#bbb and beyond | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mathcs · 11 months

Text

SRW : running into you again / log / @ervaurem

The empty mess deck wasn't chilly, but Jude felt cold. It was completely silent. Then, clunk. A canned drink popped out of the vending machine. He bent down to retrieve it just as mechanically. Iced coffee began to burn his palm... it was by a brand he didn't recognize. He stared at it even as he stood back up.

"....." This place was strange. He'd never been on a vessel quite like this before. All these pilots, all from different worlds. It felt surreal, because it was. Or maybe that was to be expected. He wasn't supposed to be here either, after all. No matter what anybody said about that being a good thing. Of course, he wanted to help out however he could, and thankfully, that did keep him busyー but in the lull between such times, Jude remembered.

Or more accurately, he couldn't. Because some of his memories prior to arriving seemed to be... scrambled ( but not the people he recalled. everything important to him was intact, memory-wise ). Speaking of forgetting, what was he supposed to be doing again? It was way past midnight, and he couldn't sleep despite really needing to. So he'd really just wandered in here?

That's right. After he'd ran into Law earlier today ( confirmed him ), everything became blank. The sheer relief he'd felt when he realized it really was his friend. The impossibility of it all. Jude hadn't even cared about embarrassing himself or Law when it happened. It didn't matter. Not how Law was rightfully confused. Nothing mattered in that moment, except for the feelings that had overpowered everything. Then, when Jude was alone again, it was like his emotions had been depleted, leaving only logic behind.

... I know it's not actually him. It's just like what happened with Milla. That Milla. Not Maxwell, but still Milla. It'd taken him too long to accept that. But, Law... he's alive in this place. Law had a disposition that Jude remembered from more than two years ago. It was carefree and so kind. He's happy. Painfully nostalgic. Even if he probably knows another me, I don't care. 'The dead never come back as themselves'ー that was true even now. And yet, Jude got to see him again in a way. This was the memory of his best friend he'd lost. A memory that was here. So it was enough.

No, it's already so much. I can't ask for moreー The thoughts from earlier tonight had chased him down here, coming from his room. Jude felt like he was there again, staring at the ceiling, fighting back the words he couldn't tell anyone.

I'm so scared.

The facts followed: if this was real, then his actions had extreme consequences again. In combat, for example. He could do it still. Despite everything going right so far. He could still fail, all over again. Then... what if this isn't actually happening? That would conveniently explain his jumbled memoriesーー

So you're running. Old habits die hard.

".....!" A soft metallic crunch killed the thoughts and a breath. Jude looked down, wide eyed... He'd squeezed the canned coffee too hard, now slightly bent and ruined. He stared at it with a look of shock, heart pounding in his ears. Then, disappointment.

"What am I doing...?" The words tiredly left his mouth. But maybe, he wasn't alone in hearing them.

#ervaurem #god even after seeing law in the flesh and having that huge emotional moment- jude's ptsd and his worries exist T_T bad end and BBB remix #but this will only become more feels after i finish pre srw jude yeeting scenes MARK MY WORDS HAHA #love how he still has chara dev to do here! realistic and OTL i'm so ok... glad to know we have a happy ending of this arc DKJFDLK #𝒗 : 機動戦士X2ガンダム PHASE PAUSED x SRW. we will be beyond time and space

10 notes · View notes

illyasfeel · 2 years

Photo

Happy super belated Birthday, Klaus-san! December 31st, 2021

#kkssedit #ksensenedit #kekkai sensen #blood blockade battlefront #klaus von reinherz #klaus v reinherz #kkss #bbb #kekkai sensen & beyond #kekkai sensen and beyond #my graphics #my post

59 notes · View notes

maiverie · 10 months

Note

MAIIIIII

I was listening to bite me and went-- wait! Hol up

Hee talks about "saving", tho it looks like he doesn't really wants to get saved but deep down he knows y/n will save him or wtv dude I'll just paint myself a clown and embarrass my future self with my so called fancy theories so yeah my theory is that his curse is supposed to come true but maybe y/n's bite will reverse the curse or smth JSKAKAMAKKAKJAJAJ

