Just had a company event and out of nowhere they all started talking about ma freeze peach and how China is “literally 1984” and how we can see that our main conflicts nowadays are between “evil autocracy” and “democracy with western values where it could never happen that the press is lying”. I had to bite my tongue so hard the entire time, which I think they noticed. In the end I just said that I don’t want to provoke the inevitable world war 3 even more, which killed the mood hard lol.
It’s so frustrating to be alone in a group of “intellectuals”… Especially if you need to stay civil to not get fired.
The thing with public transport is that there is no public transport lol. It’s all privatized, resulting in unaffordable tickets.
One of the reasons I left is housing really. I wasn’t able to find a place in NL with two years of searching. In Belgium I had a place within two weeks of looking. In the middle of Antwerp, very affordable.
Ten years of neoliberal hell that is Rutte, I have seen the country go down the drain. Healthcare is in crisis, housing is in crisis, transport is in crisis, education is in crisis, everything is in crisis. I don’t understand why people keep voting for the twat. He hasn’t done a single good thing I think.