per capita of all countries, they probably do have the most per square mile.
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  805. Sometimes the scale difference is beyond the imagination, and your estimation will keep being off. As a Dutchman even in France and Germany I have to calculate rather than estimate, I very well aware it's much bigger, I know it, I can intellectually process those facts, but I don't feel it so if I estimate I will be off.
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  806. No, Indonesia didn't exist and most of it was under local rule until the Dutch decided they had to do better for the Indonesians and took control over all the islands between 1870 and 1930. The Indonesian nationalists took sides with the Japanese fascists, and after the Japanese defeat they started mass killing everyone who was not pure blooded Indonesians, the whites, mixed raced and the Chinese. Whether you believe independence was premature or not, there were good reasons to restore order.
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  807.  @mbos14  You should tell him it wasn't even a Dutch royal but he invaded England in the capacity of an appointed civil servant. Appearently the pride is older than the empire, since it prompted Stadtholder Willem III to go to such greath length and effort to not make it look like the invasion it was. Who knows how messy and unstable it would have gotten if he had been triumphant and gloating?
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  808.  @stephenlee5929  The decimal system in Europe is much older, that is late 1500's and early 1600's by Simon Stevin's "De Thiende" from the Dutch Republic and the German Pitiscus and the Scot developped that a bit further. The metric system is about power. When the early englightenment blossomed up North Louis XIV was centralizing France by absolutism. The French revolutionaries inhereted a highly centralized state like hardly ever seen in Europe before, and authoritarian too. They harmonized measurements nationally because they could, by the force of the state. They wisely used the decimal system for that and made it very elegant and a great export product, allthough also by Napoleon's force, but power made it happen, not the great idea of a decimal system.
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  809. No, the don't. The Antilles could pick and choose from four options offered to them in the relationship with the rest of the Netherlands, and didn't even need to pick the same. Full independence was also an option of course, but they don't want that because that means they don't get guaranteed money. Of course all the money they get now is part of a deal and is not give to lign the pockets of the people in government. There is a huge corruption problem so they get more control by Dutch government. Stop taking the money and they can do whatever they want, but it will be a mess for the people.
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  810. No, this excuse for an apology is the product of cowardice.
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  811.  @sparqqling  The initial plan for the VOC was to kick some Portuguese ass and bring back silk. But it soon saw the potential and wanted to reinvest money rather than pay dividend. It only started paying dividend in 1631, almost 30 years after it's foundation. But it was also a nationalistic enterprise right after the Dutch Republic had it's borders stabilized. So a lot of very ordinary people bought shares at one of the offices in their own city. Craftsmen, maids, people like that. But of course those people could not wait 30 years for ROI so the invention of the stock exchange was a neccesity for the VOC to grow and escape the legal obligation of paying dividend.
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  812. Belgische voorzitter De Croo zette nog snel even de natuurherstelwet op de agenda omdat hij wist dat de Oostenrijkse minister zonder mandaat van haar regering en parlement toch voor ging stemmen. Zo belangrijk is dat voorzitterschap. Hoezo heeft Belgie het goed gedaan? Het mag wel wat journalistieker en wat minder gezagstrouw. NAVO-missies in Oekraine zijn in strijd met het verdrag, de V uit NAVO, die andere landen zijn dus de uitzondering.
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  813. Doesn't matter, you're now buying from a different brand with the same shareholders. They can use brands for their messaging and preaching and the losses will be another of their companies profits.
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  814.  @walkir2662  Fair point, but the military is trained anyway, so they could easily do some foreign driving training too.
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  815. Yeah, for 15 years. And no, Africans do African on African cruelty very well.
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  816. Of course they are self serving, it's supposed to be their job to serve Europeans. They don't succeed in that very well, but African countries demanded independence and got it. So way expect European politicians to take care of Africa? Maybe independence is not in the African mentality yet? The metaphore is simply spot on, Europe is in every sense more man made, more organized, better taken care off. Fact is that many Africans want to leave that jungle and come the garden. This makes the garden less of a garden and more like a jungle and many Europeans don't like that change at all, they didn't make it into a garden for nothing .I don't agree with him, we should build walls high enough because when we start gardening in Africa, we won't succeed in doing it for the benefit of the Africans. We can give them more gardening tools and more gardening tips, but the people should decide themselves to what degree they want a garden or a jungle. But a well maintained garden can feed a lot more people than a jungle and Africa has an exploding population. You can stop that, you can turn jungle into more of a garden or you can end up with a billion people you can't sustain, whether that's with food or with jobs. That's going to be a tragedy, your tragedy. There is nothing Europe can or will do when that time comes. Europe will never be able to take in more than 0.1% of Africa's surplus population.
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  817.  @user-em8zo5ct2r  No need to shout, let's try to be civilized here.
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  818. It's often the same people that claim the late 80's were so great, with their V6 twin turbo's and hardly any on track passing at all. I'm not very fond of noise in general and never was, I do understand the attraction of the mighty V10 sound, but it's also F1. I believe there is also beauty in the hybrid turbo's being so efficient that there's simply not enough energy left to make a loud sound.
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  819.  @odril  A phobia is an irrational fear, this is about a completely reasonable and rational worry. The Dutch are the least xenophobic people in the world. There is no issue with strangers, what people seem to not understand or refuse to acknowledge is that immigration is not about foreigners being present, but a continuous inlfux of foreigners, year in year out making any problem with them greater by the week.
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  820. Wasn't the ABBA tribute/parodyband "Björn Again" from Australia?
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  821. A shame you use the English BS-narrative about the VOC, the Dutch East India company. The Dutch middle class was well developped before it started paying dividend in 1631 and the huge wealth came from dominating European trade, industry and even the good old herring fishery was more profitable than peak VOC. The VOC only did the trade East of the Cape in Africa. It took those ships 2 years to return with goods and Europeans consumed a lot more wheat from close by than nutmeg. That the British couldn't compete in European trade and had to move to India doesn't mean it didn't exist.
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  822. Europe and especially Germany was still only beginning to recover from the war economically. Not a great market for expensive cars.
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  823. It's the US Open, part of an international competition. If you host such a tournament, you have to accept that not everyone has the same standards as the American culture of prudes that still manage to sexualize everything. People who are not prudes are able to and did desexualize the buttocks in many circumstances. Male an female soccer players and trainers are petting or slapping eachothers buttocks all the time. There is no gay sexual angle to that whatsoever. It's a muscle, it's not like they are gently caressing eachothers butt cracks. It's treated as the rather insensitive bodypart it actually is. No one is massaing the breasts in congratulation or encouragement.
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  824. The Netherlands has always been the most jew friendly country in Europe and they had by far the highest number of jew saving hero's in all of occupied Europe. Every index puts it on top as the least racist country in the world and have been leading the world in anti-racism for over a century.
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  825. So it was actually a lot like the American dream?
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  826.  @ralkrey9526  And even in 11 and 13 his teammate didn't come 2nd, even Button as Hamilton's teammate beat him to that, they only won the constructor championships in the last race if I remember correctly. So RB wasn't dominant and Vettel only in two out of four seasons.
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  827.  @Yvolve  The 7 Northern Netherlands that is, the remaining 10 Southern Netherlands paid another 30% of the taxes. Of course the economy of the South would suffer hugely from the success of the Dutch Republic in the North, especially with the Scheldt river's North Sea access blocked. That massive cut in tax income with the war cost continuing for so long was a huge contributor to the downfall of the Spanish Empire. The invention of the stock exchange wasn't very important other than for the VOC and especially it's war effort against the Spanish ally Portugal. It didn't return profits to the shareholders for it's first 31 years and reinvested it in growth, expanding the network. So the rich bought the shares from the poor as a long term investment. I don't like Het Verhaal van Nederland. I suggest Paul H's YT channel with almost all "Andere Tijden" by Hans Goedkoop subtitled. Far less superficial and still modern.
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  828. That's something it has in common with a Lancia. Those get more reliable with every part replaced too.
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  829. It's also the top floor, under the attic. Often the lower floors are higher to let more light in.
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  830. All this travesty of justice just to get this convicted felon line that didn't and doesn't work, it's pathetic.
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  831. We have these 'safe spaces' in European universities. The apartheid and racism is on behalf of the blacks these days. I don't know who's pool this is. If it happens to be a pool build and owned by people who happen to be white, I think it's up to them to decide who is welcome in it.
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  832. Strong message from a weak position?
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  833.  @meganoob12  But it hardly ever occurs that the goalkeeper changes the off side situation, only when he moves up the pitch and the defenders ended up in a position far further back than they wanted to. That's even hard to spot for seasoned football watchers and it has caught out refereers too. That's why I think it's better explained through the last line of defense, which is the players closest to their own back line minus one. That minus one player is usually the goal keeper but not necessarily in every situation.
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  834. I went behind the iron curtain in the Soviet era, and I was amazed how good looking the 70's Skoda coupe, the 110R, was. They lost that in the 80's but the Czechs kept doing styling well under communism. Also the Tatra's.
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  835.  @Tommy-he7dx  Germany was white but they saved on the weight with silver.
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  836. Make a mohammed cartoon and find out how real the problem is.
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  837. And a refinement of the way Dutch herring fishers had spread the risk since the 14th century.
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  838. I think by then part of the sentiment was also that the German sports and economic success felt undeserved, too soon, they should have paid a higher price. Das Wunder von Bern didn't go down very well, also because the Germans were beating the more beautiful football of nicer nations. Actually Beckenbauer helped my father to like a German again. But he was a football fan from the East, very much near the border where exchange had been going on for years. In the West, with it's many jews before the war, a worse famine and Rotterdam flattened, the resentment was stronger. More SS and Gestapo instead of Wehrmacht there too probably. Euro 88 just had to happen, that felt like the closure we needed, there had been lots of movement before but that was a turning point.
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  839. Louis Napoleon, "king of Holland" is also a fascinating guy. Van Oldenbarneveldt and Maurice of Nassau were a duo of huge importance and a tragic story. DeWitt also is but the issue is probably with limited sources in English.
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  840.  @leavemeal0ne378  Illegal immigrants will be expelled from Europe too, and many legal immigrants won't have their permits renewed too. That's simply a matter of government serving the people again.
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  841. Great about Amsterdam is that the city was planned with foresight back then. It was planned for the merchant as a family business, so for maximum canal access for the most houses with had both living and storage spaces. So limited width, also the gardens at the back were mandatory, they already new there had to be green, recreation and a bit of peace and quiet in cities. It also had to fit within the fortifications, so very compact. If you want to live in Amsterdam you have to trade floor space with about anything, location, atmosphere, light, parks nearby, views, practicality, number of rooms (more than one even), ceiling height, windows you can sit in, if you want lots of square meters you are going to pay a heavy price. There is no point in living in Amsterdam and being at home a lot anyway. I've rented a room in an older part of Amsterdam (Grimburgwal), it was also lovely in atmosphere and view. It was not even a top floor but there was only a section of the room I (6ft4) could stand upright with shoes on thanks to the building being crooked over time. That doesn't work, I had to find a new place.
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  842. If you want government to serve the people it has to do so by laws, so you need a jurisdiction, a territory with borders therefore, and you need a defined people to serve. The people who were born on that territory for example. Everything good about modern society is unthinkable without nationalism.
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  843. Stroll is the one that most obviously lacks that part, when all he has to do is drive he's a capable midfield driver and even good in the rain. Get him extra tasks and it gets problematic quickly.
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  844. Shut your lying mouth. There has never been any racial segregation in the Netherland, which you might have learned in school, is not the USA. Interracial marriages in the Netherlands go back to at least the 1500's. As long the mostly black man and white wife went to the same church, there was never any issue. This must be the most ignorant or malicious comment on YT from today.
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  845.  @bakkhan5733  The children don't care, but I can understand why parents aren't comfortable with it, black and white. Images are globalized and once seen blackface, it's hard not to see a bit of that hateful American/English tradition in ZP. I've been in favour of change after the first shock at the idea there could be something wrong with ZP. But that's no excuse to call it blackface or otherwise project American racism onto a very Dutch tradition and society in general. Or to distort Dutch history in some superficial clichees and projections.
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  846. Invented capitalism, religious tolerance, freedom of conscience, thought and print, the nation state, came up with the idea that there was no divine right of kings, the people had to be served, had inalienable rights and could remove a tyrant. First (proto) industrialized country, introduced equality and upward social mobility, was the cradle of the enlightenment and the age of reason. Huge in science and art and I could go on. Do you know any state with more historical significance? The colonial empire was rather insignificant to the Dutch, economically. It was culturally important because it opened the world to the Dutch, with all it's plants and animals, it's cultures, the Japanese and Chinese art, the Persians etc.
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  847.  @hatsikideeole3995  Eerst met grote koppen insinueren dat rechters racistisch zijn via een daartoe opgezet onderzoek, om het dan vervolgens deels een beetje te nuanceren. Die NPO trucjes kennen we inmiddels.
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  848.  @MartinMenge  No, it isn't. Belang means interest, stake, importance. Belangrijk, "rich in interest" means important. Belangstelling means taking an interest, being interested, mostly as in curious. Has nothing to do with belonging.
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  849. The VOC didn't start the Dutch Golden Age, that started well before the VOC was even established, and it took longer before it started to return profit. The WIC was a financial failure. The contribution of the VOC to Dutch wealth is very minor, smaller than that of the herring trade at any point in history. The Baltic Sea trade was far, far greater and there was the North Sea and the Mediterranen too. The VOC with it's 140's ships at it's height was only a tiny part of the Dutch merchant fleet, which shipped more than half of Europe's goods. The reason behind this stubborn misconception is probably the same as why there are streets named after Coen. In the nationalistic wave of the 19th century it was the VOC that got picked out to be glorified. The Republic and the Anglo-Dutch wars were politically sensitive in those days, while the 80-years war was religiously sensitive, the VOC seemed a neutral and safe choice at that time. Of course the VOC was important because of it's financial innovation (stock), because it made Amsterdam the global hub, because it opened people's eyes toward a greater world inspiring science and art and in general captured the imagination. But it was only a tiny part of the Dutch economy and more the product of wealth than the cause.
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  850. The Irish are lagging behind again. The modern European lefties have joined the military-industrial complexy just as eagerly as they have joined the neoliberal globalist corporocracy. The modern European left is about handing working class housing to opressive religious conservatives, judging people on their race and telling gay kids that they are girls.
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  851. I don't mind 3 races in the US per se, F1 has always been a business posing as a sport and it's a big market to conquer, and there have been two or maybe even three races in much smaller countries before. But it has also always been the biggest show coming to town, or to a country, like a big circus in a small town. It has to be THE event, with head of states attending and stuff. I like the idea of Vegas, but nevermind the track itself, the parking lot in Miami with a view on the highway and a fake marina are simply not good enough to host F1. F1 is a whore far too classy and expensive for a back alley like that. Hamitlon is good, but he's also very flattered by a unique situation of a supreme Mercedes that was protected against regulation changes and catch up. Other good drivers only got one or two years in a superior car, he got 8 years and lost 2 of them. F1 is dominated by the British and the English language though, and as you are relying on English too, you might get biased reporting on him. Lella Lombardi actually didn't score a point. The race was stopped early, and only half points were given and her 6th position was good for one point. She was a good driver though, well respected, but you had to be really good to make it to a team capable of winning first and a lot of F1 drivers didn't manage to score any points at all before they were replaced or died on track.
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  852. Vieze propaganda.
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  853. Trust me, I'm Dutch and I lived at the Grimburgwal, it's from burgwal which is a defensive structure. Either from stone or earth. It's related but not the same as 'wal' meaning shore.
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  854. It's the Lancia Sibilo concept, Gandini for Bertone I think.
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  855. What people fail to understand is that the so called centre right or centre left is economically far right, the Netherlands and the Dutch people to be exploited by the international corporatocracy, including mass immigration and using the Dutch people's welcoming and tolerant nature to burden them to the max. Great for GDP but not for GDP per capita, great for profits of foreign corporations with foreign shareholders employing foreigners in the Netherlands, while the Dutch employees have seen their tax and social security cost raised from 35 to 40% of their salary while paying much, much more for housing, energy, health care and groceries. Small and mid sized entrepreneurs and companies struggling, big corporations enjoying tax havens. Explain to me how that was not right wing.
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  856. Dat is niet belangrijk, het gaat om de insinuatie, net als bij Klaver en Paternotte die al lang de uitkomst van hun zelf aangevraagde en door Baudet gesteunde onderzoek weten. Wakker Nederland is pure staatspropaganda voor niet zo uitgeslapen Nederland.
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  857. Neuschwanstein was a huge disappointment to me as a 12-year old. It felt fake because it was when it was build. I like my castles to have seen some battle.
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  858. I also still wonder. It has a checkered flag on it like it's a Corvette concept, but it has 3 exhausts so that doesn't fit with a V8. It looks a bit like the autumn of the coach builders like Saoutchik and Vignale, reminds me of some Pegasos but isn't one I know. But in the 50s and 60s a lot of Italian coach builders played around with American cars.
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  859. Found it. 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis concept by Boano, exhausts are fake, it's a V8.
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  860. 3 years ago, and in 2018, and 2014 or 13. About every 3-4 years just like in the 20th century. People believe they can see climate change everywhere suddenly, they can't.
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  861. Ferrari came out the blocks flying in 2022, not RBR, Verstappen knocked them out before the RB took over as the fastest car. In 2021 Verstappen matched Mercedes, not the RB. Newey is a genius but not the only one, and the British obsessing with him is just a pathetic chauvinistic way to make it all about the car again now it's the British driver that gets exposed as heavily dependent on the most supreme car for the longest time in F1 history.
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  862. Also because the lack of antisemitism. People fall in love and get marrierd when there aren't walls between them, that's just what happens.
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  863.  @suzettekath9860  That's fine, I'm just pointing out that conversion is often the result of antisemitism not being much of a thing in certain places. Then you get a lot of interaction between jews and gentiles and one thing comes from another. Antisemitism is often more ethnic or even racial rather than religious and those people didn't want jews to become part of their christian communities.
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  864. The BX was also a lovely car. Extremely light for it's comfort and space. The XM and C6 were quirky enough and the Xantia Activa was special in the corners.
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  865. And just making stuff up. 2.13 'plenty of invasions going this way' (to the Dutch Republic). No, I don't believe setting a harbour on fire and have a small massacre on a small coastal Island in a naval war counts as an invasion but even if so there is no 'plenty of invasions'. There has been one proper invasion and that went the other way, resulting in the Dutch taking London and giving the British the constitutional monarchy that lasts until this day, together with the bill of rights. What's invasive here is the English 17th and 18th propaganda into proper history, just like it is in general.
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  866. No, the USA wanted Indonesia for it's neocolonialism, and the Javanese nationalists wanted to rule all the different islands. If the Dutch didn't let go off Indonesia, the Marshall help would stop. After the Bersiap, the racist slaughter of all white, mixed race and Chinese by the Javanes nationalists was stopped by the Dutch military they had control again, but the USA forced them out.
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  867. Dagen H.
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  868. What people miss about him is not that he reminds people of Senna, but that in the later stage of his career so far, he unleashed his inner Lauda too.
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  869.  @p1dru2art  That's what all writers do, one better than the other. There seems to b a broad consensus he did that very well and he has quite a number of people who revel in his brilliance. But that is the same with any great author, with Shakespeare it seems to be the people who don't read him or visit his plays who are most sure he is far above anything else.
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  870.  @mr.cogito7167  So Polish migration in the very late 80s, and the other central Europeans?
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  871. That's not true actually. One of the more terrible things about slavery is that people were born into slavery. 'Enslaved' refers to a deed that changes a free person into a slave. So the slaveholder or the slavetrader is not necesseraly the enslaver. When we speak about the enslavers it's usually the Africans doing the enslavement, while the Europeans were slavetraders en slaveholders.
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  872. Yes, the special powers aren't doing much to end the emergencies or prevent other emergencies from emerging.
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  873. Let's also not forget that the social housing of the 1920's was mostly private not for profit initiative. Government supported it but it was associations of philantropists but also future renters who put their savings in, to 'elevate' the Dutch working class through good housing. It's now government appropriated with different motives.
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  874. Main concern with raw milk cheese is the soft white cheeses containing lysteria, causing miscarriages in pregnant women. So it has to be clear on the product it is made with raw milk so people can decide for themselves. Lots of pregnant European women avoid raw milk cheese, except for the French pregnant women, they just take the gamble for taste. The French tend to only pasteurize mass produced industrial cheeses, the Italians pasteurize a lot more, in Spain and Portugal they appear not to have learned about pasteurization yet. Raw milk does not magically turn a cheese great, but if you have great animals grazing on great soil and a great cheesemaker taking the milk, pasteurization will flatten the taste considerably. In the Netherlands we have unpasteurized Gouda, both young and aged, they are not necessarily better, but the best Goudas are unpasteurized.
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  875.  @nosop3  Nog betere suggestie is om het woord genocide alleen te gebruiken als daar sprake van is.
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  876. He's is the propaganda in this case. He talks about the USA staging rebellions, but in Libya it's supposed to be ar real spontaneous uprising that has nothing to do with sponsored jihadists. By objective standards for dictators Ghadaffi wasn't horrible, and Libya wasn't a terrible country to live in. It was the most developped country of Africa. He was handed to the jihadist rebels and tortured to death, not just killed on the spot. Regime change was the goal from the very beginning. Fear of him massacring protestors was pretended and it's not like the USA would care. He was respected as a panafricanist, he had oil and he had plans with the oil dollar, so he had to die. Now Libya is terrible place to live.
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  877. Actually the Dutch were the nicest people back then too, the world was just far less nice. Only peoples like the Khoisan were nicer but that's why they became victim of history. Among the powerful, including the Arabs, the Ashanti, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Moghul Empire in India, the Persians, the British, the French, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Barbaries, the Ottomans, the Dutch were the nicest. They were traders primarily, not imperialists, they didn't want to rule people, but just exploit a bit of land everywhere and sometimes people. They could be ruthless in conflict, but didn't have a desire to submit and rule large parts of the globe. Not nice enough, but still the nicest. That's also why she says "We were not slaves". They Dutch didn't enslave locals because they didn't enslave people, they only bought slaves. That's why they shipped the Cape Malayans to South Africa. In Ghana the Ashanti ran the slave trade, the Dutch didn't boss the Ashanti, they had a settlement and they intermarried, and children of the Ashanti elite were send to the Dutch Republic to study. You are projecting the British 19th century imperialism in South Africa and the world on the 17th and 18th century Dutch here. In the 17th century it took 3 minutes to load a handgun that couldn't shoot straight for over 5 metres. The only power they had over most people of the world is that they could sail the world and therefore trade their goods. Only the meek, the people who had lived in peace for hundreds of years, could be overpowered if necessary. The Dutch were the world's superpower because of their capitalism and proper fair trade, not because of their colonial crime on the side, the British couldn't compete in European and other fair trade, and were dependent on violence for their imperialism with their desire to rule as much land and people they could submit.
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  878. Maybe you should react to a video from the supporter perspective, there are some nice English football vloggers like this one, who went to a very atmospheric European game with another football vlogger. You get the whole build up, the tension and a lot of atmosphere. Ajax vs. Borussia Dortmund. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAt_RwBgg0
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  879. Nonsense, thing went in the right direction at least 150 years ago. The rest of the world was ages behind. But now the USA is finally there, people like to act like they ever were victims fo American racism.
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  880.  @franklinniesterjr3812  It's a very different job. Hamilton simply never was that far out there.
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  881. In opdracht van de NOS kwam Ipsos vorige week nog met een peiling dat 50% van de FvD-stemmers iets van corona vond. Alleen hadden ze mensen die de stelling als 'enigzins' juist beoordeelden ook meegenomen om tot die 50% te komen. Dat is dus bewust fake news creeeren, enigzins juist is niet helemaal juist en begint al bij opzettelijk de vraag zo formuleren. Blijkbaar was dat even nodig nadat Baudet moeiteloos overeind was gebleven bij Nieuwsuur en die 'peiling' dus de journaals over FvD moest vullen. Het is hetzelfde soort propaganda, alles is blijkbaar geoorloofd voor het hogere doel. Ik heb dan ook geen reden om aan te nemen dat de andere peilingen van Ipsos die de NOS tot nieuws maakt wel integer zijn.
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  882. So your going to give white Dutch people a free education of high quality and when they become beggars hand them subsidies and jobs? You really gonna pay back all you benefitted from the Dutch?
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  883.  @sirBrouwer  Globally you mean? Also the VOC did most of it's trade within Asia indeed.
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  884. De Eerste Kamer kan natuurlijk ook weer gewoon op grondwettelijkheid, rechtsstatelijkheid en wetgevingskwaliteit gaan toetsen zoals het hoort. Dat schijnen die partijen nu ineens weer ontzettend belangrijk te vinden na jaren van politiek gesjoemel daarmee.
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  885. There are dumb people everywhere but it's a bit of a shame for the Americans. With a bit more education they would have had a structure of knowlegde about the world. Without that structure, everything for many of them watch or learn seems to fall through. It's much easier to acquire knowledge and understanding when new information has a place to land, when it connects with stuff previously learned.
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  886.  @SanderVandeWiel  C6 was the last Citroen. The XM was still a bit different, the BX was not as quirky and original, but was a great car. The magic carpet ride in a 1000kg car, 1.9 litres, magnificent brakes, 5 Dutch guys over 6ft 3000km's to Portugal no problem, no tiring, no back pain, no exhaust dragging on the road. Good memories.
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  887. The OLI is indeed a very interesting driving concept, tested by motroring journalists even. Lots of 2CV vibes there.
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  888. The cop that shot was definetely out of order, got suspended and will be prosecuted. It was not policy to shoot and aim for the headshot. But we wonder what would have happened without it being filmed.
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  889. "The Europeans" didn't consider themselves the superior race. That is an American projection after they embraced the English attitude that developped over the colonial era to justify what they were doing in light of other values. They were all different and felt superior because they believed they had god on their side and were doing god's work initially. Later they found their culture and technology superior. Especially in the early 1700s they were peasants who for example in Asia had to pay in silver and gold because the sophisticated silk wearing natives weren't interest in European goods at all. They had to up their manners and bring presents to open negatiations, they often had to leave gun ships in the open seas before allowed on shore. Their sailing skills were far more impressive than their hand guns, which took minutes to reload and couldn't shoot straight for more than 5 yards.
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  890. Indonesia was not that much of an exception, the main difference was that the Netherlands changed colonial policy from passive-aggressive to controlling and paternalistic in the late 19th century when it didn't have much settlements left.
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  891. And quite a stand out style it is. Most of the current Netherlands was once under Duke of Burgundy rule, those were not just in general good times in which society and economy thrived, the Burgudian rulers were also known for their lavish parties with plenty of great food and win thrown for also the ordinary people. In Dutch 'Bourgondiër' is still synomynous with someone who eats and drinks very well and enjoys life. I worked for a short while in Dijon, Burgundy and have to admit, also without the dukes they still maintain a high standard everywhere. Not just the fancy restaurants, there is a high baseline everywhere.
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  892. They want a house first before giving birth.
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  893.  @jordanpease3329  I thought he was stabbed through another organ to establish he was dead. Surviving a crucifiction would be highly unlikely but it did happen more than once, resurrection didn't. I'm not arguing that case here, I'm arguing that it would make an important case to the faith because the resurrection is central to Jesus divine connection.
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  894. National anthems are for international matches. This obtruding of your dead royal on foreigners and international events gets pathetic. narcissistic even. Stop it, you got international responsibilties. The fact that this BLM shit was ridiculous too is no excuse.
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  895. Europe isn't well designed, no one designed Europe. The EU has been useless, there are few good international routes but travelling by train is generally unnecesseraly time consuming and far too much hassle while far more expensive than flying. The EU is a globalist organization and therefore gives air travel a free pass instinctively while it has failed to do anything to harmonize continental train travel so it actually works continental. Free travel within the EU is no more either. Cycling as a serious transpart option is mostly Dutch, Flemish and Danish, and the EU has done absolutely nothing to not get in the way of it, by it's control freaks moaning about helmets. They have poisoned many cyclists by encouriging diesels for a small CO2 gain and then letting the car manufacturers fraud the emission checks. Not to mention the underpaid and overworked Eastern European truck drivers that because of the EU can use their local drivers licence to run of over cyclists in the Netherlands. But all the cars have a mandatory blue EU flag on their licence plate. Stable and comparable gas prices to keep the EU mobile was a bit too much to ask from the EU too. Sometimes some infrastructure project is subsidized by the EU, adding 30% overhead cost while it's money that is taken from the country itself, as the EU has no money of it's own. Cyclists have not been part of any EU safety regulation for cars and it has allowed passenger safety to come at the expense of cyclists. As a Dutch cyclist, train user and occasional car driver, there's absolutely nothing I have to thank the EU for, on the contrary.
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  896. It's not just a wrong pronounciation, it's so completely off it shows how little knowledge and understanding of the place he has.
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  897. The occupation of the Netherlands was a matter of extreme imperialism and not nationalism. Many nationalists joined the resistance, so maybe take the dangers of imperialism seriously.
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  898. Ik vind het ook klinken alsof hij een Marokkaan heeft gevraagd hem te komen uitschelden. Ik vind straattaal prima en je moet nooit verloochenen waar je vandaan komt, maar als de Nederlanders met een migratie-achtergrond nou ook eens leren switchen naar ABN zoals bijvoorbeeld de Achterhoekers en Friezen dan gaat het op de arbeidsmarkt ook al een stuk makkelijker, en val je bij dit soort filmpjes niet door de mand.
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  899. I've seen smoother unboxing videos though.
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  900. If you want something authentic Dutch with centuries of tradition and culture, Heineken is your brand. Not a quality beer of course, the Dutch invented modern capitalism, branding and global export. It's moneymaker to be proud of and a beer to be a little bit embarassed about. Amstel is even worse. Basically there is pilsner beer (lager), Weizen and Belgian beers/special beers, which are usually from Belgium. Pilsner is done best in Czechia, it's origin, Germany with all the village breweries making usually fine ones, even extending to the East and South of the Netherlands but no further. In the UK and Ireland they have ales and stouts. Ale doesn't need foam to protect it's taste against oxidation and is served lukewarm, stout I don't get either, if I want a full meal I order food, not a drink. So there is the pilsner and (hefe) weizen, and there is Belgian beer basically. Pilsner from Belgium is nothing special though, that's like asking Italians to bake pancakes, they just don't care enough.
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  901. That happened afterwards, allthough the attackers were Moroccan.
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  902. The Dutch Golden Age started with the VOC? Really? Correct me if I'm wrong but I've understood that at the heigtht of it's power in the 17th century, the VOC had a fleet 140 merchant ships. That might seem a lot for that time and it was, but around 1650 there were about 20.000 Dutch merchant ships sailing the seas, mainly around Europe. This not only had a lot to do with the 'fluyt' design, but also with the 'invention' of the crank, allowing for wind mill powered saws. The Dutch shipped about half of Europe's goods. Let's not confuse the dark side with it's economic importance. The Amsterdam row houses were build on the Baltic Sea Trade (de moedernegotie, mother negotion), the North Sea trade, the Mediterrenean trade and a few on the world's oceans trade too, including the WIC and the VOC.
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  903.  @Ned-nw6ge  It's probably less than 1%. There was the huge European trade, which didn't take a year to get there and a year to return, but brought profit every month. But besides the huge European sea trade there was also a lot of trade on rivers and canals, a lot of fishery (the herring fishery alone made more money annually than the entire VOC at it's peak), and a lot of industry. From fake china to more than half of Europe's books printed in the Dutch Republic, lots of cloth, furniture, a large weapon industry. The Dutch already had a big spending middle class, even the painting industry was colossal for it's day because ordinary people who could not afford what's now a Dutch master did buy paintings. The Dutch didn't take part in the transatlantic slavery until 1638, more than half way through it's golden age. The VOC only started paying dividend in 1631. The 5% is a rather dubious calculation to support the fashionable idea that suffering somehow equals economic importance. That 5% is the entire slave related industry from peak years, so for example sugar bought from a French of English slave colony, transported all over to the Dutch republic, processed and refined and then sold. That's not how BNP works. The Dutch Republic's decision to give up on it's moral/calvinist objection to slavery is very important and interesting from a moral point of view, but not very relevant economically, especially not in the rise of the Dutch Republic because that already happened without the WIC, mostly a financial faillure and a war success, and the VOC's money.
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  904. It has nothing to do with race and everything with culture. If that culture does not only produce crime but also welfare dependency and doing poor in education and work, that is not an excuse.
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  905. De voormalig fractiemedewerker van de VVD die plosteling kritisch parlementair journalist is geworden wordt gevraagd naar Rutte door de VVD-propagandazender. Wat hij daar zou moeten doen doet er natuurlijk niet toe, het gaat om de beeldvorming dat Rutte heel belangrijk is, niet of zijn rol ergens in heel belangrijk is.
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  906.  @arjanzweers6542  They have been made 'impossible' to govern with because the federal EU and the mass immigration have to go on. These matters have to be outside the debate and should not be decided on by the voter, not in general elections, not in referenda, they just keep on happening while the parties debate about 0.3% more spending power for a certain group. That's a problem with any system, just like nothing will change with Wall Street in the US because both parties agree that Wall Street should be left alone.
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  907. No, it doesn't mean that.
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  908.  @janryckmans3902  No, it started significantly earlier. There was a reason people from Antwerp moved to Amsterdam and not elsewhere in the Dutch Republic. Because Amsterdam was a young city, it was already planned and set up for access to the canals, therefore for trade over water. That was the way to go and Amsterdam was already booming.
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  909. It was called that in the Netherlands too, to distinct it from for example the Walloon reformed church. It originates in Germany just over the border too. Also there were a lot of Germans among the settlers.
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  910. In the Netherlands we have a good but ordinary pilsner beer named Grolsch that has flip top for the 0.45 litre bottles, 14 euro for a 16 bottle crate of those. I was born very close to the brewery so I have been flipping those tops since I was 14. But then you go to some bar in a foreign country and they have those bottles at the price of an exclusive beer just because it looks like it with that flip top.
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  911.  @tmmny  No, it's ignorant believing they should teach the knowledgeable now. No, the Dutch Golden Age wasn't accomplished by horrible things, horrible things happened in the same era. Nowadays they stay shallow about our past and the younger generation gobbles it up because love to be compassionately infantile. They don't have real compassion though. They have not even begun to contemplate what it would have taken to live up to their current ideals, very much a product of the Dutch Golden Age btw, back then. Same with WWII, they lack the intellectual effort for compassion with people from the past. Indeed, the Dutch Golden Age was a lot more important than just another country practicing slavery like people had been doing for thousands of years.
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  912.  @dylanvogler2165  It's more about submissive mind when American imperialists are declaring their history and culture universal. Besides the fact that poorly educated youngsters have a tendency to think that it's their generation that happens to be at the center of a historic change.
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  913. It's a bit of an issue in a globalized world where we translate it, but let's not forget that American is an English word and among the native English speakers it was a correct distinction. The Spanish speaking Americans would not call themselves Americans but Americano's I guess. Also a bit of confusion or taking more name than you are entitled to comes with reach over the world. I myself am from The Netherlands/Holland/the Low Countries, where the people are and speak Dutch, which is the anglified version of Deutsch which is German for German. Those things happen in a world with different languages but there something of power in it too. The Russians got credit for being the whole Soviet Union, the EU claims the whole of Europe for itself by calling itself that, 'the world' was used by Europeans for the known world i.e. Europe and the mediterranean, and let's not start about the Romans.
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  914. Wat een vieze lafbekken van Nieuwsuur, stiekem de afgang van Tweebeke eruit knippen. Nieuwsuur werd te kijk gezet als journalisten die vooral geen luis in de pels willen zijn, maar de onrechtmatige machtsgreep van Ruttte niet alleen met de mantel der liefde te bedekken, maar zelfs als de norm te nemen waarmee Omtzigt geconfronteerd moest worden. Journalistiek onwaardig.
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  915. The self levelling suspension also adds to the braking force.
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  916.  @factsnotfeelings3247  No, they are not the same unless you are a racist and all you can see is race. It was the Africans that enslaved Africans and sold them, first to other Africans, then to Arabs and only later to Europeans. About NATO, Western Europe was occupied by Nazi-Germany, then liberated and then the Americans occupied Western-Europe, effectively holding power. Benevolent power, no complaints there. Now my question to you is when did that military occupation by the Americans end? When did the military presence of the USA in Western Europe end? I'll give you the answer, it didn't. It continued under NATO flag. Now this has not been a bad deal for Western-Europe, but the balance of power has never changed since the military occupation of Western-Europe by the USA.
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  917. Basically the better team will have more of the ball and be more on the opponents side of the pitch, but you can also chose posession as a tactic or counter football as a tactic. Because of the first it's the better teams that will tend to pick the posession tactic and have the initiative, while weaker teams often have to hope for the ball not getting their goal and a chance to break on the counter attack and score. Attacking, posession football is more rewarded the past 2 decades, when kicking technical and gifted players and time wasting was more allowed, counter football was much more done among the best clubs. Italy was the strongest football country back then with it's cataneccio, lots of 0-0's and 1-0's in their league. In the Netherlands we stuck to the attacking 'total football' tradition invented in the early 70's through the 80's and 90's but that would mean getting caught out by counter attacking defensive team regularly. But big teams like Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester city have all adopted that style now. Most formations used to be 4-4-2 in the defensive football years, now it's more 4-3-3 or 3-4-3 because with 3 attackers in the front line you use the width of the pitch better. Defending teams want to make spaces small so the team with the ball has hardly any time, the attacking team wants all the space it can get. Space can give you time to shoot at goal, and time can give you space to shoot at goal.
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  918. The Dutch king is far too grovel happy in general, but the Dutch government failed it's jews before the German invasion. They wishfully sure of staying neutral again, they ordered the civil service to collaborate with the German Nazi regime, we got the fanatic SS and not a Wehrmacht command, and no plans were made for the jews so the civic records making finding all the jews easy came under Nazi control intact. Resistance was not prepared either and had to start from scratch while under Nazi regime. So in the end the Dutch people had to work extremely hard and take tremendous risks to save only a quarter of the jews present, which included many jewish refugees from Germany.
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  919. I'd worry about the salt on the roads to the lake, but how else could you rev and drift those cars without huge risk to car and driver? The snow makes it brilliantly safe and accessible. Don't expect a car show like that anywhere else, it's not just that Switzerland is very rich, the old money of Norhtern Italy, Southern France and Germany is close by too.
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  920. Desinformatie van de NOS weer. En alle NOS stagiars hebben weer YouTube corvee zo te zien. "Wat een goed filmpje, wat informeren jullie mij goed, wat helder uitgelegd, wat een goed werk hebben jullie geleverd". Kan iemand bij een ander YT kanaal aanwijzen met zoveel even inhoudsloze als grote complimenten?
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  921. What a load of nonsense. The Dutch did not take part in the transatlantic slavery until 1637 because it was controversial and part of a theological debate, slavery was outlawed in the Dutch Republic and the exception for the colonies surely was not self evident. It didn't bring a great deal of wealth either, as the WIC was financially problematic most of the time and colonial trade was peanuts to the Dutch anyway, as their European merchant fleet was bigger than that of the rest of Europe combined. Bulk shipping, week in week out, wheat, salt, iron, cloth, rye, whatever. That's where the big money was, not in ships sailing for one year to the Far East and then another year back. If you want to do your obligatory virtue signalling in a video about paintings, get your facts straight.
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  922. No, the Netherlands seceded from the South and the rest of the Spanish Empire in 1581.
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  923. Ik ben dus zo'n oude zeikerd, erg rijp voor mijn leeftijd zullen we maar zeggen, maar dat is omdat ik denk in termen van vooruitgang. Er is geen reden waarom het land niet elk jaar of elke 4 jaar een stukje beter gemaakt zou worden. Maar het wordt slechter gemaakt, en dan komt weer iemand met een verhaaltje hoe goed we het hier hebben in verhouding tot een of andere shithole. Doet er niet toe, het was je taak het land te verbeteren en je hebt gefaald door het slecher te maken, punt.
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  924.  @shinHis3  On top of that the transition ideology is reducing sexuality itself too. I don't see gays as some kind of threat or not welcome among naked hetero men. It's just that in a society where the existence of gays is accepted, the freedom of hetero men to express themselves is also a bit oppressed because of the gay stigma. Heterosexual men, not matter how gay friendly, tend not to be want to seen as gay, especially when they are still looking for a female partner. They might like to wear pink or be a bit dandy, they might want to touch their best friends, and that's all surpressed too.
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  925.  @Kent.  Correct, I mixed up the 924 with the 944.
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  926.  @lllluka  It's more that Flemish is the common language for and from several different Flemish dialects like Dutch is the common language for and from the Northern dialects. But because it's common, it's almost the same, because they are fed from different area's and the North and the South have been seperated for 450 years, the accent is quite different and the vocabulary and epressions might suddenly differ.
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  927.  @DutchTunisian  I wouldn't consider a dirty war equally bad to racist mass killings of civilians, but it's bad too. The point is not the criticism of the Dutch, but the lack of criticism for the Javanese nationalists and their colonialism. I was watching a Dutch documentary on the subject of Papua New Guinea last week, and they presented it like the Indonesian soldiers were figthing the just cause for Papuan independence there. They weren't, the Javanese never had anything to do with the Papuas, they never sailed there, their only claim to it was because the Dutch who controlled their islands controlled that island too. Between most of the Indionesian islands there was besides the question of self determination of people at least some common culture and cultural exchange making them somewhat of a single entity before the Dutch, and a lot more during the Dutch control of the early 20th century. But New Guinea has a completely different and seperate culture. If the Dutch had controlled Australia and New Zealand too, the government in Java would submit the Aboriginals and the Maori too? And that would be right? The principle which I support that made that the Dutch had to leave also means that Indonesia has no legitimate claim to Papua New Guinea whatsoever.
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  928.  @OpiumBride  No one is opposed to chimney Pete, that's what parents have told their little kids for decades to avoid confusion between Black Pete and blacks. But it's also a disguise for the many situations an aunt or neighbour has to play Black Pete, and a Pete that has gone through the chimney many times with a blond wig is unacceptable to the main protesting group also. The activist don't want a solution, don't want to compromise, they want to flaunt Black Pete for an international audience to shame The Netherlands and convince themselves they are victim of a very racist country, which is simply not true, and give black people privileges and free passes to compensate.
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  929. When Surinamese nurses came to the Netherlands to work in the 1950s they were surprised by the shower situation too, but the other way around. The Surinamese were used to showering or bathing once or twice a day, the Dutch had communal bath houses because of lack of living space, especially afer WWII and setlled for a daily wash from the tap. I'm sure there wouldn't have been showers in Suriname or for the not so indiginous Surinames people without colonialism and capitalism.
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  930.  @olgadeweger3805  I'm not fully trusting all Dutch judges, but there is only little they can do and have procedures and jurisprudence to follow. Together with lots of similar cases in other countries the defences and the proof they produce will mount to an interesting body of information on the covid happenings.
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  931.  @olgadeweger3805  No, it's a civil case. It might generate some information to trigger a criminal prosecution but that is not likely. There is also a parliamentary hearing onder oath prepared, but Gates friend and former PM of the NL Rutte is now NATO SG so enjoys diplomatic immunity, as well as his partner in crime Kaag who has a job for the UN in/near Gaza.
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  932.  @LINDA-de-J0NG  The argument that Tulip mania does not qualify as a bubble because it was actually of no economic relevance could be reasonably made and I just see him do it in another video. But more often than not the British don't even bother with making such an argument as if they are automatically first with everything always. The Tulip mania is probably interesting because of the nature the speculation and the 'financial products' already used shortly after the emergence of modern capitalism in the Dutch Republic in that centuries first decade, so from the basics of modern capitalism to it's excess took less than 30 years.
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  933. @sp1878 I noticed they are biased before. I also noticed the presenter wasn't even pretending to question him. But I wanted to hear what Douglas Murray had to say on this matter. Don't project your desire or maybe even desperation to have your bias supported on me. I don't expect to be informed in a balanced way by anyone, for balance I have to take control of informing myself.
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  934.  @francogiobbimontesanti3826  Not really, the Dutch agricultural revolution of the 1500's and land reclamation and protection made it fertile. I think the Portugues population was a bit bigger.
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  935.  @Respecteddude666  No, the British were far worse to have.
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  936. Do the numbers still matter though? A couple of hundreds of millions is peanuts to those who have much more to win from public opinion going their way.
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  937.  @888PsyMike888  I understand, but which context exactly made it offensive?
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  938. Rule of law? What about free speech in the ECHR and the chilling effect?
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  939. Except Schumacher beat a 3 times WDC teammate and the other ones were usually seen as great talents that would challenge him, until the first times sheets of the season showed up.
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  940.  @hnorrstrom  Yes, but from ancestry you tend to get things like 'stool', which I thought was of Dutch origin but nevermind. Than people anglify it or whatever language they appropriate the word in.
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  941. Let's look at the relative scale in 17th century terms. It had not more than 200 merchant ships at it's peak, while the European fleet of the Dutch merchants was in the tens of thousands.
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  942. De EU is juist geen samenwerking, maar een hierarchisch instituut.
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  943.  @svenhaheim  Yes, but just like the Persians, Egyptians, Sumerians, Moghul, Japanese, Chinese, Aztec and Inca civilizaitons were special.
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  944. Love Bic. They work perfectly, until you get a few stutters as a warning, and then they completely stop working. Both ball points and lighters.
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  945.  @annebokma4637  You'll find it on YT, it's actually not such a good watch as it sounds.
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  946. It's too shallow an analysis. We don't vote for parties, we vote for candidates, candidates are on a list with other candidates usually, and political parties make lists. It's a very open system that also allows for regional representation like in a district system, that just isn't used anymore by candidates and voters. This amounts in practice to vote for parties which a corresponding parliamentary group, but it's important because there are more options and Omtzigt of the 4th biggest party newcomer NSC was voted into parliament against the will of his party. Also members of parlement can split off from their parliamentary group, often leading to suspension as party member, so the parliamentary groups are based on consensus rather than party orders too. The trend has been towards more hierarchical obedient relation through party politics, but there is a new situaton now. We now have not only 37 seats for Wilders anti establishment party, we also have newcomers NSC and BBB with 28 seats together, and there are a few anti establisment seats with smaller parties too. So the establishment of the classic parties that felt free to just govern an go ahead with it's (hidden) plans while forming a coalition for 9 months doesn't have the majority anymore. 3 months used to be a reasonable formation time for decades, for the establisment in fact, but there is no reason it can't be done faster with these new parties. There might be a minority supported cabinet, a cabinet of not very political experts with the house leading politically, there doesn't need to be a dominant PM. The constitunial task of the PM is to preside over cabinet meetings and run the tiny department of 'General Affairs', the PM has just one vote in the cabinet.
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  947. 421 denominations if I remember correctly. That's what you get if you let people interpret the bible themselves for over 400 years.
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  948.  @itsedavan  Al Jazeera just has an agenda, to blame the Europeans for a history that was far better than that of the Arabs, in the fight against European racism and 'islamophobia'. Of course they don't really care about blacks, they never did, but if they can frame Europeans as racist that would explain their dislike of muslim immigration. Of course there is no other reason to dislike islam. This post is probably going to get removed by Al Jazeera quickly just like some of my previous.
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  949. We inline 6s for 1 litre motorcycles, 2 to 4.5 litre (modern) cars, and 12 litre trucks and ships engines far, far larger. So I guess the industry has answered the question for us by it's sheer variety of applications and sizes. I like the sound better too and they are lighter, cheaper to run and easier to maintain usually. But if it's purely about engine configuration independent from practical application, the radial9 (rotary) might be good candidate in terms of weight, even cooling, balance? I don't know much about those.
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  950. Haiti is not in Africa. The black voice we need to hear more is "look how well we did since independence".
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  951.  @mbembaleba536  It can't become a member because it's a geographical union, not a racial, cultural or ethnic union. I have a preference for geographical regions for obvious reasons, but whatever serves the people's best interests of course. But if there's some natural disaster again, I'd rather have my neighbours helping out than African countries much further away. The connection seems very weird to me anyway.
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  952.  @mbembaleba536  The USA is an imperialist country so I would like them running around armed either. But it's a bit odd to only accept help from the people who enslaved and sold their ancestors and not from the people who let them be free. If it's entirely about skin colour, that's not a winning mentality and will keep Haiti miserable for much longer.
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  953. Good to sea they want to return home so badly.
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  954. Nationalism is not supremacist at all and certainly not expansionist. Nationalism is what makes a nation state as opposed to absolute kingdoms. Nationalism now gets blamed for imperialism by the globalists who prefer tribalism to weaken the national democracies.
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  955.  @Tripserpentine  Also because most jews lived in Amsterdam and there were very few hiding places there like the one Anne Frank found. Most jews didn't seek hiding but waited for the letter to show up for transport. Those who went in hiding went mostly to the rural areas. Dutch defence had been relying on the Hollandic waterline, an area to be flooded around Amsterdam and the navy ports, development in air plane technology had made that less relevant and didn't deterr like it did in WW1.
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  956. 3 cushions is already an advanced level. Just caramboles without having to have hit a cushion is hard and therefore fun enough for the occasional player. There are also other games like 10 over red that are challenging for the not so skilled.
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  957. I didn't know the building but immediately recognized Hundertwasser must have been the architect of that Waldspirale in Darmstadt.
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  958. I saw a YT video about 3 athletically gifted British guys getting trained in a couple of days by the Frysians to break the British record. They got reminded to give up on time and just jump into the water instead of landing on the wrong spot. Most farm fields are surrounded by ditches with water in the Netherlands because it's very wet land, especially in Fryslan. So to cross them a big stick can indeed be helpful.
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  959. Google skipping the "Don't be evil" motto should have been taken more seriously.
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  960. Mass-immigration is hard right wing policy. Privetized profits and socialized costs.
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  961. Wel jammer dat jullie er de afgang van Tweebeke, haar onzin over verkozen bewindslieden, de democratische rechtsstaatondermijnende en regelrecht onrechtmatige besluitvorming door Rutte goed te praten en zelfs als de norm aan Omtzigt voor te leggen, eraf hebben geknipt. Nieuwsuur wil de luis in de pels niet zijn, maar de spreekbuis van de macht, zoveel is duidelijk met deze aanval op de luis in de pels. Huichel daar dan ook niet over en laat ook dat stuk gewoon zien.
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  962. African civilization at it's finest!
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  963. It's well over a decade we've had this retro-active globalism, in which the American struggle of the blacks is universalized in a tribalistic call for mobilization. This is supported by white Americans who refuse to face up to their own particular racist history and like to make it about whites in general, to spread the blame, pretend they weren't special and it was only natural or just part of the times. It wasn't.
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  964.  @samanth.  Serfdom in Europe has been on it's way out since the 1100's, and allthoug a form of human bondage, it's not slavery. Nontheless, the Dutch didn't feel free enough under the king of spain and declared independence in 1581 based on the principle that a ruler should serve his people rather then treat them as slaves, and man had the natural right to believe in god according to his conscience. So what part of 'Dutch Republic' regarding kings didn't you understand? The Boers came to Africa without technology? They didn't swim over did they? Besides sailing, they knew farming too.
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  965.  @Worldnewstime.  Nonsense. The WIC only entered the Atlantic slave trade in 1637. By then it was already by far the richest country in the world, because it did more than half of all European trade. This was a lot bigger anyway because it took a year to sail to Asia and half a year to sail to the Americas. The VOC, far more profitible than the Atlantic counterpart WIC, had 160 merchant ships at it's peak, the Dutch merchant fleet for Europe had over 20.000 ships. These calculations are nonsense. Slave bases economic activities count all products with sugar in it fully as based on slavery, because it were slaves, often French or English ones, that cut the sugar cane. The Dutch East Indies have some but a minor wealth contribution, the Atlantic slavery has been a net loss to the Dutch.
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  966.  @HaldirMark  Wrong about what exactly?
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  967.  @MijinLaw  I don't know the full extend of what the Japanese did to the Chinese, but genocide is not a superlative of horror. It's a mass killing with the intent of exterminating a people. Congo Free State (actually not the Belgians, it was probably more a British than a Belgian enterprise) was not a genocide, it was horrendous. Rwanda was a genocide, but not the carefully planned industrial one the holocaust was.
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  968. The Netherlands is very wet, full of canals and rivers and lakes. So we can skate everywhere, from everywhere to everywhere, but certainly not every winter. The country gets skating mad when it's freezing for over a week, it's a chance you have to grab. In very cold winters there's an extra treat, the Elfstedentocht, but most cold winters are not cold enough and there is just the weeks of speculation whether it will happen again. There have only been 15 official events, but the first time the route along the eleven cities was skated was in 1763 or even earlier. A private association of volunteers organizes the event when it establishes there's enough ice. The 12.000 (?) members of the association, who have paid 5 euro contribution per year for their membership, can partake, just finishing it is the goal and they have to be in before midnight, after having started in the morning. It's a challenge for everybody and you really have to be a good skater in a good shape. The race is done by competitors in the (indoor) marathon skating circuit, which were semi pro's back then, the last three were farmers in their other job. It's a huge event, with about 2 million people cheering them on along the route, with a party atmosphere and music bands etc, and it's live on national TV for the cold avoiding, also about 10 million, more than half of the entire population watched at least a part. I was in the crowd in 1997, it was so cold I downed half a bottle of the local herb liquor, 43% Weduwe Joustra, but/and it was fun. Great atmosphere. Allthoug a huge national event, it's also very Frysian, Frysland is the most different province of the Netherlands, they speak a very old language instead of a dialect for example, Dutch is the second language for many, very stubborn people and even more skating mad than the rest. I know two people who have 'the cross', who finished the tour. They'll let you know if they did, they are really proud. The funny thing is the winner of 85 and 86, Evert van Benthem, moved to Canada to become a farmer there. Only his neighbours know him there, while at the other side of the Atlantic, there are at least 15 million people who still know his name.
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  969. Wij hadden niet nog slavernij in de 1800s, hou op met je modieuze geschiedvervalsing. Slavernij is nooit toegestaan geweest in Nederland, voor de koloniën golden andere regels.
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  970. By far not same horrorshow here in Europe, but if you go down south to Southern France from Northern Europe you tend to see the same kind of insects, only getting bigger the further south you get. Wasn't there a time on earth when all insects used to be like 20 times bigger? If I were a horror movie director I would know what to do, I am not, because I would run from the set in blind panic.
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  971.  @schorpioen7466  Most? Over 99% from the profits from trade alone were from European trade. Not just the Baltic Sea, which was entirely dominated by the Dutch, but also the Mediterranean, North Sea and the Atlantic coast. The Dutch did more than half up to 70% of all European shipping depending on the time period. with only 1.5 million people. The VOC in the East Indies did slavery and servitude, but most of what it did was still ordinary proper trade with China, Japan, the Moghuls, Persia and the Arabs.
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  972.  @GoldenCroc  Painful but true, the SM didn't get any successor.
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  973.  @GoldenCroc  Probably that too, but luxury Citroens have been cursed since the boxer 6 for the DS failed, then the failed birotor engine messed up the model range and compromised the CX, and when they finally got a regular V6, it was a bit sluggish Peugeot had already made Citroen about compact cars mainly.
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  974.  @BertrandNelson-Paris  Yes, but the C6 was too little too late to save it as a luxury brand, and there was no stylish long version for the European market and it didn't have an impressive engine. Certainly not impressive enough to power a GT coupe on the same platform, which was probably a financial necessity since the 80's. So Citroen could only just cling on to the low end of luxury market with it's biggest engine. That's not a position from which to launch a luxury GT.
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  975. It doesn't come across as very luxurious but head rests were no way standard back then and andjustables even less. And it works, people didn't panick about having to do something with their own hands other than pushing a button back then.
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  976. Americans do celebrity and display of wealth and power more excessive than anyone else. They also love dynasties, from the Kennedies to the Bushes and the Clintons to the tv-series Dallas and Dynasty to the Kardashians. Meritocratic replubicanism is not what American society is, in their own way they might be even more classist than the British and have more of nobility in the sense of people being wealthy and powerful by birth. So it's probably just celebrity entertainment they have a connection with through their thinking. It doesn't require a more elevated explanation.
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  977. So ofen we hear about a rare mistake of him, these mistakes must be extremely rare.
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  978. I got bored with the trio when it became more and more scripted comedy and over 500hp cars. The actual somewhat journalistic car tests like the Skoda Yeti became much more fun. They should have replaced 3 car journalist who became comedians by 3 comedians doing car reviews and avoid the speed and danger contest alltogether.
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  979. Dat gelul over die programma's is een schijndemocratische ritueel. Als de media verkiezingsprogramma's echt zo belangrijk vonden gingen ze wel naar de vorige kijken om te zien wat er van terecht gekomen is en of er wel daadwerkelijk op is ingezet.
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  980.  @user-ts8hm7pr8o  Or blondes in Italy. But there always has been some melanine envy in the Netherlands. From a tan, to mixed race to Indonesians and black, it's traditionally seen as more attractive than just another pale skin. It has always been a small country where people and stuff from all over the globe ended up. Even in the fifties the Dutch wanted to send an Aruban girl to the Miss World contest, but the organization refused her. First non white singer in the ESF, Dutch of course. First black national miss in Europe, Dutch. First black national football player in Europe, Dutch. First black captain in European football, Dutch. First black manager of the national football team, Dutch. First Dutch television series, a black actor for a lead role. The idea that the Dutch don't like black or other dark skin is ridiculous.
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  981. Americain is actually a bastardization of Armoricain. A region in North-West France that not only gave us Astersix and Obelix, but also a breed of cows that was used for this filet.
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  982. I tend to agree, but I could live with Dutch apologies for precise decisions of the Dutch government in handling the global slavery. The Dutch gave up on their objections to the Atlantic slavetrade with some lousy biblical excuse. They also took very long to free the remaining slaves after abolishing the slavetrade. But these apologies, what he literally says means that he's apologizing for abolishing slavery too and also apologizing for sending gunships to help enforce the abolishment of the global slavetrade...
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  983.  @wouter.de.ruiter  Surinam had been costing money for while.
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  984. @ So, what was the prize exactly? Wall Street doesn't produce any wealth itself and certainly not for the English.
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  985.  @Bahamuttiamat  Slightly worse qualifier. But Bottas didn't really set the midfield alight when he was out of the mighty Mercedes, did he? Is he evan ahead in the qualifying battle with Zhou? Bottas got 4 poles in 2021. Hamilton was always a beatable teammate, only Kovalainen didn't manage to be a regular threat. Button and Rosberg did, Russell did last year, Verstappen hasn't looked beatable in the same car for 4 years now.
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  986.  @Bahamuttiamat  No, that's not what I said. Better drivers are better because they are better than other drivers, especially their teammates. There are some nuances to comparing teammates, but the greatest drivers don't get beaten regularly by their teammates. Otherwise those teammates would be just as great. Of course if Mercedes hadn't signed Hamilton but Kovalainen instead, Rosberg would have been an 8 times WDC, but of course not one of the greats.
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  987. People who don't speak a word of Dutch slandering the Netherlands from their ill informed and highly politcial positions. Yes, our loyalty is with the Dutch jews, not with the Hamas or any other barbaric muslim death and rape cult and all of it's many supporters. I'd rather kick out 1 million muslims than one Dutch jew feeling the need to move to Israel to flee antisemitism. The Dutch had far more heros saving jews from the Nazi's, the fanatical SS in the Dutch case, than any other country. Antisemitism has always come from foreigners here, whether it's the Germans or the muslims or the indoctrinated low literate university crowds with their imported American infantilism.
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  988. That's a whole other car world with a language barrier, you can't do everything at the same time.
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  989.  @ricardosmythe2548  The Africans in Egypt showed very little interest for the hieroglyphs.
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  990.  @ricardosmythe2548  My point is that the last 500 year of European history is very well documented and that of Africa is not at all, because Europeans were both literate and interested in history contrary to most Africans. For many Africans that's reason to portray Africans as inherently more peaceful, wich make no sense and is probably racist. The values that make European history wrong, are also European. I believe the idea that history tells something about the today's people nature specific to their origin is both stupid and vile. Yes, I believe geography is important to the development of civilizations, no, it isn't important anymore because everybody has exchange of ideas and goods. Thanks to Europe btw, they have turned geographical disadvantage into advantage, and then proceeded to make geographic disadvantage almost irrelevant for civilization for the whole world.
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  991. Indeed. The USA has winners and losers, many Europeans happily settle for a draw.
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  992. Founding members of the EU? The ECSC, EEC and EC are not the EU. Those were successfull and beneficial to the citizens of the member states, the EU is not. Don't claim successes for the EU.
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  993. En waarom is op jullie kaart het IJsselmeer helemaal ingepolderd?
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  994. Ze halen niemand hier naartoe. Ze bieden helaas onderwijs aan aan iedereen van overal die op studiekosten willen besparen en geen taal willen leren.
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  995. It's probably also that he knows his craft very well, jugdging by his pronunciation. A classic actor with great voice, articulation and accent control. I'm not a native speaker but for someone who isn't that fluent in German his relative lack of accent was impressive.
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  996.  @පැරකුම්බා  So you claim it was a gift to the Dutch? In that case it shouldn't be returned because it wasn't stolen. It started as gift to confirm the friendship or something, that we already knew for sure. Either way, we have to have proper criteria and not just hand stuff over out of guilt over general colonialism.
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  997. Lots of heavy industries near ports and rivers, ships burn pretty dirty too.
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  998. Yes, often doing pop up race events on some construction site until the police comes. But also 'proper championships' organized by some anarchist colony.
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  999. They didn't call fascism out when they saw it in action, they only dare react to tweets.
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  1000. Nothing ironic. The States-General already existed before the the Dutch Republic's DOI and the States as provincial parliaments without having a common assembly go back to the 13th century. The English support for the Dutch revolt was half arsed and two faced, and queen Elizabeth kicking the Dutch sea beggars out of English ports and taking back her beloved non valeur Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester where both great turning points in the Dutch war against the Spanish Empire. Lucily for the English, the Dutch had already blocked the Spanish Armada from actually invading England.
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  1001. Don't people see what Harris is doing here? He's boxing in Peterson, Shapiro, RFK and Owens with Alex Jones, under the guise of appreciating Joe Rogan. That appreciation is false, because Harris is manipulative in contrast with the curious 'just let the conversation' happen Joe Rogan, who doesn't cut the shots to get a message across without it being his message openly. He also puts censhorship and cancellation between question marks. He's citing the witch hunters as trusted media. The problem is they aren't trustworthy either. I don't really know the guy, but that's the problem with Alex Jones, he should be factchecked into oblivion right after, but the factcheckers can't because they have proven not to check facts and lie. Harris wants there to be a filter and what to be a filter himself, because he doesn't want you to make your mind up but wants to make your mind up for you. That's why he's not into conversations like Joe Rogan, but into editing, using visuals rethorically, getting his message, his thought across, not his arguments. So his appreciation is fake, because he doesn't want to let people make their own mind up like Joe Rogan. The video is fake because his message isn't even that Joe Rogan should be more of a filter, but that Peterson, Shapiro, RFK and Owens are just as full of nonsense as Alex Jones and just as dangerous as this Proud Boys guy that appearently fought people who used violence to prevent Yiannopoulos from speaking, appearently something Harris supports?
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  1002.  @FrankeNamensKarim  The EU distributes, in favour of the big corporations, but it's still distribution. Communist means for neoliberal ends.
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  1003. It's probably not taking in account naming conventions. Here in the Netherlands for example people have one up to five official first names, and than their first name which doesn't have to do anything with those, but usually does. The official name is often more biblical. So someone that is registered as Johannes wil go by the first name Johannes, Johan, Jan, Jo, Han, Hannes, Hans, John, Johnny, John pronounced as Sean, Sjon, and the female Johanna, has Jo, Joke, Hanna, Hannah, Hansje, Jans and Jantje. So the actual name for John should be Johannes rather than Jan, Jan is just most common first name version. Maybe the Fins got something similar and the registered first name is often that of the apostle.
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  1004. The shops close down, but most Dutch have a life outside work and buying stuff.
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  1005. It's nowhere near a complete list, not even a quarter I guess. I miss Graf&Stift, Bucciali, Gillbern, Minerva for example just to name the most obscure. Hispano Suiza was a luxury/fast brand before WWII, probably more a competitor to Duesenberg than to Cadillac. They made one famous art deco body and this was probably a concept inspired on that. Interesting era for France too, Delahaye, Talbot, Delage, Bugatti. Facel Vega was a very interesting post WWII French brand with beautiful cars with a Chrysler V8. Donkervoort started out as Lotus 7 rip offs and evolved. Spyker is indeed Dutch and was actually an original and quite original design.
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  1006. No, they are not your poeple, they are our people now. It's our money too, made here. But to be honest, if all the people that came from Africa would 'go back', all the people that came as 'refugees' crossing several safe countries that wouldn't be a problem. They are still a net loss to the country, many on welfare, many high in the crime statistics.
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  1007. Stadtholder was not a heriditary position and the Oranges weren't monarchs. It was custom to appoint an Orange in that position, but not always and their title Prince of Orange had nothing to do with their power in the Dutch Republic other than being an important family from Willem 'the silent' of Orange as the father of the fatherland.
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  1008. Waarom alleen met jongens getest? Waarom niet met Nadia, Fatima en Khautar? Als het discriminatie op afkomst is zou het geslacht niet uit moeten maken. Maar dat is het niet, want hun zussen en nichtjes mogen meestal niet uit. Clubs zijn plekken waar jonge mannen en jonge vrouwen elkaar ontmoeten, daar moet evenwicht zijn en als er dan één demografie is die wel jonge mannen levert en geen jonge vrouwen dan kun je het daarmee niet gezellig maken. En de reden daarvan heeft er ook weer te maken dat veel van die jonge mannen de vrouwen in clubs niet behandelen zoals ze willen dat hun zus of nichtje behandeld wordt. De oplossing ligt hier bij en rond de Marokkaanse en Turkse vrouwen. Als zij niet naar clubs gaan kunnen hun jongemannen dat ook niet.
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  1009. Ironically in the Netherlands we still use inches for ..... bicycle wheels and tyres.
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  1010. Basically the EU has appropriated the EEC's free trade to force a political agenda onto the therefore no longer democratic member states that has nothing to do with trade. It's a negative, it rules on fear rather than having it's members a lot to offer. Britain didn't go back to the sitution before the EU, not even before the EC or EEC. It went to a situation it could no longer partake in equal trade with it's closest neighbours. The EU doesn't offer, it punishes, and that's as much a concern to EU members as to Britain.
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  1011. In my school it was strictly British English, the 'recieved pronunciation' or 'Queen's English', including typical British ways of saying things. This was not judgemental, but more to set one clear standard, and doing so teach the proper distinction from both American and British local accents, from the idea that American comes more naturally and if you master proper English, you will be fine in the USA too and there was already enough exposure to American English. Similar to German and French, we weren't taught Canadian French either, you have to have one defined language with right and wrong ways to spell and pronounce it to be able to teach it well. One could have picked American English too for the same reason, but it's not the origin, Shakespeare and Irish writers like Joyce and Wilde didn't write in it. Foreign language teaching goes back to at least the early 1800's and there was little American English around back then, so generations of teachers would teach how they would have been taught. Picking American authors for the mandatory literature reading was not discouraged at all though.
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  1012. British chauvinism is fragile. Better not mention the reasons for the Armada to be there, the role of the Dutch Republic in it's defeat, the Dutch Republic bringing the Spanish Empire to it's knees, and certainly not the Dutch Republic invading England and giving them their parliamentary monarch, bill of rights, religious tolerance, the Bank of England and the sandwich.
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  1013.  @darrinwebber4077  Very unlikely, the WIC (Dutch West-Indian Company) didn't get permission to get involved in the slavetrade until 1638 and before that slaves from captured Spanish and Portugese ships had to be set free. There were free, land owning, blacks in New Amsterdam when the British took it, there are records of that. That doesn not exclude the possibility that some Dutch captain or a captain of a Dutch ship sold slaves somehwere, especially before the WIC got the monopoly on the Atlantic. But not the Dutch, and the Dutch settlements in North-America weren't plantations anyway. The Dutch and the early French were there for the beaver pelt trade with the Indians, and that was just a mutually beneficial trade. The Dutch had very good relations with the natives, but that also caused them eventually to get mixed up in a tribal war between natives. They were the only ones to actually buy land from the naives and pay for it though, because they had a very different attitude in the beginning compared to the feudal monarchies in Europe. They did discriminate against the natives though, at one point in New Amsterdam it was forbidden to serve natives alcohol after 8, while others could drink until 10.
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  1014. No, they voluntarily stopped with it because they evolved to more civilized people, something that still has to happen to most people in the world. But this is what you get for being nice, racial hatred, many Africans, descendants of African slavetraders that came begging as 'refugees' on welfare and a crime wave. We should have limited it to the descendants of our own slaves and kept all the other Africans out.
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  1015. How fitting for the president of the 5th republic to walk out of the showpiece of the Dutch Republic, the former Amsterdam City Hall from 1655, which was ironically appropriated by royals through the French revolution and Napoleon.
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  1016. I'm not opposed to civil obedience if it means that much to them, which it doesn't since the protest was led by frequent flyers and other hypocrites, but that includes facing the consequences. They were lucky the police is highly politicized in favour of them and wasn't using their normal tactics.
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  1017. Yes, but all Sephardic jews were called Portuguese because Spanish had a bad connotation to it. So I understand the confusion.
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  1018. The video goes wrong with the, common, misconception that William was invited by the English nobles. That's only true to the extend that William initiated the contact and asked the nobles to invite him to give him more legitimacy, while already preparing the invasion. The other British and anglophonic misconception is that the Prince of Orange ruled the Netherlands, that's only true to the extend that this was his name and title, but he invaded England in the capacity of Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, a non-heridetary position he was elected in. The British were a bit behind on the Dutch in those days, about a hundred years at least. William didn't want to become absolute monarch, he didn't want to conquer England in the old fashioned way, he wanted to create a stable protestant ally. John Locke, who was living in the Netherlands at that time, was part of the conspiracy to get support from English parliamentarians and was the one who actually accompanied William's wife to London after William had it occupied. So it really can't be a surprised that after William successfully invaded a government was created that was quite similar to that of the Dutch Republic allthoug a monarchy and was in line with Locke's philosophy on government. After an 80-years war for independence with Spain, the Dutch were ahead on the importance of popular support and propaganda too. So William's request to invite him was part of the spin and propaganda, and not his last masterpiece in this invastion. His soldiers would be punished for using the word invasion or conquest, had to treat the locals with respect and buy stuff from them, he rode a white horse in shiny armour and had picked a very symbolic date for his entrance, he held speeches speaking of liberation and religious tolerance and he brought a printing press to further spread his message that they weren't really beeing invaded. Appearently his propaganda has worked until today, fact is that William got what he wanted and didn't have to concede anything. This is not the story of the origin of the American constitution and the bill of rights, but the story of how the late mediavel concepts of natural law and freedom of conscience led to revolt, a Republic, were transferred to England and from there ended up in the USA, allthough it's declaration of independence is materially still very similar to that of Dutch from 1881
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  1019. He's also looking into the numbers of Spanish Inquisition, in catholic Spain and doesn't include the inquisition in Spanish ruled lands which were less catholic. He also ignores that when you instill fear in people, you don't have to kill as much of them because many will submit.
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  1020.  @Vishanti  Which is a shame, because the story of the Spanish Inquisition behind the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and how they went about procedurally makes it less flat and far more interesting. But the predetermined revisionist conclusion that it wasn't that bad messed the video up.
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  1021.  @Vishanti  Yes, also because the situation with the jews an muslims was quite calm, while the protestants where a huge threat and mostly not willing to admit they were wrong.
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  1022. The Citroen BX 4TC is certainly the most comfortable Group B rally car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpXOkc1Lin4 The Citroen SM must also have made a very comfortable rally car but that car with the Maserati V6 in general deserves a reaction video here.
