Those are just a few examples. Maybe you first need to see it happen to yourself,
or someone you love, before you believe it.
I'm not saying that I want that for you, I'm saying that you're calling this on yourself.

I don't believe in a god, and I don't thank some imaginary entity for something that we achieved with hard work. We have crime too, but we don't want to sacrifice our freedom to reduce it. If you need a police state to have law abiding countrymen, you have lost the fight for decency, not won it. You win the fight for decency,
by giving everyone a chance at a good life, with education, a social safety net,
and jobs that pay a living wage. Almost everyone chooses a worthwhile life
above being a criminal.

If you teach a child to behave, by only punishing bad behavior, it will only learn
not to do that, when you're around to see it. If instead you teach a child WHY
bad behavior is wrong, how it affects others, and what better choices to make,
it helps them develop empathy, a sense of responsibility, and internal moral values, not just obedience. Your cops are sign of a society that gave up on actual morality,
and only enforces obedience. Why would you support that?

"a earth without humans? what value would that be to humans?" NONE
What value does it have to live a Mad Max movie?
I value humanity for it's "humanity". If there is nothing left of that, fuck humanity!

All the ice melting means LESS fresh water.
Fresh water for a big part comes from mountains full of snow and ice, that melts
after the winter, filling the rivers.
No more mountains full of snow and ice, means LESS fresh water.

"One significant study published in Water Resources Research found that from 2000 to 2021, the Colorado River Basin experienced a 10.3% reduction in natural flow due to anthropogenic warming. Notably, snowpack regions within the basin suffered an 86% decrease in runoff, exacerbating the megadrought conditions."
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All the ice melting also means less LAND. Not just because the land ice melts,
raising the sea level, but climate change means higher temperatures, which expands with higher temperatures.

"if putin wanted peace" HE DOESN'T! AND HE NEVER WILL!
There is nothing that anyone can do, except FORCE HIM into choosing peace,
because war is too costly for him. Or too costly to the Russians, so they stop him.

Even if we give Putin all of Ukraine today, there wouldn't be peace.
The only thing it did is reward Putin, make him a hero to the Russian people
and show them that their suffering was worth it....
(What do you think the points mean?)

Please read up on some psychology and war strategy.

This is not a question of good cops and bad cops, this is systemic.
They are trained to be dictators. Not just a few, but ALL of them.

There is also a trend.
Decades ago they only harassed black men, who looked dangerous.
Then they started to harass black boys and women, who are just minding
their own business. Now they are also harassing white teens in hoodies,
who are just minding their own business. Do you stop wearing hoodies?
But, they are already harassing white girls too. How long before YOU
cannot walk or drive around, before you are harassed by cops constantly?

Understand that every interaction with a cop is a risk.
Picture this: They can ask you for your ID, for no reason.
You reach for your wallet in your inside pocket, a bit too quickly.
They think you are reaching for a gun. You now end up dead.
That's your future, if you don't stop the trend.

The planet will survive, it will just be (mostly) uninhabitable (for humans).

Of course the problems don't start when the planet is mostly uninhabitable by humans, because there are 8 billion humans, who already today don't have enough agriculture land to feed everyone, and not enough fresh water to irrigate that agriculture land.
Every square mile, and every puddle of the water sources, we lose to climate change aggravates that problem. People in hot climates are not passively staying in their dying area, until they starve to death. Conflicts over water and food are on the rise. People who think immigration is bad now, will soon find themselves corrected in their thinking. Civilization is dependent on resources from all over the world. If whole areas are uninhabitable, the resources that are coming from there will dry up too. Conflicts caused by climate change will destroy civilization long before climate change itself can.

I don't care for humanity to survive as few million people, who live like savages and struggle to survive on a daily basis. If we have to live a Mad Max movie, that would be such a disgrace to what we have accomplished, that I prefer to go extinct completely.
If our stupidity prevents our greatness, so be it.
But let that not discourage you from the fight against stupidity.

What "nuclear treaty" are you talking about?

- Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant Agreement (2010)?
Ukraine and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement to collaborate on constructing the third and fourth reactors at Ukraine's Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant.

- 2010 Nuclear Security Summit?
During the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Ukraine announced its decision to relinquish its stockpile of highly enriched uranium (HEU), to prevent nuclear terrorism and was welcomed by the international community.

