functor
1d ago
My impression of European bureaucrats in the last 24 hours is of a body staffed by a bunch of snooty has-beens.
My experience from living in down town Stockholm is that they are rejects from all good institutions. The people at leading tech and finance firms are utterly incredible. Our political elite are often their dumb sisters. They don't work nearly as hard, they are substantially lower Iq, they are socially anxious, boring at parties and lack general education. It is women whose parents work in genuinely impressive jobs but have regressed to the mean that end up at these positions.
A big difference between the US and Europe is that politics is a lot less lucrative here. A PM at spotify will make far, far more money than a minister in the government and more than any government employee.
Much of the private sector elite consider the political elite to be utterly incompetent. However, the econmic elite tends to focus too much on economic issues and not see the overall decline of society.
functor
2d ago
Bonnie Blue has an entire team behind her (no pun intended) and they are world class at creating publicity. They manage to engineer her into relavence by getting her into lega trouble, e-drama and on interviews with legacy media. Far more people follow her e-drama than actually watch her porn. Her latest antics gets tens of millions of views on social media without containing any nudity.
Showing pictures of your privates on only fans isn't going to get you rich. In order to get rich you need a massive following and marketing. If Aella was just posting ass pics should would be making 500 dollars a month. She has turned herself into an influencer within a space with a lot of well paid nerdy men.
The problem is all the women who don't understand this and start an OF, make 300 dollars a month yet every one around them will eventually find their nudes.
People forget that Europe is 16% of global GDP and that the rest of the world is most of it. A huge portion of the global economy is outside the west.
Europe can either go down the war path and ban Chinese cars from the European market and risk losing Chinese parts making the price of European cars skyrocket or accept competition. Drivers in Indonesia, Bahrain or Mexico aren't going to buy a Renault with every component made outside of China that will cost far more than a current Renault when they can buy a BYD. The middle east is heavily car dependent. Losing a Chinese supply chain means European companies would be shooting themselves in the foot.
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