make athens great again

I'm not an expert but it does seem that Greece would be in a better place now if it had been kicked out of the Euro and have economics take their course rather than being bailed out and forced into economic slavery

the transition period would have to be much longer than 2yrs... they would need to establish their own central bank

any country would be better off, name one "union" of countries that is better off than before they joined

UK

fair point, I would love to dismiss it as too small but you got me there

how is it?

Yeah, that would be a terrible dismissal, given history. Good thing you thought better of it.

sometimes we forget what a free country we live it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINAk2xl8Bc

but at least its the exception rather than the rule

good that he called out BBC too

you could also say Germany

although that would be akin to saying the top-man of the pyramid scheme is better off

the commonwealth improved more than it took

Most countries were formed by a union of tribes. Though some possibly less voluntarily than others 😛

The British Empire did nothing wrong

*dab*

or in my part of the world, selling off the enemy tribes to arab slave traders

well germany was a union of actual countries

mostly just one tho

which made up half of it

in fact... they should give the kingdom of hanover back to us

they only got it cos they went all sexist and denied ruling by queen victorian

lol, their loss

so they got her brother or something... augustust? something like that

*Asuras Wrath flashbacks*

victoria paved the way for all the rockstar engineers that gave us the modern world

Jared Diamond, in the 2003 Afterword to his book Guns, Germs, and Steel (page 432) gives the best argument for Brexit: https://prnt.sc/ququa4

Matt Ridley too talks about this extensively in The Rational Optimist

I really need to read that book.

Guns, Germs and Steel, that is.

read both

both excellent books

even if you don't read the whole G,G,&S, you should definitely read the Epilogue and Afterword.

Oh no, if I pick up a book, I read the whole thing.

I'd really love to hear Sargon address this page I posted above. If there a way I can bring it to his attention?

pretty much no

😛

You could ping him

I'll do it.

probably won't get a response though