Racists really don't understand racism

At a Greyhound bus terminal in 1988, somewhere in the Midwest. Nice conversation with an elderly, white, Christian lady. She said things like: "We should all get along, human rights are for every person and I don't understand racism." A (mixed) couple walks by..."What a shame they are going to hell. Everyone should stick to their own race!" She was right about not understanding racism.

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Racists come in all shapes and sizes. And I will never be able to understand them. Partly because racists themselves don't understand racism.

As in this sad example:

This sad story reminds me of a a Dutch zionist (simply a - former Catholic - racist who went to a Shul one day and decided to call himself Jewish so he could call people antisemetic if they called him out on his anti-muslim BS) who said he knew a lady in Israel who sometimes couldn't sleep at night because of warning sirens in the distance. 

Why are dumb right people of any kind such cry babies? 

Here's one crying that bars and clubs in an apartheid state deny him access because of his dark skin colour. 

What did he expect? I know for a fact that Israel - in general - is racist because the Israeli government itself hasted itself to state that they are not. 

"All the few dozen establishments this gentlemen tried to get into were actually full that particular evening. That you see that 80% of all seats are empty means that they were all reserved." Mein jee! I've heard better excuses from kids caught with their hand in the cookie jar. 

If a fascist says that he is not, would you believe him?

Land of Confusion (a #poem)

The day after

fading memories

of laughter, a dance,

and a kiss in the dark

Some confusion

when not only the lights

got turned on

and they agreed

to a walk in the park

After that

they lived

happily ever after

- although not together -

in the land of confusion

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Is your life based on lies or are you a decent person?

Suppose you get 2000 (dollars, pounds, euros) a month and by the end of the month there's 200 left. The 1800 is now in the hands of the bank or housing company, insurance companies, a telecomprovider, a streaming company, that nice guy from your favourite falafel stand, the supermarket and whatnot. Right? In short: money you had is now owed by someone else.

You may have less money now, but at least you have some actual friends. It must be hard to walk into a room and the conversations fall flat while everyone just smiles at you awkwardly. If they smile at you at all.

Elon Musk had over 400 billion dollars. After he appointed himself the head of a non-existing US government department he has some 300 billion left. Where did 100 billion dollars of Musk's money go to? Answer: nowhere because it never existed. 

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The story of Elon Musk and his fall from grace reminds me of the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes: he only has all this splendor and grandeur as long as people tell him he has. Until a little boy yelled out: "He is naked!"

In the case of the most famous South African since Nelson Mandela he only gets (he never actually earned anything. Except scorn and contempt) money in government handouts and bank loans as long as there are people believing he has billions in colletaral. The sad fact is: Elon's imaginary stockpile of money is evaporating faster than a cotton shirt in a nucleair blast. 

Once I believed the stories Elon told of being a self made man, working hard to reach the top, all the while being a nerd. Then holes in his stories started to appear that called him out as a liar. And I felt sorry for him. Than he showed his true colours and he turned out to be a lying fascist. And I stopped feeling sorry for him.

Now I realise it's not surprising that he doesn't have friends. Apparently Elon's dad hates him too and always preferred his brother Kimbal, a normal person. Fun fact: Kimbal Musk's wife used to be married to Skin, the lady from the band Skunk Anansie. Oh, and Elon's brother is a philantropist. For wappies: that's a difficult word that means he knows empathy. For instance: he put some of the millions he made with Zip2 into investments in sustainable agriculture and education. 

In short: the main difference between Elon and Kimbal Musk is that the first advertises himself as savior, while the latter actually helps people and the planet. 

But Elon's sister is their father's darling; daddy Musk loves his daughter só much, he got her pregnant. Twice. Okay, she's his former stepdaughter, the biological daughter of his ex. Would you date your partner's child from a previous relationship?

Probably only his mother loves Elon. Not surprising she loves someone who loves to lie to look rich and populair, considering she is close friends with a fake blonde who stole from a children's cancer charity (Ivanka Trump) and an actual Chinese spy who once dated an actual dictator before she left him for a right wing media mogul (Wendi Murdoch).

If you could choose: would you rather be a virtual, fascist billionaire or a likable person who actually worked for their money and has real life friends?

Stories (a #poem)

In the end 

all we have 

are stories

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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Tens of million of US citizens are só incredibly stupid that they honestly believe that putting an end to fair treatment and treating everyone equally will somehow magically make that scary thing called 'woke' disappear. Besides: literally none of them can even define 'woke'. In the end every single one admits: "'Woke' is just everything my favourite right wing populist says that I should be against." 

What is your definition of 'woke'?

Of course, Musk and his worshippers are wrong. DEI is in fact good for business. Just like in nature, communities thrive on diversity; if a single organism is dominant, it will exhaust the soil and nothing ever will be able to grow anymore. Including that dominant species.

Elon Musk himself is a 'product' of diversity, being part African, part European and part North American. Really silly that a product of diversity himself, Elon Musk, is against diversity. 

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Without diversity we would never have heard from a man who was born in Canada, has a Cuban father yet calls himself 'real American!' and 'Ted Cruz'. Although he was born as Rafael Edward Cruz. 

Millions of 'woke' people couldn't help laughing when 'Ted' proposed a bill limiting the use of preferred names and pronouns. Leading to the silly situation that Senator Cruz will feel insulted if you use his birthname ánd will cry if you use his later chosen name. Typical for dumb right: they always find a reason to cry.

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.