Oh you said background, I misunderstood. Well we’ve been a “mengelpot” for decades.

What are the good things about him? Why does the majority of our region vote for him?

The good thing used to be that when he switched from VB to NVA he dropped all the racist bullshit. He seemed to start accepting all the different people. trying to get everybody living and working together and that everybody was happy. He also is the self-proclaimed victim of drug violence because of him “trying to protect the people from all the drug problems”.

But it’s all false. For the people that do their research and don’t just listen to the media, it seems that was all a ruse to get to power. He only played the cards that would make him the most popular. As I said, NVA has been the party of “vriendjespolitiek”, and is silently racist and in it for the money. They portray the image of the quality Flemish person and get their votes that way. Yet when you look into budget spending, you’ll see NVA mayors and party members in all the companies and boards that get funding. Quality Flemish my ass. Being all nice to the people of the community only to take its money.

For the drug stuff. The Belgians are actually very responsible drug users. They keep bringing up the sewer water of Antwerp as a statistic for drug problems, but then neglect the fact that Antwerp has far less drug problems than other cities. (Most of it isn’t even the cocaine from the sewers they keep rambling about). They know damn right what gangs are active and who every player is, yet let them battle it out for what reason exactly? So he can be the guy that is on the front line of this “war”. And the people eat it up.

There are many other things. But those are his biggest wins. Plus there are also many people who vote NVA because they love being Flemish but can’t call themselves racist.

You can move to Indonesia

That’s not what I meant with being rich.

Brussels and Anderlecht aren’t in flanders buddy, other government.

Ah yes. You are correct.

He doesn’t care if they are of European descent

Until you actually look at who these people are. They are all rich and “classy”. The NVA party leaders and mayors also surround themselves with self-employed white people that just have to kiss their ass and get subsidies. I can give you the proof for this, but I don’t think you’d even do the research.

Which is fine, majority of Belgians are rich.

Incorrect. Belgium has a huge middle class with a very decent social net. That makes everybody feel rich, which is awesome, but it is not rich like the people that are his target audience.

He wants stability.

Ehh, that’s meaningless. It’s every politician’s goal eventually. Even that of dictators. It’s the other goals and the means to get there that are far more important.

Majority of Antwerp have immigrant background

It’s 23,5% - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad)

So maybe, these immigrants actually like him?

They don’t. Most of the immigrants voted for PVDA and Groen.

We’re importing people from right wing countries, you’re aware of this I’m sure. My Turkish diaspora friend votes for Erdogan. Just like most Turks here.

“Importing” is a pretty awful term here. Often used by anti immigration nationalists. It’s not “importing” because immigrants are almost exclusively migrating by themselves nowadays. We are not asking them to come work in our country like we did with in the past.

He’s a silent racist. He was a party leader for Vlaams Blok and personally tried to ban hijabs many times. Then he became party leader for NVA and changed his strategy. He introduced authoritarian GAS fines which are fines that can be- and have been abused to target minorities. He worked his way up to PM so he could get the rich rightwing assholes in power. The “Arizona” government is one for the rich whites, and he gains a lot from it.

I’m not poor and I am white. But I’ll still answer your bullshit. Brussels and Anderlecht are much bigger immigrant destinations. Respecting poorer parts of the society does not make it poor. It just looks like that in statistics. Destroying nightlife and Antwerp culture, so you can put luxury apartments with a good view is not development. It’s elitism.

So fuck him and fuck you for trying to spin this elitist bullshit.

Bart de Wever is a rightwing rich asshole. He demolished one of the better alternative nightclubs to put condos for rich people. He also has been trying to destroy the culture of the city to make it all fancy and stuck up. He needs constant police protection because he’s a racist cuck and stirs up wars between drug gangs so he gains more power.

Fuck him.

No worries.

It’s not a common international English word and English is not my native language.

I had to reread this a few times to understand that “waffling” means being hesitant.

I would love to visit the country of California.

How is he aware of her bookkeeping?

Was he doing it?

I wouldn’t be surprised.

The title reads very negatively towards Europe.

I have an alternative one: “Even the poorest Europeans live as long as the wealthiest Americans”.

It’s super easy to be GDPR compliant. It just costs money.

Maybe people just enjoy drugs and don’t want assistance?

I pay my taxes with Euros so I guess Mericuhn Dollers are not a real currency

Well, considering they have been caught buying their own cars to steal subsidies in Canada, who knows what those numbers even mean anymore? As long as it’s going down it’s on the right path.

TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.

The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.

This is fire. Hopefully it will be a rolling release.

Project Managers and software designers are hated for their “designing”. The testing is always very welcome.

Who says they have a problem with the store owner’s not allowing them though? They both can have no problem. Lmao.

They put a picture of traveler on a train near the bottom, but the guy has his fucking shoes on the seat. That’s almost as bad as having sex with the thing. Fuck you.