- Joint Working Paper on NPT Withdrawal Procedures?
In 2010, Ukraine and Russia co-authored a working paper for the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). While not a treaty, this collaboration highlighted both countries' engagement in nuclear non-proliferation discussions.

- New START Treaty (2010)?
Although not directly involving Ukraine, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between the United States and Russia was signed in 2010. Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon state under the NPT, supported such arms control measures and called on both nations to continue efforts in nuclear disarmament.

Ukraine did not violate ANY "nuclear treaty".

ChatGPT: The most relevant document is the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This treaty included a key clause where both countries recognized each other's existing borders, which at that time meant Russia recognized Crimea as part of Ukraine.

That 1997 treaty was violated by Russia, when they conquered Crimea,
and again when Russia attacked Ukraine and conquered big parts of it.
That treaty is in the bin. Since then, Ukraine is allowed to defend itself.

Those planes were destroyed with cheap drones that Ukraine makes themselves.
I would not have been happy, if they used our F-16s for that.

However, Ukraine may (legally) use F-16s to strike military targets in Russia,
and the Netherlands now appears to allow this as well, provided the strikes are defensive and target legitimate military objectives. Still, the actual use of such weapons remains subject to political decisions and strategic considerations,
and will be weighed carefully by Ukraine and its allies.

Do you want Europe to wait to get involved, until Russia attacks Poland or Finland?
Or will you then still argue that we cannot do counter-attacks, because Russia has nukes?

If Russia uses nukes, they can expect retaliation. They should understand that 1
of our nukes on one of their most vital areas will do much greater damage to them,
than 1 of their nukes on any of our most vital areas. They have a very big country,
but their economy is very small and very localized. They can be nuked back to the stone age with only a few nukes, but it requires many to do that to Europe or the US.

If you are so afraid of nuclear annihilation, you shouldn't have voted for Trump,
who is a blithering idiot on the subject. If someone ends the world, it'll be him.
In the meanwhile, we are not letting Russia gain strength, because that's one sure route to nuclear annihilation. They need to know that the part of Earth that they already occupy is big enough. They are smart enough to know that what they have
is better than nuclear annihilation. They thought that they could win easily. Wrong!
Now they are playing a long-term strategy, and you still fail to understand.
Your orange buffoon has been playing right into their hands. He only helped them.
But now even he is beginning to understand. When will you?

Exactly: "private industry doesn't defend".
But we need everyone, to DEFEND humanity from climate change.
It's the most important priority that humanity has ever faced.
That's what government is DESIGNED for; do the things that people don't do
on their own, for the benefit of all people.

What would be the most important industry to not give away to private ownership?
AKA, what industry would you prefer to be owned and controlled by the government?
How about manufacturing weapons of war, that you don't want your enemies to have?

Lets say that climate change is the crisis that scientists tell you it is?
Why would you trust every business owner to prevent it from happening?
Do you understand what a conflict of interest that is to a business owner?
On the one side, they want to make the most profit as possible, but on the other side they need to plan for a future that threatens everyone, including their business. Meanwhile, they have to compete with other businesses. That gives an incentive
to go for the short-term profit, and delay planning for the oncoming threat.
The businesses who do start planning for the oncoming threat, are in a disadvantage against their competition, that don't. It's an incentive to delay the long-term thinking
as much as possible, like a game of chicken.
How about we let government create a 'level playing field', so there is no incentive
to delay the long-term thinking as much as possible?

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Europe is planning to invest an extra €800 Billion into the defense industry. I'm incredibly annoyed that they are thinking about just giving away that money, to make it more advantageous for the wealthy to invest in it. Fuck that! They should buy public ownership of the military industrial complex, so it is under democratic control and not act as another cash cow for the wealthy, to become even more wealthy. The taxpayer pays for the military equipment, so stop enriching the wealthy with the taxpayer's money.

Most of our residential neighborhoods are like that. I grew up in one of those.
They are called "woonerf". They are designed for children to run around freely, without having to pay attention. It's up to the drivers to pay attention. Cars should drive at walking pace: the maximum speed on a residential area is 15 km/h, also for cyclists. Cars can only park in spaces with a P-sign or marking on the road.
When you drive out of the residential area, you must give way to all other traffic.

The street on the video looked very much like a street like that.
Talk to phart, who thinks it's a crime to just cross a street like that,
without looking to your left and right.

