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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.

    For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).

    For more specialised services:

    Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
    Clothes: Zalando (German)
    Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).

    Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.




  • The USA. Even if it hadn’t gone on its path of fascism, I disliked being treated as a potential terrorist at the airport. I didn’t even ‘look’ brown, Muslim, or anything they would’ve disliked (and even if I did, or anyone else; the fact that they are that racist is a monument to their patheticness). Hell, in American terms I’d have been considered a Rockefeller Republican. And even then one couldn’t pay me my weight worth in gold to return to that shithole.

    Having to wait 3.5 hrs without toilet break before being let into the country ON ARRIVAL? Being fingerprinted?

    The museums there were also nationalistic as fuck, which I disliked.

    And having to wear a helmet when bicycling? Fuck you, USA.


    Aside from that, I think for future destinations, I’d also skip Egypt, Israel, and most of the Middle East save for Lebanon.

    Oh, and Hungary too except for the Pride March to give a middle finger to Orban. He’s a Russian puppet bootlicker, in my view.





  • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow far left am I?
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    From what I read the issues can give wildly differing results, though.

    That said, I’d wage that if they played it accordingly to their own IRL beliefs, most normal people would fall anywhere inbetween these;

    • Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
    • Democratic Socialists
    • New York Times Democracy
    • Left-Leaning College State
    • Civil Rights Lovefest
    • Scandinavian Liberal Paradise* (really should be labelled “Scandinavian Social Democrat Paradise”)



  • Comrade, you may dislike China; and certainly it’s got its problems. It’s terrible indeed.

    Yet where is the USA, if the American president supports UnitedHealthcare? Where is the USA, when its leaders siphon money from you, and try to tell you you’re one of them, when you clearly aren’t? Where is the USA, when Trump hides all Epstein evidence away?

    Has America ever actually let you improve? Can you develop yourself when you live in fear and panic?