When is someone 'a friend'?

We were really surprised to hear a friend's actual name at his funeral. Did you know that 'Ray' was Mike's actual name?" "You called him Mike?" He was popular in a few different 'BBQ groups'. And even had different birthdays apparently. "We just celebrated his 57th birthday two months ago." "What!? With us he celebrated his 62nd six months ago." In unison: "Bastard!" It was a good funeral. Made some new BBQ friends.

Some say women see friendship in a different way that men do. Generally speaking, of course. But it may make sense as men's and women's brains are - literally - wired differently. And of course 'different' does absolutely not mean 'better' or 'worse'.

When is someone 'a friend' to you? If you know everything about eachother or is it enough to have a few common interests?

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Luckily friends are not like family and can be chosen. And most social media has a 'block' feature. Just in case you one day want/need to contact that person you don't really want to be friends with IRL And sometimes you just simply 'drift apart', just like your values that can change over the course of time. 

Real friendship is about unconditional love. Unlike the kind in many relationships: "I love you unconditionally, but..." In a true friendship there is no 'but'. Hence, imho, friendship is the best kind of love.

Here's a poem I wrote on friendship:

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Friends (a #poem)

Of course he remembered that night!

Just not the occasion.

Drinks were more expensive there 

than at home but that was not the point.

Point was that they started talking 

and basically never stopped.

The more they found they had in common, 

the more differences they encountered.

And that was fine.

Of course.

'cause they were

Friends 

We need to mix

"Large" is a real English word, right? No, it's not. At least not always. It's actually French and really means 'wide' or 'broad'. It's just one of the many, many examples of words that became part of the English vocabulary. Which is a medieval, Latin word. 

You and I would not be able to understand an English person from 500 years ago. Let alone speak with 'the Cheddar Man', a 'real Englishman'. From the Mesolithic era. Some 9000 years ago. Just like you probably would not understand a word of what the grandchildren of the grandchildren of your grandchildren say.

Not only the languages of men change over time, but so does their appearance. 

Factors like nutrition (available food) and climate change our appearance. It changes the amount of melanin we need but - looking at our US friends here - apparently also our fat percentage.

Just look at these images of our cousins and ancestors: Homo Neandertalensis, Cro Magnon, Homo Sapiens and the recent addition: Homo Americanus, pictured in the bottom (...) left corner.

And it's all normal. Evolution is normal. Mixing is normal. Adapting is normal.

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Some 800.000 years ago humankind almost went extinct because of some world wide disaster. 

Or  - more likely - a series of disasters: draught, floods, food shortgages, climate change and perhaps a pandemic. Possibly like the one that some scientists believe eventually lead to the extinction of our Neandertal cousins.  If only they had vaccins in those days. .

If the approximately 1200 survivors in those days had been racist bigots who refused to accept others because they looked different and had different habits, humankind would have seized to exist.

Do you see any advantages of being a racist idiot? Which is a pleonasm so let's rephrase that: Do you see any advantages of being a racist?

From the Sun (a #ShortStory)

First thing he noticed 

when a headache woke him

was that he was awake.

Grabbing the ladder 

to climb down from his bed,

he noticed something missing:

the ring finger from his left hand.

It wasn't really missing 

but it shouldn't be lying on the floor,

not attached to his hand.

For later concern.

Before waking up the crew

and have them open the pods,

he first wanted to determine 

if they had succeeded.

After his kind had ruined 

their home planet,

they had recruited the best, the brightest and the wealthiest 

to try again at a nearby planet.

This one was chosen 

for several reasons.

One of it being very compatible 

because it was 

the third one 

from the Sun

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When did you choose to be straight?

Early nineties I worked for a local branch of the Dutch equal rights organisation for gay people. In the sense of 'homosexual', not as in the meaning of 'happy'. In the days 'the community' did not entail half the alphabet. We only knew gay, straight, bisexual. It was even before lesbians apparently weren't considered homosexual anymore and politicians as well as the press started to say 'lesbians and homosexuals'. 

I helped them to strive for equal rights. So we had a party to celebrate the fact that clubs got fined for throwing out homosexual couples for dancing. We cheered and I quit when homosexual men and women finally got the right to marry someone of the same sex. 

