But he is talking about Geert Wilders and his anti immigration stance, saying the massive waves are Russia's responsibility. There are near 0 immigrants in The Netherlands coming from Russia. So is Russia also responsible for the Arab and African refugees that are coming to The Netherlands? For the Polish and Bulgarian and Romanian labour immigrants?
I uh... I want to apologize to the Christian fundamentalist and thank them for their support against neoliberalism. They were probably even more mad at leaving housing and healthcare to the free market than I was somehow.
Today I will be attending a birthday at my Dutch family in law, of which many are Christian fundamentalists. After an election in which the far right extremism won.
I was taking the metro home when I overheard a group of 17 year old youngster talking about how they will be able to vote next year. One of them said that they didn't know what to vote on, and this girl yelled YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR THE WORKERS PARTY (our marxist party).
My family in law wears them a lot and they say they are great. They claim to really feel a difference with regards to foot pain and stuff. Anecdotal, but still.
This is often a test to put liberals through in order to let them show their true colors. Just ask them if everyone should get a house, no strings attached. Watch most of them say that some people just don't deserve shelter because they don't work as hard as I do!!!! The same can be applied to the question if income inequality should be drastically lowered. They'll apply the most classicist logic where they'll say that people currently working a lower paying job just don't deserve a pay raise because they are doing """"low skilled""" labor and that's why they deserve poverty.
Content warning: racism
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___he called the community 'brown vermin' and said 'the police should just beat them harder because he could not deport them all'. He said this after a drunken night out, to a cop wearing a body cam. The cop pressed charges.
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No socialism still requires a strong collective action, but you can do things as an individual to push people into socialist spheres. For example, I keep posting support for Palestine on Instagram and I managed to get other people who rarely speak out to go to protests, share stories and reels and even someone to join our party. It does require the existence of socialist orgs but individual action and speaking out is what got other people to do stuff as well.
So no, you as an individual will not bring about gollobal communism but there are things you can do by yourself to influence your surroundings.
With them being a global superpower I can see the cautious positioning they take on. But it's still a weak and disappointing stance.