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  1023.  @SoulStormZero  I'm not denying colonial crime, just that outright theft wasn't the Dutch style. You can only rob people once but you can return for trade or exploitation. It's not like the Dutch had any power over most of it's trading partners and the Chinese, Indians and Persians were far to sophisticated to take much interest in European goods. So the spices were important to the Asian trade of the Dutch as they could trade them for other Asian goods instead of bringing lots of silver. The majority of what the VOC did was trade within Asia. The Dutch Atlantic slave trade was from 1637 to 1814 and totalled to 600K slaves. That is not on a massive scale relative to the Africans slave trade with England 3 or 5 million, France also something like that, Portugal 5 million and the Arabs 19million. It's also not massive relative to the Dutch trade, being the biggest in the huge European trade and big in the global trade in goods too for a bit longer and only overtaken by the British around the year 1800. What the Dutch did was industrialize the slave trade once they "finally" got in, which was copied by the British who soon took most of it over because they were better at hygiene keeping the slaves alive at that point in time. I doubt that was really necessary for survival, it started with the need to keep the former Portuguese colony of Brazil running after it's capture, that's why the Dutch government gave permission. But after the peace of Munster, parallel with the peace of Westphalia 1648 the WIC couldn't privateer anymore, New Netherland/New Amsterdam was not the big farming settlement it was supposed to have become, it had little else to do than shipping slaves for mostly Spanish, Portuguese and English plantation colonies. So it's not all necessity. But especially during the 80 years war "There can't be trade without war and war without trade", "Spanish" silver and gold from the Americas as well as Portuguese colonial income was directly used to siege Dutch cities in the South. So it was initially about self defense. Initially, the Dutch developped hypocrisy in foreign affairs quite early on as a biblical excuse for entering the slave trade had to be and was made up.
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  1024. Indeed, I was already drinking to save the nation at 15.
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  1025. Zit je daar een beetje in je militair uniform 'heb u plannen voor de vakantie?'. Er mag dan wel een oorlog zijn, het keuvelnieuws moet door. Ik heb een stukje gemist, is Bente Becker nog gevraagd naar wat ze voor de verkiezingen over asielzoekers zei? We hebben haar al maanden niet meer gehoord.
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  1026. Because it's nonsense to change strategic course on two results. It's ridiculous to have managers jobs on the line all the time just because it generates news and clickbaits. Clubs and supporters should just refuse to discuss the managers job security and let the press suck on it. Of course it happens sometimes that the club decides a manager needs to be sacked, but there is general toxic dynamic in the PL where managers are undermined in doing their job by having to hold on to it all time rather than doing their job.
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  1027. 'No more group B, ditch your crazy twin charged mid engined Delta S4, Lancia'. Lancia: 'I guess we'll just have to build a street going legend with space for the groceries then.'
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  1028.  @RaoDGuitar  True, but the Germans and also the Dutch can compound way further than two, and that matters.
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  1029. Why should it be mentioned? The Dutch had an exceptional big part in the European trade and putting the modern into the modern early period and a tiny part of the slavetrade. They only gave up their objection to the transatlantic slavetrade in 1638 when they were already well past half their golden age. It was economicall irrelevant, only morally.
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  1030.  @Crow12619  Are they? Cars were designed low for aerodynamic purposes too, and big wheels needed to make height look palatable aren't efficient either. I think it's that high driving position that sells because the feeling it gives the driver.
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  1031.  @grapeshot  I think it's important to understand what Europe actually did en what China is about to do, and it's not that different. ATM machine is a mischaracterization, that's not the way Africa gets exploited and will keep getting exploited.
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  1032.  @maxwellmakenzi  History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.
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  1033.  @mansamusa9465  You're using another Western invention, get used to it.
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  1034.  @piyesankara890  Even the Americans aren't as backwardly racist as you lot here. Black people have been invited to enjoy and contribute to the fruits of the enlightenment for ages, but they tend to be European, American or people who left Africa. Sadly many Africans, as the word says people from Africa, prefer to stay backward culturally and sulk about the past, looking for people to blame for their own failings and ignore what improvement and opportunity the European enlightenment has brought them. You guys make it about skin colour, but it's all about culture and attitude.
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  1035.  @Juisyjuise2  The Netherlands was winning the war, it lost Indonesia because the USA told them too, otherwise the much needed Marshall help would be stopped.
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  1036.  @sakurakou2009  I't really not that different other than that English somehow gets a free pass while France is competiting in a lost match for linguistical and therefore cultural dominance. I also agree that imposing your language on a colony or a former colony is a symbol of power, but it is in fact empowering the people changing the balance of power at the detriment of the one imposing power. If you speak their language you understand them better than they understand you, giving you power over them despite you letting them feel more powerful. Interesting you mention the Dutch because that's what I am and we feel some imperial pressure of English here too, and the Brits and Americans feel very much the centre of the world and empowered because they can speak English anywhere here. But feelings are not facts, we let them speak English, if we stop they are helpless. I know what they are saying to eachother, they are dependent on one of us explaining what we said to eachother. It's just the powerful being lazy and wallowing in their power while being weakened. The Dutch were different colonizers from the British and the French, they weren't imperialistic until the late 19th century. They were exploiters rather than rulers, so learnt the local languages rather than imposing their own, to be more effective. When they started to properly rule and started building schools in Indonesia future independence was seen as inevitable and school children learned English just as Dutch kids. Not to be submissive to the British but to be better equipped in a globalized world. So speaking French increases your power over France and the French, and gives you access to the French speaking world you don't have with English. The presence of a language and exposure to it from a young age makes learning it a lot easier. So imo you can make English the 2nd language, but you're not helping yourself if you discard French out of vengeful post colonial sentiment, which I am understanding of. Use it's presence to learn it and use it to your advantage. Don't see a French speaking person as someone who is oppressing you, but as someone who needs you because you speak French, not to serve him but to serve yourself, you're in charge if your language skills are required.
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  1037.  @FlixTraveler  The doubleheader DAF was also great.
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  1038. You are the ignorant one here. The Dutch Republic did indeed not occupy foreign countries like the others and that small piece of Java and few small islands that were actually occupied by the Dutch back then could easily have escaped anyone. No, the Dutch didn't slaughter and enslave millions. Calling it an empire is retro-active projection of a British thing.
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  1039. Not the channel for stuff like that I suggest.
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  1040. Migration to the Netherlands is not a human right.
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  1041. The grapes are not sour because Verstappen is clearly the best driver and happens to be in the best car for over a year, allthough the best driver in 2nd or 3rd best car is always better for entertainment value. The grapes our sour because this whole myth of the British guy being the best ever is falling apart spectacularly. Both Hamilton and Bottas are struggling to beat their teammates or make much of an impression now they are not in the far superior car. If we look back at what they did before with what teammates it all becomes very clear and we only need one and the simplest explanation: The Mercedes was a very superior car for an unprecedented lenght of time. Any other explanation demands a terrible lot of assumptions that aren't founded in facts.
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  1042.  @earlofmar7987  From a distance, the general mood didn't seem very fit for questioning anything, including experts, and Bush was clearly playing on that. In Europe only the most right wing hardliners believed anything of it or at least pretended to believe it. For self defence you don't need an army like that. A proper functioning air force would have been enough to stop the Saudi's with boxcutters, but somehow some exercise interfered.
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  1043.  @ThreaT650  That makes no sense, there was nothing nationalistic about that war. I don't want to get into all the definition issues again, but you can't deny nationalism is a political or even ideological stance. Allthough people might disagree which political stance exactly it comes down to. With partiottism the central meaning seems to have a lot to do with love for the country. So where nationalism is more of an idea, patriottism is more of a feeling. Nothing wrong with that feeling of love, but there's little to such a feeling that could determine for example foreign politics, unlike nationalism. Nationalism results directly in policy. It was feelings of love for their country that seem to have prevented many Americans from beeing critical and thinking alltogether that allowed to be fooled in this manner. The step from love for your country to blind love for your country is a lot smaller than the step from an political idea to blind love and consequently beeing fooled.
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  1044.  Catnip -  The fact is that the world is organized, by the West, in nation states. The relevant opposing views in this are those of Westerners that acknowledge nation states is what we're coming from and what they have meant and still mean for us on one side, and often young people who haven't really thought their world view through and believe that because they like to cross borders for new selfie backgrounds on instagram that borders might as well disappear. That's liek removing the door from your house because you like to walk through. For anything good a government can do it needs a territory to do it on and it needs a people to do it for. So without borders and citizenship there is no social contract, no democracy, nothing to organize good things like infrastructure, health care, social security, labour laws, environmental protection, education, order, all the things that make civilization. I'm sure those older civilizations acknowledge that their civilization comes from a defined people on a defined territory too.
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  1045.  @steveohare4666  Indeed, sometimes words are just taken. Here the word 'patriot' is taken a specific group of anti-orangist republicans from the late 18th century, who took it from orangist repubicans from the 17th century. I won't go into detail, but because of historical reasons it would get very confusing if we used the word patriot for 'fatherlandlovers'. We usually use chauvinist, which also has a different meaning in different countries. But that also allowed for the word 'nationalist' to stay relatively neutral and true to it's orginal meaning. But words sometimes are also taken intentionally, to discredit certain views. It's very difficult to discuss globalization, internationalisation without decent nationalism as an option on the table, and lots of people like that because views opposed to their get harder to discuss. So if the word nationalism is contaminated, we need to either clean it up, or find a different word to describe the state/country based order lots of people support for good reason.
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  1046. I also doubt it, but Brussels is near a valley and still quite close to the North Sea. Weather systems can change quite a bit over small distances. The chablis in France is for example also known for it's gloomy and rainy climate and the hard working grapes of that as a result.
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  1047. Ik weet het zelfs beter en zie dat de NOS weer wat met feiten smokkelt om Nederland slechter af te schilderen dan het was. - Er was niks dubieus aan de kaapvaart. Spanje gebruikte de rijkdommen uit de nieuwe wereld om de oorlog tegen de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlander te financieren, zodat het terugveroverd kon worden en alle niet-katholieken op de brandstapel konden worden gezet. Zelden in de geschiedenis was een oorlog en dus ook de kaapvaart zo legitiem. - De WIC was niet zo heel erg privaat en gaf Johan Maurits pas in 1638 toestemming om slaven te gaan halen voor Nederlands-Brazilie, onder de voorwaarde dat ze na 7 jaar zouden worden vrijgelaten en in de tussentijd onderricht in het christelijk geloof zouden krijgen. Daarvoor lieten WIC kapiteins als Piet Hein slaven op buitgemaakte Spaanse en Portugese schepen vrij. Nederland was toen al schathemelrijk van zijn enorme aandeel in de normale Europese handel, meer dan helft. Piet Hein was zelf slaaf geweest en moest ook niks hebben van het onderdrukken van vreemde volkeren voor een Europese oorlog. Zo vanzelfsprekend als slavernij in de rest van de wereld was, was het dat in het vrije Nederland helemaal niet. Dat maakt het niet minder droevig dat uiteindelijk de dominee van de koopman verloor, maar dat ging niet zonder slag of stoot. - De tachtigjare oorlog was niet begin 17e eeuw, die was al 50 jaar aan de gang toen de WIC werd opgericht. - De kaapvaart was behalve niet dubieus ook niet zo lucratief, alleen de zilvervloot was een grote klapper maar het waren erg onregelmatige en niet zo hoge inkomsten. De WIC moest het tot dan vooral hebben van pelshandel met de Noord-Amerikaanse Indianen. - Als je zo graag het woord tot slaaf gemaakte wil gebruiken, vertel dan ook even wie ze tot slaaf gemaakt hadden: De voorouders van Akwasi. - De slavenhandel was ook niet erg lucratief, de WIC was dan ook al bankroet in 1647 maar kon met geld van buiten een doorstart maakten, en ging al failliet in 1674. Om een of andere reden is er de laatste tijd een enorme behoeft om te roepen dat Nederland rijk is geworden van de slavernij en kolonialisme, maar dat is gewoon niet waar. Slavernij is belangrijk in de Nederlandse geschiedenis als moreel verval, dieptepunt en een voorbeeld van de Nederlandse hypocrisie (hier niet, daar wel), maar de Nederlandse slavernij is totaal onbetekend in de wereldwijde geschiedenis van de slavernij en de slavernij was nauwelijks van betekenis voor de Nederlandse economie. - Nederland stopte met de transatlantische slavenhandel in 1814, dat was best vroeg, alleen met het vrijlaten van alle reeds bestaande slaven was het niet haantje de voorste. Maar zelfs daarin was het vroeg in vergelijking met de rest van de wereld. De Arabieren waren doorgaans een hele eeuw later en daar en in delen van Afrika heeft men het nog steeds niet begrepen. Hou eens op met je Nederland bashing van belastinggeld en met verdraaiing van de feiten. Dat er zwarte bladzijden zijn in de Nederlandse geschiedenis staat niet ter discussie, maar dat is geen reden om de overige bladzijden ook zwart te maken als de belastingdienst onder Rutte.
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  1048. Of course, the Portuguese joined Spain that wanted to annihilate the Dutch Republic and kill all non catholics. The VOC was founded to take the 80-year war for independence overseas, and finance the presence with trade.
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  1049. Wel jammer dat hij niet aan bijv die VVD-er vroeg waardoor ze van mening veranderd is. Immers, toen Baudet in januari 2020 een debat over corona aanvroeg wilde de coalitie dat niet omdat we zo goed voorbereid waren en alles was op orde, dus ook de Wet Publiek Gezondheid. Ook liet hij na de CDA mevrouw aan te spreken op dat ze zij dat ze tegen vaccinatiedwang en drang was, terwijl het CDA met drang door de CDA-minister De Jonge heeft ingestemd.
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  1050. If you with only 1.5 million people did more than half and up to 70% of all European trade, far bigger than the trade with Asia and the Americas of course, for 2 centuries, yes you can call yourself merchants.
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  1051.  @juliemart4153  Nor in South-Africa, both have developped from 1600's Dutch in different directions. It was a relatively isolated community with lots of French huguenots and Germans too who soon developped their own language.
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  1052.  @JoaoPedroPT696  And the North African Moors who land grabbed Spain were knew no imperialism or greed of course.
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  1053.  @VandepoelM  Ik denk dat ik het eens ben, maar slechts in zoverre dat een overheid die niet streng is voor de media niet goed genoeg is. Een overheid hoort niet over de media te gaan, dus van meer of minder streng zou ook helemaal geen sprake moeten zijn.
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  1054. That yellow one should have two fish tanks installed in the low part of the front window, just for the fun of it.
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  1055. To Hollywood's credit, when they do make movies located outside LA or NY, they tend to do it for a reason and highlight the particularities of the place.
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  1056.  @puraLusa  The subsidiarity principle is that the EU only makes rules for what cannot be done nationally. But that is of course levels above your insights into the EU, the less people know and understand, the more they like the EU. Give them a ballot to put in a container and they believe it's democracy, worked for cargo cults too. Then you tell them what to do because they like to be submissive.
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  1057. And he can write entertainingly.
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  1058. No, the Pilgrim Fathers actually fled the freedom of reliigion in the Dutch Republic, the fact that they went back to England for the crossing doesn't change that. They were prudes who feared the influence on their children of protestants less uptight about the naughty bits.
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  1059. If it's any good, why not? But France doesn't import wine from Scotland either, it's ridiculous that probably one of the most racist countries exports it's highly unsuccessful racial relations to one of the least racist countries in the world. What's next? France importing English cuisine?
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  1060.  @Roland_Deschain  They didn't withdraw, you are making stuff up.
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  1061.  @penname5766  "Look, you can’t tell me that the Dutch haven’t also been taught a biased version of history where their achievements have been massively overinflated." That tells it all about the British and the answer is 'No'. The biases and chauvinism changes between catholic and protestant schools, between excusing the colonial past a bit or judging it very hard. But the Dutch never were very imperial and we don't consider us a conquering agressive nation, the Dutch never increased their territory in Europe either, unless by conquering the North Sea. The, relatively little, pride there is in rebellion and self defence. Hardly anyone knows about the Glorious Revolution or Invasion, and in general, when some well respected British historian like Schama writes a book about the Dutch Republic, he gets invited on a TV-show to answer the question why in the hell a British historian would write about the Netherlands. After he explainded how backward the other countries including Britain were back then compared, his book sold, but the Dutch Golden Age being importan and even interesting to the world rather than to just the Dutch was a bit of a surprise. The knowledge I'm sharing here is far from general. And the ones who do know have a chuckle about British sensitivity about not being invaded rather than take pride in the fact that it was a conquest. William III already knew this sensitivity back then and his soldiers were under strict orders not to use the word invasion or conquest. It was a 'hearts and minds' campaign. Of course William III wasn't a Dutch king but a noble with just a title from the county of Orange in Southern France who was appointed in the office of stadtholder of the Dutch Republic by the States, the Dutch parliaments. stadtholder is the anglified word for Stadhouder, which was the Dutch word for steward. as it was initially the position of steward to king Philip of Spain, but William of Orange aka William the Silent and the only one who goes without a number, led the rebellion that would become the 80-years war. He was the great grandfather of William III. Assuming it was a Dutch king just as hungry for power and land as British king is therefore based on a lack of knowledge and understanding of the situation and his motives. It's the projection of British medieval politicis on the Dutch Republic which marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the modern times. British historians often make a similar anglocentric mistake, not by calling him a king after some basic research, but assuming he came to England in the capacity of Prince of Orange, which was just a title and his army of 40.000 and his invastion fleet bigger than the Armada was commissioned by parliament. In the (late) Middle Ages the whole of Northern Europe was entrepreneurial. But some area's accellerate in development at certain points in history whlle others are behind. The British were enterpreneurial enough to ship wool to the Low Countries which is was named back then and trading them for bricks, which was high tech they didn't have. But the processing, the higher value added, was in the more advanced regions of that time. Just like when Britain accellerated development with the Industrial Revolution the Netherlands was lagging behind, only recently recovering from the decline that set in after Britain started taking over dominance in world trade after the Glorious Revolution. These things go back and forth, different regions had different times they bloomed and got ahead. But what had been breweing for centuries in the already prospering Low Countries, with the South (now Belgium) the most important, exploded in the North with the Dutch Republic because a few developments came together there. Fully fledged modern capitalism, protestantism and literacy, religious tolerance, immigration, ship building technology (wind powered saw mill) and globalization, proto industrialization, civil rights, freedom of print, connectivity, institutionalized science and innovation, upward social mobility. The Dutch navy wouldn't have stood a chance against the Spanish, Portuguese, French and British when they would have to select their commanders from the much smaller nobility from a much smaller population. It was 1.5 million vs 20, 3, 28 and 10 million or something. The 80-years war, mostly overlapping with the Dutch Golden Age, made it into a pressure cooker. As a multicultural, multireligious global trading hub, 17th century Dutch Republic was unprecedented. Just like the indusrial revolution happened in Britain, beause there developments that had been brewing all over Europe came toghether at that place at that moment in time. But a pretty essential invention for the precision engineering was for example the lathe, a French invention with a Dutch predecessor, or the cranck, which through the wind powered saw mill gave the Dutch the industrialization of ship building which gave them more merchant ships than the rest of Europe combined in the 17th century. I could also return the question, If capitalism originated in Britain, why they had to copy it from the Dutch? I'm not claiming capitalism originated in the Netherland btw, it was after developments in Italy, all kinds of exchanges in today's Belgium in the 1400's and 1500's, insurance programs for herring fishermen in the North that the Dutch Republic were the first with an entire capitalist system including a central bank, almost a century before William III gave Britain it's crucial Bank of England, with lots of financial products and a stock exchange. Of course if youré a British historian looking back into Britain's history you go back to the industrial revolution and then the Bank of England and the coffeehouses, then further back you'll find traces of capitalism before too. And then you have a story of how capitalism developped in Britain. And it's not wrong, it's just not the whole story. The history of capitalism in Britain is not the history of capitalism, just like the history of the Glorious Revolution is not an entirely British history. I'm not saying British historians don't speak their languages, but the dominance of English creates and facilitates an Anglocentric perspective that makes it easy to overlook international developments and influences. The Dutch simply have less people, less historians, less books and they have always been in the middle of international developments. Dutch historians have to rely on foreign sources in foreign languages, often propagandistic when pre 20th century, and those perspectives a lot more. And even for studies into daily life inside the Dutch Republick the most important works were in English by Britons or Americans, citing English visitors. Not English soldiers of course, no idea how they would end up there and they would be mostly illiterate. No, British nobles came to visit this economic miracle, this odd little country, the anus of Europe, the Frogs before the French became the big enemy, that outcompeted them. I believe both punched massively above their weight because both their times of explosive bloom coincided with the globalization/Europeanization they created themselves, the Dutch/LowLands in the 16th and 17th century, the British in the 18th and19th, adding huge weight to their punches. It's not a competition, I'm just saying Britain went from backwards to most advanced too just like other cultures and it's not a linear development throug some unique AngloSaxon spirit or something that didn't had outside influences, an army de facto invading and occupying the country to take the throne and reform the country's politics and economics fundamentally to a foreign example is a huge outside influence. The huge social changes the Dutch Republic speerheaded didn't transfer though, except for religious tolerance but that was mostly political back then. Britain remained classist, unequal and unegalitarian with limited upward social molibiltiy, oppressive morals. If we look back at the origins of what we consider basic individual freedom today, we might as well ignore Britain.
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  1062. Belgium is and was catholic. The Netherlands was multireligious and was not really involved in the exploitation of Africa. Portugal was huge in Africa, Spain, catholic also, was huge in the Caribbean. So you are talking nonsense.
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  1063.  @paulmaxwell8851  My mother used to veto a dishwasher because instead of doing the dishes with the 4 or 3 of us and finish it in 10 minutes while conversing together, she would be the one packing and unpacking it alone. I never wanted a dishwasher, I have an open kitchen and the choice between putting a record on and being busy for 20 minutes while enjoying music and listening to machine noises for 2 hours is an easy one. The nice thing about maps is that they help you mapping the place, in your head. You get a general structure of the place. With satnav you don't even have to turn the map around in your head, it does it for you and you don't zoom out automatically also.
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  1064. No, it's not. NATO and democratic nation states are, when the people were still in charge becasue of democracy rather than having the unelected of the EU decide, they didn't war and they didn't want tariffs and import duties.
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  1065.  @AHVENAN  You can't be the greatest of all time when you are beaten by a contempory in the same car, you'd still be arguing whether you were the greatest of your own time. And he got beaten by Schumacher too. There simply has never been a driver that stood apart so much from the other drivers as Schumacher. It was always Schumacher against McLaren, Williams, McLaren again, Williams again.
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  1066. I like the canal belt island, because they took it as an inspiration rather than imitate it. The Amsterdamse School island is disappointing, much better Amsterdamse School inspired architecture is known to exist.
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  1067. We have that with waterways in the Netherlands. In the North there are "A"'s, in the middle it is "Ee", further South A's again and in the West we the IJ, which is one letter in Dutch.
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  1068. I understood it, and not sure that is correct, by looking at the distance covered by the centre of the circle. If you take that ribbon of the same length as the circumference, and you place that in an orbit around the big circle so the centre point of the small circle moves on it, you'll immediately understand it will not make it round because the circile that ribbon makes has the radius of the big circle plus the radius of the small circle. The length of the distance travelled by the small circle, measured by it's centre point, and the length of the distance of the 'tread' or not the same, that is where we all went wrong. The number of revolutions by the small circle is determined by the distance the centre point covers, not by the edge.... I think.
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  1069.  @aowen1079  Predictable. No, he was never that good. Quick, but just one of the 3 top drivers of his generation, and not the most level headed and mentally strong. After his impressive rookie year he got hyped as some super talent, but we can objectively establish he was overrated. Button would not stand a chance to him, but got revaluated after he did, Rosberg wouldn't stand a chance to him, but did and suddenly always was a future WDC, Bottas career was going nowhere, but when he was found as replacement driver he became such a fast qualifying specialist. And now both Hamilton and Bottas have become slower? Yeah, right.
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  1070.  @tkbheje8876  I'm not a fan of neocoloniasm, but the in the end it's the countries themselves that allow it. I agree with him that the European garden is in the process of being overgrown by the jungle from both the African and the Asian side. I don't agree with him that Europeans should start gardening in the jungles, they could help when asked but just to be kind. I think Euope should put up a wall high or hard enough. Then the Africans and Asians can decide for themselves whether they want a garden or the jungle. I think many want a garden, but they move here rather than start gardening and that should be finished. Europe is not able to invite everybody who wants a garden in without becoming jungle again too. That'simply a matter of scale. Far more Africans are trying to get into Europe than Europeans trying to get into Africa. Europeans tend to get into Africa on invitation while Africans force themselves into Europe. I got nothing against migration as long as it's mutually voluntary. That's not the case with most Africans moving to Europe so that should end.
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  1071.  @machibamaime4095  Yes, but Africa stole from Europe too. And it was Africans who actually stole humans from Europe while Europeans bought Africans from Africans. History was bad, really bad, not just the Europeans, they actually made it a lot better. More for themselves than for others, but still. The Europeans gave back a little too. Many European countries have had nothing to do with Africa and are rich too, a few African and Asian countries have never been colonized and are piss poor, much worse than the former European colonies. I've always supported African unity and loathed the interference of the USA and France in particular in African nationalism and hopeful developments. Lumumba, Sankara, Ghadaffi even. But in the end African countries wanted independence, claimed to be ready for independence, got independence, got European help, and it turned into quite a messy bit overall because they weren't ready for independence. And now they start moaning at Europe again. Not at the Arabs, not at the North Africans, not at the Chinese, and hardly at the Americans, but at the ones who treated them best. It's that victim mentality that is not helpfull at all that gets celebrated. Some European compared Europe to a garden amongst jungles, a very sensible metaphore, boohoo, African feelings are hurt. This is not pride, this is frustration.
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  1072. The Dutch parliament, who also had appointed Willem III as stadtholder and therefore commander of the army, had already decided to invade for French reasons. This was not about Engeland. Willem feared to get a hard time as a foreign king so he made a lot of propaganda efforts, including demanding an invitation. They also claim parliament forcing him into a lot of concessions, but he had London occupied and no English soldier was allowed near, so which force, which power? He also brought John Locke over from the Dutch Republic himself where he lived and wrote his important work in freedom, Locke accompanied Mary for the crossing. The fleet was first stuck in Dutch ports because of a full frontal wind, called a catholic wind, that changed overnight in a back wind called the protestant wind.
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  1073. Het begint al met de verkeerde vraagstelling in de video. De vraag is niet waarom buitenlandse studenten hierheen willen maar waarom wij ze zouden willen hebben. Het niveau van het onderwijs en onderzoek verhogen is het enige deugdelijke argument. Prima, maar dan heb je het over de beste studenten, de grootste talenten uit het buitenland. Dan laat je dus geen middelmatige studenten die nog slechter Engels spreken dan Nederlanders toe, en dan ga je niet alles in het Engels geven want dat is al een niveauverlaging op zich. In het buitenland studeren was altijd een prestatie omdat je een vreemde taal op academisch niveau moest beheersen en je in een vreemd land moest zien te redden. Aan die bubbles van buitenlandse middelmatige studenten hebben we helemaal niks. En dan ook nog klagen dat ze geen kamer kunnen krijgen, dat is als een toerist die klaagt dat het ergens te toeristisch is: Je bent zelf de oorzaak. En dan ook nog klagen dat studentenhuizen geen zin hebben om de hele tijd ook nog eens thuis steenkolenengels te moeten praten omdat zo'n buitenlandse student geen enkele moeite wil doen. Het is van zo'n kruiperigheid, "we willen natuurlijk wel mee blijven doen". Hoezo? Waarom? We hebben een mooi land met weinig ruimte, als je zoiets kostbaars zomaar weggeeft aan iedereen die het wil hebben dan maak je wel 'vrienden' ja, maar wat hebben wij daaraan? Wat is dat voor ziekelijke neiging om door het buitenland aardig gevonden te worden? In Frankrijk kom je niet verder dan op de camping zitten als je geen Frans spreekt. .Dat is ook overdreven maar als we massaal ophouden met Engels spreken staan voelt honderduizenden mensen zich ineens de buitenstaander die ze blijkbaar hebben willen blijven.
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  1074.  @daandevos122  No, the Dutch Republic split off in 1581. Belgium chose to remain under Spanish rule and was called the Spanish Netherlands, and then submissive as they are, the Austrian Netherlands. Only after being part of the Netherlands for 15 years they grew a small pair.
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  1075.  @AudieHolland  I believe the 80-years war kind of marked a turning point. The Spanish king was disappointed by the turn out of Dutch crowds to see their protestant neighbours publicly tortured and burned by the Inquisition, while the Inquisition had been such a blockbuster in Spain. Early in the revolt the Sea Beggars had a reputation for cruelty but there was already pressure from the top to tone it down. These sieges were an ongoing patient enterprises with not that much bloodshed in a single day of a months long fight. Maurice might genuinely have disliked cruelty, his reputation for making and sticking to leniant surrender deals shortened the sieges and that saved a lot of money and time in a war with much more battles and sieges to go.
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  1076. Nice to see not everybody has forgotten Bellof.
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  1077.  @Kav.  This mass tourism of certain kind of crowd is relatively new indeed. No, they are not in the tourism business and that's also not what they make their money with. It's only a disturbance to their profession. I don't care whether people are curious, they have prostitution in their own country too, so they are apperearently not that curious, only if they can hide in the crowd. I don't like prostitution either, but being against it is often just gratuitious in the sense that it will happen anyway.
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  1078.  @LIEFDESMORGEN  No, you have no idea what you are talking about, only a general opionion on prostitution, which is very alike my own feeling about it but I happen to know how the business is organized there while you have no clue.
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  1079. Gravity is stronger at sea level so the body is triggered to fight against it. The serious hypothesis is that it has to do with egalitarianism and female independence. Male height is more important to sexual selection because the women make that themselves and believe height is attractive. Family and money gets less in the way than in other countries.
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  1080. No, the Netherlands has amazing cycling infrastructure because the Dutch cycle. The myth is that this is or was a government decision that could be copied by other governments.
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  1081.  @leonpaelinck  Yes and no. The country fell madly in love with the car but also a lot of people kept cycling and protested when that got too hard and when the streets became unsafe to play in for their kids. It clashed really quickly also because the Dutch were late with mass motorization because of the recovery from the war. The point was that government followed the people, it didn't lead. The infrastructure had to keep up with demand, that kept growing with more infrastructure.
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  1082. Just another video from a native English speaker who beleives Britain covers the history of Europe.
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  1083.  @joebloggs396  No way William would have been invited if he hadn't demanded an invitation and no way he would have been invited if Dutch parliament hadn't commissioned a huge fleet and invasion army. What kind of invitation is it when you are not in a position to welcome someone in? If I invite you to 'my' house but I don't have the key, I'm hiding in the garden shed and you have to kick out the legal occupants yourself, it would not really be an invitation, would it?
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  1084.  @ffotograffydd  It's not really an invitation is it's demanded by the invader though, is it?
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  1085. Anti-islam populist firebrand? Yes, that's a fair characterization. Far right is not. It's not that Rutte's VVD has made the PVV big by leaving the door open, but by not succeeding in fooling the people again. Rutte has broken all mass immigration records after going into elections as tough on immigration. He broke up the cabinet on immigration to try that again, but people didn't fall for it again. This guy like the rest of the establisment in politics and media believe they are in control so the VVD must have made a tactical mistake. But they are not in control, the Dutch voter went against all of the media and their propaganda and bigger than Wilders win the is the anti establishment win. Not just +20 seats for Wilders, but also 28 seats for 2 new anti establisment parties and a few scrap seats for other relatively new parties. Half of the Dutch votes cannot be manipulated. They have a history of the most unlikely candidates every spin doctor or political marketeer would advise against becoming extremely popular.
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  1086. William invited himself, while preparing the invasion he asked those parliamentarians to write him an invitation, because he wanted to make it look like something else than the invasion it was.
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  1087. No, that is a stupid British myth going around on YT.
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  1088. Dat geëmmer over hoe verschrikkelijk zwaar het dagelijks leven wel niet was miskent juist de aard van slavernij. Wat het onderscheidt van andere ellende uit het verleden is dat mensen niet vrij waren. Niet vrij om hun omstandigheden te verbeteren als de kans zich zou voordoen, en hun kinderen hadden bij geboorte ook al meteen een levenslange vrijheidsstraf. Dat het dagelijks leven op veel plantages helemaal niet zo erg was, lang niet alle slavenhouders onmensen waren en graag de lieve vrede bewaarden en er geen belang bij hadden om de slaven kapot te werken en veel slaven wel de kans kregen om zich op te werken, geld voor zichzelf te verdienen en zich zelfs vrij te kopen doet daar niet aan af. Ze waren eigendom van iemand en hun kinderen zouden dat ook zijn, dat onderscheidt het van alle andere misstanden, slechte arbeidsomstandigheden, zwaar en gevaarlijk werk, ongelijke machtsverhoudingen en armoede.
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  1089. His propaganda campaign to get popular support and him asking a few rather insignificant parliamentarians to invite him to pretend legitimacy was certainly interesting. But both are jus self serving British propaganda of that day that have made it to the 21st century because it's self serving. There is no proof whatsoever of DeWitt being eaten or any involvement of Willem III and he invaded, conquered and ruled England with nobody able to do something about it. He was from the Dutch Republic, he simply wasn't that backward as the British with their alpha male kings wanting absolute power, the divine right of kings and glory in bloody battles. The Dutch Republic had been past that for a very long time and when the Spanish king tried to reinstall absolute rule in the Netherlands, it was the beginning of the end for the Spanish Empire. At home Willem had to deal with a parliament of commoners that had appointed him as the stadtholder, no biggy to deal with an English parliament.
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  1090. The first nation state, since when?
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  1091. In reverse it can be done.
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  1092. Liegen. Domme mensen die het allemaal niet zo goed snappen zijn beter in er staalhard met een plaat voor hun kop erover liegen. Kijk naar Van der Wal. Intelligenten mensen proberen het te geloofwaardig te maken en lullen zich makkelijker vast.
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  1093. A pub as in a British drinking establishment? Bit of a strange question for video about drinking in medieval Europe. Just kidding, this video was entirely about Britain. Because English is the only language you speak doesn't mean that European history is about Britain. Stop pretending this was about Europe, the anglocentrism is both rude and ignorant.
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  1094.  @rolandoscar1696  Percentagewise yes. The integration of jews was why the Germans send the fanatic SS instead of the Wehrmacht. But the Dutch weren't prepared as they expected to remain neutral, and the excellent civic records and ID's made finding jews easy. It took the resistance very long before effectively attacking those, in some places only. The jews themselves were also passive because of a false sense of security, collaborating even in hope of favours and postponement. Most lived in the big cities, and Anne Frank's hiding place was a rarity, so they had to be moved to the country side to go in hiding there. No mountains or huge forests either. It's not for lack of effort, the Dutch have by far the most hero's per capita when it comes to saving jews too, according to Yad Vashem.
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  1095. I don't doubt the christian morality of the painting but I don't see the darkness to the same degree. I also see ridicule, satire, mockery, charicature, cartoonish humour, which hasn't been alien to the Southern Netherlands since and also reminds me of Bruegel. Maybe the good catholics good have a chuckle with this conversation peace, about man's tendency to sin? Also a hundred years later in the Netherlands there was quite a strict morale but without the prudeness regarding nudity or the joy of sex within marriage. The Dutch way of dealing with love and marriage was what drove the puritans from the Dutch republic to become the Pilgrim Fathers and many English visitors were apalled by sexual freedoms the Dutch enjoyed within the context of a strict morality. We should not look at with modern eyes but maybe we should also not look with British eyes, who were and are as we all know far more prudish than the Dutch. Same with race btw, I don't see them painted with hate, and again about a century later there were quite a few blacks living in the Dutch Republic, we know of the mostly black men marrying white Dutch women and there are no traces of any racial hatred of that time in the Dutch Republic itself. Of course a lot can change over a century, and there was a change of the religion in power, but still. "Protestant reformer" did not really cover William of Orange. He switched religion but he was much more a fighter, he led the Dutch revolt initially, for religious freedom more than for protestantism. This was of course enough reason for the zealot Philip II to take his paintings.
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  1096. They didn't wipe out any country, they created countries including their own. Suriname was nothing but jungle with hardly anyone living there, now the descendants of slaves and other people shipped in have a much better life there than most Africans have in Africa. The Dutch didn't steal art either, they might have bought some African art from the English or French. The Netherlands had some settlements of farmers in South Africa and trading posts with our Ashanti friends and fellow slavetraders in Africa, but was not part of the colonization of Africa in the 19th century.
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  1097.  @intelligencefactor03  Who doesn't belong where?
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  1098.  @thedevine7963  Yes there was, that is well documented. The Dutch got of on the good foot almost anywhere they went, to then get in conflict with locals as those got more to deal with than initially expected.
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  1099.  @thedevine7963  Which one do you mean? There was no imperial Indonesia yet but many different islands with local rulers. And before or after the 1860s?
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  1100. Omtzigt blijft maar doen alsof we nog een rechtsstatelijke democratie hebben en blijft zich stukbijten op democratische principes die door de tandeloze coalitieslaven in strijd met hun grondwettelijke plicht overboord zijn gezet. Het zal over een andere boeg moeten.
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  1101.  @tuntejaable  It was not because of their ethnicity. They were profiled for investigation based on several risk factors, one of them was dual citizenship and that wasn't allowed but that's just a very minor part of the massive breach of the rule of law that happened here. Beeing investigated shouldn't have been much of a problem if you had done nothing or little wrong, but it was because the civil service, the government and the judicial system failed them massively and for a very long time which went unnoticed because the media were busy convincing the people how great this government and the judicial system was.
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  1102.  @iTa66  Duende in Spanish? Sehnsucht in German? These are not equivalents but overlaps because it's sucha a specific accent on a part of the feeling that has such a strong relation to music, I presume at least because I don't speak Portuguese and I only know the word through fado. Lot's of musical styles have a word for the feeling that no one has really a grasp of but has a grasp on them. Duende, soul, swing, groove, funk. You can feel it put you can't really put your finger on it.
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  1103. Interesting thing is that the Dutch loan word of flaner, "flaneren" means strolling to be observed rather than to observe. When words cross borders they tend to take a more specific or a different meaning, and in this case that has to with how the French were percieved I guess.
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  1104. Some say everything after Bach is modern music, but I kind of agree that almost modern genres come from America, Jazz, soul, blues and therefore rock n roll, rock, hard rock, punk rock started with the Stooges too, disco. The English were important because they listened to the black music and got inspired to take it further while the white Americans didn't do that. Jurisdiction also works different for military personel, they get court marshalled because it's a seperate jurisdiction, the reason was very wrong here, not the principle that the US army penelizes it's own soldiers when abroad.
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  1105. Especially the Dutch Republic got wealthy from fair European trade and was both late and very small in the slave trade, and all these 'facts' are wrong, because this British guy can't face his country's own far worse history, so he falsely hangs it on the Dutch.
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  1106. I am not going to discredit NdGT's merits as a science teacher and popularizer, but he doesn't have the personality for a scientist. He's a sucker for authoriy, he needs to be led so he can follow. He loves 'scientific' bodies to tell him how it is and then obey and demand obedience from others. He does not question, not the facts and not authority. He treats proclaimed scientists as high priests communicating divine wisdom to us. Scientists are people who question things and certainly authority, who ware curious and want to know, who are amused when things turn out to be different from how they thought they were.
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  1107.  @Kayavod  I remember him telling about what Van Leeuwenhoek saw through his microscope in 17th century Dutch Republic, micro-organisms, and he was all excited about how the scientific authority, the Royal Society checked his findings. The Royal Society was a great idea to get more exchange of knowledge and science in England, which was struggling with the scientific revolution, it had no authority whatsoever and certainly not in the Dutch Republic over a very successfull cloth merchant and hobby scientist like Van Leeuwenhoek who knew he made the best/first miscroscope of the word. He did write to the Royal Society, which was still in it's infancy, just like he wrote his findings to other European scientists, because that is what enthousiastic scientists do. But NdGT is such a sucker for a body of authority putting it's stamp on it and say 'this is official science and therefore fact now' . He desperately needs 'science' to be something official, coming from the top down, people who say 'this is approved science, and the rest isn't'. That's a fundamentally unscientific attitude. If science was up to be people like him, Einstein and Newton would still be a 100% right because they are his gods. They weren't, not a 100%, because they were scientists.
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  1108. Explain how the Dutch were filthy rich well before any profits from colonialism or slavery and those didn't have a measurable economic impact?
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  1109. The Dutch government is welcoming foreigners it has no place for.
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  1110. "Nice people but everything is too expensive. Booze is okay, women are too elegant and shy, everybody beats around bush endlessly and they really have no idea how to do raw fish."
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  1111.  @lightworker2956  Why should the EU be in the kind of politics that member states would want to veto?
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  1112. Nice to have a big tournament back in Western-Europe again. Qatar, Russia, you can't buy atmosphere. England was not really hosting the whole tournament it and wasn't a proper host anyway just wanted home advantage. One country, where lots of fans can drive, take a bus or train to, works best for the atmosphere. The US is hosting the WC together with Mexico and Canada in two years, so maybe the home fans do something similar there.
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  1113. It's actually not that original. Citroen Karin concept and Lancia Stratos Sibilo concept combined.
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  1114. Als er geen noodsituatie is en geen crisis is, waarom zijn er dan noodopvangen en crisisopvangen? Die doen overigens helemaal niet aan vluchtelingenopvang, maar aan het onderdak geven van inreizigers die de dag ervoor zelf nog onderdak hadden geregeld.
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  1115.  @newbabies923  It's more that people who can't face their own past and present want the Dutch to face their self serving version of the past that is a lie. Most of Indonesia has only been colonized for a few decades when the Dutch invested rather than exploited, still the parts that have been colonized for hundreds of years fare much better. That doesn't fit the victim narrative and the excuse of 350 years of colonization for the state the country is in. They should face the collaboration and the cruelty of their own rulers. They should face their collaboration with the Japanese fascists, the racist massacres of Dutch, mixed race and Chinese in the Bersiap, the Javanese colonization of the Moluccas and the Papua's, the latter being 'the silent genocide' by a colonizer far more racist than the Dutch ever were. Contrary to the Dutch, many people can't handle their own past and their present. If they did both the Indonesians and the Americans would find out they are much more like the Dutch of centuries ago than they can handle emotionally.
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  1116.  @Kent.  Still lots of people try to buy their oldtimer from Sweden for rust reasons, so it's probably worse in other places.
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  1117. That isn't a fact, that's fiction. It comes a modest 5th in the Atlantic slave trade and is far behind most African and Asian counties too. The Netherlands was the biggest trader in the world for two centuries, but that was mainly European trade wich they dominated. The irony is that the Americans lecture the Dutch about their long gone past, and apart from the historical ignorance, their current neocolonial empire is not any better, any more virtuous, than the Dutch trade empire of the past.
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  1118.  @queen84sasha  No, I don't even know what you're talking about with US Freeport. Besides the general ignorance on Dutch history we now have all these reporters, YTers and historians who want to show what good person they are by being outraged over things that happened hundreds of years ago, while closing their eyes for what has been done in the past 70 years, after human rights were actually introduced. Any Dutch has every right to confront the Americans on their recent, mass murdering, torturing, human rights violating recent history. Soki Moh appearently thinks in terms of ethnicity and not of time, ignores the progress humanity has supposedly made (for a big part thanks to the Dutch btw). That's quite common with people who don't make progress themselves.
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  1119. Treaty of Rome was the EEC, that was not the EU. EU is claiming it's predecessors which were doing good stuff. I wish Mercedes would still make cars with nice tactile feedback instead of touch screens.
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  1120. And that calculation was wrong, the Netherlands is going through a 'we were so bad' phase in which you don't get any research money or job, or media attention when you don't exaggerate. They simply counted all industries related to any product were slave labour was involved. So if you bought a cup of coffee with sugar for a guilder, that whole guilder was counted as profit from Dutch slavery because the sugar was cut by French slaves.
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  1121. Harris is from a privileged background too. Why wouldn't she have fitted in anywhere? The obsession with skin colour wasn't as big everywhere as it is being made now.
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  1122.  @sunnya4310  The Dutch Cape colony was a tradiing post with farmland to get fresh food on the ships that often took a year to make the journey. They might not have always treated the local Khoikhoi as fair as the 21th century pretends to require, but it has nothing to do with the rape of Africa in the 19th and 20th century. The had been getting richer since the 11the century, when they started building their country from swamps and making land out of the North Sea, turning a huge disadvantage into an advantage with maritime skills and using water for transport and defence. In the 17th century almost all cities were connected by canals, and as trade is the foundation of wealth and ships are much more efficient transporting goods than mules, of course they got rich. The nutmeg that travelled a year from the Dutch Indies, making a stop in the cape colony and then would be loaded on to another ship and travel the Dutch canals to some minor city would of course not have made a big difference. It's not like nutmeg was the main food for Europeans or spices were more than a tiny part of their spendings. Actually, the Dutch had nothing to do with the rape of Africa, those were all other European powers. You should not forget that most Africa was a no go zone for Europeans before they had a treatment for Malaria and some other diseases. They relied on the coast dwelling Africans for trade, including slaves. The Dutch didn't take part in the actual colonization of Africa. I agree neocolonialism isn't much better than colonialism, and even worse in some respects. But the Dutch are just as submitted to the supreme neocolonial powers as African countries, just from a better position. What the USA, or China, is doing now isn't very different from what the Dutch did centuries ago and what's called free trade, except that the Americans are probably much more violent and controlling. I agree on Khadaffi, but his failure to unite Africa in an economic powerful union is more down to Africa itself than to the attempts of the USA and it's vassal states. African tribalism even prevents nation states to become successful and to be fair, most of Africa's resources would be worthless without specific Western demand. From uranium to kobalt or whatever powers your phone and even cacao, without Europeans, Americans and Asian making products out of it, it would still be sitting in the earth. There might be some bitter justice in the migrant crisis from the surface, that is a depletion of Africa as it's mostly the young middle class from Africa becoming the underclass in Europe. It's also the crisis of society, people giving up on their birthplace and country, stop trying to make it better but going to another society that has been made successful without them. That way societies won't get any better and the world won't get better.
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  1123.  Michel Martinez  No, not really. The Dutch dominated the Atlantic slave trade for a short while but in the end only did 5%, while during most of the 17th century they shipped more than half of Europe's goods and had a huge chunck of the inter-Asian trade.
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  1124. What a nonsense video. The VOC was only a tiny part of the Dutch Republic's economy, it was smaller than the herring trade alone and it's 140 merchant ships at it's peak were nothing compared to the 20.000 Dutch merchant ships in the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean, the North Sea ect. The spices were just luxury goods unlike all the wheat shipped by the Dutch and most of the VOC's trade was within Asia. The VOC didn't 'even' wage war against the Spanish Empire, that was the reason for it's existence since the Spanish Empire was fighting Dutch independence for 80 years. The tulipmania had nothing to do with the VOC and had no significant impact on the Dutch Republic's economy at all. It's only interesting because it was the first bubble, but not more interesting that the other 1000's of firsts in the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Republic was incredibly rich, but with the VOC beeing less than 1% of the economy at it's peak and the Dutch Republic beeing a small country with only 1.5 to 2 million inhabitants, it isn't that big.
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  1125. What did they do to the reparations already paid? Where are those billions gone to?
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  1126. Concreet, en vervolgens zegt hij niks concreets over Hongarije. Ik wil best geloven dat het (ook) daar niet snor zit met de rechtsstaat, maar waarom legt dan niemand de vinger op de zere plek? Word eens concreet, wees precies, waarin doet Hongarije het minder dan Nederland?
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  1127.  @lokischeissmessiah5749  He didn't face any opposition because the legitimate absolutist king got a nosebleed and fled to France before the big battle. His wife was not the legitimate heir either, otherwise the Dutch would have waited it out. One of the reasons he hardly met any resistance was the size of his fleet and army and his effective propaganda campaign, asking a few lords with no power to invite him while already preparing the invasion was a part of that. How do you imagine that invition: "Come over, we are going to has to remain a surprise but bring a fleet twice the size of the Armada, 40.000 soldiers, a printing press and John Locke over." ? This is a video about trade, you start about the wars the English started against the Dutch Republic and against free trade. Because they couldn't compete in trade and had these medieval reflexes against the Dutch Republic that put the 'modern' in 'the early modern period'. The only reason the English matched the Dutch navy mostly was the trend towards heavier gunships the Dutch couldn't go along with because of their shallow home waters. The Dutch were never interested in being the most aggressive conquerers and imperialists, we even let you claim our succesfull invasion as your own revolution without being able to name one revolutionary act by an Englishman involved. That's also somethign typically British, because you don't know anything about other countries history you assume you were the first. But the Dutch had parliaments for ages and when the king took power back to enforce religious persecution they claimed inalienable rights including the freedom of religion, and declared the king, Philip II of Spain to have left the throne by becoming a tyrant. This was in 1581, well before any other and surely the Britihs got any such ideas. So the Dutch had parliaments (with commoners mostly, not nobility), balance of power, freedom of religion, freedom of thought, speech and print, full fledged capitalism with effectively a central bank in the early 1600's, and after a Dutchman arrived with an army and sat on the throne the British suddenly all had this too? What a coincidence, suddenly they came of with the Bank of England and free trade. They had their ally against France instead of the treachorous English going behind our back to attack together with France and catholic Germany like in 1672. It wasn't a coincidence that the radically modernized Britain 5 times the size of the Dutch Republic would take over afterwards, allthough it took Napoleon's invasion for Britain to take over from the Dutch Republic as the world's biggest trader. Capitalists as they were the Dutch didn't care the British doing most of the geopolitical fights now and understanding how to make money too, because the filthy rich Dutch simply got ROI through London now too. The fact that you take pride in Britain not honouring the agreement and taking the colonies is also telling. All the Dutch wanted since the 1560's, freedom and free trade basically, they got and secured it through exporting it. By making more money than anybody else and being copied, by printing more than half of Europe's books, by being a place where people like Descartes, Spinoza and John Locke could write their ideas in freedom and kickstart the enlightenment, by invading Britain, by having their DOI copied by the American rebels, by giving those rebels their guns and ammo, by shaping NYC with it's melting pot and the American dream. How did the Dutch lose? As some British tourist tot the Netherlands famously said: "If this is decline, I'll have some of that!"
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  1128. Randomness is also the favourite tool of dictators. If you don't exactly know what you are allowed to say and not allowed to say, people get very careful, guessing what might get one in trouble and avoiding that just to be sure. That's how YT tries to get you to adapt to their favourite narratives too. It's much more devastating to free speech than just have clear number of words and thoughts you are not allowed to express.
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  1129. I think I understand. Limitations are what makes car design interesting and with 1000+ horsepower within reach for all manufacterers and then building small numbers for 2 million it's still an engineering achievement but only in top margins. When Koenigsegg builds a four seater then it suddenly becomes very interesting because it's a limitation they have to be very creative for, which they were. Building relatively big numbers for a reasonable price is limitation to what you can do also, and that does indeed make them more interesting. .
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  1130. It was during the war cats got their nickname "dakhaas", meaning roof hare.
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  1131.  @clemens7053  Voor hun veiligheid komen ze niet in Nederland terecht. Ze komen hier voor de goede gratis voorzieningen, de grotere kans op toekenning en de soepele gezinshereniging.
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  1132. His British chauvinism is a bit remarkable for such a thorough historian. 11.05 Limited liability just as the rest of modern capitalism was a Dutch invetion. "Their really never got going" It got going enough to end the Spanish Empire, keep France out and invade the indeed much bigger England. Only after pulling Britain out of the Dark Ages it's much bigger size started to matter. It's really weird, I saw his documentary on the Glorious Revolution. It was mostly correct except for some recently debunked Britihs myths, but he got general idea of the Dutch Republic's invasion right. But still he proceeds to declare William III's England the first modern state... I'm sorry, where did you say that invasion and it's ideas about the state was coming from? Wouldn't they have been the first modern state if they exported it to Britain?
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  1133.  @Philippe_Gruijthuijzen  Maybe it's in the parliament committee hearing on asylum/immigration he was in. But if you calculate for yourself, it's quite clear he can't be that far off.
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  1134. His own claim that this is the only Bertone designed Ferrari is not entirely right either.
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  1135. They can quit the 1950s refugee treaty per tomorrow. That would give judges far less possibilities to make and force mass immigration policy.
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  1136. Why don't you make your own place nice? Your wish should be irrelevant to the Duch government because it's not your government. You should be of value to Dutch society.
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  1137. Native language is never a non issue. Doesn't matter how proficient one is in another language, it's not the same. Yes, you can get by and communicate, but that's not what it's about.
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  1138.  @pistonburner6448  Contemporary also means from the same era. Then we had a lot of Mercedes that weren't particularly quick to begin with, and the 80's 3 series is simply a smaller car, the early 90's 3 series is simply a significantly heavier car. I agree BMW's were the better 'driver's cars'. But that's not the issue here, this is about a comfortable rather cheap 5-seater being a joy to drive quickly in the mountains. Not because it's designed to go as fast as possible there or give the optimal driving sensation to the owner who likes to think of himself as a particularly good driver, but because it's very good and has some qualities to spare.
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  1139.  @pistonburner6448  What escaped you is that lack of follow up oversteer is what Citroen was particularly good at. Maybe that has to with the weight distribution and suspension? That I admit doesn't give a strong feel, it gives enough feel but not the feel of being connected to the road firmly. I'm not a FWD fundamentalist at all, Citroen is more the exception actually. I am indeed not a competitive driver. It's not my identity, I am not desperate to tell something about myself with the car I drive, I don't need to beat cars on mountain roads, I just like it when the car turns out to be very capable and quick despite it being designed to excell otherwise. It's a bit like finding out that your BMW 3 series is roomy and extremely comfortable for the passengers on very long trips on bad roads too. It's just that that won't happen. A BX 1.9 effortlessly driving away from Mercedes and BMW's without competitive drivers in the mountains does happen. Not because it's faster on the limit, but because it's easy to drive it quickly.
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  1140.  @pistonburner6448  No, that was not the claim. The claim was "no problem leaving Mercedes and BMW's behind me". So it was effortless and he left those behind because they were driving less quick. That doesn't imply they weren't able to follow if they really tried. You go on about faster because you assume they competed and were trying to go faster, not even all BMW drivers are like that all the time. Most people drive on roads they don't know at a speed where they are comfortable with and the car is comfortable with. That means that with a lot of 80's and 90's cars you wouldn't leave BMW's and Mercedes behind because those simply do a higher speed comfortably, if a VW Passat driver and a BMW driver aren't trying to go as fast as possible the BMW will still go faster because it's comfortable in a different speed window. But the BX 1.9 is good in the mountains, very good for the comfortable 5 seater it is. So than that happens often.
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  1141.  @pistonburner6448  It's true purpose? You mean a narrowed down window of operation to track and good quality roads with no heavy load? That's fine, roads have hugely improved the past decades outside Belgium, but it seems to me the true purpose of a suspension system is to keep the tyres following the surface in accordance with the driver's steering and pedal input. Within that there are specilizations, like cornering fast on a smooth surface, or the ability to both be comfortable and handle very rough surfaces, like the Range Rover. Please automakers, be true to your chosen purpose, your window you narrowed down to excell within, be the most BMW you can be, I appreciate that, not BMW building SUV's. I don't believe BMW should have switched to hydropneumatic suspension ever in history. It's not the party trick that made the hydropneumatic system superior, that was just something that came with concept, which had both the progressive nature of the suspension and the self levelling nature. That simply made for less trade off between road holding and stability vs comfort. I think Mercedes was able to tune a suspension and innovate on geometry too, and you see the result when Germans test it against a far more comfortable Citroen in the video abover. Mercedes btw that copied the Citroen system for it's top model above and almost twice expensive as the regular top model, the 450 SEL 6.9, often called the best car in the world, a chauffeur's limo and a driver's car in one. Air suspension never matched hydropneumatic suspension, or came close, Mercedes did a good job on the 600 and 300 SEL 6.3, but switched to the superior system for their newest top car. Mercedes and Citroen engineers were very much alike, they are innovative, stubborn and know what's best. What we see now is after decades of allmost all automotive engineers working to improve coil springs and almost non on the hydropneumatic, coil springs have massively improved. Dampers being electronically controlled, magnet powered, using gas properties like a hydropneumatic system, whatever, I'm not into the details I just know that there is a lot great engineering involved. What we have here is a competition between an excellent concept that worked great from the start because it was brilliant and simple, and we have lots of great engineers tinkering with a concept that started as an improvement on the leaf spring, according to most except Chevrolet. A break even point, a tipping point, was never unexpected in those circumstances and I believe it's behind us by now. But certainly not around 1990, the hydropneumatic suspension made the BX 1.9 perform in the mountains like cars much sportier or powerful and expensive.
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  1142.  @logank444  I know. When do you think the occupation of Western-Europe by the USA after WWII ended? Yes, by calling their presence NATO cooperation. It was a rebranding, not a change in physical presence.
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  1143. A couple of months ago Ajax Amsterdam lost to Hercules, a team from the 3rd amateur level so 5 divisions lower. A student scored twice and his whole student house had bets on him scoring so tens of thousands of euros were won. 5 years ago Ajax had beaten Real Madrid and Juventus to reach the semi finals of the Champions League. It's always starts 11 against 11 is the cliché. Footballers individually and collectively as a team are very susceptible to changes in form, confidence, pressure, luck, momentum at each stage of the game. If for one team all of that is up and for the other that is all down, it's starts amplifying eachother and the gap in level is bridged and strange things happen. I don't agree with the video entirely. The Champions League is creating an elite of clubs by design.
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  1144.  @peterhoz  I think they always been in the 40% since the late 1500s. They are usually also less uptight about sex so that might help reproduction too.
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  1145. This guy just makes stuff up to fit his ideology and his lack of knowledge on the subject, got about everything about the 17th century Dutch wrong and acts like the Dutch were just like the English that shaped the USA. But the anglos were the imperialists, racists and enslavers. The Dutch have their share in colonial crimes, but they didn't bother with race, that is an anglo thing that gets projected here. The Dutch were all about the money, the war and being able to have their own religion. There were interracial marriages everywhere, from Java to Ghana to the native Americans in NY to in the Dutch Republic itself where lots of people from all over the world lived.
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  1146.  @kudjoeadkins-battle2502  No, it didn't. The Dutch were the first modern capitalists and proto-industrialists, they did more than half of all European trade. That made them filthy rich before any income from slavery or colonial practices. That didn't change anything economically. Ghana was rich from having slaves dig gold. The difference is that the Europeans used slave labour for productivity, they build entire industries on sugar, tobacco and coffee, worth 100 times more than the plantation labour. The Africans and Arabs used their slaves for luxury.
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  1147.  @kudjoeadkins-battle2502  From the same seas as after they entered the slave trade, that didn't make a difference. The responsible WIC was on the edge of bankruptcy almost all the time, it was primarily set up to fight the Spanish enemy, it only got big in the slave trade in the very late 17th century and early 18th century, so past the economic boom, after the Dutch Golden Age. The Dutch Golden Age came from the European trade. The Dutch merchants did more than half of all European trade, they were the successor to the Hansa and over 70% of the ships in the Baltic Sea was Dutch. We are talking about tens of thousands of merchant ships here, while the WIC at it's peak would have something like 70 maybe? You go on a boat tour in Amsterdam and you see all those canal houses with hooks on top, these were all private merchants. The VOC and WIC had their own warehouses, more than one and quite big, but peanuts in comparison. It's not like wheat, wood, salt, beer, whine, rye, iron, cloth and whatever stopped being shipped around Europe when Europeans joined the African slave trade. The Dutch Republic was also huge in cloth production, dominated fishery, printed over half of Europe's books, was the financial centre of the world and had many more industries. But if we only concentrate on the trade, the Dutch Republic was the biggest trader in the world from about 1600 to 1800 when the British took over after the Netherlands was invaded by Napoleon's France. In that time it did less than 2% of the trade in African slaves (African on African slavery not counted) of that era while completely dominating the trade in goods. I'm sorry but it was just peanuts, all that suffering for no significant economic contribution. I don't diminish anything, the Africans did the same slavetrading and slavery and were the enslavers, the abductors, the Arabs were the worst and they were at least as wrong for doing it, and they should admit it and face up to it like grown ups. I don't do the racial indoctrination of black and brown people somehow only being a helpless victim of Europeans. Africans were usually the boss at the African coasts, they bossed the slave trade, the Dutch were customers, they came to buy what was on offer. They couldn't go inland without getting ill and dying from, only in the 1870's, over 50 years after the slavetrade ended, Europeans started to rule Africa but without the Dutch partaking. Slavery is and was a moral issue, that doesn't gain or lose any weight with a fictitious economic importance. It is a particular toxic false narrative though because it implies that wealth can only come from taken it by force and cannot be created by industry and trade. If cheap labour would have made any country rich why aren't those free African and Asian manual labourers of now not producing great wealth for themselves? It's misinforming people on the way to become wealthy today.
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  1148.  @LindsayHoliday  Not that I support Zwarte Piet, but he hasn't been the bogey man anymore for a very long time. He would never made it into the 21st century like that. The fact that he has become the friendly most loved one who helps out the old bishop who forgets a lot is part of the explanation why it has been under the radar until the 2010's. I can see how the American and British tradition of deragatory blackface has made face painting problematic for everybody, but let's not forget that the Americans changed it to Santa Claus because they couldn't stand the idea of a black fictional character bringing presents and entering their houses at night. Racial hatred has never been part of Zwarte Piet. On the contrary, it started out as an attempt to bring up children with a positive image of blacks by an abolitionist. It made a very effective disguise to fool the little kids of course.
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  1149.  @perfectallycromulent  I agree but I was trying to point out that's a much broader and more fundamental issue. Assuming something has been forgotten just because you didn't stumble upon it before in your own language is just one symptom of not realizing English is just a worldwide common language and not a universal language, and therefore not everything is written in English. There's a language barrier in history and historiagraphy, workable if you're aware of it, an issue when you're not.
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  1150. Besides the racing, the 1980's (and 70's) Mercedes were such extremely well build cars, still serving the Albanian mafia to this day. and they wiill probably move down to Africa and the Middle-East later. Allthough the 190 has four doors, it's more like a 3-seater which make you instantly understand why compact cars tend to have a transversal engine and front wheel drive. But a 2.6 straight six in that little car...
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  1151. You win some, you lose some. It's not that Wall Street paid that much to buy US democracy.
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  1152. Yeah, right. The Netherlands became independent because it wanted freedom of religion, it has attracted people from all over the world ever since. We just don't do tribalism and religious conflict.
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  1153. Musk heeft invloed, maar op zich geen macht. En dan ABK dat riedeltje dat Musk aan de touwtjes trekt nog even herkauwen, Trump maakt nou niet bepaald de indruk dat het een puppet is, van wie dan ook. Biden daarentegen.... maar toen waren onze media stil.
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  1154. The problem with the government propaganda is that it comes as diverse, pluriform, independent media. It looks like it's an open debate with many different opinions, it's not.
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  1155. Basically it's all down to the Anglo-Saxons not knowing what they are talking about throughout the centuries.
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  1156.  @martinwinther6013  Yes you were, no probs. I was fortunate enough to see the cars and how they were used in the communist era, only few Westerners did. Given the fact that communism can't produce good cars overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the styling.
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  1157.  @ThunderboltTeheRoss  Get off his back, he was wrong in a polite enough way and stood corrected politely. Case closed.
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  1158.  @supreme3376  At lake Balaton there were these Ödelöjs if I remember the name correctly were Polish and East-German workers of the month could have 3 week vacation or something. There were West-German tourists too and a Fiat 126 is about as long as a Mercedes SEL is wide. We came in a Citroen BX, the suspension activation at start would regularly draw a small crowd.
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  1159.  @ROMESKIable  Not really. The British took it 1795 and it was them who actually started ruling and enslaving the indiginous people. The Boers settled but took unused land to farm on. An obnoxious bunch of racist conservative christians with a lot of inbreeding I admit, but what they actually did isn't by far as bad as what the British did. It's also the British regime that started what would later evolve into the apartheid system. But give it a Dutch sounding name, apartheid is not a Dutch word, and the stupid will blame it on the Dutch that have been out of South Africa for 230 years.
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  1160.  @allthingsinteresting7563  Afrikaans is it's own language, with a huge Dutch influence. It's language of the people of German and French descent and the Cape Malayans just as much. It's not the language of the Dutch who moved out in 1795, that was Dutch.
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  1161.  @hugodeleeuw1522  There were two Boer wars, but the British only count the one they won.
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  1162.  guleet75  After British rule maybe, when you consider people of Dutch/Afrikaner descent Dutch. For the Dutch slavery was an exception within a rather tight legal framework, and enslaving locals was against policy. So they shipped in slaves that were for sale elsewhere in Africa and Asia. Exploiting locals in other ways wasn't against polilcy though, and the small pox epidemic of the 1713 destroyed the indiginous societies and made them vulnerable to exploitation.
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  1163.  guleet75  Yes. You can say a lot of bad things about the Boers they weren't push-overs.
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  1164. Rutte is een zeer behendig machtspoliticus, aalglad zelfs, maar hij komt er nu achter dat al zijn macht geleend was.
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  1165.  @xyz835  Who made cobalt valuable? What's it traditional African use? How did they find it before colonialism?
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  1166.  @xyz835  It's not like the Africans don't use phones or want to do without any of the good that came from Europe. I agree the country is the people's, the people who were born there and should be free. Africans have no right to come to the Netherlands and the Ducht have no right to have African cobalt. But if they make a good deal, which is not that hard because Affircans have no use for cobalt without the West or Asia, then there is no issue. Of course this doesn't work out this fair in the neo-colonial post WWII era. Mostly because of poor governance in Africa, they are not strong enough and don't make good deals for their people. Not to mention the lack of African countries to unite in things like this. So that's a current problem and that's why it's very unwise to be concerned with the past, it's only because it diverts attention from the present, which could actually be improved. The past won't get any prettier. The Dutch have been hypocrites for almost 2 centuries, because they didn't apply their standards to peoples overseas. But they had very high standards for themselves, much higher than Africans had for themselves, like outlawing slavery, and for about 150 years they have been applying the same standards for people overseas too. In general, the Europeans are the first civilization in history that cared for other civilizations. It's not that Africans came up with human rights, abolition of slavery, equality, upward social mobility, freedom of religion and expression, things like that. You're now attacking the West retro-actively based on the values they brought to Africa and from the position that was given to them.
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  1167.  @xyz835  I've been curious about the different perspectives before and I think the difference is that from a young age I've felt part of the progress of humanity in the past 500 years not only because it came from my culture and kept coming. the question was what you were going to do when you grew up to further that progress, from inventing something to human rights lawyer or something. The world is moving forward and you have part to play. So for me it's about time, things were terrible in the past, but the Middle Ages were already better than the Roman Empire, and after the Middle Ages progress became self accellerating. To Africans I think this progress was something that mostly happened to them and it often wasn't experienced as progress at all. So for me it's just something that happened with time, while for Africans it's something of geography. So from my perspective it's often Africans not appreciating the progress made in the past 500 years enough. The Congo has of course been an example of neo colonialism ugly face since Lumumba in 1960. But that's an American face rather than a Belgian one, just as one could make a good case that Congo Free State was much more of a British crime than a Belgian one. France is a player and a very dirty one, but countries like the Netherlands are also submitted to an order we have very little influence over. The last time the Netherlands was a world power is 300 years ago, not that big a difference with Benin or Togo allthough that weren't globalized. The CIA or whatever agency does almost as it pleases her too. Of course we're much better off, but we have to be very smart and work together with others to get some leverage for our own interests. In the longer run, we've had an 80-years war with Spain for freedom and independence, taking the war to their overseas income was the reason to go colonial in the first place, the 20 year occupation by the French Empire with napoleon had bankrupted the country, unitl the late 1800's Amsterdam was half slums and over a quarter of the population was dependent on food aid. And after the Nazi occupation in WWII the country was wrecked. It's only different degrees of victimhood, powerlessness and recovery we're talking about here. The difference is, we know how the world order works because we made it before much bigger others took over. The Dutch invented modern capitalism, the Dutch were the first nation state, the first free European people, and therefore had to learn international relations and diplomacy very fast. And there was always capital hanging around from better times that gets invested after such hardship. That's for example why Ireland gives such huge tax breaks to foreign corporation, they have basically been a victim of British colonialism too and they have no capital of their own, so they have to. But now they are accumulating it because of that policy. So basically it's a big bad world and if you're weak as a nation you get eaten. You got to be organized, keep corruption in check, avoid tribalism, find allies and have a long term strategy to accumulate capital. Resentment and revenge or reparations, if we would have gone down that road we would have been piss poor too because it's Germans and the French we make money off. It's not like there was no bitterness towards Germans, but you don't get wealthy form hand outs.
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  1168.  @xyz835  I am reasonable but I admit my tone was irritated. Because this video is about the Netherlands and we've been practically out of Africa for 2 centuries. We were not part of the19th century colonization of Africa, we were very good friends with the Ashanti slavetraders but certainly not their bosses, we are the indiginous people Mauritius as it was unhabited and the Boers in South-Africa were assholes, but also mostly settlers who took land to farm on, it was the British who conquered South-Africa to rule it's people, including the Boers. I spoke about Belgium because it was about the Congo. Belgium and the Netherlands are neighbours but their colonial histories couldn't be further apart. It was the UK gave Belgium it's king, and then this king Congo Freestate as his personal property with British shareholders. After the atrocities the Belgian government took over, and wanted to become the good, model colonizer. They really tried, it was in a condascending way but that's how people thought in those days, I can forgive that more easily. And during decolonization, Belgium became a puppet again, but this time for the USA and it's neocolonialism and cold war strategy. The Dutch colonial past is about Suriname, Indonesia and the Antilles mainly. Suriname was offered independence at the time it suited them, they picked 1975. We left a beautiful multicultural, multireliigious, multiracial, multi ethnic country, it's the most peaceful and safe country of South-America with sufficient schools and hospitals. Since independence about 30.000 euro's per inhabitant has been paid to Suriname in development aid. half of the population has moved to the Netherlands, many needing and getting aid there. What is there to repair? Suriname was basically just rain forest with hardly any indiginous people when the Dutch started digging canals and making it more inhabitable. When you're born in Suriname you're a winner in the global birthplace lottery, despite Surinamese government walking in many of the typical post-colonial pitfalls like tribalism, allthough the 'tribes' of Suriname tend to get along very well and intermarry a lot. I fully agree with adding value locally or at least within the country or continent. That would be a loss to the Swiss but one they can't handle or can't accept. It's just not their choice, they don't control the mechanism either, the cacao producing countries have to get their own cog in and change that mechanism a bit. But that's hard because there's generations of experience and knowledge of capitalism to deal with and sometimes compete with. But population growth is not helping in making labour valuable, Africa is in a phase were chld survival is high thanks to Western medicine, but birth control is low. This is an old problem and partly a cause of European colonialism. If a farmer has seven sons they will all have to earn a living from 1/7th of the land. Of course they will get poorer individually. We don't learn much about the succes stories like Tanzania here, and in general Europeans are frustrated with the lack of success of Africa in general. Like 'they wanted independence, they got it, we helped them to come in to their own and now it's a mess'. And they did help them, they gave money themselves, they voted for development aid, but they often don't realize their govenments, their companies and their allies are forces that undermine the success of Africa behind the scenes too. So after giving help generously now we get demands for repartions and how bad Europeans or even whites are genetically, that doesn't go down that well except for the people who have some cultural christian guilt complex and want to take on all the sins of the world and self flagellate in repent. That group is quite loud lately, but mostly for virtue signalling reasons and not from a vision for the future.
