Guess what, the 'sovereign consumer' has power, but for the most part, we don't exercise it--at the heart of these issues are, believe if or not, food riots in the making
But to my experience of life before VAT, after VAT, before the 12 European countries group, called founders, and now with other 12/15 fake European countries that do not have any recent history of independence as they were moved from under Soviet to under USA/EU dictatorship, I choose to stop the trend! And SHUT DOWN EU Institutions, that were and are an instrument of power and control not of progress and wealth for Europeans.
Before Euro I could buy 2 nice apartments with my savings, now I barely buy one, my kid from elementary to high school now, has been going through the worst School system ever in this country, with the worst fake teachers but simple employers with no attitude or love for teaching and research, but only for the salary (99% double salary in their family opposite to 1 salary when I was a kid).
They bought them all with helicopter money, promoting the ignorant, sly, worst middle class ever.
EU it's just a Europe made by Criminals for Criminals. As US of course.
You look around Euro leaders, though, they're all insane or worse (look at their reactions to the Trump/Vance-Zelenskyy meeting). I doubt that Europeans can be trusted to govern themselves without 'adult' (I know) supervision.
Exactly, and I've noticed also that the other squalid strategy is to show that EU is based on "equality" so they elected many women, they gave important roles to women in EU Institutions, but not to real women but to the worst one, the most criminal , cynical and corrupted ones, Von Der Leyen just to name one. And it's not a coincidence, sorry, but all of those criminal women comes fro North European Countries or former Soviet ones...
Well, since you mention this notion--these women only were 'elected™' because they were put on elect-able spots on candidate lists (and party committees set these lists in closed-door meetings).
The worst part about the North Europeans is, of course, that they believe their agit-prop, which doesn't bode very well…
For Sweden it would depend on where you live, more than anything else.
Where I am, I have the choice of COOP, ICA, Willys, Hemköp and Lidl (from most expensive/fancy to cheapest/basic) within an hours drive at most.
For some, shopping at Lidl is simply not done, it's too much a marker of being poor for them to do so, so they rather spend 30% more at COOP for the same things, but with other labels on the packaging.
But in cities such as Malmö where Swedes are a minority, you can if you either look foreign or is well-known in the 'hood, buy food dirt-cheap. Arab/Pakistani stores. Cheap, no receipt, the food is the same stuff they sell at home. "No VAT friend, good for you good for me" as the say.
On the other hand, apparently we are world-leading in not wasting food. Via the church charity I know quite well how low the "svinn"-percentage is (svinn: goods you can't sell for whatever reason). The ICA Maxi-store in town (humungous, the store area is larger than a football field!) has less than "svinn" what would fit in the back seat of a car, per week.
A shopping boycott here in Sweden therefore seems unlikely: those who are already hard off, are in effect already "boycotting", and those well-off doesn't need to care - the "Being able to spend equals being a good person"-petit bourgeois mentality is quite strong among a certain socio-economic subset of Swedes.
Meanwhile, growing your own food and having chickens (and rabbits) is increasing year over year.
Haha, sounds like Norway (the way you describe Sweden).
As to the problem of decadence, well, foodwaste is also a big PR thing here, as is the absurd amount of crap they put into 'food™', ranging from chemicals to ersatz crap (esp. stevia) to high fructose corn syrup (added to 'meat™' cuts).
Boycotts in Norway seem equally unlikely: decadent sheeple, with little to no concern for anything. I'm virtually the only one in grocery stores who reads labels…
Nice thoughts.
But to my experience of life before VAT, after VAT, before the 12 European countries group, called founders, and now with other 12/15 fake European countries that do not have any recent history of independence as they were moved from under Soviet to under USA/EU dictatorship, I choose to stop the trend! And SHUT DOWN EU Institutions, that were and are an instrument of power and control not of progress and wealth for Europeans.
Before Euro I could buy 2 nice apartments with my savings, now I barely buy one, my kid from elementary to high school now, has been going through the worst School system ever in this country, with the worst fake teachers but simple employers with no attitude or love for teaching and research, but only for the salary (99% double salary in their family opposite to 1 salary when I was a kid).
They bought them all with helicopter money, promoting the ignorant, sly, worst middle class ever.
EU it's just a Europe made by Criminals for Criminals. As US of course.
Oh well, you speak a lot of truth here.
You look around Euro leaders, though, they're all insane or worse (look at their reactions to the Trump/Vance-Zelenskyy meeting). I doubt that Europeans can be trusted to govern themselves without 'adult' (I know) supervision.
Exactly, and I've noticed also that the other squalid strategy is to show that EU is based on "equality" so they elected many women, they gave important roles to women in EU Institutions, but not to real women but to the worst one, the most criminal , cynical and corrupted ones, Von Der Leyen just to name one. And it's not a coincidence, sorry, but all of those criminal women comes fro North European Countries or former Soviet ones...
Well, since you mention this notion--these women only were 'elected™' because they were put on elect-able spots on candidate lists (and party committees set these lists in closed-door meetings).
The worst part about the North Europeans is, of course, that they believe their agit-prop, which doesn't bode very well…
For Sweden it would depend on where you live, more than anything else.
Where I am, I have the choice of COOP, ICA, Willys, Hemköp and Lidl (from most expensive/fancy to cheapest/basic) within an hours drive at most.
For some, shopping at Lidl is simply not done, it's too much a marker of being poor for them to do so, so they rather spend 30% more at COOP for the same things, but with other labels on the packaging.
But in cities such as Malmö where Swedes are a minority, you can if you either look foreign or is well-known in the 'hood, buy food dirt-cheap. Arab/Pakistani stores. Cheap, no receipt, the food is the same stuff they sell at home. "No VAT friend, good for you good for me" as the say.
On the other hand, apparently we are world-leading in not wasting food. Via the church charity I know quite well how low the "svinn"-percentage is (svinn: goods you can't sell for whatever reason). The ICA Maxi-store in town (humungous, the store area is larger than a football field!) has less than "svinn" what would fit in the back seat of a car, per week.
A shopping boycott here in Sweden therefore seems unlikely: those who are already hard off, are in effect already "boycotting", and those well-off doesn't need to care - the "Being able to spend equals being a good person"-petit bourgeois mentality is quite strong among a certain socio-economic subset of Swedes.
Meanwhile, growing your own food and having chickens (and rabbits) is increasing year over year.
Haha, sounds like Norway (the way you describe Sweden).
As to the problem of decadence, well, foodwaste is also a big PR thing here, as is the absurd amount of crap they put into 'food™', ranging from chemicals to ersatz crap (esp. stevia) to high fructose corn syrup (added to 'meat™' cuts).
Boycotts in Norway seem equally unlikely: decadent sheeple, with little to no concern for anything. I'm virtually the only one in grocery stores who reads labels…