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I suppose some city politician is a NIMBY arsehole who disliked a neighbour’s chickens making chicken noises.

Yes, and, as usual, the fish stinks from the head. Most businesses are led by a bunch of dimwitted idiots who got their position by inheritance and/or nepotism and breathe that neoliberal spirit of boundless egotism. They will happily claim the work of others as their own, and wholeheartedly believe that lie themselves. Of course the underlings whose sole purpose is to entertain their whims aren’t worth of any decent pay nor recognition, and heavens forbid you allow them independent thought.

With states, it’s not any different. (conincidentally, the neoliberal cleptocrats in power almost globally think states should be run like businesses)

I suppose Swiss neutrality and its side effects radicalised the Swiss.

Remember when Germany tried to buy ammunition made in Switzerland for the Gepard self-propelled AA systems donated to Ukraine and got the sale denied due to neutrality? I’m sure pretty much every potential customer of the Swiss arms industry took notice of that. Now with a Trump induced European arms buying frenzy coming, Switzerland wants a piece of the cake after all.

Technically, conventional war is largely obsolete. As long as you do have a reliable and credible nuclear deterrent. Germany has long been in the very comfortable position to fool itself into deeming conventional war obsolete without having to maintain an own nuclear deterrent. With the USA finally having revealed itself to even the most servile transatlanticist as an utterly unreliable ally, (in fact, as more of the kind of “ally” commonly referred to as “enemy”) this illusion is falling apart.

As human civilisation, we all lost honor, accountability, pride of a well done job.

Decades of neoliberalism glorifying boundless egotism as the ultimate freedom and elevating limitless consumption to the highest human achievement made sure of it. Society has successfully taught people that there are no values beside monetary ones.

I think we also lack small communities.

Definitely. Unfortunately, neoliberalism with all its deregulation has also been systematically destroying the small scale economy that has kept small communities alive. Working class people can’t afford services of local small businesses anymore, and have to look for work further and further away from their homes. In rural areas hit especially hard by this (politically wanted) structural change, combined with systematic neglect of infrastructure and public services due to the cargo cult of austerity, it has already lead to a massive depopulation, leaving behind only the destitute who can barely afford a sense of community, and a handful of wealthy people who enjoy owning a cheap weekend home on the countryside just as much as they love to shit on the community it is located in.

Can’t make this shit up.

Hey Denmark we want Greenland and we will take it. - The US

Hey Denmark we also want eggs, please send some, OK? - Also the US