But you are obviously not aware of the various discussions with Chris and solveig on this, which basically amount to an ode to Norwegian rules, and a description of the EU as an evil bureaucracy trying to impose absurd rules to people that obviously know better. So they are sovereignists: again, a fully legitimate position, but not one that grants thm protection from facts when presented to them, as has been the case in the past (Mig and I have been called fanatics even as we dug up the proofs that they were writing falsehoods about the EU). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I shall say no more.
I pray for a good dose of wisdom to be sprinkled around this site.
It's as bad as Jérôme and his occasional outbursts of French nationalism.
The fact that solveig has chosen to live in Scotland for the majority of her life is inconsistent with your caricature. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Jerome a Paris:
Mig and I have been called fanatics even as we dug up the proofs that they were writing falsehoods about the EU
If you care to re-read it yourself, neither you nor migeru proved anything of the kind. The question about bank guarantees was undecided. Still is, for all I know. And the thread ended with you apologising for your aggression,and solveig in tears.
Solveig is a Norwegian who has lived in Scotland for many years. I think you caricature her position.
The EU a bureaucracy? Yes, of course, who could deny it? Evil? I don't recall that being said or even implied. As she points out, much of what the Norwegians already do you advocate yourself for the EU and more widely.
As for me, I certainly am no sovereigntist. The idea is laughable. I believe nation states are - shall we say - sub-optimal, and any agglomeration of nation states is sub-sub-optimal.
A post downthread sets out my position reasonably well on that. Since migeru recommended it, I guess it's not all bad. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
And the thread ended with you apologising for your aggression, and solveig in tears.
Yes, I apologized because I care about the community, and don't like to see people feeling hurt, even if I may think that hurt is unjustified, and because I thought that it was a way to come back towards civility - and it worked. If you use that as an argument that she was right, and for points scoring gainst me, you profoundly mock my intent, and make me regret doing it.
Sad. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
A post downthread sets out my position reasonably well on that. Since migeru recommended it, I guess it's not all bad.
