Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
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I’m in South Beach this weekend and saw a dude walk into this hotel bar wearing an Inter Milan shirt with three other odd looking people. Upon further inspection, the shirt was an outline of the state of Ohio with the Inter emblem inside of it. Apparently he runs some Inter Milan fan club of Ohio, or something.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much worthless shit crammed into one shirt.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
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I’m in South Beach this weekend and saw a dude walk into this hotel bar wearing an Inter Milan shirt with three other odd looking people. Upon further inspection, the shirt was an outline of the state of Ohio with the Inter emblem inside of it. Apparently he runs some Inter Milan fan club of Ohio, or something.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much worthless shit crammed into one shirt.

I bet it was Drew Carey? And the odd people were these schmucks?


 
Apr 17, 2013
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I understand the problems with Dutch farmers, but what’s up with German, Polish and French farmers? @Raphaël @The Quazis @DAiDEViL
1) anger because the government wanted to increase the price of diesel for tractors, but electric tractors still do not exist. Given the precedent of the yellow vests, they immediately withdrew this reform

2) Pressurize by large retaillers which exerts pressure to lower prices and industrialists who, under the pretext of inflation, inflate their margins on their backs.

3) Asphyxiated by European bureaucracy and its contradictions. EU established high ecological standards to push them to produce organic, high-end products and we decided to abandon the middle and low-end products. In 2023 with inflation, people can no longer afford to pay a fortune to eat healthily and farmers, who have invested in organic products find themselves in a dead end. At the same time, the European Union, which is not ready for a contradiction, and which still remains the idiot village of globalization, signs free trade agreements with the rest of the world: Canada, New Zealand, Chile and soon Mercosur. Consequently, you impose strict standards on European farmers, while allowing unfair competition by not imposing any standards on foreign products entering Europe. Since 2019, France has no longer been self-sufficient in terms of food.

This is the problem of the technocrats in Brussels who are disconnected from the real world, more preoccupied with the end of the planet than with the end of the month. We have the same case with cars when they want to ban thermal cars by 2035, as if everyone had the means to buy an electric car...
 
Jun 16, 2020
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Different reasons compared to here, but there’s definitely a strange pattern going on. It’s really crazy that you could draw a horizontal line trough Europe and find angry farmers from left to right, all for different reasons but definitely all will tell you that they feel like they’re getting bullied by their government.
 

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