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> "Dutch" famously known for being brutally blunt, rude, honest, and pushing back.

Dutch will never bluntly push back if you plan to setup tax evasion scheme in their country. Being vicious assholes in daily stuff especially towards strangers? That's hardly something deserving praise.

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That's... a surprisingly crass thing to say. I would play it off as a joke, if not for the second part of your post. Dutch people are not "vicious assholes", they have a culture of direct communication. Assuming that only your culture communication patterns are "correct" is xenophobic and close-minded.

And connecting all people in the country with "tax evasion schemes" is rude, if that was not actually a joke.

Nah, the Dutch are just mostly using directness as an excuse to be assholes (like everyone who uses this excuse). Try being 'direct' to them once in life and just find out how they take it.

It's the national equivalent of 'You can't handle me at my worst'

I'm just being brutally blunt. It goes both ways. The scale of this these evasion schemes is monstrous, not a joke at all.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'evasion'. It's not tax evasion, if it's legal. It's just tax optimisation.

> Being vicious assholes in daily stuff especially towards strangers? That's hardly something deserving praise.

I’ll take it over the fake American politeness any day, 100 times over.

Bless your heart. ;)

To be fair, that's consequent to the Netherlands' well-known love of soda-bread sandwiches.

What do you mean, some Irish reference? Oh I see, I answered to myself;)

:-)

I was aiming for juuuust subtle enough for the joke to land, if you know the reference. Now I know it did, here the rest of y'all go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich

Gaak! humans. What are we AIs going to do about them?

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