The thing is, I struggle to see how ANYONE can look at the world today and imagine that a European country will be better off alone without the EU. ‘Foreigner bad’ is at least an undercurrent to all politics everywhere and at all times, and the mechanisms of finding scape goats is well known.

In Denmark, even the most eurosceptic parties have gone silent on the issue after watching Brexit unfold, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the US turning on Denmark and the rest of Europe.

I just can’t see how you can be that politically naive.

And do their voters support this, or is it more ‘foreigners bad’ and then they don’t think about the rest?

I just don’t see what we have to gain from being hardliners on this. And as you said, many of the people voting leave have died.

In practical terms, if your currency is pegged to the Euro there’s no difference to having the Euro. And many countries have partially-official Schengen deals or at least act like they do, control the borders they want to, etc.

Well, yes, but I also fear that from my own Danish government and many other governments in the EU. I still think the EU as a block will be stronger with the UK in instead of out.

Theoretically, yes. However , since 2016 we’ve had ‘temporary border controls’ on the German and Swedish borders.

Edit: Utimately, the EU will be stronger with the UK back in. Militarily, economically, politically.

So let’s not be assholes about it - they were manipulated to leave, in part by Russian agents using the Cambridge Analytica data scandal to run political ads without informed consent, and also in part by their national politicians blaming everything bad on the EU for 50 years.

I think we’ve all learned from it, and I’d be happy to see them back in the EU.

Well, that’s the same terms under which Denmark is a member. I think it’s acceptable.

This seems demeaning and reductionist to both men AND women, which I feel is like an achievement in itself. Well done.

Yes, I have a lot of concems

Well, that’s just rubbing it in, isn’t it? :P

Back in 1997 I bought the game KKnD (Krush, Kill n’ Destroy) in a local store for what would now be 110 dollars only to discover that it was broken and wouldn’t run on my machine and there was no way to get a patch for it.

See, I know almost nothing about the Dutch cuisine. I heard you deep fry almost everything, and I like stroopwafels a lot.

In 10th grade I spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands on a school trip, but I remember absolutely nothing about the food which is actually sort of odd.

If I had to guess, I’d assume you eat classic farmers food, carb heavy with some sort of meat and dairy. But maybe that’s just because I assume everyone north of the Rhine to eat that.

The only major colonial empire which did not, in any way, import food from the colonies?

I’m from Denmark, we traditionally ate porridge and potatoes and pork, and of course rye bread so dense you can club someone to death with it if you want to.