I knew it - eviltoast
    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      They did sorta start the mega corporation, and speculative trading. Both of which kinda ruined the world (assuming capitalism isn’t necessary for innovation, which I think probably true).

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    8 months ago

    There are only two thing that I can’t stand in this world, people who are intolerant of other peoples cultures, and the Dutch!

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    8 months ago

    For those not in the know: Prince Bernhard (deceased), husband to former queen Juliana (d), was infamous for his (heavily debated) membership of the Nazi party and first chairman of the (also heavily debated) Bilderberg conference.
    Aside from that, the royal family is very, very rich and has a lot of influence over the world. Part of their wealth is supplied by the Dutch government, without clear numbers and lots of misrepresentation on the yearly budgeting, a government that is by the way nicely massaged by the many global companies having a nice office in the Dutch tax haven.

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    8 months ago

    But wouldn’t daisy-chained puppets like this be increasingly difficult to control the further from the start you go?

    I don’t think it’s possible to get anything below Aliens to do anything but flop around wildly.

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      8 months ago

      Above the Dutch is a machine learning algorithm which so far has managed to learn to make the bottom marionette appear to vomit, and nothing else.

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      My housemate is dutch. He will find a dutch connection to everything on the planet. My coffee is dutch, the stockmarket is dutch, cheese sandwiches are dutch, the computer chips are dutch, nasi goreng is dutch, it’s all fucking dutch in his mind. If aliens landed he would probably claim that they came because of the dutch.

      He would also like everyone to remember that the nazi’s stole the dutch people’s bicycles and how dare anyone not know this.

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        8 months ago

        Well, to be honest, apart of the aliens thing, everything you said is true.

        So how is your housemate wrong?

        And aliens? That’s an American thing. Only Americans are abducted and only America gets attacked by aliens in the movies. (And South-Africa)

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          8 months ago

          I don’t think they’re necessarily saying their housemate is wrong. I took it as them just pointing out how it gets old fast. Which is also my interpretation of what the meme represents.

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    8 months ago

    Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don’t get what this is saying.