The biggest (and smallest) US vassal state in Europe. Be proud #dutchians!

Because many centrist parties in Europe are actually more centre right and neo-liberal and actively hold back progress. They invest little to nothing in public infrastructure, privatise public services, lower taxes on the rich, and weaken worker’s rights. They do it more slowly than right-wing parties and extreme right wing parties, but they do it nonetheless. Once in a while they decide to try and balance the scales but not enough.

This has lead to deteriorating public infrastructure, rising cost of living, dependence on private companies (especially foreign ones), more corruption, a frequent attack of workers and green parties, more brash public discourse, and loss of trust with major disdain of politics. Their approach to resolve it has been to adopt right-wing discourse to try and win back their voters who have drifted off to the right due to populism.

As I said, left wing, progressive, and green parties have responded very meekly towards other parties, but respond harshly to parties that share similar ideologies, which leave the right wing field wide open. It is a wide failing of all parties left of right, more progressive than conservative, and non-populist ones.

How many porn instances are there?

Fuck these far right parties and their voters. Fuck the centrist parties for not being progressive enough to not give people a reason to slip to the right. And fuck the left wing parties for fighting each other. But most of all, fuck the US for lobbying all these politician fucks to vote against European interests.

Indeed I was. My point does stand about their chancellor though.

It doesn’t matter what’s between their legs. What Germany needs is a party willing to tax the fucking rich and go HAM on Pooteen. If it’s just another 15 years of letting everything go to waste, it doesn’t matter if a man or a woman does it.

With what level of accuracy? And how do they know they’re right?

For sure !piefed_meta@piefed.social is in the list of “magazines” (communities as they are known on mbin) and more communities too.

It’s like his dad is wearing a skin mask. What the hell happened there?

Create an account on mbin and it’ll allow seeing most of the fediverse. It has a microblog view, a thread view and a combined view. It isn’t picky about which services to connect to. I’m subscribed to peertube channels, people on pixelfed, and browse the threadiverse. It works well.

Lemmy can’t see mastodon, mastodon seems to have trouble seeing lemmy but can see mbin and piefed, peertube just sees peertube (although comments on peertube can come from all over the fediverse), pixelfed just pixelfed, and so on.

Someone mentioned nomadic identities and federated identities and I would love either of those. But for now, I recommend mbin.

Fucking prude Christians…

They are walking with earbuds on the road.

If you take Europe as a continent, it beats the USA handily. To make it comparable, the US athletes should be grouped by state. They’d do even worse.

Spoken like somebody who hasn’t experience racism or bigotry.

Please explain how you come to the conclusion that operating a motorcycle is not as bad as a car.

It’s funny until you meet women that complain about not getting hit on and do this.

Depends on the bike; a 125cc Honda Wave burns 1 gallon of gas per 160 miles, ~60 isn’t uncommon for bigger bikes.

Depends on the car too. Motorcycles are worse for the environment than hybrid cars.

Yes, 2 wheeled vehicles are less safe than cars. We can make streets safer for everybody by lowering speed limits and reducing car usage.

Speed limits exist in Europe. Motorcyclists regularly ignore them.

That’s not the bike, it’s the muffler.

“He hit me!”, “He didn’t hit you, the arm hit you”. A distinction without a difference.

This is the key benefit; by decreasing the area that needs to be dedicated to car RoW and parking, and the overall speed, you make a place more bicycle and pedestrian-friendly.

You can also get rid of all motorbikes and improve public transport. One motorcycle takes up the space of at least 2 bikes. And one bus can transport many more people in the same area than bikes ever could.

pretty much necessary for delivery drivers in fully pedestrianized areas

That’s false. I invite you to visit Denmark (Copenhagen) or the Netherlands. Electrified bikes and cargo bikes can move a lot and can do so safely in areas with bike paths.

Unwillingness to accept the truth. Look in the mirror.

You’re just biased. Motorcycles are just as bad for the environment as cars. Motorcycle accidents also result in death more often. They are often also louder than cars. The only upside they have is that they are easier to park.

To make motorcycles better, you have to go electric, which of course also drastically reduces possible travel distance on a single charge, and also introduces dependencies on electrical systems.

Exactly. You’re already outside of the country. Let them send you bills. They aren’t going to send the FBI to kick in your door because of unpaid bills…