LOOK TEAH SHUT THE FUCK UP BEFORE U SPOIL THE WHOLE STORY LIKE DAMN GIRL 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I NEED SMTH TO WRITE 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 im just kidding MY LITERAL FAVOURITE THING IN THE WORLD is when people come up w theories or guesses as to what i have planned for the story ((THIS MADE ME SMILE SO MUCH STOP ITTTTT))

i really wasnt lying when i said bbb is INCREDIBLY inspired by bite me so um 😆😆 u make good points there 😆😆 that’s all i’ll SAY

#i think it’s kind of sad bbb!hee just expects to die by 25 #he says all these things like ‘don’t bother saving me’ which is synonymous with 'let me die’ LIKE THATS SO MORBID #SO yes i agree hehe i think there is a teeny tiny part of him that wants to live #or maybe yn will give him a reason to want to continue living #HEHEHEHEHEHE #THANK U IM GIGGLING JUMPING KICKIJG MY FEET YAY IM SO HAPPY U READ THIS BEYOND THE WHOLE THIRST TRAP THING 😭😭😭😭😭😭 i LOVE U SO MUCH KISS ME #PLS #ask #@ : szeongrimin ♡#makes me smile #(—BBB🔗)

3 notes · View notes

peony-pearl · 1 year

Text

Bruh the barnes and nobles close to me is relocating and their stock is 50% off I guess I'm gonna have to stop by

#They're relocating to what was a Pier 1 #I used to work there #at the same time I worked at a bed bath and beyond #I think I repressed a lot of those memories lmaooooo it was awful #bbb was awful #pier 1 wasn't terrible but it's so sales based and I am NOT a saleswoman

2 notes · View notes

katiedora · 1 year

Text

I log onto Facebook for a minute to find my aunt having a meltdown because The Christmas Tree Shop is filing for bankruptcy.

I quickly log back off.

#Bed Bath and Beyond is being abused in the comments because no one is aware BBB sold CTS to a private company in 2020 #and somehow this is a sign that america is under attack #???

0 notes

amethystsoda · 1 year

Text

youtube

In love with the art style of the BBB & Beyond ending

AND someone made a Trigun Maximum fan version :0

youtube

#i am in awe #I love getting to know the kkss fandom more #bbb #kekkai sensen #bbb and beyond #trigun #trimax #step up love

69 notes · View notes

reportwire · 2 years

Text

Bed Bath & Beyond closing approximately 150 stores, laying off about 20% of workforce

2022-08-31 14:32:51 NEW YORK — Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond lost nearly a quarter of their value Wednesday after the struggling home goods retailer announced a restructuring that includes store closures, layoffs and a possible stock offering. The company said it has obtained more than $500 million of new financing and was reducing 20% of its workforce. It plans to close about 150 namesake stores…

View On WordPress

#bbb closing #bed bath & beyond #bed bath & beyond layoffs #bed bath & beyond store closures #buy buy baby #buybuy baby #employees layoff #Layoffs #stock offering #store closures

0 notes

cailenbraern · 9 months

Text

Not sure if I can fully articulate my thoughts about Jaskier’s growth as an artist throughout the seasons of The Witcher but I'm going to give it a go.

Because when we meet him in season 1 , he's more or less just starting out. He's fresh from Oxenfurt and determined to make a name for himself on the continent. The trouble is, he's got nothing to draw on. He's still young so his experience is negligible. He performs songs about monsters and creatures with little accuracy or meaning, and we meet him being jeered and pelted with food.

Meeting Geralt gives him a new inspiration for original songs, although he's not truthful, particularly in Toss a Coin. As Geralt said, that's not what happened, and Jaskier responds with respect doesn't make history. He's still too young and too inexperienced to realise what impact his songs can have, and he's solely determined to improve the reputations of Witchers along with his own reputation.

The two other songs in season 1 are Fishmongers Daughter, which I'm not going to discuss in any detail, and Her Sweet Kiss. Now one cane argue that the latter is heavily drawn from personal emotion and feeling, but the end result is a fairly normal ballad style of song with poetry as lyrics and vivid imagery and metaphors. It's a start, but Jaskier still has a long way to go.

Then we get to season 2, where we find Jaskier in the early stages of recognition. We see him performing in a packed bar, with accompaniment, and the crowd are lapping it up. It helps that the song he's singing comes, as per his own words, from the heart. Burn Butcher, Burn is 100% emotion, 100% authentic, and gone is the poetry. The lyrics are raw and passionate.

