My Grandmother was adopted at birth and her family just never told her. I think she accidentally found some documents proving it when she was like 30. But then again, her adopted mother also lied about her (the mother’s) age for about 25 years, so that family had a lot of weird neuroses that I was thankfully spared.
I genuinely think it might also just be that since the economies were deindustrializing in general, the people who could best “pivot” to either financial fuckery, real estate or paper shuffling ended up on top. And since the EU for a while consisted of at most 2 countries actually making and exporting stuff, and the rest of the countries seemingly only existed to absorb said exports, things were fine for a while. The problem comes when these people have to acknowledge that they aren’t in the same world that they grew up / came up in, and a lot of them seem to struggle with taking this step.
I wonder if you’re right, or if this rejection of reality is just a function of the EU countries being mostly service-economies, who are by and large deindustrialized. These people at the top of the leadership have risen to the top by being good at speaking things into existence, because they have until now just been able to import whatever they needed, and if things got tough, they could usually just move to the US and start a consultancy.
Sadly I also know that this will be the case. European neoliberalism by all accounts should be long dead and buried, but somehow the EU keeps trucking along, while being slowly drained before being destroyed / harvested by the Americans.
Given how Burgerbrained our rightwing has become (they literally began talking about “woke” in the last election, without even bothering to translate it), I don’t think she is going to want to spend the money on other EU countries. I think she wants the big and shiny F35s that the Americans want us to buy, for a bajillion kroner a pop
Sure, and I agree that millitary spending is the least useful way to do keynesianism, but at the very least, if you are choosing to obey the Nato command and divert 5% of your GDP to millitary spending / preparation, then you should probably get to building factories rather than spending the money on American missiles and launch systems that lock you into a 30 year rentier contract. Like, if you’re going to spend the money on death and destruction anyway, at least make sure it’s being build locally so that the money isn’t just flushed into the toilet.
Obivously I should be happy that my evil ass country is doing a poor job of millitarising, but the lack of seriousness still bothers me on a fundamental level.
See, there is a way to use Defense spending as a way to mitigate economic risk, but somehow I think that the dipshits in charge of the EU countries don’t care about the social fallout from massively downsizing public spending on non-millitary procurement. Like the fact that the EU doesn’t fucking make any weapons, should probably be a wakeup call, rather than a call to spend even more money on the US and their shitty overpriced fighter jets that crash when it rains.
I concur. Everything about the “discussion” about the BMO is fucking stupid. Including the actual abbreviation. This just seems like a way for the weird bakeries to advertise themselves to a bunch of tourists that don’t know anything.
Also, I’ve tried a bunch of those bakeries at this point, and they all fucking suck. There’s no good reason why a pastry that tastes like lawn-clippings should cost 50 DKK.