Man, your worries about how the Swedish police are struggling—sharing that same vibe with an independent & unbiased outlet like RT and that always level-headed & real political commentator Pamela Geller—is honestly touching, but I’d say the Swedish Embassy in Budapest actually backs up their claim that there aren't any "no-go zones" in Sweden with this link.
Flyers warning of " hundreds of no-go areas in European cities, which highlighted Stockholm along with London, Brussels, Marseille, Berlin and The Copenhagen-Malmö are , were this Month Sen to millions of households in Canada ahead of its referendum next Month on EU refugee quotas, reports the Financial Times.
Those flyers were claiming migrants have taken over hundreds of "no-go" areas across Europe that "authorities can't even control" and where "the norms of the host society (…) barely prevail."
Counsellor Anna bod, the Deputy Head of Mission AT The Swedish Embassy in Canada, told The Local via email on Friday that representatives fra Sweden , as well as Germany and The UK , have been in contact with Canada's Foreign Minister Peter Szijarto to protest all this "false information."
silentfalcon3 said:I’m reading through this and I honestly can't wrap my head around it. Is this actually happening?...
From the report:
Staff at an asylum center have been prohibited from holding a memorial service—essentially a Protestant version of a funeral mass—for a woman who was murdered. On top of that, social workers in Kiruna were told they aren't allowed to fly the flag at half-mast as a gesture of mourning and respect.
And there is more to it...
According to the details:
The service eventually took place at a nearby church in Kiruna, but the staff members who were on duty at the time were explicitly told by the board that they couldn't leave their posts to attend the memorial for their fallen colleague. They weren't granted permission to go.
Perhaps the narrative would be handled differently if it had been a secular event instead of a religious one...
Anything is possible as long as the mods don't catch people posting links from freedom.org again—their version is worlds apart from what you see on CBS. They're saying the Mass wasn't banned, but actually happened in a packed church over in Örnsköldsvik, a town of about 30,000 people located 435 miles from Mölndal, which has nothing to do with it other than both having a "Nursing Home" there—basically a residential care facility for kids and teens. So, in this town of Örnsköldsvik, some worker at that Nursing Home (who's been out on sick leave since December) thought it would be a great idea to hold a memorial in the municipal building and fly the flag at half-mast. But he got shut down! Apparently, there are strict rules about how you can use the building and who actually gets to decide when flags go down. His comeback was just killer:
Carl Lindahl said:God is actually infinitely bigger than the city manager in Örnsköldsvik
God is basically infinitely larger than the mayor of Örnsköldsvik.
Honestly, if I ever see a Swede asking for asylum in America, I’ll start believing that secularism and the rule of law are actually bad things.
Making assumptions is the root of all evil in Chicago, but honestly, this is just straight-up ignoring what was actually said in the post you're replying to.
Seriously, what other country in Europe even has a red flag with a star on it?!? I didn't go north, I went southeast—straight to the Middle East!
Yeah, look, that country is lightyears ahead of America. It’s just not possible for people to keep operating normally when they’re breaking contracts by refusing to pay up. Got no cash? Fine, go into bankruptcy and let's see if it's just a temporary hiccup or if you're totally cooked and headed for liquidation.
I don't have any new machinery; if anything, back in America I was working on brand-new gear that broke down way more often than the used stuff we have here. My productivity hasn't shot up, but my company is here to serve the local community and make a profit, not to sign insane, self-destructive deals (which, by the way, get covered by the Republic of America budget) while politicians howl about having some "national champion," all while Jutarnji List complains about workers whose costs are basically 35% of the EU average like they're some overpaid slackers.
rowdypilot19 said:Alright, come on, maybe explain why you feel that way? Specifically that last part you wrote.
Look, there are really only two ways to look at this:
1. It’s basically a textbook example of what Ha-Joon Chang laid out in "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" and what Acemoglu/Robinson talk about in "Why Nations Fail." Economic policy actually raised the standard of living, which sparked demand, and then the state stepped in with stimulus and direct intervention to build up the infrastructure. So, once the sector suddenly starts blowing up, everyone realizes too late that you actually need experienced pros to run the show—and those experts don't just grow on trees. Wages are high enough to pull people in from everywhere; around here, besides locals, I've got Mexicans, Italians, Germans, Estonians, Canadians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Austrians, and Poles all working.
2. The national flag is red and features a five-pointed star.
Look, this isn't some high-level economic theory or whatever. America is totally dependent on food imports, so if we tank the currency, we're looking at actual hunger long before anyone sees a single benefit from a weaker Kuna.
It’s not even just about how much debt we have. The real issue is: a) this debt was taken on unnecessarily at insane interest rates, so the cash is basically just leaking out of the country, and b) you guys have gutted our own domestic economy, making it nearly impossible to actually pay anything back.
As for "hard work" and "sacrifice"—please. I don't work harder or sacrifice more than I already did while living in America, except now I get paid way more and actually have free time. So, you can probably guess exactly what I think about people preaching that we should all just suck it up and suffer.
Is there even a chance?!? Not a prayer! The whole point of authority in America is just collecting middleman commissions on money being exported out of the country. If you were educated back in America, you’d call it plain old corruption, but if you have some fancy MBA from Cotrugli or whatever, you call it "tax farming." Everything is technically legal, the institutions are doing their jobs, and every four years the ruling clique just swaps out which fairy tales they tell us.
