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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by googlryas on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:09PM (#31938632)
It's entirely a "I hate Bezos so everything he does is bad". Weird how the citizens of Rotterdam had no issue with Bezos pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into their shipyard, but only got upset when they realized he would have to get his ship out somehow.

On top of all this, the bridge was dismantled 5 years ago for a renovation...it's not like it has never been done before.

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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by memen on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:20AM (#31943413)
It is not like the citizens of Rotterdam are involved in this shipyards business. The shipyard is not even in Rotterdam (Alblasserdam), but its ships have to go to sea. Also, the dutch shipyarding business is quite secretive about the actual buyer, partly due to the controverse that may arise.

On top of that, 'De Hef' is one of the most iconic historic bridges in the Netherlands and especially for the citizens of Rotterdam.

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Re:Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Be... by googlryas on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:57PM (#31950193)
Alblasserdam is 20km from Rotterdam, to someone not familiar with the legal boundaries, it would probably appear to be all part of the same conurbation/metropolitan area. I'm sure many of the shipbuilders are living or at least spending their Bezos money in Rotterdam.

Sure it is an iconic bridge...so what though? it's not like they were just going to dismantle it and leave it on the ground.

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