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  1169.  @xyz835  The Dutch were a colonial power, and they were the superpower of the 17th century, in which they shaped a large part of the modern world, including the constitutional monarchy of the UK which was the start of the British Empire and a result of a Dutch invasion, and they were the blueprint for the USA. But they weren't about ruling but about trading, unfair trade and exploitation. They only 'properly' colonized Indonesia in the late 19th and early 20th century to develop it instead of the cynical exploitation by proxy, through local rulers. The Boers were in majority of Dutch descent and they settled in South Africa as part of a Ducht paramilitary company, a comined state/private entreprise that had to self finance through trade to wage war against the Spanish Empire overseas. So that was a Dutch responsibility until 1795. Yes, they tend be inbred, racist bible belt types, but they were also more about farming in seperattion than about ruling and oppressing, and they fought with the Zulu's against the British oppressors at instances too. They migh represent the worst in racist societies, but not the worst in colonialism I think. But we have grown very far apart from the Boers, pun intended, we can smiile about them kicking British ass but outrage about apartheid was omnipresent in the Netherlands just like support for the American civil rights movement before. The Netherlands took pride in being the leading nation in antiracism back then. An exploding population is an opportunity for a country, but it's not incentive for higher value labour and therefore broad wealth growth. It's mainly an opportunity to make more money off the country. Land is probably still an issue since the geography of Africa is mostly unlucky for this age, and what is the case with a farm is is the case for other businesses too. If the next generation is 5 times as big in numbers, the business will have to grow 500% in those 20 years too, otherwise everybody gets a smaller share. Anyway, you've got to force good deals in the global market and global investment with a strong government. Ally with cobalt producint countries for example, just like OPEC. It's a big bad world and a rough game, get good at playing it. There probably is not other option than getting good at it, be hard, be mean, play dirty, everybody does, but don't play dirty against yourselves, your own population. Europe will probably stop adopting that problem, because the numbers are so way off it can't contribute to the solution anyway. The main reason the corporate world is behind mass immigraton to Europe is because they can make money quicker of them as a jobless immigrant in the Netherlands than waiting until they flourish in Africa. Because life costs 40 dollars a day in Western-Europe and less than 5 dollars day in many parts of Africa. That's money spend and money earned, no matter the immigrant not having a job and being miserable and relatively poor. Mass immigration is the lazy way to get growth of BNP, from which is skimmed off, without increased productivity, new businesses or innovation. On the issue of the acknowledgement there are two things. The moral one, which is a bit weird because no one supports colonialism and slavery. It was a Western idea to abolish slavery worldwide, which was a sacrifice much bigger than giving up on slave labour, and the decolonization was done because it was the right thing to do. It was also the USA taking over from Europe through neo-colonialism, but still. So that moral acknowledgement is 200 years and 70 years old. It's the foundation of the abollition of slavery and the foundation of independence. The acknowledgement that it's that where our wealth comes from is difficult because it's mostly not true. I have less insight in the British situation, but European countries that haven't done any colonization or at least not since the Vikings are wealthy too. The Netherlands was already very rich before anyone sailed past the European seas. It got filthy rich in the 17th century, but well before it gave up it's objections to the slave trade in 1637 and before the VOC, the infamous Dutch East Indies Company finally started paying dividend. The Netherlands dominated European trade, the colonial part was less than 1%. The Indonesians claim the Dutch extorted all their nutmeg, and that's true, but the nutmeg got by far the most of it's value by being sailed for 14 months to Amsterdam. One's profit does not equal another one's loss. The Netherlands was piss poor in 1815, a quarter of the population was still piss poor in 1870. Yes, the houses were still standing and there was still capital with the rich for possible investment. The Netherlands was piss poor in 1945 and many buildings weren't standing anymore and the people were recovering from a famine. But besides the availabilty of capital for investment and the remaining infrastructure, we also had knowledge of capitalism and how the big bad world usually works, we had social cohesion, we had well educated people, but also the historically grown belief that we could get on top again. And the UK remained on food stamps for much longer than the Netherlands. So my answer to the question where European wealth comes from it would be the capacaty of recovery in a capitalist world, the world we shaped, more than anything else.
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  1170. So all the Africans trying to get into the EU aren't civilized? It is indeed how it seems often.
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  1171. The Chinese are just exploiting the anti Western sentiment after most African countries messed up since independence.
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  1172.  @yawos9024  The racists come from Africa and China now so that's going to be an interesting combination.
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  1173.  @yawos9024  What do you care? You have already made your racist conclusions. China has an evil regime and a racist population. Europe does not deliver on it's good intentions quite often, but that is still a lot better than evil.
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  1174.  @ngheanchoong  Yeah right. It's just the Chinese using the racist anti white sentiment and refusal to take responsibility for their own failings to exploit Africa instead. When was the last time China even cared about another interest than it's own?
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  1175.  @arewealone9969  Like Europeans don't know how it is to be poor. Poor was the default state of man until the Europeans created accelerating progress through literacy, science, freedom and innovation.
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  1176.  @mansamusa9465  No, they didn't, the fall of Constantinopel was a big impulse with all it's knowlegde acquired from muslims, but the muslims had already turned anti-science and freedom so they were already dumbing down.
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  1177.  @mansamusa9465  No, that's your racist obsession with skin colour. They weren't Africans and brought nothing from African culture. It's also a bit sad, this inferiority complex to look down European history and out tens of thousands of people pick the blacks and then declare them crucial. No, they weren't, there were just too few of them for black people to be, that would have been a huge coincidence but there wasn't. I don't claim Africa needed colonialism, I'm claiming that in the renaissance in Eúrope something extraordinary happened, despite it not being the most advance. Before that civilizations, including African civilizations, developped slowly over thousands of years. With the reinaissance, book printing and science Europe got on a track of continuous accelaration of development and not just overtaking more developped civilizations like China and maybe even some in West-Africa, but also leaving them very much behind in only a century or even less. This was also used for imperialism, but the development was so impressive that it is to the advantage of the whole world. It's not just the Europeans that saw infant mortality hugely decreased, more crops on less land, car, train and aeroplane use, computers and telephone. I'm claiming Europe's enlightenment has given opportunity to everybody for a better life, but where most of Asia and America seizes that opportunity, Africa is sulking in resentment towards Europeans and in denial about what modern European civilizaton brought and in denial about their own failings. That's not being proud, that's holding back oneselves through bitterness.
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  1178.  @zeissiez  The Dutch allied themselves with the Johor Sultanate to kick the Portuguese, who fought against the Dutch Republic's independence, out. The Dutch did not interfere with internal matters and this is part of what's called the precolonial period. So to say Malaysia was colonized by the Dutch with a few trading posts is a linguistical matter. China had closed itself off from the rest of the world but I don't believe that's still their policy. So unless you're another racist here attributing properties to peoples based on their DNA, that history doesn't matter very much.
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  1179.  @zeissiez  No, the West has moved on. The idea of lower beings was not the dominant one anyway, it was more about lower cultures, cultures less advanced and even that not all the time. If the West hadn't moved on it would not be a question. The West stopped submitting other peoples because it believed it was the right thing to do. We were being nice, if that is met with tough talk like you can conquer is, we will stop being nice. The West is the reason you know there is a world outside. The West is also the reason the populaation on other continents could explode. But if you have a low infant mortality and you still make 13 kids per family, you have to share your land, your resources and your wealth of 2 with 13. You can be racist to the West, but than you are culturally backward again.
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  1180.  @zeissiez  Yes, that's partly the case, allthough this pipeline stuff between allies is really new and very shocking. We were used to the USA messing up the Middle East and then welcoming the mostly fake refugees and letting Saudi Arabia spending money on mosques here to make/keep those radical fundamentalists. Also new is that European left is bought, they joined the neoliberal globalists and the war machine and get LGBTQP-nonsense and fake refugees to patronize in return. American imperialism and globalism used to be criticized heavily by the European left.
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  1181.  @zeissiez  It's not really imperialism. It's basically what the Dutch did until the late 19th century, as they invented modern capitalism around 1600. Ironically the Dutch got imperialist, actually controlling the people and the land of now Indonesia, because they felt they had to take responsibility for the people instead of letting the cruel local rules make them rich. So you could also see a colonial system as an improvement on a purely for profit capitalist control. Because money controls as long as people from for example Africa are greedy and corrupt. I don't think those terms are derogatory. These are common languages as in a language that people have in common, not native languages per se, lingua franca, just like Swahili or English between different Europeans. This is how people are positioned in the world from the perspective of the outside world. I don't know the Igbo word for Anglophonic is, I do know English allows non Igbo speakers to communicate with the Igbo. What languages are called is always a matter of perspective. I live in the country called Nederland where the people are Nederlands and who speak Nederlands. But the British and Amercans call the country Holland and the people and the language Dutch, which is bastardization of what the Germans call their language and the people, Deutsch, because in their own language their own country is called Deutschland. I could say that's incorrect, but it's their language. If they Igbo don't want to call Europe but "Imperialistan" that's their decision about their language from an international perspective, and Europeans learning Igbo will have to follow that language rule. There are always bigger fish unless it's the USA. The British have also found out that the Americans determine the namings know and that's often self centered, etnocentric and not always expressing full understanding of the local situation. That's just not going to happen. I don't expect you to be considerate to every nuance between Europeans, that requires too much intimate knowlegde.
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  1182.  @netgodzilla1  I know what they have done, how they did it and how they changed it. They only conquered Indonesia between 1870 and 1930. Before that they had outsourced the oppression to the local rulers except for very small area's, but the resulting cruel practices didn't fit their self image when that came out through a highly influential novel. So the net profit policy was left for war, investment and 'civilization' of the people. So they went from hands off exploitation to full blown imperialism for ethical reasons. You can think of that choice what you want, I'm not going to defend either as morally right, the point is that a capitalist exploitation of independent countries/kingdoms is not necessarily better for the people than imperialism. Today's USA is very much like the pre 1870 Dutch in their ways of exploitation.
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  1183. What is right of left about that? The former hard progressive pacifist left is now sucking up to the military-industrial complex.
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  1184. The problem is that islam is a religion that has to rule and that's why so many muslims still don't respect the freedom of religion the Netherlands invented that allowed them to live there as a muslim in the first place. That's not only dangerous, it's also extremely ungrateful.
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  1185. Gordon Keeble, Marcos, Squire, Clyno, Sheffield Simplex, Napier, Armstrong Siddely, Morris,NChitty Bang Bang, Crossley-Burnley, Frazier Nash, GN, Morgan, Guy, H.E., HRG, Riley, Invicta, Lea-Francis, Marendaz...
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  1186. You can barely call it a democratic mandate because the EP hardly has a mandate. The democratic problem is within the EU, and it's by design.
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  1187.  @Baltic_Hammer6162  It got inserted indeed, on political and commercial demand. They only got away with through the calvinists talent for hypocrisy, allowed for by the distance overseas. Slavery in the Netherlands itself would be unthinkable. Before that slavery was seen as a barbaric practice of the evil catholics and the uncivilized muslims. The English were told be protestant by their king because he wanted to shag Ann Boleyn, that doesn't really count as a relgiious conviction. The catholics had their Valladolid debate, but in the end was a political institution.
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  1188. People that focus on the footage of football hooliganism do that to distract from the jew hunt that followed and that was planned before the Maccabi fans even arrived to misbehave.
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  1189. The MGB is one of the typical British sportscars of the era. 2 seats, <2 litre inline 4 rwd convertible, the blueprint for the later Miata. This one is a bit of an exception because the aluminum V8 was actually lighter than the straight for. Others are the Austin Healey Sprite, Lotus Elise and the Triumph Spitfire. Some took it up a notch with a straight 6 like the Triumph TR6, the Austin Healey 3000. Lotus started mid mounting 4 cylindres and kept the roof on. TVR went for V8 power but still kept the cars around 1000KG.
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  1190. If sugar cutting or cacao plucking skills would have made slavers rich back then it would made those free workers wealthy now. Of course it doesn't, the wealth is in the added value, shipping, processing, making chocolate and selling pralines to wealthy people. The raw product labour often represents less than 1% of the price.
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  1191.  @martinsv9183  Most likely they are a bit more fragile and run a bit more stressed than the 300 gasoline or diesel.
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  1192.  @martinsv9183  Good points, but usually performance models and models build by a specialist are more fragile.
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  1193. Yes, because that might hurt muslims, as in not being welcomed anymore. Just like Islamic State is bad because it killed muslims.
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  1194.  @bionicle37  I'm on twitter, do so random opiniated posts there too but mostly in Dutch.
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  1195. Inderdaad. Schandalig ook dat de rechter hem feitelijk aanrekent dat hij zich verdedigd heeft. Als verdachte heb je de almacht van de staat tegenover je die je jaren van je leven wil afpakken, en dat ook wil doen op basis van haar woord tegen het zijne. Dat is al tamelijk dubieus van rechters hebben helemaal geen bijzonder in de waarheid of expertise in vaststellen wat er gebeurd is. Vrouwen die pas aangifte doen naar aanleiding van de een of andere mediahype helpen daarbij ook niet. Je wil dat iemand op basis van jouw woord wordt opgesloten, je doet een hele zware beschuldiging. Dan moet je daar maar even doorheen, niemand heeft ooit beloofd dat dat makkelijk moet zijn. Dit zijn de meest elementaire rechtsbeginselen nodig voor de bescherming tegen de staat en tegen valse beschuldigingen van ons allemaal. Dat wordt nu gekaapt door de zieligheidscultuur van immer kwetsbare vrouwen met overal dergelijke kippenhokken om daarover te kakelen alsof je wel weet wat er gebeurd is, en daar reken ik niet alleen de radiostudios toe maar ook OM en rechtbank.
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  1196. No.
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  1197. More English YT BS. It's not true, it's BS. If you have no clue, just shut up. No proof of anyone being eaten whatsoever, and Orangists weren't monarchists and the Statists were anti centralists, they wanted a loose federation between the provinces.
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  1198. It looked very sharp back then and the vertical, estate like, back end was something quite new for a hatchback. To be fair to Honda, they made a daring challenge to the European small hatchtback market. It wasn't a boring Japanese car in Europe at all.
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  1199. The Dutch are actually the indiginous people of Mauritius where the dodo lived, and it's Dutch name is "walgvogel". That would translate to nauseating bird.
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  1200.  @joepvandijk7949  Benelux is older than the EU. It would bring Germany and the EU to it's knees. I agree about transforming the EU into something completely different because it's rotten to the core and corrupt and antidemocratic by design, but you have to play hard ball to do so.
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  1201. Birth rate is not painting the full picture, it's worth. When muslims marry younger and produces 3 generations as the native population only 2 generations in the same time, it's going really fast.
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  1202.  @kellychuang8373  Food being on stamps was a huge logistical complication in feeding all the people in hiding, far more than just the jews who decided to seek a hiding place. Those were mostly in the country side anyway where there was food without stamps because of the farms but still.
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  1203. Tulips were never an important export product for the Netherlands. The Netherlands was always important for the tulip export but most 'consumption' was national throughout the ages and was really not that big of an industry. The fame for it is much greater than the actual size of the trade.
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  1204. Another minor correction. The Dutch government expected to stay neutral during the coming war just like with WW1, but the Netherlands had experienced food shortages during WW1 too because it had too little land to feed all it's population and was dependent on trade. They had already started a huge land reclamation project to make enough farmland but by WWII only the dam was finished, there was no extra usable farmland yet.
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  1205. I'm quite impressed with his French though. It's an attempt that shows feel for the pronunciation.
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  1206.  @muesliman100  Mass immigration and the wrecking of the housing market come from the same globalist neoliberal policy. Immigration is the cause though, there were about enough houses for the Dutch people and how the Dutch population grows 10 years ago. But a million immigrants have come since. Immigration increases demand and the country doesn't get any bigger.
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  1207.  @Factchekka  Sod off to your ****hole country then if you don't like the language. It has nothing to do with it, immigrants are mostly just too entitled, lazy or dumb to learn the language. There have always been people like that, but they stayed in their inbred villages all over the word, now they have to pick an choose the country for them like we're part of a buffet.
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  1208. The Europeans had better ships, the first European slavetraders brought slaves from the African West coast sold by Africans further down the African West coast to sell to other Africans
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  1209.  @w.5725  Isn't that hate speech in Canada now?
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  1210. National identity was a Dutch invention you dummy. The Dutch build a modern nation when the rest of Europe was still stuck in the Dark Ages. The Dutch Republic was the original the USA and France took two centuries longer, and could thanks to the Dutch. The current British parliamentary monarchy with it's Bill of Rights is also the product of a Dutch invasion. The Germans never sailed past Denmark, but still have a more atrocious colonial history in a few decades than the Dutch in 3 centuries.
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  1211. Or not expensieve enough. When those more expensive old race cars of about half or 1 million crash they don't lose value, it's all about the orginal chassis. So if you pay tha half a million repair bill, you have your valuable old race car back.
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  1212. Islamization of Europe is at stake and that is of course a big blow to the Qatari theocracy and it's media outlet Al Jazeera.
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  1213.  @white.gloves3166  What is over-using butter? An American scientist left France out of his study because it would disprove his opinion that animal fats were bad for the heart, yes he was a fraud but food science is does not correct on fraud or otherwise very poor science. Actually we see similar things here. The French have come up with different ways of preparing mushrooms that works in the sense that it tastes good, not scientific but very emperical. Then Americans theoretize how mushrooms would be could better based on incomplete insights in the molecular level basically claiming the French have been doing it wrong all the time and calling them snotty. And even the taste test by the American proves the French were right, which is nowhere near as hard as the French taste test, which they have been doing for ages. Theoretically according to the Americans, partly based on scientific fraud, the French diet should be more unhealthy because of all the animal fats and the wine, but also here the facts show that the French are much healthier and live much longer. Again the proof is in the pudding, not in the scientific models. There is nothing wrong with drinking wine at every meal except breakfast. I personally prefer beer with spicy food, but that's a different matter. Food and health science is a dodgy field, even government agencies advising on diets and consumption habits admit they have no solid scientific base for their advices. They simply know very little for sure while dealing with lots of variables and possible working mechanisms.
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  1214.  @DJstarrfish  I'm not French but I know there is a cultural attention to tasting carefully and discussing it from a very young age instead of shoving some oversugared cornflakes in. They have been frying mushrooms and discussing the best methods for centuries and have reached a relative consensus, by the only relevant standard and that is how taste and texture end up. If you want to be scientific you do a double blind randomized taste trial with some accomplished French tasters. You can experiment with it and from different perspectives, but you have to realize it is already a product of experimentation and evaluation you are experimenting on and you have to realize the goal is not in objectifiable things like the mushrooms floating capability. Culture is not race of course, but if I would talk down like this to other fully developped sophisticated cuisines like the Japanese or the Indonesian, that would certainly raise some eyebrows regarding colonial attitudes and rightly so. It is the same arrogant disrespect for highly developped cultures but because the French are white Americans feel free to let themselves go in their arrogant ignorance. But it's still French cuisine they are aspiring to here. You think I would dare to even discuss cooking techniques of Indonesian dishes with my Indonesian neighbour on equal terms? Of course not, I can be humble student learning from those who know best, trying to copy and match the result is already a very high bar. Same if you try your hand at French cooking, start with modesty and don't assume you know better because there a few things you know. These dogmas don't come out of nowhere, and when you claim the mushrooms release their water again while frying, you are changing the frying process by vaporizing all that water. The assumption that it is only about the amount of water left in the mushroom is what makes it antiscientific datapicking.
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  1215.  @DJstarrfish  The Dutch tend to understand that there is more sophistication in other cultures in some things, like food, because they have the gift of internatonal comparison. Americans tend to assume they are/know best because they don't know anything else. For any methodical scientific trial you have to determine what exactly it is that you want to know, in this case that would be which cooking method gives the best tasting mushrooms. Saving on a little butter or oil because you are too fat from sugars in your food is not. Whether a big sample size is to prefer over an expert panel is indeed debatable, but especially with a big sample size I would have them all French, Italian and Japanese en non Amercian. The idea that mushrooms soaking up water does not matter because they release it while cooking is simply nonsense, because vapourizing changes the cooking process.
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  1216.  @DJstarrfish  So in a discussion about snooty punchable French where I am being called out as "spoken like a true Dutchman - equally arrogant and condescending, but with a hint of pan-Europeanism" I am accused of prejudice? This checks a lot of boxes on stereotypes of Americans I always prefer to stay away from.
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  1217. The colour is awful but it looks much more exciting than the mediocre crap for the narrow minded Jaguar has uglified the roads with the past decade or two. But draw some cowardice rounded lines that remind of a beautiful car like manufacturers have been doing hundreds of times and the median car people will pretend it's beautiful. Spare me the woke crap, but the actual car design is a huge improvement on the middle of the road uninspired quasi German jelly bean blobs they have now. This is at least a masculine car and not the neutered identity confusement on wheels that pretend to be real Jaguars.
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  1218.  @edwardkuenzi5751  Don't forget the German atrocities in Africa around the turn of the 20th century.
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  1219. Edward Koning is lying. The "far right" parties PVV and FvD are just as diverse or more diverse than the VVD and it's current coalition parties, especially when it comes to the voters. The VVD is the mass immigration party, it's been breaking all records. It tried to win another election on falsely pretending it would do something about the mass immigration but it blew up in their faces. Now they refuse to join a cabinet that would kerb mass immigration because they have 3 seats less than expected....
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  1220. The orange thing is a 1955 Lincoln Indianapolis by Gian Paolo Boano, formerly working for Ghia. It has a V8 and the exhausts are fake, just like the air inlets are not really functional.
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  1221.  @o08234j  Dat hij gelogen heeft over zijn loyaliteit aan Nederland.
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  1222. What about giving credit to the inventors of CVT and experimenting with it in race cars in the early 70's? No, there are not British and not as impolite, rude, arrogant and entitled either.
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  1223. There is good Dutch beer but it's mostly just pilsner, nothing the Germans and the Czech can't do at least as good. Heineken is Dutch of course but I dont consider that one of the good pilsner beers.
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  1224. Taakstraffen leiden niet tot minder recidive, dat is vergelijkbare pseudo-wetenschap als dit onderzoek. De kans op recidive en het voorkomen van recidive zijn leidend in de keuze voor het soort straf. Dan moet je de recidiveresultaten niet interpreteren alsof het een gerandomiseerd controlegroep onderzoek was.
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  1225.  @user_Yav  Ik heb het onderzoek gelezen en het deugt niet. Wensdenken van criminologen, maar mijn posts hier worden weggehaald vanuit dezelfde ideologie.
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  1226. So? The Moroccans raided the coasts of Europe for sex slaves and ships for male slaves. They were far bigger slave traders than the Dutch anyway, just like almost any nation. They enslaved about 30.000 Dutch, we have no historical obligation towards the Moroccans whatsoever.
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  1227. Nee, afspiegeling is totaal onbelangrijk en alle perspectieven worden vertegenwoordigd door de Tweede Kamer die dan weer een regering neerzet en die stuurt de overheid en dus het ambtenarenapparaat aan. Ambtenaren moeten bovengemiddeld begaan zijn met de publieke zaak en loyaal zijn en kunnen dus nooit een afspiegeling van de samenleving zijn.
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  1228. The Africans have more riches now. But the Europeans also lowered the infant mortality dramatically and since the Africans use that to overpopulate, they have to share more riches between far more people. No way without the Europeans Africa could sustain a billion people.
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  1229.  @melolonthamelolontha9099  No, it doesn't. It de facto attacks prosperity, peace, cohesion and democracy.
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  1230.  @vullings1968  Wrong again, commissioners don't represent a member state and the EC hasn't been an executive body for the member states governments for many decades anymore. It's the primary legislative body that can't be voted for nor vetoed by democratically elected or established governments. The main goal of the EU is to circumvent democracies with their nasty habits of serving the interest of the people rather than those of big corporations, in which is succeeds. It's the only thing it succeeds in, that's why it's claiming the successes of it's predecessors. It has none of itself to show for.
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  1231.  @keesnoort  So you think you know things because you have discovered google? First the vast majority of the MEPs can't be elected by me, don't represent me so them deciding over me is not democratic. Secondly they are not a legislative body as they can only say yes to legislation initiated by the entirely unelected. The council would be a last democratic safety net if every minister had a veto and the EC would actually be the executive body of the member states it was supposed to be. It isn't.
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  1232.  @keesnoort  People who "just google" are not in a position to tell people who have read books to "just google". Yes, I do understand which level you're at.
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  1233.  @keesnoort  I don't want to have a talk about democracy at a 'just google' level. I know the EU mimics democracy, that's what I said above. Then you come with google hits to show how democracy is mimicked effectively for you. Not for me, I don't fall for that.
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  1234.  @keesnoort  It's not similar. The EP is a mix of systems set up to not represent any people of any member state but the EU itself while made ineffective in having any power in the process.
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  1235.  @keesnoort  it's worst of the two main systems combined for a reason. The vast majority of the EP can never represent me and I can never vote for them or against them, so I'm being governed by people I can't vote for and don't care for my interest, so it's not democratic.
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  1236. Neanderthals? Don't go down the genetics paths, not good for Africans.
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  1237.  @jamisojo  Probably not, since they weren't in it. Central Africa was given by the British to the King of the Belgians as personal property, a German noble the British gave Belgium too. Not surprisinly, the other shareholders of that private property, Congo Free State, were British too. Belgium and the Netherlands (the country of the Dutch) have been seperated since the Dutch declared independence from Spain because they wanted freedom of religion, they denounced the divine right of kings, claimed people had inalienable rights and any government should serve it's people, and founded the Dutch Republic in 1581, that invented modern capitalism and was the cradle of the enlightenment and was the first nation state. No surprise the American DOI of 2 centuries later was pretty much a copy. Anyway, after the Napoleontic occupation the bankrupt Netherlands was united with Belgium and given a king because Britain wanted a buffer monarchy. Abolishing the slavetrade was what that king/government did in it's first year. But the union with Belgium only lasted 15 years. so no involvement with Central Africa from the Dutch, the Dutch weren't part of the scramble for Africa and didn't partake in the rape of Africa. They had good friends in Africa before, the Ashanti in Ghana, but that was before Europeans could survive inland Africa and before rubber became a big industry. The Africans bossed the trade, including the slavetrade, anyway. The Dutch intermarried with them and local rich kids went to study in the Netherlands. One actually ended up as a civil engineer in service of the Dutch government in the Dutch East Indies, and was racially discriminated against by his superior. Government paid him financial compensation for that. That was in 1850, same year as the origin of Zwarte Piet, a creation of an abolitionist btw. We've been anitracist here while the Americans still had strange fruit hanging from the trees. Rembrandt had black neighbours in the Jodenbreestraat,, interracial marriage was normal because most blacks in the Dutch Republic were men. First black PhD was in the 1700's, first black cabinet minister was in 1903. I could give you 100 examples of the Dutch being centuries ahaed on the Americans and the British. With this level of ignorance, you just better shut up about other countries. If you don't know, you don't know, I don't care, but shut up about it then. And don't be hypocrite, the current exploitation in the Congo for American companies like Apple is not that much better than Congo FreeState, while the current American empire is more violent and exploitative than the Dutch trade empire from centuries ago. No, that's not much of a defence I'm afraid.
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  1238.  @PieterPatrick  Uiteraard, het is machtsgeil gekeuvel in een format alsof het rondom een belangrijke sportwedstrijd is en de sfeer vooraf geproefd moet worden vanuit een duidelijk voorkeur voor één team, met wat niet zo neutrale losse observaties die als tactische analyse gepresenteerd worden. Yesilgöz haar hond en dat ze het op haar eigen manier gaat doen informeert helemaal niemand. Ik wil weten of ze onze democratische rechtsstaat net zo veracht als Rutte (meer nog zo lijkt het met haar ministerschap), of haar verkiezingsprogramma net zo vals is die van Rutte en of de VVD niet op het strafbankje zou moeten banken. En zoals bij alles wat de NOS op YT gooit, met doorgaans een valse autoriteit en een uiterst neerbruigend 'wij leggen het wel even uit' toontje en een inhoud onverklaarbaar uit enige publieke taakstelling, stikt het in de comments van stagiars e.d. die extreem complimenteus zijn over de kwaliteit van het filmpje. Nou wil ik best geloven dat er simpele zielen zijn die het echt goed vinden, in geen andere comment section worden zoveel holle complimenten uitgedeeld.
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  1239. Wasn't 'saturated fats' are bad the product of scientific fraud from the 50's that keeps getting used by the sugar and cornsyrup sellers to blame someone else for the obesity and diabetes epidemic?
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  1240. The pro EU left lost seats. It's a false claim to victory, a desperate attempt to suggest to voters elsewhere that the right EU-skeptic anti mass immigration surge has been held. It isn't, it has just been confirmed in the Netherlands. The PVV won 600% more seats, the PvdA-GL lost 4% compared to the previous EP elections.
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  1241. Natuurlijk worden die relaties herzien, de Nederlandse geheime diensten gaan de Amerkaanse deep state niet meer helpen met zogenaamde inlichtingen over Russische hackers om de Democratische partij te helpen en Trump te besmeuren. Ik vrees dat Nederlandse geheime diensten wel gewoon doorgaan met braaf doen wat de Amerikanen hen bevelen.
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  1242. That's a nice video indeed, that tosti/sandwich story from Akyol keeps cracking me up because it's so familiar to my working experiences.
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  1243.  @roy_hks  Een betere gelegenheid om een vreemde taal te leren krijgen ze daarna nooit meer. Traditioneel is studeren in het buitenland dan ook niet voor de zwakste studenten en voor hen die wel daadwerkelijk een andere cultuur willen leren kennen.
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  1244.  @Colin-to1nv  He should get his facts straight first.
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  1245. There is hardly any Volt outside the Netherlands. It's a so called European party that has one seat in one national election for the small national corner of the "European" parliament.
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  1246.  @Stormcloakvictory  Stelt niks voor buiten Nederland, waar ze heel vaak op tv komen maar ook maar heel weinig voorstellen.
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  1247. I think Saab is in the same category with Citroen and Mercedes: "We know better, we do things our own way."
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  1248. We already did, but Suriname had a black independent government and now the money is gone.
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  1249.  @zimzimph  I wasn't a business owner, but it was mostly a flat fee and then a little conversion advantage for the bank. So it was saving up to a 1000 DM's, after deduction of what to spend in Germany of course.
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  1250.  @Candisa  Links is niet gematigd geworden maar is in bed gekropen bij het internationale neoliberale globalistische grootkapitaal en mag dat dan compenseren met radicale ideeen over identiteit en seksualiteit waar de overheid eigenlijk helemaal niks mee te schaften heeft. Blijft over de massa-immigratie.
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  1251.  @DamianIbberson  I know but that is lazy pseudo-scientific practices by the care industry. Check "Quetelet index" as it used to be named when it was developped. It was never meant to be an indication of the inviduals health, but only as demographic data tool. It is useful to spot weight problems in a population, national or regional or any selection, like it's been done here, but it fails the individual and it fails certain populations with an unusual high percentage of endomorph body types genetically.
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  1252.  @RafaelLeeuwis  Hun kritiek is gebaseerd op onbegrip. Ze begrijpen het niet en dan vinden ze het maar vaag. De grondwet is niet de grondslag van het land maar slechts van de staat, en die grondwet moet vooral gerespecteerd worden door overheidsorganen en niet gehandhaafd. Wetten zijn zelden nodeloos ingewikkeld, en doorgaans te belangrijk om aan het begripsniveau van jan en alleman aan te passen. Het is echt in de categorie laten we die rare krul in de pijp onder de gootsteen weglaten want dan is het voor gewone mensen een stuk overzichtelijker en die interessantdoenerij van loodgieters is nergens voor nodig.
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  1253. Reserving judgement seems the wise thing do for the British indeed. But there is nothing new to judge.
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  1254.  @hypergolic8468  Yeah right. When did the British ever stand up to any government? They didn't even protest when they were declared protestant. The British were looking for a solution for their 'jewish problem' in the early 20th century too. All it took was a few excessive prison sentences of 2 years to shut them all up last year, what do you think those people would do faced with an extremely harsh, cruel and totalitarian dictatorship that would have them shot for any disobedience? Why do you think there isn't much resistance in North Korea? Torturing and killing people is effective. The Dutch were probably the most civilized people in the world. Jews had been living there in peace and without trouble since the late 1500s, huge efforts were made to hide them, often in vain but it was a logistical nightmare and anyone involved risked the bullet. Some even collaborated to avoid suspicion... I'm sorry, the idea that the British would have done better seems rather preposterous to me and the claim certainly is.
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  1255. Je gaat iemands gedrag bespreken met een valse voorstelling van zaken en lasterlijke termen als fraude, uiteraard in de titel van dit flimpje opgenomen, om dan vervolgens te zeggen dat iemand van onbesproken gedrag moet zijn. Dit is gewoon karaktermoord geweest op basis van echt heel weinig. De eventuele mede-uitvinder was helemaal akkoord, het UMC was akkoord. Private winsten van publieke investeringen was zoals VVD en onderwijspartij D66 het graag zagen. Als dhr Plasterk aangifte doet tegen Marieke van de Velde dan heeft zij een probleem groter dan niet meer van onbesproken gedrag zijn.
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  1256.  @rienksjoerdsma  There is no proof of any part being eaten whatsoever. It's a stupid English myth that keeps getting regurgitated on YT.
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  1257. Lots of Americans would never be seen in a bus either, but in Europe they feel underdressed in one. It's all very relative, cars feel less small when they are not among trucks and huge SUV's. Nontheless, this video shows some very shitty European cars. The DAF is actually quite interesting technically, because it was the invention of the CVT allowing for an automatic small car that was reasonably quick and very efficient in it's day. It also allowed for backward racing because it could as fast backward as forward. I'm one the few that liked the Austin Allegro's design, or at least has a soft spot for it. It was not a good car though. The DeLoreans should be converted to electric, it had never much of engine and was too heavy for a sportscar anyway. With it's stainless steel body, it would also have the environmental impact advantage of being durable.
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  1258. Er was ooit een tijd dat NOS presentatoren niet alleen accentloos moesten spreken maar ook fatsoenlijk uit hun woorden konden komen, en woorden naar hun betekenis gebruikten. Helaas zijn alle standaarden zoek.
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  1259. Africa is also a terrible continent for trade, exchange of ideas etc, and development therefore. When the big trading hubs were near the desert, you know how hard the jungle must be to cross. The rivers aren't navigable for most or a big part of the year and the distances are even more huge than they look on the map. What has prevented Africa from developping lots of sophisticated civilizations, there were some, is holding them back now too, among lots of other things.
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  1260. Speaking of trucking and the Dutch, does anyone know a nice video about the DAF Paris Dakar trucks in English. The 'twin head' from the 80's for example?
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  1261. Die Niederlande ist noch immer 'cool' und Weltoffen. Wilders ist kein Rassist, er ist eben nicht weiss, er war immer sehr gross unter then migranten und jetzt haben auch viele Muslime Wilders gewählt. Migration war schon für 20 jahre eigen grosses problem in die weltoffenene Niederlande, zu weltoffen, und war immer fur die VVD auch ein thema. Aber die VVD sind Lügner, sie waren nur vor der Wahlen anti-immigration und dieses mal war das ein mal lügen zu viel: Jetzt reicht, wir wählen einer der wirklich die Massenimmigration beendet. Die Niederlander sind nicht die Deutschen, Marokkanen sind kein Rasse, Muslime sind kein Rasse. Rassismus und Antisemitismus sind hier die sicherlich das letzte Jahrhundert aus dem Ausland gekommen, eines Ausland in besonderes.
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  1262. No, the left has shifted, away from ordinary nationals to foreigners and things like sexuality and identity that are intrinsically not government but private matters. Old fashioned social democrats are far right in their view now. Let's not go along with that absurd view.
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  1263. No, the British couldn't compete in free trade and started several wars with the Dutch Republic for only that reason. The Dutch were the proponents of 'mare liberum' and international law. It took the invasion of Britain to change that.
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  1264. With pilsner it doesn't matter that much, with Belgian beers the wrong glass makes a lot of difference.
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  1265. And the EU is not Europe. Calling the EU Europe is imperialistic propaganda.
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  1266.  @FreeDocumentaryHistory  That's not true, I do care because there's a cultural and administrative difference. But that's when the Dutch do it. You can decide what you call countries in your language yourself, but it is an expression of a lack of finer understanding of the country with the name Netherlands also present in English.
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  1267. The Netherlands has no solution to climate change and has no climate change to deal with. Many Dutch are paying for climate indulgances though.
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  1268. Indeed, sport did a good job exposing the madness.
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  1269.  @mmarques2736  Freedom of religion, the reason there are muslims in the Netherlands in the first place, also includes the freedom from other people's religion. It in includes apostasy, it includes not respecting other's religious rules about drawings, ridicule and their 'holy' books. Islam needs freedom of religion and welfare to grow in Europe, but most muslims can't handle the freedom of religion they enjoy so much. Islamophobia does not exist, the threat it poses to the free country of the Netherlands is very real. The Dutch have had freedom of religion since 1579 and haven't had any religious violence until a couple of decades of presence of muslims in numbers, and corpses were laying in the streets. For a change muslims should reflect on themselves and their religion and why it has been such a pain to all the European people that welcomed them. Muslims should be ashamed for their European fellow muslim communities.
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  1270. You should apoligize for regurgitating YT's VOC bullshit. It only had less than 200 merchant ships at i't peak, while the Dutch merchant fleet in the European trade was in the tens of thousands. The Dutch navy was indeed quite impressive in defending that against the envious English and zealous Spaniards, belligerent French and Barbary slave hunters, but had nothing to do with the VOC.
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  1271.  @johnroekoek12345  27% of the land was taken from the sea for farming. No way they have to go, there are much more likely candidates.
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  1272. Tulips were also exported but the hype was a Dutch thing, the Dutch Republic was were the money was. Huge wealth spread over a lot of people, because the Dutch used windmills to saw wood so they could build ships 30 times faster. Together with their invention of modern capitalism with it low interest rates and sailing and shipbuilding skills, doing more than half of all European shipping for most of the 17th century. Lots of people could afford an interest in special tulips.
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  1273. It's a stupid claim to begin with.
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  1274. That's not how it worked 'under' Dutch colonialism.
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  1275. The EU is designed to circumvent democracy, not to be one. If you can't vote for the vast majority of the candidates, they don't represent you. It's divide and rule, and the EP isn't even a proper legaslative body while so much money is thrown at the members that they are for more EU minded than the people they claim to represent. Window dressing for a technocratic dictatorship serving corporate interests.
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  1276. I would really like to share all my Belgian beer knowledge gained from several Belgian beer tasting events here, but somehow I forgot almost all of it.
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  1277. When they are militaristic, war mongering and against freedom of speech the will probably pass as just right.
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  1278. Gaat het nog steeds over 'Dansen met Janssen'?
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  1279. They are all supporting the Hamas tactic of hiding behind civilians and making children into martyrs to get international sympathy so they can survive and and go on another jew slaughter.
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  1280. I actually like the sedan concept and it's front goes back to the 1960s shark noses before the double round headlights. You have to make new cars and dare to come up with new design languages and BMW did quite successfully until very recent. Brands have value because they represent something, and false pretentions like fake air inlets are just ugly. BMW has enough to work with to be recognizable. The kidneys can basically have all size and shapes vertical and horizontal as long as there are two of them. Ther is still the Hofmeister kink that can make a comeback, there is the sharknose, there is the straight shoulder back to front from the 90s, all kinds of typical BMW rear lights. Only the long bonnet to house a straight six is not contemporary anymore. All BMW have to do is realize they are a car designer, not a fashion designer. You can't just print Nike or Levi's or CK on a simple T-shirt and then sell it for 10 times the price, you still have to design the car to carry the brand.
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  1281.  @rutvikrs  If it wasn't chattel slavery, how could the Dutch buy them then?
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  1282. He's not trying to be unbiased, he's disingenious and manipulative.
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  1283. Ironic, because as a Dutchman I know Bud Spencer from German television where the films were dubbed.
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  1284.  @sinisatrlin840  Yes, but also keen drivers aren't always comfortable with showing that off to everybody all the time. They like to keep the capabilities of their car a bit more to themselves, not in you face. They are not all wolves, but almost all stationcars can pass as sheeps clothing. Not to the real car people, but that's not the relevant group because for those it's about the cars and not to have an opinion on the driver. Lots of Europeans wear a 10k watch or a 1000 euro shoes too, but only the watch connaisseurs and the shoe enthousiasts will know, and the owner of course. If you arrive in a Volvo or Mercedes stationcar you could be a car enthousiast or just a family guy indifferent about cars, it could have 400HP or 150HP, you could be a surgeon, an accountant, a barrister, a salesman or an artist, lots of people are simply not comfortable with suggesting more about themselves through what they drive. A good friend is a high civil servant. He drives a Mercedes and that's really not done in the sense that it gets him comments, it's just not what those people do, nothing serious or with consequences but Mercedes is seen as what business people drive. But it's a stationcar, just another one on the parking lot, so that makes it much less of a talking point.
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  1285. Chuck Todd reminds me of Hans Gruber and that coke sniffing weasel Ellis from Die Hard at the same time.
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  1286. Is de jeugd inmiddels echt zo laaggeletterd dat ze dit als als een goede, eerlijke uitleg zien?
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  1287.  @willdejager  Bijvoorbeeld de VVD wordt weer op zijn eigen woord geloofd, terwijl het toch een behoorlijk leugenachtige partij is gebleken. Hoezo zijn ze voor lagere belastingen met de toegenomen lastendruk? Hoezo zijn ze tegen meer 'Europa' (de EU heet dat, Europa is een continent), dat is feitelijk gewoon niet waar. Ze noemen zichzelf liberaal, dat kun je als feit melden. Beweren dat ze liberaal zijn is weer het klakkeloos overnmen van de VVD-zelfpromotie. De VVD profileert zich ook altijd tegen massa-immigratie, om vervolgens alle records te breken. En bij de dingetjes ontbreekt er een nogal prominente. Dat is tekenend voor hoe de NOS altijd met de macht omgaat. Om even op rechts te blijven, geheel in de traditie van de NOS wordt het dingetje van het FvD gewoon als feit gepresenteerd door middel van een schreeuwende journaliste. Dat is dan ook weer niet erg feitelijk maar dan de andere kant op. Daarom mag je allemaal best een opinie over hebben, maar als je pretendeert iets uit te leggen moet je wat partijen over zichzelf zeggen, wat anderen over die partij zeggen, en waar ze feitelijk voor staan niet door elkaar halen.
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  1288. Dutch approach is very different, they can be authoritarian but always like a strict headmaster, wanting to develop all the players optimally. English football is more like let's create a hard environment and see who comes through and those must be the best. The authority of the manager is more like that of a mafia boss, an intimidating figure. With the Dutch that is more from their position, representing the institution the club is like a school. So they need more backing from that institution the club is too.
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  1289. If you had been in the cold water or freezing in a life boat, you'd feel much more like a potage than a consomme I presume.
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  1290. So we got a group of people coming directly from war, mostly women and children, who only want shelter and return asap, who respect their hosts and are grateful, from who most found a job within 2 months of arrival. And we got groups of young men, who are not coming from war but crossed many safe countries and broke the rules, who 'lost' their passports, who are here to stay forever and demand a house and most will be on social benefits for the rest of their lives and fly in the family they left behind, who harass women ,make a mes of the places they stay, a nuisance to the neighbourhood and who commit a lot of crime. Every week there is 1.2 billion of future financial burden to society coming in from Africa and the Middle East in a country that has a huge housing, health care, infrastructure and energy crisis because it's too full. And it's the colour of their skin why they are less welcome than the genuine refugees? Really? It's refugees vs. imposters, people who need help vs people that come to freeload on what others have build. She calls them 'our people' based on the colour of their skin, but she doesn't take care of her people, we can take care of their people because of the colour of our skin. I know who is the racist in this matter. A million non white people welcomed as refugees in the past two decades, at the average expense to society of 1000 billion, a huge disproportional burden to housing, schools, health care and how is the gratitude expressed: Calling us racist and the women whores in the street, while causing a sharp rise in crime, rape and terrorist attacks. Maybe we should just quit and let you take care of 'your people'?
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  1291.  @slavomirakrasna2111  I'm not racist and I see people who are refugees from a war and I see people who are imposters. I'm afraid the skin colour indicates the likeliness of which it is. The Ukrainians didn't decide to change their home country, they came for shelter until they can return to their beloved home country. If this planet belongs to all of us, why did Africans demand independence? Wasn't it the Europeans right to be there and boss it simply because they could, just like an African would? Of course you can live where you were born and not take someone's else's land or have it taken from you. People make an effort to leave a nice place for their children and grandchildren to live, not for other people's children, they can extend that to many more people and that is what we call society, but not to everybody. That's what we call the social contract and that's what independence of African countries is also based on. Natural rights of all man to be part of a society that is good to them. But that last part is made, it doesn't happen by itself, it's not found but requires debate, organization and hard work. I happen to be from one of the most inhabitable, unliveable places on earth that was plagued by violent imperialists much more than most parts of Africa, but it was made nice for me by my ancestors, for me and not for you. I see black people as equal to me, I don't see black people as African becuase that's a matter of geography and not of skin. I see Africans as culturally different, wouldn't say inferior because that's just personal preference but on average culturally not fitting in as well here. If often takes more than one generation to change that. The people who come pretending to be refugees on average don't fit in at all. Their undereducation is irrepairable, they mostly don't work but because there not enough work at their level. Africa wasn't a rich continent of healty people. Up to the 1300's it was probably doing better than Europe but life was hard for everybody. Europe happened to come in a fase of civilization in which development kept accelerating. In all civilizations inventions that made life a little easier used to come 1 every 100 or 1000 years, with the literacy, book printing and scientific revolution combined with the ship technology to use Europe's many navigable waterways and the exchange of goods and ideas, suddenly life improving inventions came every 10 years, and then every year, every month and now each day many things get invented. I am as less part of the evil people that do all kinds of things to people around the world and have as little influence over it. I know Africa takes more of the hit, but that doesn't mean Europeans aren't victims too. The victim mentality is very different though. The bulk of the wealth here is build post colonialism, and during colonialism the contribution to Europe's wealth was no expression of the suffering caused at all. It's was tiny, hardly worth mentioning except for what Britain took from India. I haven't met an African on YT yet who understands where wealth comes from, like it's still 1300 and no European has arrived. You don't get wealthy from robbing, it's not a zero sum game. If everybody got that 4000 dollars in ten years or twenty years it would be divided unequally again, probably more unequal. Wealth is build, not taken. Europeans understand that and understand how. Zero Sum Africans appearently still don't otherwise they would be wealthy. If wealth came from taking it Africans would have been wealthy too. So yes, it is rightfully ours and so far playing the poor refugee that needs help works, but try playing the tough proud African that comes to take what he believes is rightfully through poor thinking and we'll let you drown in the Mediterranean. Make a case for pity or make a case from pride and strength, they don't go together, you've got to pick one. But one thing Europeans created was modern medicine and that's why Africans have far less infant mortality than before the Europeans came too. But Africa keeps a fertility rate like many of the children die in childhood. That means every new generation only has half the land, half "the jungle" to feed off, half the space to live and run businesses while you need double the jobs. Have you seen how tiny Europe is on a true map? We can't solve your problem with immigration and will soon stop trying. The numbers just don't add up. As I explained for a previous video, with all it's flaws, hypocrisy, not delivering on good intentions, letting bad intentions mix in, being condascending, stimulating tribalism for divide and rule, it's still Europe's nice, soft side that you are getting now. If you start going after our wealth that isn't yours at all prepare for European's hard, ugly side. It's not any softer than that of Shaka Zulu, the Ashanti, or whatever zero sum oppressors and enslavers you have had. I advise to start building your own wealth, not getting it, build it. That's the only wealth that lasts and that returns after hard spells.
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  1292. In the Netherlands the tv licence was replace with financing out of tax. All guarantees of the different broadcasters, we had a pluriform system of about 10 private not for profit associations with members all making tv for the hours administered to them, remaining independent soon were broken with politicians using the government budget to influence what we got to see. Quality dropped since too. So I preferred the tv-licence for reasons of independent journalism and television making. Of course that is not the case with the BBC, but if you want change it you might want to give a differently financed public broadcaster a thought and not have it controlled by government.
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  1293.  @mormacil  Why did they make up facts about the Netherlands then?
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  1294.  @mormacil  Failing to form a government? a seperate pillar for immigrants with own hospitals? That's already two things from the top of my head that didn't happen.
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  1295.  @mormacil  "Dispite his thumping victory Wilders has been unable to form a governing coalition... " Like those two are related, it's a complete misrepresentation of how Dutch government makings work and how it is going. Immigration doesn't appear to be the big sticking point at all. Then he proceeds to go into the history of anti immigration sentiment. What about the anti immigration rationale? There is much pro immigration sentiment and no reason. It's not an example of a pillared hospital, that's BS and also not a product of the 70's or 80's like the claim in the video. A pillared muslim hospital would mean that muslim would start a hospital, empoly muslim doctors and nurses to treat muslimpatients, allmost all of them in the area. Of course the Dutch muslim community can't build or found anything useful themselves. Their schools are a mess, their broadcaster went down on corruption, they abused the Labour party to start their own political party, their clubs are a mess, no way they get near enough muslim doctors and nurses to care for the excessive medical needs of the muslim community.
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  1296.  @mormacil  No, it's not a factually correct or objective description because it implies that thanks to the thumping victory Wilders could have formed a governing coalition by now. That's anglocentric BS, a total misrepresentation of how it works in Dutch politics.
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  1297.  @automation7295  This is not about the quality of the painting, but the quality of the experience of seeing it in person. It's just too busy there, huge paintings can give far bigger crowds a good art experience.
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  1298. Nieman en die mevrouw doen alsof het tegenhouden van Trump een legitiem doel op zich is. Dat is het niet, het is niet democratisch en zou juridisch niet in de haak zijn. Een Amerikaanse president heeft vrij veel macht van de grondwet gekregen en zolang hij binnen de wet blijft en voldoende steun heeft in het congres is tegenhouden juist antidemocratisch.
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  1299.  @y6cd3sdzHs1g  No, the so called velvet glove came off to show the iron fist right with the February strikes against the anti-jewish measures. That was in febraury 1941 so 9 months after the invasion.
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  1300. There are of course bigger stories and bigger evils to teach and that is completely sensible from the moral and ideological angle, but it also leaves the impression that jews were the main victims of WWII. In terms of numbers that is simply not the case, and in the Netherlands the jews were a minority of the war victims and a minority of the people that went in hiding. But there were just too many horrors to teach about them all. After Russia China is the country with most WWII victims. Does anybody here know those stories? All different stories make up the whole and that is simply to big for anybody to know.
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  1301.  @MichealHilleman  Yes, but stoep had a slightly different meaning in Amsterdam already because of it's particular housing and water situation and New Amsterdam was most closely related to Amsterdam.
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  1302. Disinformation, has nothing to do with the climate hysteria of rising sea levels and is a much older idea.
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  1303. No, settling in a country uninvited is colonization.
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  1304. If Europeans don't allow people to disrespect religion all muslims will have to go back to their poor countries because they are disrespectful of other religions and the non religious.
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  1305. They turn out not to be that talented.
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  1306.  @Aaronomus  Only if you, just like this video forget about the Dutch Republic, which was a small country but the supreme economic world power of the 17th century. William might have been Prince of Orange, it wasn't Orange (in southern France) that invaded England. It was William as the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, an office he was elected in, who did. Of course that didn't go down well, especially when it turned out not be punished by god for removing it's absolute king with his divine right, but flourished like no kingdom had done before.
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  1307. The catholic's, whose church wanted to kill all protestants and was at war with the Dutch, were allowed to be catholic, get rich and worship in private. That was really nice.
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  1308. African on African slavery? Arab slavery of Africans? Arab slavery of whites? So many slavery to make documents about.
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  1309. Here in the Netherlands we have American car clubs and events. Mostly V8's but it's about American or not and an American saloon that is big with a big engine is called simply an "Amerikaan", everybody but American car guys know enough. It's a seperate subculture. We have filet Americain, which should Armoricain actually (Northern France beef breed)but got misinterpreted long ago. There is a famous "American Hotel" in Amsterdam, often called Americain because of the Grand Cafe with that name in it, it was probably about the architecture, or a certain style of service, or maybe it had an elevator early. 'Short American' was the name of a haircut, the crew cut. American pizza is a thick frozen one that I never tried and I believe that's not just the marketing of just one brand. It's used a lot in other marketing and branding but usually without meaning something outside that specific brand. An American fridge used to be just an XL fridge I believe, and often those had a bit more extravagant styling compared to the boring European fridges. I owned an old one, it wasn't easy to clean because of all the styling. Before the internet people also had a lot of imagination about what was American. And of course we have "Amerikaanse toestanden", " American situations", which is kind of derogatory term for something exaggerated, excessive, hectic, extreme, wild, but from Western culture, often to describe a negative development in society. It's not used to be negative about America, but related to America as the country of unlimited possibilities and a country of extremes.
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  1310. Blue does not support the 1st amendment.
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  1311. Allthough I tend to side with the downthrodden, this was not just 'religious conflict all over Europe'. Northern Ireland and even Britain were just a stage to a much larger geopolitical conflict between the religious tolerant protestants led by the stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, Willem III of Orange, and the catholics led by Louis XIV of France, who simply wanted to torture and burn all protestants and annihilate the Dutch Republic. It's was not just protestants vs catholics, like they are equal and interchangeable. It was religious freedom vs theocracy and the inquisition. The catholics were the baddies back then. Willem III let the catholics be catholic.
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  1312. I'm not saying the trans movement is anti-gay by intention, but am I the only one who sees an old fashioned Anglo-Saxon prudeness in it? Where circumcision just reduces sexual joy a bit and makes masturbation harder, this trans ideology has a far bigger contempt for the sexual joy healthy genitals can bring after uninterrupted hormonal development. They claim it's better for the boy to have never experienced that an never experience that again, because looking more feminine, better fitting into very binary pigeon holes, is more important than enjoying sex. They decide so for a boy who can't give informed consent because he needs to go through puberty to be informed what he will miss. We'll just construct something that does a rather mechanical imitation, and that has the having sex covered. Is there no one in that industry or movement sexually liberated enough to say 'isn't that a shame to not have a healthy natural penis with all it's sensitivity'?
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  1313. Almost, it's supposed to be the position of the woman in this that makes her sexual selection more about attractiveness than things like money, good family etc. than in lots of other countries. Of course the women are getting taller because of that too, amplifying the effect for the following generation.
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  1314. The Dutch the great rivals of the Belgians? They had only been together for 15 years between 1815 and 1830. The Belgians were inustrializing, the Dutch were traders and had only lost their position as the world's biggest trader with Napoleon invading, the Belgians hadn't sailed past the shrimps for centuries. What would they be rivalling on?
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  1315. Not this shit again. Peak VOC had less than 200 merchant ships uder sail, which needed about year to make it from the East Indies to the Dutch Republic. That was tiny compared to the Dutch merchant fleet in Europe, but that was not in one company. There is not a single year in history the whole VOC made more money than the good old herring fishery. But some canadian medie company made some bogus calculation and now the whole internet is regurgitating that like it's a fact.
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  1316. It is. It's the English claiming it's a mixture of German and English who have a false sense of self importance and need to be told off.
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  1317. It was a really small and ligth car, well under 1000kg. But it still allowed for a 4000km family vacation in supreme comfort.
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  1318. Don't forget the Fiat Panda is a really tiny car. The first series (80's) was 700 kg car, the second and third series (2000's) was a 900kg car. It's a cute little thing with an SUV stance, it's not the size of car Americans tend to transport families in with all those huge trucks around them.
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  1319. Written history vs oral history. Continuous civilization vs destroyed civilization. And Spanish priests deliberately destroying native sources of knowledge on top.
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  1320.  @Seven-ld9zv  Dutch independence started with the claim the king had no divine right but had to serve his people. Not foreign people or foreign companies, but the people that are born there. So it became the first nation state. There is no government serving the people with that idea, nationalism. Everything good for the people comes from that nationalism. It's the foundation under the social contract and democracy. Nationalism itself is good, it's imperialism and tribalism that are bad, especially when they team up. Nationalism has nothing to do with racism.
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  1321.  @Seven-ld9zv  No, it's not. Contrary to the word patriot nation does not derive from the bloodline (the DNA you mention) but from the place of birth. That's natural law, inalienable rights, that people who are born somewhere can live there. Otherwise it would be all right to got somewhere and just take their land. It's also their right to be served by the power over them, otherwise there wouldn't be anything wrong with imperialism and colonialism. The people can change, people can move out and people can move in, by mutual agreement. DNA wil mix as it has always done in the Dutch Republic. Nationalism is build on the idea of 'us', our territory, our jurisdiction, our government, serving us, and therefore very inclusive. Of course it discriminates, our government does not build cycle lanes outside the territory it has jurisdiction over, it builds it for people who have Dutch citizenship, because if citizenship isn't exclusive and for everybody, nobody has citizenship. Nationalism and therefore the nation state is what came out of discarding the divine right of kings and the idea of the social contract. It's a social contract, not a contract with the human species as a whole. Your confusion is because nationalism has been given a bad name by the imperialists, calling themselves globalists these days, if they are that honest at all. Nationalism is opposed to tribalism at one side and opposed to globalism at the other, no surprise the globalists love to team up with the tribalists. Look at the Congolese nationalist Lumumba and his fate for example. There can't be democracy and rule of law without a nation state, nation states are what has brought great prosperity to the ordinary people of Europe. It was imperialism that screwed that up in 1814, and it was imperialism and racism that screwed up in the 1930's, nationalism was not the issue. It was nationalism that failed to defend itself and it was nationalism that got Europe back to peace again. It's imperialism why there is war again. It's just not what it is and your redefinition is propagandistic. Hand over democracy to an imperialistic technocracy or you are a racist. But the good of nationalism is taken for granted, like it could exist without. Even the globalist speak about a nation's people as 'us', about 'our government', our democracy, our rule of law, our 'obligation' to welcome immigrants. But without the us of nationalism it it's every man for himself. Most people like that us, and won't do without, but rhetoric like this is undermining it at the same time. At least the 'no borders' crowd is honest about it and it's clear they haven't thought it through fully.
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  1322. Democrats are projecting again.
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  1323. Indeed, the Dutch bankrupted them. The Netherlands were responsible for over half of all the tax income of the Spanish Empire. So the Dutch Republic not paying any longer was a huge blow, and then they had to fight an 80-years war against the extremely rich country.
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  1324. Maybe you should stop living in the media reality in which Harris was a good candidate who would not even make it close, Biden was sharp as a tack, celebrity endorsement matters, Joe Rogan is horse dewormer consuming right wing racist, Trump the actual threat to democracy and peace and the Dem candidate appointed by the billionaire class the one to stand up for the blue collar people.
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  1325. I remember being fascinated by them as a kid on a vacation in Germany in the 1980s. Such a brilliantly simple and heavy quality system that give you so many options about how much light you want. I couldn't stop playing with it.
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  1326. It's fake news, it's not about the climate but about nature protection. Often nature that was created by farmers, but almost all nature in the Netherlands is man made because the country mostly is. Together with dodgy models and trivial norms, the norms in Germany are over a 100 times that of the DUtch, it's used to expropriate farmland for housing, housing for foreigners that is. About 300.000 are coming in each year on a 15 million (Dutch citizenship) population, while there is already a housing shortage of 1 million, teacher shortage, careworkers shortage, water shortage, electrical grid shortage, social cohesion shortage etc. It's a bad and fraudulent excuse for the plan to turn the Netherlands into a city state without any national identity.
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  1327. So if she isn't African-American she is not a descendant from Cleopatra who build the pyramids?
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  1328. Allthough I agree this is a symptom of ridiculous wealth inequality by a bad apple entrepreneur, this is poor demagoguery journalism. The yacht industry is a great asset because it generates a lot of high value, high skill and ofter lower educated jobs, there's a lot of craftsmanship involved, by many union members. The combination of a sailing yacht, with masts you know, with this design of bridge from the era of steam and diesel made the shipyard ask for dismantling the bridge so the yacht doesn't need to be finished elsewhere. They know how to dismantle and restore the bridge, it's not such a big deal. There are thousands of more important monuments too.
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  1329. Er is vast wel een of internationale islamitische jihad NGO die dat voor ze regelt.
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  1330.  @racenemo  Nonsense. The Dutch Republic had no royals, banks were not involved and the VOC was formed by the government and single East-Indies traders who wanted to share the risk. It was a war entreprise for the young republic that still needed to prove it could be united, and for nationalistic reasons the shares selling chambres were spread out over many cities. The Dutch Republic already had a very big and very wealthy middle class and among the first shareholders there were carpenters and maids. These people were mostly literate and had savings they managed. The Dutch Republic not only had relatively few farmers, it also had mostly land owning farmers, who could afford more than a shed. Everybody had to do with the VOC because it was part of the war effort first and foremost, and it opened the world to the Dutch, it brought back all kinds of exotic products and knowledge about places far away.
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  1331.  @oliviahanlim8089  That's what you do after a liberation, you restore the previous government, no matter how much the Indonesian nationalists sided with the Japanese fascists. Secondly it was necesseray to restore order because the Indonesian nationalists who claimed to be ready for independence and need no futher civilization by the Dutch went on a genocidal slaugther of anyone who didn't look indiginous Indonesia enough. Pure racial hatred mass killings of not only the Dutch, but al mixed race and the Chinese. The independence from Japan was not a thing of the Indonesians. The West liberated Indonesia from the Japanese. ​ @Olivia Hanlim No, not really. The violence, the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians for having the wrong skin colour by the Indonesian nationalists in the Bersiap was indeed horrendous. The Dutch attempt to restore order was just another war with it's human rights violations like there are in any war. Not good, and the Dutch should be held to their own (much higher) standards but it was really nothing special. Several platoons that got out of control, but also only a very tiny part of the military operation. The article in your link is full of BS. No knowledge, lots of judgementalism and plain falsehoods. The Dutch are very well aware there was also bad in their history, but since they were the ones introducing the values to the world colonial history is now judged by, they tend to accept that progress is made and therefore the entire past was worse than the present.
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  1332.  @karan.kunwar543  There were a lot of stories and little knowledge. The Europeans sailed there because they were curious, and get a bit too much stick for misnaming while the just didn't know much yet and weren't pretending to. They were only starting to map the world. In the 17th century the Dutch weren't arrogant Europeans yet. In India an early Dutch trading mission failed because the silk dressed Indians weren't impressed with the Dutch traders goods or people. The Dutch decided on sending more educated, well mannered and better dressed delegations. It was basically Europeans peasants dealing with nobility in a lot of places, with a lot of humble politeness to the Asians who were bossing their lands.
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  1333.  @karan.kunwar543  The initial plan of the VOC was to kick some Portuguese ass and bring back silk and spices to pay for the two year journey. The Dutch were at war for their independence from Spain and therefore Portugal, for their existence as religious tolerant, and with it for the rights you now enjoy too thanks to the Dutch. But war and trade were intertwined. You couldn't just send a navy all the way to East-Asia without a network of trading posts, with places to get food and water, it could only work with merchant ships doubling as war ships when the European enemy was found. That's why the government got involved. The Dutch dominance of all European trade was achieved without government involvement and through self employed ship owners and small companies. The Dutch Republic gave the trade monopoly for the whole East of the Cape to the VOC and shareholders were found over the whole country and among almost all classes because it was also to unite the country behind this war effort and the new optimism after securing most of the borders a couple of years earlier, allthough there were still sieges, but the Republic had survived it's most existential threats for now. But they soon found a weak spot in Asia, on the island of Java. From there they could over much more of the seas and also make money trading between Asian nations, what the VOC ended up doing most. But this was far beyond the original plan. They had to invent the stock market so the VOC could reinvest the profits instead of paying dividend to the shareholders it was legally obliged too. The stock exchange allowed the shareholders to cash in while the VOC invested it's profits. The Dutch made it up as they went along forced by war for it's existence, that was also how they became the Dutch Republic in the first place. There was no greater plan, just their invention of capitalism and almost all European kingdoms wanting them destroyed and slaughtered.
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  1334.  @Triplestardoubleloss  The VOC respected local customs like slavery a bit too much maybe, but they hardly enslaved anyone. The locals enslaved people all over Asia and those were for sale.
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  1335. Time to decolonize this city.
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  1336. There is no reason to mention Dutch slavery as part of worldwide slavery because it was tiny and there is no reason to mention slavery in relation to the Dutch economy because it was tiny. The reason to mention Dutch slavery is because it's an interesting story of moraly corruption and hypocrisy after the Dutch Republic started out so well. But I feel that's not the nuance you are looking for.
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  1337. The Dutch got rid of the divine right of absolute kings and founded a republic over 2 centuries before the French. But it's been far less centralistic and authoritarian than France which has no active public opinion other than through strikes and riots. The social and labour peace has always been cherished through debate and compromise. The issue is that the public opinion isn't public anymore, state and corporate media have sneakily appropriated it.
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  1338. Wat een onzin. Het asielbeleid is dé morele kwestie, is de Nederlandse regering er voor de Nederlandse burgers of gaan buitenlanders voor. Laten we ons gebruiken door iedereen van de 8 miljard aardbewoners die het hier wel leuk lijkt? Laten we criminele asielzoekers hier hun gang gaan? Laten we het ons overkomen en ons land veranderen? Gaan we pappen en nathouden met een spreidingswet tot het hele land vol zit met AZCs? Moet meer dan de helft van de social huurwoningen op termijn bezet zijn door Afrikanen en Midden-Oosterlingen? Er komt immers geen eind aan de stroom zo. Dat lost je niet op met kortzichtig sentimenteel en praktisch doen. Juul spreekt hier vanuit een dubbele agenda. Ik heb meer respect voor het deel van de asiellobby die daadwerkelijk denkt dat het echte vluchtelingen zijn en het humanitaire morele verplichting is.
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  1339. They don't. Don't forget it was the Americans and American companies that censured speech for several years, it's the USA where cancel culture came from. You have only been successfully pushing pushing back globalist totalitarianism for a couple of months now and only because of a lucky earshot.
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  1340. So the unique thing about English is that it's one of many European languages?
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  1341.  @luvee659  Yes, but it's not unique to English and it makes these features not unusual, contrary to what the video and the text claims. That doesn't make the content of the video bad, it's just presented like English is so very special, which it turns out to be not.
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  1342. It's almost like many on the left want the government to be nice to people just because they can't manage that themselves.
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  1343. This was of course never going to reduce illegal immigration. But the Dems, who have a policy of mass immigration because they want it, wanted to falsely suggest they wanted to do be seen as doing something so came up with this. The media on the Dems side went along and came up with 'border czar' to suggest something was going to change.
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  1344.  @KimoraJaed  No, it wasn't really aimed at that. She has been welcoming illegal immigrants with money and housing for 3.5 years because she and Biden wanted millions more. They changed policy after Trump dramatically with the forseeable and wanted effect. Can't blame Reps for not accepting an inadequate change to deny the voters to have a say about it.
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  1345. The American DOI is materially a copy of the Dutch DOI of 1581, the one that would lead to the Dutch Republic with it's William III of Orange appointed as it's, more or less, 5th stadtholder. The divine right of kings was at least made conditional in that, as that a ruler had to serve and product the people and by trampling on inalienable rights the king had become a tyrant and therefore left the legimate throne of the Netherlands himself. In legal terms it was declaratory of the situation, as in we the rebels have observed you have left the throne sire, rather than pretending to constitute a new situation themselves.
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  1346.  @lightlayagajoie5739  Wij krijgen ook niks anders dan ordinaire en tamelijk doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda waarbij wij in oorlog zouden zijn, met Putin persoonlijk en niet zozeer Rusland, die tot Nederland wil doorstoten, en Zelensky met zijn groene legershirtje die een stemmetje opzet (luister maar eens goed) is een oorlogshitser, een pion. Maar het is ook een president met een hele slechte mensenrechten en democratiescore voor de oorlog begon. Ik zie geen enkele aanleiding om Rusland te verdedigen maar om nou ineens te doen alsof die Zelensky een toffe vredesduif is slaat ook helemaal nergens op.
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  1347.  @2001Pieps  Met de aantekening dat het KNMI heeft gemeend een aantal meetfouten bij weerstations te kunnen vaststellen met modellen, en de temperatuurmetingen heeft aangepast. Blijkbaar kon men in de 20e eeuw nog geen thermometer aflezen. Met de oorspronkelijk data was het beeld heel anders. Behalve dat een hittegolf helemaal geen extreem weer is, zegt het aantal ook niks over klimaatverandering. Niet alleen omdat weer geen klimaat is, en er ook klimaatverandering kan zijn zonder dat het weer hier veranderd tov decennia geleden, maar ook omdat een hittegolf is gedefenieerd in 5 dagen boven de 25 graden met 3 dagen boven de 30 in de inmiddels sterk geurbaniseerde De Bilt. Dus als het extreem weer is, 3 dagen knetterheet en dan een enorme weersomslag en weer 3 dagen knetterheet, is het geen hittegolf. Kortom, het historisch vergelijk is niet goed mogelijk en het zegt sowieso nauwelijks wat. Waar me moeten nou eenmaal met het weerbericht overtuigd worden van het enorme gevaar zodat we de meest onzinnige maatregelen pikken.
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  1348.  @2001Pieps  Dat is nog steeds geen extreem weer en het KNMI heeft gemeend meetfouten in de 20e eeuw te kunnen vaststellen op basis van modellen en de data aangepast waardoor er een aantal hittegolven verdwenen zijn. Blijkbaar kon men vroeger geen thermometer aflezen. Daarnaast zeggen hittegolven heel weinig. Het gaat om De Bilt, dat is een sterk geurbaniseerd meetstation, en het is 3 tropische dagen in een periode van 5 dagen met een maximum boven de 25 graden. Je hebt dus hete zomers zonder een hittegolf omdat de temperatuur een dagje zakte tot 24 graden en lauwe zomers met een warm weekje en wel een hittegolf. Maar het woord heeft een lading en we moeten en zullen met het weerbericht doordrongen worden van klimaaatverandering en elke onzinnige maatregel maar pikken. Terwijl er ook klimaatverandering kan zijn zonder dat wij er hier ook maar iets van merken. Het is allemaal antiwetenschappelijk gedram. Luister naar de klimaatwetenschap zeggen ze dan, maar ondertussen doen ze alsof je naar het weer moet kijken....
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  1349. Waarom halen jullie beleefde en inhoudelijke reacties met feitelijk juiste informatie weg?
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  1350. @erwindewit4073 Het broeikasprobleem is al meer dan 30 jaar bekend, alle mensen die zich sinds een paar jaar plotseling zorgen zijn gaan maken moeten niet doen alsof ze zich goed geinformeerd hebben, die zijn gewoon makkelijk beinvloedbaar door de antiwetenschappelijke propaganda dat het weerbericht en de weersvoorspelling klimaatverandering zou bewijzen. Je kunt dan ook precies zien aan wie zich wanneer begon te roeren in het klimaatvraagstuk wie de wetenschap volgt en wie maar gewoon nablaat wat die laatste tijd veel hoor. Die laatste groep heeft geen enkele reden om zich beter te voelen dan het Facebook en Fox News publiek, en mensen die naar het laatste verwijzen zijn blijkbaar sowieso gaan geloven dat het hier de VS is.
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  1351. The Dutch only ruled the whole of Indonesia for a couple of decades then. Before that they mostly just exploited through the local rulers, who certainly weren't any better. It was their cruelty that made the Dutch eventually properly colonize the islands.
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  1352. It was mostly used to make felt hats though.
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  1353. Most benefits of the EU are not benefits of the EU at all but benefits of the EEC, like free trade, that have been appropriated by the EU to force their unelected political agenda with. The only reason member state citizens might be optimistic about the EU is because the European journalists don't do their jobs but have become EU propagandists, and public survey companies can no longer be trusted either. No, I'm not optimistic. It's becoming a straight up antidemocratic power grabber that's rotten to the core, morally and financially corrupt, with a disregard for it's ordinary citizens.
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  1354.  @Ganymede559  The steam engine was a game changer, but let's not forget France's contributions to the Industrial revolution. The British were relatively late with contributing to the scientific revolution when the first, most groundbreaking stuff was already done. Not that they don't have done impressive things, but forcing half the world to speak their language (and pissing off the Americans into independence) is what spreads their self serving narrative and makes them look far more important than other great contributors. The modern world is also photography and film, electricity, chemistry, maths (in physics), modern social, political and economical structures, classical music, painting , standardized measurements (indispensable for the industrial revolution's mass production), telecommunication, cars, lorries and buses, botany, modern agriculture etc.
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  1355. So you're a racist claiming other people's country because of your skin colour and are mad they don't welcome you in their country?
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  1356. She does know, she is Dutch. She's just not interested in reporting how it is.
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  1357.  @muesliman100  Yes, 400 years of religous peace between catholics, jews, hindus, 421 denominations of protestantism etc, 3 decades of a small muslim minority and the corpses of religious killings lie in the streets, teachers and authors in hiding, people fearfully shutting up, politicians in bunkers, women without headscarfs harassed, gays beaten up. It's pretty obvious muslim immigrants are the threat to freedom of religion and freedom of print.
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  1358. The Dutch country side is still progressive. The are little very strict christians left on the country side but most farmers won't see grandpa suffer hellish pains to stretch his 100-year life for another week either, that's what euthanasia is about. The BBB's stance on abortion is that the 5 day reconsideration term didn't need to be removed from the law for the political symbolism of the left claiming 1970's abortion progress as theirs. Most will be pro gay marriage but are simply more down to earth and don't go along with the American imported woke madness. There's still a huge Dutch undercurrent that simply supports individual freedom as long as you don't attack another one's individual freedom. It's actually the big cities these days that are narrow minded, bigoted, dangerous for gays and racist.
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  1359. Wait till you see the Alfa Romeo SZ from the side. I love it since it came out in the late 80s but is definitely an opinion divider, like most Zagato designs.
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  1360. The main part of the housing crisis is caused by the government policy of mass immigration in unprecedented levels.
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  1361. No, the Netherlands was a republic for most of it's colonial past.
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  1362. Africans wanted independence, claimed to be ready for it, made a mess of it and now blame the Europeans again. Europeans are often hypocrite and overpromise and underdeliver, but at least they want Africans to do well. Good luck with China and Russia and a lot more babies than you have jobs for.