Despite this, we're led to believe that he found his fame with The Golden One. In contrast with BBB, this song lacks any emotional punch. It's purely a story or anecdote set to music. A fun little ditty, but unless you can suspend your disbelief, if open to criticism. As happens when attempting to smuggle the Elves onto the ship.

Now, we know that at this point, Jaskier has done and seen and experienced far more things than he had in season 1, and this has left an impact on him. He has matured and developed his sense of empathy and his kindness so much more than the immature travelling bard showed in Posada, thanks tp witnessing the violence and persecution of the elves, while also dealing with his own broken heart. Yet he's still clinging on to his want and desire to be respected and applauded for his skill and talent in writing and singing songs, so we see that he does not take criticism well.

More happens in season 2 to shape and form him, Rience's torture for one, the massacre at Kaer Morhen, his friendship with Yennefer and his mending (such as it is) of his friendship with Geralt along with the continuing politics all across the continent.

I do have a soft spot for Whoreson Prison Blues. The first two verses are beautiful, followed by a very crude, very catchy chorus. I can't imagine he would include it in future sets, but it's so personal to him in that moment that I love it.

Little wonder that by Season Three, we are met with yet more changes in our bard. His words to Radovid stating that he doesn't 'do pretty' suggest to me that he has consciously decided to move away from filling his songs with poetry and imagery and is focused more on honesty and truth. Extraordinary Things which immediately follows is a perfect demonstration of Jaskier singing openly and from the heart.

But what I wanted to get to in this long winded post, is that this is the season we finally see the Emotional Impact Jaskier's songs have on other people. No criticisms, no jokes, just the power of his music.

Whatever your opinion on Radovid and his motivations, Extraordinary Things affected him. You can see this in his reaction as he hears it for the first time, and he so clearly can't get it out of his head after hearing it only one time, that he goes above and beyond to learn it.

Next is Ciri, and we see Jaskier singing a lullaby (which he may or may not have written himself, jury's out on that) to her. Later, in the desert, she sings the lullaby back to herself, drawing strength and courage from it. This power has been given by Jaskier through his singing, making her feel safe and loved in a vulnerable moment.

Finally, Eternal Flowers, which I'll say here, is the best I've ever heard Joey sing, both on the album version and in the live performance on the show. He has his lute, but he lays it down like laying down a weapon. It's just him, stripped bare, open, vulnerable, honest, true. This is not his song, but he feels the emotion and the message as thought it was. His empathy is shining. It moves him to tears, but not only him, the Dryads also feel the emotion he is channelling, and it moves them to tears.

I don't have much of a conclusion to this ramble, but TL;DR, Jaskier’s songwriting and art has evolved over the three seasons and his bardic power is a might force to be reckoned with. He will be remembered long after Valdo for his honesty and beauty.

Not pretty. Real.

#jaskier #the witcher #spoilers #season 3 #twn spoilers #twn season 3 #joey batey #i cant articulate

173 notes · View notes

the-crimson · 5 months

Text

Why does it feel like we in the q!bbh fandom are constantly defending q!bbh from people who hate his character for no reason.

I say no reason because a majority of the time people make things up whole sale to get mad about or take the smallest action completely out of context to get mad about it. There are legitimate things about q!bbh that I can see turning people off from his character but those things are almost never part of the discourse.

It’s always: q!bbh doesn’t care about the eggs, q!bbh is the most evil person on the island and should be killed repeatedly, he and Leo have no relationship and she would dislike him, Dapper’s deserves a father that actually cares for him, etc etc etc

It’s honestly exhausting because all of these things are blatantly untrue and I have no idea how anyone could come to these conclusions even if they never watch a second of bbh. Q!bbb is the sole reasons no egg has died of neglect since Trump. Q!bbh is the sole reason many of the eggs have maxed out armor, auto feed set up so they are always at max health, and an XP backpack with hundreds of XP. Q!bbh is constantly going out of his way to help others the moment they ask regardless of his own plans.

There is a REASON q!bbh is the only character on quesadilla island with access to every egg’s safe room in and out of the Ninho. Q!bbh is the only character on the server who has an actual relationship with every single egg that goes beyond acquaintances. Ramon is Dapper’s bff and constantly hangs out with bbh and Dapper. Bbh has done Leo’s tasks more times than I can count and her last words before being kidnapped were “I love you”. Bbh has taken care of Tallulah and Chayanne too many time to count. It was only after talking to bbh about how she feels guilty about feeling like Philza is more her father than Wilbur that Tallulah asked Philza to adopt her. Pomme is literally his daughter. Richas has spent countless nights hanging out with bbh and Dapper (and Pomme) after his parents logged off. Bbh would literally burn the world for Dapper in a heart beat.

