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Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
I wrote maybe, and I didnt say close the borders so please dont put words in my mouth. And yes sweden is a rich country, and while immigration may not cost a lot of money, there is still the issue with building houses, creating jobs, welfare,education, therapy and so on. And no I wont give you any numbers cuz im not into D&D style debating(I actually agree with most "naive" lefties here in this so startin a debate about this feels stupid) . But no we were not fine before the reinfeldt era, there still was a problem with most immigrants being put in the förorter(I dont like the word ghetto when talking about sweden) The issues with the way the swedish governments have been handling integration goes back quite a long way, and you might think something else and that is OK, but my experiences tells me something different, so I see things in a different light, but I aint sayin im right.

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Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?
I find it hilarious that fascists keep spouting "all the lefties flee the suburbs so they don't have to see the chaos they cause" when in reality SD is the strongest where immigrants are the fewest and the weakest in the suburbs.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Zombiepop posted:

I wrote maybe, and I didnt say close the borders so please dont put words in my mouth. And yes sweden is a rich country, and while immigration may not cost a lot of money, there is still the issue with building houses, creating jobs, welfare,education, therapy and so on.

A lot of that could be done by the immigrants themselves (at least labor).

Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?

computer parts posted:

A lot of that could be done by the immigrants themselves (at least labor).
More like; the immigrants help create a demand(housing, in this example). As such, in a free market economy the companies should be lining up to build apartment blocks, giving the builder industry a lot of money and employing more people, both those who were here before and newly arrived interested and trained in the field. New blocks require more stores, more infrastructure, more everything. Economy grows, refugees get a safer place to live and so does those of us who are homeless, looking for home, about to be homeless, living on couches, living with parents and so on.

But since liberal market economy/free market is bullshit they're not building homes so they can continue to rack up rents and raise the demand. And the homes they build are too expensive for most of the people needing them and at the same time they force gentrification on the few areas where people with less to no income at all can actually live.

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
Yeah that would be great, too bad not even the socialist built any houses during the babyboom ca 1990 or later on. But all in all I agree with you rutkowski. btw regarding your comment about fascist talking about lefties fleeing from the orten, that wasnt referring to me right?

catbread.jpg
Feb 22, 2007

Rutkowski posted:

help create a demand

Stop, the 1930s wants its economics back. You realise that at the margins, increased consumption for its own sake merely consumes hard currency and limited physical resources? Broken window fallacy.

Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?

Zombiepop posted:

Yeah that would be great, too bad not even the socialist built any houses during the babyboom ca 1990 or later on. But all in all I agree with you rutkowski. btw regarding your comment about fascist talking about lefties fleeing from the orten, that wasnt referring to me right?
Referring to anyone who uses the "lol people who support multiculturalism doesn't live near immigrants".

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
Oh thats vague. But I dont think anyone in this thread has made that statement so I dont know why you would write that.

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

TheFluff posted:

"Most" being the ~55-60% number getting a temporary permit I mentioned? You're free to get your statistics right at the same source where I got them: http://www.migrationsverket.se/Om-Migrationsverket/Statistik.html
I'm also not the only poster in this thread.

Heja heja, only 50% are "temporary". You think they will ever get a "get out of here, go back home" stamp? How do you send anyone away? Which was what we people who don't really believe in the system were talking about. And even if only 30% or 50% of the seekers were somehow via magic sent away on a magic carpet and actually left (which will not happen), 30k or 50k is a fuckton. And their family members who were not along will follow the year or the second after via family re-unification. Like, 10 x more then your neighbours. It's not a few thousand here and there like you said and which you can laugh about and then ignore.

But that's not a worry, if you can house, feed and find work for all of them without major issues and they don't hate your guts - all of that is no problem.

If it is sustainable, I will applaud and admit: I was wrong. But as long as the are people who live in suburbs with 95% non-native background, most of them unemployed, and stone the police and the emergency services when they come about, I refuse to belive it's a cool and awesome thing from which everyone benefits and is enrichened by.

