"safe and boring holiday park" sounds like a sentence for a country.

ShinyLeftPad an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> sentence for a country

Sure... It's a developed productive high tech country with agricultural exports leaving Russia in the dust despite 400 times smaller land size, but let's condemn it because it's "safe"

Also ask the farmers, fishers, ASML employees, the police dealing with gang killings and Netherlands being the biggest exporter of ecstasy and European gateway for coke how it's a "holiday park";)

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gostsamo an hour ago | parent [-]

NL has the biggest port in Europe, they get to be the biggest traffic channel for illegal goods. The only one who could've changed that would've been the one to eestablish the country there.

	▲	ShinyLeftPad 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		i mean singapore port handles way more traffic... but then it has very strict anti drug laws also ecstasy is made there in NL, so the port thing is kind of a red herring

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Muromec an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I very much like the safe and boring part of it.

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homarp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...

Disneyland with the Death Penalty" is a 4,500-word article about Singapore written by William Gibson. It wad his first major piece of non-fiction.

	▲	RobotToaster an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> The Singaporean government banned Wired upon the publication of the issue. Really not helping their reputation as authoritarian...