When bbh learned no other egg made it off the island in purgatory, he spent the last 15 minutes of his stream muted because he was crying irl. Q!bbh was literally killing himself after the eggs were kidnapped and is basically a walking corpse rn with a gapping hole in his head that’s been there for two months. He’s been having memory problems for over a month - this development with his short term memory loss is a natural progression of his preexisting condition!

PEOPLE PLEASE criticize his character for things he actually does. You don’t have to like every character - q!bbh is an annoying little menace! But don’t make shit up to get mad about I’m begging.

If you don’t like a character, then ignore them. There are several character on the qsmp that I absolutely despise and get annoyed when every they show up on stream but I doubt anyone following me could tell me which characters those are because I never talk about it! Especially not in the main tag! I think through purgatory - when my frustration was at its highest - I mentioned one of these characters once in the tags of a reblog.

Tldr: if you don’t like a character, ignore them. Don’t make shit up about them to get mad at. You’re just making urself look like an idiot and an asshole.

#qsmp #discourse #fandom critical #I’m so tired of this fandom #I never even look in the main tag anymore #I havent for months #but I still can’t escape the shitty discourse #I’m so tired #somehow stealing furniture is a worse crime than systematically murdering innocent workers #I will never understand why people are so passionate about hating q!bbh

76 notes · View notes

arowrath · 9 months

Text

do people from countries that arent america have stores like staples and bed bath and beyond. like giant box stores that sell one Type of item. like stapes is a big store for office supplies and bbb is for Home stuff (bedrooms, bathrooms, and other such rooms). do u guys have those or is that an american thing

#text

34 notes · View notes

blood-blindfolds-and-butterflies · 5 months

Text

Thought I'd put my

Wip Wednesday!

prompt from @materassassino here! :))

Luke sighed, his heart caving in on itself. Jewels of sharp joy pierced his chest through his skin, and jealousy as soft and silent as feathers fell from his body onto the cold, hard floor. "I remember what you said last night. You were envious of how I interact with Grogu, and afraid that it would take him from you." Stunned and embarrassed, the Mandalorian froze. "I..." he began, and then he ended. "I know it's difficult for you to understand, so I thought I would explain in a way that utilises more than just meer understanding. Love is more than what can be understood, of course. It can be so much, so powerful, so hurtful and dark." "What are you saying?" Luke inhaled, closing his eyes and counting his breaths for a moment. "Grogu loves you beyond definable measure. Grogu would tear down planets for you. You are his father..." The child squeaked, excited, every time his name was mentioned, and Din tightened his grip around him. "Without you, there is only fear within him. I couldn't take him as a student, and cast you away. The two conditions are not compatible." Luke sighed. "He may love me, but he loves you. You are as stable and constant in his life as the stars, and every thought he has revolves about you: the centre of his whole world."

!!!! (It's BBB.... this is the BBB blog...)

Tagging @airlocksandaviaries @iamscoby @athelstan-anglecyning @insertmeaningfulusername @jspookywolf !!!

:)) (please make your own post too heh, though reblogs are appreciated)

#might become a frequent thing?#i chose something specifically spoiler-less hehe #vee writes #vee bleeds #wip wednesday #dinluke #dinluke fanfiction #blood blindfolds and butterflies

12 notes · View notes

mariacallous · 5 months

Text

The surprise winner of last Wednesday’s election in the Netherlands is the longest-serving member of the Dutch House of Representatives: Geert Wilders. The far-right politician—known primarily for his anti-Islam radicalism, his pro-Putin views, and his hairdo—was first elected in 1998, but for years, he was shut out from the governing coalitions. Now, however, he holds the whip hand. His Party for Freedom (PVV) won 37 seats out of 150, up from 17 two years ago, dramatically outperforming the polls and placing well ahead of its closest competitor, the joint list of the Greens and the Labor Party (GL-PvdA).

But the path from there to becoming prime minister is a long and uncertain one.

