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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Indeed. Humour is subjective, but that also means we can completely ignore whether it’s humour or not because it’s not relevant. All that matters is intent, and here it was not part of some standup comedy where everybody knows it’s an act that can be taken with a big grain of salt and stops at the door. This was clearly a long time ongoing campaign meant to push an agenda of hatred and harassment.





  • Isn’t the fine for the traffic violation? The compensation from a civil lawsuit will follow I presume.

    This makes sense in my opinion. Violating traffic rules should result in the same fine regardless of whether you hit someone or not (like drunk driving isn’t more OK just because you got lucky and didn’t happen to hit anyone). But if you do hit someone, expect to compensate all costs and damages to that person or family on top of the fine (that goes to the state).

    That said, I wish traffic violations would be fined much more harshly. Also if you didn’t hit anyone during your reckless behaviour.






  • For me it mostly gives a bad image of how hopeless the situation is. Absolute top politicians should at least be able to have a basic conversation in the other language but they often can’t even do that.

    One of the reasons Flanders is so extremely sensitive about the language rules and the language communities is because they see frenchification happening everywhere they go, especially around Brussels (but also in other cities). And when even our top ministers cannot be bothered, it doesn’t exactly hint that people will adapt and speak Dutch rather than expecting others will accommodate them in French.

    It would take the nationalists down a few notches if ministers were equally as fluent in Dutch as their Flemish counterparts are in French. Doesn’t have to be perfect, just comprehensible and showing effort.


  • Definitely not with MR in government. They’re also the single reason why the woonbonus is still a thing for second homes. Rather than discouraging it, all of us pay taxes so we can hand it to people who are rich enough to buy a second house in the first place for snatching that house away from us and driving up the prices.

    That party is the most populist, anti-science and destructive to the social and financial wellbeing of this country I’ve seen. And that says a lot if you take a look at some other parties.