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Nicholas Gilani's avatar

Kevin, as usual, your thinking is refreshing and reflective. Not many people know that tiny Denmark is home to:

1. Bang & Olafson

2. Maersk

3. Lego

4. Worlds Michelin star eateries

5. Well trained special forces

6. Novo Nordisk ( Wegovy, Ozempic)

And exceptionally attractive women!

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Kevin Batcho's avatar

Thanks! Your last point being the most important! I looked for summer pictures of cyclists in Copenhagen that would have reinforced your observations but they were all from photo services. I lived in Sweden for several years and they also have an amazing list of successful companies for such a small country.

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Nicholas Gilani's avatar

Dear Kevin,

Let’s not conflate point 6 and attractive women:)))

Both are technically last points…)

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Old Jarhead's avatar

California of the 40s - 60s was a cohesive, literate, high trust society. Much of the population influx was WW2 veterans, their families, and war industry workers. It is impossible to have that when a huge percentage of the population has no interest in assimilation, is often not literate in their home language (much less English) and thinks of “home” or “their country” as somewhere else. Many came to California because of easy access, free stuff, and loose enforcement. There was also a thriving business and industrial base, with low taxes, cheap energy, and a business friendly government. These days California and the EU share all the destructive elements and few to none of the others. Throw in political and free speech suppression and it’s no surprise the industrious and wealthy (those who can) are leaving both places.

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Kevin Batcho's avatar

Exactly true. My father was a WW2 naval vet from Ohio who ended up in SF after the war.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Europeans are prissy, schoolmarmish rule-followers and germans probably the most rule-following of all. They like being slaves and have less self-respect than whipped dogs. Like the dog, the european fears abandonment more than any beating. Hell, they lick the hands that beat them.

So unlike Cats.

That said, the AfD could toss refugee toddlers alive and screaming into piranha tanks and nobody would raise so muich as a peep, as long as the AfD were onside with the War On Russia.

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