Comrades Please sit down, take a celebratory box of Cuban cigars and a bottle of Cuban Rum, so we may Celebrate Cuban Liberation Day together 🇨🇺 ! As Comrade Castro said “If you smoke, you can smoke them; if you have any friends who smoke, you can share with them; but the best thing you can do with this box of cigars is give them to your enemy”, we do have donation boxes for the Yankees, Zionists and Fascist at the front.
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Oh, and I have also been informed I should to wish you a happy new year, and a good Juche 113, but lets be honest, we are all here for Cuban Liberation day right?
The Belgian government is going to buy 94 electric busses from Chinese company BYD and libs on reddit are losing it, because they could have also chosen a Belgian company. They are mentioning VDL as a possible manufacturer which is strange because VDL isn’t Belgian either, it’s Dutch lol. And VDL also only delivered 2 out of 24 busses the government has ordered so far.
Cope. Seeth. Cry.
I want to change my opinion on this to show how utterly stupid the government is here. There are actual Belgian companies producing busses. A company like Van Hool has been making them for 75 years now. They have the capacity for it. 65% of the 2300 Van Hool employees are currently on temporarily unemployment, meaning that the company doesn’t have enough work for their employers. The state pays their wages for now. Every month.
The reason they chose BYD is because they were a bit cheaper. But the societal costs far outweigh the money saved it seems. This is the same government that urges everyone to ‘buy locally as much as possible’. Idiots.