It's a common misconsception that because I worked for an organisation supporting gay rights, therefore I must be gay. Weird, really. 

Do people think you have to be a woman to support women's rights, a slave to want slaves to be free, over 65 to work in an old folks home or a light bulb to work for Philips?

According to this dumb right logic that you can't have an opinion on zionism if you're not Jewish or have to be black to support the BLM movement, they are all a small puddle of dirty oil because they support Shell and Exxon Mobil.

It's impossible to have a normal, adult conversation with wappies, so you have to ask them really simple questions their tiny brains can handle. Like: When did you choose to become straight?

"Yeah, but you suddenly see a lot more of those people and it scares me!" Why? Because other groups of people finally get the same rights as you have, doesn't mean those rights are taken away from you. 

Terrified a gay or trans person may hurt your child? Better warn them for Republican congressmen calling themselves 'christian'. Like Justin Eichhorn. "Yeah, but he was just an expection! Christians would never solicit a minor or sexually assault someone! Let alone when they're married." Nope. There's also Mark Foley, Robert Bauman, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump...the list of sexually abusive christian Republicans is long. Really, really long. 

I don't care that Lindsey Graham is gay and known to male sexworkers as Lady G. I do care he wants to make life miserable for those who chose to come out of the closet and don't want to hide their feelings. 

"Yeah, but homosexuality is wrong because it says so in the Bible!"

If you really follow the Bible - as you claim to do - how many Evangelicals and politicians have you executed for misquoting a Bible verse? After all: the Bible clearly states: "Anyone who speaks a lie in the name of the Lord must be put to death". 

At least the worldwide average IQ would rise if everyone stating homosexuals go to hell 'because that's in the Bible!' would really get executed as the Bible says they should. 

Do you think: "Every homosexual goes to hell!" is in the Bible? Name Chapter and Verse. If not, you're lying and should be put to death. Zechariah 13:3.

"Thy shalt not be homosexual" is not in the Ten Commandments. Adultery is and so is lying, stealing, worshipping of idols... Which makes me think: If evangelicals worship Jesus (or Trump for that matter) they are actually doing something that's against God's wishes as He published in those stone tablets.

Gender fluid and homosexual people have always existed. But had to hide in the elderly MAGA woman's days. Because of her bigotry, stupidity and fear. Only since recently LHGBTQIA+ people are starting to feel safer showing who they are.

If bigots have the right to get married, why shouldn't homosexuals?

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Stalker (a #ShortStory)

I have a stalker!

O, that's serious! Are you sure 

and do you perhaps have a picture of him 

so the police can be on the lookout for him?

Yes. I have over 300 pictures of him

and especially got a zoomlens for my camera.

I'll show you.

Here he is on the corner of the street.

Here he is sitting in his living room.

Here he is brushing his teeth in the bathroom.

I checked the nameplate on his door

and found out where he works.

So here he is parking his car at work.

Here he is sitting behind his desk

and here he is picking his daughter up from hockey practice.

Of course I looked him up on social media

and discovered he follows dozens of women.

Even men.

I'm terrified!

Do you think he is the stalker?

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"He never thanked us once!"

A standard tactic of fascists is lying. A lot. Because simple minded people believe anything if they hear it often enough. 

Like when they stated President Zelensky not once thanked them for their (financial and military) help in Ukraine's fight against a fascist dictator who attacked Ukraine with brute force. And violated at least two dozen ceasefire agreements. 

In the fascist's defense (I'm defending fascists. Please don't tell my grandmother and mother and her brothers who survived a Japanese prison camp): Zelensky did indeed not say thank you once. But at least 33 times. 

"But you can't call fascists fascists because that will make the poor snowflakes cry!" I will stop calling fascists fascists as soon as all fascists have stopped being fascists, okay?

The Musk* Regime (aka 'The Trump Government') is a Mafia Familia. With an actual Don at the head of the table but secretly his consiglieri (an illegal, African immigrant) holding the reigns and doing the bidding of the largest Mafia Familia on the planet: the Kremlin with all its olicharchs (or however you spell that. Am a bit p1ssed off so f*ck spelling) and their tech bro buddies and big land owners, aka 'Big Agro'. 

