Pardon? What are my eyes witnessing rn? They see but the brain does not comprehend

Fancy meeting you here brother. Ready for our next battle?

– VIM, in a snowy field, dressed in medieval knight armour, clutching a sword and a half broken shield, with the bodies of both Emacs’ and VIM’s comrades in arms strewn about

You’re threatening greenland, and now threatening spain saying stuff like “we dont need their permission to use their bases”, and you have the audacity to act like the victim? 😆

Delete the USA, someone, finally

Im not too sure about that, personally. Tbh i got them for free in a promotion when i bought my FP5 phone, and while I have used them, its not been much simply because at home on my PC ive got my regular headset, or if i want to do stuff like clean or cook I just switch to the external speakers, and at work, again, headset.

Pretty much all use cases for me involve my phone being in my pocket or hand (e.g. out in public) and in that case they’ve been really good to my experience. Granted I’m no audio guru so definitely check out reviews from those who are relating to that aspect if you (the reader) plan to get a set, I can’t complain honestly.

Fairphone. While im not sure theyre manufactured in Europe, they pay the factory workers fairly and have fair working conditions for them.

I completely understand that you are trying to be supportive, and if the news from Venezuela didn’t come out today I would not have replied, but it did, so back here I am. The problem is that the time for you to resist by buying EU goods, and spreading awareness about the issues in your country has long since passed – And the rest of the world is paying for it. First Venezuelans will die, then possibly Cubans, and who knows, if no one stops the US war machine in the first two cases, why not also go for Greenland? (I’m slightly exaggerating here to make a point)

You can (I hope) see how all the support from people from the USA sounds like empty words. How about you use your 2nd amendment right that we’ve been hearing about for decades, for the purpose it was supposedly put in place for? Maybe its because you (or the people who like guns, I realise there’s not a lot of crossover between left-leaning people and people who defended gun ownership, but regardless there’s nothing stopping the people on the left from acquiring them from this point onwards) don’t actually want guns to defend from a tyrannical government, but instead just find them fun to own and shoot.

Words are empty, and peaceful protest only works if your oppressor has a conscience, which its clear the USA doesn’t have. The world is paying in blood for the fear of the average US citizen to deal with their own mess, and that tends to lead to the world not liking Americans (from the USA) very much, regardless of what said American’s political leanings are.

Thanks for your words of support. Be sure to let the those who have already died from your bombs, and those who are yet to die, know that you support them also.

Dragged in by the US. One more reason to cut ties and go our separate ways.

Maybe don’t insult the people who want to be your ally, or you’ll find yourself without any.

Are… Are you serious right now? You tell me this, after everything the orange has done and said? Some would consider it a bit too late to for that, the alliance has ended, if not officially in all other aspects, and you’re the ones who’ve destroyed it. How can we ever trust you again?

Oh right, I guess Europe has never needed outside help with a fascist takeover

Don’t play the good guy, you were profiting from both sides before officially joining, and once you joined it had no effect on your own fascism. Don’t forget that prior to WW2, American Fascism/Racism was too extreme even for the Nazis, so they (the Nazis) deliberately toned their versions down a bit.

Too late. Youve had decades to do something about your dictatorship, but only now that it directly affects you and the dictators are barely trying to hide it, do you suddenly care and act like youre innocent when it comes to the state of affairs you find yourself in.

Where were you when it was innocent people in other countries were being bombed in the ME, or SE Asia, or tortured, or x, y, z crime against humanity you guys have been commiting?

Why should we send help instead of leaving you on the ship and just watch it as it sinks?

Yes, but i wanted people to research and come to whatever conclusions they may come to, on their own :)

Its not just that, directly. They also seem to be working for fossil fuel companies, amongst other things that make me have a feeling that they’re goal is not to report news accurately but to push an agenda, which I doubt the people in this community subscribe to.

I tried using the subtitles trick, but it was before I started lessons with a tutor and since Duolingo doesn’t really do a great job of introducing a variety of vocabulary, or teaching the actual grammar rules I found it difficult. As an example, in the 3 years I was doing Duolingo I had no idea that in a sentence with 2 verbs the second verb is always at the end, until I was taught this in my lessons with the tutor. I might give it another shot now that Im learning vocabulary as well as the actual rules of the language

This seems exactly like what I need to start searching :)

I’m currently not in the Netherlands, but I plan to relocate there permanently (hence why I am trying to learn the language) to hopefully work as an embedded software engineer since that industry is basically non-existent in my country. So basically I’m forced to find stuff online, or look for libraries here which may have Dutch books, but I doubt there will be any

Edit: I also found this list, which I think could be helpful: https://www.dutch4beginners.com/dutch-reading-list-childrens-books

This could be a good idea, I might mix in a few comics with more regular stories

I’ll check them out, thanks!

I suppose I could start with Annie MG Schmidt and have Carry Slee as a goal to work towards then :)

Thats good then, I’ll get started on her works then and take it from there :)

Thanks, yea I think I want something a bit more modern for the beginning, unless the language hasn’t changed much? What do you think?

Next step: dismantle US bases in EU and send the terrorists back whence they came from

Seems like it was an issue that day. Just clicked and it works