I know I know, the next (counter) argument is that people in the hoods don't really harass postal workers, firemen, the police or construction workers or anyone to begin with, the stones just happened to fly from space so it's all a myth when you read about it from (probably evil, right-wing or nazi) newspapers, or then they are just bizarre local one-off situations. Which occur repeateadly. By chance. In the same places every time.

If someone suggest so, like people in SA & D&D have in the past, I don't take very seriously that the community is forced to behave like so since they live in the "ghetto" (= 10 x better and safer than invaded Kurdistan or combat area Syria or most of Somalia) and simply must stone emergency crews and each other...: nobody forces them. They are human beings. They made their choice, and they got the idea from someone who told them it was a good idea. Sweden, like Finland, has hundreds of thousands of native, very poor people: students, pensioners, and so on, who mostly live in subsidized housing who do nothing like that, ever. Especially in groups. Uniting to fight the police or emergency crews in some area is simply unthinkable. And for the better too, because that is a really lovely attitude to have. IIRC there are zero (0) cases in Finnish history where ambulance or firecrew have been attacked or stoned by local youth gangs more or less randomly, or construction workers driven out of their site becaue they were of the wrong ethnic group. Maybe a few times when some sort of anarchists have burned down a house but regularly in some area? Naaaah.

But in Sweden: ALL OF THAT IS NORMAL! WE HELP THE WORLD BE A BETTER PLACE! AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOU ARE A RACIST!!!1#

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Ligur posted:

But in Sweden: ALL OF THAT IS NORMAL! WE HELP THE WORLD BE A BETTER PLACE! AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOU ARE A RACIST!!!1#

Tbf, the swedish immigrant situation is used as textbook scenario regarding failed integration combined with thoughtless spending throughout scandinavia.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Ligur posted:


I know I know, the next (counter) argument is that people in the hoods don't really harass postal workers, firemen, the police or construction workers or anyone to begin with, the stones just happened to fly from space so it's all a myth when you read about it from (probably evil, right-wing or nazi) newspapers, or then they are just bizarre local one-off situations. Which occur repeateadly. By chance. In the same places every time.


Are you going to talk about the Knockout Game next or are you just accidentally cribbing points from Sean Hannity?

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

computer parts posted:

Are you going to talk about the Knockout Game next or are you just accidentally cribbing points from Sean Hannity?

Just trying to annoy you, prolly.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Ligur posted:

Just trying to annoy you, prolly.

It's not annoying, it's hilarious.

It's like the last time D&D had a thread about the Roma and all of the Europeans went "but it's okay to be racist against them because they're actually thieving scum!"

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

computer parts posted:

It's not annoying, it's hilarious.

It's like the last time D&D had a thread about the Roma and all of the Europeans went "but it's okay to be racist against them because they're actually thieving scum!"

I'm glad you also find this hilarious.

Konec Hry
Jul 13, 2005

too much love will kill you

Grimey Drawer
More "you" than "it", I'd wager.

nagel
Sep 19, 2005

We formed a wall once.

computer parts posted:

Are you going to talk about the Knockout Game next or are you just accidentally cribbing points from Sean Hannity?

Well it did happen, didn't it? I mean, the Husby stuff spread and there were quite a lot of burned cars where I live. Just from statistics on demographics, you could probably say with some certainty that those that did this were "non-natives". But the same statistics will probably say that they were on the bottom of the socio-economic scale. In Sweden (and elsewhere, I guess), these two are often connected, but it's not as if being an immigrant means that you are poor or uneducated for life, it just means that there is a higher probability of that being your starting point. Also, they are probably teenagers and kids, and they are stupid as all hell, even if they are Anton the aryan poster child. Hell we used to fake beatings by the road just to see if someone stopped if they saw 20 young guys beating on 1 guy. And almost all of us were "natives".