*Edit: when I wrote this. Elon wasn't forced out from being one of the regime's minions

"You're just jealous of Elon Musk because he's rich!" Is he, really?

If I have 2000 and at the end of the month I have 200; I know 1800 went to the housing-, a telecom- and an insurance company, the supermarket and that nice guy from the falafel shop at the end of my street. When Musk recently lost billions...who has all that money now?

"Pay us 20% of your turnover and give our friend Vlad access to all your resources. Or else. It would be a shame if something happened to your nice country. Did I tell you we have nukes?" It's simply an attempted (because Z is having none of it) shakedown. Like in the kindergarten school yard: "Gimme your lunch money or my big friend behind you will give you a wedgie." 

Mob enforcer JD Vance (pseudonym for John Bowman) threatened Greenland: "Give my boss all your land and resources or else!" and showed no respect. He could have at least worn a suit, right?

Has Vance actually said 'Thank you' to the people of Greenland?

Any sane person stands with the oppressed and attacked, never with the bullies and fascists. And there's no guarantee Count Vlad will stop his quest for more Lebensraum to create his Thousand Year Empire, filled with only Übermenschen and imposes a policy of Blut und Boden (just like Mr. Mileikowsky in the Middle East), once Ukraine has fallen. 

So in a way I'm grateful to Krasnov (Trump) and Bowman (who later started to call himself Vance. But weirdly enough demands people should always use their birthname. Calling people by a later chosen name is woke and therefore bad. So people calling Mr. Bowman 'JD Vance' are woke) for getting the leaders of Europe forget about their quarrels and unite against the agressor. 

I don't like fascists very much. You may have guessed. 

If you like fascism, can you explain to sane people why you do that? You can answer that question anonymously. Which should be no problem since you already barf your fascist nonsense anonymously all over social media.

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Antisemites

Wappies really seem a different kind of hominim. While the Homo Sapiens Sapiens evolved to beings who can think for themselves, the Homo Lunatic Ludicrous got stuck in the time of the Neanderthaler: terrified of anything they can't understand. Which makes them easy targets for populists that tell them they will be alright as long as they do exactly as the populist tells them to do. According to the principle of 'Trust me, bro!'

It's why they trust websites with words like 'truth' and 'natural' in them over medical science. 

In wappies' defence: cancer, corona, autism, air pollution - or whatever is trending on social media - can't hurt corpses. So wappies should keep on using ivermectin, inject themselves with bleach, cover their heads with Anti 5G radiation blankets, drink pine tea to combat kidney failure or whatever their favourite fake doctor tells them they should do. 

More often then not, the 'Oh no, chemtrails!' and 'The government and scientists lie to us!' people are led to believe fascism is the best form of government. Because they want a single strong leader to lead them into thinking the solution to all of their problems and cause of all their fears is something unknown. In general: people who don't act and look like them: witches, gypsies, communists, freemasons, Jews, arabs, homosexuals, people of colour, refugees...everyone who seems foreign to them. 

Tell them these elusive 'foreigners' are to blame and they are like putty in your hands. Not long ago they used to be against Jews and Dutch wappies even fought alongside the nazis to rid the world of Jews and other Untermenschen. 

But geopolitics shifted so now that same kind of people want to rid the world of arabs 'because arabs are anti-jew!' Only because their 'strong man' (right wing populair men and women) didn't tell them that arabs are semites too. 

Personally I take great pleasure in watching their eyes turn wildly in despair if I confront wappies with simple facts like these: if being anti-Netanyahu makes one an antisemite 'because he's Jewish!', you're an antisemite if you're anti-Soros. 

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Unconscious (a #poem)

My heart weeps 

for the children lost 

in war and peace

in famine and prosperity,

in ignorance and knowing 

in fighting and in hoping.

Their choices have been stolen 

their voices left and frozen 

Crying without tears 

living with only fears

Waiting for the bombs to drop 

wishing for the pain to stop 

We should be their conscience 

not act like we're unconscious 

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It all adds up

On a regular basis, questions like these pop up in my social media feed:

In my head 48 gets written beneath 27. So I add 40+20=60. That leaves 8+7=15. Those numbers go under eachother again. 60+10=70; 0+5=5. Put the last number under the previous one again and you get: 70+5=75. Tadaa! Goes a bit faster if you don't think about it and just add 27+48=75. Or 30+50=80; 3+2=5. Substract that outcome from the previous one and you get 75.

