What's really behind the destruction of Europe? by SteamPoweredShoelace
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TheRomanSlayer
Putang Ina Mo, Katolikong Hayop!
SMEs are the last thing standing between corporations and economic hegemony. I know there might be more potential riots breaking out, but it’s now or never to take out the globalists embedded in government.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
The government (both state and EU) attitude towards SMEs is rather predatory.
In Slovenia this is a legacy of our socialist past, when small private enterprises were allowed but not wanted, so bureaucracy did their best to impede them and the attitude carried on past death of socialism. I thought the attitude was less negative in the West but talking to people from places like Germany and France disabused me of that notion, it looks like different paths can lead to the same end point.
In general the big businesses can leverage their influence to get passed legislation that is advantageous to them and devastating to smaller businesses, along with endless bailouts. Bureaucracy on the other hand has to take on someone to justify it's endless expansion, but not big businesses as their execs play golf with top administrators and also have armies of lawyers and accountants on their payroll, small businesses are thereby much better targets for everyday ego affirmation.
Not to mention that we are in the looting phase of our civilization, so the ones with the power trying devour as much wealth as possible, those with some wealth and little power (middle class) are thus the prime target.
In Slovenia this is a legacy of our socialist past, when small private enterprises were allowed but not wanted, so bureaucracy did their best to impede them and the attitude carried on past death of socialism. I thought the attitude was less negative in the West but talking to people from places like Germany and France disabused me of that notion, it looks like different paths can lead to the same end point.
In general the big businesses can leverage their influence to get passed legislation that is advantageous to them and devastating to smaller businesses, along with endless bailouts. Bureaucracy on the other hand has to take on someone to justify it's endless expansion, but not big businesses as their execs play golf with top administrators and also have armies of lawyers and accountants on their payroll, small businesses are thereby much better targets for everyday ego affirmation.
Not to mention that we are in the looting phase of our civilization, so the ones with the power trying devour as much wealth as possible, those with some wealth and little power (middle class) are thus the prime target.
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AnimalNoodles
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Arrogance, narcissism and wishful thinking.
The entire elite is infected with the mode of thinking that they can bend reality to their will. "I think, therefore it is."
There is also the modern neoliberal status anxiety. They would sooner destroy themselves than lose status by looking bad in front of thier peers by negotiating with the the MAGAChud....errr....Russians.
In the Neoliberal mindset people who oppose them are literally opposing the future, and are thus either insane, stupid or evil. Thus you cannot negotiate with them in good faith nor do you need to consider them fully human anmd worthy of rights and respect. There is a seamless continuum of behaviour between how they treat a dissident podcaster, to how they treated the truckers to how they are dealing with Russia.
The entire elite is infected with the mode of thinking that they can bend reality to their will. "I think, therefore it is."
There is also the modern neoliberal status anxiety. They would sooner destroy themselves than lose status by looking bad in front of thier peers by negotiating with the the MAGAChud....errr....Russians.
In the Neoliberal mindset people who oppose them are literally opposing the future, and are thus either insane, stupid or evil. Thus you cannot negotiate with them in good faith nor do you need to consider them fully human anmd worthy of rights and respect. There is a seamless continuum of behaviour between how they treat a dissident podcaster, to how they treated the truckers to how they are dealing with Russia.
What i find surprising in this and many other takes in more or less aspiring spicy takes on this situation is how often people forget to mention the absolutely critical role of green politics in this mess.
Being reliant on Russian gas for energy of all things is something that many have warned about for years, sometimes more than a decade. They were called "russophobic" and paranoid.
Yet now out of all people, many on the "dissident right" suddenly are more eager to complain about "phobic" people, out of all people doing that huge lol here, than take an opportunity to go "told ya!" at the green nutjobs.
Considering the similar silence about the choice combination of their Russia reliant energy policy and green nutjob simping on the liberal side too, there has to be some odd political alliance alignment of interests there.
If not for the widespread acceptance of green bullshit in western halls of power, western countries would have had less unreliable renewables and natural gas power meant to compensate for that unreliability, and more coal and nuclear power, in addition to more domestic oil production (see: green lobbying against pipelines and shale gas in USA and Canada).
The scandal here isn't that they treat a hostile foreign power like it should be treated, it's that they treat their own citizens like a hostile foreign power.
AnimalNoodles
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Modern Green thinking is, all to often "I think, therefore it is."
I used to wonder why the end of a modern period always coincided with a purge of the intelectual class, I don't wonder why anymore I know.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could come up with them. Just goes to show Academic ability does not equal wisdom.
the problem when you get down to it is one of accountability.
Too many buracrats don't get punished when their ideas go horribly wrong.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Say what you will about the kings of yesteryear, but many a shit minister would count himself lucky if he was merely dismissed.
Throughout most of human history typically only 3% or so of the populace worked directly for the government.
TheRomanSlayer
Putang Ina Mo, Katolikong Hayop!
There’s been far too much political centralization lately, and a bit too much economic centralization as well.
Syzygy
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I've said it before, and I will keep saying it until the inevitable comes to pass: the obsession with centralizing authority at any cost will bite them in the ass when an outside force stumbles into the position of power they are desperately cultivating to preserve their dynasty. That, or one of their own will see an opportunity to seize power and purge any competitors, because for whatever reason the elites cannot reconcile the conflicting notions of "I will sit on the mountaintop" and "so do all of my peers that are helping me climb."
So, Eastern Europe has Western Europe's problems minus immigration and to a certain extent Wokeness? I guess that this makes sense. And of course Eastern Europe is considerably more corrupt than most of Western Europe is:
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Why is corruption so bad in Eastern Europe? And what can be done about it? First off, I don\'t know to what extent it can be reduced. According to the hbdchick\'s theories on the Hajnal Line, ceteris paribus, Southern and Eastern Europe will always be more corrupt than the countries of \
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Seems like reducing bureaucracy and making government more transparent (in order to make it easier to identify government officials who steal) seems like a good idea, no?
Not sure about Europe, but the US has been experiencing political centralization since the Civil War, and then with World War I and the New Deal and World War II and the Cold War and beyond.
TheRomanSlayer
Putang Ina Mo, Katolikong Hayop!
Just how big would the protests be in Europe come around next month, let alone December? Because if it's going to be a literal dark winter, I fear that the protests would end up making the Arab Spring look like the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
Won't know till we get there