The blue traffic sign means "woonerf":

True, but a cop cannot hold you responsible for not being ABLE to hear a demand. We had that discussion before.

There is no LAW that says you must "look both ways" before crossing the street.
The kid is dumb not to do it, but being dumb is not against the law.

Your cops have a hard time accepting new information, when they decided to do something. When he saw that the kid was wearing headphones, he could have stopped his arrest and turned it into a stern talk, but he continued his arrest,
because he is a stubborn motherfucker, who cannot admit to any hasty judgement.

I live in a place where citizens have rights and cops are not trained to be bullies.
We believe that cops should set the right example, not behave like criminals
with a badge.

OK, here's another one:
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Do you believe cop1, when he says to cop2 that the guy was hiding behind a pole?
We find him sitting on that bench, and the Lyft actually shows up.
That confirms the story of the kid. What confirms the story of cop1?

By the way, there are 24 US states where you have to show your ID to a cop,
if they ask. In the other states, you don’t have to show ID unless you're being arrested or detained with probable cause. What was the probable cause here?

In any case, his probable cause fell away. That means he had no reason to demand his ID in most states. But he still arrested the kid, for not complying to his demand,
that he had no business demanding.

I'm not saying that the cops are UNDERtrained, I'm saying they are trained to
do the wrong thing. They are not trained to 'protect and serve', they are trained
to impose fear on the citizens. Do you want to live in a police state, like phart?

You might not feel that (yet), because you're not a teen in a hoodie.
The water is getting hot, and you're the frog that doesn't feel it.

The video explains it pretty clearly. His reason to want to stop the kid, was because
the teen crossed the road without looking. He ordered the kid to stop, and because he wants all his orders to be followed, even when his orders don't make sense, he went ballistic. I don't believe that any details were omitted.

Maybe you feel the need to believe this, to justify the cops behavior.
I don't understand why you would do that. If you don't protect your rights and freedom, they are gone before you notice, if you look away too long.

Thomas Jefferson: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Abraham Lincoln: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

George Orwell: “The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens
long enough to notice what’s happening.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger accepts the truth and urgency of climate change.
When something big needs to happen, private industry is never up to it.
When there is a war, you don't ask private industry to defend you.
Climate change will be more damaging than any war ever in history.

So you think that the Ukrainians should just be a sitting duck, while you think Putin
can just continue bombing civilians, which is a war crime.
Ukraine hit a military target, which is fully justifiable self defense against an agressor.

I think this helps the peace negotiations. It weakens Russia, which is good.
It levels the playing field.

There was no reason for the police to handle anything.
Our police only bothers citizens, when they have good reason to.
Why wouldn't you want your police to have the same attitude?

This seems to happen a lot, but all you can say is that citizens should behave in a certain way, to not get bothered by the police. He's an idea; unless you break the law, the cops should leave you alone. It's called "freedom".

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Cop Yanks Autistic Kid Out of His Home, Onto the Ground
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Is crossing the street a crime?

Who?

It's fully within my expectation of Trump.
He has been a conman his whole life. What do you expect?

He makes millions in the propaganda outlets for the Republicans.
He could work for CNN, to be the propaganda outlet for the Democrats,
but he doesn't have enough talent. It requires more skill to lie to liberals.
They all serve the billionaires who own them, of course.

Just a funny story about Trump, from Charlie Sheen.
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Let's not do that.
I might have some pictures that I don't want everyone to know is me.

Yeah, I know, but I have also almost been booted by admin for racism.
There is still a lot of "mob justice" associated with that.
If the community only reports one side, then one side gets the boot,
while the other side might have been worse.

Anywho, Why can't we all just get along?

That's because you hear 24/7 anti-government propaganda.
Trump and his cronies are intentionally fucking-up your government even more, to make people distrust the government even more.

That's all to serve the billionaires, who want to have full control.
Just bribing your politicians isn't good enough for them.
They want to divide your country in their own kingdoms, where they rule over you. Those are called; billionaire-ruled enclaves.

I suggest you do some research on Peter Thiel, who really likes
the ideas of Curtis Yarvin. They don't just like this idea, they push it, with donations and getting their boy JD Vance in position.
They want him to be the next president, so they can fully destroy democracy and government and get their kingdoms.

Why do I even tell you, you'd probably love to live in such a kingdom.