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  1363. True. The Dutch didn't enslave locals, they bought their slaves from the enslavers elsewhere and imported them. The Dutch typically started off on the good foot with the locals with mutual benefit, and then stupidly getting into conflicts with them by being pennywise or just general mismanagement.
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  1364.  @SuperHarl007  I understand managers are sacked sometimes, but give the media an inch and they'll keep pushing, give them a stone wall and the'lly have to go back to doing match reports, they lack the skills for. A manager should not be concerned with saving his job in a certain match.
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  1365.  @marijnverheggen6482  Nee, de wereld zit zo in elkaar door reacties als deze, en stiekem filmen met drones mag helemaal niet.
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  1366.  @chrichtonsworld1  Omdat ze nare gluurders zoals jij er niet bij willen hebben.
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  1367.  @ktcool4660  Like he could. This is just the British milking the one time he was faster but wasn't allowed to win because they can't accept a non British driver being the best. Not with Schumacher, not with Vettel and now not with Verstappen.
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  1368. Not a fan of all the woke ** but people moaning about the concept like the current line up of identity confused neutered models represents the real Jaguar is just mindless mob mentality. At least it is bold, and it's actually a masculine looking car, not a car desperate to look any anonimous German sedan or SUV blob.
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  1369. Ik vind het eerlijk gezegd nogal verontrustend dat een omhooggevallen sportjournalist, dito disc jockey en een of andere beginnende academicus zich zoveel verstandiger over de situatie uitlaten dan we in de overige media zien.
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  1370. Not just pure misery. Insecurity wants confirmation by other people doing the same thing, bad habits have to be justified by being shared too. Drinkers will push alcohol on people, same with drugs, I'm not opposed to drink and drugs at all but I have noticed the tendency to want to drag others in. They just want to share, not because they are evil but because they think they are being nice while being very selfish in their quest for confirmation of their habits they deep down have second thoughts on.
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  1371. Blijkbaar mag ik van BNR of Google niet zeggen dat de EU gemaakt is om over de lidstaten te heersen en niet om sterk naar buiten toe te zijn. Dus deze zal ook wel weer verwijderd worden.
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  1372. We can't blame Nobel for people having their thieving hands in his inheretance for their own petty political agendas. The rules to award his money are very clear and the Nobel committee breaks them so they should sent to jail and reimbourse the money from their own pockets.
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  1373. True, but the 2CV had a kind of self levelling suspension too because the front and rear were connected. That worked great to compensate for the softness for that extremely light car. But it lacked the progressive suspension of the hydropneumatics and the side to side and static self levelling of the pressure suspension.
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  1374. I like the Porsche, the rear is indeed a bit weirdly proportioned but at least it's not like anything else. It's also a bit like if German engineers decided a front engined Porsche has to look like this, it's probably well thought through and has reasons behind it, form follows function, so... It's not just a design fad, a frolic for only a couple of years until a redesign. The car stayed in production for over 20 years in it's same basic design so they got something right.
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  1375. Biden is seniel, leeftijd is op zich het probleem niet. Dat was een trucje van de media om Bidens verstandelijke problemen te verdoezelen en op Trump the projecteren.
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  1376. Which resources? Cobalt is only a resource if you know how to make batteries. Cacao beans and cheap child labour to pick it is only a resource if you know how to make chocolate. Most are only resources because of Europeans.
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  1377.  @simmons4690  Yes, also that but that's not ambitious enough. The wealth is in the value adding, Europe is not wealthy because of colonization or slavery, but because they are the ones adding value to almost anything from anywhere. Raw cacao beans aren't very valuable, chocolate is. Raw rubber isn't very valuable, rubber products are. Same with sugar in the days of the Transatlantic slavery. The profit is in the end product, not the raw sugar thousands of miles away from where it's sold. Economically the difference between slavery and cheap labour is negligable. So that's why I think you should use the power over the raw material that everybody needs to get the technology to do more of the production chain.
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  1378.  @simmons4690  No, added value in the sense that if you have 200 euro E bike battery there's only about 10 euro's in cobalt and lithium and other raw materials in it. This 20 euro has then be divided between a few hundred miners and truckers transporting it to the ship. A remaining 180 euro's has to be divided by about 10 Europeans involved in the manufacturing, processing skilled workers, trained machine operators, marketing, whatever. The rest goes to the shareholder, all of them are consumers products like that. That's how Europe is so wealthy. They don't care if Africa gets more wealthy, they'll pay more for the resources but also sell much more batteries. Probably the latter makes them more money but no one decides on that, it is what it s. Capitalism isn't planned, that's why it's so good and so bad at the same time. So what I am saying that for the continent to get more wealthy, they should do more of the value adding to the raw materials they have, and use the power over the scarce resources to get from the West what they need for that. If Congo would only say you can get our cobalt, but we ship it to you too and you got to pay handsomely for that. Than you have the shipping money too and that would already be an improvement. But Africa could do much more of the processing too, and that's just the start. From there you could do the whole battery. You don't have to like capitalism, but it is there and it's not going anywhere so you have to work it to your advantage.
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  1379. Het is er simplistisch genoeg voor gemaakt.
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  1380. Look at them now, religions don't fair well in a competitive environment, they need a monopoly. The protestants in charge of the Dutch Republic practiced religious tolerance and the freedom of conscience the foundation under it, but it also led to 423 different denominanations of protestantism in the Netherlands alone. When you think in terms of power, the catholics had a point about not allowing any other religions.
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  1381.  captainhook5410  Indeed, they are more like beggars. They are usually descendants of the enslavers and slavetraders that after getting a free house and welfare as refugee will demand reparations and act like they have conquered Europe instead of being let in out of pity.
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  1382. I don't believe it has anything to do with their Oxford education from a decade earlier. They just loved the absurd and it could never be absurd enough. They will get cancelled soon.
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  1383. No, allthoug much more succesfull than it's Atlantic counterpart the WIC, it was peanuts for the Dutch who dominated the far bigger European trade for 200 years.
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  1384. He's known to be very much into music, even very modern music including hiphop, which can be a bit hard to grasp for people from his generation, and use it to connect to people in general and his players in particular. That might come across as a silly grandpa trying too hard to fit in with the youngsters, but that's a much less serious and painfull accusation.
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  1385.  @bigpapa1954  So you didn't really want to learn the language, you wanted random people to learn you the language.
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  1386. Snap dat nou eens, de VVD wil massa-immigratie. Dat is niet weggegeven, als je 13 jaar lang A zegt en B doet dan is dat omdat je dat wil. De VVD wil niet met de PVV samenwerken omdat de verhoudingen met Renew Europe van Verhofstadt, met de EU en met de NAVO veel belangrijker zijn dan de verhouding met het Nederlandse electoraat.
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  1387. It was the Dutch themselves that opened up the world to trade. They invented modern capitalism, they came up with the idea of the free sea and free trade, they dominated the European trade. Over 99% of the Dutch merchant fleet was in Europe, that made them rich, not a few Africans cutting sugar cane for shelter and food only.
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  1388. I believe you, I was just surprised by it. I have repaired and installed sockets and I think safely, but actually electricity is quite abstract, hard to get some fundamental understanding of what it actually is and how it really works.
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  1389.  @drcl7429  Thanks. I guess because I don't understand electricity at a fundamental level, I keep getting suprised.
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  1390. Kunnen jullie ook even een fatsoenlijke kaart nemen? Het IJsselmeer is nog niet helemaal ingepolderd. En het is niet Poetin het is Rusland. Dat is het trucje van oorlogshitser Bush, "Saddam" als de vijand benoemen alsof daarmee het probleem verdwenen zou zijn als die weg is, dat was niet zo en dat is bij Rusland ook niet zo.
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  1391. They act like Africa is a skin colour too, and make an imperial claim to the whole continent based on that. It isn't, North Africans and the indiginous people of South-Africa aren't black.
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  1392. Propgandisten zijn het. Hoezo doet Rutte niet wat nodig is? Omdat de regering beweerde dat onteigening nodig is voor de natuur is dat volgens de NOS ook het geval? Macron heeft problemen in eigen land? Zijn land staat in brand, hoezeer de NOS dat ook uit het journaal houdt. Gezellig met een kopje koffie in de hand met Van der Wal keuvelen, als je zo weinig journalistieke afstand in acht neemt dan ga vanzelf wel met de macht meedenken.
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  1393. Nonsense. The EU is not really opposed to tax avoidance and the Netherlands is just a bit smarter about it than most European countries.
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  1394.  @masterTigress96  The Dutch Republic declared independence in 1581, the remaining Spanish Netherlands empoverished, the rich North stopped paying taxes to Spain and became filthy rich because of introducing modern capitalism, industrialized ship building and freedom. The 17 provinces paid more than half of Spain's taxes before. The Dutch land area was secured in the 1590's, and the Spanish and their Portuguese allies posessions overseas got attacked and taken. The import of silver and gold to finance their wars only wrecked their economy further.
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  1395. No, that private company, the WIC mainly, was under the Dutch Republic and not under this government's predecessors.
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  1396.  @lucyh4355  Yep, you pick sides and then the 'facts' fitting your choice.
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  1397. ​ @VDMOOLN  Appearently you do, so in that case, how would you know others do that too?
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  1398. Johnny Harris spreading American imperialist propaganda again. - The USA was invested from it in the beginning, stirring tribalism to divide the strong and rather successful socialist nation state. The parts aren't socialist anymore. - The UN was the forbidding the countries to take enough arms with them to enforce any peace. The UN high command (French) refused air support. - It wasn't a UN trial but a NATO trial. Milosevic wasn't convicted, his trial disappeared behind close doors and then he died in a manner more mysterious than Epstein before he could start his defense.
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  1399. That's just American sillyness that has been imported. They used to be called just Dutch or, when appropriate Surinamese Dutch or Antillian Dutch. But the Dutch blacks have to import American history and racism otherwise they are not victim enough to beg for money.
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  1400. And illegal occupations of universities are illegal occupations.
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  1401. Klopt, daarom moet migratie ook wederzijds vrijwillig zijn.
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  1402.  @lasvegasotis6780  No, Europeans, the British Empire in particular, ended worldwide slavery by force. Against the will of many Afircans and also the Arabs got their slave ships taken by force. It took Britain until 2011 to pay off the cost of these operations and the cost of freeing their own slaves. Slavery by Europeans wasn't particularly brutal within the context of slavery. Yes it was brutal, and yes it wasn't brutal. Just like African slavery and Arab slavery and the older inter-European slavery or the slavery of Europeans by Arabs, Ottomans or the Barbaries, it was a mixed bag. There is nothing other than wishful thinking and an excuse mentality to pretend African slavery was any less brutal. Actually Europeans did not enslave Africans at a point in time. The Africans were enslaved by Africans, and then for sale at the coast.
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  1403. No, it are the different countries and cultures that do the projects. It's not the EU doing this, national infrastructure planners are happy enough when the EU doesn't get in the way for a change.
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  1404. I think it has too many lines so that's a good thing. Most German car designers have lost me in the past 15-20 years with the exception of only a few Mercedes. Sportsbacks, too many lines, too much arches, inflation of aggressive sinister looking head lights, lots of plastic trapezoid scaffolding at the front, huge radiators that are partly and visibly fake. I love the enthousiasm in the video but I don't share it all.
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  1405. Of course, the globalists start a slander campaign. It's just protectionism vs free trade, yeah right. We worked so hard for so long in secret on it, now you can't say no anymore.
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  1406. This is not a photograph, but a drawing, as many of them in this video not depicting the Dutch.
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  1407.  @marriebandz5769  Surniame is not another place in the USA and the (very few) indiginous people there didn't look like that.
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  1408. You can't beat disinformation with your own fake news. Media like CNN and including the BBC have undermined the concept of facts and truth themselves. Getting people to think 'right' in their view has been prioritized over truthfully informing the people. As the Dutch say, trust comes on foot and leaves by horse. The regular media have blown it themselves.
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  1409. The radical demographic change of the Netherlands was never openly chosen for, it has been sneaked through under the guise of 'refugees', the higher education in English, which is against the law actually, and so called 'skilled migrants' and lately Ukrainian refugees. The people never wanted that and never chose for that, the realized the only way to change that was to vote Wilders because the VVD is a bunch of liars who broke up the government over immigration for another attempt to win the elections with a false anti-immigration promise.
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  1410. Als Harris wint is het over met de democratie en het vrije Westen.
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  1411. Goh, de globalistische Nederlands belasting geld over de grenssmijtster die leuk meedeed met de propaganda-oorlog tegen Assad wordt bij de globalisten en imperialisten in Washington met applaus onthaald, daar mogen we trots op zijn hoor.
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  1412. We're not still profitting. It's a huge expense. Already every Surinamese has recieved about 15.000 euro's in aid since independence. The government squandered it of course, but it's still and expense, and the immigrants from there cost a lot more money even. Btw, do you know any beggar that is rich? Do you know any person that keeps blaming others for what they did in the past that is rich? So why do you expect that begging and moaning about the past as a group will get you any further?
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  1413.  @ChristiaanHW  No, he didn't start the royal house, he started the Dutch Republic that would last over 2 centuries. He actually split the Netherlands rather than unified it, because the Southern Netherlands, now Belgium and Luxembourg, bottled it and chose the Spanish Inquisition over freedom.
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  1414.  @yungmorelsy6275  A revolt and 80-years war needs symbols, orange is a strong colour. He and his son were usually referred to as Nassau.
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  1415.  @ChristiaanHW  Yes I understand but that's from a view point is doesn't really make that much difference and that's what I don't agree with. It was really a big thing, kings were supposed to be put in position by god through inheretance. There we no countries as such, no nation states, just monarchies varying in which area they ruled over with inheretance and marriage. William of Orange changed all that himself by declaring the legitimate king had left the throne of the Netherlands by becoming a tyrant. Over 2 centuries later, as a consequence of his actions, there were proper countries, nation states, in Europe and one of those could just pick a monarch because Britain wanted a buffer monarchy against now also republican France and the bankrupt Netherlands didn't care saying no. Stadtholder, no matter how semi-heriditary, was a completely different position than that from a king, it was more like an appointed civil servant. They would grow more similar over the centuries, also with kings becoming less absolutist, but not when William the Silent was stadtholder. Commander of the army was the main task, especially for his son Maurice of Nassau.
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  1416. I read a few comments about that, and propably it's a 60's model that got hardly changed until the early 80's. So on the big stuff it was probably the 60's model with just a little bit different 'upholstery'.
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  1417. With European cars of the 70's and 80's in mind I wasn't surprised at all 60 hp makes it go. Those under 800 or 900 kilo cars really don't need much. Just revs and turn off the radio uphill.
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  1418. Zo'n tandeloze coalitiestlaaf die toestaat dat Omtzigt zijn stemrecht deels ontnomen is, zijn spreektijd beperkt en zijn ondersteuning gebrekkig omdat de regering hem wilde wippen mag je best wat harder aanpakken.
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  1419. Few things more disgusting than an anglocentric Brit desperately trying to be politcally correct at the expense of Afrikaners by downplaying horrendous crimes. Apartheid is not the product of the Afrikaners, it is what came out of British colonialism. It was the Brits that wanted to take all the land and rule all the people, the Boers were colonized by them too, those were happy just farming their own land.
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  1420. When I see some American video's on "cycling in Europe" I also wonder how big a part of Europe they believe the Netherlands to be. The situation on immigrants is very different to the USA all over Europe. We have a different kind of immigrants, who came with different aspirations and obligations. We are in general less tolerant for different groups, of paralel societies in our national society, Americans tend to live seperate from and rather indifferent to people in a different part of the city, in Europe we had high expectations of fitting in, becoming one of us. Gypsy organized crime is a bit like a cheap nomadic Mafia. In Western Europe we see a lot of that because it's nomadic and very little of the rest of gypsy culture, unless you are in to Flamenco of course.
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  1421. They are both coming from the same prudeness. Both male and female genital mutilitation serve the purpose of limiting sex more to penetration, for reproduction. The transgender ideology is also neglecting sexual joy, looks are more important, sexual joy is just about the mechanics that can be imitated through surgery. Ignore physical sensitivity and all the dirty things that come with the arousal of the natural body, that only makes prudes uncomfortable. Passing as the opposite sex is the most important thing in life. Of course it is for a confused teen, for teens looks are far more important than for older people, who will turn down the light in the bedroom more nad more anyway, who care much more for great working genitals. Especially when those teens have not been in love yet, haven't had sex yet, and their urge to do so is diminished by drugs and/or hormones. How could they ever make a conscious decision that looks are more important than natural sexual function if they haven't been allowed to experience or even look forward to normal sexual function?
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  1422.  @antizwets5904  Tuurlijk, het was even wringen en zijn steunbetuigingen aan Hamas van de kerstmarktmoordenaar moesten even weggelaten, maar dan past het allemaal net in het gewenste plaatje.
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  1423. It's only of temporary use. When oil runs out or get less important the Arabs just go back to dumbing themselves down into global irrelevance again.
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  1424. The one that kept the Netherlands out of Africa?
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  1425.  @mbos14  One could also wonder what the world would look like if the catholic absolute monarchs had succeeded in rooting out protestantism when the Dutch had failed. Or what would have become of France without a Dutch republic showing what a country could do very will without a king. A republic where the enlightenment philosophers could either work in freedom or have their books printed. The 17th century Dutch Republic probably influenced the 18th century more thant the 17th century.
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  1426. Contrary to popular foreing belief, the Dutch never ate their prime-minister. But who knows what the future brings?
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  1427.  @filipbitala2624  Underrated comment.
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  1428. There is an international campaign to claim free speech for any left wing protest by any means, and for the legacy media too. We have to be very careful about what free speech is precisely to protect it.
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  1429.  @gerhardadler3418  I mainly remember the theme song well.. I know I liked the different setting of the series but I probably only caught 2 or 3 episodes.
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  1430.  @liesbethpronk4897  I agree, it's also together with Suriname that we created them. It's not like we colonized an existing nation. We made those societies and in case of Suriname, changed the land and made it actually very Dutch. We have responsibility and they are always welcome back.
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  1431.  @jbmikadom2755  Send them back to Africa? Reparations were already paid. With handing independence about 15.000 euro's per Surinamese was given in aid, for the reason of slavery. That was after all the schools and hospitals of course. Be careful what you ask for, becasue it might turn out they are in debt to the Dutch.
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  1432. Typical American to make race the thing a picture is for.
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  1433. The Dutch Republic was founded on the idea of freedom of conscience, codified in 1579. Implied was that everyone was free to serve god as he thought was right, this was the birth of religious tolerance but also meant distancing themselves from the catholics. I don't feel connected to the Dutch bible belt at all, but for those days they were extremely chill on religion.
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  1434. The biggest Dutch influences are the melting pot, freedom of religion, capitalism, upward social mobility and the American dream and the concept of inalienable rights of the people including the one to remove a tyrant. The classist English were still stuck in the Dark Ages for most of the 17th century.
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  1435. Not really my kind of movie but Taxi (1) it is really well made and funny and I fully understand why it's legendary among people who's kind of movie it is.
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  1436. It's not that special, the main difference is that it's news now and not just hot.
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  1437. She doesn't care, she's Swedish nobility, not really Dutch and her government has caused quite a few deaths.
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  1438. We just look down on them, but they are big so we have to play nice.
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  1439. The past 150 years the people with slave ancestry or other blacks with enslaver and slave trader ancestry who came as 'refugees' from Africa have reaped the fruits of white Dutch labour mainly. Since that labour is far more valuable and it was a lot more people, I'm afraid the blacks have to pay up.
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  1440.  @enlargevision8777  Who is 'us'?
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  1441.  @MAGAISKLAN  Let me guess, you read that in English didn't you?
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  1442. The VW Bus came about because Ben Pon, head of VW import in the Netherlands, went to visit the factory in Germany not just to order Beetles, but also to tell them was a lot of demand for a simple cheap van in the Netherlands. He made them a very child like sketch based on the Beetle chassis, luckily the VW designers stuck to this child like simpicity giving it it's iconic look.
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  1443. @ Yes, and then you have to make a sentence to describe the relevant relation between several of those half sentences and it becomes unreadable and often a grammatical impossibility. So even with extra effort and concessions to readability you might stlll not be able to exactly say what the Germans can say.
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  1444.  @sugarflame1833  It doesn't qualify you to drive on European roads, you didn't learn the required skills, period.
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  1445.  @sugarflame1833  I'm sorry you didn't get it was a charicature, but I'm sure for some states, that is not that far off. So the American driver's licence does not guarantee anymore driving skill we get exposed to than the worst US state in this.
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  1446. I was just flipping the channels and didn't understand what the fuss was about, how could this drag show be harmful to children? But than I spotted a guy who looked suspicious, and lot of priests too.
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  1447. And which art would that be? The Dutch were traders and did a bit of extortion on the side, but were never in the business of looting and certainly not in Africa. The national museum here is full of Dutch art, 2 million paintings were made in the 17th century alone, for 1.5 million people, and Japanese and Chinese art, countries the Dutch had never any control over but had to trade with in humility. African art might have been bought from the French or British who might have stolen it before.
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  1448. They don't do it for the same reason women's sports has such a lower level even outside the biological limitations, even the small part of women that like competitive sport are not competitive, aggressive enough to stand up to this BS. They need the men to complain about this mostly, women ar not the most outspoken on this subject. The women who don't understand sports but have a lot of opinions often claim women could beat men. Just like the women of the WNBA and women's football they are beggars and moaners, they demand the men to get them things, money, stadiums, in Europe even club names and the sacred shirts, an achievement to be allowed to wear them for men. They don't take their women's competition back, they don't fight for it, they don't make their competition, because they expect the men to give them those things like they gave them these sports and facilities. This might sound mysogynistic and that's because I'm so disappointed in women lately it makes me mad.
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  1449. They had fewer races otherwise the drivers couldn't attend the funerals of their collegues.
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  1450.  @odril  No, I don't forget mass. The other form of immigration, motivated by strictly personal circumstances like falling in love with a Dutch person or do that one unique job there, is no problem to anybody. It would if there was xenophobia. You flip the question around. Why would we be in favour of mass immigration? It increases profits for banks, real estate sharks and the international corporatocracy, I understand that. But what's in it for us other than more crime and unsafety, unaffordable housing, shortage of doctors and teachers, sharply declining education levels, power outages, overcrowded traffic and basically everthing? Opporunities to "practice our English" with people who speak it far worse?
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  1451.  @odril  It's not just supported by the data, the data throw it in your face, hard. The majority of crime in the Netherlands comes from immigrants and 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants.
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  1452.  @odril  No it isn't, contrary to islamophobia xenophobia does exist, it's just extremely rare in the Netherlands. A xenophobic would fear or shy away from interacting with a stranger because of unknown habits or something, that's completely different from the real threat of many strangers continuing to come in and stay strangers and change the place you live negatively. Not the least bit of xenophobia is required to be opposed to that.
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  1453. Hitler was a vegetarian actually.
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  1454. Lots of people into cars are just very narrow minded. I'll take an opinion divider over some uninspired SUV or compact anytime. The RR Camargue is actually Pininfarina's most challenging commission and he pulled of a masterpiece. There was something wrong with the suspension initially, with the rear wheels tucked in to much and the car visually hanging back, it was too far ahead of it's time and it was most expensive car in the world, double that of the Silver Shadow, so it got a lot of criticism. But the stance was corrected in the 2nd series, not the price, and it ages extremely well.
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  1455.  @jlau979  They never hated black people. It was about the war with other European nations and about money. The black Africans were put up for sale by Africans, they didn't get disease from the Europeans, they didn't bring disease to the native Americans, and they didn't get ill from the Americas. This black and white shit is American. The Dutch only did free people and slaves. Free blacks were just as free as free whites. There were quite a few blacks living in the Dutch Republic. Rembrandt had black neighbours, the mostly black males in the Netherlands married white Dutch women. No problem. The overseas colonies were racist societies mostly, but also there were free blacks and black slave owners.
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  1456.  @elektronischerliebhaber  The euro costs billions too. The ECB is stealing from you right now by printing money to hand to the financial sector. Your saving and pensions have lost 15% of their value last year alone because of this.
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  1457. Als je het korter wil kun je natuurlijk ook de 'duiding' van Noorlander eruit laten. Het enige wat hij doet is immers aan iedereen duidelijk maken dat de NOS namens de regering spreekt, voor wie dat nog niet doorhad. Ik ben nou niet bepaald een FvD fan maar hierin heeft Baudet wel een punt en dan is het echt nergens voor nodig dat Tweebeeke en Noorlander de televisiejournalistiek belachelijk maken.
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  1458. Fact checkers have always been political. They have never been fact checkers in the sense that their checking was led by stated facts, they always targeted a person with an opinion to fact check, and then did a poltical job on the fact.
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  1459. De EU Europa noemen is de imperialistische propaganda waarvan we reeds een paar jaar de zure vruchten plukken.
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  1460. Send the descendants of slaves back to the descendants of their African enslavers? That would certainly save us a lot of money.
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  1461. Nice to enjoy a well thought through design. But maybe it's best feature is that it communicates the danger of the elektricity if you grow up with them, and service them or see them serviced. If even the manufacturers don't take elektricity serious, why should you?
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  1462. Actually, the VOC only started to pay up profits to it''s shareholders in 1633, so the wealth to have a tulip mania from certainly didn't come from the colonial trade.
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  1463. That's because the mass immigration at the expense of the own population is indefensible so instead of that the opposition to it has to be called racist in many different ways.
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  1464. Because this guy doesn't like to be called out on his BS I guess.
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  1465. No, the Dutch Republic invaded England in 1688 and the stadtholder took the throne and gave them their current parliamentary monarchy, their Bill of Rights (he brought John Locke over, who had written his important work in the freedom of the Dutch Republic. Yes, he asked to be invited by some sidelined lords for propaganda reasons but it was actually all about France. The combined attack of England, France and catholic German states was a bit too much for the Dutch Republic, they came to the brink of annihilation 1672. This way Britain would become a durable ally rather than France's ally. The Amsterdam wisselbank had already been functioning as a central bank for almost a century. Willem's rule made backward England just more like the Dutch Republic economically, politically and socially. So the size started to count, with 5 times the population but a lower GDP than the Dutch Republic there was lots of room for improvement. Because of the modern financial system and the industrialized building of efficient cheap to run ships, the Dutch merchant fleet in Europa was bigger than that of the rest of Europe combined.
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  1466. The Dutch weren't really an empire, they let the local rulers do the oppressing mostly and with all their sins weren't thieves. The woke public broadcaster here did a series on stolen art, but after one episode about one artefact from which it wasn't clear whether it was stolen, they had to switch to Britain and France.
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  1467. Dutch government should not be interested in employment of foreigners in the Netherlands on the behalf of foreign shareholders. You can have foreigners to increase the productivity of Dutch employees, but the Netherlands does not need to facilitate and pay for the infrastructure, doctors, schools etc to server foreigners. Foreigners have their own governments. This also has nothing to do with the big part and the most important part of immigration, that's with the fake refugees, most destined for a life on welfare in scarce social housing, with the islamists, with Dutch Moroccans marrying their first cousins from Africa to get them over and have kids with a Dutch passport and all kinds of costly medical problems.
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  1468. Fear? Of a bunch of racist beggars? There is no damage, the descendants of the slaves are much better educated and wealthier than the descendents of the African enslavers that sold them. They squandered all that wealth from selling slaves, the Netherlands got rich again without any slavetrade.
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  1469.  @dennishunter5552  That's ture actually. The Netherlands was called the anus of the world by other Europeans, as in the known world, Europe, such an inhabitable place it was. Centuries later, before slavery and colonization, it was the envy of the world.
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  1470. Correct, zij die de macht controleren worden aangevallen door onze media. Volkskrant en NRC vielen liever Omtzigt in de rug aan dan zelf de toeslagenaffaire te onderzoeken.
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  1471. We hebben dan religieuze tolerantie over de hele wereld geexporteerd. Nu importeren we religieuze intolerantie.
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  1472.  @wingrider1004  But there is darker skin in Northern Italy too. Maybe not as many per 1000, but that's not the issue. A Northern Italian can not identify someone as Southerner by skin colour. That's not how this discrimination works. Maybe the islands, which tend to have smaller seperated gene pools, are different in this but then it would still be very hard to spot.
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  1473.  @JUAN_OLIVIER  Nonsense, when it turned out the Dutch didn't think Germanic in the first year of the occupation, the velvet glove came off. It was a terrible totalitarian cruel and murderous dictatorship that killed almost 4% of the population.
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  1474. That's a racist myth, the Lenape were experienced and shrude traders who got a good deal. They got 64 guilders in metal goods, they didn't have metal themselves, pots, pans, axe heads, very useful stuff and in today's money thousands of euros of it for a small piece of land they had hardly any use for because they didn't build sea ports. They were also profitting from the beaver trade, the natives hunted the beavers and came to New Amsterdam to sell them.
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  1475. @ They weren't primitive and they did understand both friendship and trade and they wanted to sell beavers. The concept of legal ownership of land was probabably alien to them because it is a weird concept, it still is, but they must have understood that they got a lot of metal goods all at once for the Dutch building and living on that piece of land. This was also not a static situation, there had been a Dutch presence for years, they learn to understand eachother. first they cherish a gifted axe head by wearing it around their neck, the next time they learn it's more useful if you make a handle for it. The Dutch and the natives made sophisticated treaties too, not necessarily easier to understand for the Dutch. People know and knew when they have a deal, that is universal.
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  1476. PvdA-GL lost one seat and an even bigger percentage of the votes, the only reason they have more seats than the PVV is that they pose as one party which they aren't. Wilders PVV went from 1 seat to 7. That is a landslide for the EU-skeptic right. This is disinformation.
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  1477. You gotta hand it to the Italians, they cheat so stylishly, it's not even really cheating. I also like the story abou the Delta S4 or 037, I don't remember. 200 had to be build for homologation, but of course there wasn't enough time or money. So when the FIA came to check half of them were stored at another place so the inspectors had to be brought to the other place, of course they got stuck in traffic and had lunch in between, and hours later indeed there was the other half at the other location.
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  1478. A head scarf is not ethnic. It's not about muslimas in the police, it's about muslimas who feel they have to show their religion on the job. Showing it by a head scarf that appears to imply that women who don't wear one are just sluts who can be treated as such, because that's how many muslim men act towards women without one. So these women are part of the oppression. That makes them unfit for a job with the police.
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  1479. De ene keer zijn ze vals en manipulatief, de andere keer is het meer een kwestie van 'wie uit mavo 2 heeft dit gemaakt?' Verlies en winst is iets uit civiele zaken, in strafzaken wordt de verdachte veroordeeld of niet.
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  1480. It was still peanuts. No year in history had the VOC making more money for the Dutch Republic than the good old herring fishery. The Dutch merchant fleet in Europe was a 100 times bigger than that of the whole VOC.
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  1481.  @jonathankerr4859  Another YT myth, all based on a dodgy calculation by a Canadian media company. We know it was bigger than the British East India Company, we also know that peak VOC brought in less money to the Dutch Republic than the good old herring fishery. We also know it's less than 200 merchant ships was futile compared to the enormous Dutch merchant fleet in Europe.
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  1482.  @jonathankerr4859  I'm just putting it in perspective. Besides the dodgy calculations by a questionable source that is taken for a fact all over history videos on YT, the special thing about it was that it was all put in one company with a Dutch monopoly. If we decide now that all Dutch trade with Ireland would be done by a single company, that would be a huge company too. The VOC didn't compete with the tens of thousands of individual merchants because it had a monopoly East of the Cape in today's SA, and it was not competitive in the European trade because of operation costs. Bigger ships with lots of guns and bigger crew, double planked, they were specialized in one year journeys with valuable cargo, not suited for shipping wheat from Poland to Sweden at competitive prices.
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  1483.  @dennistofvesson6351  Lots of countries have grown out of monarchies, but through the nature of monarchies (in Europe) a country cannot be defined by the monarch alone. If it splits between two successors to the monarch or gets into a union with another monarchy through marriage, it is not really country, is it? A country can have a monarch but it should also exist without a monarch, otherwise it's just a kingdom.
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  1484.  @dennistofvesson6351  That's exactly the point, if the monarchy is only a definition in what way the country is ruled, you must be able to define the country without the monarch, or it is just a kingdom and not a country. Not yet.
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  1485. "The Caucasian French population"? There is no such a thing except a handful of French with Armenian, Georgian or Azerbeidjani ancestry.
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  1486. The recently deceased Marcello Gandini is the designer of the Stratos Zero (working for the Bertone design house), he made fame with the Lamborghini Miura, later he did the Lambo Espada, he went angular and hexagonal with that Volvo Tundra, that was very much like the Citroen BX that went into production in 1982 and became a bestseller. The bizarre looking big citroen from 11.50 became the Citroen C6 production, still pretty bizarre looking, great car but not a bestseller at all. The Oli is a driving concept and there are videos of test drives on YT. It's an extremely interesting concept, kind of the modern 2CV. The Aston Marting Bulldog was done by William Towns, who also did AM's angular luxury saloon the Lagonda that went into production and is a firm opinion divider. The angular trend was actually set by Giorgetto Giugiaro with his Maserati Boomerang, the Lotus Esprit and later the DeLorean. Giugiaro also did the VW Golf I. There were 3 main design houses in the 70's and 80's. Pininfarina, who did most Ferraris and lots of Peugeots, but also the Cadillac Allante. Bertone did most Lamborghinis, a few Maseratis like the Khamsin(Gandini again) and a few Citroens. And the 3rd is Guigiaro's Ital Design. Zagato was there too but he is the mad hatter who exclusively designs opinion dividers and was only allowed to do a few production cars. Alfa Romeo and Lancia mostly but also a few 60's Aston Martins.
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  1487. Nee, recidive is de grootste factor. Dat is dan ook bewust niet meegenomen en maakt het hele onderzoek een onzinnige excercitie in valse insinuaties.
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  1488. RedBull wasn't dominant. Vettel was. RedBull was still a relatively small new team with a limited budget. Hadn't won a race before Vettel while Vettel had already won with ToroRosso.
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  1489.  @taal1979  No, that's about right. Stocks were exchanged starting in 1602, but it got it's own place around 1609.
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  1490.  @Gloriaimperial1  Wrong, wrong and wrong. There was hardly any witch persecution in the Netherlands and that ended much earlier. The Pilgrim fathers fled England to the Dutch Republic, to Leiden, and then they fled the Dutch religious freedom and it's feared influence on their children, which they tried to raise prudish. The Dutch didn't want empire, too expensive. They had no desire to rule as much people and land as they could. They tended to leave people in peace as long as they didn't trade with the enemy. They let them their religion, culture and language and let the local rulers do the oppressing themselves. That only changed in the late 19th century when they started to 'civilize' Indonesia for future independence. That was sometimes cynical and sometimes more cruel than direct Western colonial rule, but also had it many good sides relatively. The Dutch never wiped out entire peoples, cultures and religions. The catholics wanted to kill all protestants and jews, and convert or enslave natives.
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  1491. 'Hieronymous' is actually the latinized version of Jeroen just like Jerome is the anglofied/francofied version of Jeroen. 'Translating' names was normal back then and for example Henry VIII would be called Hendrik in Den Bosch and Enrico in Leonardo's Vinci. Jeroen might have been shortened to Joen. His official name like in the church's baptizing record might have been Hieronymous from the start, there's a long tradtion of Dutch first names that are used to call someone being different from the official and often Latin first name(s), but I don't know if that goes back that far.
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  1492. The issue is that women have made defining manhood and masculinity about themselves. We should define men as opposed to boys, because that is how the individual supposed to progress. Being obsessed with toys like fast cars, being highly competitive and flexing for the mirror a lot is very boyish. So in that sense the masculine influencers don't really get it and send the wrong message because they have let the debate be hijacked by women.
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  1493. Herbert is an even more toxic chauvinist than Brundle.
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  1494. The Dutch didn't believe in empire, too expensive and the Dutch Republic had too few poor people left to man it. The British didn't understand lucrative yet, they had to own land to make their king feel important, the Dutch were the modern capitalists who just kept making money off New York as the trade continued, but without having to spend on rule.
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  1495. Imitations are done inspired by American movies. I think the issue many Europeans have with it is that the highest achievement of a high school girl is to be pretty and shake her ass as a side dish to a main event that is male.
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  1496. Well they did actually. Not all equally because there is no such as Europeans in this context. They were in the process of developping them and spread them out selectively. First to all nobles with the Magna Charta, a little later in Brabant (North Belgium-South Netherlands) to all citizens, but the overseas area's were only included from the 19th century with declaring their values of human dignity universal in the 20th century. So there was hypocrisy in that, but it's silly to judge the Europeans and only the Europeans by the values they have given to the world.
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  1497.  @katieakin9397  It's also far more complicated than just greed, which there was. There were wars among eachother, there was religion, there was fear their enemies or rivals taking it, there was the fact that African slaves were for sale at the African coast who were pretty immune to European diseases unlike the Americn natives. It was not like the murderous American neo-colonial empire we've seen replace it since WOII.
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  1498.  @song-pg9kj  That's the history of the world until the Europeans decided to better things after they had been in control for a while. They did know better, they just took a couple of centuries to act upon it globally.
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  1499.  @song-pg9kj  I agree that the neo-colonial American empire isn't the improvement it promised to be. Otoh much of that land wouldn't be worth much without European cultivation, and many natural resources would be worthless without European innovation. The overpopulation, thanks to European medicine and lack of birth control by the locals doesn't give former colonies much to bargain with. Fomer colonies tend to be better off than countries that haven't been colonized at all. If a nation decides to play the global 'European' game you have to make sure you don't loose yourself. You can't have Western medicine, cars and phones, and be protected from the global market. The colonies wanted indpedence, they claimed to be ready for it while most colonizers weren't in hurry. And now they failed they start blaming the Europeans again. It's mostly the former colonies themselves that have overpromised and underdelivered.
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  1500. I believe we are getting demoralized by years of amoralization and immoralization. There are so many things that should be a scandal but don't become one, there is simply too much to be outraged by for outrage. Laws have become more technical and goal oriented and often lack morality of fairness or other right and wrong. When people who were foreign student in Ukraine refuse to go back to thier safe home country but want to abuse the war to get a residency permit from the Netherlands we offer them 5000 euro to leave. That is rewarding an immoral deed with quite a bit of money, and people say "well that's much cheaper than them staying here", which is it. But it's also without morality, 5000 lashes instead would be at least of some morality. We see it in tax laws too, not even elementary fairness as a consideration. End then there is the unpunished looting in the USA as a very clear example, more basic than theft morality hardly gets.
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  1501.  @meganoob12  That's true, but before VAR and a hundred games a week from all over the world on tv this often was a forgotten rare occurence. I remember a linesman getting scolded by the commentator for flagging off side and only in the analysis and after asking the referee about it they had to backtrack and explain the rule to the viewers. Everyone was so used to off side being about the defenders and not the GK that everybody had forgotten the rule. Referees of course learn that in their formal training, just like there are more rules that only referees know/knew from the top of their heads because they apply to rare occasions. These days we get to see examples from all over the world but the general understanding of the rules would be different from how the rules actually were. I'm all in favour of getting the rules right first time but this also about how the game works in practice and then it's about the defenders and the defensive line with the GK staying in his goal.
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  1502.  @meganoob12  Yes, but for players the off side rule is experienced as not being past the last defender when the ball is passed because that how it works 99,9% of the time. So that becomes the rule to them effectively and it took the referees who are properly schooled for all possible situations unlike the players who had to point that out sometimes. Players and coaches wouldn't communicate the exact rule to eachother, but only the relevant part for how to play, and then suddenly there is a situation another part of the rule is relevant, and they wouldn't realize that. Most people would never had seen such a situation before. People would not go to the library to check the rulebook and there wouldn't be thousands of off side situation available at the click of a button. So there was a general understanding of the rules among players that wasn't entirely correct or complete.
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  1503.  @meganoob12  They do no know about this rare technicality, they often didn't in the past showing it was a rare technicality. If you start explaining the rule in full and fully correct right away it becomes abstract and hard to grasp, you could also explain it from how the rule affects the game 99,9% of the time and when you get the general idea across add the detail. Both attackers and defenders don't take that part of the rule in account when positioning themselves, it something that can happen on rare occasions and will often catch them out. It's a good thing the full knowledge of the rule has spread, but to understand you have to have the general grasp of off side first.
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  1504.  @meganoob12 Yes, but that makes it abstract and hard to grasp if you don't understand how it works on the pitch. The 'rule' fellow players and coaches go by is "stay behind the defenders until the pass is played". When people still had to go to the library to look up the actual laws of the game that was even stronger.
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  1505.  @domainmojo2162  Indeed, and that's the rule we play by allthough technically the rule is different.
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  1506. Maybe I am doing wishful thinking here but Thomas Sowell makes a good case for IQ being very much influenced by culture and it stopping IQ development in teenage years. Here the Sephardic jews were doing great for centuries while the Azkhenazi were a lower class, with institutional education in the 1800s they soared. Another taboo is inbreeding and it's IQ effects. In lots of islamic and African cultures inbreeding is viewed positively, to strengthen family bonds and the tribe, to keep wealth in the family, and lately to get more Western-European citizenships in the family.
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  1507. Correct. This also reminds of Alonso, where it doesn't work. Somehow there is a pattern in the cars of Alonso developping towards him in sense that the gap with his teammate grows immensely, but the gap to the frontrunners also grows throughout the seasons. He looks better while is car starts looking worse as the season progresses.
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  1508. Shut you ignorant face. It's not loot, the Dutch weren't the British. Who gifted that canon do you think? The circumstances under which it came in Dutch posession again are still unclear. The Lombok treasure came in Dutch position because they removed local royals after mistreating a religious minority and breaking the treaty. It will not be returned, it will go to the Javanese government, the successor to the Dutch as the colonial power over the islands. That's why 'unconditionally is wrong.
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  1509.  @mijicmugendo  It's not about the most basic level of understanding, is it? At univeristy you have to be able to express and grasp abstract ideas. In a lot of disciplines that can't be done in digits and formula's so you'll have to truly master the tool that is language. I'm sure the anglophones would understand the limitations of a learned language if only they had bothered to learn one. In British universities there is still a benchmark set by academics teaching in their native language, whithout such a benchmark level would slip. Dutch people who claim they are comfortable enough in English don't get what 'enough' should be at a university.
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  1510. The Dutch Republic became independent in 1581 after the Northern Netherlands with their protestants ánd catholics rallied around the freedom of conscience, while the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) bottled out and submitted to Spain and it's catholic absolutism. The catholic church, which of course supported enemy Spain, was banned, but mass could be held in the privacy of one's own home, which happened. England and France attacked the Dutch Republic together in 1672, as well as the two German bishopries of Cologne and Munster.
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  1511.  @chrislittle2366  I read his biography, it's one those unusual characters ending up in a position he doesn't belong and making his own thing out of it. Still a bit of a tragic figure though.
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  1512. Hidden faith? At 2.11 he says the strict protestant sect of calvinism and shows a picture of what we know are 2 catholics, 1 mennonite, 1 remonstrant and 1 Dutch reformed. This is the Draper's Guild and we know who the people are and their religion was no secret. Yes, calvinism was the official religion but the freedom of conscience and therefore religious tolerance had been codified in 1579, even before the Dutch Republic or even independence was formally declared. Catholics were excluded from strategic positions and had to worship in private, but you could build an entire church inside your house as long as it didn't show from the outside. Kind of understandable given what the catholic Spain had done in the past, and the fact that it was still waging war, and later France, England and catholic Germany were out for the annihilation of the Dutch Republic and the murder of all protestants. Civil marriage was actually introduced by the protestant government to accomodate the catholics, since they couldn't do a proper church marriage.
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  1513.  @MedjayCommander  No, Europeans came up with the scientific revolution, they suddenly had far more knowlegde how to use about anything than they had resources themselves. Rubber trees were pretty useless until European knowledge, cacao was pretty useless until they found out how to make chocolate, cobalt and coltan are useless unless you know how to make batteries. I'm sorry but the scientific revolution happened in Europe and not in Africa. That changed the world and that's why you and I didn't fall victim to infant mortality and why we can exchange ideas on the internet. Before the scientific revolution and the renaissance, most of Europe wasn't more advanced or richter than most of Africa.
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  1514.  @rubyscott6685  How original? Were they born there? People claiming land their ancestors were hundreds of years ago is a bit problematic.
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  1515.  @ivonmbuyamba3190  What is it exactly that you are contesting? Only knowing that I can come up with the relevant data.
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  1516.  @lenjon7478  The North Africans aren't looked very favourably on in Europe because they don't want to become European. They lead the bad statistics, crime, unemployment, school performance, terrorism etc in every European country they are. The 3rd and 4th generation are even worse than the 1st and 2nd. That seems mostly an islam problem. Black Africans aren't despised, it's just that the ones who come uninvited pretending to be refugees don't fit in at all. Most don't have the education level or the degree of civilization to function in European society. The many Nigerian and Ghanaian students and tech workers who came invited are a whole different matter.
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  1517.  @ivonmbuyamba3190  And then they say social media is a cesspool where not civil discourse is possible. To be fair, I didn't sugarcoat anything or try to come across as nuanced myself, so I didn't take offence.
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  1518.  @RobAchterstevoren  Als het OM een lastige advocaat arresteert na die te hebben afgeluisterd, geheimhoudersstukken in beslag neeemt en die advocaat naar een geheime plek brengt en compleet afzondert van de buitenwereld in een land als Rusland of Saudi-Arabie dan zouden we het onmiddellijk over een politiestaat hebben.
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  1519. They probably weren't, but most people only read English and take our rival's trash talking for a fact.
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  1520.  @dranchd6571  We were filthy rich before any colonies, and we got filthy rich again after WWII without colonies and the people from the former colonies as a financial burden. The Dutch basically weren't part of the colonization of Africa, the British took South-Africa in 1795 and the trading posts in Ghana were taken over a few decades later. Bleeding dry the continent? Africans sold Africans to be moved out of the continent. Europe lost far more people to the America's than Africa did. Why didn't that hurt Europe? I'm not saying African's resources are worthless, I'm saying that African's labour is low in value, and therefore they remain poor. You have resources, but if all you do with them is dig them up or pluck them from a tree you are going to stay poor. Many resources only have value at all because of European technology anyway, so you're lucky there are Europeans, but if you don't know how to use that luck to your advantage, you're not going to make any meaningful progress. Same with Western medicine, you got lucky with that too, but you use the spectacular decrease of child mortality to overpopulate, making labour even cheaper and therefore people poorer. You think we are rich here beause we have warehouses full of raw cacao beans and blocks of cobalt? That's the zero sum thinking, that you can only have something by taking it from another. Europe has moved on from that since the Middle Ages because the Dutch invented modern capitalism. We used cacao beans to make expensive chocolates and tobacco to make expensive cigars to ship and sell to rich people around the world. That's what made us rich, not some colonial crime on the side. Africans used slaves for luxury, to wipe their ass, Europeans used slaves so they could do more work and produce more themselves. They build entire industries on the raw materials they used slaves for, but the money was in those industries not in the slave labour. If the low value labour stays the same, it doesn't matter whether it's done by slaves or free people economically.
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  1521.  @queenemonihughey537  Why would I look forward to the descendants of the African enslavers who hunted and captured the to be enslaved being enslaved themselves? They have done nothing wrong, and their ancestors were just a bit primitive. You might fool yourselves that you didn't enslave far more people for much longer than the Dutch who actually did abolish it and helped force Africans to abolish it. But you can't fool god. If he exists he knows what lying hypocrite beggars you have become after your ancestors were forced by the Europeans to stop enslaving people.
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  1522. Probably also because he's been made into the figure head of Northern Irish protestants and nobody really likes those and it embarasses Dutch protestants.
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  1523. Het zijn ook vaak huizen die er al staan, met particulier geld gebouwd door particuliere woningbouwverenigingen om de Nederlandse arbeidersgezinnen fatsoenlijk te huisvest. Nu zijn die door de VVD toeggeeigend om aan vastgoedspeculanten te verkopen, en om hun falend immigratiebeleid te verdoezelen. Maar als jij duizenden euro's aan een mensensmokkelaar betaalt om helemaal naar Nederland te reizen om daar je hand op te houden en huis te krijgen, dan ben je ook gewoon schuldig dat een Nederlander geen huis krijgt. Terecht dat die de schuld krijgen dus.
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  1524. You bottled it in the face of freedom and chose the Spanish Inquisition, you didn't dare sail past the shrimp grounds until the steam boat, and you still have a far more bloody, cruel and racist history than the Netherlands. Spare me your inferiority complex.
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  1525.  @dutchmcro  Nonsense, you're projecting your slave hunting, raping, barbaric ancestors. The Arab slave trade of Africans alone was 35 times bigger than that of the Dutch. Belgium has a completely different colonial past from the Netherlands, has nothing to do with eachother and people mentioning those in one sentence don't know shit.
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  1526. No, because they are liars who want more immigrants. It's the only way they can make GDP increase, just force more people in and increase taxes to pay for them.
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  1527. It's exactly the "chilling effect" that is not allowed by the ECHR because it's so effective in surpressing speech.
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  1528. This is nonsense, the British think they have invented something if they name it in English, but they only invented the name. The English themselves have described rich Dutch merchants eating sandwiches, as in meat or cheese on a slice of bread as early as the 1600s. It was always common people's food. There is a Dutch anecdote of the noble Maurice of Nassau, then Europe's most revered general and tactician in the middle of fighting the Spanish stopping for lunch at a local farmer's house, and getting told off by the peasant for putting both butter and cheese on his bread.
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  1529. The election was organized by the Dutch car magazine Autovisie, and car journalists from all over Europe could vote, so no national bias. The title was to be awarded for the greatest step forward in any class if I remember correctly. So it could be sport cars, very innovative cars had an edge like Citroen, or all round good cars which high value for money like Fiats took a lot of titles too. The Citroen BX would have won it in the early 80's too if they only had the 1.9 engine available yet, that made the car come into it's own and fit in it's class. My parents had a Citroen GS in the early 80's, driving 3000 miles for vacation with two kids and a lot of luggage in great comfort with a 1.1 litre engine. My dad always admired the CX, but that was too expensive, after retirement he bought a used XM. I personally always liked the (cheap beaten down) BX 1.9 the best, great for vacations with friends, very comfortable, great brakes, lot's of space for the size, very light and relatively quick. Lots of body roll but no drama, it just hung in their diagonally.
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  1530.  @SusCalvin  Not just in the middle of it, it's only from the product of nationalism, our democratic free nation states with rule of law, that we can discuss this at all.
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  1531.  @EternalShadow1667  No, WWII was fought over imperialism. Nationalism is the alternative to imperialism at one side and tribalism at the other side, and is historically the alternative to absolute monarchism in which the monarch defines the unit to be governed. Nationalism has brought us the nation states with their rule of law, civil rights and democracy, and subsequently worker's rights, environmental protection, taxing multinationals, housing plans, infrastructure, all to serve the people. The modern imperialists, the globalists, try to discredit nationalism by falsely claiming WWII was caused by nationalism and ignite tribalism because they don't want to pay taxes and don't want to have limited supply of legally protected workers. Their financial interests don't want to be submitted to democratic national laws because those tend to serve the people rather than multinational business. The Nazis were both tribalist through aryan and imperialist through war for expansion. The globalists are much like them and also love censorship, fixation on race, medical experimentation, political selective prosecution and non prosecution of political violence and entanglement of business, government and media.
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  1532.  @EternalShadow1667  Yes, democracy is suffering from globalism, aka modern imperialism and tribalism. Tribalism being the divide and rule of the imperialists.
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  1533.  @EternalShadow1667  My posts get removed here for pointing out that Nazi Germany was imperialistic and tribalistic rather than natiolist. Anyway, politically nationalism is primarily about jurisdiction over a territory for a defined people. That is a necessity for democracy and rule of law, which are under attack by the globalists/imperialists, who are also the ones smearing the only alternative, nation states, as racist and the ones removing my posts.
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  1534. The EU has a migration policy? How so, the EU doesn't have any land? The migration pact shows why this can't work, they are proud to have reached an agreement after 7 years. 7 years of in which millions of 'irregular' migrants arrived, a much higher cost per person than 20.000 euros. Also the member states don't have a responsibility to accept foreigners at all. The fact that the EU wants African and Middle Eastern immigrants does not make it a responsibility.
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  1535.  @stefanmeier235  In Britain probably, there European cars were easily 1.5 times more expensive relatively to the other way around. I think most problems were sorted out after a couple of years. It's not a poorly build car.
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  1536.  @worstenbroodje6832  Yes he can. It's not because he can't drive fast Stroll isn't worthy of F1. He's pretty quick sometimes and has been really good in the rain. It's when he hast to manage things, push buttons, deal with other cars when he gets overloaded.
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  1537. The constitution only prohibits the state and all it's institutions, it's not for citizens to obey the constitution because it doesn't adress them. That's what criminal law is for. You also can't just pull percentages out of your ass. The experiment with nameless job application was cancelled because it led to less migration backgrounders being hired instead of more, and another experiment 'proving' discrimination had to be changed to include accents. Regional accents are not fully accepted in the Netherlands either.
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  1538.  @kylem2010GT  Don't forget the Brabham BT55, probably the best looking open wheel car from the aerodynamic era.
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  1539.  @CarthagoMike  You would have to do an exchange rate/ cost of living correction anyway.
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  1540. Part of Rutte's influence came through selling out Dutch interests all the time. Also Wilders doesn't need to be Rutte's successor. Foreign affairs might be done by the minister of Foreign affairs like in the past. The new prime minister might be a primus inter pares again. The next PM might not be one of a majority cabinet. This election was a really big change, not just Wilders, but with new parties BBB and NSC this big a huge blow to the establishment. So the new government doesn't have to follow establishment rules, those weren't Dutch rules.
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  1541. Not taken offense at all: the Aston Martin Vantage was unapologetic as a muscle car. It was built to show Ferrari and Lamborghini what you could do with a 'big' V8 in front in a relatively heavy car and it did, it was faster in a straight line. It had AM's own legendary quadcam V8 of just over 5 litre. I think the British like to call it British Muscle and that's only fair but also quite a compliment to the American muscle car, especially in the late 70's and 80's.
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  1542. @ No, but if you have to ignore the Dutch and Swedish presence in the 17th century North-America and all the other fruits and ingredients in the English recipe we know it's most likely not from England.
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  1543. The Sancullottes were the partisan army of the French revolution. The name is referring to the fact these ordinary people, peasants and craftsmen, didn't wear the culottes, the breechers that were in fashion with the higher classes. I presume sanscullotides was named after them.
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  1544. Waar is de rechtsstaat ineens gebleven? De volksvertegenwoordiging heeft het begrotingsrecht, de basis van onze democratie. Er is ook geen verdragsrechtelijke basis. Schoof is buiten zijn boekje gegaan en de EU die maar crises blijf creeeren die alleen maar opglost kunnen worden met meer macht naar de EU. Laten we ook niet vergeten dat onze wetgever lang geleden in al zijn wijsheid heeft besloten dat iedereen die namens Nederland optreedt in het internationale verkeer het Nederlands belang moet dienen. Schoof zet zichzelf wel vaker in zijn hemd, niet relevant. Wat propageert WNL hier nou eigenlijk, dat Nederland tot in de verre toekomst aan een EU-schuldenunie is gebonden en moet gehoorzamen om Schoof een beetje gezichtsverlies te besparen?
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  1545. Damon Hill is a decent guy always trying to be reasonable. He fails sometimes at being unaffected by the toxic British chauvinism of the Hamilton hype surrounding him, but that must be very hard and he keeps trying.
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  1546.  @djordisoet386  Nee, het is een onderzoek waarin recidive niet is meegenomen en dus niet is gedaan om iets te weten te komen maar om iets te insinueren voor de krantenkoppen en de clickbait.
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  1547.  @Danielle.van.Ambacht  De Hoge Raad niet hoor, die mag zich daar niet mee bemoeien. Strafmaat is dan ook geen onderdeel van de rechtswetenschap en rechters doen dan ook maar wat.
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  1548.  @sunnya4310  If you had done adequate research you would have known it started well after the end of the slavetrade and just before the total end of Dutch slavery, and it was created by an abolitionist.
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  1549.  @HistoryHustle  Many historians claim the golden age was from the 1570's to the 1670's, and with good reason. Not only is taking the rounded numbers a bit lazy and uninspired, the dominance of the Baltic Sea trade which was much more important for the wealth was already established well before the turn of the century. The herring trade, bigger than the VOC at any point in history, was of course even much older. It also took a while before the VOC started returning considerable profits and even those were tiny compared to the profits from the regular trade.
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  1550.  gregorymanberg4438  Only petty money. It's not like that now, without slavery, people's sugar cutting, cacao plucking or coffee bean picking skills represent a big economic value. Just like Cobolt mining. The shipping, refining, processing, combining, marketing and integrating of the raw material was much more profitable back than just as it still is. That's why many of today's cacao pluckers can't even afford chocolate of any kind. Yes, Dutch people made money in slavery but much more Dutch people made lots and lots more money outside slavery and colonialism, including the far more succesfull East-Indies. That's just capitalism, the big money isn't made at the bottom of the production chain, especially not in global capitalism. That's also the sad thing about global capitalism. It often leaves people no choice but to buy at the lowest price. Look at the current struggles of even Tony Chocolonely to get guaranteed slave free cacao.
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  1551.  gregorymanberg4438  It was the Dutch that came up with modern capitalism, giving them the competitive edge and allowing them to dominate all European trade with more merchant ships than all the others combined for 2 centuries. The global, often colonial trade was far less free. From all the European powers, the Dutch Republic had by far the biggest share of European trade and by far the smallest part of slavery and colonial exploitation. It started out for war reasons. War and trade were entangled. The Netherlands were a colony of the Spanish Empire and had to free themselves because they wanted religous tolerance. The Spanish wanted to kill all protestants and jews. So enjoy your freedom and the fruits of capitalism while you remember which people you have to thank for that, the smallest slavers and biggest gooddo-ers, the Dutch.
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  1552. English? Yeah right. Citroens have had their errors with the first series of new models and switched to rather flimsy plastics in the late 70's, but often ended with pretty robust and reliable cars. It's not fair to blame them for Lancia or Alfa electrics or Renault or (recent) Peugeot build quality.
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  1553. Not true. The Dutch objected to the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves on captured Spanish ships free until 1637. It was the war with Spain and Portugal that led to them ending up with a plantation colony, Dutch Brazil, that couldn't be run without slaves. When the taboo on slavery was lifted, it went downhill fast morally.
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  1554. Here in the Netherlands we still have the word "Bourgondiër"/Burgundian for someone who really eats and drinks well and enjoys life. That's from the parties the Burgundian rulers threw the Dutch people back than around the 1400's. There was a Burgundian dinner hype a couple of decades ago, but that focussed more on the medieval aspect than the fine wine and food aspect.
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  1555.  @bryanm.4869  No, it's not normal. Amsterdam is also famous for having the most museums per sq km or capita. It's also famous for it's freedom but that's because the Dutch know how to behave without enforcement. It's not normal that the ill behaved British can have a cheap weekend in Amsterdam for their stag parties and stuff and treat the beautifull city as their playground.
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  1556. That's because Italy gets British tourists while Britain gets Italian tourists.
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  1557. No they aren't.
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  1558.  @Rio-uv1gs  I already did. The British took over the Dutch Cape Settlement in today's South Africa, and started colonizing the whole country and ruling and enslaving the indiginous people. The Dutch had only been a slight pain in the ass for the locals.
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  1559.  @Rio-uv1gs  No, they didn't invade. They were welcomed by the indiginous South Africans in fact. They had chased away other Europeans and Arabs, but they thought the Dutch were chill, and that's how relations with the Dutch started off in many places. Often relations detoriated because the Dutch would expand, land that was traded was considered by the Dutch as traded forever and then there would be fights sometimes. But the Dutch didn't try to rule, convert or enslave the locals. If they wanted slaves, they shipped them in from elsewhere, because they were always on sale somewhere. South Africa is the product of British colonization in typical British style. Classist, racist, imperialistic, forcing British rule and English on everybody. Now the Boers are racists too, but more 'you stay there and we stay here and don't bother us' and not 'submit to our superiority and obey' like the British.
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  1560.  @Rio-uv1gs  Afrikaners are not Dutch. The Dutch are not innocent of what happened prior to 1795, but that wasn't really that much.
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  1561. Nee, deze schoten hadden bijna de race de voor het Amerikaans presidentsschap totaal veranderd, maar misten op een haartje. Nu is die race grotendeels hetzelfde gebleven. Aangezien het weer eens vrij schieten op de anti-oorlogspresident was, werpt dat wel een ander licht op met wat voor strijd wij hier te maken hebben.
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  1562. Indeed, the EU is in the process of ending democracy.
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  1563. No, it's not a Dutch word and they didn't create it. The Brits took over in 1795 and everything turned worse for the indiginous people very quickly.
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  1564.  @markderv  Afrikaans is not Dutch but a seperate language. 'Apartheid' is from 150 years after Dutch presence in SA, and if the word was construed in Dutch it would mean a very different thing. You are speaking the true colonizer's language here.
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  1565.  @markderv  Only in majority, but so? They have gone their seperate ways for 230 years, you don't liken the current ANC with the genocidal Zulu's, do you? You write in the language of the colonizer and responsible for SA from 1795 onwards here, but that's a bit too confrontational to face I guess.
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  1566.  @AMAZIGH691  No, it's common ignorance. Afrikaans is not Dutch, it's not a dialect, it's a different language on it's own. The word apartheid is invented 150 years after SA stopped being a Dutch colony.
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  1567.  @markderv  The British were worse, especially where it comes to racism, everywhere where they took over from the Dutch. And they submitted the people, the Dutch hardly bothered with that. It think it's a bit silly to be honest. There have only been a few peoples throughout history that stayed put and didn't do anything, no harm and no good to others, and those who did a lot did naughty things too. You're basically now judging the Dutch of the past by the values they introduced to the world more than anobody else.
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  1568.  @markderv  It wasn't called the Dutch East India company but the VOC and it didn't spawn apartheid. Spawning doesn't take a 150 years. Palestinians are not a race, they are Arabs and the product of Arab imperialism if you want to go back in history that far.
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  1569.  @jwadaow  Capitalism and the free market came from the Dutch Republic and was actually introduced to Britain by force in 1688. Britain was late to join the scientific revolution too.
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  1570. But against the antisemites this time.
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  1571. I think it would be god that elected him, that is the theory behind it at least. But he has been flirting with another god lately, so maybe it's not the one we were told.
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  1572. Nonsense. All development has been done by the Dutch. The country, the infrastructure, the mines, even the population is Dutch made. They got something like 30.000 euros per inhabitant in reparations back then and half of the people moved to the Netherlands and all the money was squandered and democracy ruined. It's an entirely self made mess.
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  1573. The M1 is from 1978 and was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, who also did the Lotus Esprit, the DeLorean and a few other legendary designs.
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  1574. American cars make no sense here, that's what's so attractive about them. It's indulgence in space and torque, nicely wasteful just to make you feel good.
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  1575. Dutch citizenship is a lot to ask. It's not to have had on the side.
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  1576.  @corvandervelde4897  Ja, en massa-immigratie is ook keihard neoliberaal globalistisch rechts. Immoreel en destructief, alles voor het snelle geld, Nederland als wingewest voor het internationale grootkapitaal.
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  1577. Misschien moeten ze gewoon stoppen met illegalen proberen te laten stemmen, niet meerdere dagen over het tellen doen en geen alweer problematische dominion stemcomputers gebruiken? Of wint Harris dan niet? Waarom mogen de Georigische verkiezingen wel betwijfeld worden en de Amerikaanse niet? Het is niet zo dat het daar allemaal zo vlekkeloos gaat.
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  1578. Correct, in cooperation with DAF, another advantage of the CVT was that it didn't need an engine with a wide power range and the F1 engine could specialize on one optimal RPM and be much stronger there. Despite their little engine the DAF's were pretty quick from the traffic light, the fact that they ran out of steam before hitting 100 km/h makes them appear slower than they really were. Another reason the CVT got popular was that a lot of small cars still were unsynchronised, so you had to doubleclutch and throttle in between, and there was more need for automatics. Engine breaking was a bit of an issue though, so maybe that's why it didn't do that well in other small car countries like Italy and France with much more hills and mountains.
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  1579. Armenia, Georgia and Azerbeidjan are the Caucasian countries. Only white countries fought against slavery and did it worldwide. The Africans and Arabs wanted to continue enslaving and selling people.
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  1580. Alfa Romeo did twin spark engines in the late 80s throughout the nineties.
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  1581. Allthough the support is impressive, I think the English fans their sound is more directly related to everything that happens on the pitch and therefore has sometimes a more intimidating and discombulating effect to the visiting team when they are on the backfoot in the game. It must feel like gust after gust in a hurricane.
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  1582.  @night6724  It had to recover from the pro cyclic policy of the economic hard right. The boom bust cycles they love so much as well as they loved the banks getting rich while creating this crisis.
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  1583. Indeed the moose avoidance test. The moose test is about hitting a moose on the windshield, in which the 2CV wouldn't do that great.
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  1584.  @stephenberry8658  Otoh, there's a lot of empty space in Australia for the evasive move.
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  1585. Hubnut is great on the cheap Citroens.
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  1586. William of Orange wasn't invited by parliament, he invited himself. He was already planning an invasion of England and asked 7 lord parliamentarians to invite him, a plot involving John Locke who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic, to make it look less of an invastion and conquest and avoid bloodshed and future instability. It was his propaganda war, gaining popular and nobility support that He wasn't forced by parliament to accept anything, London was full of Dutch troops and English soldiers weren't allowed near Londen, he had the country occupied and under his control. But his aim was a stable protestant GB with religious tolerance to prevent the Dutch Republic and protestantism alltogether from being ended by catholic absolute monarchs of Europe uniting against the Dutch Republic. England, France, Spain, half of Germany together against the Dutch Republic would be too much and is was already an extremely close call in 1672. As appointed leader of the Dutch Republic, Stadtholder (steward) he already was used to not having absolute power, religious tolerance and the bill of rights was something the Dutch already had (regained) for a century. Het was not a Dutch prince, he was a Dutch civil servant and prince of the principality of Orange in Southern France. The mighty army that invaded wasn't his, it was the Dutch Republic's and the Dutch states that appointed him and provided this army didn't care for his personal glory and power, they did care for not having a catholic enemy in England, they cared a lot.
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  1587. Not all of them. Tatra's were relatively good cars. Skoda's were allright with a sand bag in front on windy days. The Lada Niva is a legend.
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  1588. European countries were hit hard by an American created credit crisis, European countries were hit by an Americacreated refugee crisis, European countries were hit by a joined Europe-USA organized energy crisis. Then there are the shortsighted destructive policies of the EU. That costs an awful lot of money while the ECB has printed about tens of thousand euro's per inhabitant to keep the Italian banks on life support at the expense of inflation. So the net salary is low compared to the pre tax salary, and currency the salary is in has lost lots of value.
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  1589. Because they are not refugees. They are not fleeing persecution but don't feel like making their own country better.
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  1590. Of course not ,he's loyal to the 21st century government apporved script. He's more honest on the 20th century but that's mostly irrelevant now. It just adds credibility to the propaganda.
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  1591. How is this even a possibility? She has illegally removed her texts with Pfizer, she is corrupt and there is a criminal prosecution pending against her.
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  1592.  @LeafHuntress  4 years longer than the 2nd longest of 22 years, while the ice has to hold tenths of thousands of spectators now and wind and snow are important too, not just the cold. Cold periods have shortened by only 2-3% max since the first one. Your observation on skating on the canals was already wrong. The issue is that people want to see climate change in the weather and make up false memories to do so. Climate change is a matter of science, the idea that you could and have to experience climate change yourself and sea it around is fundamentally wrong and antiscientific.
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  1593. I don't know her individually but the Tories are far more extreme than Wilders, who is coarse and somewhat radicalized years ago after having to stay in secret bunkers for his safety all the time. But he has been around so long we know what he is about and won't do, to the extend that he got many muslim votes.
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  1594. A long bonnet is not a con.
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  1595. Welfare it appears.
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  1596. Mass illegal immigration is a problem. It's a force for lower pay and higher living costs and in the intrest of the corporatocracy. Its a moral problem too, it undermines the value of citizenship, it's unfair to legal immigrants and rewards breaking the law.
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  1597. Duvel means devil. It's a bit the least special beer of the special beers as we call Belgian beers here as opposed to the pilsner/lager, you can get it anywhere. But it's such a well balanced, zingy, fresh, hoppy beer that does every thing in hot wether an ordinary pilsner does, and more taste too. Ordering one does not impress as a beer connaisseur, I think people who are really into Belgium beer find the taste not interesting enough, but I love that bitter citrusy freshness. I also was at a Belgian festival tent once where the Duvels were on draft and were sold by the meter. A meter beer is normally a wooden plank that will hold 11 glasses of lager, but this was with I guess 9 bulbous Duvel glasses with a foot. If you have a Belgium beer that you want to drink more often, you might want to get the right glass for it. The shape influences the nose and the taste and how much foam it gets and how the foam holds up. I don't know if it's the same for export to the USA but the Duvels here have yeast in the bottle so they have to stand up in the fridge. A very serious waiter would poor it for you and serve the last bit with the yeast in a small liquor glass next to it, so you can drink it seperately, poor some of it into your beer, or not drink it all, because the yeast works on the bowels and a bit too much for some. There was a time I would drink 7 or 8 on a friday night and I would indeed notice.
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  1598. No, it is the centrists, left, neoliberal and globalists and the EU in particular that have been authoritarian.
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  1599. You have been swallowing far too much propaganda. Parties are not part of our democracy, they are just associations that can produce a list of candidates too. They have shown to be a threat to our democracy actually, by protecting the governmnet against parliament through party leader instructions, ignoring their oath to the constitution. His plans being unconstitutional is also just something that is taken for a fact through endless repition of the statement. It deserves a closer view on which plans to which extend and a plan that includes changing the constitution is not unconstitutional by any means, it just takes time and a large majority.
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  1600. Dogs don't have "daddies" and "mommies' here, but have a boss. Cats don't do bosses anywhere of course. they only do staff.
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  1601. The Netherlands was never very feudal due to it's nature and the farmers were just as well part of ending the attached remains of feudalism like the divine right of kings and lack of social mobility in 1500's and creating the nation state instead while inventing modern capitalism. The industrial revolution didn't come from the Netherlands but (proto-)industrialization did. It's not a coincidence that all came from the wetlands of the Netherlands, including Flanders btw. This is not about whether farmers have solar powered tractors. This is about the Nehterlands as a city state or as a country that can feed itself after the famine of 1945, about government's claim to the land for mass immigration but also about not supplying the 80 times bigger Chinese population with it's porc meat. That's simply too much of burden to the densely populated country.
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  1602. "Schumacher's driving style explained" is a great video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtaV_cOGgTM You won't be able to see video's of greats like him because there aren't any greats like him. He didn't just have the talent to go 3 tenths faster than anyone else in his era, he was also by far the most professional, the fittest, the toughest, the coldest, the hardest working, the greatest teamplayer, by far the best in the rain. Only at the end of his 15 year career the whole field had pulled itself up on him to come reasonably close. All drivers had to improve massively and all teams had to look for greater talents and make them work harder.
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  1603.  @KarlEchtermeyer  Most people read Shakespeare in school as part of English class. I don't believe many people read it in their own time. There are real fans of course, but so has Dickens. I admit I was never particularly blown away by it, but I don't want to downplay his importance. It's a monument, the monument, of English literature but that is also because schools and theatres around the world put him on a pedestal and have been doing so for very long. His importance seems institutionalized rather than that he enjoys popularity among readers around the world. Het didn't create a new genre if I am not mistaken, nor did he social criticism that changed the way people look at the world. So for me, his importance stays within the confines of English literature.
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  1604. Many other philosophers of the enligthenment had their works printed in the Dutch Republic too, because it had freedom of thought and the Dutch printed more than half of Europe's books.
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  1605.  @crusader8331  Not really. The latest insight is that it's about sexual selection over generations. It's quite an egalitarian country, where as in more classist society the short men that compensate for their height by getting rich reproduce more successfully. That compensating was not in the science, that was my addition.
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  1606.  @mr.cogito7167  There might have been cracks in the iron curtain, the only ones that could travel from central Europe were the Austrians and those that special permission from their communist government.
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  1607.  @windsurfer8824  No. Slave means being property to someone like an object or an animal. Did they get fed and a place to live?
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  1608.  @rickyspanish4792  Nonsense. The EEC was good, the EU has appropriated it's free trade to enforce a political agenda of the unelected that has been disastrous for the Dutch, and through the euro they have already stolen many billions from the Dutch pensions and savings.
