Belgian prime minister just got a full, 100% support on his stance on the Russian assets by all parties. This country has never been this united about something lol.

Dutch public broadcast finally showing balls by withdrawing from Eurovision

EU is speedrunning losing the support of one of their most pro EU member states and I’m in the front row seat eating my popcorn lol.

Please Belgium swallow the boot and take on a potential 200 billion debt all by yourself because we won’t give you any guarantees.

Don’t say it out loud because Starbucks will find a way to drone deliver PSL’s to a trench near Lublin

It would. It is also illegal and I believe Russia would be in their right to demand payments once war would stop. So it’s only natural for Belgium to not want to face a 165 billion repayment to Russia at one point.

And it only took a slight discomfort to turn people into being openly nazi

EU is fuming about Belgium not willing to use frozen Russian asset money to further fund Ukraine. Basically the only good thing our government is doing now.

There’s this football club in town I visited today and parts of their stadium were packed with left wing stickers despite them not being known for left wing supporters so I kinda wonder what’s brewing there. Would be cool to have a left wing club here. Our party is the biggest in the club’s district of the city so who knows. Maybe the people there found their way into the club.

Migrating has sometimes been a struggle with autism, even though I went to a country that has to some extent similar cultural values.

I was surprised by this really. Especially since he normally is a Ukraine supporter.

There is this reaction by far right people whenever one of their own gets in trouble with police to say police never does anything against, for example, XR activists whenever they block things. Which is nuts because hundreds of people get arrested whenever XR blocks things. It’s widely reported.

Retirement reforms have been postponed for now for a year

Day three of the strikes. Today it is the general strike, which means all sectors can join the strike. 1 in 10 Flemish companies will face problems today. Major problems in the harbor and airports. I’ll be going on a tour through the city, visiting picket lines.

Today is the start of the three day strike over here. Today public services started the strike, so lots of cancelled public transport. Tomorrow it will be the teachers and Wednesday it will be a general strike nationwide.

Your daily dose of ‘does organising and protesting work?’:

The Belgian government is delaying the decision making regarding retirement reforms after months of large protests throughout the country as they cannot find a way to get it through Parliament. They also struggle to reach an agreement on the general budgets for the same reason. They are feeling the heat we put on.

I kinda forgot what normal weather is supposed to be like. It’s around freezing point over here already and there has also been snow. But I thought to myself: ‘is snow supposed to fall this early?’. But I have now experienced ‘exceptional’ weather for probably a good third of my life so I don’t know what it is supposed to be like. And I doubt it will get better.

Also, I hate how calling in sick to work makes me feel guilty. The system has pavloved me into that I guess. Nobody at work makes a problem out of it really but still. And seeing hundreds of people in a closed off space on a daily basis is not doing wonders for my health.

Why would they want to do that? Any specific reason for this?

The EU has more material and more personnel than Russia has what do you mean only Finland is ready? What’s the rest doing? Is that where our money goes?

Because leaving the party and not being organised does not seem like an option

I feel demotivated by party work again because I cannot seems to convince anyone of taking some more action. Our recent project will include more of a fund raising thing for a niche group and even though that is very noble and all I do not, to put it bluntly, see the benefit of it when it comes to party building.

If I think back on the mission the party asked me to complete, which is attract people ‘like me’, and see what we are planning to do, then I simply conclude that this is not it.

I feel very arrogant saying this, because I know fuck all really, but I also know that the current sequence of events does not motivate me to do stuff. We are not a charity, to put it harshly. If I look at our demographs and if I look at who are currently not in our demographs, I feel like different things need to be done.

But I cannot get the party to see this. And I don’t know what to do.