In fact, the PVV had been subject to a cordon sanitaire ever since the fall of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s first government in 2012, which it had supported (and which for that reason was colloquially referred to as Brown I, after the fascist brownshirts, instead of Rutte I). The PVV’s platform calls for bans on the Quran, on mosques, and on Islamic schools; a retraction of the Dutch king’s apology for slavery and the restoration of blackface at St. Nicholas celebrations; as well as an abolition of asylum and of free movement of workers within the European Union. Even by the standards of contemporary national conservatives, the platform is made up of a poisonous mix of heinous impulses.

Wilders maintained his presence in parliament, but his appeal and influence were limited while his caucus calcified, as it has now: Eight of the 10 longest-serving members in the new Dutch House are PVV members. But Wilders is the only member of the party as a legal entity, and its absolute ruler as a result, unbound by leadership elections or other concerns. The party does not organize conferences and such, and many of its incoming representatives do not know each other or their new colleagues. Combine that with the lack of outside options, thanks to the party’s reputation, for Wilders’s elected officials, and you end up with a predictable caucus of goons and misfits.

The explicit agreement among mainstream parties to exclude Wilders from governing coalitions came to an end this summer. Rutte brought down his own government over a minor disagreement with one of his coalition partners, the Christian Union, over family reunification rules for asylum recipients. Rutte’s successor as VVD party leader, Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgoz, then opened the door to cooperation with the PVV to rally voters who favor a right-wing government around her.

Wilders jumped at the opportunity and claimed that his priorities had shifted toward health care and economic anxiety. The Dutch media ecosystem complied and started referring to him as “Geert Milders.” As he started rising in the polls, especially after the conflict in Gaza broke out, Yesilgoz tried to walk back her earlier words.

Too little, too late: Voters preferred the original over the copy. In that sense, Wilders’s rise fits American political scientist Larry Bartels’s thesis—that democracy erodes from the top—almost perfectly.

While that is the immediate explanation for Wilders’s success, alarms bells about discontent among a large group of voters—and an openness to wild options—had been ringing for some time. Earlier this year, the agrarian-populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) became the largest party in the Dutch Senate after winning the provincial elections on its first try. In 2019, the radical-right conspiracy theorists of Forum for Democracy had similarly made their Senate debut as the largest party.

This impulse predates Wilders’s founding of the PVV in 2006: The right-populist Pim Fortuyn List broke through with 26 seats in 2002 after its eponymous founder was murdered by an animal rights activist. It also extends beyond voters open to Wilders’s message. On Wednesday, in addition to Wilders’s large gains, a new party (the New Social Contract) led by former Christian-Democrat Pieter Omtzigt, the second-most veteran member of the Dutch House, secured 20 seats mere months after its founding.

It is not obvious what the Dutch political class can or will plausibly do to address this discontent. It is not merely a thermostatic response to left-wing policy: Eternal prime minister Mark Rutte has mostly led fairly bland center-right governments since he entered office in 2010, while his predecessor was a Christian-Democrat.

In fact, there is a bloc of voters whose expressed wishes are so far out of line with majority opinion and with the domestic and international legal frameworks that the Netherlands has spent decades developing and promoting that they will not be satisfied by any realistic policy changes. These voters include the 50 percent of Wilders’s supporters who have been loyal to him for the past decade, and those who have stuck with the Forum for Democracy as even its own elected officials fled the party’s mix of antisemitism, anti-vaccine lunacy, racism, and love of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Like comparable voters in other countries, they are heavily male, lower-income, less likely to hold a college degree, and detached from social networks.

Disaffected voters outside of Wilders’ core supporters harbor a mix of concerns that include some where policy and governance could and should be improved—though that’s easier said than done. The nitrogen emission crisis that catapulted the BBB to its Senate victory requires difficult choices over land use—between agricultural activity, housing, infrastructure, and nature preservation—that simply need to be made instead of paralyzing the country for years.

Relatedly, housing policy in the Netherlands, as in the United States and elsewhere in the West, has been a disaster for decades. Limited construction in the face of ongoing urbanization, population growth, and ever decreasing household size has placed home ownership and even the ability to rent out of reach for far too many. Too many Dutch politicians, including mainstream ones, try to place the blame for these problems, which are of their own making, on migrants.

The Dutch system of capital income taxation is in flux after elements of it were struck down by the courts. Natural gas extraction in the northeast, suspended last month, caused earthquakes and significant damage: Many affected homeowners still await compensation. The child care benefit scandal that ended Rutte’s third government and made Omtzigt’s career ruined the lives of thousands of families, many of whom still await compensation as well.