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  1609.  @Kilian600  Yes, but they mostly stuck to their pre WWII convention.
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  1610. Or a Caterham version of the Lotus 7, those are much less rare.
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  1611.  @KristoferOlsson  I didn't look in the result list. IWrocker suggested in the video this was a Caterham, and he wasn't far off, because most 7's around are Caterhams and not the original Lotus.
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  1612.  @marcoskehl  Because the condition is unnatural and different from the norm, we have the word slave, to make relevant distincitons. 'Enslaved' is fashionable word in a politically motivated language change. It's mostly used for showing off that you go with the time, that you conform to a certain ideology and political movement. But it lacks the power of distinction, it's not used to be more precise, on the contrary. Because if I am being precise and use words to their meaning, it is a distinction that doesn't fit that ideology it comes from.
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  1613. I never drove it in the mountains but according to a friend it was excellent because of it's weight. His girlfriend was tiny and it would be different with four big guys I assume, but he had vacation luggage too.
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  1614. Sharing a place is already quite something but you have to truly share it to be one community. Lots of Dutch muslims voted for Wilders and many others respect him for standing up for Dutch culture and values. Being internationally minded, welcoming and a melting pot has been Dutch culture for ages. Not mincing wordst too and Wilders can be a bit coarse. The Dutch have had freedom of religion since 1579, when it was codified in the Union of Utrecht. There have always been different religions, lots of different denominations too, with different values living together here when catholics and protestants were still mass killing eachother everywhere else. The problem with muslims from muslim countries, Wilders is explicitely opposed to mass immigration from muslim countries, not opposed to any muslim immigrant, is that they expect islam to rule, rule the streets, the public spaces, the debate, allowed expression, blasphemy laws, etc. That's where it clashes with Dutch culture. They often don't understand that their freedom to be muslim in the Netherlands is the same right as everyone else's to be free from other people's religion and be as gay, blasphemous, judaistic, apostate or whatever as they want. If they understood that there is not much of a homogenity issue left. They will just be another addition to our wide range of religious nutcases.
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  1615. Actually, Britain is a Dutch knockoff. Without the Dutch invading and occupying England they would still be chopping their way to absolute rule, divine right of kings and religious intolerance. No bill of rights, no Bank of England, no freedom of thought and conscience, no autonomy for parliament.
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  1616.  @maxdavis7722  Values maybe, but England had/was heading for absolute catholic monarchy and then the Dutch Republic invaded and it ended up with it's current constitutional monarchy and bill of rights. There were liberal sentiments, but nothing like a stable liberal society.
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  1617.  @maxdavis7722  Oh yes. The Union of Utrecht, from 2 years before the declaration of independence (1581) functioned as the de facto constitution for the Dutch Republic, starring the freedom of conscience and therefore forcing religious tolerance. The Dutch had enjoyed far more extensive civil rights, for rich and poor, since the early 1300's (see Keure van Kortenberg), but it's a bit complex because cities had their own rights and privileges too, the breach of these was a main reason for the Dutch Revolt, and the freedom of conscience and religious freedom the result, that of course was not an issue in the 1300's because there was only one religion. The accounts of English visitors in the 17th century are particularly interesting. They were appalled by the lack of class distinction, especially in public transport (horsedrawn barges), but also very powerfull and rich men in business meating eating sandwiches on the dyke for lunch, that beating of servants was forbidden, that women travelled unaccompanied and spoke up, owned an ran businesses, no wife beating, showed affection to their husbands in public and craftsmen and butchers owning paintings and shares (it was extremely rich too with a huge spending middle class). There was freedom of print, rule of law and a seperate judiciary, civil marriage and rehabilitation programs for small criminals, the poor were taken care of and even orphans got to school. The nuclear family home was already the standard, sexual joy withing marriage was encouraged, the clitoris was widely known about, there was permissiveness in woo-ing, the puritan Pilgrim Fathers didn't leave the Dutch Republic for nothing. Especially during Johan de Witt's reign when William III and his family (about the only relevant nobles left) was sidelined it was a meritocracy, he was from a family of woodstackers and the national hero was admiral who was the son of a beer carrier. With the English royals sidelined too because of Cromwell, they were driven towards eachother resulting in William III's later wife having somewhat of a claim to the English throne. That very republican Netherlands ended in 1672 with the combined attack of Louis XIV from France, England and catholic German states and William III was appointed in the job of stadtholder by Dutch parliament, an army leader among other things, just like some of his ancestors. This was after De Witt was torn apart by a mad crowd blaming him for neglecting the country's defence. That was his motivation to invade England. Because the Dutch Republic would not survive another combined catholic attack and that would probably mean the end of his faith, protestantism, too. William III was a bit too king like for the republic, but he was not power hungry or absolutist at all. He arranged the invation himself while already preparin the invasion by conspiring and asking them to invite him, that letter has been found. it was his initiative and made the invasion into a huge propaganda campaign because he wanted a stable protestant ally, it wasn't glory he was after. His soldiers had to be on their best behaviour and would get severly punished when speaking about invasion or conquest, he was the liberator. He came as a showman on a white horse and brought a printing press. It's not like the 7 lord parliamentarians had any power themselves but it helped faking the legitimacy of taking the throne, in the end it was the ruling king that fled to France with a nose bleed, otherwise it would have been bloody battles. I also wonder how parliament was supposed to force him to accept a parliamentary monarchy and bill of rights, since no British soldier was allowed near London for two years. Later he complained regarding parliament that he felt like he was king of the Dutch Republic and stadtholder of England, but dealing with opposition and making compromises was how politics had been for ages in the Netherlands. So it was basically the most old-fashioned Dutch government in a century making England in it's own image and thereby modernizing it hugely. Of course the English were ready for it, because it was good, especially after so much turmoil, blood and instability. But that doesn't mean the English were ready to make it happen themselves, they hadn't and they didn't. Of course presenting it as their own revolution and as legitimate royaltywise helped cementing it rather than giving opponents the opportunity of claiming it's illegitimate and foreign.
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  1618.  @faithhope3071  If you wanted to remember them you would know that the British took over in 1795 and started colonizing the whole country and rule all the people, the Dutch never did that.
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  1619. I speculate it's because it's basically two straight 5's, which are known for being two-tone because of the assymetrie between the 3 and 2 cylinder exhaust gas sound. But I don't know that much about IL5's or V10's.
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  1620.  @koikinoushkouvitza  Nee, hij maakt dingen, zorgt voor productiviteit en creeert welvaart. De financiele sector en zijn miljardairs, de vriendjes van de Democraten, produceren niks en creeeren niks, dat zijn de parasieten.
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  1621. Trains look much slower than they go. Many accidents happen because drivers, cyclists and pedestrians tend to underestimate their speed because of their size, that messes up our perception.
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  1622.  @DougWinfield  Still? That was recently imported.
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  1623.  @petercollingwood522  1983's change of the constitution. Don't know the previous text. The constitution of course adresses the government and all institutions of the state, not the citizens. The citizens have been adressed by the criminal code regarding discrimination. Constitutional changes are quite time consuming and often more of an expression of how strong representatives feel about it than well thought through law with practical consequences, espcially because Dutch judges are not allowed to judge formal laws by the constitution.
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  1624. "They got ahead because of lucky circumstances"? No, in his pseudo-moralistic shallowness he misses the point entirely again. The Europeans got ahead because of unlucky circumstances. For example the ones who gave the world modern capitalism, freedom of religion, freedom of print upward social mobility, government having to serve the people, and the birth place of the enlightenment. They lived in "the anus of the world (Eurocentric) , one of the most inhabitable place on earth with it being half sea hlaf flood prone wetlands, and cold, very cold in the middle of the small ice age. That made them sailors and traders, that made them freethinkers, that made them stand up against the mighty Spanish Empire with it's inquisition and Spanish furies. 80 years of war for independence and religious tolerance is not a lucky circumstance. Being unlucky with the natural circumstances and the neighbours is what makes a people get ahead. From vikings to Venice to the rough Atlantic in Portugal. All the water exposing them to any enemy that could sail. You might learn to sail from a pacific island paradise near the equator, but for crossing an ocean, the Northern Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic are much better practice. As an American, Harris is far too eager to point out it's not racial. Of course it isn't. It's about people turning a disadvantage into an advantage, and using that experience to turn other things around.
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  1625.  @RalphdontGAF  It clearly needs to be done by someone.
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  1626. Does he appreciate Max talent fully? The claim that the RB is the theoretically faster car is based on Verstappen's pace. Verstappen does the same thing to Perez as he did to Gasly and Albon. Maybe we should judge the car a bit more by what Perez does with it and appreciate that Verstappen outdrives it race after race? And maybe not atribute all appreciation for Verstappen to his raw talent but also to the effort he puts in, how he has developped his style, how he is analytical, technical, industrial, this is a much better driver than 5 years ago.
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  1627. From the spin off of the African space program? Please...
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  1628. Desinformatie. Opleidingsniveau correleert heel veel sterker dan migratie achtergrond, dat nauwelijks. Maar het is een onzinonderzoek als je recidive niet meeneemt. Recidive is immers de belangrijkste drijfveer van rechters om gevangenisstraf op te leggen, voorkomen van recidive is de belangrijkste reden om een taakstraf op te leggen. Er is dus geen enkele reden om aan te nemen dat er iets onrechtvaardigs aan de hand is, laat staan discriminatie. Als er veel laagopgeleide allochtone veelplegers zijn dan krijgen die veel gevangenisstraf. Dus de NOS bestelt een onderzoek waar je door de onderzoeksopzet niks wijzer van wordt, alleen om de valse insinuatie van valse autoriteit te voorzien voor de krantenkoppen en de clickbait.
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  1629. Waarom is recidive niet meegenomen in jullie onderzoek? Dat is immers het eerste waar rechters bij de strafkeuze naar kijken. Als je dat niet onderzoekt dan wil je niks te weten komen, maar krantenkoppen halen met fictief racisme.
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  1630.  @TheYoshi463  Just like his categorical imperative is basically an exact version of rather vernacular sayings like don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you.
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  1631.  @TheKaiser12345  Of course, we are just mildly amused by all this rivalling empire stuff around us and understand their trash talk while what we think about them they'll just have to guess. In the end they all follow our lead. Nation state, no divine right of kings, republic, freedom of religion, freedom of epression, capitalism, upward social mobility, equality, trade, open seas, industrialization, the nuclear family home, women's rights, it all started with the Dutch.
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  1632. De EU heeft round up goedgekeurd ondanks dat Monsanto was betrapt op wetenschappelijke fraude. Von der Leyen, naar wie een strafrechtelijk onderzoek wegens corruptie loopt, gaat de verlenging van die goedkeuring er doorheen drukken. Dat kan ze want de EU is niet democratisch.
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  1633. It's probably because of all the monolingual anglophonics who didn't learn the foreign language of Dutch because everybody speaks English here.
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  1634. I don't fully agree, allthough I do agree that neocolonialism is not an improvement on the late colonial era. Actually the Dutch trade empire resembled the current American empire most, only it was far less bloody. These problems exist not so much because of the seeds, but because of the interests of people in those seeds and what might grow out of it. I noticed a perspective difference that is used for that. I as a Western European (Dutch) I've been raised with the idea that the past was terrible and it is or should get better by the decade, and I feel part of that, believe in can play a role in that and my country the Netherlands always has. But most Africans had history happening to them, they tend to think less in terms of progress over time, but in continents and races that are bad, not just the past. They also tend not to have internalized capitalism and 'value added'. For me as a European is completely logical that the one who adds the most value, whether that's through a process or bringing it to the rich people who can pay more for it, earns the most. Many Africans on the internet still think in zero sum, like African slave labour or modern African labour makes people in the West rich. You want to get wealth, you have to take something from another. It doesn't, it was and is the processing of sugar or cacao and selling it to rich people that makes the money. Sugar and cacao at the plantation are cheap, in the harbour already a bit more expensive, but when made into pralines the value of the ingredients goes up thousands of times. That has not changed after colonialism.
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  1635.  @honeheke4554  I never claimed it's a fair world. Yes it is a bit condascending but at the same time I am understanding of a different perspective from a different history. I see a lot of Africans complaining we are getting their cobalt or cacao too cheap. But it is cheap because the value has to be added yet. My point is that Africans should do more of the value adding to their raw materials themselves. Of course labour is cheap, anyone can pick cacao and dig for cobalt, and Western medicine has reduced child mortality to a degree there is an abundance of labour on top of it. Many Europeans want fairness for Africans but they simply are incapable of delivering it because captialism does lower prices much better than fairness. The fair trade products I buy won't fundamentally change that. Africans will have to carve out their own paradises in the big bad world that is capitalist. With the raw materials and natural resources they have the leverage to do that. The good people of Europe like you and me aren't calling the shots either. We also have to play the game by the rules of people less good with much more power. Exxon, BlackRock, Apple, the people behind Biden and Macron, we get a better deal from them than most Africans, but we don't have power over them either.
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  1636. I don't think so. It's more about egalitarianism vs classism. Upper classes invent complicated communication to show their class and identify the people who weren't raised with the complicated rules and sensitivities so they can exclude them from their social circles. So in France and Britain you'r often in minefield of things you can't say. In more egalitarian societies the lower classes have made the rules of communication too, and they are not complicated because you can't be polite and beat around the bush when you're working in factories or offloading ships, that's dangererous. Germany is not very classist, but it is hierarchical. The boss is in every way a boss, and that limits the directness which trickles down to other social interaction. I'm Dutch, the Germans come across as not very direct but I am at the extreme of course. And I never had many misunderstandings or faux pas I can think of either.
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  1637.  @IronFreee  I should have pointed out that the social conventions in this have developped over centuries. Is communciation shaped by the upper class or more by the working classes. The complexity of indirectness will easily catch out the socially ascended, because the 'higher' born aren't raised with it that much.
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  1638.  @IronFreee  They are not the same things but they overlap. Not being direct but having to read between the lines, taking your time to be polite, it simply is far less in the working classes traditionally and especially in the work that defines their class, because there it's not working. It's dangerous. The upper class traditionally has all the time for it and uses it to distinct between peers and the one beneath them, who don't master it as well. It's difficult, reading between the lines and handling all the rules of politeness is a skill, somthing some are raised with and many not. So which one of both shaped the general customs in communication?
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  1639.  @Friendly-Unit  Plenty.
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  1640.  @slavianalbanovich9025  There are several possible models of democracy but there has to be a chain of mandate between the voter and the ones exercising power over those voters. The EU is designed to not have the voters determine and change how they are governed by the EU.
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  1641.  @paul1979uk2000  Don't give me that ** , the EU has the habit of demanding referenda until there is one yes and then there is no way back. Not the mention the fact that the Dutch and the French referenda had to be overruled sneakily to get the current EU. A supranational organization like the EU should have much more popular support by earning it. Blocking trade with neighbouring countries is it's main offer though. The EU system is unique among democracies because it's antidemocratic by design. Has nothing to do with direct elected executive power but everything with the EP not having legaslative power and the divide and rule system that is the election set up.
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  1642.  @slavianalbanovich9025  No, you can't say it's democratic just because there is an assembly of elected people.
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  1643.  @paul1979uk2000  Mr. EU shill video maker is deleting my comment in true EU democratic fashion so I' m not going to bother again with an answer.
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  1644.  @slavianalbanovich9025  It's the cargo cult science of democracy what you are demonstrating here. Just going through the motions like those make democracy.
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  1645.  @nvelsen1975  The people that are governed over should elect that government or the representatives that control that government. That is not the case with the EP because we can't vote for the EP, only for a small national corner. I.E. lots of people I can't vote for at all decide over me and that is antidemocratic. On top of that, the elected aren't even legislator. That's also antidemocratic nonsense. The elected, how flawed their election is democratically, don't form the highest body, the highest power, but are only a secundary influence. The EC is not working for the EP and not working for the member states, but is enjoying the vacuum in between to do whatever these unelected want.
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  1646.  @nvelsen1975  An elected parliament is often a necessity to have democracy but doesn't guarantee democracy. You simply have no clue what democracy is. Putting on a white coat and stethoscope doesn't make you a doctor either.
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  1647.  @nvelsen1975  Sukkeltje.
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  1648. If you love food you don't take detour to Lyon, you make the trip to Lyon. Especially when you prefer the food to be relatively simple and coming in more than one bite, there is a load of 'bouchons', typical big gourmand material.
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  1649. Very telling about Belgian cuisine is that their star products are actually Dutch. The 'Zeeuwse mosselen' are from the Zealand province of the Netherlands and are the best in the world, but it's Belgians that appreciate them fully. I'm sure that if the French or the Thai had mussels like that, they wouldn't use cream or coconut cream sauces becaue it's weakens the tast, which is very much like the concentrated smell of the North Sea. The Fries are made from Bintjes, a Dutch very tasty breed, but the Dutch simply don't care enough and use a potato that is easier to breed and peel, and don't bother with double frying and use vegetable oil. Many Flemish do the latter too lately, which is a shame. That's why I prefer Walloon fries, often 1 or 2 mm thicker also, over Flemish fries. Dutch mayo certainly doesn't qualify as the 'queen of sauces' like in Belgium. Which also knows lobsters with mayonaise, and lobster is and was an expensive and fancy food in this part of Europe. The chocolate also originates in the Netherlands, which still has very good chocolate. But the Belgians take to another level by combining it with other tastes and make little pieces of art out of it. They just take care, they love the simple things, don't use particularly fancy or expensive products but put in a lot of attention and effort. That's probably why Belgium excells in my view in relatively simple bistro food. Stews, steak frites, shrimp croquettes, things like that. Not that there aren't very good fancy restaurants in Belgium, especially Brussels with all that EU folk, but that's not Belgium's specialty.
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  1650.  @ZIIBANI  You mean all the African slavetraders? The tables have turned, the descendants of slaves are rich now, the people who sold them to Europeans are poor. Because Europeans create wealth by themselves, and Africans still don't know how.
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  1651. It's not really information though, most of his 'facts' are false.
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  1652. It's not religious conflict, Hamas wants to exterminate al secular jews too.
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  1653. What do you mean 'still'? Are you entitled to better treatment because you're white? You probably were just another arrogant expat that came to enlighten the Dutch about their own culture.
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  1654. No, it's not. English had nothing to do with it.
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  1655.  @colinstephenson5386  It's just the product of English self-centered ignorance from centuries ago, not that that has disappeared, but languages have their own words for countries, languages and people. It is what it is in the English language, etymology is a different matter.
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  1656. Het IJsselmeer ontbreekt anders wel op het kaartje, over water gesproken.
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  1657. The 10 day independence war with Belgium? Really? No, they were broke because of the Napoleontic occupation.
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  1658. It was no coincidence Portugal was the first to go global, followed by Spain and later the North-Western Europeans. If you can sail the Atlantic coast, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the oceans don't have that much more to throw at you. The Mediterranean is a very calm sea relatively.
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  1659. It has been for many decades.
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  1660. As many Finns, he has no grasp of the concept 'uncomfortable silence'.
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  1661. Mercedes believed the manual control of the mirror to be more precise so they refused to make that part of the car less good than they could just for a feeling of luxury. Didn't the E stand for Einspritzung, injection in English btw.?
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  1662. I believe American society has an admirable capacity to change direction quickly, but just like with planes and ships, this agility comes with instabitlity. The USA does not have all this history weighing it down like the rest of the West. Together with SA, it used to be the outlier and embarassement of the West in racism though. The British Empire combining racism with cultural superiority does not amount to white supremacy, that's a specifically American concept that was actually copied by the Nazi Germans and narrowed down to a specific kind of whites. No matter how much progress has been made, the USA is still very much about race in ways that are unimaginable in Western Europe.
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  1663. We have excellent tap water in NL and I believe bottled water is only wasteful and adds nothing. Tap water isn't free though, it has to be chilled, served in a cleaned glass by a paid employee. The problem is more that restaurants feel embarassed to ask the money it costs and therefore prefer to serve bottled water.
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  1664.  @lws7394  There is the history of ethics and morality, and there is economic history. People tend to mix them up, of course morally and culturally the VOC is much more important than the boring Baltic bulk trade of wheat and wood and stuff like that. But let's not forget that the tulip mania, a symptom of excessive wealth, started years before the WIC got involved with the transatlantic slavery and only 1 year after the VOC finally started paying dividends. So that wealth couldn't have come from that.
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  1665. Een stevige discussie tussen De Hoop en Cohen van de PvdA. Maar Cohen maakt een interessant punt: woningen voor Nederlanders. Dus niet voor statushouders of EU-ers, en al zeker geen sociale huurwoningen. De expatregeling is maar 5 jaar dus die zal vooral een effect hebben op de huurmarkt.
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  1666.  @ellyvandermeer6234  Dat klopt maar de bank gaat vast geen hypotheek nemen op basis van een netto inkomen dat hoger is door een tijdelijke belastingkorting.
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  1667.  @crazydinosaur8945  They didn't of course. They only saved 7000, that's very little compared to other occupied countries, and it was easy with neighbouring country to go to and help from the inside.
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  1668.  @ckl9390  Good, otherwise he would most likely be enjoying a product of child slavery and that could affect his outrage about what happened 4 centuries ago.
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  1669. No, they didn't leave women and children to die. Buses with men in fighting age disappeared from the UN convoy. Don't make stuff up.
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  1670.  @Martinello30  The number plate might be newer than the car.
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  1671. @Nicky L Yes, I would have extimated it older than 1982 but younger than 64, but it was not a very educated estimate. Probably original plates.
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  1672.  @repelsteeltje90  He got in trouble with the religious jewish community. The Dutch Republic was not just a bastion of free speech, it's the origin of free speech.
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  1673. The DS set new standards in comfort, handling and safety.
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  1674. Dat had ik gemist, hij klinkt meer als iemand die nog aan zijn propedeuse moet beginnen. Dat er meer regels zijn dan alleen de formele wet die wel aan de grondwet getoetst kunnen worden is echt eerstejaars stof, eerste trimester ook.
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  1675. Die anderen hebben ook veel geld aan mensmokkelaars betaald om na een reis door vele veilige landen hier hun hand op te houden en een huis te krijgen, met na 5 jaar uitkeringtrekken het Nederlands staatsburgerschap kado en dan lekker op vakantie in het ontvluchtte land. Dan ben je ook gewoon een nare profiteur, en een last voor de samenleving. Dat die mensen wel kans maken op asielstatus en een gratis slaapplek en eten krijgen is het probleem. Dat de Nederlands overheid ook nog eens criminele bendes uit Noord-Afrika hier hun gang laat gaan is een grof schandaal, voslagen immoreel, maar dat maakt de rest van asielbeleid of die asielzoekers niet ineens fatsoenlijk.
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  1676. No, the EU holds free trade hostage to force it's political agenda of the unelected onto it's member states. The value of the EU is in it blocking free trade with neighbouring states when you're not in it. The EU itself does not offer benefit, it can only take away.
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  1677.  @0w784g  The 'ever closer union' from that treaty is abused by not quoting it fully. The ever closer union between the people is what is in the treaty, not between government or administrative layers.
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  1678.  @0w784g  Interpreted by the unelected and contrary to the text the elected have ratified.
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  1679. Stadtholder (m) of the Dutch Republic.
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  1680. Those who were oppressed are long gone. Their descendants are lucky, much luckier than the descendants of the African enslavers. They got free education and access to about anything the world has to offer, still some only used that to become liars about history and beggers for subsidy, jobs and even 'reparations'.
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  1681. Self declared journalists against free speech at it again. They don't exist, if you were fine with and even promoted state censorship you're not a journalist. If you were fine with Bezos buying the WaPo you don't get to moan about rich men having a megaphone. And no, we don't agree on what is good for humanity, that's the point of free speech. This idea that other views should be state censored is just exposing a desire for conformism and obedience that is totalitarian. Just make videos about Tesla's poor build quality or something, just like so many others since Musk bought Twitter instead of this pretentious attacks with a pseudo-psychological sauce on top.
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  1682.  @wcg19891  It had a lot to do with a culture of conformism, obedience, militarism, typical 'land thinking', size related too. Let's not forget that Germany and the USA were the odd ones out in this race stuff.
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  1683.  @30.06onaGrassyKnoll  CBS, MSNBC, CNN if I remember correctly. They tend to use the same words anyway, this was when some action towards the border crisis was optimistically announced. Of course this was stupid propaganda, because she wasn't really going to do anything about the mass immigration that they wanted and was their policy.
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  1684. No, it isn't. The French came up with F1 for the Italian manufacterers and were nice enough to organize the first race on one of the many airfields in Britain. If it's relevant were the teams are based Italy is the home of F1, if it's important were the races are held the UK has only one race. I respect the UK's contribution to F1 but the sense of entitlement gets annoying. Mercedes has been by far the most superior team for by far the longest time in the history of F1. Era's of car supremacy used to last no longer than 2 years. Hamilton only had to beat Bottas to get his records, a hastily found replacement driver. Bottas got 4 poles last season in a car Hamilton managed to beaten with fair and square. Now Bottas is back in a regular car, it's shows how mediocre he was and how terribly fast the Mercedes had been all those years.
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  1685.  @OblivionGate  This is not about glory. This is about the fact that the British can't do what all the others can, celebrate your national glory in an international sport. The British feel entitled to make it their sport and moan about their dead royal on the podium of an international even in Italy. The British can't just have a national favourite, it has to be everybody's favourite and everybody has got to adore him. They have to claime the entire sport as theirs just because they have been very good at it for the past decade or the not so British Mercedes has decided that it was better to have the F1 team away from the factory. A WDC always is to some degree up to the car but not to the same degree. It's not that hard to roughly determine to what degree by looking at the cars and the drivers. When a mediocre driver like Bottas drives his car to 4 poles in 2021, that Mercedes must have been a very fast car. We also can simply establish that the Mercedes era was unique in F1 history in how the rules and the only little rule changes protected the supremacy of car for 8 seasons, while in the past the supremacy of a car maxed out within two seasons. Schumacher only ended up in a superior car after making inferior cars into title challengers, and even winning 5 WDC's with them. It's not like his teammates were ever only outqualified 6 to 4 like Hamilton did, that was 9-1 or better, same for the races. His teammates didn't get 2nd in the WDC either until the last 2 WDC's when the car finally was indeed superior. Vettel is far less impressive as a supreme driver, but the stole WDC's in good car from what was a small team before the claws of the big guns of McLaren and Ferrari with Hamilton and Alonso. Eventually he had a superior car for a season, but even then his teammate didn't manage to come 2nd in the WDC any time. Hamilton never managed to come 2nd in the WDC against Vettel in the Red Bull, his teammate Jenson Button did become 2nd in the same very good McLaren. The Vettel years were actually quite brilliant because we had 3 matching cars and 4 matching drivers, but the youngest driver in the low budget car ran away with them all, snatched the titles without being superior in 3 of 4 seasons. Shame you couldn't enjoy that because your national favourite didn't perform well. That's different from a supreme car like the late 80's McLaren, the early 90's Williams, the 98 and 99 McLaren. Really dominant cars with the 2nd driver also driving to many poles and wins. Drivers used to start in some backmarker and show themselves, then get in a car that could maybe win but not challenge for the title, and then get a seat in one of the three teams that could possibly win a WDC, in which they enjoyed only one or two years of a dominant car. Hamilton is a good driver, but without this uniquely long supremacy of a car, he would have been a 2 time WDC winner probably. He underachieved at McLaren too after his excellent debut year. He has had the best cars of any driver in history, by far. Best prepared young driver for F1 in history too, privileged, protected and groomed since he was 13. It's almost like the entitled British made sure a Brit got in this unique position for his whole F1 career. I can accept the first race was at Silverstone. I accept there's a wonderful legacy of the garagists. I accept the British are big in the sport in several ways. I don't accept this makes it a British sport just like the Elgin Marbles, capitalism and the sandwich aren't British but simply appropriated by a culture that has a sense of entitlement at it's core.
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  1686.  @OblivionGate  That's the point, it's like the Germans claiming to be the home of football because they have been good at it lately. From the time of the garagistes the English have build a nice little infrastructure, industry and environment for high end race cars where foreign companies have a factory too to profit from that. And that's great but the claim that this somehow makes the UK the spiritual home of F1 takes an entitled toxic chauvinist Britain as are many to come up with. Looking for confirmation by what other British people wrote in the English version of Wikipedia is a bit sad in it's unawareness of how things work. I'm sure you didn't check the Italian wikipedia, did you? Why can't you just appreciate how the British have conquered themselves an importan position in F1 in several ways over the decades while the Italians and the French have lost lots of ground and Mercedes dominates again? No, not Williams or McLaren, the teams that embody British F1, so the British lost ground the past decade too. We saw something similar with the EC Football. In 96 it was fine but last year England didn't host the tournament, it just had an unfair home advantage through covid and wasn't a very good host for those matches at all. Then to claim football is coming home and England somewhat entitled to win it again allthough it would be the first time was entitled, arrogant and plain rude. I can't decides whether it's the narcissist of psychopath of countries.
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  1687.  @janryckmans3902  Yes for Antwerp, and in the which is the most important port in North-West Europe. Amsterdam that was already on the rise fast for a 15th-16th century city lost a great competitor nearby. But so much more happened around that time, like the freedom the merchants from Antwerp came for, they were not the only ones, and of course there was the invention of the wind sawmill, that allowed the Dutch Republic to build ships 30 times faster than anybody else. That did not only come at expense of Antwerp merchants but also at the expense of Scandinavian, Baltic, English etc merchants, while trade volumes in general steeply increased.
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  1688.  @alfonsmelenhorst9672  It wasn't a country of course, only the Dutch Republic became a country that early and that explains the NetherDutch getting the name Dutch in English. Also the Statenbijbel did a lot for establishing Dutch as the common language for the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands usually called the Dutch Republic.
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  1689. Relative? The Azkhenazi jews and the Sephardic jews had a street fight with eachother once, but I'd say the peace was as absolute as for the protestants. The catholics were kept on a tight leash so they didn't get any ideas of ruling and end freedom of religion, but the jews were no threat. Simon Schama claims they were seen as a kind of brother people, because the Dutch protestants saw themselves as the New Testament's chosen people with little garden of Eden carved out of the North Sea. You only have to take a look at the 'Portuguese Synagoge' in Amsterdam from the 17th century to know this was not a community that was somehow under threat.
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  1690. This is not a matter of freedom of speech but a matter of freedom of relligion. Not being blasphemous, not burning "holy" copies of books, not drawing a prophet, are reliigous rules that apply to the people of that faith and they can scold eachother for not respecting those religious rules. Forcing other people's religious rules on people of different religion or no religion at all is an attack on their freedom of religion and therefore on everybody's freedom of religion, and freedom of religion is why there can be muslims in Europe in the first place. So let's keep this to what it really is and not make it about freedom of speech so much, but about the freedom of religion itself. Let's also not forget what offended muslims are actually offended in. It is the idea that islam should rule over all, not just muslims, that gets disrespected. Not submitting to islam is what is considered offensive.
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  1691.  @tmmny  At least that generation could focus on the subject.
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  1692.  @ningen7736  'Empire' is also a very anglocentric, imported, way of describing it.
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  1693.  @sebe2255  I don't believe they are teaching the facts now, of course there are some facts used to tell a story that is not right. It's a matter of integrity. Post WWII history education was to mold people to learn from history and tell it as it was. That does not mean they were always right, it means they were genuine in their attempt to tell it like it was. This video isn't and recent history lessons and historians aren't.
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  1694. It can't be foreigners bypassing national democracies to hold the people of a member state hostage.
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  1695. Reparations for Iraq?
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  1696. It's not about accepting compromises, it's about not accepting deciet and theft.
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  1697. Probably Dutch, we don't distinct between land and water there.
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  1698. The Mercedes 600 would merit it's own reaction video, but I believe it had an hydraulic system rather than a hydropneumatic. Also the windows were hydraulic so they could move up and down faster, a ridiculous expensive system to repair. Mecedes used a Citroen lilke system on the 450 SEL 6.9, the top model luxury saloon that was almost twice as expensive as the ordinary top model, 450 SEL with the normal sized V8. Allthoug very different cars I believe the Citroen and Mercedes engineers are very similar. They are stubborn innovators who simply know best and come up with designs that take a bit of getting used too.
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  1699. This Renault was a rally homologation special, low numbers. Renault also had a real 5 turbo hatchback with something like 120HP instead of 300 and fwd and a real hatch in a practical car. Great looking car btw, Gandini design. When I was hitchhiking through France I got a ride in one by some guy hardly older than me destined to show what it could do. It could do over 205 km/h as was shown to me without asking for it. It is a very small car with a low seating position and 'communicative' suspension for that speed, don't want to know what it would be like to be passenger in the mid-engined Renault 5 Turbo. I think the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9 was considered the best. The VW Golf GTI MK1 looks a lot better than the mark II and was the trendsetter, including the GTI name but that is from a decade earlier than the Peugeot 1.9. The Volvo I don't remember as being actually on sale and the model had the image of being old and slow already, it's rear wheel drive wasn't desired.
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  1700. His ideals and vision is secret. He pretends not to have one, he even claimed to have no interest in any international job to pretend he was doing it all for the Netherlands allthough he seemed to squander the Dutch interests on the international stage. He would become a teacher or something after being prime minister. This too was all a lie. He's a neoliberal globalist anti democrat who wipes his ass with the rule of law who got support for that by populist campaign lies. The crisis he created on purpose himself always are reason to change his views in favour of globalism and the EU. He is all lie. In the process of pretending to have no vision, he did neglect the Dutch military though, just as much as he made health care, education, infrastructure and waterworks, police, public transport, justice in decline while labour taxes went up from 35 to 40% while cost of housing doubled. He has also declared the decision to let MH17 fly over a war zone a state secret.
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  1701. Just like the Nazis, Apartheid took it's inspiration from American race laws. The USA was only a couple of decades ahead on South Africa in bettering it's ways, those two were the shame of the free West for almost a century. So how an American older than Musk has the nerve to hold Apartheid against to a post Apartheid millionaire is beyond decency and terribly hypocrite. You're gonna hold the caste system against an Indian immigrant too? That would be obviously racist, but with a white man anything goes.
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  1702. No, Europe is nice because they know gardening. The resources from Africa are nice, but worthless without Western technology. The Europeans stopped the deeds like colonization, slavery and mass murder that were universal until the Europeans ended it. I agree it was unfair to have the garden and take from the jungle too, but it's only because of the garden that fair started to matter.
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  1703.  @factsnotfeelings3247  That was the Americans actually, not the Europeans. We Europeans might be much better off and get a more favourable treatment, but in the end we all have to go along with the biggest bully. It's not fundamentally different than it was in Africa before the Europeans arrived: The strongest calls the shots and does as they pleases. And with all this anti-European sentiment, the Chinese are having a field day, they get a free pass. The Europeans usually fail at doing good for other continents, but at least they often really want to. The Chinese just don't care.
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  1704. ​ @bryanbarnes9204  I'm not surprised at all, I already did know. But when it comes to empire, it's usually the most imperial that manages that, not the most fair. Just like we have polticians that are the best at becoming powerfull, not the ones that know how to use that power for the good. We didn't get the Roman Empire because of it's engineering, but because of it's military power over often much more peaceful cultures. No, the Europeans seeing themselves as the leaders of the world is not racist at all. Contrary to US Americans and Africans, Europeans tend to think in terms of progress over the ages, progress they made for the whole world in particularly the last 500 years. We are very well aware that a 1000 years ago we were mostly dumb peasants living sorry, extremely harsh lives, while in other parts of the world there were awesome civilizations. There have always been these mythical places of great wealth far away like Xanadu, Eldorado and Timbuktu. Probably because it was ours, we are aware of the great change that happened around the 1500's when European civilization did no longer progress like other civilizations, but got into a stage of ever accelarating progress, thanks to literacy, the printing press, freedom of thought and the scientific revolution. The technological progress made the Europeans getting more powerful much faster than any empire ever, they didn't become the most powerful because they were the most violent or brutal. So that explains why they ended worldwide slavery and gave colonies their independence. So we lead because we happen to be ahead in this era of globalization, and we have to lead becasue we are more good hearted culturally than the Americans and the Chinese. There is nothing racist about that, it's from the idea that Africans hadn't had that luck. That idea is fading because we tend not to deliver, despite good intentions, because evil forces from within and our American friends are stronger and because we are weakening ourselves. Europeans did not capture Africans for slavery themselves because getting inland would shorten their average life expectancy to 11 months because of diseases. That's also why the colonization of Africa only happened after advances in medicine and also after slavery. It was actually North Africans that did hunt for slaves to abduct on Europe's coasts. But the subsaharan Africans don't complain against the people that treated them the worst, the North Africans, the Arabs and fellow subsaharan Africans, because only the Europeans have empathy in their culture, they are the only ones sensitive to the argument of fairness.
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  1705.  @bryanbarnes9204  He claimed that Americans are Europeans, that can only be racial, not geographical. So appearently it's their skin colour that makes Americans 'European'.
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  1706.  @bryanbarnes9204  Your missing the point. Civilizations have always been a bit more ahead or lagging behind eachtother in terms of sophistication and technology. There's a good case to be made that around 1400 the civilization in the area of for example Benin or Togo was more advanced than that of the Portuguese visiting there. The difference between Europe in the 1500's and all previous civilizations progress reached a state of continuous accelleratation of progress, a state we are still in. Differences in technology between civilizations used to develop over hundreds of years, all of a sudden the balance of power kept shifting over half a century or even a couple of decades. That made the West all powerfull in the 18th century, while in the 17th century the Europeas still had to be humble and bring presents otherwise the silk dress sophisticated Moghuls or Chinese would send those smelly ill mannered water peasants away without any trade happening. This could never have happened in Africa, because the harsh, wet, cold continent of Europe became an advantage as ship technology developped and the Europeans suddenly had all these navigable waterways and saiing skills to conquer oceans. Trade took over from agriculture as the biggest income, while Africa's geography sucks for the exchange of goods and idea's. Nice you mentioned the Dutch, they actually went to Indonesia for war reasons, as they were fighting for their independence and religious freedom, without that any African or Asian here would still get a red hot spike op their butt for not believing in god in the right catholic way. Without the Dutch winning there would be no freedom of religion, no freedom of expression, no people's souvereignty and no upward social mobility anywhere. The Europeans didn't reign supreme because they were better at imperial oppression, harsher, more powerful with bigger armies like previous empires, but because of their technology. The Dutch had the best ship technology and dominated all European trade with 20.000 to 30.000 ships, and you tell me they got rich from those 160 ships of peak VOC sailing for a year from Indonesia? The whole Asian trade never made more money than the good old herring fishery. They were filthy rich well before the VOC finally started paying dividends in 1633 and they only gave up to their objection to the transatlantic slavery in 1637. The WIC was a financial failure throughout it's entire history anyway. So the Dutch were filthy rich before any substantial colonial income, the unfair trade outside Europe was not more than 1% of all the trade they did and they did a lot more than trade, they got plundered by the French under Napoleon and until the late 1800's a third of Amsterdam was on food charity whil living in slums while in the East of the country people were living in mud houses digging up peat, wasn't part of the carving up of Africa at all and then the country got wrecked by Nazi Germany again and now we are rich because of that 1% of the trade that was unfair? Really? If you don't understand how countries become wealthy your own country probably won't become wealthy. Ireland started on the backfoot too, was also colonized and oppressed by the English, including forced labour and famine. Ireland is wealthy now, because they haven't embraced that victim mentality and don't keep moaning about how there was stolen from them and how England got rich off them. No one got a fair deal in history besides England, France, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, the USA and Switzerland. The rest has been victim of imperialism at some point in some way.
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  1707.  @bryanbarnes9204  That's backward racial thinking in my view. Of course there is European heritage in culture in the USA, but it's nonsense to see them as the same particularly in relation to colonialism and neocolonialism. De Boers are not Dutch either. You make culture into race, and that's racist. Slavery is a relatonship with a strong power imbalance that can and has taken many different shapes and degrees of horror. But the narrative that all European slavers were cruel and African enslavers were noble is racist nonsense. Just like the idea that genocides in Africa were because of the Europeans. Africa has a history of atrocity including slavery and genocide that could easily match Europe's. The Zulu's get a free pass for their genocides because they are black, and the Boers who only arrived a few hundred years later get all the blame allthough they were not genocidal, because they are white. If Europeans mix up race and culture like that, they are racist and in a very old fashioned way. I don't agree with France's neocolonialims but you've got to realize that the demand for resources comes from technology. European technology is an opportunity for Congo, a gift, they have all this cobalt that was useless to them, but thanks to Europeans it is now valuable and the many people there are thanks to European medicine can be fed with the rewards for the work of extracting it. But somehow Africans manage to become victim of such a gift and that's not because they are black but because of culture.
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  1708. African weapons? Spears? Where's the African weapon industry to improve on?
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  1709.  @globalismoblackman  BS. The Dutch didn't interfere with the West Papuans very much and let them just be the tribal primitive societies they were and wanted to keep it that way, of course independence is not feasible with a population like that. But the backward racist thinking that we still see in this topics assumes brown people can't colonize, and the USA gave in. So now the West-Papuans are colonized by the Javanes, and just like the Molluca's, they liked Dutch rule much better. The Dutch weren't interested in the scramble for Africa. They were actually in the process of colonizing Indonesia to civilize it, before that they left it to the local rulers and it was all about net profit of the end of year. Now it was about investment, schools, hospitals, stuff like that, and probably losses. They didn't have the money to also invest in Africa and the military available to fight the Africans that desperately wanted to hold on to slavery.
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  1710.  @Occident.  Not true, tens of thousands. The Netherlands got an SS regime, not a Wehrmacht regime like many occupied countries, and not collaborating own government. It was particularly important to the Germans that the Dutch, a brother people of the German Aryans, were cleansed from their far too well integrated jews so they send the fanatics.
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  1711. These Ukrainians fled from war, the asylum system is not for them.
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  1712. Not really. It was very impressive to the English back then, but that's because they couldn't compete in European trade. For the Dutch economy of that time it was peanuts and most of the Asian rulers weren't impressed either. Most of it's trade was between Asian countries and most of that was at the mercy of the local rulers. The gunship escort had to remain on the open sea and after gifts were offered to show submission to local rule the Dutch were allowed to trade. This was the 17th century, it was not like 30 sea peasants with their primitive handguns and muskets would bring the might Chinese empire to it's knees. Also less powerful Asian rulers had to be made ally or bribed.
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  1713. Stop lying you hypocrite. The Dutch were very minor slavetraders, they only did 5K Africans and about the same in Asia. They were by far the biggest global trader in goods from the 1600 to 1800. The Arabs, the Ottomans, the Barbary all did far, far worse and treated their slaves worse, while they couldn't make a buck in proper trade. And now their descendents are trying to weasel themselves into victimhood. It takes a special kind of disgusting culture to point a finger at the Dutch from there.
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  1714. Football has such a huge wide base the top stands on, it's like a really flat pyramid. The football millionaires are an awful lot better than these guys but for every one them there are tens of thousands like these guys, who as a child dreamed of becoming pro themselves.
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  1715. It would be at least 3000 by now, rent can only be raised a limited annual amount, but not for new tenants.
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  1716. Person. Candidates tend to go on a list with other candidates, the surplus votes trickle down the list, lists are usually made by parties from party member candidates, but any candidate that gets the number of votes that are required for a seat (that varies with the turn out) gets the seat no matter the position on the list. Usually the list header, often party leader too, takes the bulk of the votes which then get spread in the sequence of the list. Districts exist and a regional candidat representing his region is a possibilty of the system, it's just not used anymore. Votes are added up nationally and all candidates had registered in all districts. Parties are not a relevant entity in the law, and who becomes PM is a matter of a House majority to support him or her.
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  1717. 1938 Tatra, the "Nazi Killer". After the occupation of the Czecheslowakia the Germans commandeered these Tatra's but kept getting caught out by the oversteer because it was fast like the front engined cars they were used to but handled very differently. It was very original stubborn engineering. Magnesium alloy lightweight air cooled V8 behind the rear axle and luggage space in front of it for maximum comfort. And streamlined of course. In the late 80's you could actually have a proper vacation in communist Hungary and those 70's Tatra's were driving around at lot, but you know it was someone high up in the communist party. There was the ZIL enourmous limousine for the Soviet boss, and the Tatra's were for the layer right under it in Eastern Europe. The 90's Tatra was an attempt to sell it to Western Europe. It was quite a good car that wasn't out of touch completely with German, French or British cars of that time in terms of performance and comfort. But the handling was tricky and it was too expensive. The great thing about the Czecheslowakian automotive industry is that even during communism they kept making innovative and beautifully styled cars. They even copied the fins from the USA as you see. Not just Tatra, they made some pretty little Skoda's too.
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  1718. They are not as easily propagandized by traditional media, they learned in school that they as Germans have a German government but they see it serving non Germans more than them. They are young so they go to places where they see the cultural enrichment for themselves, they are not looking forward sharing their entire future with them and their children. This is not their "sentiment", it's a rational analysis, shared by the BSW voters making almost half of the vote anti mass immigration. The progressive left gets the sentimental voters.
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  1719. The British navy wasn't better. The only reason they could match the Dutch was because the shallow Dutch home waters didn't allow for the biggest gun ships.
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  1720. There was not a lot of voluntariy collaboriation, and there were an extreme lot of gentiles risking their lives and torture to help jews hide.
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  1721. I disagree with Peterson that the king finding the jester amusing is the best. No, the people in charge are not the relevant audience, the joke might hurt them, they shouldn't pretend they like it, they should take it on the chin bacause it is important that power is mocked.
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  1722. Disinformation, there is such a shortage of prisons now convicts have to be released. These were just old outdated prisons in the middle of the city. With a million immigrants, many from the Middle Eeast, in the past 10 years we need much more prisons.
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  1723. No, I think it's very good to be aware of not being a citizen and not knowing a lot of context as an immigrant.
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  1724.  @jefhendriks3253  Even the WIC did not get permission to get involved with the slavetrade until 1638 when there was a labour issue in the captured Portuguese colony of Brazil. The slavetrade of the VOC wasn't very well documented or transparant and the different kinds of not so free labour more complicated. It's only in the past decades that are classifying many of it as slavetrade. The VOC also employed tens of thousands of Asians, for the same bad pay as the Europeans. That's probably one of the many reasons the VOC got glorified in the late 1800's, as the symbol of the Golden Age.
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  1725. Wat doet die Akwasi nou weer in Groningen? Kwam hij excuses maken namens zijn totslaafmaakvoorouders, de Ashanti? En hoezo herhaalt iedereen maar dat het slavernijverleden doorwerkt in het heden? Ook al die totslaafmakersnazaten uit Ghana of elders in Afrika en Noord-Afrika drammen net zo hard en doen het vaak nog veel slechter in allerlei statistieken.
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  1726. People are desperately clinging on to the Messi myth, like he's still in his prime and like he was ever great for Argentina. He's still a dangerous player but what did he actually do this WC, a precise that a good goalkeeper would have stopped and a dribble through some clumsy aussies? Of course he needs a bit of special attention but I wouldn't be surprised if the Netherlands neutralized him and him getting frustrated rather than lead the team after which the Netherlands has a relatively easy win. He simply can't dribble anyone from anywhere anymore and that's what made him special. He's not a Maradona, he's not a big character, not a true leader.
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  1727.  @Jordy4610  I said he was still dangerous, it's just that the media seem to want to build him up to both prime Messi and a true leader.
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  1728.  @raider1297  I know who the best player of the past 15 years was and it's not Christiano. I just don't believe that Messi does greatness very well, or at all. Greatness is not in goal and assist statistics.
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  1729. Waarom moet je er nou weer een EU-vlag in monteren zodra je "Europa" noemt? Je hebt het over het continent, inclusief Noorwegen, Rusland en nog vele andere niet EU-leden.
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  1730.  @yossarian2343  This is about Europe, not about your backward country.
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  1731. So you're looking for a new head coach that wants to get in a kafkaesque hornets nest of the typical American 'social justice' wars where you can be anonymously accused of beeing a racist without even an opportunity to defend yourself. The new head coach also has to be more antiracist than Ron Jans, that narrows the options down quite a bit. Good luck with that. Of course you won't find one that humiliated the mighty Ajax Amsterdam with tiny, multiracial PEC Zwolle several times. But Cincinnatti will win the virtue signalling and stabbing white coaches in the back competition easily this year.
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  1732. Maybe Hamilton can get a bit nearer to Russell this season.
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  1733. Civilization is as much about the exchange of ideas as of goods and resources, and deserts, rain forests and predator infested savannahs certainly don't help with that. Africa would have basically to invent air travel when on other continents people started boating and sailing to keep up. But comparison to Europe is a bit nonsensical because something unique happened there about 500 years ago, in the sense that a few things came together to put the civilization there on a trajectory of ever accelerating development like no civilization ever had before. An exponential one with the time between society changing inventions and innovations becoming a matter of decades and years rather than centuries and millenia. That caused globalization too and therefore the civilizations of the world to meet or clash. I think in Africa contrary to most of Asia the difference at the point of contact was a bit too big for having the full benefit of exchange and the mentality to embrace it.
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  1734. Straight-6's have been the big car or fast car engines for Europeans for ages. Basically because it doesn't get more smoother than that unless it's a V12. It can easily do 2 liter to 4.5 liter displacement.
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  1735.  @HistoryHustle  I do believe the media in general and even the superficial WNL have been pretty one-sided, and this also seems to be the fashion among historians. - The calculation of the profits from the slavetrade you mentioned is flawed and done to have the highest outcome possible. - The Arab, Ottoman, Barbaric and African (Ghanaian) slave trade are ignored. - The fact that the Republic was already very rich before in entered the slave trade or even started to make profit from Indonesia is ignored. Even Piet Hein, an opponent of slavery and opression, who has freed slaves and has been enslaved himself gets slandered. Just like the whole fact that the WIC refused to get in the slavetrad for ethical reasons until it felt forced to do so (on conditions). - There's this constant repitition of the statement that we got rich by colonization and slavery, which is simply false. And there is suggestion as there was slavery in the Netherlands itself. - A lot of false statements, like the Netherlands was one of the last countries to abolish slavery. They weren't among the first European nations, that's true and quite embarassing, but many countries were much later. But anything goes these days, facts don't matter. - The whole recent history of the Netherlands of antiracism and equality is denied. Like it was the USA out here in the 50's and 60's. - The Dutch media in general are fully committed to join and enforce the hype. Half the papers are about racism or what is supposed to be racism, the public broadcaster has rearranged all scheduals for weeks to support the narrative.  This is all catering to the BLM idea of white people bad racist and black people innocent victims. As you point out this might lead to the absurd situation that people who have actually done forced labour (German occupation) or descent from people who have been enslaved by North-Africans, have to apologize to people who never had to do forced labour and who descent from slavetraders, just because one is white and the other one is black. I'd call that racist.
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  1736. The only reason people claim to care about 'Palestine' is that it's not muslims killing muslims like in so many other places but jews. So if Seinfeld doesn't care about who does the killing, why should he care about Palestine?
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  1737. To him all the stars of world football were in slow motion, just like the ball. He always had more time, and turned it into space, and back into time again at will.
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  1738. The monster was created by allowing dumb people into university. University is about science, science is the advancement of knowledge and understanding which is naturally limited to the brightest minds. Dumb people will just take a false sense of authority like their ill thought through opinion matter from it, get confused by the complexity of the subjects and ideas, while their inner insecurity about their intelligence will make them seek confirmation by their peers and security in dogmas.
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  1739. Reminds me of the Bentley Continental GT, not my personal favourite but it''s very recognizable and is now widely appreciated while it was heavily criticized at introduction. It runs over 20 years now with minor design changes. That tends to happen to bold, controversial designs, but that is not how share holder value logic works. It would if share holders would actually hold on to their shares but it's about selling shares in the coming 5 years. That shortsightedness also trickles down to the employees. If your designed Bentley only starts to be appreciated after 5 years you already missed out on some big career steps and bonusses, no matter how much you are saving the company in the long term by having made a lasting design.
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  1740. Giugiaro did a masterful job with the wheel flares and lightcatcher combination on the Maserati Quattroporte III.
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  1741. Nothing wrong with climate offsets, just wait 30 years for the planted trees to have absorbed the carbon equivalent and you take one flight for that small forest. Don't forget CO2 emission by planes at that height has 2.7 times the greenhouse effect.
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  1742. True, the VOC was primarily a war project that needed trade to keep ships and ports present instead having to send the navy on a 1 year trip. The goods were profitable but the military part took up a lot of turn over too.
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  1743.  @Gexxon  What a racist thing to say, actually knowing what you are talking about is white?
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  1744. Ik denk dat ze zich afvragen waarom mensen toch zomaar hun sociaal contract hebben laten afpakken en hun overheid de belangen van de eigen bevolking hebben laten opofferen aan buitenlanders die als groep alleen maar ellende brengen.
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  1745. The English don't understand. The squad Real has is about ten times more expensive than his was, Tottenham's more than five times. Moneywise Ajax is a championship size club, the league it plays in has clubs with less than 5 mln turnover. Ajax has been punching above it's weight a lot, and with Ten Hag punched far above it's weight. United has become decadent, the fans especially and they are an influence, we buy this player and we buy that player, but that's not what made United great. Ferguson hardly ever had the best squad in the League, and in the CL he was far off. Ten Hag should bring them back to make the team better than the sum of it's parts, that's what he is good at and the question is whether the club lets him.
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  1746. Many more people did, which is great. I also had to think about the "king of the who?" , the constitutional peasant scene form the Holy Grail.
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  1747. That's also to the credit of the museum, it clearly has a preference for those who rethink the car, start from scratch again and come up with something completely different.
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  1748.  @automation7295  No, it's the mainly the marketeers and the bean counters. Regulations don't help but there is also little uncharted territory left. We know a V8 behind the rear axle has handling issues now, the car is nearing perfection so they start to look more alike. Perfection is boring of course.
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  1749.  @olgadeweger3805  Kaag has something with Palestine, as a Dutch civil servant she got dishonourably discharged because she kept relevant personal circumstances secret from the Dutch government.
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  1750. You must be very inquisitive.
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  1751.  @TheIrishBosnian  Allthough dumb and arrogant make such a nice couple, the often more educated British share that arrogance, that lack of understanding that something is not theirs.
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  1752. Freedom of religion and islam are not compatible. Muslims want to apply their religious rules like not drawing the prophet or treating every copy of the Quran with respect to everyone, that is an attack on other people's freedom of religion.
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  1753.  The Pew Hunter Tossed In A School Dumpster  That's because Europeans have developped an institutional conscience and on top of that like to do atonement in an atheistic sense. So there's something to get from them. The Arabs simply don't care about their history of slavery which was far worste than that of the Europeans. It was not their idea to abolish slavery, even in the 1960's when they finally did it was because of Western pressure. Nor are the subsaharan Africans very willing ot admit that they did a lot more slavery too and after decolonization often went back to their oppressing, torturing and genocidal ways from before colonization. There's nothing to gain from that, Western feelings of guilt otoh is there to be used. The Chinese don't have that either.
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  1754. Een beetje raar om die partijen die tegen de radicale demografische, economische en politieke verandering van hun land zijn radicaal te noemen. Extreem-rechts is evenmin correct, dus doe als de Duitse tegenstanders, die demonstreren gewoon "gegen Rechts". Niks meer, niks minder, democratie moet van hen vernauwd worden tot links en nog linkser.
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  1755.  @ragalyiakos  Define 'better'.
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  1756.  @threesixnine369six  Actually, mass immigration is very right wing.
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  1757.  @ragalyiakos  Of course, they haven't had 40 years of communism, I've seen where Hungary had to come from. Not so sure about democratic rights though.
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  1758.  @464nescio6  Thank you for that flattering comment.
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  1759. We've got to keep the context in mind. it's over 90% USA and the European left has always been highly critical of Vietnam, Laos, Guatamala, Palestine etc. What has changed recently is that the European left has become a decadent bunch of virtue singallers. They have no historical knowlegde to counter the continuous propaganda with, tell them you are bringing women's, gay and transgender rights and you can bomb any place you want. To them being left wing is going along with globalism and the corporate technocracy, with wars to get conservative countries in line. as long as they can keep feeling good about themselves for cheering on drag shows for children and be their condascending racist self about and to the 'refugees' they are welcoming in other people's, the working class, houses. Now we hear from a proper lefty. That's noting new I'm afraid, it is something that is gone. The rest of the left has sold out to the corporate globalists. That left can't wait to be the henchman of the corporate West and belittle Africans pretending to help them, make their jungle into a garden.
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  1760. Crimes against humanity and courts in general are European inventions.
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  1761.  @josephfisher426  The Dutch Republic was in an 80-year with Spain and in the process of bringing the Spanish Empire to it's knees. That was not cheap. It's simpler than that, the Dutch were much richer than the English, the wealth was much more spread and shared by people who celebrated things new and exotic, and were much more modern in every way and had introduced modern capitalism, something England would start on after the events of 1688 which happened to involve the Dutch Republic's army and stadtholder. That captitalism had made them from rich into spectacularly rich in a few decades and they played with it becaus uptil then only good things had come out of it. You also have to have the product for it, it's hard to think of other products that could have created a speculative bubble in that way back then. It's got to be rare but makeable, have variations and have appeal. But in general, the British not being first is not in need of explanation. From things between let's say 1750-1850 not happening first in Britain the question why that was could be legitimate, but not in the 17th century when Britain still had one leg stuck in the Dark Ages.
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  1762.  @kene6753  Only the descendants of slaves are benefitting from it now. Some might say they want 'reparations' but they certainly wouldn't want the situation repaired and brought 'back' to Africa.
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  1763. The bitter irony of it all is of course that the media who regularly bang the war drums for the exploitative and very bloody neo colonial empire that the USA is have the nerve to share their uninformed and poorly though through opinions on the Euroepan colonial era at all.
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  1764. A bit of a shame that that is all nonsense. Some of it is indeed reported so not your nonsense. The profit was from the VOC though, and most of it's profits had nothing to do with slavery. Trade with Japan, India, China, Persia, that was 'bring presents, leave your gunship at the open sea and kneel before we can start doing deals'.
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  1765. You forgot that flying has 2.7 times the global warming effect of the same grams of CO2 emitted at ground level.
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  1766. Je snapt niet wat zwargallig en mobid betekent. En zwarte piet heeft er niks mee te maken anders dan dat een Nederlandse abolitionist ten tijde van het einde van de slavernij kinderen een positief beeld van de zwarte mens wilde meegeven met zijn creatie Zwarte Piet.
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  1767. Judges, courts, lawyers, their robes, they are all colonial practices. Why only focus on this part of the dress code? Why not discard of the whole Anglo-Saxon law system and go back to the pre colonial Zimbabwan ways? Blood vengeance or the elderly women of the village casting their judgement, I have no idea how justice was done in Zimbabwe before but it must be better than what the colonizer brought, or not?
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  1768.  @janis7077  I agree though about 458, not because it's old but because it was the first pretty Ferrari in a very long time back then and there haven't been pretty Ferrari's since. Ferrari is just not very good at making pretty cars, but every now and then they come up with an absolutely gorgeous one.
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  1769. I think our global culture has become much more visual, probably too much. Maybe too competitive too in the sense of cooks showing off too much. But I think we have also lost the connection between nutrition and enjoyment. To me it's not just about the taste but that is integral with nutrition. A part of my enjoyment is in the feeling that I feed the body with what it needs. Nothing unique, people who like to do lot of sports can yearn for pasta and proteins, people tend to eat more hearty in the cold winter. There is extra joy in that on top of the taste bud and nasal experiences. It's the fancy restaurants that are out of touch with the nutrition part of food. To me a Michelin star restaurant is often like a wine tasting, each his hobby but you have to be concentrated and anylitical. I don't like those either, my opinion on the wine evolves with finishing the whole glass, accompanying food usually. In my very personal view wine should be enjoyed in whole glasses and a dish should be enjoyed in over 10 bites. Don't make me work too hard and concentrate, let the great tastes come to me naturally while nutriating myself.
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  1770.  @martijn3151  Mensen die de wetenschap volgen en niet als een kip zonder kop achter elke hype aanhollen maakten zich 30 jaar geleden al zorgen over de enorme groei van het vliegverkeer bijvoorbeeld. We hebben nu een generatie 30-ers die geen vakantiegevoel meer kan krijgen zonder op op een vliegveld te zijn. En dan zijn het de veelvliegers van nog maar een paar jaar geleden die ons nu gaan vertellen dat zij weten hoe het moet, dat zij de leiding moeten nemen en dan ook nog eens antiwetenschappelijk genoeg zijn om te vertellen dat je best je je internationale globalistische levensstijl mag aanhouden als je af en toe maar een vegaburger eet. De laatsten zullen de eersten zijn? Meelopers zijn het, geen leiders, geen visionairs. Je kunt niet claimen die urgentie te voelen zonder ernaar te handelen en je kunt niet claimen leider te zijn als je bij de achtersten achteraan komt.
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  1771.  @shoelacedonkey  Het probleem is dat er constant wordt gedaan alsof die gevestigde partijen die zeggen regeringsverantwoordelijkheid te nemen het eeuwigdurende monopolie op degelijkheid en goed bestuur hebben. Dat is al lang niet meer zo, ze weigeren fatsoenlijk de verantwoordig af te leggen die komt met verantwoordelijkheid. Ze hebben er qua financien een potje van gemaakt en tientallen zoniet honderden miljarden uitgegeven die niet in een doorgerekend programma stonden en met bestuurlijke prutsers van middelmatige intelligentie als Van der Wal, Hoekstra, Adema, De Jonge, Ollongren etc moet je niet doen alsof je nog levert in de categorie Ben Bot, Winsemius, Van Mierlo, Wijers, Pronk, kwaliteit brengen partijen niet meer voort, vooral tassendragers en anderzins tandeloze coalitieslaven en die zitten er niet vanwege hun competenties.
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  1772. Muziek die heel ver van Chopin afstaat en die hij afschuwelijk vindt. Kun je nagaan hoeveel hij van zijn land houdt.
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  1773. I understood an earlier attempt of Fiat indeed shook apart because they hadn't realized a 4-cylinder isn't balanced at all, because of the sideways movement of the piston rods. Don't know how they solved that because it's still 4 huge pots of fuel that explode.
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  1774. And it lost an even bigger share because the Netherlands got more seats because of the mass immigration of the past 5 years.
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  1775. Wait till he hears about the Panda 4x4.
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  1776. There's finally a video on the mad DAF trucks in the Paris -Dakar in the 80's. Seems right up your alley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zedjnP4jZQ8
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  1777. De EU heeft wel grotere democratisch mankementen. Sterker nog, die omzeilt vooral democratische besluitvorming in dienst van het grootkapitaal.
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  1778.  @noreply-7069  In this part of the world geography and colour are not confused. That is American ignorance.
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  1779.  @nothing-jl2dz  As someone who has been left by the left, let me add the other angle. The idea that people can leave and have to leave for the remaining good countries to improve their lives is destructive for all the other countries. The only way countries become better is by people having to make their country better to make their lives better. When some war or unrest there gives them the right to live in Europe and spread islam, war and unrest will be.
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  1780. They didn't really control those thousands of islands until the late 19th en early 20th century. They only controlled small patches of land little people themselves, they mostly controlled the trade routes and let the sultans or whatever ruler control their people. They did not have the desire, "empire is too expensive" nor the man power since the vast majority of their 1.5 million people preferred to stay in the prospering Dutch Republic. They were the first modern capitalists, so the size of land and the numbers of people didn't matter. Trade was about water, power was about money, not about population size, and the money was in Europe. The VOC was only a tiny part of the Dutch Republic's economy, their huge influence on modern history was build on their dominance of the European trade.
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  1781. Western civilization's past is now judged by the values it brought to the whole world.
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  1782. What about reparations from the American neo-colonial empire? Oh wait, that's still going on and we're making good money off it, let's deflect attention to the past and distort history.
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  1783. You can't handle the truth.
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  1784.  @CasperLabuschagne  Besides the fact that there was no Dutch king. The Cape settlement was taken over by the British 20 years before the Dutch got a royal house. The VOC (Dutch East Indies company) was funded by the Dutch Republic to take the war for independence with Spain and Portugal overseas. The Dutch stood up against foreign rule and gave the world freedom of religion, freedom of print (especially the books of the enlightenment), equality and upward social mobility. That worked out a bit unfair for people outside Europe for a few centuries, but good things take time spread over the world. All the values Dutch colonialism is no condemned on, rightly so, originate from the Dutch.
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  1785. A mistake? It's entirely wrong, denying that The Netherlands has been a republic for longer than it has been a monarchy.
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  1786. What a BS, the car didn't come from the USA and most Americans don't have the freedom not to use the car. Besides the issue of congestion and old narrow cities, the globalists want to fly from NYC to Amsterdam and Copenhagen to feel great for the climate by watching bikes. They want a globalist bond between cities all over the world and blame the car for the environment and break the bond between city and country side.
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  1787. Then you would be poor in some shithole country despite your ancestors selling the people they enslaved to Europeans.
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  1788. Actually they captured very little land, empire was deemed too expensive by the Dutch Republic. They didn't have the desire nor the man power to rule peoples, often more than half of their crews were foreign, Europeans but also many Asians and a few Africans. They were all about the money and the wars with far bigger European countries, and therefore controlling far away trade routes. Their power was in that they did more than half of all European trade and their tremendous wealth from that.
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  1789. I think this is a different thing. 'Angst' for example will probably have entered English from German psychologists writiing about it and then it gets used in English as a very specific term. You see in this video most German words have a more specific meaning in English. People tend to use foreign words for that reason, their own equivalent is too general. They won't call a mug a stone because they want to make it about beer specifically and have that German associaton. Amateur is just French for lover, but people needed a word for the non professional enthousiast so they took a French word to be more specific.
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  1790.  @DSP16569  Yes, but the Dutch influenced American English much earlier through New Amsterdam/New York where there was quite a bit of drinking in bars. So that's why I assumed it didn't come from the German immigrants.
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  1791. No, Indonesians don't speak Dutch because the Dutch ruled the Indonesian seas and not the people until the very late 19th century, the Dutch learned their language(s) and that way helping the establishment of a common Indonesian language.
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  1792.  @55rz55  It's a general description of the situation but even on Java there was very little direct rule by the Dutch until the very late 19th century. You could make the case that it was actually a worse form of colonization for the colonized people and the Dutch changed it for the sake of the people, but it is the main explanation why the Indonesians don't speak Dutch.
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  1793.  @55rz55  This was about Indonesia and not Java. Indonesia did not exist as a country but we use it to name this group islands. So until the very late 19th century the Dutch ruling their seas, the Indonesian seas, actually describes the situation those islands were in effectively and concise without getting into the details of different little pieces of Indonesia with more Dutch control.
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  1794.  @55rz55  Fact is that the Indonesians in the Netherlands are considered just Dutch in any official statistic. Would be nonsense to differentiate because there is no difference.
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  1795.  @55rz55  That pillarization had nothing to do with the Indonesians.
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  1796.  @102728  Some Canadian media company did some bogus calculation and now YT is full with it. Lots of videomakers have so little knowlegde that make the things they think they know (but don't in this case) all important to the story.
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  1797.  @Broodplank86  Nee, de EU verbiedt vrijhandel met landen die geen lid zijn. Dus om makkelijk met onze buren te kunnen handelen, moeten we de politieke agenda van onverkozenen gehoorzamen.
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  1798.  @Broodplank86  Ik ben niet tegen standaarden en het is prima om geen producten en diensten toe te laten die daar niet aan voldoen. Maar de EU doet veel meer dan standaarden schrijven, wat doorgaans neerkomt op meekijken wanneer het grootbedrijf die schrijft. Ik heb probleem met alle wetgeving die in strijd is met het subdiariteitsbeginsel en dus het EU-verdrag. Met het totale gebrek aan respect van de EU voor de rule of law een zelfs het eigen EVRM. De selectieve toepassing van verdragen in het algemeen en het feit dat de EC beslist of lidstaten wel gehoorzaam genoeg zijn aan de EC, niet aan verdragen, om geld te krijgen.
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  1799.  @Broodplank86  Neuh, die neiging had je blijkbaar al.
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  1800.  @Broodplank86  Jij vraagt niet naar bronnen maar zoekt een autoriteit om te gehoorzamen en niet kritisch te hoeven zijn.
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  1801.  @Broodplank86  Ik herken je tactiek wel. Je geeft zelf geen argumenten, je gaat niet op argumenten in, maar ik moet een artikel voor je linken omdat mijn mening alleen geldig is als ik die van een bron, een of andere autoriteit, heb overgenomen?
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  1802. Aren't the DS redesign head lights inspired on an earlier Panhard?
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  1803. I have windows like that, 10 varying in size and big ones, and in wood. It's not cheap. It's durable but replacing one would easily be 1500 euro's, without labour. A mechanism like that can only be done well with good materials or it won't keep working.
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  1804. No, not really. They didn't seek control, they just took land (unused) to farm on. It was the British that started to rule South Africa and it's people and started enslaving the indiginous people, that was in 1795. The Boers even fought together with Zulu's against the British.
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  1805. The owner, a social housing corporation, has spent years of research together with the Anne Frank foundation into restoring and furnishing the partly burned appartment in the correct 30's style (to rent it out to persecuted foreign writers). "It doesn't look like it changed very much." 1930's social housing rented by German refugees, "this is probably nicer than how a lot of people would have lived" How are people housed in England?
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  1806. I actually really like to have a big plate of spaghetti and be really full afterwards. But that has consequence for my lunch and breakfast during the way which includes walking and cycling usually. A second lunch is not unEuropean, the french often have a late afternoon snack when they dine late. Most calories are burned by just keeping the body going, even when it is sitting down, exercise is good but intake is a far greater factor overall when it comes to weight. But a fitter body burns calories better sitting on the couch eating crisps too.
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  1807.  @alansmith4655  We all know on which side the war mongers are now.
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  1808. Probably the only good car to come out of communism.
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  1809.  @GlasPthalocyanine  The catholic church fought hard for the monopoly on knowledge that's true, but priests used to be the smart guys until the plague came along, 90% got killed and they had to take in any applicant. It's also no coincidence that Western civilization only really took off after the reformation. Freedom of conscience, religion, thought and print and upward social mobility all came from protestant government. Scientists of those days often became rivatilized in their faith because they saw god in everything under the microscope, behind the telescope and in maths.
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  1810.  @svenhaheim  No, I just make the distinction between Western civilization in the late Middle-Ages which was thriving in a lot o places, and the early modern period in which it's development starting picking up pace like no other civilization had done before. The industrial revolution was the product of that, not the beginning or the cause. Freedom, capitalism, upward social mobiltiy, nobility sidelined, parliaments everywhere, enlightenment, humanism, free trade (mare liberum), mass literacy, proto-industrialization, agricultural revolution, science exchange. That's all from the 1500's and 1600's, mostly not in Britain yet, but certainly in Western-Europe.
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  1811.  @svenhaheim  Yes, but you are portraying it as the linear development it wasn't. It was just linear progress with ups and downs and regress in between just like any other civilization, until a few things came together and caused development to accelerate and keep accelerating. No civilization ever has experienced such a huge change and progress as the Western European one in just 500 years.
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  1812.  @svenhaheim  Probably not, because Europe is the continent most fit for exchange of ideas. The point is that until 500 years ago Western civilizaiton wasn't very special compared to other civilizations, and then it suddenly got on a path of ever quicker development. That was unique, the stuff before that was matched or topped by some other civilizations.
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  1813. There is a quite good video on DAF trucks in the Paris Dakar rally, including the double header truck. You'll enjoy that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f26nfGvVzHE
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  1814.  @rogeriopenna9014  The balls have changed a lot so that is not a good comparison. I'm not saying he never was a good free kick taker but at a certain point he had this legendary status because of that one camara shot from years ago and was the alpha male in his team, and he simply kept demanding the ball and kept missing.
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  1815. The VOC only started paying dividends in 1633, hence the invention of the stock exchange because the often very ordinary shareholders couldn't wait 31 years on ROI. It was more about growth and taking the war for independence overseas to Spain's ally and therefore enemy Portugal and block their important source of money and therefore war. Little fortunes were made and for the Dutch Republic it was peanuts anyway because they did most of all European trade and that was much bigger.
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  1816. No. The Ducht East India Company wasn't in New Netherland, that was the WIC. East for East, W for West. They didn't free the slaves, they weren't slaves. The WIC started out as being very much opposed to slavery as was the Dutch government (which did turn a blind eye on the VOC in this respect) and it's main job was to wage war with the Spanish. So the slaves on captured Spanish ships were set free, but not brought back of course. So many ended up working in New Netherland for the WIC or in the Dutch Republic itself. It is known that Rembrandt had black neighbours in the Jodenbreestraat for example. With the transfer of New Amsterdam to the English, Stuyvesant made sure their status as free citizens, the WIC had given up on it's objection to slavery by then, was clear to the English, as well as the records of their ownership of land and their marital records.
