I agree. Ability for a third party phone text to wipe my phone? No thanks

Way to shoot the messenger there. Or are you also taking that pitchfork after Jassy?

If so, then my reaction was ignorant and I retract it :)

Why don’t you stop and smell the roses?

Jumping to such a conclusion, then blaming the hypothetical reaction, displays ignorance or malice.

Fuck off with this misinformation.

If the EU was as conformist / homo-cultural as you suggest, the cultural identity of constituent states would have long since disappeared.

Go tell someone in Florence or Sicily that, because they have been in EU since 1950, they are no longer Italian (or that they are somehow now culturally equivalent to a Dubliner). See how that works out for you.

I did. And your excerpt says nothing about the ‘American right’ and the ‘American left’. It only states ‘economists and politicians’. Your argument continues to smell of projection.

Source for the ‘american left’ opinion please, it sounds like projection / bullshit.