According to ChatGPT:
"The article you're referring to discusses a Minnesota law that, starting July 1, 2025, will effectively make it illegal to sell or distribute most traditional metal keys within the state. This is due to a 2023 law aimed at reducing toxic metals like lead and cadmium in consumer products. While the law's primary focus was on items such as children's toys and personal care products, it inadvertently encompasses brass keys, which typically contain small amounts of lead for durability and machinability."

This is stupid. In your country, ca. 22 million people still have lead pipes for tap-water.
Even if you have copper pipes, lots of them are still welded with lead.
That's what the term plumber comes from.
A small amount of lead in keys is only a problem, if someone is making it a problem.
In any case, this could be fixed with a 5 minute amendment.
If they are not doing that, it means that they want to use it for political gain.

Trump really wants the Nobel Peace Price, because Obama got it,
but Putin is not playing ball. I understand his frustration.

What do you want me to say; "He's nice to you, so it's OK"?
I don't think that you guys are objective.

I agree that it's not wise to share personal information here.
If you did find out personal information about someone you don't like,
would you do your best to use it, to destroy that person?
Don't you think that is more than some online bickering?

I am able to separate the person from the ideas. Even though I disagree
with most of you, I don't want anyone's life destroyed, not even Skittles'.
I would even warn anyone if they'd accidentally share their personal information.

And I would certainly not put effort into destroying your life.
That would be behavior that I wouldn't even condone from my best friends.

We don't have to wear kids gloves here, we are all adults.
But, if I hurt someone personally, and it's not 'punching back',
I'm man enough to apologize and change my behavior.

They have been very rude to each other, but Skittles is more rude.
He also never stops and begins many posts with attacks.

I know what he does, because I have been a target for a long time too.
Maybe you defend him, because you want to stay on his good side.
That's the power of bullies, but we cannot let bullies rule the world.

Don't dishonor yourself by defending someone so vile.
Read the site rules:
"Threatening someone's life and publically spreading private information (including, but not limited to their real names, home address, phone numbers, email addresses) about other members that were obtained in deceptive manner and/or is spread without their concent is illegal. Administration of the site will not tolerate such actions. Additionally, you may be fined or go to prison for this depending on your local laws."

I don't have to believe CAT, I seen it happen. I think you saw too.

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It would be very easy to profit from his own tariff announcements.
And even other Republicans are saying that he and his friends actually do.
Anyone else would go to jail for doing that.
Strange how Elon Musk tried to gut the FEC, right?

That might be true, but at some point hiding it becomes impossible.
Biden wasn't hiding it anymore and Trump isn't either.
Trump is forgetting a lot. He's trying to hide it with confidence.
When he is signing bills, he has NO IDEA what they are for.
They could easily put something in front of him that hurts your cause.
You just don't want to see the faults on your own side.

It's a very good idea, but they might sell better in Europe than in the states.
With many cities in Europe putting in emission zones, small start up companies
might be interested in something cheap to transport stuff around in those emission zones, since the big brand vans are still too expensive.
It's clear that your billionaires are worrying to completely miss the trend, but it will be
a tough competition against China.
If you keep putting up tariffs, Europe will do the same, and Amazon has no chance
to sell these electric trucks to Europe.

U.S. Port Collapse: 50,000 Containers COLLAPSE –
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You are a highly toxic presence here, and everyone knows what you did.
Still, you toned it down a lot, because you were obviously warned to stop.
That should show you that it's not her, it's you.

Don't you think that you did enough damage? Why do you keep attacking?
What has happened to you, to adopt this personality?

What I do, trying to convince MAGA Americans of socialism,
is pretty useless, but that's nothing compared what you do.
What's the pay-out from being a bully on an adult forum?

Now I'm involved in proving that?
If the website gets a court order to give up his identity, they'll wont protect him.
Is that how you think courts react? According to you they're all woke and feminist, right? Wouldn't they defend her?
In any case, I don't see you defending his actions or character.

The Dubliners - Paddy's sicknote
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Dear Sir I write this note to inform you of my plight
And at the time of writing I am not a pretty sight
My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly gray
I write this note to tell why Paddy's not at work today

While working on the fourteenth floor, some bricks I had to clear
And to throw them down from off the top seemed quite a good idea
But the gaffer wasn't very pleased, he was an awful sod
He said I had to cart them down the ladder in me hod.

Well clearing all those bricks by hand, it seemed so very slow
So I hoisted up a barrel and secured the rope below
But in my haste to do the job, I was too blind to see
That a barrel full of building bricks is heavier than me.

