Nope, you didn't read that wrong.

Not only will airlines, cruises, and car companies not be able to publicly advertise in Amsterdam anymore, but restaurants in Amsterdam will no longer be able to advertise any dishes that contain meat.

The Netherlands' capital city Amsterdam is globally known for being an early adopter of the wokest policies out there: legalized prostitution and legalized drug use immediately come to mind.

But now, instead of unbridled hedonism, the Left has become the political movement of religious rules, meaning we can't have fun things any more.

According to Euronews:

‘The decision to ban fossil fuel advertising [...] comes at a crucial moment in the fight against climate change,' Femke Sleegers, coordinator of Reclame Fossielvrij (Fossil Free Advertising) initiative, said when the ban was first proposed.

‘Adverts that portray fossil fuels as normal worsen climate disruption and have no place in a city − or a country − that has complied with the Paris Agreement.'

Counterpoint: Almost everything in modern life requires fossil fuels and the entire city of Amsterdam would literally sink back into the ocean without them. Massive pumping stations known as "gemalen" evolved from the windmills that used to pump water seepage from the Atlantic back beyond the country's dikes.

The pumping equipment inside these stations is made with fossil fuels. About half of the power needed to run them now comes from solar panels or wind turbines (made with fossil fuels with plastics that are derived from fossil fuels). The rest comes from gas/diesel, with a small percentage coming from nuclear energy (3%).

That map is no joke: 300 years before Christ, a Greek geographer named Pytheas visited the area, which was populated by ancient Dutchmen who lived in little huts built above peat swamps. He called them "wretched peoples" who survived off catching fish, and noted that "more people died in the struggle against water than in the struggle against men."

In a supposed effort to return to that prehistoric way of life, the government will fine anyone who dares advertise cars, gas, or meat "between €20,000 and €100,000, with repeat offenders paying double the amount."

I love this quote from the BBC:

'The climate crisis is very urgent,' says Anneke Veenhoff from the GreenLeft Party. 'I mean, if you want to be leading in climate policies and you rent out your walls to exactly the opposite, then what are you doing?'

Instead of pointless ad bans, you could, I dunno, confront China and India for their mass pollution of the world's air and rivers??

Anyway, there are 2,929 restaurants in Amsterdam.

Somehow I don't think they need to advertise cars or meat to get people to show up for a cut of steak.