Scandimandian here, hell yeah. Local is best, produced by fellow citizens somewhere in the county second.

A lot of stuff, particularly tech is hard to find though. At best it's low grade Chinese stuff with a custom label slapped onto it. Not even assembled here by foreign parts. Just straight from slave factories.

But I eat local eggs at least. Made by slave hens.

I always find it interesting how the UK, who left the EU complaining about sovereignty, is not trying to give up US tech products like the EU is.

I'm not much into memes, but kinda like this one :)

As someone once put it, “politics is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock”. Buying off the toddler-in-chief with obsequious compliments and gold-plated tat buys time to decouple your economy, and is a less-worse alternative than him deciding to make an example of your country, sinking your economy, and your government being replaced by actual Nazis.

The one on the left is a lie. Coca-Cola consumption has risen since trump, for instance.

Most politicians, and pretty much all viable ones who have any chance of getting elected or can control the direction of any major party, are either rich bastards themselves or cronies and sycophants to the rich, the fact that they're the only choices we get to vote for doesn't make them "representative" it just means they've completely stacked the deck so that we have no choice but to vote against ourselves no matter who we vote for. Democracy itself hasn't totally failed us (yet, I hope) but our political system of representation and the current institution of democracy certainly has.