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  1817. It's a mixed bag. The DS was well built, the Citroens of the 70's and 80's are a bit flimsy here and there but quite good at the core.
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  1818. Do we all realize the protests were the product of a government supported slander campaign?
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  1819. Great game indeed, actually the only game I played a lot. Knockhill in changing conditions and heavy rain was great.
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  1820. Het is al lang duidelijk dat het van links komt, of althans wat zich tegenwoordig links noemt.
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  1821. It probably wasn't as the VOC peaked in the 17th century and while de EIC was more important in the 18th and 19th century when global trade had grown much bigger and the EIC controlled much more land and people. The VOC was more about controlling the trade routes and relied on the local sultans and other rulers. It's a bit of a British myth who mainly ran into it and were impressed, because they couldn't compete with the Dutch in the much bigger European trade. If the VOC's value was indeed 8 trillion, the value of the European part of the Dutch merchant fleet must have been over 800 trillion and the value of the Dutch herring fishery of that time must have been 10 trillion, as this always brought in more money than the VOC.
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  1822. I don't know if this is good or bad for the Transatlantic relationship.
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  1823. Did I overlook the straight 6 Commodore Coupés of the seventies or did the video overlook those?
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  1824. Stoute OM-baasjes dan weer niet.
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  1825. En morgen weer lekker meelullen over preventiebeleid en hoe "we" allemaal minder moeten drinken en roken.
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  1826.  @Devinn504  Yes it is. No country can decide to become NATO member, the members of NATO decide whether a new member is in the security interest of the member states. It obviously isn't, so they are in breach of the treaty. It is 'our' fault. Peace comes from a durable commitment to it, by preventing wars basically. Wars will happen unless you prevent them. US, NATO, EU have not only failed to that, but actively provoked military conflict that is been going on since 2014. The souvereign country argument, straight from the propaganda book just like using Putin like Saddam instead of Russia and Iraq, is not only hypocrite in light of American foreign policy, but especially regarding Ukraine since the USA supported and backed a coup against a democratically elected leader of that same souvereign country.
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  1827. Wat deze video van de slippendragers niet vertelt is dat met name de VVD de verkiezingsbeloften helemaal niet wil waarmaken, die zijn om stemmen te trekken. Het beleid is vervolgens om het internationale grootkapitaal te dienen. Dat geldt overigens ook voor PvdaGroenLinks, als je op de neoliberale globalistische EU trein springt dan gaat die met 200km/u naar rechts, dan kun je in die trein zo hard naar links rennen als je wil, je komt toch een stuk meer naar rechts uit dan je begon.
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  1828. @ Niet zo eigenlijk, maar het idee dat je overal maar doorheen mag schreeuwen als je het er niet mee eens bent en het niet respecteren van zowel democratische instituties als verkiezingsuitslagen vind ik nogal stuitend.
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  1829. Simplistic American patriottistic sentiment beefed up with snippets of knowledge but still very much ignorant.
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  1830. The boss nor his marketeer team understood that it wasn't them who made Jaguar. The worst thing about woke is that is not produced anything themselves, they just appropriate beautiful things build by others on different principles. From universities to musea to beer and cars. This kind of branding is very old style British in the sense of we plant a flag so now it's ours. It's a form of theft by an ideology of thievery. Dont build, don't found, don't make, don't produce, but just take what others build for your ideology.
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  1831. In reverse it can be rolled, but I assume that was not according to the rules of the contest.
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  1832. Diefstal door de ECB's geldpers.
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  1833.  @serene1275  Yes, so they want to be with the people who enslaved their ancestors just because they have the same skin colour?
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  1834. If it's any consolation, the video is wrong on 2.15. There haven't been plenty of invasions in that direction, there have been naval wars and Britain plundered a village on a coastal island once, but that's about it. The Dutch Republic got into Britain with the raid on chatham in 1667, but actaully invaded and occupied England in 1688, took the throne, gave them their current constitutional monarchy, bill of rights and Bank of England. Arch rivals? The Dutch dominated all of European trade, the English couldn't compete so they started naval wars. A bit flattering to the British to call that an arch rivalry.
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  1835.  @inisipisTV  It's simply not true what the video says. Yes, the Dutch Republic was the envy of the English, no they couldn't rival them and there weren't many invasions going that direction. There were naval wars but the English didn't dare sailing 'inland' because their ships had to much draught for the shallow waters. There were was one spectacular raid inland the other way around, Chatham, and there was a Dutch invasion and occupation, which caused the British to take over later. Nothing of course about it.The Portuguese dominated an era much earlier.
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  1836. Any reflection on the NYT itself on Putin, when it was banging the war drum itself and Putin was an ally in the war on terrorism?
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  1837. They move here, so appearently they believe this culture is better. It usually is, and most immigrant are from backward to very backward cultures indeed. Has nothing to do with racism and it's rather ridiculous to have foreigners accuse the Dutch of racism.
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  1838.  @g.ramanan5190  That was a retalliation for what the Bandanese did, which wasn't pretty either, and only 1200 were killed. The rest were shipped out. It's often used as the prime example of brutality in Dutch colonial history. If that is the worst, all other colonialist must have been much more brutal. The perpetrator J.P. Coen believed he was doing god's work in the existential war against the catholics. The VOC board believed he overdid god's work and reprimanded him, but was happy with the result.
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  1839. Isn't that Lancia the one with the first V6 engine.
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  1840.  @dacartrainguy  I read it's the Aurelia and this is not an Aurelia.
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  1841. I don't believe the WIC's Grand Design was aimed at the slavetrade though. The WIC was still dominated by calvinists who believed slavetrade was unchristian, it was another bad thing the catholics did. They were at the African West coast for the ivory and the gold and New Netherland was supposed to be an ordinary agricultural settlement with protestant settlers, not a plantation economy. Only with the conquest of Dutch Brazil from the Portuguese the WIC permitted the governor to conquer Portuguese slave trading posts in Africa, but under the condition that they would be freed after seven years and were educated in christianity in the mean time.
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  1842. Ukrrainians are not asylum seekers. Asylum is not for refugees but for mass migration.
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  1843.  @00PlPu00  I agree it doesn't make sense but it is the case. When we finally got people fleeing a war, they were not given asylum.
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  1844.  @00PlPu00  It's a fact, the Ukrainian war refugees were and are not supposed to apply for asylum.
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  1845.  @michielvandersijs6257  BS. Don't project your racism onto others. We just don't want religious killings in the streets, freedom to say and print what you want without fear. Religious peace like we had for 400 years until the muslims arrived in small numbers in the 1970's. No more people forcing themselves into our country getting scarce housing and making welfare unaffordable. Not selling out to 'expats', not being colonized basically because that's what it amounts to.
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  1846. We, the masses, have been found out. Just give us too much to be outraged about, we won't come to a proper collective outrage at all. This is of course not a coincidence, so much data from us was collected legally or illegally that our behaviour can be predicted. Big tech knows an awful lot more about psychology and mass pscyhology than the entire scientific field has over it's entire history.
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  1847. I don't believe the Ukrainians or Russians have a shortage of war propaganda without a Johnny Harris video.
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  1848. 10 years before the Dutch abolished the slave trade.
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  1849. Niet eens nodig. Dit is gewoon onwil hoor.
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  1850. Nonsense, government has appropriated the private not for profit social housing of the Netherlands. There is no immigration system, it's an asylum system abused to make them Dutch citizens. It's not a problem of sheltering logistics, it's an accumalting problem. Every week the problem gets bigger with 1200 people.
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  1851. I think that 2nd Ferrari was an early to mid 80's one but I'm not sure. Alboreto and Johansson? Not Ferrari's hayday.
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  1852.  @R4M_Tommy  I remember it more like getting hopes up around Canada and then fading into resignation quickly.
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  1853.  @renekuipers4563  Eind jaren 90 is er ook nog heel veel met auto's over meren gecrosst. Of dat ook het IJsselmeer betrof weet ik niet meer. Heeft ook alles te maken met of het ijs actief gebroken wordt voor het scheepvaartverkeer lijkt me.
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  1854. It's not that I have always disliked automatics, it just only used to work nice with a big torquey engine. Then you could blame either one of them at the gas station. For small cars it used to be terrible, the gas consumption of a big car, while slow and unresponsive.
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  1855.  @Raadpensionaris  Don't forget the Lodewijk for the French king which is about the least French name imaginable or pronouncable by the French. Guillermo is what the Spanish call Willem.
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  1856. The first series had a lot of problems. I had to repair one with tape because the sparkplug cable was leaking, it was on a vacation behind the iron curtain and every time it was started it drew a crowd because of the suspension, so not much chance of finding a mechanic. So luckily I found the problem myself, to the relief of my parents, but later on that vacation the door fell out. Later in life, I drove a few and they were trouble free except for some flimsy interior fittings.
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  1857. We used to have Porsches for especially the highway patrol, from the early 60's to the mid 90's. First the 356 cabriolets and later the 911 Targa. Not just to be quick in hot pursuit, but also because the officer could stand up in the car and direct traffic. It probably helped recruitment too.
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  1858.  @johan6881  Ik ben niet tegen verschuivingen in de Nederlandse agrarische productie. Waar het nu om gaat is het afpakken van land.
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  1859.  @Crewmember2  Boeren hebben 60% van het landoppervlak in eigendom en voeden samen met de visserij en de jacht 100% van de bevolking. Het is de primaire sector, elke andere economische activiteit van secundaire tot quartaire sector bestaat bij gratie van het draaien van die primaire sector. Ze zijn ingekapseld in een subsidie en heffingenstelsel ten bate van de voedselzekerheid en natuur. Boeren kunnen prima zonder overheid, andersom niet. Boeren doen het prima met de vrije markt alleen, de consumenten niet. De onevenredige vervuilers stemmen GL/PVDA, D66 en VVD. Vooral hypocrieten dus die doen alsof een vliegvakantie wel mag als ze maar 5 biefstukjes laten staan, ipv van vele duizenden. Het probleem speelt eigenlijk alleen in Brabant en gaat terug op het erfrecht. Teveel boerenzoons met te kleine stukjes land die slechts met intensieve varkensteelt winstgevend te maken zijn.
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  1860.  @Timmsh88  Het is ons land niet maar eigendom van de boeren. Het land als geheel is ook geen eigendom van de regering ook al gedraagt die zich zo. In beginsel moet de regering het gewoon doen met de Nederlandse bevolking en de boerenbedrijven zoals die er zijn.
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  1861.  @LignumVerus  Dat kon altijd al. Onteigening uitkoop noemen is echter vals en als je geen lening meer krijgt omdat overheidsregels die onzeker maken en de bank zich met beleid gaat bemoeien dan is dat niet echt vrijwillig.
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  1862.  @LignumVerus  Onteigening wordt een lastig verhaal met die goochelmodelletjes. De marktwaarde verandert het karakter van oteigening niet. Dan kun je als overheid een onzekerheid creeeren die boeren via de bevriende ideologisch opererende banken in financiele problemen brengen om geen onteigeningsprocedure te hoeven doorlopen die de rechterlijke toest niet kan doorstaan. Maar dat is soort afpersing en de hufterige antirechtsstatelijke overheid zoals we die van VVD/D66/CDA/CU kennen.
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  1863. I only partly agree. Don't let the anti European bitterness over failed independence result in anti-intellectualism. It's important to study insects, to be curious, to stimulate learning for the sake of learning because no one knows what the economic opportunities of the future might be. Tokyo has an efficient metro system based on the study of funghi. Study of ants made elevators more efficient. Our health is helped a lot by a vocationally trained 17th century Dutch draper inspector developping lenzes for curiosity and discovering microbiology. But we also see Britain and the USA getting more than half of the children through university. That's all about classism, university used to be the education of the upper classes, so sending people of humble beginnings to university is moving them up in class, not getting rid of class. It's pointless, only the smartest 10% of students is properly served with university education. Anticlassist is to respect vocational training, to respect people working with their brains and their hands. Germany does that much better, there an elektrician is a highly qualified, well trained professional, it's a good job. You'll need them all. But what's really lacking, at least in the comment sections, is understanding of global capitalism. Africans understand better than anyone how unfair it is, but that understanding is not going to make it work for Africans. I see people here say Europeans should pay more for the cacao in their chocolate, but that's not how capitalism works. If you want more money out of the profitable chocolate business you got to do more of it than picking the raw cacao beans. If you want to make more money out of the battery minerals you should do more of the battery production. Europeans didn't get rich from slavery, if people got rich from slavery Africans would be the richest. Europeans used slave labour to build sugar, tobacco and cotton industries, and most of what they earned with that was made after the slave labour, in the shipping, in the refinery, in the processing, in the marketing, in making it into an end product. That's where the money is, not in picking or digging, not in the work that any unskilled people can do.
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  1864.  @Sbudafada  Because they are racist.
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  1865. They had been dealing with the English, French, German and Spanish for centuries, how could the Japanese be any worse? Seriously, the Dutch have always looked at the world with more curiosity and less of a desire to reign and impose their culture. This is of course also because impossibility through size, but an international orientation has been part of Dutch culture for very long. They don't easily feel challenged or threatened by other culture, nor superior.
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  1866. Dealing with issues in France? The issue with the Algerians?
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  1867. No Belgium was not. Don't spout bullshit. If you don't know anything about history, just shut up about it.
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  1868.  @sentinal2343  Becasuse you're ignorant it seems. Try searching for the Dutch revolt, the Dutch Republic, the 80-years war. The Dutch could already read and write, it all is very well documented.
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  1869.  @sentinal2343  No, it doesn't.
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  1870. Their fossil fuels dwarf those of the Netherlands.
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  1871. At leat the Finnish supporters aren't on the road trying to touch the cars as they make just enough room like in Southern Europe.
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  1872. The World Championship head wind cycling is at the Oosterscheldekering in Zeeland when there is a storm with the right wind direction.
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  1873. De discipline om gewoon de EU besluitvormingsprocedures te volgen is wat er hier ontbreekt. VVD en NSC willen hier de EU besluitvormingprocessen saboteren omdat er een meningsverschil is met een lidstaat, zoals zo vaak. Partijen hebben helemaal geen zitting in de regering. De regering spreekt met één mond, de volksvertegenwoordiging niet.
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  1874. I have nostalgic feelings about the pre Euro currency too. You know, that sentimental attachement to your money, savings and pensions not losing 15% of it's value in ony year because of the moneyprinters, the counterfitters, the thieves of the ECB to take it from you and give it as life support to the banksters.
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  1875.  @dwaynen1392  Beggars can't be choosers, and you are still beggars. Everybody did heinous shit, the difference is that my civilization also did good shit, like abolishing slavery world wide and forcing the African enslavers and slavetraders to give it up. This idea that the West got wealthy by exploiting Africans and other continents is what's holding Africa back. That was just a side dish. The west got wealthy from science, innovation, capitalism, freedom, ship building, organization, governing, being on time, trading, industry, medical knowledge, literacy etc. Slaves might have cut the sugar cane, it's was the shipping, processing, making it into sweets and selling it to the right consumers that increased it's value thousands of times. That's how Europeans got rich and powerful. If cutting the sugar cane or picking cacao beans is all you do, you will stay poor no matter whether you're a free African in an independent African country.
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  1876.  @easymoneycresus  I'm not acting like your saviour, that's why I don't respond positively to Africans begging for hand outs. A lot of Europeans have the best intentions for Africa but they failed, fail and will fail to deliver on it. You may trust their intentions but don't trust their promises because they are not capable of keeping them. My point is that you have to make it in a capitalistic world, thanks to the Dutch, and that's not fair to anybody allthough it tends to work out nice for those who accept that. The money is not at the bottom of the production chain, so you won't get a 'fair' price for the raw materials. Letting free men do what used to be slave labour won't make them wealthy, they'll just have to worry about their own housing and food. The Africans here mostly came as beggars. Begging for a house and welfare after they crossed many safe countries as 'refugees'. Or begging to be legalized after they came illegally. As a group, they are an economic burden. The black players of France aren't Africans, because France isn't in Africa. They were born in France, were taught football in France by French coaches on French pitches. The pride of Africa, Morocco that looks down on black Africa, consist mostly of players that were born in Europe and learend to play football in Europe. The 5 million Europeans with Moroccan background produced more good players than the 40 Million Moroccans in Morocco. What exactly that Morocco has done for it's football should Morocco be proud of? Why would you be proud of French players? France only shows how much talent African countries manage to waste.
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  1877.  @easymoneycresus  That's your inferiority complex speaking here, not mine. Europeans say the discovered America because they did, to them it was a discovery. It wasn not the native Americans sailing over to Europe and then bringing them back to show them their continent. The Europeans were the ones crossing the oceans, not the Americans, Asians or Africans. Europeans made the maps they used sailing from European ports. No one told Africans to use European maps, you could have used your own African world maps to sail to Europe and claim you discovered it, but you didn't and there weren't any. Same with history. The Europeans started doing historiography for themselves. Why don't you read African history books from the 17th century? Because they didn't write any. It's Europeans who did the archeology in Egypt and elsewhere in Africa, not the Africans because they didn't care about the past. Now they are obsessed with the past. I'm not claiming Europeans are extra special in the history of mankind. But they had the navigable waterways that connected them and spread knowledge and resulted in a civilization that contrary to all others before, kept developping faster and faster. What happened the past 500 years in Europe is different from all civilizations before in the sense that with literacy, book printing and the scientific revolution, progress kept accellerating. There were more inventions in 17th century Netherlands than in the 10.000 years before, in the whole world. That has connected the whole world and changed the whole world. The Chinese were far ahead on the Europeans until the 1700's, but with the speed of development Europe picked up they just raced past them. Same with Benin and Togo a bit earlier, with India, Persia, the Ottoman Empire. You can bemaon that, but it's also the reason not more than half of your brothers and sisters died before the age 12. It is what it is and you can work with it or remain stuck in the past in bitterness and pretend it was the genetic evil of the Europeans that made them rich.
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  1878.  @teddyboef2821  Except the Netherlands. It only gave up on it's objection to slavery in 1637, well past the first half of it's golden age. Actually the Dutch Republic was founded on a revolt for being treated as slaves by the tyrant king of Spain who trampled on our inalienable rights, so everybody on Dutch soil was free. Only later an exemption was made for the colonies.
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  1879. Goh, de EU heeft weer een crisis veroorzaakt die alleen opgelost kan worden door meer macht voor de EU over de lidstaten zonder democratische controle.
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  1880. It wouldn't have happened if Moroccans wouldn't have allowed to come here either. That would not only have saved us from jew hunts, but also from a lot of other medieval religious violence.
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  1881.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  It's a bloody job but someone had to do it. Just good freedom loving people defending their nation on the high seas.
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  1882. The young so very international professionals bubbles from the city centre don't go there either, nor do they have any clue about the "older white Dutch people". They just make up racist stereotypes about these older white Dutch to feel better about themselves, but have no clue how narrow minded they themselves are.
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  1883. The 17 million voters that Biden got more didn't show up for Hillary or Obama either. So I guess the Democrat voters are just very racist and sexist, they only showed in big numbers at the first chance to vote for white male president again since Al Gore.
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  1884. Iemand als Noorlander die het als zijn werk ziet om volksvertegenwoordigers te controleren ipv de regering is geen toegevoegde waarde. Ook heeft hij ongelijk dat het register niet gewoon de spelregels van de kamer zijn, dat is het wel en dat is het probleem. Dit soort dingen moet je fatsoenlijk in een wet regelen, met grondwettelijke en wetsystematische toetsing dus, en niet aan een tijdelijke kamermeerderheid overlaten die dat schaamteloos gebruikt voor politiek opportunisme.
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  1885.  @SamHannes  The Netherlands is not only half water, it also was already highly urbanized in the late Middle-Ages. So there are a lot of fortified cities and the nobility didn't have much power there so a lot of fortresses were just that and had no people living there as lord. Earth walls were more effective against canonballs and it's more of a clay and brick country than stone and quarries, with the soggy soil not easy to build heavy walls on. Still it is said to have over 1200 castles, many probably with wet moats or build in water rather than relying on huge walls. I think the typical European castle is the product of a noble family living with a garrison to control a wide surrounding rural area by sending out armoured horsemen when necessary while offering protection against rivalling warlords. Lots of castles are on a mountain or hill top to make them effective, and there isn't many of that. The Netherlands had only limited geography and politics suiting that.
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  1886. Hij zal net als Kaag diplomatieke immuniteit krijgen, die komen waarschijnlijk niet eens opdagen voor de corona enquete.
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  1887.  @nietsnik  En niemand kan vertellen waaraan hij precies schuldig was. Het was belangrijk voor Kamala's rampzalige campagne om hem een convicted felon te kunnen noemen en de media deed dat braaf, maar de verkiezingen zijn verrloren dus nu is het niet relevant meer.
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  1888. Nonsense. About a quarter survived and that includes the refugees from Germany. It's a great Danish story because of the mostly happy ending, but the Dutch resistance would have laughed at such a challenge, only 7000 people, mostly in one night, relatively little danger, help from the inside, Wehrmacht instead of SS probably. Try saving 100.000 Dutch jews and 30.000 German jews with no bordering country where they could go. You have to hide them, feed them (with food stamps), for 4 years, get them false ID's of the highest quality, dye their hair, cover up their accent.
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  1889. I once he knew it was Belgium I hoped he would try to guess the language and then put it in Flanders or what he guesses it to be. But that might be a bit too much to ask at this stage.
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  1890.  @garygemmell3488  He called that joke about Puerto Rico's garbage problem 'horrific' and was surprised it didn't turn voters. It was of course just the media trying to milk that joke to revatilize the Trump is racist line and suggest Puerto Ricans would get mad. If he had gone deep he probably would have found the joke wasn't horrific and people don't care and don't let the media tell them they should be outraged. But he's probably in that media bubble were they all start believing their own propaganda and use it for their analysis. Big mistake.
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  1891. It's not fair to blame the Americans for using the word soccer for football, the British did call it that until the early 80's. Calling handegg football otoh....
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  1892.  @georgerobartes2008  Of course Europeans have their own word for football. The English version is only in the names of some very old clubs. 'Soccer' featured in 80's English lesson text books. Juniors often find words outdated, they even make words outdated by getting older and still not using it. But don't be too surprised to hear the word in old early 80's BBC footage. So the Americans in the 60's were fully entitled to name their top league and association after soccer. Pele and Cruijff played in the American soccer league. They actually went traditional with that choice of name as your anecdotal but convincing personal evidence shows. They should take pride in their own league and not follow the English in name changes. It's their language now too, it has been for over two centuries. I don't think you should be judgemental about that just because your generation in England let go of a word. The Italians call it 'calcio', and there is no reference to the foot or the ball in that term either if I am not mistaken.
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  1893. Why should the Dutch have the same reckoning as the Germans? The Dutch were victim, the Dutch jews only a minority of the Dutch victims. Antisemitism in the Netherlands always comes from outside, first the Spanish, then the Germans and now the muslims. It is not an archive of war criminals but an archive of everyone once reported on as possible collaborator. So also those that were friendly with the Germans to more successfully hide jews or gentile Dutch the Germans sought.
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  1894. I saw them in Hungary in the late 80's, high communist party officials being transported.
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  1895. There's actually a great film on the Dutch skating fever on YT called "Als het kan, dan moet het". Unfortunately it's not subtitled in English but the title says it all: "If we can, we must".
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  1896.  @MijinLaw  The Holocaust does stand out. There have been lots of massacres in history, quite a few genocides too and there has been the carefully planned systematic industrial attempt to exterminate a certain race of people.
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  1897.  @Politikul  Don't know what you are referring to?
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  1898. The man seems to be under the impression that the climate hysteria is not just another political view. But to be fair, making it about support for Hamas is just one little step further. It was not a protest for specific government policy, like stop tax breaks for fossile fuels or something, it was a "climate protest" like that is something to be subject to human intervention at all. The hundreds of billions for current Dutch climate policy will result in a 0.000037 degrees less of global warming when everything goes well and the modesl are correct. So these protests are not any more about something concrete, something specific, but just very general, almost all encompassing virtue signal carnivals. From LGBTQ+ to Gaza to whatever, just showing your equally uninformed, shallow and conformist peers that you are one of them. I really don't mind protests I don't agree with, but protest something, do more than just demonstrating and manifesting how much approval of others your mentally instable ass needs.
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  1899. A country the size of the Netherlands producing porc for China is a bit too much globalist nonsense of course but the nitrogen issue has been hijacked by ideologues, land grabbers and questionable activist computer modellers.
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  1900.  @klakkalakka6704  Nee hoor, slavernij heeft altijd wat moeizaam gelegen in Nederland maar 1848 was al voorbij het keerpunt en de slavenhandel was in 1815 al afgeschaft. Het getreuzel van de Nederlandse regering om het restant van de slavernij weg te werken was zeker niet fraai, maar dat is geen reden om te claimen 'dat we hier nog slavernij' hadden. Een beetje precisie in wat je zegt mogen we toch wel verwachten van een kanaal dat zich "De Snijtafel" noemt, dan verwacht ik een scherp mes en niet de botte kant van een opscheplepel.
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  1901. I thought they couldn't handle the lack of puritanism and prudishness of the Dutch people, they feared the influence on their kids. Anyhow, they weren't prosecuted in the Dutch Republic.
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  1902.  @korstmahler  That's an international trend, probably coming from the USA's racialized hisoriography. Just like portraying the Dutch revolt/80 years war for independence as just another religious war, it wasn't, it was a war for religious tolerance which the protestants could do when they ruled and the catholics couldn't. The 80-years war was probably the first war in which propaganda played a significant role, but the Inquisition part was very real. The fact that is was highly legalized in an orderly manner and did mild sanctioning too doesn't mean it wouldn't have been terrible for true protestants. Large scale prosecution of witches wasn't very protestant either, the English loved it but they do no represent protestantism of that time because they never protested anything. In the Netherlands witch prosecution almost ended with the end of catholic rule.
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  1903.  @wessel754  The Spanish installed an inquisition, and later the council of troubles or blood council, doing about the same. That ended up in English propaganda, and was quite an accurate image of inquisition by Spanish rule, technically that is not the Spanish Inquisiton. That is what the English would have got if the Armada hadn't been fenced off or the Dutch not blocking the invasion troops. Dutch cities wanted to maintain autonomy, they claimed their ancient rights and privileges which included dealing with religious matters themselves, i.e. having religious tolerance and no inquisition. The medieval taxation not fitting an economy of traders and increased to finance the war and prosecution of their fellow people didn't help, but the freedom of conscience and therefor how to believe in god was codified in the Union of Utrecht. The Spanish were highly surprised about how unpopular the public torture and burnings at the stake were in the Netherlands, also in catholic eras. In Spain those drew huge enthousiastic crowds. There was just very little appetite for imposing religion.
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  1904. @Mickael Dintimille It never stopped being a central authoritarian country with a 'fair weather' democracy. So maybe it's an opportunity to get it right this time.
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  1905. @Mickael Dintimille I agree but France has a particularly strong central state, especially the president with his power to circumvent parliament, especially in a case of emergency he can declare. I studied several constitutions long ago and I had to check France's to make sure it was real. It also has an exceptionally strong grip on the media, allthough that got better in the 80's and seems to have no active public opinion in the sense that it influences policy directly and not through strikes and violent protests. Traditionally, I am afraid it has changed recently, Dutch government starts backing off before it comes to large protests and riots.
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  1906. Great concept but a lot of awful architecture.
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  1907.  @xSjekkieladze  That's not the point. The children must learn that all history is about the evil white Europeans getting rich from stealing from the blacks and inventing slavery to enslave blacks, not Asians, it has to be about blacks. And that's why they still can't do well in school and get good jobs, so they need to be favoured and get handouts.
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  1908.  @VanillaMacaron551  The Netherlands would probably be wealthier. But without the VOC and WIC it might have lost the war against Spain and Portugal too and we would all be expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
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  1909.  @BertrandNelson-Paris  It's true that the French cars were traditionally a bit lighter and more compact than their German equivalents, but the Germans came to define the classes forcing the French to upscale a little. Otoh, with the DS and it's superior suspension, especially regarding comfort, it still had a piece of the luxury market. The DS was not a cheap car abroad. But Citroen in particular had difficulty taking it's place in the higher end of the middle class and the luxury market because of 3 failed engine projects and it's legacy. The DS was undermotorized because the boxer6 failed, the GS was undermotorized because the birotor failed, the CX was undermotorized because the triroter didn't even take off after that. So in wanting to get rid of the DS main weakness, they were left with an engine bay only fitting a 1.2 for the GS, which is modest for the top of the range, and only a 4 cylinder for the CX which maxes out around 2.4 litre. The turbo, not a Citroen idea, allowed the CX to be a good performing car in the autumn of it's life but that was kind of a gift. They couldn't fit or find a 3.0 V6, which would be very much becoming for the top of the range limousine. I'm also convinced the BX would have been car of the year if it was introduced with the 1.9, but they already had to up displacement from it's predecessor, the GS and started losing on power and torque to the competition right away. By the time they fitted a V6 in the XM, it wasn't the most lively 6 on the market, same with the C6. After so much undermotorization for so long, the image was that of a buy for comfort, not "a driver's car", instead of superior comfort for the same handling and power it could have been.
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  1910. So we can buy dirty produced stuff from China at favourable import duties? No thanks.
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  1911. The rule of law has also been violated systemically and tax pressure for employees has increased from 35% to 40% while these million immigrants were supposed to be good for "the economy". GDP has increased for sure, GDP per capita not so much and we are paying more for the infrastructure, services and help these immigrants appear to need.
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  1912.  @maartenaalsmeer  You would have a good point if that was the situation. But VVD and D66 are neoliberal, that is the economic extreme right, about squeezing out citizens to the max to increase international corporate profits. Mass immigration is part of that. The PVV is very much and pretty far to the left of that. They are much more old fashioned conservative capitalists. Mass immigration is and has always been a right wing desire.
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  1913.  @NeoSithole  Only 15 minutes in I already heard many.
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  1914. 1647, inspired on American Jim Crow laws. It's all the product of the Anglo's and their take over in 1795.
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  1915. Technically the European Parliament is not the legaslative arm of the EU, because it has no legaslative power, it can only block the EC's legislation.
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  1916. They aren't Africans, as the Netherlands isn't in Africa and further North. Tijani Reijnders mother is half Ambonese, Ambon has strong ties to the Netherlands for about 3 times longer than the Southern province of Limburg. Her first name is Angelina, in their Indonesian tradition of giving their Netherlands born children European names rather than old fashioned Dutch ones, but not Indonesian. Just like they weren't taught Indonesian or Malayan at home but proper Dutch by their grandparents. They called their son Tijani, a Nigerian name, just because they liked the name, just like there are lots of Yuris, Björns, Marios, Johns, Svens, Jaris and Kevins in the Netherlands. It just doesn't get much more Dutch than Tijani Reijnders. That's a whole different story than fake African and Middle-Eastern refugees coming in by the thousands and getting Dutch citizenship for being on welfare and taking up scarce social housing for 5 years, bypassing the waiting list. Those people and the guest workers that refused to go back their children and grandchildren often don't even want to play for the country they live and have a citizenship from. They call half of their sons Mohammed to apparently make the point the Dutch shouldn't be able to keep them apart and see them as Dutch individuals. These are two completely different things. Many dark skin and Asian features is the product of history and integrating those people since forever. We don't have such a history with the Middle-East or even Africa at all.
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  1917. German is a language that allows for being exact and readable at the same time.
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  1918. The Dutch weren't Brits, they didn't loot. i believe the treasure should go back to Lombok, but that isn't the case, it's handed to Java were the current ruler of Lombok is.
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  1919. It's the members parties that have been antidemocratic.
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  1920. Luckily there is no war being sold to the American people right now.
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  1921. Because of the uneven number 5 cylindres have a two tone sound I have been told, I don't have a musical ear myself. The Volvos were much more eyecatching when they raced the estate version. I think that Jaguar was actually the first V8. Jaguar developped a brilliant straight-6 in 1949 and that covered everything from 2.4 to 4.2 litres including modernized versions, while the V12 based on the same design was only 5.3 litre. So there was no need for, a less well balanced, V8 until engines needed to be shorter and lighter. Commentary was by the legendary Murray Walker, a few drivers were former F1 drivers (Winkelhock, Tarquini), and they drove on those narrow racetracks made out of WWII air fields all over the country. Toca2 was a very good racing game for it's day. Limited graphics of course but great simulation characteristics, very dark threatening clouds and difficult slippery corners.
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  1922. Not king, the steward to the king who led the rebellion that would lead to the Dutch Republic, which became named as such in 1588, the kingdom of the Netherlands is only from 1814.
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  1923. The only real benefit of EU membership is not being excluded from free trade with neighbouring countries by the EU. That's not really a benefit but a punishment for leaving, and free trade was not brought by the EU but by the EEC. To have free trade with our neighbours we need to accept the political agenda of the unelected and the corrupt, that's where we after allowing creeping power grabs to happen. I am not opposed to European cooperation in global matters but the EU fails in that because it's busy taking over power in national matters. Van der Leyen and a whole lot of other EUans beloing in jail and I'm actually looking forward to the defenestrations of Brussels.
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  1924. You can't tell the history of Belgium without telling how the Netherlands got split between North and South in the first place, in 1581 and it was not because of the rebellious Belgians. They were only together for 15 years and as the result of the British wanting a buffer kingdom in front of republican France, ending the Dutch Republic that had been the Northern Netherlands for over 2 centuries. The Northern Netherlands were 40% catholic too, but the Dutch Republic had religious tolerance and split off the Spanish Habsburg Empire for that reason while the catholics still wanted to annihilate protestantism and jews where ever they ruled. So the Dutch state was protestant to allow for multiple religions and did indeed refuse too much power for the catholic church in the South.
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  1925.  @jahbless4ever  For the Anglo's maybe, with their funny teeth and micropenises, but the Dutch don't have those reasons to feel threatened by blacks. Many find darker skin attractive, some not but that is personal like any attraction. But of course in the past it was a symbol for the exotic and that was always interesting. Sailors coming in and looking very different also in clothes from the ordinary.
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  1926. Propagandistische begripsverwarring weer. Persvrijheid is passief, het recht om geen staatsbemoeinenis met de inhoud te hebben, het ter beschikking stellen van kantoortes en vliegtuigen hoort daar niet bij. Journalisten voelen zich een stuk vrijer om te schrijven wat ze willen dan in de covid tijd. Journalisten hebben niet het recht om te belasteren, en ook niet het recht om boven alle kritiek door wie dan ook verheven te zijn, als ze zich gemakzuchtig of lafjes conformeren dan is dat ook hun keuze. Neem eens verantwoordelijkheid voor wat je schrijft en zegt, verwacht de bal terug als je kaatst, wees eens kritisch op je eigen beroepsgroep en probeer mensen geen leugens over de persvrijheid op de mouw te spelden.
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  1927.  @flitsertheo  That's a bit of an idéé fixe.
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  1928.  @sarah.sonninem  No, black Africans were for sale at the African coast. The racial component was that contrary to the native Americans were resistant to European diseases. The Dutch bought Asian slaves too, they jailed captains for enslaving blacks, they employed free Asians and free blacks, there were blacks living in the Dutch Republic marrying white girls. But slavery needed an excuse for the double standards, that got racist. But don't let the Africans play innocent. Tribalism isn't much better than racism, and slavery took all kinds of different forms anywhere. And don't forget about he North Africans enslaving Europeans. Not every slave had a terrible life and not everyone with a terrible life was a slave, but human beings as property is terrible in itself and creates a situation in which terrible things are likely to happen.
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  1929.  @sarah.sonninem  Actually before that, but indeed the Africans weren't as good at shipping so trade moved towards the coast when the Europeans arrived. But in the early days the Europeans shipped black African slaves from black African sellers to black African buyers further down the coast too.
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  1930. @ Capitalism, the melting pot, freedom of religion, upward social mobility AKA the American dream all come from the Dutch through NYC. Not to mention all the Dutch influence not directly through NYC.
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  1931. No, it wasn't. It was differently bad. The Dutch Republic already had had the first half of their Golden Age before profits from WIC or VOC came in, both started for war reasons, to protect what you take for granted now. Since you are enjoying freedom of religion, freedom of speech and print, upward social mobility and modern capitalism, citizenship in a nation state, free trade, the Dutch Golden Age was golden for you too.
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  1932.  @thepostapocalyptictrio4762  Indeed, English propaganda against that silly financial thing from the Dutch Republic that would later be known as capitalism. It didn't have any measurable economic effect besides a few speculators going bankrupt and it was called tulip mania in Dutch, emphasizing the craziness of the people rather than an economic phenomenon.
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  1933.  @Bahamuttiamat  But all his good team mates beat him regularly. Rosberg was not considered WDC material, Button was a somewhat accidental WDC, both were predicted to be 3 tenths behind Hamilton by the people who consider Hamilton one of the greats. He had most of his WDC's by beating a replacement dirver. I agree Gasly, Albon and Perez aren't WDC material except for a Brawn GP thing happening again. But look at the margin on what are basically very good F1 drivers, at least Bottas category. Every teammate of Hamilton had to be re-evaluated after the margin on them was disappointingly small. Bottas became some kind of quali animal, Zhou disagrees. Time to re-evaluate Hamilton himself.
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  1934.  @Bahamuttiamat  Feel free to compare Schumacher to any driver in his forties returning after a 4 year break. Barrichello, Irvine and Jos Verstappen were expected to become very good drivers and give Schumacher some stiff competition. They couldn't. It's always the other way around with non British drivers, Vettel was said to be beaten convincingly by Raikkonen too. What we see to have changed in the past 15 years is the pointy front end vs the planted rear end. That catches a lot of drivers out. Ricciardo struggled with the McLaren front end, so that was a disappointment but overall the difference with Norris isn't all that it is made out to be. Verstappen also is different driver than he was 5 years ago. "Mr. Saturday", "Mr. Consistency" should really have been Mr. Faster dan Hamilton, Mr. Better than Hamilton, Mr. not fucking up like Hamilton. Russell did get on pole and did win with that Mercedes, more than once even. The British media are coming up with all kind of stuff to try not to see that Hamilton is exposed as not such a very special driver. It's actually quite embarassing to read all that and to listen to the Sky comment, but appearently most people fall for it.
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  1935. The idea that countries and nationalism are a bad thing is ridiculous. The alternative for a nation state is an absolute monarchy with the souvereignty in the monarch and not the people. The alternative nationalism is imperialism at one end, and tribalism at the other end. Anyhow, without a nation state you can forget about democracy and the rule of law, but that is what the globalists want.
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  1936. I think he meant there might be a problem with the socket and/or it's switch. But then you plug in another device and then you know.
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  1937.  @xiniks  No, actually not. There were some academics claiming this, based on a research that was still in progress but they felt the need to talk about their findings prematurely, without anybody being able to read the study. Of course the media jumped on this without questioning it's prematurity and questionable methodology.
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  1938.  @xiniks  That claim didn't have the false scientific pretences but was anecdotal to begin with and did not include any numbers. The interesting thing is that this had to be debunked asap, the researchers couldn't wait until the study was finished and published so it could be reviewed. The created an extra control group after the elections, which suprisingly had a lot of North Africans and Middle Easterners that didn't identify as muslims. What we do know is that the PVV was already the biggest or 2nd biggest party among the Surinamese in previous elections.
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  1939. Let me reflect on the more recent Dutch past. A critical reflection on the Dutch colonial past is something we already did in the 20th century. In history education, in revaluating statues and adding critical information. But because the USA is finally going to a similar process, just as it was decades behind the Netherlands on all other progressive subjects, activists in the Netherlands and even foreigners have decided that the Netherlands hadn't done that and should now. The critically evaluated history of the 20th century wasn't bad enough so had to be made worse and worse again, going far beyond the historical facts. It's also purely ideological false in the sense that the story is now that the Netherlands got rich from colonialism and slavery, which is nonsense, and therefore anybody from anywhere not even close to a Dutch colony and with a far more imperialistic and slave trading past, is entitled to Dutch post WWII, post colonial, riches.
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  1940. No, on the contrary. War crimes are a Western concept and it's only fair to hold the Dutch to their own standards which many parts of the army failed to meet. But if we held the Indonesian nationallists to the same standards then and now, they wouldn't look as good, they would look far worse.
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  1941.  @IMAN-od8jv  Revenge on soldiers and civilians is a war crime. The fact that the Indonesian nationalists had a fair claim to independence doesn't justify their atrocities, nor is it a reason to sugarcoat the numbers. It's fair to judge the Dutch to their own standards of that time, and you could argue that there's reason to hold them to higher standards than the Indonesian nationalists. But that doesn't change the fact that is was a very dirty war from the nationalists side.
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  1942. No, it's much older as a national colour than the kingdom, it's even older than the Dutch Republic (1588) before that.
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  1943.  @katjaboelieable  Een huis is geen koninkrijk. Het koninkrijk stamt van 1815, de Republiek der Zeven Vereenigde Nederlanden is van 1588.
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  1944. There certainly is a relgiious component. It's just that others have sinned more and have to most of the penance. And you're not just following science. If you were following science you would have acted much earlier, be much calmer now and you would deglobalize instead of following the globalists who made such a mess in the first place. Dutch farmers have reduced emissions by 60% since 1990, in the same time air travel there has grown to 370% and the population has 'grown' by 20%.
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  1945.  @kiuk_kiks No, they only arrived a few hundreds of years earlier. And they weren't chased from their farms or something.
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  1946. If you have to shave your head because you don't want to have sex you are not very good at keeping your legs together when a man shows interest.
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  1947. Wat is de catastrofe voor Duitsland precies? Het ging allemaal prima met al die mesaanvallen, groepsverkrachtingen en jodenhaat, maar de zoveelste terroristische aanslag is een catastrofe voor Duitsland? Hoe ziet de NOS dat precies?
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  1948. Maybe these advanced, morally superior, enlightened, open minded, cosmopolitan shoud stop making life worse for the people they are supposed to represent? It would help if they would face the fact that the mass immigration is a continuous process, if you keep the immigration policy the same the country keeps changing, if you want to keep the country the same you have to change immigration policiy. They should also admit to the fact that the bulk of the immigrants are a pain in the ass. Education levels, welfare and social housing, crime and safety, misogyny, social cohesion, it is a burden on top of the burden of the Walloons having to be payed for. It is not even about kicking out immigrants, it's about stopping ever more immigrants to not just form a new burden, but also frustrating the integration of the immigrants already present, making sure they will stay a burden.
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  1949. Going Dutch is an English expression that comes from an English speaking country. Let's not take those as knowledgeable about the rest of of the world or accurately representing national habits. I think if you ask someone out you should pay. I never split bills on dates, if a woma wants to be equal she offers to pay the bill, splitting the bill is not equality. Half of the bill does not equal the whole bill.
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  1950.  @mauritsmutsaars182  Met onderwijspartij D66 in het kabinet kwamen er opeens massa's analfabeten van school af en zijn onze universiteiten vooral bezig met Duitse meisjes in het Engels tot psycholoog opleiden die na het afstuderen in Duitsland gaan werken.
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  1951. We also should stop pretending that immigrants stop being immigrants the year after they came in. It's accumulating and even a lot of the 3rd generation have immigration background related problems like they arrived last month or even worse.
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  1952.  @gijsgijs2365  Het verkeerde kaartje zal wel in een of ander standaardprogrammaatje zitten, ik zie het wel vaker op YT. Maar als Nederlander van de NOS is het gewoon slordig, zo ziet ons land er niet uit en ook niet op de weerkaart van de NOS. De Afsluitddijk is er al bijna 90 jaar, het is al vele decennia een zoetwatermeer, dus dat kan het ook niet zijn. Het past wel in een trend van een algeheel soort slordigheid, als het maar ongeveer goed is. Ik deel het enthousiasme in veel van de comments onder NOS filmpjes dan ook totaal niet.
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  1953.  @roy_hks  EU-ers betalen niet meer lesgeld volgens mij. Maar hoezo moet Groningen buitenlandse rijkeluiskindjes faciliteren? Moeten we allemaal maar inschikken en buigen voor wie neerdaalt uit de CO2-uitstotende internationale klasse? Veel internationale studenten krijgen nog een beurs ook om in Nederland te studeren, het alternatief is vaak een veel duurdere Amerikaanse of Britse universiteit. Wat het aan Nederlandse onderwijskwaliteit kost zit niet in de boekhouding van de universiteit. Voor de stad is het net zoiets als toerisme, geld dat elders is verdiend (door de ouders doorgaans) wordt hier uitgegeven. Maar er is meer dan als een kruidenier centjes tellen. Ik vind het wel goed dat de RUG en andere Groningse "universiteiten" waarschuwen, maar het is een instelling voor wetenschap en wetenschappelijk onderwijs, die heeft niks en moet niks te maken willen hebben met woonruimte.
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  1954.  @supercoeledude  Omdat in Nederland zefls de studie Nederlands in het Engels moet om buitenlandse studenten te faciliteren. Voor EU-studenten geldt volgens mij dezelfde rijksbijdrage als voor Nederlandse studenten. Dan heb je nog studenten van buiten de EU die meer moeten dokken maar nog steeds veel goedkoper uit zijn dan op een Engelstalige uiniversiteit in de VS of UK en vaak nog een beurs krijgen van o.a. de Nederlandse overheid ook. . Dat is boekhoudkundig een groei- en verdienmodel geworden waarvan we ons moeten afvragen waartoe dat allemaal dient behalve de huisjesmelkers spekken en de woningnood verhogen. Wat is de visie hierachter? Welke doelstelling voor het hoger onderwijs wordt er precies gediend?
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  1955.  @supercoeledude  Toen ik studeerde was dat nog exclusief voor de beste leerlingen en was het vaak van een dusdanig abstractieniveau dat je echt de volledige beheersing van je moedertaal nodig had om de materie in woorden te kunnen vatten. Nederlanders die denken dat ze met Engels net zo goed uit de voeten kunnen als met het Nederlands formuleren niet op academisch niveau. Een master thesis over Vondel in het Engels moeten schrijven om uit te leggen hoe goed die van de eigenaardigheden van het Nederlands gebruikt maakt is gewoon pure onzin. Toen ik studeerde waren buitenlandse studenten die iets extra's hadden en een extra ervaring wilden. Dat was ook waardevol omdat ze een andere taal moesten leren en vaak zelfs op academisch niveau zien te beheersen, en moesten ze zich maar zien te redden in een vreemd land. Dat had meerwaarde. Ik heb ook buitenlandse huisgenoten gehad en die waren allemaal slechter in Engels en het was best leuk maar je blijft toch op een bepaald niveau van conversatie steken. Maar als je dan de hele dag op de universiteit ook nog in steenkolenengels moet communiceren dan wil je dat ook nog niet eens in je huis. Zeker niet als het mensen zijn die niks extra's hebben, maar verwachten dat notabene de universiteit of de HBO-school, tegenwoordig university, een gespreid bedje voor hen regelt. Dus in de loop van de tijd heeft zich dat ontwikkeld van een waardevol buitenlands avontuur tot het consumeren van een all in opleiding. Er zijn positieve economische effecten van buitenlandse studenten, maar 'goed voor de economie' betekent doorgaans stijging BNP of BBP. Met meer mensen wordt je economie groter ja, maar immigratie is een armoedige manier om het BNP te vergroten en verhoogt het BNP per capita niet, integendeel vaak. Als je faalt om de arbeidsproductiviteit te laten stijgen kun je altijd nog meer mensen binnenhalen, de Nederlanders dragen de lasten wel en de exploderende huizenprijzen door oa de toegenomen vraag telt ook mee voor het BNP terwijl niemand daar iets aan heeft. Als je nou wil dat mensen met veel talent in Nederland komen studeren om daarna te blijven, dan zou het juist zinniger zijn dat ze Nederlands hebben moeten leren. Nu is het toch vaak studeren op kosten van de Nederlandse belastingbetaler, en dan gaan werken in een land waar je geen belasting betaalt zodat de volgende generatie kans studeren. Hoe dan ook is er visie nodig, ipv inernationalisering om de internationalisering maar door te laten gaan. Maar wellicht ben jij zo iemand aan wie de studie niet besteed was, verspilde moeite, paarlen voor de zwijnen. Aan mensen die je een kunstje hebben leren doen is het idee van visie meestal niet besteed.
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  1956. Nonsense. The left and the media is trying to claim the constitution and the rule of law like it is their party program, but the new thing is that government candidate NSC wants to restore the rule of law in the Nehterlands, the VVD especially has some explaining to do and so would the liberal and left wing parties if they were at the table.
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  1957. I think many white people are disappointed with the results of integration too and not just in South Africa.
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  1958. He was not a nationalist but an imperialist and tribalist, but he was a socialist. Also a totalitarian so that makes him similar to communists but not a communist himself. Germany had been pretty 'socialist' on worker rights, health care and pensions since well before Hitler and he just went along with that, just like his predecessors probably to keep communism out. Marx went to London because industrialized Germany was running out of Lumpenproletariat fast. Here in the Netherlands after the occupation a lot of Nazi legislature remained simply because it was good social legislation more fitting to the post WWII era than the laissez faire policies of the early 20th century.
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  1959. I don't think it is an awful design if you look at it unprejudiced by the terrible woke campaign preceeding it. This is also just the ordinary narrow mindedness of a lot of car people, they tend to love what looks like what they have seen before. The cars nobody has a strong opinion about and looks like any manufacturer's, designs that are forgotten in a couple of years. People were also narrow minded when the XJS was introduced, or the Mark X. Bentley Continental, Ferrari Testarossa, Mercedes 190, Alfa 155, Porsche 928, BMW Z's, do something new and people will hate it. At first, they just don't like new ideas, they want more of the same mediocrity.
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  1960.  @jonnowocky8179  It's a concept, it introduces a (partly) new design language. It's allowed to be an opinion divider and it's bold enough to be. Of course it could be designed in a matter of days, because a strong design only takes 3 lines to define it's basic shape. You make it sound like that is a bad thing, but the Daytona was also done in afternoon. I agree that form should follow function and this should have a straight six hybrid or somethin, not whithstanding that long bonnets and sitting near the rear wheels have merit on their own. But Jaguar is in desperate need to leave the lacklustre jellybean blob mediocrity behind and both the long bonnet, low roof and design language have potential and would have been widely embraced if people after the terrible woke campaign would be ready to take a proper look at it. They obviously aren't.
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  1961.  @jonnowocky8179  "There is no such thing as bad publicity"? We shouldn't underestimate this marketing campaign, and choosing the pinkest pink for the first pics was obviously a statement and a provocation, inviting people to say it's ugly. I know that marketeers also like to create confusion in how to pronounce brand names for examples just to have people discuss it. But we shouldn't overestimate marketeers either. The interesting thing is that it's actually a very masculine design while Jaguar's current and recent line-up could be summarized as identity confused and neutered. But they did everything to keep that from getting through, the colours, the EV. People who can afford are still often 50 though, and people under 30 tend to be indifferent about cars a lot more. I doubt it would fit a straight 6, the long bonnet is mostly visual. Maybe they overplayed their hand, just at the time when full EVs take a step back, and his nothing interesting to offer in terms of the drive train. The Gemera I don't believe to be very pretty is extremely interesting because of the drive train alone. I don't like hypercars, but this one I really wanted to understand. Maybe they should have given the middle aged car guys a bit more to get the 95% from rejecting it totally to a little curiosity? Maybe wanting to get used to it? Hold their judgement a little?
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  1962. It was a Dutch made gun. I know it's not nice to take back gifts after a break-up, but this gun does not belong to Sri Lankan culture and history.
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  1963.  @ws1814  That is the point. Not even all artefacts that do have a cultural meaning to it's place of origin have to be returned.
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  1964.  @theusher2893  No, the history of freedom goes back much further than the USA. But yes, men often had to go out and do dangerous work while women had the less dangerous but very important task of managing the whole household and home business.
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  1965.  @SamAronow  Stop presenting YT clickbait as fact. No proof of DeWitt being eaten whatsoevver. The Orangists where not monarchists, there was no dictatorship restored, the stadtholders were usually from the Orange Nassau family but appointed by Dutch parliaments for eacht of the 7 provinces. The conflict was about the loose federation, with the province of Holland calling the shots and being protected by the water and an inundation line, and a tighter federation with an army protecting the dryer provinces with the stadtholder as commander in chief. The neglect of the land defences by the Statists (Staten being the name of the Dutch parliaments) led by DeWitt had allowed the French to invade and occupy most of the country, but not Holland. The British fought along the French with their navy trhough the secret treaty of Dover, betraying the Dutch Republic and backstabbing DeWitt, and the Germans joined in with the bishopries of Cologne and Munster too. So the Orangists were proven right as the Dutch Republic was at the brink of total annihilation. Once appointed stadtholder by parliaments, these Orange-Nassau fellowes proved themselved capable to excellent military leaders usually and stadtholder Willem III saved the country, and would later successfully invade and conquer Britain. He became king of England, Scotland and Ireland, but was not a de facto monarch of the Dutch Republic. That's just not how monarchy worked in the days of the divine right of kings and absolute monarchism. A monarch was sent by god through inheretance. Monarch was not a word for a position of political power, stadtholder was an office to be appointed in meaning steward. Before the declaration of independence the stadtholder was a steward to the king for one or more of the 17 Netherlands (provinces, the Southern 10 remained Spanish). The Dutch Republic let in many piss poor Azkhenazi jews from the East too. The economic impact of the Sephardim was tiny too because global trade and the jewish network and knowledge in that was futile compared to the Dutch Republic's dominance of the far bigger European trade, basically taking over the Hanseatic League in particular. Allthough the VOC sneaked some through in the East, the Dutch Republic did not take part in the transatlantic slave trade until 1637 either.
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  1966.  @terabeatnik2000  If it's any consolation, the first series Golfs were problematic and unreliable too.
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  1967.  @MaximilianvonPinneberg  Less than 10 years before, I like it better but I think it was more of a quirky French car than influential like the Golf.
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  1968. Islam is the Kruger Dunning of religion, it's so dumb it feels superior.
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  1969. Turning 180 degrees on the spot is the latest fad in high end 4wds, is basically turning like a tank but with wheels instead of tracks. Not to the defence of the direction Ferrari is heading in, but Ferrari has always made a lot of rather disappointingly styled or straight up ugly cars for each gorgeous Ferrari.
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  1970.  @shanfsa5368  You castrated them, the few that survived the trip that is. 19 million black African slaves you lying hyporcrites. You were by far the worst, and the Dutch with only 500-600k are no match.
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  1971. Trump wants the Norvegian transgenders to become immigrants to the USA.
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  1972. Je moet niet je eigen valse propaganda als argument gaan tegenwerpen. De kabinetten Rutte hielden zich stelselmatig niet aan de wet en lapten daarmee de rechtsstaat aan de laars, dit kabinet houdt zich wel aan de wet en gebruikt die wet. Het vaststellen van een crisis of noodsituatie is altijd aan de uitvoerende macht, de regering regeert, de kamer controleert. De massa-immigratiefans willen het initiatief, begrijpelijk, maar ze hebben gewoon nog niet verwerkt dat ze de verkiezingen verloren hebben en verklaren nu hun verkiezingsprogramma's tot de rechtsstaat en de grond en mensenrechten. Volkomen onzin natuurlijk.
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  1973.  @Halbared  Indeed, they will tell us nothing changes really because immigration numbers are the same as previous years, like it doesn't accumulate and the immigrants of the previous years have just disappeared or stopped beign an immigrant. Or they will tell you it's all great, and if it's not great it's just the world changing by some force of nature, not policy.
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  1974. Arabs had 19 million African slaves alone, that's 7 million more than the entire transatlantic slave trade of all European countries. It took oil to make them rich.
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  1975. By knowing the meaning of words.
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  1976. What a load of BS. The big and reclamation started well before the VOC returned a profit. The stock market was invented so the VOC could reinvest it's profits and grow, and that took till 1633, 21 years after it's foundation. It was high risk high profit trade, but the money was peanuts compared to the much more voluminous and frequent European trade the Dutch dominated.
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  1977.  @jacobvanrossum3900  The Netherlands brought in more than half of all taxes of the Spanish Empire. The Northern Netherlands declaring independence was a huge blow, especially because the remaining Spanish Netherland empoverished because they couldn't compete. The war had been and remained extremely expensive for Spain while the Dutch Republic could easily afford it because they had invented modern capitalism while Spain was still stuck in mercantilism and feudalism. The Dutch Republic also robbed Spanish ships on the Atlantic, making it even harder for Spain to finance the war. Yes, it was the Dutch Republic, the economic superpower of the 17th century, that ended the Spanish Empire as a global power. The English were just in the way.
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  1978. The contempt for the rule of law amongst these "European leaders", all electoral sitting ducks, does not change the fact that the EU has freedom of speech by it's treaty an anyone can give his opinion on politicians and parties. That is not election interference and if it was they would all be guilty themselves. I know you guys are desperate, but this is clutching at straws. They just want to censor because they have the truth to fear, but are not legally allowed to do so.
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  1979. They are fare worse than the Europeans. The Europeans don't deliver on their good intentions like they do on their own interests, but there is a decent side to them. The Chinese don't care, they don't have good intentions at all. That's pretty straight forward to deal with, but not if they think they're any better than Europe.
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  1980. It's not that bad of analysis but Zeihan confuses the way the establishment had the system work with the parliamentary system itself. The establishment didn't just get a huge smack from Wilders but also from NSC and BBB, so all options within the system are open. This includes a PM being just a primus inter pares, it's not a minister sacking PM like in the UK, he's a leader, not a boss legally and he doesn't need to be from the biggest part or handle foreign affairs himself. Zeihan also ignores the Netherlands traditional and historical role in Europe. The Dutch are in the game and they play it, but from a very different attitude, they are not just a smaller player than UK, FR, GER, but they never played for the same prizes, they have their own.
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  1981. Car manafucturers have use alloy and magnesium wheels and inboard brakes for decades to save unsprung weight. It's a huge thing in handling so if you want individual wheel motors you put them and the end of a drive shaft in the middle of the car to make the motor weight tilt with bumbs rather than going up and down. You'd want the weight in the middle of the car anyway. Low in the car is the first priority for the big weight like batteries, but within the axles and towards the axis are a close 2nd and 3rd. Hub motors are a good idea for compact city cars with small wheels to save space. But those cars typically don't profit much from torque vectoring and for efficiency you would only have two driven wheels. It's probably only the double rotor design that interests BMW.
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  1982. What a load of BS. The jewish community was small and less than one percent of the traders. The Dutch had more merchant ships in the huge European trade than all of the others combined. The Dutch Republic was only early in the 80-years war for independence and religious tolerance with Spain and Portugal. The VOC was founded to attack the Portuguese Asian income and pay for it with it's own trade, it was given a monopoly East of the Cape for that reason. The stock was handled by the chambers of the VOC, which werer spread out over several cities to make it a national war entreprise. After the first succesfull trade missions, the VOC saw a lot more opportunity than just robbing some Portuguese ships and buying some silk, and profit needed to be reinvested. Since many shareholders were very ordinary people who couldn't wait long for ROI, they were offered the opportunity to sell their share at the De Keyser exchange and most shares ended up with the rich who had the patience and the maids and carpenter investors had their ROI in cash. Again, the Bank of Amsterdam had nothing to do with it. The Amsterdamse Wisselbank was the biggest in Europe because it made money reliable and functioned as the first central bank. It was in the biggest trading hub of Europe in the country of by far the biggest traders in Europe. That's also why the Dutch were already filthy rich when the VOC started to pay it's first dividends in 1633, 31 years after it's foundation. The whole VOC with it's lousy 200 merchant ships at it's peak was peanuts for the Dutch economy. Land reclamation had nothing to do with it either. This is really like 'I know (false) only 2 things about the Netherlands so they must be connected'.
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  1983.  @honor9lite1337  Don't believe every YT nonsense video.
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  1984.  @BilboBaggins236  Klopt, nepvluchtelingen het Nederlands staatsburgerschap aanbieden over de ruggen van de burgers en de woningzoekenden in het bijzonder heeft helemaal niets maar dan ook niets met solidariteit te maken.
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  1985.  @noterrormanagement  The victory in the war on drugs won't be long then I guess.
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  1986.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  That clears it up. Kudo's for your quick response.
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  1987. @irishemerald7796 You seem pre-occupied with moral judgement to defend the British, which is ironic by itself. I'm not saying the Dutch were morally better towards the colonized, allthough they probably were, I'm saying they were modern and the British were backward and had a very different style of colonialism in that era. The Dutch values of those days were embraced worldwide over the ages, so I guess in that sense they were universally liked, even by the British.
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  1988. @irishemerald7796 The British took over the Cape in 1795 so you tell me what you are sure about precisely. Until the 1870s the Dutch weren't very much about ruling land and it's people, only about ruling the trade routes and their own settlements. So that was not really imperialism as we know it from the British, it's the British that speak of the Dutch empire and not because they know Dutch history better than the Dutch. The Dutch didn't have the man power to rule over lots of land and people and believed it to be too expensive, and those amoral considerations alone saved the locals a lot of suffering. The locals of the Cape weren't black btw, the Khoisan are categorized as Cape Coloured today. The blacks, the Bantu are hardly more indiginous to SA than the Dutch. What happened happened, so what event between 1655 and 1795 you want my moral judgement on? The British even fought the Boers in two wars to establish imperial rule over SA and submitted them after they had fled North to escape British rule, and then turned them into a privileged elite through race laws fitting classic colonial divide and rule with the biggest difference being that the Dutch were from European descent too.
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  1989. Niets tegen die mensen? Ze boeken een reis naar Nederland bij mensensmokkelaars, de dag voordat ze hier aankwamen hadden ze nog eten en onderdak, en dan moeten ze een dag later gratis eten, onderdak en zakgeld krijgen. Dan ben je gewoon hufter hoor.
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  1990. Not much probably. I think it's this brilliant because it works in this narrow window of light weight and simplicity. If you start seriously improving on it you get in a weight range the tyres and suspension will have to be bigger, the high centre of gravity will become a tipping over problem, if you go watercooled you even have to install a heater instead of using air blowing over the hot engine. Most people who desperately want more power use a BMW motorcycle engine, also an air cooled boxer twin.
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  1991.  @viezeman  The Dutch don't have a blood soaked history, they did an awful lot of trade, quite a bit of exploitation and only a few massacres. By comparison to the imperialists, that's not much because it's wars for territory that are properly bload soaked. By far the most victims were made by the Dutch when they decided to bring Indonesia under direct rule in the late 1800's and not all sultanates agreed and had to be conquered. Ironically that was because they wanted to make Indonesia a better place, to make it fit their self image rather than just exploit it by proxy.
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  1992. @@zockblattshickleblender7758 Yes, that comes in many ways. What also doesn't help Brexit are the Tories, who are basically share the same parasitic corporate agenda as the EU. There are economic drawbacks for sure that will outweigh any advantages monetarily, but the advantages won't be explored and exploited by other corporate servants.
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  1993. De NOS noemt ze aldoor radicaal rechts, en claimt dan dat ze 'radicaal rechts' worden genoemd. Het is jullie eigen stempel, schuif dat niet op een ander af. Vertel maar wat ze radicaal maakt, als je kunt. Woorden hebben betekenis, niet alleen gevoelswaarde. Over het algemeen zijn deze politici tegen de radicale economische, bestuurlijke en demografische verandering van het land die centrumrechts en links voorstaan, dus neem verantwoordelijkheid voor je eigen woordkeuze en onderbouw die. Het woord macht heeft ook een betekenis. Invloed is wat anders, invloed wordt gegeven, macht ligt verankerd in wet, grondwet en verdrag. Musk heeft alleen maar invloed door het geven van zijn mening, en de mate van invloed wordt bepaald door wat mensen van die mening vinden. Dat hoort bij democratie.
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  1994.  @chrisdavidson911  Indeed, they distinguished themselves from the Germans by beeing undermotorized and have the sports setting of the suspension too soft and not have a longer version. The could have had the Chinese market with the local obsession with rear seat leg room. Skoda made great money there. But at least the C6 showed inspiration, the thing a Citroen absolutely can't do without. With the Xsara and the C5 the looks were a give away of the structural problem at Citroen.
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  1995. Let's not forget that Americans and British are prudish by continental European standards and especially in past centuries they would not have liked any unnecessary attention towards the naughty bits. Many would have been embarassed by the thought of it alone.
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  1996. If you are going to eat a steak Florentine maybe you can solve the mystery of Italians eating T-bones. Europeans traditionally tend not to cut T-bones because when the strip steak is done, the tenderloin is cooked to far because it's less fatty tissue. The Italians don't strike me as indifferent to details like that, so how do they get it right?
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  1997. De VVD wilde toch al lang nergens verantwoordelijk voor zijn, het overkwam ze allemaal en verantwoording afleggen zoals de democratische rechtsstaat vereist hoefde van de tandeloze coalitieslaven ook niet meer.
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  1998.  @Man_0f_Trenches  No, they created New York in the about 50 years after they purchased Manhattan. New York has remained very Dutch for very long. Dutch Brazil is still remembered in Brazil because they created the first mullticultural, multireligious, multiracial society there too. They also beat the Spanish Empire, which was quite essential and the reason for the Dutch Republic to get involved in this colonization thing in the first place. I don't believe the Dutch had any settlements in Australia/Oceania, they just discovered quite a bit there. In Africa I think only the Cape qualified as a proper colony.
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  1999. These people all have opinions their government won't throw them in jail for. If one man's opinion is this influential, it means lots of people share it but don't dare to say it.
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  2000. The other way around. The Nazis took inspiration from American race laws and introduced the concept of pure blood to Germany. South Africa's apartheid system was based on it's American example too. Americans mentioning apartheid is very ironic, they were as backward on race, only ended their most vile practices a couple of decades earlier.
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  2001. Nice little Nurnberg rally there in the background.
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  2002. The 80s were also the beginning of off shoring, financialization, international tax evasion and the oligarchy. Be careful what you wish, I'd advise good old productive capitalism.
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  2003. We are at a net loss with these people, please let Africans who sold them to us take them back. And all the other no use Africans that came posing as 'refugees' too. Reparations were already paid in the 70's, but were squandered. Good luck feeding South Africa without the people who made unused land into huge food producers.
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  2004.  @nagast3185  Not it's not similar. One was in the past, we don't do that anymore, we decolonized from our own free will, from a position of power we just like the rest of the West gave up power of people and lands. Unique in the history of mankind. People from the colonies asked for independence, convinced they could do it by themselves better, and got it. That was the deal, we don't need you anymore and we don't want you anymore. Fair enough, but then they messed up and now they all start moaning about colonization again and begging for money. They don't stick to their part of the deal and are beggars once again, it's embarassing. They claimed they wanted to end racism, but now farmers that have been there for centuries and took unused land can't keep feeding the people because they are white, embarassing. I don't know how colonized Africa was feeding itself before, but it had far less mouths to feed because Western medicine and it lowering especially infant mortarlity drastically caused the population growth. A far bigger population that is sustained by Western farming methods. You act like you want to turn back the clock 1.5 century for most of Africa, but you really don't because that would mean just 200 million Africans, every other child dying before the age of 10, primitive agriculture and hunter gatherers, and enslaving one another. De new democratic government of Suriname got billions in reperation, about 30K per inhabitant, and the land of course. Suriname wasn't much more than a peace of South American jungle before the Dutch made something out of it. Half of the population moved to the Nehterlands were they got free higher education and stuff, but a lot actually stayed on welfare. The king apologized because of pressure from an America inspirid activist movement supported by the racist left that doesn't really believe blacks are equal and should be handed advantages and gifts. Ironically the Netherlands had been a republic for over 200 years, and the first king abolished the slave trade in his first year in charge.
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  2005. There is a rural 220k motors and music festival in the East too, dirt biking and stuff. Same thing, similar big bicycle parkings only with far less rentals. No traffic jams, people can have as many beers as they want and they have done drunk cycling before, no problem.
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  2006. He speaks English. It's not the only word or name in English that reflects the English historic ignorance about the rest of the world.
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  2007. Nonsense. Chattel slavery wasn't unique for Europeans, Slaves were treated in different ways everywhere, the Africans who at a certain point startes selling them to the Europeans were certainly not any better. The Arabs were far worse, and they castrated the slaves so they haven't have to deal with this shit now. If it was about scale, the Dutch would get a free pass here.
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  2008. Due to a family that only became a royal family much later. As a national colour it comes from the Dutch Republic and the events leading up to that.
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  2009.  @silasmobhall9587  "geert wilder party" is not far right. Reform is not far right. Being opposed to the radical change of your country by mass immigration, always a policy of the economic hard right, is not extreme in any way. It's government serving foreigners and foreign interests rather than those of the people it's supposed to represent and people vote against that perversion of democracy. You accusing them of racism for that is just so you feel you don't have to defend the indefensible.
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  2010.  @felixgarcia9650  I'm not into Austrian specifics, but in general European countries can't stay more or less the same with the same mass immigration policy, because that is changing the countries and their societies quite fast and drastically. The left likes to pretend the immigration doesn't come on top of the already present immigrants, but that is of course false.
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  2011. 64% voted in a referendum against the current set up of EU.
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  2012. Your both full of it. Tolerance has brought us nothing but getting more and more to tolerate. It's being taken advantage of. Mass immigration has always been right wing and still is, it's for big money alone and the Dutch citizens have to make it work at their own expense.
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  2013.  @lenjon7478  It had citizens instead of subjects to a monarch, and what makes it stand out for it's time economically was the upward social mobility and the broad, big spending middle class. Holland profitted the most but also did Zealand, Groningen, Friesland and Overrijssel. The wetter the place, the more waterways, the more they profitted from trade. So Gelderland and Brabant fell a bit behind. But look at the Dutch masters, not just the ordinary families they depicted, but also the fact that they stood on top of masses of mediocre painters. Ordinary people could afford those mediocre paintings, and books too.
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  2014.  @brauliocavalcanti3703  Not your confusion, that of the video. The Sephardic jews are always called the Portuguese jews alternatively, but a lot of them were Spanish. Most moved to Portugal first, than Portugal joined Spain in persecuting them and they moved North. But Spanish was almost a word for evil back then in the Netherlands, so it was nicer too.
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  2015. I always had a soft spot for the Allegro, it was a cute design. Could have been a good looking car with a better stance and headlights. It also seems I am the only one who really liked the Austin Maestro's design.
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  2016. Back in the 50's already.
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  2017. What specific knowledge about the Surinamese from Chinese descent you have? Or are you basing that on their race?
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  2018. There was no new Hitler but we've certainly seen a new Goebbels.
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  2019.  @cactusqltr  You won't like that because it will show the African sugar cane cutting skills wasn't where wealth came from at all.
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  2020. I fail to see the plus side of them chanting in English. It's a symptom of the same globalist bland monoculture everywhere that is most strong in our universities. Obviously you can't protest anywhere but I do support the freedom to protest regardless of the message, but if you protest in the Netherlands you do so to make your case before the Dutch, and therefore in Dutch.
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  2021. You have to call a completely reasonable and moderate set of views far right for it to be shocking. Just say the conservatives that oppose the radical change of society have won and there is nothing shocking abou it.
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  2022. I see you studied history on YouTube.
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  2023.  @malditonuke  I'll check that one out. Thx.
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  2024.  @Vishanti  In think the converso imposters only challenged the authority of the church, the protestants challenged it's power alltogether. Their must have been a far bigger sense of urgency and a strong desire to instill fear in others by examples.
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  2025. On a side note, the Act of Departure is a correct translation but it refers to the departure from the legitimate throne of the Netherlands by having become a tyrant. He had done so by trampling on the people's inalienable right to freedom of conscience, of how to believe in god, as well as ancient rights and privileges of dealing with local matters themselves, like religion's place in the public domain. This freedom conscience was already codified in the Union of Utrecht of 1579, where the 7 Northern Netherlands rallied around to form a union against Spain and turn the rebellion into a war. This became the de facto constitution of the Dutch Republic so there was a hard limit to interference with one's personal religion practiced in the private sphere which allowed even the catholics to congegrate. Anyway, by declaring the king had left the throne himself by his own actions, it was not a frontal attack on the legitimacy of kings and the divine right of kings, it was merely made conditional. Over a 100 years later, the king having left the throne himself and this time physically, was also used by the Dutch to get around the legitimacy issue, this time with William III of Orange.
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  2026. Nonsense. That's projection of American history. The Dutch in South Africa were scared of pox, it killed them by the thousands too.
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  2027. It's an opinion divider. I love it but I don't think it's particularly pretty, especially not with the old head lights.
