I'm impressed with the Dutch farmers' steadfast resolve to play the long game.
I was/am very supportive of the analogous Canadian truckers, but they pulled up stakes, gave up and went back to angsty tweeting after Trudeau got rough.
It's been a year and most of the stuff the Canadians protested are still an issue, but everyone is content to just bitch about it online and hope Trudeau goes away.
It helps that the Netherlands is a relatively small country, compared to Canada which is very spread out. Some truckers were only prepared to take a few weeks off, not risking their lives doing it. Whereas with the Dutch, I believe there is much more local community driving things forwards.
Most truckers in Europe are owner operators, same with farmers, lot's of small farms and very few big centralized actors overall. Small independent actors can fight as long as they have the people's support.
Banking is also way more decentralized in Europe thanks to individual countries, with Switzerland, Norway and UK now being outside of the union with their own currencies. All compatible within the union. It's incredibly hard to simply ban something within just one country as all they have to do is to move their stuff to nearest foreign country.
More support for cryptocurrency and barter, as people are generally poorer and more aware of the risks of centralization watching EU grow like cancer every day. Once you get kicked out of society you're not fucked, the black market is incredibly big. Plus that EU's own scheme with illegal immigration has contributed a lot to the black market too with illegals living in parallel societies.
The problem in Canada i it's centralization, and overall people's general trust in their government. Nobody bothered to protest once everything was centralized, it was "just capitalism" plain and simple.
More support for cryptocurrency and barter, as people are generally poorer and more aware of the risks of centralization watching EU grow like cancer every day.
ND and a few other states here in the US are angling for a "centralized" cryptocurrency. Just heard about this yesterday: https://archive.ph/SPpzF
I'm impressed with the Dutch farmers' steadfast resolve to play the long game.
I was/am very supportive of the analogous Canadian truckers, but they pulled up stakes, gave up and went back to angsty tweeting after Trudeau got rough.
It's been a year and most of the stuff the Canadians protested are still an issue, but everyone is content to just bitch about it online and hope Trudeau goes away.
I think Canadians were just really unprepared for a real fight. As soon as Trudeau started going for bank accounts people were like uhhh wtf.
It helps that the Netherlands is a relatively small country, compared to Canada which is very spread out. Some truckers were only prepared to take a few weeks off, not risking their lives doing it. Whereas with the Dutch, I believe there is much more local community driving things forwards.
Most truckers in Europe are owner operators, same with farmers, lot's of small farms and very few big centralized actors overall. Small independent actors can fight as long as they have the people's support.
Banking is also way more decentralized in Europe thanks to individual countries, with Switzerland, Norway and UK now being outside of the union with their own currencies. All compatible within the union. It's incredibly hard to simply ban something within just one country as all they have to do is to move their stuff to nearest foreign country.
More support for cryptocurrency and barter, as people are generally poorer and more aware of the risks of centralization watching EU grow like cancer every day. Once you get kicked out of society you're not fucked, the black market is incredibly big. Plus that EU's own scheme with illegal immigration has contributed a lot to the black market too with illegals living in parallel societies.
The problem in Canada i it's centralization, and overall people's general trust in their government. Nobody bothered to protest once everything was centralized, it was "just capitalism" plain and simple.
ND and a few other states here in the US are angling for a "centralized" cryptocurrency. Just heard about this yesterday: https://archive.ph/SPpzF