Looks like it got removed by a mod. Which is interesting, because the commenter was also a mod.

Oh I’d never call myself a conservative, and most conservative parties here are right-wing as well.

Edit: I should probably start by saying that this is somewhat off-topic.

In the Netherlands we tend to rank our parties along left-right and progressive-conservative axes separately. Conservative-left gets you Christians who care about the poor. In other countries there’s also the “I want the government to support our workers”, “I want to go back to Soviet times” and “I’m leftist but LGBTQ is wrong” types.

The English disease of putting spaces in a compound word might be worse… it’s not even consistent. It’ll be a new example of “Dutch grammar is 50% special cases.”

Honestly no, never, and that feels more like a problem of not having proper cycling paths. Nobody wants to cycle on the sidewalk.

The way I see it, shawarma comes in strips and kebab in flakes

Oh die peiling ziet er eigenlijk veel beter uit dan ik dacht, ik was bang dat de PVV er nog meer stemmers bij zou hebben gepakt

Frisia! It’s a province of the Netherlands and I think their language is the closest one to English

Netherlands, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia got added really late

Funny how Norway is there even though it’s not even in the EU

Oh no, of course not. Obviously there’s a second party member. I’ve never seen both members in the same room together though. (the second member isn’t a person, it’s a foundation founded by Geert Wilders)

ï, ö, ü, ä as well (as a diaeresis, not an umlaut)

At least here in the Netherlands, there was a lot of commotion because a data centre tried to buy a windmill park meant to power households as their dedicated power source

Maybe they’re Dutch, there it’s only done for words that end in a vowel. Probably not though.

feddit.nl heeft wat Nederlandse gemeenschappen (bijvoorbeeld !thenetherlands@feddit.nl) die normaal zijn, maar ze zijn niet echt actief

In Dutch we only talk about turning screws clockwise and counterclockwise

I don’t know about Germany, but in the Netherlands people also kept giving that “no farmers no food” argument even though we produce much more than we actually eat. Most of our food is for export.

Also a thing in the Netherlands!

He has a bunch of English ones on his website as well. Some of them are just the dumbest, least translatable puns though (in a good way).

Sometimes you just have to feed the canal, you know?