So when I had untied the rope, the barrel fell like lead
And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead
I took off like a rocket and to my dismay I found
That half way up I met the bloody barrel coming down.
Well the barrel broke my shoulder as on to the ground it sped
And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head
I held on tight, though numb with shock from this almighty blow
And the barrel spilled out half its load fourteen floors below

Now when those building bricks fell from the barrel to the floor
I then outweighed the barrel so I started down once more
I held on tightly to the rope as I flew to the ground
And I landed on those building bricks that were scattered all around.

Now as I lay there on the deck I thought I'd passed the worst
But when the barrel reached the top, that's when the bottom burst
A shower of bricks came down on me, I knew I had no hope
In all of this confusion, I let go the bloody rope.

The barrel being heavier, it started down once more
And landed right on top of me as I lay on the floor
It broke three ribs and my left arm, and I can only say
That I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not at work today.

The Dumbest Things EV Owners Do
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I think your #1 problem is money in politics. It corrupts everything.
I also don't think mandatory voting is a good idea.
There's now a huge number of people who think that both parties suck. Others they feel that they haven't informed themselves enough to make a choice. Do you really want those people to vote?

The winner takes all system keeps your politics limited to two parties.
That's a big problem, because both parties feel safe from competition.
In a parliamentary system, you could safely vote for the Green Party,
the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, or an independent, that one of the big parties could chose to work together with, without giving away votes to a big opposition party.
I'm not saying that is Kryptonite to corruption, but it helps.
You wouldn't be forced to vote for the "lesser evil" anymore.
And it vastly reduces the division and partiality.

In any case, your first priority is to prevent the complete destruction of your government by Trump. What's the use of voting, when the people you elect don't have any power left, over what's important for your life?
If everything is privatized, do your leaders even still control the military,
the secret services and the police? Or do the 'donors' control that too?
You cannot vote for the billionaires, who control everything.

He's 4 years and 9 months older than Trump.
His mind is still as sharp as it always was.
Trump's 'mind' has been declining for a while now.
Also, his 'mind' has always been primitive and chaotic.

Trump and Bernie are both at risk of being dead tomorrow.
However, if they both live for another 5 years, Trump looks like he won't even remember Ivanka then, while Bernie is probably still sharp as a tack.
It's not something to blame Trump for or praise Bernie for, it's just genes. It's the job of the voters to honestly assess who's still capable of doing
the job that they are doing, which you clearly cannot do.

You doxed her to her own daughter. That's illegal, didn't you know?
You should have been banned from this website, not her.
She could also sue you for millions, and win.

What did she do? Call out your nonsense and reciprocate in name calling?
You're a sad little snowflake, who cannot handle other opinions.
You wanted to fuck up her life and it worked. Congratulations, ass-hole.

The only thing you criticize Fauci for, is that he said that masks don't work.
Are you saying that MASKS DO WORK?

The US had the highest percentage of deaths in the world, because of your side;
you didn't want to wear masks, you didn't want to keep a distance, you didn't want
to vaccinate and you didn't want shutdowns. The opposite of what Fauci wanted.

"the officials that allowed covid free run of the world"
Who, Trump? He personally added to the ignorance of right-wingers, on the subject.
His actions killed hundreds of thousands of stupid people.

Your side's strategy was to let it "WASH OVER"!
That's a synonym for "allow covid free run of the world".

True, that's because they have different goals. The goal of a private business is to make money, the goal of government is to create added value for the country, state or area they serve.

That of course requires an actual democracy. If politicians are corrupt, they personally benefit from the choices they make, which takes away from their goal to create added value for the country, state or area they serve. However, they still need your votes to be allowed to make those choices, which requires well informed voters to vote out the corrupt ones, who prioritize personally benefiting, over creating added value for the country, state or area they serve.

The question is then; why do your elected officials need to take millions
in donations, for them to decide to cut expenses for citizens and cut taxes
for big corporations and the wealthy? If that was creating added value for
the country, state or area they serve, they wouldn't need bribes, to do that.

Then why did you say "Government employment is traditionally poorer in wages. That attracts mediocre workers"?

Exactly!
So why would you privatize those things that are only intended as "public good"?
That just funnels tax-dollars away from "public good" to wealthy people.

"He’s a communist"
No, he's a social democrat, at best a democratic socialist.

