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You can just tell the chubby girl at the gym’s front desk to turn off the low-vibration hip hop

BREAKING: Iceland says it could join the EU by 2028.

@CJMT33 @NoahRyanCo Yes

@NoahRyanCo Is it worth spending £43 on?

Absolute gem of a book. Been chewing on it for almost two years and still getting nuggets out of it

@_Babiche Ik zie geen andere weg tbh

Ben geen FvD stemmer maar ga er steeds positiever over denken #nieuwsvandedag

@eurofounder Ngl potatoes for lunch and dinner sounds pretty good

A perfect Friday in the Netherlands: 8:00 - Wake up 8:30 - Check portfolio. Down 10%. Pay 36% tax on unrealized gains 9:30 - Pick up wife from her boyfriend’s apartment 10:00 - Receive fine for cycling 2 km/h over the bike speed limit 10:30 - Start work 12:00 - Eat potatoes for lunch 14:00 - Write an angry LinkedIn post about Americans having no work-life balance 14:30 - Mandatory diversity seminar 15:30 - Finish work 17:00 - Apply for a permit to own a second bicycle 21:00 - Eat potatoes for dinner 21:30 - Read article about Europe having the highest quality of life 22:00 - Sleep on a couch because your wife’s boyfriend is staying over

@vonderleyen Incredible.

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday. For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

@levelsio We need to work harder to support our new Germans!!!!

I'm starting to love this guy Might save Germany and with it Europe!

@Casebradford The has been the standard already in welness resorts and saunas in the Netherlands and Scandinavia for decades.

Nude sun clubs are the next big trend in the health space. Tremendously health promoting and feels amazing to enjoy full body sunshine Sunlight benefits all our organs this way 🌞 Who will start the first naked sunshine studio?

Dertien jaar lang willens en wetens de NL wet overtreden en nu doodleuk in de tweede kamer meebeslissen over diezelfde wet en regelgeving. Als je dertien jaar structureel laat zien dat je geen respect hebt voor de Nederlandse rechtsorde, dan mis je elke vorm van morele legitimiteit om ook maar één seconde invloed te hebben op het maken van Nederlandse wetten

Als jongen van 8 vluchtte ik voor geweld naar Nederland. 13 jaar lang leefde ik ongedocumenteerd. Gisteren gaf ik als Tweede Kamerlid mijn maidenspeech. Zoals mijn zus vlak voor haar dood al zei: “Volg je dromen en je zal ze realiseren.” Nog nooit was ik zo trots ⤵️ d66.nl/nieuws/maidens…

@WhitePapersPol This is incredibly racist and our economy would instantly tank without them. We obviously need to forever import infinite low IQ people who hate us and our culture, otherwise the country literally stops functioning.

The Dutch have spent €580 billion on their foreign population since 1995. They will spend another €420 billion by 2040. It would be cheaper to pay every non-Dutch person with citizenship (and no criminal record) €100,000 Euros to emigrate/remigrate. It saves €285 billion.

@celestialbe1ng It’s either neurotic overoptimization or nothing

Everyone says they want to avoid premature ageing. But are you doing daily baking soda + magnesium baths while blasting red light straight into your eyeballs? Or are you just talking.

@WhitePapersPol Incredible

~433,000 Moroccans live in the Netherlands and compose 3% of the population. Each Moroccan in the Netherlands costs the Dutch taxpayer €550,000 over a lifetime. Moroccans have an unemployment rate 3x-5x higher than the Dutch. 30-55% of Moroccans use welfare, compared to 7-12% for the Dutch. 40-60% of 2nd gen Moroccan males have been the subject of a criminal investigation. 5% are arrested each year compared to just 1% of Dutch men. The Netherlands needs remigration.

@IterIntellectus Yeah ok but how long until AI yells “that weight is light, king” while I’m benching?

AI will eventually do everything you can do except the one thing that actually matters bench press 225 for reps

True. I don’t pick KLM anymore, even if the flight time is hours longer. Coach is straight up embarrassing. They don’t even give you butter with your dry piece of bread anymore lol (unless you fly Premium or Business). Business class is overpriced af. The only thing genuinely nice about it is the super friendly, mom-vibed stewardesses who call you by your name and actually want to take care of you. Just flew Emirates Business to Bali. €6k cheaper than KLM for three people. A chauffeur picks you up at home. Everything smooth, high quality, well arranged, amazing staff. The contrast is humiliating. I miss the glorious KLM from the past though, ngl.

In a Dutch personal holding company (BV), profits are first taxed at the corporate level (VPB): 19% up to €200k and 25.8% on profits above €200k. After this, the remaining funds stay inside the BV. Distributing them to you as the owner triggers a second tax event in Box 2: 24.5% up to ~€69k and 31% above that. In addition, a director-shareholder (DGA) is required to pay themselves a minimum gross salary of €58k. The tax authorities may require a higher salary if profits or market benchmarks justify it, although no hard formula exists. This salary is taxed progressively at ~36% to 49.5% before net payout. On top of the gross salary, the company pays ~7–8% in employer payroll taxes, and you should factor in €2–3k per year for accounting, payroll, and compliance costs. All in all, this is the sucker’s setup for Dutch investors. The rational move is to get out before these rules go into effect and before the notorious five-year exit tail tax kicks in. There’s a very real chance this gets dragged forward earlier than 2028 to minimize the short term capital drain.

You can take out the initials tax free. Realized gains you’ll pay tax on. And just never pay out dividends. It at least is a workaround for the unrealized portion. And better than the alternative. Which unrealized tax gains shouldn’t even exist in the first place. It’s just straight up theft

Netherlands will become a future US colony

@SolBrah Count me in

I know many good Dutch people. We must create a new Dutch colony somewhere to get them out of there.

@KuroKatball @CryptoJelleNL Fair point. But “self” is still pretty accurate given the 2025 election results and the amount of shit Dutchies keep accepting

@wesbotman @CryptoJelleNL There's nothing "self" about supranational organizations trying to destroy our people

Sad day in NL, the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains. This will destroy long-term strategies, kill compounding effects & trigger a wealth exodus of biblical proportions. But they'll pass it anyway. Can't fix stupid.

We’re very close to watching the middle of the bell curve wake up and realize it has always been a spiritual war disguised as politics and entertainment

@CryptoCowboy_AU when even your 10/10 Asian wife isn’t gripping hard enough

This explains so much about Coinbase I actually had no idea 😅