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Much of Europe was dirt poor before the war. There were actual food riots in Amsterdam. The Netherlands didn't get sewers until the 1950s. Showers became mandatory only in the 1970s.

We take our decadence and degeneracy for granted but it is all new. There are people alive now who remember Christianity.

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We are neither degenerate nor decadent. As much as far right tries to drag us there, we are not there yet.

And accusations of "degeneracy" and "decadence" were there all the time anyway. We have centuries of those complains.




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