Damn, if there was an aptitude test for voters, you would fail it.

"Hell a whole country followed Hitler"
I KNOW!!!, that's why I worry about Trump!!
He's saying and doing very Hitlery things.
He's associating himself with very Hitlery people.
He's helping dictators and fucking over free countries.

"I can just picture old Bernie leading his followers to a trench of kerosene and lighting them on fire"
That's the dumbest projection ever, because that's exactly what Trump would do. The fact that you still don't understand that he doesn't give shit about anyone, baffles me. He demands absolute loyalty from everyone,
but he gives NONE. He didn't care if they had his former VP lynched.
Anyone who crosses him once, immediately turns into his enemy, on which he threatens them with death.
Bernie has never done anything undemocratic in his life, he works together with anyone who shows a similar interest and he actually cares about people, even you.

"I don’t even like him being in my country"
That's because you can't handle democracy and that most of his ideas
are wildly popular.

Most of the horrible dictators and human rights abusers are voted in.
The ones who vote for them don't know what they are, until they are.

When Trump was accused of tax fraud, you argued for weeks that that wasn't stealing.

And Republicans are the ones that made it 'flawed'.
Now they made it even worse. They want to destroy it.
By making it crap, they want to increase support to destroy it.
And you are falling for those lies, hook, line and sinker.

"and they keep making the age higher so they may not have to pay you a dime."
Also true. You are talking about the Republicans, serving the wealthy.
They don't want to pay a cent for you to have it, because they don't need it.
Even if you paid for it your whole life, that's money that they want to have.

If you get some pension, they at least want to be able to make money off that.
So they might allow you to have private pensions. Then you'll pay much more,
your whole life, paying most of your money to their insurance companies' 'costs'.
Live to be 75, you might get a fraction of it back, if they didn't steal it completely.

"As of May 2025, most U.S. federal government employees earn at least $15/hr.
This wage floor was established through a series of executive actions initiated by President Joe Biden."

Don't forget that you're talking to someone who lives in a country that had lots of public utilities, a few decades ago. I've seen almost all of them getting privatized,
and with no exception, the services became worse and/or much more expensive.

We had busses going to the smallest villages, for very cheap. They have now canceled many connections and the price has gone up much faster than inflation.

The trains still have the same frequency, and they have added some connections, but it's damn expensive. They also have lower punctuality and a higher cancellation rate.

We have one of the highest prices for natural gas and electricity in Europe, while we have the most free power market of Europe. Countries that have more publicly owned systems have much lower prices. very strange for a country that has the only natural gas field in Europe and which is mostly coastline, where the wind always blows, providing cheap wind energy. Also, the privatized power grid didn't invest enough, so now we cannot build new houses, because the power grid is totally overburdened.

I spoke often about our healthcare, which has gone up in price massively, since we got private health insurance. Only the US has a more expensive system. Dental care was immediately cut, when they privatized the system, and every year they cut some more things that the insurance used to pay for.

We had fantastic postal services, before they privatized it. Back then, working for the post office was a good job, with a good retirement. My grandfather worked for the postal services for most of his life. Now they have 'self employed' workers, who need to pay for their own van. They need to work like slaves, to make a little money.
That means that they deliver the packages in your paper recycling bin or just drop it on your porch and leave. They also speak less Dutch every year. I don't mind speaking English with immigrants, but they don't speak English either.

'What am I going to do?': Trump's Social Security chief, hired from Wall Street, admits he had to Google his job.

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Trump surely picks the best people.

A particularly alarming and well-documented account of the challenges facing elderly Social Security recipients under the Trump administration is provided by the Washington Post article titled "How DOGE's grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring".

This article details how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, implemented sweeping changes to the Social Security Administration (SSA) with the aim of reducing spending. These changes included staff cuts, technology overhauls, and a controversial three-day hold on phone claims. The result was severe disruptions in services, causing significant delays in claim processing and deteriorating customer satisfaction. As of the article's publication, 575,000 claims were pending, and issues such as system crashes, long call wait times, and shortages of basic supplies had emerged. An AI-driven phone system intended to assist claimants instead frustrated them due to its inability to route calls effectively. Internal resistance to these measures was reportedly stifled by fears of job loss. The article also notes that the new SSA commissioner, Frank Bisignano, is reassessing DOGE's influence, while employees continue to confront operational breakdowns and declining morale.