I did not vote, but the premise that I would read any religious text when I’m in jail is prepostorous.

Subscripttion services for actual journalism?

I’m not sure about unethical, but blocking ads is a big one for me. The WWW is unusable without blocking ads.

a pretty good diplomat

*sycophant

This is the guy under whose ‘leadership’, Dutch politics turned into a toxic cesspool. Education has worsened, the housing market has crashed, environmental problems were not solved and his party made sure that the energy infrastructure was not kept up properly, so that the citizens now pay for a hastened upgrade of said infrastructure. He has claimed to have no vision and is a compulsive liar with a very selective memory. I have not even touched all the debacles he facilitated.

This guy is now the boss of NATO and calls Trump ‘daddy’. He is a fucking disgrace. I am ashamed to be from the same country as this piece of shit.

Hang Youth (NL)

…Donald Trump told…

So it was not true then.

decimated

In the literal sense, that would mean a 10% reduction of fighting capacity. Nothing to sneeze at, but still pretty capable of fighting defending, I would say.

So a few airplanes were lost and/or damaged. I read some statistics of the Vietnam war that thousands of planes were lost. It’s part of being in a war, especially when you are the agressor.

harrowing incidents

Tell that to the Iranian civilians.

PFAS?