Well, when I look at the party’s stances of my country I see a pattern in terms of type of language used,
so maybe one can use that to model how right or left wing one is instead of using some arbitrary
policy like gun laws as a measuring tool.
Hmmmm… those are articles about him.
Does Zoltan have a written election program?
Perhaps by the tone of language I might be able to better tell on what wavelength Mandami is,
compared to the Dutch political parties.
Although I will have to adjust the translation a bit,
to retain the type of language used,
so for example I adjust the translation
in order to keep the language strong,
where strong language is used.
I’ll post an example…
Our housing crisis keeps getting worse and worse.
While the Constitution tells us that the government must provide a sufficient amount of housing,
the reality is that an increasing number of Americans can't afford a roof over one's head.
This US government completely failed.
I wonder if Zelensky signed that deal knowing this would happen.
Go to very deep cave. Then write down “资本主义每一次都会导致法西斯主义”
Rutte is a Dutch lib.
US leftists are irrelevant unless they reform or topple their regime,
with the former being the more unrealistic option.
You made it sound like anything changed.
I remember it and it’s still the same with the only two differences now being that for one the
voices of the democratic socialists are slowly going back to their roots,
becoming more and more anti-NATO.
And two, the fearmongering is now geared towards Russia.
Rutte’s bootlicking and increasing EU’s military budget while buying US equipment is not just what Trump wanted,
but the Euro libs as well.
I’ve had him as prime minister of my country for many years, so this is no surprise.
Don’t know about any of it, but I’ve had Rutte as my prime minister.
This reads like the way he talks and thinks.
The biggest strength of Rutte is that he’s a chameleon,
so there’s no telling what he actually thinks,
but considering his party allegiance it’s pro-NATO through and through.
Really?
I’d say it hits it completely on point the way Rutte is, an anglophile that doesn’t want to rustle too many feathers unless it’s against leaders of countries outside of NATO.
His party is super-pro-Israel and super-anti-Russia.
What’s he gonna complain about?
I can tell you as a Dutchman, reading this I could hear Mark Rutte’s voice and it aligns with his anglophile suck-up character.
I couldn’t see him writing it any other way.
It’s Mark Rutte. He certainly would write it like this.
This is Mark Rutte.
He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
He’s a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
or a democratic socialist or left of that.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
Liberals are right-wing. Always have been, always will be.
Dutch liberals are not under the progressive umbrella,
so while the Dutch progressive party is advocating to stop the war,
Dutch liberals are in full support of it.
Bhutan would have had the best flag if someone colored it in.
Star Control II & Secret of Mana
They both set my expectations for how much fun a game can be.
Secret of Mana as a template for what kind of world I want to live in (minus the monsters and whatnot)
and Star Control II as a template for how to write a fun adventure.
I have no horse in this race :)
The fascist armed forces do and they have them trample on protesters.
I hope Afghanistan will stabilize soon.
They’ve been thrown out since 2020.
Why go through so many countries to reach Iran instead of going through Afghanistan?
I’m going to agree with you here.
I put Mandami left of center until I rethought
on what I often see and hear from the center-left,
and words often used by the left.
“I don’t think we should have billionaires” sounds very much left-wing to me,
rather than center-left.