Tip for those who find adding up difficult: play darts. It helps because you have to make quick calculations if you don't want your opponent to get bored and leave the match (and the bar) without buying you a beer. 

How do you add up numbers?

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Forever Free (a #poem)

Take cover,

don't hide.

Be my lover,

be my bride.

Leave or stay,

but take my key

and please be

forever free

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Who is speaking?

My dear friend Hannibal Lecter almost escaped from Alcatraz. Sing-Sing! But there was this big shark. 'Jaws' they called him. He had very strong teeth. Just like mine. I have very strong teeth but nobody ever gives me credit, did you know that? The Chinese owe us a lot of credit. So I will call them tomorrow and tell them that Ukraine has to give us credit. Did you know that there are nazis in Ukraine? I saw it myself on TV the other day. Or maybe it was the day after. Great movie, 'The Day After'. It's American, did you know that? 'cause they all speak English in it. People tell me that people don't speak English like they used to. Like my dear friend, Joe the Plumber. Remember him? Ah, dear old Joe. An illegal immigrant took his job, did I tell you that? But Fake News won't tell you because they don't like me. Oh, no. But I will make them like me. I will put tariffs on Fake News... 

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Only two things are certain in life

"Nothing is certain except death and taxes" A famous quote from Benjamin Franklin. It's a bit simplistic of course but otherwise some 30 percent of people won't understand this. 

It's also not exactly what he said, back in 1789.

There's this myth going around that the Dutch pay the highest tax rate in the world. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that bit of propaganda is just not true.

Above chart shows how the people with the highest incomes are taxed. By far most Dutch people don't make more than some €70,000 a year, so they will never be taxed that 'More than 50%!'.

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There are more taxes than just income tax. And every country has a different way of spending all that tax money. Some countries spend more on subsidies for the weapons industry and financial support for billionaires in Big Tech, Big Agro and Big Oil. While other countries put more emphasis on Healthcare and Education than on giving 'the elite' more money and power.

The difference can maybe be attributed to the USA being a capitalist plutocrasy and the Netherlands being a social democracy. 

What do you think your government spends most of your tax money on?

Here's where the citizen's tax money goes to in The Netherlands. Here's the USA for comparison. 

Both countries spend a lot on 'defense' (the arms industry) but where the Dutch money for a big part goes to healthcare and education, a big sum of American tax dollars goes to paying of government debt. 

That's of course quite simplistic because there's far more to it than that. 

If you want to know more about the Dutch (income) tax system, here's expat David Wen with a nice breakdown:

Living without potholes

"Self-healing roads aim to offer solution to crater crisis", a UK news article read hopefully.

Fun fact: there's no word for 'potholes' in Dutch. Because the word is not needed. Because (part of) the (road)tax we pay actually goes to infrastructure and not to a few billionaire politicians. Although that may change now The Netherlands has a extreme right wing government. Barry Madlener (From Geert Wilders' 'Freedom Party' PVV) cuts over €100 million from Public Transport and plans to privatise road- and bridge maintenance. Madlener plans on cutting €500 million from the budget for infrastructure. There's one part of the Dutch building landscape Minister of Infrastructure Madlener dóes want to put more taxpayer's money in: giving extra tax breaks to real estate companies. Like his privately owned Erasmus Makelaardij. Where he officially quit in 2008.

At least Minister Madlener came up with a great solution to end traffic jams: a call to motorists to avoid them. Jeez! Why didn't anyone besides 'the dumb right' think of that? It's typical for right wing populists: give the people simple solutions to a complicated problem and the people will cheer for you. It's how f4scists governments come into power.

F4scists tend to only look after themselves, their businesspartners and minions.

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If you're convinced the f4scist governments of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II, Trump, Le Pen or Wilders are the best kind of government for 'the people'...tell me how 'the people' profited under their dictatorship and not only a handful of very rich people. 