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  2028.  @Deontjie  The first script the Afrikaans language was ever written down in was Arabic, by a Malayan. The Dutch spoke and wrote Dutch for the VOC, Afrikaans was the language of the working people from any descent and including the farming settlers. The Dutch intermarried with locals everywhere they were, from Java to Ghana to New Netherland (now New York) where they started a village together with the natives. Mixed race marriages weren't rare in the Dutch Republic itself either.
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  2029.  @SoulStormZero  Yes, a letter of marque in English. Contrary to English history, the Dutch had a clear distinction between privateering and piracy. Privateering was an act of war, in the existing war against a specific enemy. You could call that theft but it's not colonial theft but war theft.
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  2030.  @Hustlin87  European is not a race, not even an ethnicity.
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  2031. No not really. The future pm was murdered, Rutte has been lying about mass immigration for a decade, there is a power grab by the EU the Dutch voted against and the judges are overstretching laws to keep as much immigrants in as they can.
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  2032. In certain raw milk soft cheeses there is a chance of the lysteria bacteria causing a miscarriage. So pregnant women are advised not to eat those soft cheeses, but the French ladies don't care, it's just a minute risk.
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  2033. What surprised me about the French was being kissed on the cheeck by a girl that was introduced to me. Here in the Netherlands you have to know someone quite well to kiss for greeting, you start out with a handshake. What me surprised me even more that this 16-year old girl and I, who wasn't very mature but still a few years older and hitchhiking through France, were almost pushed by her family to start a vacation romance.
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  2034. No, natiional flags were not a thing yet because the nation state had still to be invented, after the Dutch declaration of independence that took another 7 years. The personal flag of the Spanish king was the one flying here until independence. The Statenvlag is named after the Staten, the provincial parliaments, just like Staten Island. It probably was changed during the stadtholderless era (stadtholders were almost exclusively appointed from the Orange-Nassau family) when there was rivalry between the Orangists and Staatists.
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  2035.  @PropperNaughtyGeezer  I drove one when me and my friends were still young and flexible, but also between 6ft 2 and 6ft 4. In a Beetle you had to climb in and then fold to later crawl out. The small Fiats were even worse. The 2CV was a bit cramped but you could just take a seat without any acrobatics. Only the one in the middle of the back seat had a hard time, but that's because of the seat frame.
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  2036. What a nostalgic German thing to say.
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  2037. Maybe Rwanda has their own version of "Who do you think you are?"
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  2038. I suspect it's Japanese, but that's about all.
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  2039. No.
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  2040. The moral question was much older and had been answered for the North-Western European societies. The moral issue was whether to extend those values to overseas business in different cultures or just adapt to local customs and profit from it. The Dutch calvinists in charge of the early WIC (Dutch West-Indies Company) loathed slavery as a catholic sin because all people were children of god, blacks could have a career in the WIC and often ended up marrying Dutch women in church. Only when it became hard to run a former Portuguese plantation colony called Brazil without slaves in 1637, there was a biblical excuse prepared that blacks were descendants of Ham and a Portuguese slave fort in Africa was captured too. The British were top down protestants, so they tended more towards biological excuses and extending their classism. But they also developped towards more control over those different parts of the word, as direct rulers. Of course when you are in control of the situation there, the question how to handle all the people pops up more than when you are just doing business with the local rulers. Power comes with the responsibility to answer moral questions. Double standards or the same standards throughout the British Empire?
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  2041. Is the same thing but also not. I think taking a latin base kind of formalizes it and makes it more abstract, if we look at all the new words for new animals from the age of exploration we see the English make it sound like people who knew latin studied it, while the Dutch named them Dutcher and more grassroots. So the English have hippopotamus, turtle/turtoise and platypus, the Dutch have 'nile horse', 'shield toad' and 'birdbeak animal'. I you'd heard the word, you'd recognize the animal when you saw it. For Latin speakers that would have worked the same with hippopotamus, but not with English speakers. So I think it is also about who got the naming rights, the 18th century English upper class bioligists, or the 17th century sailors from Dutch ships, many of which were of other Germanic origin.
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  2042. @ Yes, and that's what you often get with using words from a foreign origin, contrary to the Romans for themselves, you 'elevate' them, disconnect them from the people and their language somewhat.
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  2043. If we use the reasonable markers of fascim rather than the taylormade ones to fit Trump, the US has already fallen into the trap. The militarization, the wars, the foreign enemy, the scapegoating of the enemy from within, the fixation on race and bloodlines, the medical experimentation, the entanglement of government and corporaties, the surpression of dissent, the intimidation practices, the social exclusion of dissenters, the mass surveillance, the selective prosecution, the state's claim to children, the control over the media. Nevermind Trump, how are the Democrats and their government nót fascist?
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  2044. Nee, na lang zoeken heeft de NOS het juiste gekkie gevonden voor de juiste ondertitel bij de video.
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  2045. look at the comments, how can I not think of many as primitives?
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  2046.  @HauptgefreiterB  "I've never let my schooling interfere with my education" said Mark Twain. For a German kid it might be a much better idea to have those interfering, but you also have to make a distinction between the two to organize both and their interaction well. If someone studies to become an electrician that's no reason to assume he couldn't speak well, read and enjoy arts.
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  2047. I really love it that when the Dutch made a car again for the first time in a very long time it was bonkers, very different from all others.
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  2048. There was no Dutch kingdom either, there was the Dutch Republic and the Dutch were nothing like the imperialistic, racist and classist English that shaped the USA, except for the melting pot and the American dream, those come from New Amsterdam.
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  2049.  @maartenc121  Hoezo? Kunnen die buitenlanders nu niet aan drugs komen dan? Die toeristen die braaf alleen drugs gebruiken waar het legaal is kun je er best bij hebben. Die hele war on drugs is er niet om ooit gewonnen te worden, maar om voort te duren. Het effect is dat het gewelddadige types voor het gebruik van geweld beloont met enorme rijkdom, ipv dat het mensen met groene vingers of bekwame veilig werkende chemici een goed inkomen bezorgt.
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  2050. Welke smaak ijsje at Biden ook alweer? Ik ben die belangrijke onthulling vergeten.
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  2051. Hier worden ook weer comments verwijderd omdat ze de media niet verheerlijken voor het vragen naar de smaak van Biden's ijsje.
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  2052. There is also a whole industry that has been undermining the people's ability to detect when it's tampered with or just not right. If the French food authority would stop working for years, the people would smell, taste and look and notice many of the wrongdoings because they are educated on food and care deeply. Yes, fraud is fraud and a bigger problem because it's dishonest. But it seems to me that it's part of a much bigger problem that also has to do with school lunches, fake cheese, GMO, overprocessed food, hormones, added sugars and salt etc. If you really care abotu what goes into your body, reading the label in the shop is too late to start caring.
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  2053. Many people seem to believe that MMGW and a climate scam are mutually exclusive. I don't, I think both are happening at the same time and this sudden climate urgency, after the same people and institutions let emissions grow and grow for decades, is defenitely a scam.
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  2054.  @clivewilliams3661  Yes, but it's also a bit what you call cruising speed with a 4speed and lots of revs. My dad hardly ever went over 130 in the GSA break (don't know about that PITA) because of the noise. Even the Renault 17 had something like 20 hp more, and because it was quite roomy and extremely comfortable, the birotor or a similar powerful engine would have put it in a higher class than it ended up in. I think the German, British and Italian four door saloons, their middle class, tended to have bigger engines, heavier and more expensive than the French. The predecessors of the Vectra and the Sierra rather than the Escort. Another indication it was underpowered is that the next engine on sale was the 2.0 litre in the CX. That's guite a gap from a 1.2 just like it is with the 1.9 of it's successor. Had the Birotor succeeded it would have been a choice between the fast smaller GS or the bigger and slow CX 2.O. Also if they had managed to fit a 1.8 or 2.0 they could have made a more luxurious version like the Birotor was. But no one wants leather or velours and lots of accesoires in a 1.2. I think it limited the top end of the model range hugely. Also toward the end of it's life, 60 hp was far less impressive in 1980 than in 1970.
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  2055.  @clivewilliams3661  I don't know, I still have to buy my first SM. Was it supposed to be faster? It was a GT, not a sportscar. I don't think many owners now are looking envious at that biturbo, and there probably isn't space under the hood. I've always seen it as Citroen's most well rounded car at introduction.
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  2056.  @clivewilliams3661  I don't agree, those cars were less roomy and had bigger engines, often a 1.8 or even a 2.0. But the GS was designed for the compact Biroter and couldn't fit a big 4. The Birotor was defenitely in a class above those, but failed. Those also weren't four door, which quite essential for a slighter higher class of car. Just like Citroen failed to get a flat 6 in the DS, the CX was also designed with the much compacter Wankel engine in mind. Because the BX was the successor to the GS it didn't make a huge jump in engine size because customer used to buy successors of what they had back then. I don't remember if the 1.9 in the BX was planned for the introduction, but I wouldn't be surprised. It's hard to break free from a history of underpowerment through failed projects. While they also had to size up their class range a bit to better compete with the Germans. They only succeeded with the Xantia, that was proper Vectra, Sierra/Mondeo, Passat, Audi 90 class, the 2 liter 4 door. But they needed the ZX too to not loose market share of the BX successor. So the failure of 2 engines for 3 models at the top end, kept Citroen down in class for very long because that was passed down the generations. And when their top car finally got a V6, it wasn't really a top V6.
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  2057.  @clivewilliams3661  The GS was longer and had a longer wheelbase than them all. Not much but it was much roomier. This is of course about the top end and they all had engines going up to 1700, 1800 and some even 2.0 or 2.2, often DOHC. 4-door coming as an option later does not really define the class. The VW Golf 4-door is still a smaller car. Classes were less matched over the brands back then, but Citroen missed out on matching the competition's classes that emerged later because of the engine troubles Had the Birotor succeeded there would stil have been a huge gap in the motor range, still a 1700 or a less thirsty wankel would have been desirable. The interior was also made to a much higher specification bridging the gap to the cheapest DS and later CX entirely. This is not about 0.1 or 0.2 less in a better engine, this is about 0.5 up to 1.0 litre difference, that's a different class of engine that would have lifted an already bigger, roomier, far more comfortable car to the higher class it belonged in.
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  2058.  @clivewilliams3661  You forget about the Opel Ascona/Vectra, Ford Taunus/Sierra, VW Passat class. The French came from a slightly smaller class, true, but that's where they went. That's where the model under the DS/CX/XM should have been. This is an important family class but also a salesmen, lower executive class and if you have a client or collegue over 30 to give a ride you want them get in with some dignity, so the 4door saloon is quite essential to that class. It is also a typical 2 litre class, it doesn't go down to 1.2 litre, maybe 1.8. Because it was a little bit bigger, much roomer and far more comfortable, Citroen could have been in that class in it's own compact lightweight way. I think we can agree you want a range of models without large gaps that competes against ranges of models across borders. Especially if you simply build the better cars in case of Citroen. Without the Birotor, Citroen had a huge gap towards the DS/CX and even a gap towards the direct French smaller competition on engine size of about 0.5 liter. That was even bigger to the German/British 4door class around 2.0 litre which it could have aspired to with a much, much bigger engine. It took until the Xantia, that needed the ZX not to leave another gap beneath, to close that gap entirely.
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  2059.  @geengenspuit  WNL verspreidt desinformatie. "You should have ended it for 3 years, you should have never started it, you could have made a deal." Het conflict is wat groter en ouder dan de Russische invasie.
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  2060.  @MrDjTilo  Shell has a lot to be ashamed of but I still prefer it to be subjected to Dutch law over UK law.
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  2061.  @grapeshot  You won't get any saviour complex from the Chinese or the Arabs, that's for sure. I guess it's hard to get a grasp on global capitalism from the bottom end.
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  2062.  @assouankoffi9456  Maybe it doesn't need Europe anymore but without European knowledge it couldn't have reached this population, and could not have sustained it. Africa also can't protect itself from China, it could colonize the whole continent with miilitary force in a year. I'm the first to admit that Europe is only half decent and simply doesn't deliver on it's good intentions, but that's one half more decent than China or the Arabs or Africa itself. On the resources it's very simple, who is doing somethign with it? Gold, diamonds and ivory are about the only ones that are and were valuable without Western technology. It's the Europeans that studied what was in the soil and how it could be used. And the manufacturers using it are still in Europe or off shored. It's in the processing of raw materials and the end products where the wealth is because there is the value added and there are the skilled workers making good wages. The cacao bean picker earns far less than the chocolatier. The machine operator in a battery factory earns more than the cobalt mining children. There is too much naivity towards China and too much resentment towards Europe. Mainly because the resentment is not productive, not helpful. It's also only partially justified, but skeptic, suspicious attitude towards it's intentions and it's competence to deliver on it's good intentions is only sensible. But there is no big plan to keep Africa poor. The plan is to let capitalism do what it does and then Europe will do the top the production chain. You have the cobalt and coltan needing industries that like the Congo poor, but you also have the Sneaker and electronics manufacturers that would like Africans to be more wealthy and spend more on their products. It's also not important at all that the cobalt is very cheap. It could be twice the price, that wouldn't really matter fundamentally, but they can't just pay the miners double because they loose out to competition. They are stuck in the system too, stuck in nicer place, but still stuck. And Africa could do with a bit less blaming Europe and more blaming itself. Someone here said that the West killed all the good leaders. I can think of a few examples but that also means there have been very little good leaders because not that many were killed by the West, and usually with the help Africans. Basically African countries wanted independence asap because they could do it themselves, they got it, failed, and now the West is to blame again? It's a tough world out there and maybe they weren't as ready as they thought? I got a suspicion they aren't ready for dealing with China without Europe yet either.
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  2063.  @maxwellmakenzi  Whatever, fact is that it keeps labour cheap and you have to share the wealth of the resources between more and more people. I guess poverty isn't a problem if you can blame Europeans for it.
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  2064.  @mansamusa9465  Indeed, it's always the dumbest that are the most attracted to the idea their race is still superior, for those two obvious reasons.
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  2065.  @piyesankara890  You're an American, what do you know about my Western identification? Nothing but ignorance and stupid projections of backward American racism frot that side usually.
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  2066.  @piyesankara890  No, raw sugar, tobacco and cotton would have been slightly more expensive, but the money was in the processing, the refinement and marketing it into products where the wealth is, just like it still is today. You're not going to get rich from digging or picking stuff, because anyone can do that. No matter how much that raw stuff is wanted.
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  2067.  @2352anne  Yes, I do believe I'm educating you and I am actually shocked by the level of understanding of global capitalism and geopolitics on display in this comment section. But as I said before, I guess it's much harder to understand both from the bottom end, from the recieving end. Maybe read up on the history of global capitalism from the winners side (up till now) and not feel sorry about yourself but to understand it and use it to the continents advantage. There's such a world of knowledge out there if you speak English that is there to be used to your advantage, not your bitterness.
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  2068.  @caribbeanflower5937  And so were Dutch people, but as an ethnic group the Ashanti were more purpetrators of slavery than victims, just like the Dutch. That's the whole point and that's why it such a BS.
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  2069.  @caribbeanflower5937  I dislike him because he's hypocrite, in denial about his own people's slavery past, and because he's a liar and an agressive person. I don't care about his DNA, because I am not a racist. You and Akwasi are racists, and beggars, tribalistic nepotistic racist beggars. I'm not a fan of Black Pete, because it resembles the American phenomenon of 'Blackface', an English word, too much and imagery has globalized. But this whole campaign against it turned out to be about sowing racial division, playing the victim and getting money. The former colonials are part of us, but I wish we had left these African descendants of enslavers rot in their own civil wars, poverty and genocides. Ungrateful backstabbing scum.
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  2070. Who'se native land is it exactly? The indiginous people or the black people from elsewhere in Africa? Did they take land from somebody else or land that wasn't used? Their culture isn't that of the Netherlands. Of course uneducated Africans believe the British blaming the Dutch but South-Africa has been under British rule since 1795, and those are the ones that wanted the rule over everybody, the blacks and the Dutch. The Dutch just took some farmland that no one was using. Basically their descendants just want a 'safe space', that's an American thing of narrow minded people. And so are these Boers but it's not like there are no real safety issues in the rainbow nation.
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  2071. Unsubscribed, you know why.
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  2072.  @automation7295  Espcially Amsterdam has a lot of small bridges you have to speed up a noticeable bit to get over and than an equally sharp decline before a corner where you have negative canter.
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  2073. This is far too anglocentric. The Dutch were in an 80-year war for independence, Portugal was the enemy, not a competitor. The VOC was founded to take the war overseas, also in the West were the other part of the Iberian enemy Spain was active. By the 1660s Spain had already admitted defeat and finally recognized the independent Dutch Republic, so New Netherland had lost it's initial purpose. Owning and conquering land just for the sake of it, for prestige, was a typical British desire, not a Dutch one. Besides that trade with now New York just could go on and the Dutch living there only suffered a mild regress in rule, it wasn't importanat to the Dutch. The Dutch did more than half of Europe's trade, the English could only somewhat compete in the high risk high reward trade with other continents where guns mattered a lot more than efficiency. For the British the colonial trade was almost the only trade left, for the Dutch the colonial trade was only a tiny cherry on a huge cake, that started for war reasons. Just having for the sake of having so you could name it after some duke was not high on the list of Dutch priorities, spices otoh were not just valuable but also a currency in the trade with Asian nations who were too sophisticated to take an interest in European goods, only in silver. Over 2 thirds of the VOC's trade remained within Asia and the spices where the backbone of a much larger trade.
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  2074. @irishemerald7796 Let me get this straight, we have an anglo video based on anglophonic sources projecting typically British desires and strategies on the Dutch of those times to boast about what great deal these glorious British made and when I point out the Dutch were not like the British I am puffing up my nation's feathers? The British have their feathers so puffed up they can't see more than their own mirror image in other nations at that time.
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  2075. Indeed, and nationalism has nothing to do with race.
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  2076. It's a good metaphore, and he includes the USA as jungle too. I don't agree with his neocolonial attitude of making the whole world into a garden. If you can't keep a garden because you have to make the surrounding forest into a garden first you're not good enough a gardener. It's your job to keep the jungle out.
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  2077.  @jellybeanz1989  They were the only ones good enough at sailing and the only ones with science. Neocolonialism and modern imperialism is the USA's thing, and Europe is only complicit. Europe carries most of the burden of the USA's neocolonial crimes. You can blame the Europeans for what they did in the past as well as the present, but don't forget you judge them by values they introduced to the world with their globalism.
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  2078. And replace them for the remnants of British colonial rule? Why does English always get a free pass like it's some Esperanto that people everywhere adopted voluntarily? France sees itself as an equal cultural influence on the world as Britsh/American, which is a bit optimistic, and even have to compete with British/American influence in their own country. I'm not saying they don't deserve any ridicule but a bipolar external cultural influence might be better than all mighty anlgo's with their English.
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  2079.  @sakurakou2009  English isn't a universal language either, this is about languages people have in common. The point is that it's really not that different whether it's French or English, other than that shifting to English will make the world order more unipolar culturally, which doesn't seem a good thing to me. I'm not saying West-Africans shouldn't learn English, on the contrary, it will get them a lot of access. But in the end it's just as colonial or neocolonial as French and speaking French gives access that English doesn't, while so many other people speak English so it's not going to give much of a competitive edge.
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  2080.  @logician3641  You should hear my French.
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  2081. Mass immigration is part of neoliberalism. You only need a bit of immigration for multiculturalism, the mass immigration is because of the greed.
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  2082. Let's take Oprah's viewpoint here, she didn't take a million dollars from Kamala's campaign but from the billionaire donor class. She just did a job for them just like Kamala did herself.
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  2083. If you think it's still about the numbers, the rich have outsmarted you.
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  2084.  @onurbschrednei4569  It was the Dutch Republic that ended Spain as a superpower, forcing it's nobles to sign the peace treaty with the Duch commoners, it was Louis XIV's France that teamed up with Britain and two German states for a combined attack on the Dutch Republic in 1672 and they still couldn't beat it. To prevent this repeating, the Dutch Republic invaded Britain (uninvited) and gave it's current parliamentary monarchy, religious freedom and bill of rights, the bank of England and basically pulled it out of the Dark Ages. Only around 1800 the British Empire passed the Dutch as Europe's and the world's biggest traders. It's dominance is proven by the fact that you were demonstrating your ignorance from a capitalistic nation state with freedom of religion and freedom of speech and upward social mobility. Not some feudal shithole with a king's divine right to it where you get tortured and burned for not being a good catholic. Some place had to be the first and dominate to spread the idea.
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  2085.  @onurbschrednei4569  If you land a fleet bigger than the armada, march in with 40.000 troops, after a few skirmeshes have the legitimate king flee to France with a nosebleed and then occupy the capital and allow no British soldiers near for years and take the crown, that's an invasion, occupation and conquest by any definition. That he held an impressive propaganda campaing to win the hearts and minds of the people for a stable future as Duch ally does not change the facts on the ground. He wasn't invited, he contacted a few rather powerless parliamentarians while preparing the invastion and asked them to invite him an invitation letter as part of this propaganda, which also included speeches, dressing for the occasion, bringing a printing press for pamphlets and severe punishment for soldiers using words like invasion instead of liberation and not being on their best behaviour towards the people. There was nothing happening in Britain but the king taking absolute catholic control until the Dutch made it happen, without any real help. The Spanish Empire was by far the mightiest of that time, the biggest blow might have been the Netherlands stopping paying taxes, they were very rich and paid more than half of all tax income of the Spanish Empire. But they were the most highly acclaimed and feared army and got their asses handed to him in over a hundred of battles and sieges. In 1579 the Dutch declared freedom of conscience, introducing religious freedom. In 1581 they declared a king had to serve his people, respect the inalienable rights of the people and by becoming a tyrant, he had left the throne. The Dutch printed more than half of Europe's books anyway, but they had freedom of print and thought. It was the birth place of the enlightenment. Not only did the philosophers of the englightenment have their ideas printed there, Rene Descartes was practically Dutch, he served in the Dutch army and lived and wrote his works there. Spinoza is just as Dutch as Erasmus of course, but also John Locke lived and wrote his most important works in the Dutch Republic. He basically only had to have a peak out of the window for inspiration. He was asked by William to accompagny is wife on the trip to London for his coronation. The Dutch Republic managed to fend off the aggressive medieval monarchies and when they started to team up it got a bit too much to handle so they decided to conquer one and modernize it, pull it out of the Dark Ages so it would be a durable ally. It was the example to all that a different kind of state and a different kind of society was not only possible, but also doing great. In the two centuries since Dutch independence the ideas the Dutch stumbled upon as they went along in their revolt and war for independence got more ordered and sophisticated, but nor the American DOI or the French revolution were firsts in Western civilization. I'm struggling to think of British contributions to the enlightenment and Germany was mostly later on. Enligthenment is of course a bit difficult when you are still forcing people to believe in your god like you do.
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  2086.  @jaketrovillion6159  That's not an ethos.
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  2087. Seems like two sides of the same coin.
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  2088. Die Duitsers toch, die willen gewoon een rustig leven hebben zonder die "verstoringen" door terroristische mesaanvallen en inrijden op menigtes. Wat een raar volkje is het toch, is toch alleen maar spannend om met de bus te gaan terwijl je zomaar groepsverkracht kan worden?
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  2089. Without the Dutch we would still have absolute catholic rule in Europe and therefore all over the world and you would get a red hot spike up your butt from the Spanish Inquisition for not bellieving the right way in the right god. The Dutch gave the British their current constitutional monarchy, bill of rights and religious tolerance, the USA it's DOI and upward social mobility, the American dream, and the world modern capitalism, free trade, religious freedom, freedom of the printing press and therefore the kickstart of the enlightenment. And of course microbiology, gay marriage and a few hundred other important inventions. The dark pages of this beacon of light were never ignored, it's the beacon of light itself that is ignored.
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  2090. He spares the United States pushing for decolonization, so it could profit through capitalism and secret ops without the responsibility the Europeans did take since the late 80's. He acts like the USA were and are Europeans, because he's the product of typical American racist thinking.
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  2091. Because it's nonsense probably, an internet myth.
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  2092. The food is better than in Britain. The problem is that tourists don't come for Dutch food but for uniquely Dutcht traditional food like it is some desolate mountain area with local produce and recipes for ages. Then the options are limited. The Netherlands is traditionally a country of traders, the most international country and so is the cuisine. Traditional Dutch food is international food except a few exceptions. It's still mediocre though, compared to France or Southern Europe there is less attention paid to it, less sophistication, often simpler. Most Dutch are happy with a low standard, their palet is not refined enough for excellence. Just good will do.
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  2093. She hates Islamic State because it killed muslims. That tells you all you need to know.
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  2094. Because the hydropneumatic system is progressive, there is simply far less trade off between handling an comfort. It's simply superior because of that but it naturally excells at the comfort end, with the self levelling as a handling bonus on top the progressive suspension. Lots of people simply don't like that because they want a car to feel stiff, to feel it's made for handling. Another way of looking at it is to make a distinction between handling and road holding, and Citroens hold the roads much better than they handle. I'm not much of a part time Verstappen myself, but I feel like their cornering ability is underestimated by the sporty drivers because the are comfortable, they roll and don't give that much strong feedback. The 2CV doesn't have hydropneumatics, it just has a brilliant coil spring system that works great in such a light car.
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  2095. It never was, all a lie.
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  2096.  @michamcv.1846  I like it too, this stereotyped class of Manta drivers just got some things right. But if people go buy a used car of the internet I always warn them to check the owner's elbow for brake dust.
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  2097. Are you suggesting Wilders can't be PM because he isn't white?
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  2098. We also know him for 20 years, by now we know there is a reasonable man without hate for people behind all the tough talk. The immigration issue is even older, one politician got murdered for that in 2002. It's just that the VVD, a neoliberal economic hard right authoritarian globalist party basically, has lied successfully that it wanted to kerb mass immigration. It didn't, and this election was one to many for the lie to succeed again.
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  2099.  @CallmeTomorrow65  Indeed, Leopold is the product of British imperialism just like the Congo Freestate and the kingdom of Belgium are.
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  2100. The muslim jew hunt that followed the hooligan riots and was prepared and organized days before was antisemetic though.
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  2101. The Dutch are the biggest Citroen buyers, collectors and restaurers outside France, in absolute numbers.
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  2102. The Middle-Ages didn't just happen in Britain, allthough they remained stuck in the Dark Ages longer than most. English is only one of many European languages and that you happen to speak that one doesn't mean European history comes in that language. It is quite common for Americans, especially on YT, to take British history in English for Europe or the Middle Ages or whatever but that doesn't make less annoying. Simply point out a video is about Medieval England because it is, not about the Middle Ages in general.
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  2103.  @TastingHistory  Appreciate it. I understand how it works, and that means that Britain gets much more attention on YT, and we miss out on some other interesting food stories, it is what it is and that's okay. But I would appreciate the distinction to be recognized and made clearly, especially since Europeans differed even more from eachother back then and more from the overseas Britain. Otherwise the dominance of the English language automatically and silently distorts history a bit and that is not necessary.
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  2104.  @h50herman  I agree wholehartedly with you, I just don't think this is the kind of channel to discuss things like that in the comment section.
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  2105. The Dutch East India company didn't bring in enormous wealth, the Dutch merchants dominance of the European trade did. Actually, at the time of the tulip mania the company had only been returning profits for a couple of years, 31 years after it's foundation. It was peanuts. Ostentious displays of wealth were seriously frowned upon, especially from the nouveau riche. But collecting exotica, no matter how expensive that hobby, not so much. Admiring nature was also unsuspect. So most likely the tulips fit in because the social risers were keen to be seen as gentlemen already, a 'heer', not a noble but a man of manners, honour and influence.
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  2106.  @mkodyglobalsouthsoldier  The Dutch stopped the slave trade, not slavery, in 1814, they were getting out of Africa from the very late 1700's and left it completely around 1860 if I remember correctly. Precious material? Why hadn't it been dug up before then before the Westerners could safely go inland without shortening their life expectation to 11 months? Africa only has precious materials other than gold and diamonds in the ground beause Western technology made those precious. Africa is lucky to have the West.
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  2107. I'm from the same kind of backgroun in NL and a different skin colour was just an individual thing for the kids in class, not a group thing. One would be Indonesian or Surinamese, or Indonesian-Surinamese and the other one would have been adopted by white parents. It was just a non issue, as a country we were past that and it was something for backward countries like the USA and Germany. Today's issue, with immigrant groups and immigrant kids grouping togehter in schools and sports clubs, sharing a culture and language, is a whole different matter with a whole differen dynamic and also has little to do with race.
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  2108. The Dutch had more merchant ships than the rest of Europe combined and far too few poor people to man them. Germans, Danes, Walloons, Huguenots, Latvians, Swedes, Malayans, Turks, Italians, often more than half of the crew was foreign. Alllthough a military organization, the VOC had mostly merchant ships.
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  2109.  @DJWESG1  No, William of Orange was murdered in 1584 on order of King Philip II of Spain. William III of Orange was appoint stadtholder of the Dutch Republic by parliaments in 1672 and as commander in chief led the invasion of Britain in 1688 and took the throne. His princehood of Orange in Southern France, only in name and title, was irrelevant. Between those two the country was led by Van Oldernbarneveldt and Johan de Witt, both commoners. The first with a stadtholder and military commander Maurice of Nassau, also from the Orange family. The Johan de Witt era is called 'the first stadtholderless era'. The Dutch wanted mare liberum, free trade, the English war because they couldn't compete. William III rose to power because the English, Louis XIV's France and Münster and Cologne attacked together in 1672 and the Dutch Republic came very close to annihilation. To prevent that and save protestantism, the Dutch decided to conquer England and turn it into an ally against France. The following modernization of the English economy and government let to the Dutch Republic losing it's dominance allthough it took until Napoleon for the British Empire to take over as the world's largest trader. They didn't really care since the Dutch had been modern capitalists for a hundred years and the money getting ROI through London or Amsterdam didn't really matter.
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  2110.  @az-tl3mh  It's almost like a threat. Give us cheap labour and off shoring, or we'll start a war that will kill you. It's also the EU's argument, give up your democracy or France and Germany will start slaugthering eachother again. What if they just decide not to do that anymore without a EU like this? If there are no longer cheap Eastern-European workers exploited in Western-Europe, how would that make French and German militaries attack eachother exactly?
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  2111.  @baskoning9896  17th century was still in what is called 'the little ice age'.
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  2112.  @TeylaDex  I'm afraid he used Jonge Jenever judging by the colour. Oude jenever is yellowish even when it's not aged in casks, oud/old refers to the traditonal, pre late 19th century producton process.
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  2113. As a Dutchman (443 years an independent country) I feel she is on to a good metaphore that has crosses my mind more than once, the USA tends to change it's mind a bit quicker, tends to extremes, a bit wild, materialistic, competitive, energetic. But the problematic puberty is with the depressed, automutiling, identity confused, self neglecting, obsessed over her looks, often hysteric side which is the Democrats.
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  2114.  @i-cgroup6443  The difference is that they banned racism soon after, and there was never much of it in the Netherlands itself. Actually the Dutch Republic was the first to ban slavery. Everyone in the Netherlands was free by law since the foundation of the Republic in 1581 and it refused to take part in the slavetrade and slaves from captured Spanish ships were set free. There were quite a few blacks in the Netherlands and all free and equal citizens. That's how the first free blacks arrived in what is now New York. Regrettably they didn't persist in that, for that time, exceptional stance and slavery was allowed overseas and only overseas since the 1630's. They ended up trading 550.000 slaves, less than 5% of the Atlantic slave trade while dominating all other shipping, around 1650 they shipped more than half of all Europe's goods so it's not a big slave trader from that perspective either. To acknowledge history you have to know history. The tradition (not plural) you talk about, I'm not a fan but let's not forget who put the racism facepainting, it wasn't the Dutch.
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  2115.  @i-cgroup6443  And what about the greatgreatgreatgreat grandchildren of a rape victim? Blacks in the USA aren't victim of slavery, they're victim of post-slavery American racism. Don't blame the Dutch for that, they have condemned that since they learned about in the 50's.
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  2116. Don't project your anglo shit on the Dutch, they never wanted to depopulate anything. The anglo Americans were the uniquely racist depopulators, dont try to spread the blame on anybody European or white, own it.
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  2117. There's the right wing bs about the gas money spent on welfare again, and even the Delta works. Both changes preceed the discovery of the gas field and you could as well claim that the gas paid for the tax break on mortgages. Stupid rich does not apply, it's a lot of money but it's only the largest gasfield in the EU because gasfields are rare in the EU. Government wants to definitively close the field and thereby rule past it's time and prevent their successors from being wiser. It's mainly symbolic as it won't stop the earthquakes and the problems of the people have much more to do with how government didn't handle the damages. Closing off the tap comes instead of reinforcements, and Shell and Exxon would have to pay up. So it only helps Shell and Exxon to avoid the bills and leave the Dutch people with the costs while they have taken their profits outside the country.
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  2118. Diesel was fyscally promoted around 2005 because a window dressing effort had to be made for CO2 while not reducing mileages. Less CO2, more health endangering pollution was not an issue. Diesels also got a lot more gasoline like around that time. But some people loved it before that. My uncle for example who did more than 100.000 km a year in Germany loved his Mercedes 200D in the 80's, the W124, that was a really, really slow car. He loved not having to fill up a lot and it just powering on on torque, audibly. I never felt it, but there is a love for just old fashioned slow diesels.
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  2119.  @phaidros100  China is totalitarian, Russia to a much lesser degree but still, and the EU and Canada are moving towards totalitariansim quickly. It's not like we are democratic just because our leaders say so. Censored speech, compelled speech, newspeak, mass surveillance, elections cancelled, opposition members harassed and arrested, political prosecution and political non prosecution, entanglement of government and corporations, debanking, state control over your body and your money, war mongering and calling pacifists traitors. We are almost there.
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  2120. No, the British took over in 1795, that's when things got much worse for the indigenous people. I know you guys like to pick on the small country and only read the English self serving versions, but you really have to get your courage together and adress the British.
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  2121.  @xolisangcengedizzyworld  Today's pain is your own pain, it's always the countries that got themselves into a mess where people feel the pain of many centuries ago. I don't see the reason to be still be mad at the Germans, the French, the British, the French again, and the Spanish. All of them have been much worse to the Dutch than the Dutch have been to South-Africans. If you can't move on, you can't get anywhere.
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  2122. No, that has been given away.
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  2123. Didn't a drunk Ozzy Osbourne piss against the Alamo having no idea what location he picked to relieve himself?
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  2124.  @thijskroft785  Voor die andere 400.000 jaarlijkse immigranten is dat belang voor Nederland er helemaal niet, maar telkens komt die ASML schwalbe weer gemaakt worden. Vergrijzing is een non argument omdat je die met massa-immigratie slechts uitstelt waarna het probleem geroter. Elk jaar komen er minder immigranten binnen die in de zorg werken in verhouding tot de zorgvraag van immigranten. Dat belast de Nederlandse zorgverleners zwaarder. Daarnaast zet onze overheid beleidsmatig in op maximale vergrijzing. Gepensioneerden die dagelijks een flesje wijn wegtikken zijn een enorm probleem waar de overheids iets aan gaat doen want op die manier zouden ze weleens de 100 niet kunnen halen. Hoogbejaarden vragen verreweg het meeste zorg, en het beleid is dus gericht op maximale zorgomzet. Het ene wanbeleid is geen excuus voor het andere wanbeleid.
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  2125. Then you will starve. It's only because of European science and agriculture the whole continent of Africa can keep more than 200 million people alive.
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  2126. Nonsense. There were 2 exceptionally backward racist countries in the West over the 20th century and those were South Africa and USA, with SA 30 years behind on even the USA. What we have is a seriously undereducated generation of idiots who lie to themselves they are the first generation that is antiracist for a false sense of self importance.
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  2127.  @JonasPrudas  By then serfdom had ended in most of the parts of Europe that were involved in colonialism. Not by accident of course because the shift from agriculture to trade had been happening for ages. The horrors of that time went past most people, who just lived in sttable communitie where they could easily feed themselves and keep warm. They had lots of days off for celebrating all the saints, more vacation days than a French union member today, which is something people must be able to afford. It's a bit like claiming that the US is poor now, because there are so many poor people, which would be a reasonable point to challenge the concept of wealth but that is a different discussion.. With all the diseases they carrierd their life expecancy was actually much, much higher than that of the native Americans confronted with the same diseases. And that without drinkable water but beer instead. It's a rough continent to survive, they came from behind compared to China and India, but the difference is that the Europeans picked up speed and kept accelerating. Through science and printing but also through trade and exploration. They didn't stop were other, some more advanced, civilizations did or would. There's a religious motive for that, and later a war of religion motivated, fact is they did where the Chinese and Japanese decided to stay near to home.
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  2128.  @JonasPrudas  Columbus wasn't a Spaniard, but he didn't have to come up with the concept of land grabbing himself. He suggests that there was some general rule that nations of civilizations would leave eachother alone or come in peace until "Europe". That's not the case at all, the sailing prowess of some of the Europeans only made more nations meet and come in conflict with eachother. It was the Europeans who introduced the concept of leaving eachother in peace.
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  2129.  @JackieWelles  No, in the 15th and probably the 14 century Antwerp was the richest city of Europe. Capitalism was already brewing in Flanders and Holland. Does the Northern Renaissance ring a bell? Brabant had civil rights far more extending than the Magna Charta for and to all citizens. The Hanseatic league was an economic powerhouse.
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  2130. Citroen was so forward thinking it switched to front wheel drive in 1930's. They made all the rest instantly backward with the DS in 1955. Top Gear's James May did a nice 5 minute item on it's spectacular innovations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_jtj6S8zZg Also very special is the Citroen SM from 1971, it was a sleak coupe with a Maserati engine. It's marvellous and very forward thinking too, the issue is that the earlier DS left so little uncharted territory, so little room for further innovation. Same for the later CX. The C6 was the last proper Citroen with the hydropneumatic system, also a luxury car. The Xantia V6 Activa deserves a special mention because it had active suspension in the mid 90's and could go around the corners very fast with no roll at all. Citroens nor the 2CV aren't normal or regular in Europe either, there were a lot of them but they were always different, excentric. Most were sold in France, the Netherlands has the most Citroen lovers relatively, in Germany and Britain they weren't very popular, admired maybe, but not bought very much. The hydropneumatic system did the suspension, the brakes, the power steering and the semi automatic, but the suspension was so good that Rolls Royce payed royalties to use it on it's rear axles for comfort, and Mercedes used it for the entire suspension on it's 450 SEL 6.9 litre, it's super expensive top model that was twice as expensive as the top of the line up to then, the 450 SEL 4.5 litre, and about the same price as a Rolls Royce.
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  2131.  @julesjules7097  There is always something wrong with the WDC's of non-British drivers, did you notice that. Schumacher was the no 1. driver of the whole of F1 within half a season of joining F1. 1,5 seconds a lap faster than Hamilton fanboy Herbert, 3 tenths faster than 3 times WDC Piquet, hot young talent Irvine would be able to compete with him, but he turned out to be over 0.3 s slower, then the next great Brazilian talent Barrichello, the same. I'm sure their contract allowed to be at least 2 tenths closer? Of course it did, their contracts allowed them to be as fast as they could, they just couldn't keep up. Only once Barrichello got team orders to let the win, because only once he was faster all weekend. Of course the toxic British chauvinists were eager to let him claim he was the moral WDC. Because a non Brit can't be the best and the best ever. Nevermind Schumacher had nerve damage, was old and had been 3 years out, we just use that to talk him down. Just like they shamelessly use the fact that his accident prevents him of speaking to talk him down even further. Hamilton, the most privileged driver since the age of 13 and favoured by McLaren, was already declared 10 times WDC after half a season in F1. And then came Vettel, winning in a F Torro Rosso and turning the young limited budget team of RBR to a title challenger and beating the absolute top team of that era McLaren, with either Button or Hamilton as the best driver. Hamilton was liability, made huge and stupid errors, couldn't handle pressure, screwed his team, he had been a huge dissappointed. So Ross Brawn stepped in to create the most supreme car for by far the longest time in the history of F1 for Hamilton. The not so great Rosberg could have been 8 times WDC with that thing easily, but it was about being British, the affirmative action, the British privilege mobile, the DEI Daimler Benz was build and after a few years, Hamilton got a mediocre teammaat, a hastily found replacement driver, that was only faster than him in a quarter of the races. As soon as that ended, Hamilton proved to be nothing very special.
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  2132. Yes, but that was from before. In the Middle Ages when it still had to come through the Silk Road, and later when the Portuguese blocked it because they joined Spain in the war against the Dutch Republic. The price took an immense drop with the VOC shipping it.
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  2133. Isn't there any American on the internet who can get his facts straight? - The Dutch didn't came to favour the idea of self rule and a political republic after the 80-year war. It was the Dutch Republic that fought 80 years for the self rule it established in 1581 with it's declaration of independence, which is remarkably simular to the American DOI from 2 centuries later. So when Verrmeer painted this girl, around 1665, the republican idea of painting common people was already very well established. - The VOC, or Dutch East-India company, didn't spearhead business innovation. It was the product of business innovation of an already very succesful merchant class that saturated the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Mediterranean See with Dutch ships and moved East themselves because Portugal where the got the Asian spices from had become united with enemy Spain. Even merchant's maids were buying shares when the VOC was established and wouldn't return any profits for many years to come. - Given the fact that even the enormous VOC only made a tiny contribution to the economy of the Dutch Republic, why wouldn't Vermeer be able to get hold of a big pearl earring? The biggest pearls were most likely to be found in the richest country, which was the Dutch Republic by a mile, especially around 1665 when it's wealth had already peaked. Maybe he owned it, maybe he borrowed it for the painting from one of his many rich customers, maybe he painted it out of imagination, maybe it was never a pearl.
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  2134.  @bhargavpavuluri3118  True. The British are so consumed by their toxic chauvinism they see him as a fair and balanced commentator with a bit of a bias. But Brundle is just another Hamilton propagandist disrespecting everything and everyone not British. It's not just always the car when it's not Hamilton, it's also always the straight line speed and when it's obviously not, that car is on rails. There is never any cornering skill involved from a non British driver. The sky boys even had the nerve at the podium interviews of this international sport they were allowed to do in Italy to keep moaning about their queen.
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  2135.  @veila0924  Surinamese in Brussels? Yeah, right.
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  2136. I wonder whether the horizontal movement could also be curved to optimize for the power delivery of the combustion. Not with a square yoke of course, but a round one.
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  2137.  @Lux-Popcorn-hw5wv  The current constitutional parliamenty monarchy is the product of an invasion by the Dutch Republic though.
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  2138. CETA, de WHO en de EU waren hem al voor.
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  2139.  @wasneeplus  De vrije meningsuiting bijvoorbeeld. Onze regering heeft geen bevoegdheid om censuur in te stellen, maar heeft die bevoegdheid die het niet heeft wel weggegeven aan de EU die censuur heeft ingesteld. De integriteit van het lichaam was in de EU ook niks waard en Führerin Von der Leyen pleitte voor een vaccinverpiichting voordat het de natuurlijk mutatie Omikron ons van de lockdowns kwam redden.
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  2140.  @wasneeplus  De vrijheid van meningsuiting bijvoorbeeld.
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  2141.  @wasneeplus  2 jaar geleden zijn een aantal Russische zenders uit de lucht gehaald. Dat is gewoon tegen onze grondwet en dat kan dus niet bij verdrag dat niet met 2/3e meerderheid is goedgekeurd. De Digital Services Act is ook niet grondwettig.
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  2142.  @wasneeplus  Wat een gezwets.
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  2143.  @wasneeplus  Het is gezwets, de staat heeft neit het recht mij wat voor Russische propaganda dan ook te onthouden. Het hele punt van art 7 is nou juist dat de staat niet bepaalt wat goed is om te horen of wat we niet kunnen horen.
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  2144.  @VoodooMcVee  We do something in between here, we gourmetten but with serious pans, serious heat and serious ingredients. Just taking turns on the stove or simultaneously. Just stuff that is already prepared and doesn't take long on the heat. Shrimps, sweetbread, coquilles, hangar steak, tuna steaks, things like that.
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  2145. The EU is weak on the global stage and very strong and hostile against national democracies. It's serving all kinds of interests but that of the people. If it doesn't change it well end and take many Europeans with it, the support is because they have most media on their side.
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  2146.  @puraLusa  The real democracies, that you vote and then depending on the result things get changed for the better without the unelected of the EU interfering in those national matters.
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  2147.  @puraLusa  You can call it whatever you want but we don't have European elections and the EU is not democracy. If national election results can hardly make a difference because the EU ignores it's treaaties and does not do subsidiarity anymore you no longer live in a democracy.
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  2148. I'd like to see him do a Tatra T113, the Renault AvanTime, a ZIL, some 70/80's Saabs, Lada Niva maybe, a Citroen SM. an Espada and the 70/80's Maserati Quattroporte.
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  2149.  @pablorey9203  How could I forget that one.
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  2150.  @armadillolover99  You're right, I saw that, it was Jay Leno who still has to.
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  2151. I did a single unrelated Trump search a few days ago and now Google/YT pushes these clickbait propaganda channels on me of people who are perfectly fine with the justice system, the intelligence community and the entanglement with big tech. All in the name of democracy of course. It's desperate, it's manipulative, it's stupid an it is the threat to democracy.
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  2152. The Germans didn't care much for blacks and Asians, jews and gypsys were the only specifically targetted.
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  2153. That was the UN's failure. The Dutch weren't allowed to bring arms to defend it. French command was responsible for monitoring the buses with the male refugees.
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  2154.  @Roland_Deschain  They were part of the disaster, but French command ordered them to evacuate tenths of thousands of refugees from there. The non Dutch air forces were supposed to check where the buses went. A part of them disappeared and the refugees turned out to be slaughtered.
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  2155. Lexus did similar headlights later too. Ford was ahead of it's time a bit, but also executed the idea not as well. It wasn't much of a looker otherwise either, quite boring, so all attention went to that one stand out thing. I actually do like the Cybertruck aehstetically, just design a car like you are designing props for a dystopian SF-movie, it's the baldness and the clean clear lines I like.
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  2156.  @penname5766  @Pen Name How did parliament exactly compell William III (William of Orange is another historical bloke) to anything with his 40.000 troops occupying the country, no English soldier allowed near London? When preparing the invasion William contacted those 7 lord parliamentarians and asked them invite him, I believe that historical fact should have reached England by now. That was one of many ways he organized support, he brought a whole propaganda machine to impress as a liberator rather than conquerer. That would save blood, and money, always important to the Dutch parliament, but mostly it was about creating a stable ally in the fight against the catholic absolutists. When England went behind the Dutch back to team up with Louis XIV (and German bishopries) in 1672 they almost finished the Dutch Republic, he could not have that happen again. The idea that he had to be compelled to anything, just like he could be compelled to anything, is clearly misunderstanding what he wanted. He was not anything like a British king wanting all the power and have the nobility denying commoners rights. The Netherlands had long moved on from that and it was never much their style anyway. The English parliament or people didn't get any rights the Dutch didn't already have, many of which they had for hundreds of years with Philips II of Spain's rule just being a nasty interruption. The Plakkaat van Verlating was indeed a revolutionary document bases on legal/philosophical insights that were very fresh. No, I'm not projecting. The Dutch Republic was a multireligious, multicultural society and brought that to Manhattan, along with capitalism and the upward social mobility (the 'American' dream) the Dutch had. There were Scandinavians, Baltics, Germans, Huguenots, Italians, Turks, Persians, Sephardic jews, Azkhenazi jews, the Pilgrim Fathers and subsaharan Africans livning in the Dutch Republic. You should read some of what your countrymen visiting in those days were astonished by, and it was not just the riches (GDP per capita was about 4 times that of England) and the Turbans in the street and stuff. They were apalled by the lack of class distinction, everybody together in the public transport of that day, the horsedrawn boat, they believed it was ridiculous women travelled unaccompanied, owned businesses, could not be beaten by their husbands, even servants couldn't. Maids and carpenters owned VOC shares, butchers and bakers had several paintings in their house which for sale at a market stand. Husbands and wives showed affection in public, the existence of the clitoris was widely known and a sexual joy within marriage was no taboo at all, orphans were sent to school and literacy was extremely high, child mortality was much lower than elsewhere, there were rehabilitation programs for criminals. What we now know as the home started there. Men without noble birth and sometimes humble beginnings dominated politics. It was the birth of the ordinary man or woman as an individual citizen, worth painting with his personality and daily activity. It was certainly far more modern than Britain, than any kingdom of that time. So socially the Netherlands was far more important and it was the dominant power of the 17th century, especially economically and that drove the British to the America's and the Indies as they could not compete in the then far bigger European trade. Only after the glorious invasion and through William's rule it was the much bigger Britain to take over and become the British Empire. The Dutch had their colonial crimes too but were never imperial, too expensive and lack of people, with only a 1.5 million population and most doing far too well to take on a job as a sailor or settler. The Dutch didn't make natives anywhere speak Dutch but learned their language to exploit them better. The British did and that's why it's a common language for a large part of the world. Drawback is that they only speak one language and have no idea about how language works. Iit limits the British (historians) to books and sources in English which tend to be self serving and miss things like that feudalism and capitalism are opposites. The industrial revolution was also a big change, but relied heavily on Dutch and French inventions and the Dutch were already industrialized in the sense of windpower, the foundation of the dominance in shipbuilding, and standardization. They only lacked the precision for the ICE, and gun powder was probably not a good fuel, but the concept was 17th century Dutch, the external combustion engine (steam) was first. Microbiology underpins mondern society too and that was defenitely a Dutch discovery. They were huge in bringing math into science, the were proto-industrialists, but also in the sheer number of important inventions the Dutch punched further above their own weight. But just like many Americans believe America invented the car, the British have a habit of appropriating inventions and developments as their own once they found out about it and named it.
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  2157.  @penname5766  If you call him a 'Dutch king' you obviously had no grasp of the situation. And no, his name is William III of Orange because the name without the number was already taken. That he was also the third English king William was a coincidence to make it even easier to be correct. William's invasion was a propagandawar and that made it almost bloodless. He didn't want to be a glorious conquerer, he wanted a stable ally, not rebellions out of a sense of pride later. These seven (!) lord parliamentarians were part of that. The chuckle is about that propaganda making it into the 21st century despite the facts telling clearly showing it was an invasion and occupation, but the British come across as a bit desperate to still make it their own revolution. If it was not a sensitive subject, how do I know about 'Britain not being invaded since 1066'? A quick use of a search engine will show that myth is all around. Projection of the British Empire onto the Dutch is another issue. There is a difference between colonialism and imperialism. The Dutch were already capitalist traders when the British were still feudal mercantilists with a desire to rule land and people. The Dutch believed empire was too expensive, there were even ethical considerations in the beginning, and they didn't have the man power for it with all those often not too loyal foreigners from all over the world manning their ships. They were colonial in the sense of settlers, trading posts, and letting the local rulers do the oppression, they did fair trade as well as very unfair trade and could be ruthless in conflict, but also deal on equal foot with Africans, Asians and native Americans. Huge landmasses and millions of people under Dutch rule, that only happened in the late 19th, early 20th century because the local rulers were too cruel for the homeland sentiment and the people had to be civilized and prepared for self rule (still hoping to make a profit though). South-Africa came under British rule in 1795 and that made the Boers move away to be free and fight two Boer wars (I know many British only count one Boer war, the one they won). The Dutch were very much 'hands off' for the area's they didn't live themselves. They were also the only colonial power that regularly purchased land from the natives. The Dutch were extremely rich and had revolutionized warfare in the late 16th century and soldiers were for hire. It's not like they could not have taken parts of still very much divided Germany or Belgium. But they didn't share that feudal fixation on ruling land. They knew peace and trade served them best because they were the dominant traders and the idea of Mare Liberum, the free sea, is Dutch for a reason. It's completely different mindset from a very different society.
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  2158.  @penname5766  The magna charta has been hyped for political reasons since at least the 1600's and without denying it's historical importance, what it effectively meant for ordinary people is debatable. If you you're in denial about the Dutch Republic introducing freedom of relgion, the right of the people to remove a tyrant and the right to be served by a ruler, upward social mobilty, freedom of thought and print, fully fledged modern capitalism and bringing that to England about a century later through an invasion, it's not for you to say I'm being rude.
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  2159.  @penname5766  @Pen Name "Whether he was a king or not"? I beg your pardon, I recently explained to you what he was. It's not splitting hairs, because you ignored a fundamental difference by assuming his motives as if he were a British king in your post that now seems to be removed, and now you're doing it again, talking about rude. This thread starts with someone having a chauvinistic chest swell, which is fine with me, and you continue with naming British achievements and presenting some unique make-up of the country through which it's supposed to be at the origin of about anything good. I'm also pleased the former Dutch colonies doing well particularly on the typical Dutch inheretance. I share my general observation in general terms that the British tend to attirbute foreign inventions and developments to themselves once they have embraced those and project British history on others like they were about the same, only later and of less importance of course. It doesn't take a cultural antropologist to link those to a history of being an empire, but that doesn't make it correct. That could actually be considered quite rude, as a general trait. I personally would think of different words and really don't care about rudeness that much, but to be considered rude by challenging that view with lots of arguments does not show any self reflection. If that's rude, what have you been doing in your initial reaction to me then? I don't take offense but I lack a bit of appreciation for the fact that both our points of view are equal. I was not defining Dutch colonialism in terms of better motives. There were aspects to it that were better from good motives, but that's another story. It was different in nature with some bad outcomes and some good outcomes. I point that out, but assuming it was alike could theoretically also be considered rude. You also assume that Dutch history is similarly propagandistic, and written by men of advantaged birth. The latter carries a lot of projection of lacking upward social mobilty that Britain has been known for, the first is the rude assumption that it must be alike the British. Dutch history writing has gone through some propagandistic phases, for specific national use, but those are easy to distinct. I also pointed out why history works differently in a country of that size with such international orientation, and that it's foreign historians who tend to rave about the Dutch Golden Age (1570's-1670's). That's where I got it from, Jonathan Israel, Simon Schama, some Russell Shorto, people like that. Dutch historians tend not to get enthousiastic about Dutch history. I got little positive to say about the Dutch 18th century (a country of rentiers and beggars, the two least productive people as Voltaire put it), when the pioneers of modern captilism had to face capitalism and see the money move to London. The Dutch probably got richer from the British Empire than from their own colonialism, since in the 17th century it was such an insignificant part of the merchant fleet and economy. Good and interesting things happened in the mostly empoverished, empire in decline, 19th century. But also regression, socially. The Netherlands went from a boisterous, outgoing, resiliant personality into a depressed, bitter, shoegazing and distrusting one. My point is that the 17th century was that of the Dutch, who had a revolution that was their own, were extremely modern turning every other country into a backward one, brought the Spanish Empire to it's knees and led Euope out of the Dark Ages and one important part of that was invading England and giving it's current constitutional monarchy and modernizing the economy. The Dutch created their own supreme power they would lose out to. That's fine with me, that would run out of advantage anyway and were simply too small to keep it up when others copied. But it was a pivotal point in European and world history. And then people claiming like it all came out of Britain and Britain somehow was always in the lead, that annoys me a bit because it's simply incorrect, and could be considered rude often. Also because it's through the British filter that is called the English language that North-Americans see Europe. No 1066 wasn't the last time Britain was invaded by force. The fact that the English absolutist king got a nosebleed, fled to France and the army ran or defected does not mean it wasn't by force. It was too much force to fight, especially with the popular support thanks to the propaganda tactics. So again, it proves a sensitive subject.
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  2160.  @mogznwaz  It was not royal families that intertwine and finding it hard to distinguish is entirely a British issue, trhough their ignorance and imperial sense of entitlement. They have no idea about the cross pollination because they can't distinguish between what's theirs and what's not. That's a typical British cultural trait.
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  2161.  @mogznwaz  The USA's DOI is almost a copy of the Dutch DOI of 1581. Freedom of religion, inalienable rights, government having to serve it's people, all Dutch. The ammo to kick the British out, Dutch. NYC Dutch. The American Dream, upward social mobiltiy and capitalism, Dutch. Multiculturalism, Dutch. On the other hand, the prudishness, classism and racism are typically British.
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  2162.  @EnteringtheDoor  It's not a human right. The mentioned human rights institute is not a human rights institute but an activist club.
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  2163.  @dirkspatz3692  Fiat 130 coupe, from the same Pininfarina line of thougt as the Camargue. The 130 saloon is nice too, lots of small great Fiat coupés and cabriolets. The x1/9 is simply gorgeous.
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  2164.  @marcapouli7805  There is taste and there is simply bad, uninspired design. Fiat has done a lot of uninspired design, but quite a bit of great design that is not to your taste too.
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  2165.  @olgahein4384  I don't know, for me as a Dutchman it's more like "I thought they spoke German here". I don't rate superficial niceness in public not particularly high, it's not a virtue like kindness and more a custom, but it can make one feel welcome and people approachable.
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  2166. Germany is doing so great right now....
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  2167. @MerryXmasMfkrs That UK's financial sector problem has nothing to do with Brexit. Germany proves that being in the EU is not good for the economy or society either.
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  2168.  @maartenaalsmeer  Not by having their pensions and savings stolen to keep Italian banks on life support. The Netherlands was doing great before the EU and does reasonably well despite the EU. The deal with the EU is to obey the unelected or your economy will take a hit because you can't trade properly with your neighbours anymore. The EU didn't invent free trade, the Netherlands did and the EU has appropriated it to control it's member states democracies undemocratically.
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  2169.  @Shatterfury1871  UK's financial sector wasn't designed and it's a huge parasite that needs a big host, the world, not just the EU. The Ukraine war was the EU and NATO's initiative back in 2013.
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  2170.  @maartenaalsmeer  Don't give me that propaganda, the current EU is from 2007, before that we had a different EU for a few years, before that is was the EC, before that the EEC, and in 1957 the ECSC. Even before that we had the Benelux and mare liberum is from the 1609. The EU has been nothing but shit, everything it did more than the EC and EEC was bad, that why it's now peddling the lie that it was the EU all along.
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  2171. I believe it's quite ironic how Americans make fun of this. They are the most starstruck prone people, who have all kinds of huge celebrities that didn't ever do anything, and they love dynasties so much that they are not just emerging from business and Hollywood, but are allowed to dominate the politics of the republic too, only without any sense of duty.
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  2172.  @aphextwin5712  No, you're actually describing the EEC. Democratically elected governments and parliaments have no veto anymore on laws binding their population. The EU-parlement is not a legislative body and not democratically elected by all the people it decides over, taking democratic out of the equasion. The EU's structure has created, on purpose it seems, a democratic void in which basically corporations write the rules and the EC plays dictator forcing an ideological agenda on the member states.
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  2173. Nederland was helemaal niet 350 jaar de baas in Indonesie, donder nou toch eens op met je geschiedvervalsing. De baas spelen over (heel) Indonesie deed Nederland pas in de 20e eeuw.
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  2174. The jungle can't feed the population growth of Africa that is the result of Western medicine. The fact of the matter is that Africans are trying desperately to get into Europe, not the other way around.
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  2175.  @tkbheje8876  The issue is not whith the immigrants hired by European corporations. I'm not opposed to immigration, but it has to be mutually volontary and somewhat symmetric. The problem is with immigrants that seem to see Europe as the promised land but don't have the education to succeed there and form an underclass that keeps it's own culture. Many smaller businesses are happy with illegal Africans working for illegally low wages, like 20 euro's for a long day. The civilisation is not plastic, it's where literacy science, institutional education and human rights come from, and prosperity man had never seen before. The values Europe gets criticized with are usually entirely European in origin. So if you on your computer complaining about torture, genocide, poverty and lack of education, the computer is the product of European culture just like the rest. Try hypothetically complaining about torture and genocide etc. to a pre-European leader. Nontheless, I don't believe European civilization should be exported actively. It tends to set standards too high to keep, hypocrisy is therefore a part of it. Another part of it is empathy for other cultures, that tends not to be mutual, it's probably something that grew over time and appearently only in Europe. Europeans want to be kind and be liked as a culture, they even expect it. That's also why they handed Africans independence, it's not like they lost independence wars, the pressure from the neocolonial power, the USA helped, but still. That's pretty unique for any empire in history. From a point of power as regarding all empires before, the Europeans would simply shoot everyone trying to get in illegally. So there is some softness to European civilization that is basically decadent. But anyhow, I don't believe civilization should or can successfully pushed on other cultures, demand should come from within. Europe can be self sufficient. What we see now is just mismanagement for decades, actually more the consequence of the American short term gain model we are forced in than European capitalism. Also without Russia, which is part of European civilization, Europe has enough fossil fuels to run this kind of economy, it's just not able to switch back in such a short term. There's a huge natural gas field here a bike ride away but that's closed because it causes earthquakes that damage houses without destroying them, that's the framework, that's how prosperous we are. If people are really freezing to death, those people will have to cope with a few extra cracks in their walls. It can also feed itself easily. So for the basic needs we don't need other continents. Don't forget that European had already made their harsh and cold land with the difficult climate wealthy long before any colonization of other continents and it's the explosion of literacy, knowledge, science and technology that started in the 1600's that created the prosperity the world hadn't seen before. The colonization was just a very minor contribution. Not all natural resources are in Europe, and I would like to see Africa sell it less cheap and less corrupt. But let's not forget that cobalt is useless without Western technology. It's European civilization and technology that gives it it's value. So that's an opportunity for Africa that it didn't create by itself. But I don't like consumerism, we are stuck in this economic model of polticians having to keep the corporations happy so sustainability is about selling new products that have to be replaced after 7 years too and everything has to get everywhere faster and profits must return on the short term, while the wellbeing of the people is of secondary interest. And in the globalist economy that lands on the poorest the hardest, which are not the Europeans, but that does not mean Europeans wouldn't be better off by mostly self sustaining in a slower economy too.
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  2176.  @bryanbarnes9204  This is about a European's perspective and I gave you my rather critical further views on the European perspective. .As I said, I don't agree with him because the good intentions are not only condascending, but Europeans tend to not deliver on them. For someone who claims to have had the European perspective shoved down his throat, you understand the European perspective very poorly. On the aspect of shaming another one's history, it's you who made quite an effort. I think you should understand the European perspective better, because understanding the more powerful can only be to one's advantage. Yes, I think his perspective is pretty neocolonial and that's the part I don't agree with. But it is an existing perspective among the powerful. He's kind of stuck in the 1970's, hopeful but also from the idea that if we help those poor Africans they will become just like us and make their countries wealthy rather than trying to move to the finished product. I'm hear to learn about a different perspective but it's rather disappointing because it's just wallowing in victim mentality about those genetically bad white men. I already knew about that perspective.
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  2177.  @perrymiguel7515  I hope you do so, I think Africans should force a much fairer deal and take more of the high value adding of the resources instead of exporting the raw resources. But you have to keep in mind that many of the resources aren't worth anything without Western technology. From cobalt to cacao. Too many want to come to our garden. They cross the Med in small boats, they attack the border in Ceuta, they cross several safe countries by foot to pretend to be a refugee and get asylum, or they pretend to be a foreign student in a Ukrainian university. Personally I don't believe we should care what they want, but I can't help observing many Africans seem desperatate to get to Europe.
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  2178.  @bryanbarnes9204  Oh yes they do. They can't deliver on that promise, it will be corrupted by other interests but they truly believe in their own good intentions and that is what really counts, not the results. Europeans have made the current world and believe they can remake it. This zero sum thinking is more African, the idea that having something means you have taken it from another. Not that Europeans never stole anything but that was on the side. Europeans have internalized capitalism, they believe in the creation rather than the taking of wealth. The African thinks 'they are taking my cobalt' , the European thinks 'we gotta do something with that cobalt otherwise it's just sitting in the ground there not contributing to any wealth'. Europeans believe that if Africa gets wealthy they can sell more stuff to Africans, getting even wealthier themselves. They believe in win-win, which could happen, but often doesn't. They want Africans as consumers rather than producers only. What he is doing here is making the case for helping to make countries outside Europe healthier to prevent mass immigration. He wants to make the jungle into a garden to stop it overgrowing his own garden. That's because he's too weak a gardener, he only wants to plant, not weed and not build a wall around it. Het pleas for benevolent neocolonialism as an alternative for border security. I don't agree with him because for border security he just should stop being this weak, while to garden the jungle he has to be far, far stronger than he is to deliver on his good intentions.
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  2179.  @tleo842  You should get your head out of the 18th century. The Europeans have been just as much greedy cruel assholes as any empire, king, warlord in history. But they also developped the civilization, a history's first, to end slavery and voluntarily end their empires and hand over independence. Not from weakness but from benevolence. Africans in general did not fight for independence, they did not gain it, it was handed to them. They accepted it and they accepted all the money to develop, so that's that. History had taken a turn. It turned out big parts of Africa weren't ready for independence and messed up and got back to their old, pre colonial ways, except they don't know how to build wealth without enslaving eachother. So it's not very becoming to be all triumphant like Africans are not actually enjoying Europe's gentle side it has shown the past 70 years. You can act all though and pretend you are going to take something by force but you are not capable of doing it by force, you are taking something because the one you are taking it from is too gentle to stop you doing so. They are taking advantage of Europeans being soft on them. For now that is. It's not that Europe can't do anything about illegal immigration. It can simply let the invaders drown in the Med and the attempts will stop. As a hostile invasion it's the most helpless ever. The often false pretense they are helpless victims of war and colonialism is what keeps Europe gentle. If Africans don't want to be beggars but proud Africans they will make their own countries and continent better. I they want to act tough and take want they want they can't count on Europe's gentle side. You've gotta choose, either you exploit Europeans gentle side by playing the victim and beg for help, that works for now, or you can act like you actually are the tough guy who has the power to, and you'll get Europe's tough side again. How did you like that side the last time?
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  2180.  @bryanbarnes9204  That's my point! I'm opposed to neocolonialism, also when it comes with good intentions because Europe has a habit of not delivering on that. The motives on the side, the patronizing and the evil corporate interests will determine the outcome just as much as the good intentions. European progressives are the kind that go to Africa to help out in orphanages, but because it's all about them, Africans organize fake orphans to get money out of them, which is bad for the development of the children. Gardening the jungle is not in the interest of Europeans, it's in the interest of Western mega corporations. What's in the interest of Europeans is keeping the jungle out of the garden, but also that is not in the interest of the corporate West. But no, this is this zero sum thinking again. No, Europe didn't get massive help nor needed it from the rest of the planet. This is this wrong idea that the amount of exploitation and suffering equals wealth, it doesn't. It worked that way for the African slavers and their kingdoms but soon all the colonial powers combined the Dutch capitalism with their rather feudal colonization. I only buy slave free chocolate for example, which is actually rare. It's hardly more expensive and that's because of the checks there is no slave labour involved rather than that proper labour cost that much more. If I buy a 1 euro praline, only 1 cent is for the raw cacao, the African part. It wouldn't matter to me if it was 1.5 cent and picking cacao would be a good job for the locals. There is still 99ct value added by Europeans, shipping, processing and skillfully making it into a praline. The cacao picker couldn't afford one with a day's work pay, the European has to work 3 minutes for it. So there's this adding value itself, but all this adding value over time also leads to huge different standards of living monetarily. You can buy a lot more with a euro in Africa than in Europe, really a lot. Something similar was the case in the 80's, what I made as a paper boy was a small fortune in the communist countries of Eastern Europe, I could order caviar from an hour bringing news papers in the capitalist part of Europe. That was already the case in the 17th and 18th century. The slave labour or later colonial labout at the beginning of the chain was such a tiny part of the cost, it didn't matter for European wealth. Just like it does now. It has little to do with oppression and a lot with living standards and added value. That's why we don't see difference in wealth between European countries that have and don't have a colonial past, and we see countries that haven't been colonized doing worse than countries that have been. The Spaniards stole a lot of gold before they became capitalists too, and that actually did them more harm than good because their zero sum thinking didn't fit with what was to become reality in Europe, the capitalist economy with people getting richer and richer from trade and enterprises fuelled by science and invention. So I'm afraid the contribution of the oppressed to European wealth was tiny. Labour was so poorly paid because of the raw goods bulk traders competing with eachother, not because doubling their wages would have made coffee, sugar, tabacco or chocolate too expensive for Europeans.
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  2181.  Humphrey  I think about half is doing well enough. It's not easy to suddenly have to thrive in a capitalistic world of nation states and the mingling of France and the USA doesn't help. But apart from the last bit, that's what they signed up for when they wanted independence. Tribalism makes it far too easy for the imperialists and even in this comment section there is a serious lack of understanding the capitalist world people have to deal with. .
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  2182.  @bryanbarnes9204  Basically because they were at war with eachother or preparing for war with eachtother. The Dutch for example started out as proper traders not wanting to impose themselves and dragging people far away into their war, but they still needed armed presence because if they didn't take it, their enemy (Spain and Portugal) would. But then they took a plantation colony from Portugal and had to give up on their objection slavery to keep it running. You could not just send the navy to enemy ships all over the world, a trip would often last more than a year, you needed a trade network to sustain armed presence on the high waters, money wise but also to keep the war effort fed and hydrated. In the end, almost 200 years later, they did strike a fairer deal and they could easily afford it. But it was still very difficult to chnage the whole system in a slave free one. Why is there still so much chocolate produced with child slaves? Because it's difficult to change it with all those cacao farmers competing with eachother. Capitalism carries and unreasonable strong force for the lowest price within it. Because of the size of the British empire it was important to the British economy anyway, but let's say they didn't let the local sugar farmers aim for the lowest cost and lowest price and France would take over the sugar trade, than France could boycott the British and destroy the whole sugar processing and sugar products chain, and that would hurt. The French could easily dump that sugar in the ocean, because in the Caribbean harbour the price was still very low, and so was the value of the labour that went in it. So the fact that it was involved in big economic interests and essential to it does not make the labour itself comparably valuable. And wasn't India much more a driving force for the British Empire? Because it was much wealthier when they got there and there was more value added there, like with textile.
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  2183.  @bryanbarnes9204  The black people were for sale at the African coast and they took both the climate and the diseases in the America's better. But they were still relatively expensive in relation to the profit of the plantation owner. I agree with your reasoning, but the European wealth comes from the bottler, the distiller, the sugar processor, the shipper and the plantation creator much more than from the labour at the plantation. Not because it's fair but because that's how it worked and it still works. The baker added more value with one cookie he needed sugar for than the one chopping kane for thousands of cookies. Hypothetically if the colonial powers had gotten together and decided that every plantation worker would get a fair wage, let's say double of what it cost up to then for a 40 hour max week, it would have raised the price of sugar, tobacco and coffee, but not to a degree it would have hurt the far more profitable part of the chain and therefore wealth in Europe, because the raw product was a far too tiny part of the price of the end product. And that's still the case, and that's why Africa should sell it's resources less raw, and do more of the processing, take a bigger part of the chain.
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  2184.  @freedomsong9747  If we don't take in account Arabs or other non white imperialists because we never do, it's Ethiopia and Libya I think, allthough parts of Libya were probably colonized by the Romans.
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  2185.  @bryanbarnes9204  No, that's not true. The French had abolished slavery out of their ideals of the French revolution, but had tracked back on that. Britain and the Netherlands had beaten Napoleon, but the Dutch Republic had been an empire in decline for quite a while as far it had been an empire but they were only recently surpassed by the British as Europe's and the world's biggest trader. Suriname and the Antilles were sleepy colonies with no ambition of growing. Abolishing the slave trade was about the first thing the first king of the Netherlands did, the French occupation had left it piss poor and this king was a British initiative to create a buffer monarchy. That poverty was why it took the Netherlands very long to end the remaining slavery. Indonesia had little to do with it because the Dutch didn't really rule it, they just controlled (parts of) it and the local rulers way of organizing labour was profitable enough If you want to be cynical about the motives of the British and allies in that figth for abolishment like the Dutch look at population growth and the resulting supply of labour, making it cheap and without all the fuss of slavery. But that does not change the serious ethical unease among the wealthy Europeans at hom. They were often very religious people who had been long abled to look away because slavery was something far away. So people were actively informing others about what was happening in the colonies and gaining support for abolition. That was very real, no matter whether more cynical reasons tipped the policy. This basic human decency might be unique to European culture, at least in it's global pretense, it also produced a lot of hypcrisy. But it's that same culture that let Africans become independent without a fight, that send billions of developping aid, and that doesn't shoot at African invaders. Try forcing yourself upon China or the Arabs like that, claiming a house and an allowance, invading in small boats, and they'll simply sink those. That empathy on a global scale and therefore sense of having to fair seems pretty unique to European culture and is been taken advantage off. Puttin a flag on a territory was pretty important for the British and the French. They were imperialists in nature, but there had to be business to pay for it and keep it. But let's be real, it was sugar, coffee and tobacco, and later cacao and rubber, then you look at what part of the average European's montlhly spending goes to those products, detract processing and shipping costs, and you have quite a good indication of how much the slave labour contributed to European wealth at that time. Obviously that's very little. Not because they weren't working hard enough or didn't suffer enough, but because that's how it works with capitalism, beginning of the chain and geographically seperated economies. It still does.
