EU

Europeans don't usually understand the U.S., or what made us successful (as much as they think they do). Europeans don't usually understand the U.S., or what made us successful. They think they do because they watch Hollywood's version of America, as seen through their Eurocentric eyes -- but that's like asking Democrats about what motivates Republicans: the answers are usually garbage. That's why the French Revolution was such a failure, and the EU is so often wrong. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-09-05

• The U.S. was created so that "we the people" (as individuals) could separate from a monarchy (and the collective that we didn't fit into), self govern as a lot of local (State) democracies, with the minimum overarching federalism as possible.

• The EU was created to turn a bunch of separate little pseudo-democracracies into one unresponsive Brussels (or Berlin) run monarchy.

Can you see the paradigm problems? It's not just that they have the wrong idea... it's that they THINK they're doing what we did, when they're doing the exact opposite. We were created on individualism and limiting government power, and they are created on collectivism, centralization and maximize it.

Since the EU was created, Europe has become the worst performing continent in:

• economic growth, quality of life improvements, population, and everything that matters towards the future
• The French and Italian farmers, and other union workers, deserve to demand market protections for their stagnant or declining countries, but not to force it on the UK. The UK did more to help bring the EU forward, than the EU's isolationism and socialism ever did to help the UK forward.
• They've disagreed in degrees with everything the UK'ers wanted to do to reverse that -- causing the Brexit
• They magnified the problems with Greece, by subsidizing their incompetence for way too long
• They created an immigration crisis in their own countries by pretending the number or quality of refugees don't matter, nor does integration with the culture: causing a more classist and polarized countries.

There's a reason every major tech innovation came from the U.S., despite us being smaller in population. But they won't understand it. They still think there's power in the Eurocrats running the EUSSR, and don't understand the power of individualism and free'er markets.

• Corruption The core value of the EU is abuse of power and corruption.

1. 2022 - Eva Kali, Luca Visentini, Pier Antonio Panzeri (MEP's) selling influence to the Qutar.
2. 2021 - Annual Report/Audit showed 15 cases of fraud from only a small sample of the EU transactions it audited.
3. 2006 - Galvin report on MEPs’ expenses showed they were rife with abuse. So the EU blocked it, until sued by Ireland, forcing them to admit the problem 5 years later.
4. 1999 - Stater Commission was shut down because all 20 participants had corruption allegations.

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• 2016.10.05 EU suppresses terrorists religion - Freedom of speech means power to suppress in the EU: The EU Human rights chief order the UK Press to stop reporting if terrorists were Muslims, they flag the truth as hate speech (intolerance) and will come and get you. And you wonder why Brexit?
• EU USB-C - USB-C mandates: like most things the dimwitted Eurocrats do, short-term benefits, long-term costs. I like USB-C, and think it's a better connector. But this could be fixed by the free market, or by European Totalitarianism (Regulators). The latter forces adoption quicker, at the cost of murdering innovation in its bed.
• European Totalitarianism - European intolerance for others stems from classisim, racism, and other bigotry, and empowers totalitarianism to fix it. The mid-17th century was the transition from classist feudalism (peasant and nobility) to nation states (government and workers). Their disdain for capitalism held them back, and lead to the rise of Hitler.
• Finland - Finland is often held up as part of the Scandavian Miracle : the false trope that things are great in Nordic countries because they have great social programs. When anyone who looks deeper than the surface learns (a) they are not socialists (b) there are many problems and failures that make them more a model of "How not to", than "How to".
• France - Articles about France, a country with one of the richest histories in a world. While much of it is a "how not to", they also have a class, style, and culture that is unique, arrogant, and stylish. Many things I write on are the lesser known and less complimentary. That's not out of malice, but I find the more arcane more interesting, even when it's not flattering.
• GDPR - GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the EU's usual mixed bag of benevolent anti-business fascism. In concept, it isn't horrible. In ambiguity and implementation, it's kinda vile. And should they have the authority? Not in a free world. All it really managed to do is help Big Tech, and put burdens on New Tech that has to try to scramble to comply.
• Germany - I have nothing against Germany. In fact, I have a lot of family there, and it's one of the nicest countries I've visited: the trains run mostly on-time, they have a nicer quality of life, and better services than many countries in the world. But there are negatives too: a collectivist culture, bureaucratic, too many rules and too much intolerance. I write more about the other stuff.
• Italy - I have nothing against Italy. In fact, I have a lot of family there, and it's got great people and culture. But they believed in centralized government, and the wisdom of the masses, and the state over the individual: and the results was a slow decay in malaise, that the individuals all admit is stifling, but none will question their prime assumptions enough to fix.
• United Kingdom - A list of thing about the UK. Some good, some bad. OK... mostly bad.

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