Speaking of rich people: the Netherlands is very rich. Só rich in fact that the country offers immigrants a 30% discount on the taxes regular Dutch people pay. The 30% ruling - of course - does not count if you're a brown skinned...excuse me...poor immigrant. 

In practice: one of the thousands of immigrants that the VVD (ruling party in The Netherlands from 1977 until current day. With the exception of 3 years) lured in from Turkey and Morocco: tough luck. Born in a predominantly 'white' country? You are entitled to a 30% discount on your taxes! 

But I am sure those nice right wing people are not r4cist at all and it's just a coincidence that rules are in place that put 'white' over 'brown' people. 

What does 'freedom!' mean for you?

I am old enough to remember the days when rule of law prevailed over 'gut feeling', i.e. racism. When you could not get away unpunished for executing someone 'because I think he may be an Arab and therefore maybe supports Hamas' but had a legal system to determine if someone was guilty or not and perhaps deserved a fine or prison time. 

History will not judge kindly on fascists commiting a genocide and those supporting it. Wether it be actively or by chosing not to protest or at least speak out. Elderly racists in the future will deny they ever supported what the Trump regime is doing with South-Americans and the Netanyahu regime is doing to Arabs. 

By default fascists want more children in 'their' country who are just as genetically perfect as they are. An "Übermensch", so you will.  In case you're wondering why Trump offers people money to have more white children and Netanyahu pays white people to call themselves Jews and come live in his 1000 Year Empire. So, who said below quote: Trump or Netanyahu?

"In order to get enough soldiers, he bans all information about contraceptives. At the same time, he introduces a special 'bachelor tax' and reduces the tax for families with more than five children."

So I took a couple of hundred screenshots to shove their own filthy, racist online posts in their faces when they are waiting for days for someone to please come change their diapers after they cheered when all brown people were kicked out of 'their' country and fellow racists won't clean their own sh1t.

One of the countries supporting the best documented genocide in history is the (far right government of the) Netherlands. As a matter of fact: Geert Wilders of the Freedom (for everyone who's male, white and rich) Party actually gets paid by zionists to push their lies. It's true. Bigly.

"Yeah, but Israel is allowed to defend itself!" Against the people whose land and houses they stole and deliberaly slaughtered by the thousands? 

If you support the IOF, riddle me this: If someone violently stole your house and land and slaughtered your children in the proces and kidnapped your partner, would you simply shrug and try to find some other place to live or would you try to fight back?

Just imagine you get invicted because someone claims your place was promised to them by an invisible being 3,000 years ago and you get shot if you protest:

Recently the people of The Netherlands celebrated Remembrance Day. Followed by Liberation Day, the day after. It was 80 years ago that concentration camp Auschwitz got liberated, freeing surviving Jews, gypsies, homoseksuals, poets, communists and other people hated by the ['anti-woke' community] nazis.

Not everyone has any historical awareness:

People who found themselves superior to other people killing, torturing and oppressing them would never happen again! Right? 

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Wrong. It díd happen again. Immediately. Look up Atlit detainee camp. "Okay, sure, but that was decades ago. Surely mankind has learned and no people are that barbaric anymore!?"

Still today people are rounded up, imprisoned and tortured. For simply looking a different way. 

Guantanamo Bay under Trump is a termination camp: for hundreds of 'criminals' (ie people of colour) it's the end of the line. The Great Leader recently closed a deal with the self described 'coolest dictator on the planet' (Predident Bukele is of Palestinian descent) to have thousands of [brown people] 'illegals' deported to death camps in El Salvador.

Cheered on by a group of people that can by recognised because they love to shout 'Freedom!'.

By 'Freedom!' wappies mean they demand the freedom to be r4cist, mysogynist, homophobe b4stards without their behaviour having any consequences. 

Civilized people would like the freedom to live life without the presence of said 4ssholes.

What kind of freedom do you prefer: the freedom to be a r4cist pr1ck, or the freedom to live in a world without r4cist pr1cks?

The people of the USA (factually 'only' arund a third of them) went for option number 1. And are now the world's no. 1 laughing stock

Their Great Leader ('Führer' in German) is not only extremely stupid and therefore easy to manipulate by foreign dictators, he literally can't do anything right. Not even writing a social media post without any mistakes in it:

"The smaller kids in the playground refuse to give me their lunch money. If they don't give me their lunch money next week I'm gonna tell mommy!" Even bullying he can't do right. Normal behaviour. For a six years old spoilt brat. Just like claiming that the EU is a country. 