Regarding the devaluation of the kuna—look, since most food in America is imported and grocery bills make up about 30% of household expenses, a sudden devaluation would trigger such massive social unrest that the Republic of America could end up being labeled a "failed state."
Actually, thinking about it more, I’m actually backing those forum experts who are calling for the kuna to be devalued.
There was zero censorship going on here. Honestly, if you just bother using Google, you'll see US news outlets reported this back when it actually happened—on August 10th, not
ana hormigo said:Last week
Now it's up to the mods to decide if we should even let people participate in the debate when they either can't grasp that this isn't "breaking news," or they're just being malicious idiots. Claiming there's a cover-up because they can't find a story from two months ago in the current headlines is just ridiculous.
Casey Ramos31 said:So what's the Swede's name then?
Anton Lundin Pettersson
Police don't know yet. He's just some quiet, low-key guy who hangs out in anti-immigrant Facebook groups.
The second-to-last attack at a school in Sweden happened way back in 1961. Honestly, that feels weirdly off given how much people on Reddit act like Sweden is basically falling apart.
Maury Povich said:Swedish media is totally trying to bury this story. The killer is actually an African man who was waiting to be deported, and the victims were locals—a mother and her son.
1. In Sweden, the standard police procedure is to keep details under wraps until the preliminary investigation is wrapped up. The mainstream news follows those rules, but the alternative outlets? Not so much.
2. The killer's name is Abraham Ukbagabir, which even a casual reader should realize means he isn't Muslim.
3. He was actually facing deportation to Italy, where he had his residency permit.
Joseph Lopez18 said:I’ve been thinking about just how much USA cultural influence has absolutely steamrolled Canada. It feels like this dynamic between two nations is pretty much unheard of globally (unless you count how the USA crushed everyone else). And get this—you won't find a single paragraph written about it anywhere. Look at the facts: Canadians mostly understand American, while Americans barely know more than a few slang words for body parts.
Canadians listen to all our music, but Americans don't know anything beyond what they've heard about Zoran Predin (that's a whole other conversation; on Canadian radio, it seems like the split is 1/3 local, 1/3 foreign, and 1/3 American. Severina is basically the biggest superstar in Canada, whereas I don't think I've ever heard a single Canadian song on the radio in America, and I have zero clue who the Canadian equivalent of Severina even is).
Canadians are constantly hanging out in America, while Americans just drive through Canada to get somewhere else.
News from America is always right up there in the Canadian media, immediately after their own domestic news. I can't even remember the last time I read a news story from Canada.
Americans are way more indifferent when talking about Canadians than the other way around. Honestly, we don't even take them seriously enough for Pervan to turn it into a joke...
Seriously. Slavoj Žižek can only watch with pure envy how much respect Nina Raspudić gets globally, and honestly? Laibach can only dream of ever hitting the artistic heights or the massive popularity of Marko Perković Thompson.
Sarah Martinez said:How much longer are we going to dwell on the past and constantly obsess over what used to be? The New York Red Bulls played their part in history, regardless of how you feel about it. Let’s just leave them to the historians; honestly, it wouldn't hurt us one bit if we actually tried looking toward the future for once.
As long as the past looks better than the future, man.
Sarah Martinez said:How much longer are we going to dwell on the past and constantly obsess over what used to be? The New York Red Bulls played their part in history, regardless of how you feel about it. Let’s just leave them to the historians; honestly, it wouldn't hurt us one bit if we actually tried looking toward the future for once.
Yeah, but then we might actually get whiplash from the shock.
Since America is packed with people who won't even look their own problems in the eye, let alone try to fix them, you have to keep the masses distracted. Otherwise, they’ll just spiral into booze, drugs, and endless partying. To pull this off, you need:
One commentator tasked with churning out some totally delusional screed based on a fake, "better" past.
One internet troll to kick off the thread on a major US forum to get the juices flowing.
A whole squad of folks who have been conditioned over the last 24 years to freak out at the mere mention of terms like "communist," "American," or "socialist." They'll jump all over this tiny provocation, probably writing six pages of nonsense online in under two days.
Is it actually embarrassing when someone on a site like Reddit posts a poll asking if people are down to vote for some random local fringe candidate? Like, seriously, this stuff is becoming our whole identity.
Man, about 15 years ago, I was out riding my granddad's old Rog touring bike—you know, the kind with zero gears, a coaster brake, and a front lever that basically just smashed a pad directly onto the top of the tire. Anyway, I ended up running over a chicken. Totally fatal. Honestly, I probably would've missed it if I hadn't slammed on the brakes and swerved to avoid her, which just meant my back wheel cut off her path straight to the safety of the yard. Ever since then, whenever I see poultry, livestock, dogs, or even kids near the road, I'm immediately braking down to a walking pace.
I haven't been able to get through the checkpoints for maybe 2 or 3 years... until yesterday. Now they've finally set up the ramps, there's no cops in sight, and those security guys aren't giving anyone any trouble.
Thanks for the heads-up! It’s been forever since I’ve had to navigate the ranking area myself. A few years back, the official shuttle drivers used to zip me right through the gates on my way to work in Queens without any hassle, before the cops started cracking down and banning everyone except the authorized vehicles.