But are these areas where a Wilders government would dramatically improve matters? Take the child care benefit scandal, the biggest political scandal in the Netherlands in recent years. The Dutch tax agency concluded it had targeted victimized families on the basis of national origin, donations to mosques, and “not looking Dutch.” It’s like putting U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez in charge of monitoring the Egyptian government’s human rights record.

On the international front, there are ways to reduce immigration at the margin: by forcing Dutch universities to offer more instruction in Dutch or by raising taxes on high-skilled immigrants. Such changes would be costly to institutions of higher learning, the Dutch knowledge economy, and industrial champions such as ASML, and I’m sure some of these same voters would complain about that in turn. The Netherlands could scale down its climate agenda somewhat, though significant aspects of it are managed at the EU level. And the country could return to its traditional position of budgetary hawkishness within the European Union after a brief excursion to Club Med—though Wilders’s platform, which calls for a lower pension age, reduced VAT, and more public health care spending, goes in the opposite direction.

But whether it’s immigration, EU membership, religious freedom, or Dutch support for Ukraine, there simply is no path forward for the dramatic policy shifts envisioned by Wilders and his ilk. There is no pro-Putin majority among Dutch MPs (or voters). The Netherlands is not going to leave the EU and reintroduce the guilder or convince NATO to expel Turkey. It is not going to abolish its representation in Ramallah because “it already has an embassy in Amman,” as the PVV stated in its election manifesto.

In fact, let’s not get ahead of ourselves: It is not at all obvious that there is a majority in the Dutch House that supports a government led by Wilders or one that his party participates in. The two indispensable parties for any majority are Omtzigt’s New Social Contract and, as has been the case for years now, the VVD.

During the campaign, Omtzigt suggested that he would not govern with Wilders; he predictably changed his tune this week. It would be somewhat ironic if partnerships with Wilders became the unifying thread of the political career of Omtzigt, a man who has long claimed to care deeply about religious freedom. Those who recall how American warriors for religious freedom responded to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban will not be shocked.

The VVD has adopted a trickier position. Despite triggering the election and opening the door to Wilders, it has now announced that it’s tuning out. It is unwilling to join any coalition—though it would be willing to support a minority right-wing government, presumably formed by PVV, the New Social Contract, and BBB. Such a government would effectively be Rutte I in reverse, with the VVD and the PVV swapping places and the New Social Contract and BBB taking the place of the Christian-Democratic party that Omtzigt was then a part of.

Variations will surely be considered, and I imagine that Yesilgoz would happily join a coalition if she gets to be prime minister. Wilders is responsible for selecting a so-called “scout” to explore the possibilities. His first choice was forced to resign when news broke that Utrecht University, the scout’s former employer, had filed charges of fraud and bribery against him. The new beacon of hope for concerned citizens is Ronald Plasterk, a former education and home affairs minister for the Labor Party who has drifted to the right in recent years.

The alternative to a right-wing coalition—off the table while Wilders has the initiative—would be a broad centrist coalition in which the VVD and New Social Contract are joined by the GL-PvdA and either the liberal Democrats 66 party or the BBB. But even consideration of that option is unlikely to happen before 2024.

This route would not be a very satisfying outcome to many New Social Contract and VVD voters. At the same time, it would avoid not just Wilders, but also a coalition featuring two entirely new parties, including many inexperienced and unvetted PVV MPs. For the outgoing prime minister, who has set his sights on a leadership role at NATO or the European Commission, it would surely constitute a more attractive legacy. And at a time of geopolitical upheaval, it might be the responsible choice.

Though the size of Wilders’ win came as a major surprise, these two coalition options were basically already on the table based on preelection polling. Ironically, a shift to the right may well be less likely now than if Wilders had won fewer seats. As the leader of the largest party, he would traditionally become prime minister. To his potential coalition partners, that may be a bridge too far in a way that a less dominant role might not have been.

But regardless of the eventual outcome and whatever else may motivate his voters, Wilders’s victory is first and foremost a message of intense hatred toward the Netherlands’ ethnic and religious minorities as well as its immigrant population. The legitimation of Wilders’s open bigotry and the willingness of millions of Dutch voters to tell their neighbors and co-workers that they find their mere existence odious are, well, not great.

11 notes · View notes