“Personality Management” - Victoria Nuland. Got to love the word-smithing!
So our choices are a political totalitarianism or a theocratic totalitarianism? That’s been the goal and conflict for thousands of years.
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Thats quite a open question, hard to know where to start really…
But just like the rest of Europe the middleclass is getting wrecked.
At least the majority of people who has refused to accept reality.
Personally ive been cutting costs for years, paid most of my loans.
Bought a bunch of food and supplies in case of blackouts or supply chain issues.
But most people here are so over credited its a joke.
Basicly the Swedish modell is to save enough money to be able to loan money for a home.
(Noone ownes anything here, everyone has a mortgage they barely pay anything but the interest on)
So they just keep on putting stuff like cars etc on their house mortgage lol.
Basicly its worked to loan money for a house/apartment.
Let it increase in value then sell for profit some years later.
But now its crashing so most of Swedens middleclass are in for a tough time.
Cost of food, electricity and esp interest rates of loans has skyrocketed.
But most people are still Stupid enough to blame Putin for everything that is happening.
So things will keep getting worse untill enough people get a clue.
Personally im going to be growing magic mushrooms or something similar and just read books in case we get a blackout.
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@Soupcommie
As an European I concur with your assesment. Here in Belgium there is a saying that every Belgian is born with a brick in his stomach.
I also payed off all mortages and stack up on food and books.
Yeah, the Putin meme is surreal, but sadly firm in place. I feel sad that Europeans are in real danger of learning a hard lesson thru being a proxy when our children are wasted in the Ukranian meatgrinder. And even then when the body bags in hundreds return if they can put one and one together, so many people are so far gone in basic thinking and functioning!
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Thank you all for the update. I have often wondered about the indebtedness of much of mid-class Europe, as I haven’t been there in a number of years. How unfortunate that Putin is solely blamed for so much trouble; it’s the same here in U.S.A.
It seems the most we might be able to do now is a sort of passive resistance and try to plant as much doubt as possible; not convince, but cause others to doubt, somehow. People have to figure it out for themselves, else, they just don’t believe it.
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I think the obvious corruption and mismanagement off the electrical grids is helping.
Esp in Sweden which has net positive electrical output even when we have shut down alot of nuclear plants.
Basicly we sell alot of our electricity to the rest of Europe.
But market conditions gives the companies a way to jack up the price since our own market has to compete with rest of Europe.
So swedish electricity companies is now jacking up prices and creating energy crisis here to be able to sell their power for higher prices abroad.
Even the media is starting to warn about blackouts and other issues with the grid.
In Sweden a stupid xmas tradition is to watch a Donald Duck christmas special.
Its so retarded but most Swedish families are glued to the TV at 16pm on the 24th.
Anyway a certain town which is known for its oil burning plant had a blackout like 5seconds before Donald Duck started lol.
Its def not by accident since the timing and the place it happened.
There had been many articles about that town this fall.
Just like in the US they had been burning a crap ton of oil for electricity way before the vinter even started.
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