To think US citizens elected the brightest among them to lead them...But hey, current US playground 'politics' and 'economics' at least gives comedians free material. Because the MAGA crowd is só incredibly dumb and funny.

Do you think US farmers can save their business by selling beef to India, after a certain 'stable genius' imposed tariffs?

They worship their Great Leader ("Führer" in German) to no end. They should be considered armed and dangerous. I worry greatly about my US friends and relatives. Even for those who voted Krasnov in. Most of them can't help to be uneducated. And now the Department of Education is abolished, they will grow in numbers. I'm all for a great big wall being build around its borders. But let's give sane Americans a few weeks to pack their bags and escape. I heard Greenland is very nice this time of year. They now sell red caps spelling MAGA:  "Make America Go Away". And they boycotted Vance and his immigrant tradwife. 

Fun fact: there once was a guy called Boycott who told the people of Ireland to give a percentage of their income to his Great Leader; they literally turned their backs on him and his name became a word. It's true. Bigly. 

Am I happy?

"You went through a lot of hardship and suffered big losses. But still I always see you smiling. How come?"

Because I am content. And grateful. For my health, my friends, family and neighbours. For the fact I live in one of the best countries to live in.

It's pretty safe in the Netherlands, the quality of life is extremely high and you don't go bankrupt if you break a leg or become a parent. The Dutch have it só good that they complain on social media via a 1500 euro phone about prices being high while enjoying a 6 euro cup of coffee with a 7 euro piece of pastry. 

With only 2 euros, a fresh set of bedding and a roof over your head, you're already amongst the 2% most wealthy people in the world. As a matter of fact: worldwide more people die from eating too much than from starvation: 1 in 8 people is obese. Meaning on a population of 8 billion people, a billion are obese. Costing society a lot of money in healthcare. Like hospitals having to put in wider doors and having to buy more solid wheelchairs and stretchers. 

Do you consider yourself poor or are you happy you live in the wealthy west and therefore are part of the 2 percent wealthiest people in the world?

I consider myself fortunate because I didn't have to work hard to be born in the welfare state that is The Netherlands. 

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Confusing language

With milk we mean cow milk

and when we talk about eggs, we talk about chicken eggs.

Any more words like that?

Language not always makes sense. And sometimes even seems counter productive. A simple glance or hand gesture is often a better way to get a message across. And leads to a lot less confusion. And even arguments.

At times using words can feel like throwing a shoe at someone while still wearing it. 

Do you have examples of miscommunication that lead to an awkward situation? 

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"Kill Climate Deniers" is a stage play, not a call to action

If you make money robbing the Earth of its natural resources and thereby the planet unlivable, you have an incentive to cry about 'eco-terrorists!'. Those unfamiliar with right wing lingo: it's their term for people who care about other living beings besides themselves.

If you're a stay at home dad, a teacher, a hocky mom, punch in numbers at some lawyer's office...why would you spend entire days and nights trying to debunk established scientific results while hating empathic people?

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Oil multinational Shell - once Dutch but after the Brexit thanks to a lucrative tax deal with the UK government British - recently won its appeal case so the radical right Dutch government won't ask Shell to cut its carbon emmissions 'because Shell is not sole responsible for climate change'. As if you refuse to arrest a gang of bike thieves 'because they are not the only bike thieves and some bike owners should be less careless."

Shell itself in 1991 made a shocking video on the terrible consequences of our dependency of fossil fuels and its own role in more disasters, food- and water shortages, the killing of animals, the mass exodus of people not being able to live in large parts of the world:

Shocked by the findings of their own scientists, Shell - together with Bayer - set up a climate deniers international media campaign.

And it worked: Shell and its buddies in the 'let's ruin the planet for some profit' industry got millions of people to believe climate scientists are wrong. And to believe in a near future with millions of refugees and having to change our diet. Unfortunately with that last bit they are right. David Finnigan explains:

Who do you believe on climate change, the elite in the form of multinationals making billions in the fossil fuels industry or scientists?