I'm rambling a bit, but it's stupid kids, doing stupid stuff, just that this stupid stuff is much more stupid and more dangerous than 20 years ago. Or maybe not, I don't remember stuff like this when I was a kid, but then again, I didn't really follow the news. I'm very doubtful that it's because they are named Osman and Ibrahim instead of Joakim and Fredrik.

catbread.jpg posted:

Stop, the 1930s wants its economics back. You realise that at the margins, increased consumption for its own sake merely consumes hard currency and limited physical resources? Broken window fallacy.
Isn't consumption of hard currency good right now, as inflation is really low, and for construction work, in Sweden, physical resources are really not that scarce are they? It's not like we're replacing windows with diamonds and using copper instead of hardwood floors. Also, would really the massive investment in housing that we need be "at the margins?" Which modern economy theory would do the trick?

nagel fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Sep 17, 2014

Ligur
Sep 6, 2000

by Lowtax

Konec Hry posted:

More "you" than "it", I'd wager.

What are you, some kind of a HOMOSEXUAL? Wouldn't be surprised, looking at your avatar... or more like fagatar.

edit: yes, isn't that Princess, the gay song writer and pianist (I looked it up) who wanted nothing more than to prance like a woman, even though he was a man, and snort coke to get AIDS. I imagine a person like that is also pro-immigration and especially pro-muslim as they are well known for their tolerance of minorities, especially the gay ones (bonus score for Iraq shiites).

Ligur fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 17, 2014

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Anyway, is there any political party who support euthanasia?

TheFluff posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnk7huxeIbo

This is basically my political ideology in a nutshell. I want a society that forces you to not be an rear end in a top hat. That's pretty much it. Laugh at my naivety all you want.
That's a neat song.

zokie
Feb 13, 2006

Out of many, Sweden
What's actually better in Norway, Finland or Denmark? It's not like their economic situation is any better...

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

zokie posted:

What's actually better in Norway, Finland or Denmark? It's not like their economic situation is any better...

Norway will be able to lean back on its oil for next 100 or so years almost no matter how much it's mismanaged.

Quantum Mechanic
Apr 25, 2010

Just another fuckwit who thrives on fake moral outrage.
:derp:Waaaah the Christians are out to get me:derp:

lol abbottsgonnawin

catbread.jpg posted:

Stop, the 1930s wants its economics back. You realise that at the margins, increased consumption for its own sake merely consumes hard currency and limited physical resources? Broken window fallacy.

Aggregate demand as a driver of economic growth is by no means an outdated or disproven concept, you know that right? The only major thing disproven from the 1930s economic consensus was that unemployment and inflation are mutually exclusive.

Also guys, if it helps, the arguments being trotted out by the anti-immigration types in this thread are the same ones that Australians pull about our immigration and asylum seeker intake, and we barely take any at all.

a delightful guy
Oct 6, 2012

Ligur posted:

What are you, some kind of a HOMOSEXUAL? Wouldn't be surprised, looking at your avatar... or more like fagatar.

edit: yes, isn't that Princess, the gay song writer and pianist (I looked it up) who wanted nothing more than to prance like a woman, even though he was a man, and snort coke to get AIDS. I imagine a person like that is also pro-immigration and especially pro-muslim as they are well known for their tolerance of minorities, especially the gay ones (bonus score for Iraq shiites).

you know, it's funny, if you lean away from the monitor while looking at the text in this post and sort of squint and kinda lean your head and shift your neck a little it sort of looks like a huge neon red sign spelling out "unfunny dumbass"

it's pretty interesting, you should try it

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER

computer parts posted:

It's not annoying, it's hilarious.

It's like the last time D&D had a thread about the Roma and all of the Europeans went "but it's okay to be racist against them because they're actually thieving scum!"

They totally are tough. We must tolerate them since there is no other choice. But i have nothing positive to say about them, not a word.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Baudolino posted:

They totally are tough. We must tolerate them since there is no other choice. But i have nothing positive to say about them, not a word.

Uh, I'd like to call bullshit on that. We've had rumanian beggars on our streets for the better part of the year in Sweden and the only major crime they've contributed to so far is people harassing them and burning their camps. They're amazingly benevolent when you compare it to just how lovely their situation is.

Postorder Trollet89
Jan 12, 2008
Sweden doesn't do religion. But if they did, it would probably be the best religion in the world.
CAN WE KEEP THIS THREAD ABOUT loving POLITICS IN loving SWEDEN GOOD loving GOD!


SHUT THE gently caress UP LIGUR.