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  2186.  @bryanbarnes9204  That was not my claim, my claim is Europeans have a culture in which worrying about basic human decency extends to the whole world and comes with a kind of cultural empathy. For example an African or Middle-Eastern crosses 10 safe countries to (falsely) claim refugee status and a house and social benefits, and a christian politician comes up with the argument 'love your neighbour like yourself'. 'Neighbour' is taken as 'any human being', without any explanation needed, because that's in the culture. I don't see that in other cultures, especially not the empathy. I don't see any reflection of the immigrant communities here on how the welcoming people would look at them and why they would regret letting them in. I never hear Africans or Middle-Easterners thinking about what they would do if tens of thousands people from far away would invade by little boats. I as a European automatically try to take the perspective from the colonized or victim of neocolonialism too. I also don't see that in these comments. If you would be empathic enough to take the perspective of a European this garden/jungle metaphore really isn't that strange. It was all nice and orderly, organized and peaceful and that's changing from the outside. No one from the Africans here spared a thought for how the Europeans must feel about that. Same with the past, it's all about the African suffering and the lack of empathy makes you think that that must have been were European wealth came and still comes from. If you had the same European cultural empathy you would think of all the other, European, products, trade and industry that did make them wealthy. You would also understand why we think of Africa and the Middle East as relatively uncivilized. I'm trying to explain the European perspective here, with cutlural empathy, not defending it because I mentioned many flaws too. But even that seems to bounce off mostly on a charicature of Europeans. I do understand the different perspectives, or at least the fact there are different perspectives, because that's in my culture.
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  2187.  @tleo842  No, capitalism emerged from free people, literacy, trust in institutions and navigable waterways making trade more important than agriculture. You wouldn't be on the internet right now without capitalism and without European civilization chances you were just another case of infant mortality. Making other humans into slaves was what the Africans did, the Europeans bought them pre enslaved and the Africans bossed the entire supply. Europeans ended the global slavetrade against the Africans will. The Europeans and white Americans are actually the only ones capable of facing the shame and guilt. As I already explained, Europeans won't do much good for Africa even if they genuinely want to, they tend to not deliver. Europe is not institutionally evil or racist, it's institutionally hypocrite. There's the good people of Europe and there is the evil financial interests. There's the angel on the right shoulder that speaks from the heart but also pretends there is no devil on the left shoulder, while it knows there is. Socialism is a way organizing society, capitalism is a way of organizing productivity, they are not mutually exclusive. I would have liked to see Lumumba and Sankara succeed. I know who prevented that and I don't support that at all. But the world is a dangerous place and so was Africa before the Europeans arrived. I'm just saying that distorting history and zero sum thinking (including 'reparations') victim mentality and prematurely denouncing capitalism will get you nowhere. Nor is acting tough concerning migrants in Europe, they illegal or asylum seeking ones are tolerated out of pity, not respected for their strength or conquest. You can't have both, you can't have Europe to go to and fully deglobalize, you can't be proud African and begging to stay in Europe and playing the victim card.
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  2188. @Truth Content It's not help. as a group immigrants from Africa are a tremendous burden. That's parasitic. Africa has a blood soaked history too, history is soaked in blood. European values have changed that for the better, but not ended it.
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  2189. Bad policies we impose on ourselves? No, the EU imposes bad policies on us.
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  2190. Dumb answer. It's that total misunderstanding of how wealth is generated that will keep the 3rd world poor for much longer. That slavery is over now, so why haven't those free sugar cutters and coffee pickers grown wealthy in the past 150 years?
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  2191. Bull shit. South Africa became a lo worse for the natives when the British took over. The Dutch did far more proper trade until 1800, the British did at leat ten times more slavery and a 100 times more killing.
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  2192. The issue is not with people from the former colonies. The PVV has been the biggest or 2nd biggest party among those voters for decades.
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  2193. I'm sorry but I hate these kinds of videos. Young nitwits just throwing in the word 'democracy' while they have no clue what it is, how important it is and how they just trade it off for ease and fun. -Border checks were a pain but now citizens get checked more thorougly and have their privacy invaded more day in day out than at any border check in the 70's or 80's, and in the EEC of the 90's you could already forget your passport and still hitchhike throuhg all Western Europe. But thanks to free movement too, it's now too unsafe to hitchhike and the hugely increased unsafety is an excuse for governments checking you out everyday like you were at a border crossing. - Well before the EU students could also study at a foreign university. They did, but for specific and better reasons than it just being cheaper. It also had to be the good students because they had to master a foreign language at academic level. They pay a few thousand, then have an education in English at the expense of foreign taxpayers and their education level, and then move out of that country again. - This bland international monoculture of the climate destroying flying class is not only terribly boring, it's also becoming a plague in big cities all over Europe, destroying diversity. - The free movement of labour has millions of lower educated European workers from the poor member states being exploited in rich countries with no job security and therefore shelter security, living in baracks, far away from family and friends, often being a nuisance and I don't blame them because drinking is what 'displaced' men in groups in their little free time do. It also leads to welfare exploitation and fraud, undermining the public support for it.
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  2194.  @Dutch_Uncle  I think it's more fundamental. Because they made land themselves, there were a lot of land owning peasants, who therefore did not accept the feudal model of a king who could tell you how to believe in god on that land and were the first to deny the divine right of kings and a fixed position in society. Together with water becoming more important than land through trade, they had equality and upward social mobility, especially the latter being essential to capitalism. We see that all throughout the histoyr of the Dutch Republic, the inventor of the wood sawing windmill, which was high tech of it's days rather than one eureka moment, was a simple peasant. A literate one, but most were. Lots of admirals and the greatest Dutch naval hero's were men of humble beginnings, the 'prime ministers' and parliamentarians were from merchant families. That's mostly the same for the great inventors, the microscope and the discovery of microbiology for example were the product of a draper having a hobby. A lot of initial shareholders of the VOC were very ordinary people, that's were the stockmarket comes in because those people couldn't wait the 31 years the VOC didn't pay dividend but wanted to reinvest to grow. So the egalitarian nature of the country was due the land or the lack there of and that bred not just a politcal culture, but also social mobility, invention and capitalism.
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  2195. Het blijf achterbaks voyeurisme. Meedoen onder het mom van ophef, dan mag het?
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  2196. The British colonized South-Africa in 1795, including the Boers and the Zulu's, not just the indigenous people. So why not target the British?
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  2197. These European hold overs from WWII are actually the most interesting imo, especially outside Germany. The Netherlands for example. Nazi Germany occupied it, the US led allies came to liberate (thank you for that) and therefore became the next occupier, as they should. That's an obligation in international law, keep order and peace. But US troops remained, actually took over from mainly Canadians, and then the NATO treaty was signed and the American troops remained under NATO flag. So when exactly did the American occupation materially end? It's not like the American troops left, and then came back because of NATO. NATO legalized the same military presence of what was a (benevolent) occupying force. And then you get the "The Hague Invasion Act' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hague_Invasion_Act&redirect=no
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  2198.  @AudieHolland  There's no proof of the eating whatsoever, but YT is full of English propaganda of that time regurgitated as proper history. But it was cruel and judging by the reactions by the Dutch at that time, it was a relapse, uncharacteristic for how was dealt with people. I think we have to distinguish between what people do in and around berserk moments like battles. If people have been trying to kill and maim you for hours while the body parts where lying around I can imagine you get a little bit less sensitive for a while after and have feelings of revenge. But there's also a baseline of civilization that was already very well developped in the Dutch Republic and even before in the lowlands, they were far ahead of England anyway and centuries of piece and prosperity had of course helped set that baseline. Those things tend not to develop in times of war, civil war and poverty. The Dutch had extensive civil rights, a bit later than the Magna Charta, but the Kortenberg charter for example was much more extensive and included the commoners, who were strongly represented in the legeslative branch anyway (judiciary and executive power were already seperated). There was a strong humanist tradition in the Low Lands and in the 1500's there was for example Dirck Coornhert, who's lesser international fame than Erasmus ist mostly down to fact that he chose to write in Dutch rather than Latin, who advocated for rational criminal law with insight in the causes of crime and punishment as a step in rehabilitation. In the 1600's in by then the Dutch Republic, this was already practiced. Besides the home for the poor, a charity in which the food was better than what the majority of Europeans got, there were rehabilitation homes in which criminals were taught to work. The Dutch wouldn't be Dutch if there wasn't an economical angle to it, dominating Europe's trade with 1.5 million people meant there usually was a shortage of labour and ship's crew's in particular. Allthough torture was still part of judicial proceedings for the very serious crimes, it was measured, both for the investigation and the punishment, in proper legal proceedings. It was a very legal society anyway and even the revolt that turned in the 80 years war was very much a legal conflict fought by legal means between the actual fighting. Basically everything about the beginning years/decades of the 80-years war oozes outrage about the disturbance of the peace and prosperity by the Spaniards. The people of the Low Lands had it going on, the Dutch Republic got obscenely rich, but also in the 1500's there was already widespread middle class wealth and catholics opposed the persecution of protestants too. Even in rage there were norms. The statue storm, in which protestants vandalized churches and monestaries, there was no plundering. It was a protest, not self enrichment, and there are records of protestants convicted by protestants for stealing in the process of vandalizing churches with an angry mob. Even the Dutch word for War has been 'oorlog' at least since the 80-jarige oorlog. We have the word 'krijg' which is a more direct translation of German 'Krieg', French 'guerre' and English 'war', but the original meaning of 'oorlog' is more like 'ordeal' or 'fate'. So that might give an idea about how the Dutch looked at what was happening to them. Not something to win, to be heroic in or gain something from, something that simply part of life, but something to endure. So I think it's fair to say that the uncontrolled bloodthirst and torture of the Spanish by the Sea Beggars was the exception and the measured and mild punishments by Maurits were more the expression of the degree of civilization of that time and place, including the rationality of not making things unnecessarily expensive in time, money and blood. As also this video shows, these sieges were patient enterprises with their own proceedings, which allowed for the horrors of battle and often the horrors of plundering Spaniards, but also for measured, rational and even fair decision making and ending. It's indeed fascinating and in the 80-years the Dutch had one foot in the Dark Ages and the other in the Enlightenment, in probably more ways than this one. I think it's what people get used to, in times of peace and prosperity their natural empathy and sympathy isn't numbed by reality.
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  2199.  @youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692  I remember him as a young huge talent. Drivers were killed back then but it was so early in his career that he got almost forgotten. All we can do is remember them, so here we are.
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  2200.  @faithlesshound5621  He chose to run and a lot of his troops defected. William chose to wage a propaganda war to avoid bloodshed, instability and the risk of a catholic theocracy returning. As basically a civil servant of the Dutch Republic, technically not a hereditary position, he was more interested in not beeing surrounded by catholic kings than in ruling England. He brought leaflets and a printing press with him and brought on a show. He had his fleet bigger than the armada on full display at the coast, he brought a regiment of blacks with him to impress as a global empire, and he made sure it looked as much like it was the English their own 'revolution'. He even invited English parliamentarians to invite him to invade and forbid all of his soldiers to name it a conquest or invasion, it needed to be a liberation. Obviously he succeeded, but the English not fighting back doesn't make it anything other than an invasion and an occupation, no English soldier was allowed in London. From the early stages of the 80-years war, the Dutch army had been developping to the most modern army and it had quite a bit of practice by 1688. Discipline, uniform equipment, standard communication, drilled shooting and reloading set ups, they had amphibious marines too and were experts in city sieges. With 40.000 troops the English were probably wise to not fight and accept the rather fair deal William offered them, freedom of thought and religion (allthough limited), parliament power, bill of rights, practically everything that had made the Dutch Republic fair so well for a century.
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  2201. @Horatio Nelson The invitation was William's plot, his plans to invade England were much older but he went looking for support from the inside so he invited The Seven to invite him. It was a conspiracy that involved John Locke, who was living and working in the Dutch Republic to reform the English state and legitimize it. King James got a nosebleed and fled to France instead of leading his army into battle, effectively giving up England in the face of huge invasion force. It was all part of the plan to make the English people feel like it was their revolution, or liberation at best. William forbid his troops to use the word invasion and made sure they were well behaved to win the hearts and minds of the people for a smooth transfer of power. . Besides the military expertise from the 80-years war, the Dutch had more than 100 years experience with war propaganda too. He was a showman and came very well prepared, to fight if necessary but to win over the people more than anything by making it look like an internal English thing much more than it was. And he succeeded, even until today it seems. If you march your troops through a foreign country without the consent of the ruler that's an invasion. If you take the capital city and have every English soldier removed it's an occupation. William was always in control, he just wasn't interested in the glory of bloody battles and ruling like an absolute monarch, the Dutch had freed themselves from those medieval concepts more than a 100 years before and never had been very feudal to begin with. He was playing chess on the bigger board, he wanted a stable England with the protestants in charge.
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  2202. @Horatio Nelson He didn't rule over the Dutch Republic absolutely either. He was basically a civil servant, he was appointed in his position of Stadtholder. The fact that this position usually went to members of the noble Orange family doesn't change that fact, he needed and wanted the support from the Dutch 'states-general'. The idea that he would have wanted absolute power is probably a matter of projecting the attitude of English, French and Spanish monarchs on the leader of the Dutch Republic, which was quite a bit more modern back then.
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  2203. @Horatio Nelson James was moving towards absolute catholic rule and together with France that was an existential threat to the Dutch Republic. That's why William prepared an invasion well before het invited the English opponents of James to invite him to make it look less of a foreign invasion. The fact that there were no battles was down to the success of William's propaganda war and the size of his navy and army. King james fled to France and most of his army defected. You can't run from a fight and then claim a draw. Without the Dutch invasion there would have not been a constitutional monarchy, no bill of rights, no freedom of religion, no protestants in charge because the English conspiracy didn't have the power to overthrow James. That was because William took London and removed all English soldiers.
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  2204. @Horatio Nelson The parlementarians only invited him after William took the initiative, it was part of his propaganda which was part of his plot. Propaganda that worked so well it still believed today, but that's despite the well established historical facts. It was not freedom of religion in the sense of equality of religion we know now, but it was freedom of conscience and thought, which prevented prosecution for having a faith. That was a essential difference with catholic rule that used to torture and burn people at the stake for not beeing a good catholic. No prosecution for an individual's religion is what William promised in his speech in Exeter for example and in his propaganda. He didn't bring a printing press for nothing. It was an invasion because the king in charge and commander of the army didn't welcome it. Just like the Americans invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein didn't welcome them. The public support was part of William's plot to get in control as smooth as possible, just like he organized the parliamentarians invitation himself. His troops were there to fight and would have fougth and most likely beaten the English army if king James would have confronted them instead of having a nosebleed and fleeing to France. Obviously the English still don't like the idea of beeing invaded just as was the case back then and William did everything he could to make the invasion look like not an invasion. But we have to seperate the propaganda from the facts here.
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  2205.  @faithlesshound5621  @Faithless Hound I don't know if they were quartered in London, by the time he got to London the job was already done. The Dutch had to get soldiers from anywhere anyway, but he and his troops were dressed to impress ont the way and let word go around so the blacks wore white turbans and marched together. The Dutch model wasn't that much of a model, a republic was more what they stumbled upon after declaring the Spanish king had left the throne by beeing a tyrant who did not respect their ancient and natural rights (religion) and fell back on the largely self governing structures of the Burgundy rule before Spain. And that wasn't set in stone either, there had been the prince-minded and states-minded for a while, often wrongly translated as orangist or even royalists vs republicans. But the 'states' were the governing bodies of the 7 different provinces and were a force for decentral power, while the stadtholder, appointed by the states but usually from the Orange family, was more a centralist force keeping the provinces together and a military commander. Due to the government of commoners that preceeded him, the way that ended and his political skill, William became exceptionally powerful for a stadtholder, sometimes even resembling a king. But he was still an appointed civil servant who happened to carry the title of prince. Nontheless, the balance of power with some inheretance involved had worked great for the Dutch Republic, just like the freedom of conscience (religion) and other civil rights, and of course England with protestants in charge had to become a success. So it's probably more like he worked with the power structures present in England to get to a similar balance, than that the Dutch had a model of what a republic should look like and how to turn it into a constitutional monarchy. Historians have of course been instruments of patriotism or even propaganda for centuries. It's hard to correct all of that in little over half a century of historians who try to be fair, especially for the anglophones. In general I believe British historians are too anglocentric and often stuck in old patriottic views, but in this case it's a bit more complicated because it was William's own propaganda campaign that aimed on, besides impressing, downplaying his own and any other foreign role.
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  2206. They were public, just not online searchable. Then the hyeanas of the internation press dive on it with their moral exhitbitionism to suggest the Netherlands has some unfinished business in this. Nonsense, this has all played out from the liberation until the 21st century. Since then it has become more and more difficult to educate the youth on this because of cultural enrichment.
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  2207.  @waskyhenry6306  How do you know how those sound? They have been dead for very long. If you don't know shit about who colonized what and when, and how the different colonies and colonizers differed, shut up about it and go read a book.
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  2208.  @Kav.  I never claimed you said they were in the tourism business. The issue with the tourism business is that a few make money off it while many others get the burden, and that's not just the prostitutes. Tourism in Amsterdam has explodes in the past two decades and especially in the red light district as I believe I already said, when I lived there 20 years ago it was just an area amidst the regular night life and very much like other Dutch red light districts. People react like I blame them personally for visiting the red light district out of curiosity. I don't, I'm just stating that you are the problem. Amsterdam city hall should serve it's inhabitants including prostitutes, not foreigners and their need to learn about prostitution, or their stag parties.
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  2209.  @chihirostargazer6573  As I said I'm not a fan but all the (pseudo) moralistic stances in history on this have never doen anything for women and their dignity.
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  2210. There is a lot of environmental protection laws in between. Lamborghini got 90 hp a litre a little over a decade later and Deusenberg had almost 60 hp per litre 25 years before. Jaguar was pushing the 70 hp per litre in that era too with the XK. I think the more impressive thing was that it was reliable and very driveable, it wasn't a raw race car but a very usable gt when it wasn't too hot a day. As a whole Mercedes was proven more than right in that a fuel injected 3 litre straight six 1500kg car is still a very desirable configuration for 21st century car.
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  2211. American society might be able to change faster than that of older countries, you have been the embarassement of the West in this for the whole 20th century. The post slavery era is the difference and it was not pretty. What we see now is a kind of denial of the shameful history by universalizing American racism and spreading the blame. If you say we've come a long way in a short time (and are still very race obsessed without the hatred) I respect that, if you say no this was a myth it was bad everywhere, I say be a big boy and own up to your specific American history. Scandinavian countries don't have anything of that.
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  2212. I was just about to say that. Can't confirm this is a rover though.
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  2213.  @DanDanDoe  The Dutch already cycled more, they kept cycling in big numbers, not just a few parents protested but lots of people, including drivers, it also had to do with the street as playground for the children, and there were the squatters protesting the demolishing of old city parts for new buildings with roads for the cars. The vote in Amsterdam was extremely close, 1 vote and large parts of the city would have been demolished. Very little infrastructure was build in the 70's and 80's, Utrecht was still holding on to the new projects very much if I am not mistaken, most political parties were still very much ready to make room for the cars allthough accepting the bicycle was gonna stay. Our prime minister's party, who now flaunts the cycling, has remained a considerable force against it until at least the late nineties. What really did a lot was the limit on big box stores at the edge of the city that had been there since the 50's and was not motivated by cycling, the traffic rules like in Groningen in 1977 to discourage car driving in and around the center, changing the number and the ratio bike/car in an area, the woonerfs, also pre 70's, and the liability rules of the early 90's. That together with the broad public acceptance, also among drivers that cycling simply had to be. it's a cycling and walking culture that has generated infrastructure, not the other way around. If the Dutch had waited around for taking the bike until the current levels of cycling infrastructure, we wouldn't have gotten it. It's great and I love it, and I would like the example followed internationally, but it's the people that have to follow the example too.
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  2214.  @yaush_  I can see the advantages and why people are jealous. Just don't pretend your government can achieve that too while it was not Dutch government's achievement. The English cycled a lot too in the 50s, but they had to show off they could afford a car. That's culture too.
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  2215.  @mehere8038  The British have a habit of appropriating other's history anyway, especially the good parts of course. Somehow everything magically originated with that very special people. But in the 17th century was rather backward, especially compared to the Dutch Republic.
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  2216.  @diskopartizan0850  Yes, 'rather bacwkard' seems a fair assessment.
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  2217.  @Alasdair-d3c  No, there was hope that catholic James II would not get a heir so the trend toward catholic absolutism would die with him as Mary would then be the next in line When his heir was born there was hope this was not his sun but smuggled in the room in a bed pan. But that hope was lost too. This posed a problem to the Dutch Republic because catholic France teaming up with England again like in 1672 posed too big a threat to the existence of the Dutch Republic and therefore the future of protestantism and religious tolerance. So the parliament (not an English invention) of the Dutch Republic decided to fund an invasion and had a huge fleet and army build. In the process stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and therefore commander of the military contacted a group of rather powerless lords parliamentarian himself through his vaste European network of informants, spies and diplomats and demanded an official invitation. The relevant letters have been found a long time ago, the primary sources are there. He did not need assistance with the invasion and conquest, he needed assistance with the popular and political sport for the future stable government of England to make it a stable ally for the Dutch Republic and protestatism in Europe. I'm not an American and you don't know your own British history because the Brits don't want to know of any history that doesn't make them look like a very special people all good in the world somehow originated with. The most important development in British political history until this day was a Dutch invasion for French reasons, after which England became much more like the Dutch Republic, with it's bill of rights, religious tolerance and Bank of England, and it thrived econmically and culturally to become the British Empire.
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  2218.  @georgesibley7152  There was an invasion, and it was not because William was invited. He demanded to be invited while the invasion was prepared, it was his initiative. That might have been subject to misinterpretation for long, the primary sources are well known by now. The fact that the legitimate king fled to France with a nosebleed before the big battle. that got cancelled for that reason, doesn't make it less of an invasion. Ironically just like the Dutch Republic's DOI 107 years before, the legitamacy issue was adressed by claiming the legitimate monarch had left the throne by his own actions, this time physically.
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  2219.  @georgesibley7152  That's been the story for centuries because William didn't want to be seen as a foreign conquerer and this was part of a much bigger propaganda campaign around and during the invasion, that would make is reign vulnerable to sentiments. Later it, like most historiography of those days, it became a self serving history. William had already interfered in English politics in 1686, in april 1688 France and England started a naval alliance, that's when the Dutch Republic started preparing for a military intervention. An enormous fleet got build, payed for by Dutch parliament and quite a project in such a short time since the invasion was initially planned for september. Also in april, William discussed an invasion with admiral Edward Russell and said he would have to be formally invited by important people. The letter to William arrived at the end of june. It's even on the English wikipedia page of the "letter to William" if you read it to the end. Russell, sacked from the English navy, was part of William's secretary. Of course Dutch parliament, which had appointed Willem in the office of stadtholder and therefore military commander, gets ignored because the Bitish like to think parliament was their idea and spread over the continent from England. William was a prince of Orange in Southern France, a title of a principality he didn't hold, allthough the most powerful stadtholder in the history of the Dutch Republic, was not the souvereign in any way. He could not react to an invitation of his person because of family relations with the Dutch army (namer after Dutch parliament) and navy because those were not his. Dutch parliament wanted him to use his family connection to turn England from an ally of France to a Dutch ally because that was essential for the future of the Dutch Republic and religious tolerance and protestantism in general. The combined French, English and German (Cologne and Munster) attack of 1672 was still a fresh trauma in which the Dutch Republic came extremely close to being annihilated alltogether. Dutch parliament didn't support/push him to take the throne for fun and status, but because he was a very good geopolitican and strategist who was turning the table on France since he was appointed stadtholder, through his military command first and through diplomacy and an extensive European network of informants and spies later. To both William and Dutch parlement this was part of a far more serious business than just becoming king of England, that just a means to an end.
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  2220.  @asherandai1000  So it was an invasion that made Britain too?
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  2221. It was a small league in the 80's and 90's too, a lot of the clubs are from cities with under a 100k population, so France has finally passed us but that's about all the change. So the best players want to move to one of the 5 bigger leagues. This means that to perform in European cups the managers have to punch above their weight significantly and develop and field the young talents. Ten Hag did that, Slot does that, it breeds a certain type of manager that tries to be tactically innovative and is more like a teacher than a gangster boss. The smaller the league the more impressive beating Juventus and Real is, AS Roma is a much bigger and especially richer club than Feyenoord too. It would have made sense if Slot had done well with a big German club first, but he has done the lot with Feyenoord and made a really big impression. Feyenoord has a much lower ceiling than Ajax.
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  2222.  @miliba  They stopped being part of Spain in 1581.
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  2223.  @lars9518  Dat is naief.
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  2224.  @ASTUALPHA  The anglo's that ruled South-Africa invented apartheid, just like the Anglo's in America invented segregation, but gave it a name derived from Dutch. Of course this fooled ignorant Americans. White anglo's blaming the Dutch for their sins and getting away with it by keeping Amercians undereducated and ignorant.
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  2225.  @i-cgroup6443  Appearently you don't know how to use Wikipedia. It is correct in saying it's an Afrikaans word, which is a different language from Dutch. In Dutch it only exists as a South-African word for a South-African policy. Without that it could have been a Dutch word, but it would have meant something like strangeness or typicalness. South-Africa is ruled by the British since 1795, after it's independence from the British Empire the people from British descent were the main political power until the introduction of democracy in the 90's. The Dutch have been protesting apartheid in South-Africa since the 50's. Racial equality was already well developped as the general idea, but the occupation in WWII sealed it. There has never been any racial segregation in the Netherlands since it's birth in 1581, not by law and not by societal norms. You have no idea how backward the USA has been and still is in the eyes of the Dutch in this matter. If they make a lot of progress in the coming decades they might get at the same level of the Dutch from the 50's, who have progressed since then. But obviously you lack the search skills to know.
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  2226. @Ro Ensch No they won't, we're done importing backward cultures.
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  2227.  @i-cgroup6443  No. Afrikaans has been developping seperately for more than 300 years and has quite a bit of German, French and local influences. Dutch and German share their origin too, that doesn't make it the same language. Apartheid wasn't a Dutch word, it's an imported word from Afrikaans for a South African policy that has nothing do with the Netherlands other than that the Dutch have been protesting it since the 50's. If the word was made up as a Dutch word it would mean something very different, but the South-Africans coined it. It's also embarassingly simplistic. The Boers are from Dutch descent hundreds of years ago, the Dutch gave up on their refusal to join the slavetrade at some point hundreds of years ago, RAnd there Zwarte Piet of course which reminds Americans of their blackface tradition. Jans is Dutch so he must be racist. If you have no knowledge or understanding of Dutch society just shut up. What are you suggesting anyway? That the Dutch have some racist genes as exposed through the Boers? That's racist.
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  2228.  @i-cgroup6443  That doesn't make apartheid a Dutch word. Dutch people would get it's meaning entirely wrong if they knew nothing about South-Africa.
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  2229.  @i-cgroup6443  Yes I know. I know a lot of Americans have an Irish background. Does that make Ireland a backward racist country? Does that make Green Beer Day an Irish tradition? Does this make Irish football trainers alcoholic? A Dutch connection doens't make apartheid a Dutch word. It would fail describe anything Dutch as apartheid or any segregation has ever been in the Netherlands.
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  2230.  @i-cgroup6443  You're making stuff up. The Dutch didn't want any slavery on home soil, they didn't want to have anything to do with slavery at first but gave up on that after about 70 years. The napoleontic agression, colonizing the Netherlands had nothing to do with that. The guest workers weren't citizens at all, hence the name, they were supposed to go back. After they were offered citizenship they messed up by themselves and self-segregate in subsidized hoods. But that's still no segregation policy. There is a cultural conflict indeed. There's their backward culture of fundamentalism and tribalism, and there's the Dutch culture that showed the world freedom of religion, freedom of press and print, citizenship, equality, modern capitalism, tolerance, freedom, contributed to science a lot etc. Culture is not race, just mentioning things isn't an argument. The Netherlands has been the least racist country in the world since WWII. The USA is extremely far behind and still struggling with it, like fighting racism with racism. That's cultural conflict is where it must have gone wrong for Jans, who probably didn't realize that he as a white person wasn't allowed to say anything about racism. That has nothing to do with South-Africa which hasn't had a relevant connection to the Netherlands for more than 200 years.
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  2231.  @i-cgroup6443  Why would it be racially motivated? He apologized for the war crimes in that dirty war. Rightfully because it was against Dutch values of that time and today. But it was dirty from both sides and the Indonesians made a lot more victims among Indonesians in the whole campaign. But of course they don't have to apologize because they're not white. No, you didn't give me links. Maybe you tried but you keep editing your posts after I showed you are wrong. I don't care, history in which the whites are always racist and all non whites are only victims who lived in peace, justice and happiness until the whites arrived is too political and not credible enough for me.
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  2232. You are the type to swallow any propaganda aren't you?
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  2233. No, the EU has it's own political agenda of the unelected and if you want to conserve things like democracy, cultural identity, natural demography, freedom of speech and the traditional family, the EU is your enemy that will screw you.
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  2234. Americans also still call themselves Americans despite not having been the America's part of Britain for over 200 years. Americans used to be a special kind of Brit because of their location just like the Afrikaners. The country of America didn't exist, and technically still doesn't, just like the country of Afrika didn't exist.
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  2235.  @SA_CrimeWatch  He does lie, it is just a very lazy man who didn't read up on the Dutch but projects English and American habits onto them.
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  2236.  Goughs Bastard  I believe you're missing the point. Giving people a degree doesn't make them educated. Good education fitting to their abilities does that. Science is for the smartest the people, it only confuses the mediocre as we've seen lately. And they add to the general confusion with their false self esteem as educated people. It's about what's underneath the label of a university degree. Giving half of the people a 'higher' education doesn't make them as smart as the 5 or 10% smartest kids that used to go to university. The beta disciplines and medicine have a natural protection to a lowered bar, but in the things like social sciences and almost all that deal with the skills that are important for the way society is heading like reading, writing and reasoning are very vulnerable to dumbing down.
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  2237.  @vettemuziekjes  De VOC deed er 30 jaar over om dividend te gaan betalen. Vandaar ook dat de aandelenbeurs in Amsterdam is ontstaan. De VOC was cultureel en voor de oorlog veel belangrijker dan economisch. Het liet zien wat er in de wereld te koop was, letterlijk, van tapijten uit het machtige Perzie, tot Porselein uit het machtige China tot kunst uit het evenmin overheerste Japan. Qua omzet en winsten viel het in het niet bij de Europese handel die door de Nederlanders werd gedomineerd.
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  2238. To be fair, Mercedes had a reputation for it's suspension too. The difference is they had to engineer around the limitations of coil springs and did that very well. Citroen started from a superior working principle.
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  2239. "Handhaven... Zo is dat" zegt de CU-mevrouw wiens regering dat al die jaren heeft nagelaten.
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  2240.  @Gerrieberrie76  Nee hoor, ik heb geen Engels geleerd zodat een of andere luie buitenlandse student mijn tas kan controleren terwijl die die taal dan ook nog eens een stuk slechter beheerst. Aan dat gekruip voor de internationale parasiterende klasse doe ik niet mee.
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  2241. The expat bubble in which Wilders is called Captain Peroxide must very small. He's missing the obvious, the Netherlands has been submitted to radical demographic change for over 2 decades now agains the will of the majority. The VVD has gotten away with the lie that they wanted to kerb mass immigration several times but this was one election too many.
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  2242. Mercedes have always been expensive cars in Europe too but there is luxury expensive and heavy duty expensive. Mercedes did them both, often within the same model range. Workhorses for the salesmen and other high annual mileage people, 2 to 3 litre diesel sedans just plowing through hundreds of miles of highway a 100% reliable. Taxi drivers could always count on them too. Extremely high build quality, very low depreciation, an expensive but sensible long term investment in your mobility. Many sold were more serious than flashy, luxurious or fast. They would often be 1.5 the price of a car with similar performance and space, and any luxury other brands had standard like a second rear mirror or 5th gear would come at serious extra money and be of the same superior build quality.
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  2243. With any research this video whouldn't have been made.
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  2244. The deciding factor was Dutch parliament deciding to build a fleet and an invasion force to prevent England of teaming up with France to try to destroy the Dutch Republic and the future of protestantism with it ever again. The fact that the stadtholder they had appointed might get away with a false claim to the throne came in handy. It was William who contacted the immortal 7 and asked them to invite while preparations for the invasion were already in progress as part of a much wider propaganda campaign. It couldn't be seen as the foreign conquest it actually was.
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  2245.  @BRUCE_the_MOOSE_  So did these Americans.
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  2246.  @Philip-x3d  The dumb.
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  2247.  @ClaudeYoung  Americans don't know fascism unless it get's presented to them with a swastika and a German accent.
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  2248. It stopped being a republic only 220 years ago.
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  2249.  @norrinradd2364  I was speaking in general, a culture could breed invention, invention can also happen despite culture. But Bildung, Ausbildung, not beating up people with glasses or other anti-intellectualism, and many different little things, it matters.
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  2250.  @mr.bonkers2310  That's an extremely legalistic view of national anthems.
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  2251.  @mr.bonkers2310  You can only legally recognize what already is, or you can have a law to have a national anthem composed. The nation state was not known at that time, Europe consisted of monarchies with the people ruled by a specific monarch changing with marriage and inheretance. The Dutch, who became a republic by declaring their tyrant king to have left the throne and not by a set of republican ideals, came up with things like a national flag because they had no king's flag, and with nationalistic propaganda, including songs. This song stood out and kept coming back despite political turmoils coming and going more than any other song. No, it wasn't the legal, official anthem in days there were no legal national anthems yet.
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  2252.  @mr.bonkers2310  The song is much older than the Orangists vs the Staatsen. This comes across a bit like the think I happen to know must be very relevant to the subject. I don't think it is.
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  2253. We'll discuss reparations 150 years later.
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  2254. If this was his attempt at an unbiased perspective he is incompetent. Of course it wasn't, it's just how Harris tries to manipulate the gullible. Calling his dad's company Trump like he was responsible, sneaking Epstein in, representing "they just let you" (the golddiggers) as non consent, falsely claiming the court cases aren't political at all. It's quite obvious the deep state is after him, we know what the intellligence community did by now. Cheney doesn't care about the delicacy of the checks and balances, we also know that from his time as vice. Cheney is warmonger who is scared Trump will end his/their continuous wars. If you are on Cheney's side you can't virtue signal yourself out of it. But I guess Harris was never genuine when he pretended to be outraged by wars or the stuff the CIA pulled around the world.
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  2255. The campaign was by LBG activists, the genderdysforic and tranvestites weren't using gays to draw too much attention to themselves yet back then.
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  2256.  @rolandoscar1696  I don't know about that but it has shown us the effect of Goebbelsian repitition propaganda and herd mentality.
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  2257. 15 minutes in and he is full of shit. The 17th century Dutch were not anything like the English. They did pay for Cape Town, they made a deal with the KhoiSan, they did not enslave them, the Dutch imported slaves and indentured and did in general not enslave people at all but bought them. The Dutch never did any race classification and intermarried where ever they were. The KhoiSan are part of the Cape coloured, as the indiginous people of SA are not black. They stopped being Dutch when the British colonized them together with the rest of South-Africa, they were only majority Dutch descent to begin with. This guy should get his head out of his pompous American ass and see that America inhereted it's exceptional racism from the English, as well as the classism. The melting pot and the American dream come entirely from New Amsterdam, later NYC. When racism blossomed in the early 20th USA like never anywhere before, Jim Crow inspired Germany to the Neuremburg laws as well as South Africa, which had been a British colony for over 150 years by then, to apartheid. He should indeed have read up on the French situation in the Dutch Republic indeed because he clearly does not understand enough of it to even mention it.
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  2258. Ik heb eigenlijk niks extreems of radicaals gehoord. Wel veel desinformatie, de regio hoorde niet bij de Sovjet-Unie, Oost-Duitsland was een apart land en lid van het Warschaupact.
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  2259.  @joannetolond5782  The contract between the Dutch and the KhoiSan in which they bought the land and paid for it would be a nice start. It still exists.
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  2260. Luckily it's the 21st century, he didn't get castrated.
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  2261. Whatever, it's your language, not mine, if you want that reflect the English ignorance about the place over centuries, fine. In Nederland living Nederlanders simply speak Nederlands.
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  2262. We have also seen him for 20 years now, we've seen Surinamese, Antillians vote for him in big numbers, we've seen how popular he is with quite a few muslims, we know how coarse he is and got used to it. I haven't been worried about what he is going to do for years. Islam will have to take it's place next to other religions, stop trying to rule over the public space and the people and just take the place conservative religions have in the Netherlands, and that's about time.
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  2263.  @larryledwards8327  That's why they enslaved other Africans and traded them for guns.
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  2264. How can someone demand compensation without being a victim?
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  2265. The only things the war on drugs does is handing the drugs trade to warriors. The multiculturalism is just a complication. People can get rich by being violent, so the violent people dominate. We don't see that in the alcohol trade for a reason.
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  2266.  @mirkozlikovski9553  I recognize it as brilliant, also concerning looks. But it's an opinion divider, that often comes with brilliance. I also understand why many people don't believe the Lamborghini Espada is very pretty. There is lots of great desing and very poor design and I could go on for hours about both, but when it comes to the great desigins, there still also personal taste. I wanted to find it gorgeous, but it didn't happen.
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  2267.  @426baron  Yes, but the BX was a light weight car, they took 200 kg off relative to it's size. In the 60's Citroen entertained the concept of the disposable car, with all of it's parts worn out at the same time. That idea was thrown out but my suspicion is that some bean counters in the company never managed to part with that thought and that flimsy parts kept being cheered on. The BX had some initial problems but became a quickly worn out bust still reliable and relatively durable car. The XM was notoriously expensive in maintenance and repair, but that was mainly because it was so much work to do relatively little things.
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  2268.  @426baron  Is does bother me though. The BX would have been so much nicer with just a bit heavier quality plastics, a lot nicer to the touch. I was in a C3 once and the interrior was nicely shaped, but there were these vents in flimsy plastic painted in aluminium colour. That just spoils it. Just spend an extra 100 euro on materials and it's worth a 1000 more to me.
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  2269. For me Campbell was only a confirmation too. It's been out there from the beginning, as in could seriously help and doesn't cause harm.
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  2270. I try to remember about where I parked my bike, but I am regularly impressed by my own capacity to scan a row of thousand bikes and spot my own in an instant by saddle and handlebars or rear fender. Nudity and porn are not completely unrelated, but sexuality just is. It can be uncomfortable to some sometimes or make for difficult questions from children too young to understand, but there is no point in being in denial of the existence of sexuality. As a child you just get raised with the notion there is something that adults do you'll understand better when you grow up, not a big deal and it didn't turn me into a pervert. It all comes to fall in place with love, affection and relationships later on. "Give us each day our daily bread", I though the Americans were more christian? Yes, bread stands for food in general too, but for a reason. As a Dutchman I eat bread twice most days, breakfast and lunch, and sometimes for dinner too. We went to collect 'old paper' as primary school kids, just go door by door and put the boxes on a cart. Old paper was worth a few cents a kilo and a source of income for our football club. Glass went into a special container or was taken in for a few cents too already. That is 70's and 80's recycling. Everybody wants to be in the club at the right hours, the cool hours because it's about who is there too, so causes everybody not to want to be there too early so it gets later and later. Very impractical, but still fun allthough you sacrifice your next day.
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  2271. Which was an appointed office. Stadtholders were elected and oppointed by the States, usually it was one of the Orange family but it was not a heriditary job. And the job wasn't always there. At the height of it's power, the Dutch Republic was lead by the son of a humble woodstacker.
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  2272.  @gert-janvanderlee5307  What bicyle lanes do in a cycling friendly urban environment is allowing cars to drive faster safely, so it's basically a feuture serving car traffic. In the most cycling friendly cities you see more cycling streets coming, where the rare cars have to yield to cyclists and stay behind them. The most cycling friendly area's of cities like Groningen and Utrecht have less cycling lanes than 20 years ago.
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  2273.  @gert-janvanderlee5307  I've been living in this country far longer than NotJustBikes and unlike him in a cycling friendly Dutch city, with far less cycling lanes. Cycling lanes are needed for safety when there's lots of car traffic. In more cycling friendly cities you need far less because the cars will adapt to the cyclists on the same piece of road.
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  2274.  @absolutegooba  One of the few SBs actually, it was mostly a thing for concept cars and customized cars.
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  2275.  @thedevine7963  First the Arabs, then the Portuguese, after them the Dutch and now the Javanese?
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  2276. In what language? Can't they educate themselves? Why should the Flemish have to make that effort? Do they want to be educated at all? Why do they give more than a rat's ass about their Moroccan flag after being in Belgium for 3 generations?
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  2277. The EU shill has been removing dissenting opinions I see, no surprise there.
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  2278. Candidates you can't vote for becasue they are foreign don't represent you. Party politics don't change that, this is a travesty of democracy and no YT EU shill can change that.
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  2279. The Dutch crown? There was no Dutch crown in the Dutch Republic.
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  2280.  @tuntejaable  No, the reporter just made that up. They used dual citizenship as one of five indicators to start an investigation. In 2015 the law was changed which meant it was no longer allowed to have data about dual citizenship. They failed to destroy those dat and kept using them. That's why they got a slap on the wrist from the privacy authority Citizenship is a legal situation. It's not ethnicity, it's not race and names have nothing to do with it. One of the reasons for the law change was to avoid the risk of ethnic profiling, because it could be used indirectly for ethnic profiling. But for fraud the foreign citizenship is often a risk simply because the other citizenship with all it's rights makes it easier to commit fraud and easier to get away with it.
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  2281. Anders doen jullie even net alsof jullie journalist zijn en vragen jullie Yesigöz wat er in het vorige verkiezingsprogramma van de VVD stond. Bente Becker heeft vast nog wel actieve herinnering aan de immigratiepassages.
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  2282. The BBC wouldn't be as nazi to hire an sexually unmutilated girl to play the role of his son, would they?
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  2283.  @riczen6652  I always interpreted as "with Tony's " an "avec" with a location, 'at' maybe. It's a "with" with a host and a guest.
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  2284. People don't understand what the EU is designed to do. It's a continuous power grab from democracies to the unelected who serve the international corporate world and not the member states citizens. Mass immigration is not only the easiest way to increase GDP, at the expense of tax payers but that doesn't matter, it also undermines national identities and social cohesion, which leads to less power for the member states and their democracies.
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  2285. Because it's not a 3rd world country but a country people want to come too. If we build houses we build roads with cycle lanes, elektricity, schools, parks and doctor's offices too. We already are extremely efficient with space and we are not going to make our country ugly to house foreigners. Dutch government should serve the Dutch, infinite international demand to live in the Netherlands should not be the Dutch government's concern.
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  2286.  @mikel9138  No, that's not the governments job. It's the goverments job to make sure the Dutch and only the Dutch can get a house.
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  2287.  @mikel9138  Yes, so the Dutch voted to change the government because the last one didn't serve the Dutch but foreig interests. The fake refugees force themselves in and the EU and legal acrobatics of the judges protect them so that's more of a complication.
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  2288.  @dragosdinu7130  The Dutch are not "the Europeans" and are futile in the history as well as slavery is futile in the history of the Netherlands if it weren't for it's morality. The Dutch excuse was biblical, there were free blacks everywhere the Dutch settled and they bought Asian slaves too. The irony is that the descendents of Dutch slavery are doing far better in the Netherlands than the descendants of the enslavers and slavetraders, the Ghanaians, the Moroccans and the Turks. So I guess there is no legacy of slavery working through negatively. But people from these communities have the audacitiy to join the Surinames and Carribeans in lecturing the Dutch while their own slavery past was far worse, the leeches.
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  2289. Which state would that exactly be? The Dutch Republic too? And which role exactly? Also the role in abolishing the slavetrade in 1814 and freeing the remaining slaves in 1863? It's role in enforcing the worldwide abolishment of the slavetrade with gunships? I am not saying there is nothing in what the state did deserving of an opology, but he fails to name that.
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  2290.  @oneel3859  Stop your uneducated nonsense. Aparteid is an Afrikaner word for a racist system from the mid 1900's, that's about 150 years after the British colonized South-Africa.
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  2291. It's named after the prayer bead cord not after the prayer, it wasn't seen as that unsafe.
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  2292.  @noncookiecutter6753  Bottas got old suddenly too.
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  2293. @@jonslayr4901 No, that will be just for wikipedia pages no one reads. Stats are for people that need conformation for what they wish, people who watch the actual sport know what they see for themselves.
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  2294. You don't have to be a climate denialist or fatalist to see this a stupid propaganda video.
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  2295. No, the Dutch Republic already had shown that denying the devine right of kings, getting rid of your king because he had become a tyrant who didn't serve the people and did not respect their inalienable rights was not punished by god, but got extremely prosperous. The American DOI is almost a copy of the the Dutch DOI of 1581. They had over 2 centuries of republic to study, and they did.
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  2296.  @freneticness6927  The stadtholder was not heriditary, but appointed by the Staten, the Dutch parliaments. A monarchy back then was with the divine right of kings and the absolutism Britain had returned to when the Dutch Republic invaded in 1688 to give you your current constitiutional parliamentary monarchy and bill of rights, becoming a monarchy as close to the Dutch Republic as possible for a monarchy. Effectively pulling Britain out of the Dark Ages once and for all so it would stop allying with France and parts of Germany to attack the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Republic had freedom of religion for over century, that was it's founding principle. It had a seperate judicial branche for much longer, it was also far more democratic because the Dutch parliaments were not controlled by nobles and had ultimate power. It also had freedom of thought and print, that's why John Locke lived their and wrote is important works. He accompanied appointed stadtholder William III his wife to by then occupied London were William took the throne. The only reason for the Americans to look at Britain was and still is their language skills. Ignorance about everything non English does not make England the centre and beginning of it all. And no, he wasn't invited, he asked 7 powerless lords to be invited while preparing the impressive fleet and army for the invasion for propaganda reasons.
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  2297.  @freneticness6927  You simply have no clue about history and you own ignorance. Elizabeth's personal favourite the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, was indeed supposed to help, but was incompetent, made a mess and sold Dutch cities to the Spaniards. It was not exactly returning the favour of blocking a huge part of the Armada by the Dutch to prevent the invasion of Britain. You don't understand what monarchy in Europe was and therefore you're own monarchy. They were supposed to be put there by god, as your theocratic practices of your king being the head to the Church of England (protestants in name only) should have reminded you of. It was not just a position of power and not necessarily a position of power. As you also might have noticed as most likely a monolingual, people in different parts of the world speak different languages. The fact that the Dutch didn't name their parliament parliament or parlement, the Netherlands had and still has the Staten and the Staten-Generaal. Staten Island is named after that. The head of state was elected by those parliaments. Sometimes the appointed stadtholder could be considered the head of state, sometimes the raadspensionaris. Sometimes no stadtholder was appointed. Before Willem III there was the first stadtholderless era for example, and there was to be another one. A republic does not require democracy just like democracy doesn't require a republic. Unless everybody can vote equally there is not really a democracy, there wasn't in Britain, the USA or the Netherlands or anywhere else before the late 1800's. The Magna Charta was very limited and soon surpassed by far more extensive civil rights in the Low Lands and freedom of religion was in the de facto constitution of the Dutch Republic that was signed in 1579. With the Bill of Rights, the English finally got similar civil rights to the Dutch. Stadtholder Willem III nor his wife was in line to the English throne, but the Staten-generaal had commissioned a fleet twice the size of the Armada and increased the Staatse leger (yes, the Dutch army was named after the parliemant too) for William to invade England, and so he did. The legitimate king got a nosebleed and ran off to France before there was the big battle, and the English army fell into chaos with lots of deserters and defectors. The Dutch reached London and had it occupied for several years without an English soldier allowed near it. English parliament had no power over him whatsoever, but he wanted to make Britain into a stable ally against the catholic enemies of the Dutch Republic. He was used to dealing with parlement as a stadtholder, he was not stuck in the Dark Ages like the English, he was a modern leader from a country so modern it was richer than Britain with only 1.5 million inhabitants. If he wanted to rule like some medieval alpha male he wouldn't have brought John Locke but just killed all the nobles that made up parliament. It was mostly Germans who stopped Napoleon. Wellington managed to make it all by himself for an ignorant British audience. The Dutch Republic never cared much for the imperialistic habits of monarchies like Britain and France, and actually turned Britain into a country, a nation state like it had been itself for over a century. But because of English aggression prior to 1688, it had to invade and conquer Britain and a few years before it also had to sail up the Thames to take out the English navy. The English only managed to burn down a village on a Dutch coastal island. After 1688, with the English economy modernized and the foundation of the Bank of England by the Dutch stadtholder, a lot of Dutch many that was laying around in heaps anyway was going to take it's ROI from English entreprises while the Dutch Republic got a bit out of the heat of international war and let the English do their dirty work. Without the medieval mindset, the feudalism, but from the Dutch capitalist angle, it was a huge win.
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  2298. Who's land is it then? The Zulu's came from the North, didn't they? Only shortly before the Dutch. They discriminate against the indiginous Khoi San too. Is it about who came by ship? Or is it just because they are white? And why aren't there any villages out there recently build by blacks with whites wanting to live there?
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  2299. Nonsense, she's just anti-colonialist.
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  2300. Indeed. He's probably interested in 'Fierljeppen' video's too.
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  2301. I just smoked a lot during covid out of boredom. I assume I've had covid but was never very ill.
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  2302. Please don't, we have had enough of this American bullshit projected on the Netherlands.
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  2303.  @stevedietrich8936  What impressed me, in comparison with most YT video's is that he didn't portray the Dutch Republic as some miniature British Empire with an unjustified focus on what the British encountered, the VOC. He also researched the Oresund toll myth regarding the fluyt's design, which requires some depth. And allthough getting it wrong because getting the wrong video, he actually researched the pronunciation of Friesland. So that's pretty thorough for a first impression. In return I like to mention Defragged history. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5kdplBvGykUDWHX8m5HwPfn-h302Oe7d It's more of a podcast, it's much longer and much more detailed, but it's fun and very accurate.
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  2304. Of course, that's because he doesn't know shit but takes British 19th century propaganda for actual historiography and then projects his American racism on it.
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  2305.  @olliestudio45  The Netherlands doesn't benefit from the EU, but from the free trade with it's neighbours that is held hostage by the unelected of the EU. All that the EU does more than just facilitating free trade is detrimental to the Netherlands. And then there is the euro of course, it's corrupt policies in breach of it's treaty has hit the Dutch pensions and savings extremely hard. Only in the last 3 years the Dutch have lost a quarter of their money to the ECB's money printer to keep Italian banks on life support.
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  2306. The Bijlmer was a failing ideological society changing architecture project that took a very large part of a huge and sudden wave of Surinamese immigrants followining independence, all in the middle of a pre-existing heroin epidemic. The Bijlmer was the hart of a perfect shit storm. Good reputation leaves on a horse and returns by foot. City council has made great efforts to restore the place because it was the worst, neglecting other areas in the process. People living in Amsterdam outside the canal belt bubbles have noticed it becoming liveable for over 20 years but not everybody is onto the latest news. Other areas are more problematic now, and not because of the Surinamese immigrants but the Moroccans. The suggestion that the white Dutch gave the Bijlmer a worse reputation than it deserved is a rather offensive bit of projection, that is undeserved. Bad neighbourhoods are just not as accepted as in the far less egalitarian classist Britain. The underclass was a problem tackled in the Netherlands from the late 19th century to the 1920's, through private social housing and education mainly. There were hardly any bad neighbours for immigrants to settle in, they had to turn them into bad neighbourhoods themselves and many Moroccans did.
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  2307. Look at it from the celebs perspective: Just like Kamala they were asked to work for the billionaire donor class. It's google's money or Bill Gates money to advance their goals, why would they work for them for free?
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  2308.  @user-nz4lj4co1s  So the EU ensures we have our savings and pensions being robbed by Italian banksters to keep France and Germany from mass killing eachothers 18-year old boys? The ECSC was there to guarantee peace between those two. The EEC brought us free trade with our neighbours. The EU has brought us the corporatocracy of the unelected stretching out over all national policies, social cohesion, welfare, housing and safety destroying mass migration.
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  2309.  @Jonas-sw8mj  That's why the EU shill making these videos has removed my comment.
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  2310.  @rcrdtlo  I know, too many Americans showed up at the airport with skis.
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  2311. Allthough he certainly has a point, he hasn't got his history entirely right either. The Dutch 'Republic did not allow involvement in slavery until 1637, which happened to have a declaration of independence from 1581 that was the inspiration for the American DOI. They are materially almost the same. In history progress isn't linear. The British had different standards for their own people to, allthough not always for the Irish and the Scots. So these double standards for people elsewhere needed a justification, which was found in racism or/and cultural superiority.
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  2312. These days people experience culture shock when they're different items on the McDonalds menu.
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  2313.  @ashamancito4630  Yes, it does mean she did a bad job. This past was already reconstructed, dozens of millions of Germans or even other Europeans could have corrected this mistake. This is not the kind of mistake historians can make. It's all so obviously a beginners mistake, she wants the story to be like this, she romanticizes the Nazi's, mysticizing maybe, in a bad way but it's still making it more terrifyingen and interesting than it really was. She got carried away and didn't check it at all.
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  2314. En hoe krijg je zoveel slijmballen in de comments die komen vertellen hoe verschrikkelijk goed het wel weer niet was? Allemaal NOS stagairs?
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  2315. And a pretty one too, I think the 110R coupe looks great.
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  2316. The combination of open carry and covered faces should be illegal.
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  2317. I just think that if you show your gun you should show your face too, and the legislator should make that into law.
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  2318. Dutch uses male an female words, and native English speakers are terrible at learning Dutch. They really need some naval discipline to do so I guess.
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  2319. Sod off. How ignorant do you have to be to have the arrogance to tell the safest cycling country how to ride a bike? You are going to tell the French how to speak French too?
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  2320. No sorry, I don't agree. It's not just personal preference, people who weren't beginners have given this a lot of attention and decided in consensus on one right way, for their beer together with a certain glass. Duvel for example foams a lot, and has a bulbous glass deemed the best for that beer with a marker on it, their D, to indicate to where the foam should go so it won't excessive but thick enough to protect the beer for long enough since it's a heavy beer.
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  2321.  @IWrocker  Love your attitude and curiosity, cars or beer. I just like to explain things, not give you homework to spoil the fun.
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  2322. Protesting the outcome of a regular, fair Dutch election in English by mostly Dutch people. Some love to grovel for globalism so much. And then also foreigners being interviewed, to come to a country and you protest the outcome of their elections? The nerve... How entitled those anywheres think they can be?
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  2323. The word is often used to dismiss any party that wants change through the democratic process, even Omtzigt from NSC was called a populist while being a quite boring politician with complex and extremely substantial speech. But Wilders is indeed a populist. That's his rethoric style. Not any more than Yesilgoz VVD or PvdA-GroenLinks, but still a populist.
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  2324. That looks like the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. It's the so called Dutch Auction, the clock runs the price down until someone buys, that is much quicker and flowers aren't that durable so they have to be shipped out as quick as possible. I've worked with people in the Dutch flower trade, they don't hang about and waste time. It's said to be the biggest building in the world, bigger than the Pentagon, full of people driving around flower containers.
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  2325.  @dnocturn84  They look very much the same. Same designer too?
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  2326. The hubrid idea of making a new kind of society top down is the disaster. Not just from Le Corbusier.
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  2327. Ironically, Spain enslaved the man in the thumbnail of this video, Piet Hein. His statue was vandalized by this ignorant movement. Piet Hein predated the Dutch Republic's decision to give up on it's objection to the Atlantic slave trade. He freed the slaves that were on captured Spanish ships, as was the practice of the West Indian Company that employed him and that's how Rembrandt ended up with black neighbours. He was a stern calvinist and believed all people were children of god and that all these native peoples shouldn't become victim of the European wars.
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  2328. To be fair, it was not mainstream science but a niche vaccinology lab that caused the covid pandemic with all it's deaths.
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  2329.  @questworldmatrix  Not for the people who understand global capitalism better than you and I.
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  2330.  @newbabies923  Nothing was hidden, we just see it as that progress has been made over time. A lot of which was made the Dutch themselves. Most people all over the world don't like the concept of progress though and prefer to make it about geography or race, or nationalistic propaganda of being victim like the Indonesians. These days education and media are woke though, so probably the racist massacres of the Bersiap and the complicity of the Indonesian rulers is ignored because brown people can't be responsible for bad things.
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  2331.  @newbabies923  I agree, but only few people really dare to. They prefer to be victim of the other, not accomplice or culprit.
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  2332.  @newbabies923  But not only a victim and not all victim. But you can't face that apparently.
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  2333. Freedom was already what the Dutch Republic was founded on in the late 1500s, natural, inalienable rights were claimed and the freedom of conscience in particular to stand up against tyranny and create a nation state in which souvereignty was no longer in the monarch but in the people. The American DOI is materially almost a carbon copy of the Dutch DOI of 1581. The big difference is that after two centuries of enligthenment, the ideas mostly printed in the free Dutch Republic, the Americans did not make it on the go from pre existing state structures, but started with a clean slate to come up with a neat design of a state. Humans have morality because they are group animals, they have empathy so "don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you" and then we are already halfway Kant's categorical imperative. Percentage wise, Western civilization's wars were probably less deadly than those of other civilizations. Western civilization has also allowed for huge population growth through it's medicine and agriculture so it's not fair to hold the absolute numbers against it.
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  2334. Maybe they don't experience racism every day? I see more racism in this comment section than I have ever noticed in France.
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  2335. The EU is breaching more than one member state's constitution that prevents censorship, and is in breach of it's own treaty. The rule of law is no more in the EU.
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  2336. Those Pennsylvania Dutch again.
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  2337.  @TheBestOfMaya07  You seem to like making assumptions about people you don't know.
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  2338. Nonsense, muslim don't worry about their safety anymore than before, especially those in muslim neighbourhoods that tend to be unsafe. It's mostly spoiled elitist lefties who feel a lot of self pity for the emotions they had to go through losing an election. Step Vaassen is paid by the theocratic state media Al Jazeera to promote islamization of Europe.
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  2339.  @tutifruti7488  France is productive enough just like most Western countries to keep the good life. It's the banks among others who keep stealing from the Western citizens. They steal from 150 other countries too, but that's a different issue.
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  2340. The black people in that crowd must have known they don't get spoken to after the election.
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  2341. "These European states..." if the people at the university of Toronto don't know anything about the Netherlands they should just shut up. The Dutch Republic was filthy rich well before they gave up on their objection to the Atlantic slave trade and well before the infamous but overestimated VOC started paying dividend. The Netherlands was founded on freedom, the modern capitalism it invented and it's domination of all European trade, which was much bigger than the global trade of course. The 1.5 million Dutch did more than half of all European trade, it's not like a few Africans cutting sugar cane had much of an impact. There are no depictions of slavery on the golden carriage either. Could the ignorant North-Americans please shut up.
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  2342.  @functionalvanconversion4284  Why is that probable? The idea that everything is predertermined by colour and must have been even more in the past is a post 2010 delusion. This is about the USA and Canada in the 70s and 80s. I'm sure she has experienced discrimination but not fitting in just because of colour is a whole different matter.
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  2343.  @muschelpuster1987  Distances are generally shorter in the Netherlands too. There usually is lot more of it within a 15km radius.
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  2344.  @niedersacksen  They bought Manhattan from the natives with whom they had a good equal trading relationship, so I guess it was very different from what the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French would consider a proper colony. The state supported company responsible, the WIC, didn't really know what it wanted. It's most important founder dreamt of huge agricultural settlements full of good protestants modelled after the garden of Eden the Dutch Republic was as the best way to beat Spain and catholicism. Others just wanted a network of trading posts and raid Spanish and Portuguese ships to stop the money flowing to the war against the Dutch Republic. Both didn't want have anything to do with slavery because that was unchristian, something catholics did. Because life was too good in the Dutch Republic there weren't enough settlers for the settlement plan, and after raiding the Spanish silverfleet the money was used for a serious blow to the Portuguese colonies, but that had the Dutch ending up with a slave plantation colony and that got them in the slavetrade. They lost most of those colonies and for a short while shipping slaves to foreign colonies was the WIC's main business, until the English took over. Still the WIC was a financial failure.
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  2345. The difference is that Africans and Arabs used slaves as consumers, for luxury. The Europeans used them as investment, they build whole industries out of sugar, coffee, cacao, tobacco, cotton, rubber, with the end product being over a 100 times more valuable in Europe or another rich place where it was sold than the labour ever was. Free Africans don't get wealthy from digging for cobalt either, that is the people who make Iphones and Teslas' out of it.
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  2346.  @pjacobsen1000  Modern capitalism was invented by the Dutch and with the stock exchange of 1607 it was about completed. Capitalism is about the structures to get lots of capital together to invest and have more production. A merchant ship, build industrially already, a windmill, a land reclamation project, people couldn't afford such entreprises and risks by themselves. Capitalism was the great equalizer, it gave the working class and middle class opportunity to profit too, it created upward social mobility and in the Dutch case made the nobility completely irrelevant. Before capitalism no one would get rich that already wasn't by family, and the rich families didn't get much richer during their lifetime either.
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  2347.  @EricMcCray-qx7de  We are not going to pay every black beggar on earth, most are descendants of slavetraders anyway, but only to the descendants of Dutch slaves. About 30k for every inhabitant of Suriname, from which half went to the Netherlands and many were handed more money there. It's all gone.
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  2348.  @rbailey3309  The Ukrainians did come from war directly, they could not apply for asylum because they are real refugees, they get shelter, they allmost all work and pay for their own accomodation. Many Africans faked to have studied in Ukraine or did study in Ukraine but after getting initial shelter, refuse to go back to their own country. They want to freeload and get a free house just like the other African imposters. Really beautiful, using someone else's war and hardship and abuse the charity of the Dutch to force yourself in.
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  2349.  @karldavidssen7288  Not exactly. There were the (geographically) high Dutch, middle Dutch and nether Dutch, related but different. But Germany, Deutschland, was not a thing yet while the Dutch Republic as the English called it was dominating all European trade, ports and kicking English ass all the time. To the English the NetherDutch were by far the most relevant.
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  2350.  malcomtucker7739  Psychologists are far beyond their expertise in this anyway, they can only establish a patient feels better with treatment, they are not qualified to judge rest of their life changing decisions at all.
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  2351. The population density argument is false because most Swedes live in compact cities. It's nonsense to assume people are evenly spread over the whole country.
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  2352.  @Summer-tv7rz  Onzin. Het zijn mensen die in een welvarend land willen leven ipv hun eigen land welvarend te maken. Daar moeten we niet ons probleem van proberen te maken. Als je daar meer kinderen maakt dan waar je land en werk voor hebt dan is er helemaal niets dat Nederland daaraan kan doen.
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  2353. At the other side of the spectrum there is Finnish low budget racing too, introduced by a Finnish F1 driver to Top Gear's James May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmqdnx5R1U
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  2354.  @davidhunternyc1  I don't care for either, but the Gemera is a very interesting car technically, and that's not because it's the fastest toy for the very rich but because Koenigsegg had to engineer around 4 seats and luggage space, resulting in a very small engine and a futuristic drivetrain.
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  2355. Dit gaat allemaal om het frame "Joden tegen de 'extreem'-rechtse Baudet" want dat Baudet met joodse vriendin en IDF T-shirtje moeilijk van antisemitisme beschuldigd kan worden zit ze niet lekker.
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  2356. @bluntyful Yes they can change religion. Stop hiding their aggresive religion behind race.
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  2357. Ik vraag mij af of je uiteindelijk de wereld niet slechter maakt met het asielbeleid. Behalve dat je voor die 600.000 euro die elke asielzoeker ons gemiddeld kost veel meer mensen zou kunnen helpen, plaats je ook de middenklasse uit relatief arme landen in een onderklasse in de rijke landen. Het land van herkomst wordt daar niet beter van, en het hele idee van weg proberen te komen uit je land ipv het beter te maken is ook desastreus voor de ontwikkeling natuurlijk. Wat wij eigenlijk zeggen is 'geef je land maar op'. Wanneer oorlog in je eigen land betekent dat je in de EU mag komen wonen, zullen mensen minder hard proberen die oorlog te stoppen, het is de verkeerde prikkel in zoveel opzichten. Het is ook een druppel op de gloeiende plaat, wij kunnen nooit het probleem van al die mensen oplossen. Hun probleem is namelijk dat ze niet in ons voormalig paradijsje geboren zijn. Maar qua aantallen past het gewoon niet. De bevolking van Nigeria groeit de komende 20 jaar met meer mensen dan er in Nederland wonen. Congo is groter dan heel West-Europa, Nederland is de grootte van Burundi. Niet daar zoveel vluchtelingen vandaan komen maar mensen verliezen de schaal uit het oog. Meer dan 7 miljard mensen op aarde hebben het probleem dat ze niet in de EU geboren zijn, dat kunnen we nooit voor ze oplossen, hooguit voor een promille en dat gaat dan ten koste van de Europa. De vraag is of we Europa daarmee eerst zover om zeep helpen dat het een stuk minder aantrekkelijk wordt als immigratiebestemming. Bovendien is de Nederlandse overheid er voor de Nederlanders. Buitenlanders helpen doen we traditioneel dmv ontwikkelingshulp, niet door de veel duurdere opvang en naturalisatie van zgn vluchtelingen. We moeten asiel gebruiken om mensen die proberen hun eigen land te verbeteren en daarvoor politiek vervolgd worden veiligheid te bieden, ipv iedereen die een conflict of oorlog als een kans ziet om het paradijs binnen te dringen.
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  2358. I think stone cools down slowly, and heats up slowly. There is a kind of base temperature to the house that only changes over seasons. A house that has been unoccupied and unheated for a while can be very cold, nothting like a house that hasn't been heated for a day or a vacation. So it doesn't really matter that much to blow cold air in, maybe that's very different with wooden houses. Many houses are designed to have opposing windows. This is for light, but is also excellent to have the fresh air blow through front to back.
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  2359. The 'Staten' was the name of Dutch Parliament, either the Staten-Generaal or the provincial parliament of the Holland province in this case. Holland was just one of the Netherlands making up the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
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  2360. The defeat of the Armada was a joined effort by the England, the Dutch Republic and a storm. But it was the Dutch Republic that finished the Spanish Empire.
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  2361.  @europos4541  The Dutch Republic finished the Spanish Empire as the world's supreme power, through war there and overseas but also by simply no longer generating more than half of all it's tax income. The British like to claim that and the Americans follow by lack of understanding the limitations of language, but the British Empire only took off after the Dutch invaded and modernized the country, about a century after they got lucky with a storm and a Dutch blockade. When the Spanish were finally beaten down enough to negotiate with the commoners of the Dutch government does not really matter, Dutch independence was a fact since 1581 and was interrupted twice for about 15 years and 5 years since.
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  2362.  @europos4541  Well modified... more like clarified what I initially meant. I don't know to what degree the income from the new world could be classified as tax, and the influx of gold an silver wasn't good for the Spanish economy. The Netherlands included the Southern Netherlands, now Belgium, and Antwerp was the richest city of Europe at that time. Not all of the Netherlands became part of the Dutch Republic, but the Spanish Netherlands and especialy Antwerp went into decline. So they lost about half of the taxed area and population, and what remained lost significantly in taxability. Let's say one 3rd to half of more than half of the tax income remained from the remaining Spanish Netherlands. So I don't know how this tax relates to all income of the Spanish crown, I do know 'more than half of the taxes' pops up in more than one source because together with the way of taxation it was a contributing factor to the revolt that started for religious tolerance. Especially the last tax raise was a problem, because it was feudal in it's logic while the Netherlands was already mostly a merchant economy on its way to become fullfledged capitalist very soon. But the war continued, with the Dutch Republic turning out to be an economic miracle that could afford a lot of armies and sieges. The Spanish troops were often not paid and plundered cities or demanded a ransom, while the Dutch paid for a standing army, so they could be uniformized and trained between battles and sieges which was an important military revolution. From about 1602 the borders were mostly secure and the Dutch started taking the war to the East-Indies succesfully where they hurt further money streams and later to the West where they were pretty successfull privateering on Spanish ships, whit an enormous hit in 1628 called the Silverfleet, there's still a very well known song about that. They took a chunk from Brazil and from 1638 on they started capturing trading posts at the African coast, because they had just given up on their objections to slavery so it was slave forts mostly. So by 1648 they were probably about matched in money, but Spain alone had more than ten times the population while the Dutch Republic had much, much more ships. It's not like they could have any hope of getting it back, it was France's turn to have a go now.
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  2363. Good luck with the 4th Reich of Führerin Von der Leyen.
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  2364.  @Mightydoggo  There is value in having an open society and economy so you don't have to predict and weight each individual's contribution precisely. But the point is that the Dutch government is purely there for the Dutch people and not for any other people. A government that denies have a well defined people to serve is not serving people at all, but will serve themselves and corporate interests and that is exactly what happened and what has been voted out through voting for the PVV and 2 other anti-establishment parties. Half of the seats in parliament are now for what was described a couple of years ago as 'not participating Netherlands', the Dutch that didn't trust politics and didn't vote or voted for parties on the fringes. The implicit meaning of that classification was that people who didn't go along with politics on the cm3 among the poltical establishment weren't taking part in democracy, people who voted for change therefore were considered not participating in democracy. They do know.
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  2365. Shame it's being abused by the jew hunt denialists.
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  2366.  @Diggnuts  Did he build it before or after his ressurection?
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  2367. They only were when they couldn't get it because the Ottomans blocked the Silk Road and the Portuguese blocked Lisbon. For the Dutch it was important because that is what the Chinese, Indians, Japanese took interest in. So they could be traded, they weren't interested in Dutch products so they didn't need to bring that much silver.
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  2368. That's because it was still the idea, at leat publicly, that a supranational organization wouldn't want to do anything against the will of a democratically elected government. Because if it does, it's a dictatorship. Opening your borders and treating another nation's citizens, companies, capital, products and criminals as their own is the most far reaching relationship a nation, a state, a nation state can have to another one. I can't say that relationship feels natural in case of Georgians and Albanians. It isn't, it would be just another influx of cheap labour after the Poles and already other Eastern-Europeans are getting too expensive.
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  2369.  @pistonburner6448  Mercedes did copy the Citroen system for it's very best car, it's showpiece, the 450SEL 6.9, a legendary good car. So why in the video above is the RWD Mercedes with it's praised suspension geometry struggling where the Citroen is shining? Why would that be different in the Norvegian mountains with a BX 1.9 and BMW's and Mercedesses? These days with no further development on the hydropneumatic system that was good because it's concept rather than it's development anyway, and the coil springs becoming part of sophisticated, refined and complicated suspension systems the picture is very different. Citroens had absolutely great road holding for a comfortable car, and they were even extremely comfortable cars. I saw a video in which someone took a Citroen to make the distinction between handling and road holding and I can see what he means. The BX is not a great handling car, it's very good at road holding. It doesn't let the driver shine, feel a great driver, it just hangs in and is forgiving. But it's really quick in the mountains that way.
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  2370.  @lloydbelle3406  No, that's just your statement and cannot be proven by brexit. It's not the UK was going back to the situation before there was a EU, EC or EEC. It's not what the EU brings to it's member states, nothing, but what it takes away from leavers.
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  2371.  @maartenaalsmeer  I know bloomberg but even they don't support your claim. Of course the UK had losses, they have to pay tariffs and export less to their neighbouring countries.
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  2372. @ Free movement is not a benefit but a burden to the wealth countries and a mixed bag for the poor member states. Why doesn't the EU only have benefits like the EEC?
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  2373.  @solideomusical  No, the product of intimidation is not what we call consensus.
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  2374. Omtzigt wordt al jaren door de media in de rug aangevallen, want de macht aanspreken op ondermijning van de rechtsstaat dat is niet de bedoeling.
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  2375. No, I admit that brining democracy is internally called bringing democracy and free markets or just free markets. But the markets aren't free. Ukraine has already been sold.
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  2376. I'm sure all those English sources for the book were free from British political rivalry and propaganda.
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  2377. Of course, climate change is far less important than belonging to the right kind of people.
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