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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Colin Brace

It is a way for the Gauleiter in charge to pretend they care for their citizens, no matter business failures led by empire politics and covid excuse and so on, while kneeling down to empire again and again..... a deflection policy, I would say, I am sure bills have gone up for all in NL too as in most of Europe.

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Jan 25, 2023Liked by Colin Brace

At one point, my most important possession was an indestructible opafiets. While I didn't nudge cars off the streets with it, I'm nevertheless convinced it could have handled that task with ease.

The infrastructure there is admirable. Hopefully the structures themselves, and the social values backing them, offer some hope for a non-neoliberal future.

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Very impressive. Not very practical everywhere, but impressive.

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Hi Colin, Just read this in reference to you earlier comment about technocratic dystopia being impossible to maintain, in case you missed it. https://brownstone.org/articles/technocratic-dystopia-is-impossible/

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