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Xoidanor posted:

Uh, I'd like to call bullshit on that. We've had rumanian beggars on our streets for the better part of the year in Sweden and the only major crime they've contributed to so far is people harassing them and burning their camps. They're amazingly benevolent when you compare it to just how lovely their situation is.

I still don`t have to like them. Don`t worry i wont help people burn down their camps or anything. I just wont prevent it.
The beggars you have seen may be benign but i have seen otherwise. You should also remember that not every gipsy is a beggar, some of them are just plain old criminals. I don`t feel obligated to adore people like that.

Postorder Trollet89
Jan 12, 2008
Sweden doesn't do religion. But if they did, it would probably be the best religion in the world.

Baudolino posted:

I still don`t have to like them. Don`t worry i wont help people burn down their camps or anything. I just wont prevent it.
The beggars you have seen may be benign but i have seen otherwise. You should also remember that not every gipsy is a beggar, some of them are just plain old criminals. I don`t feel obligated to adore people like that.

Please stop with this bullshit. thanks.

Truck Stop Daddy
Apr 17, 2013

A janitor cleans the bathroom

Muldoon

Baudolino posted:

I still don`t have to like them. Don`t worry i wont help people burn down their camps or anything. I just wont prevent it.
The beggars you have seen may be benign but i have seen otherwise. You should also remember that not every gipsy is a beggar, some of them are just plain old criminals. I don`t feel obligated to adore people like that.

some of them are even human i've heard

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

Rutkowski posted:

More like; the immigrants help create a demand(housing, in this example). As such, in a free market economy the companies should be lining up to build apartment blocks, giving the builder industry a lot of money and employing more people, both those who were here before and newly arrived interested and trained in the field. New blocks require more stores, more infrastructure, more everything. Economy grows, refugees get a safer place to live and so does those of us who are homeless, looking for home, about to be homeless, living on couches, living with parents and so on.

But since liberal market economy/free market is bullshit they're not building homes so they can continue to rack up rents and raise the demand. And the homes they build are too expensive for most of the people needing them and at the same time they force gentrification on the few areas where people with less to no income at all can actually live.

Holy poo poo, this thread have moved fast during the last week. Also LOL at Sweden having a free market economy.

As for the cost of immigration, this was published in DN 2009 and promptly forgotten when SD came in 2010.
http://www.dn.se/debatt/arbetskraftsinvandring-hjalper-inte-offentlig-sektor/
The positive economical effects of immigrants is apparently minimal given a similar employment level as native Swedes.
This basically says that the whole argument of immigrants being a future source of prosperity and wealth is wrong.
Best case scenario is +/-=0.

Postorder Trollet89
Jan 12, 2008
Sweden doesn't do religion. But if they did, it would probably be the best religion in the world.

Cardiac posted:

Holy poo poo, this thread have moved fast during the last week. Also LOL at Sweden having a free market economy.

As for the cost of immigration, this was published in DN 2009 and promptly forgotten when SD came in 2010.
http://www.dn.se/debatt/arbetskraftsinvandring-hjalper-inte-offentlig-sektor/
The positive economical effects of immigrants is apparently minimal given a similar employment level as native Swedes.
This basically says that the whole argument of immigrants being a future source of prosperity and wealth is wrong.
Best case scenario is +/-=0.


Youre a loving idiot bub.


Immigration = Population increase. Pupulation Increase = GDP Growth.


It's really that simple even if it won't change much with unemployment rates. Birth rates are way too low in Sweden even with immigration at current levels.

on the left
Nov 2, 2013
I Am A Gigantic Piece Of Shit

Literally poo from a diseased human butt

Postorder Trollet89 posted:

Youre a loving idiot bub.


Immigration = Population increase. Pupulation Increase = GDP Growth.


It's really that simple even if it won't change much with unemployment rates. Birth rates are way too low in Sweden even with immigration at current levels.

China and India are the two most prosperous countries in the world as a result of following this simple rule.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

on the left posted:

China and India are the two most prosperous countries in the world as a result of following this simple rule.

Their GDP are growing at a higher rate than most other nations.

TheFluff
Dec 13, 2006

FRIENDS, LISTEN TO ME
I AM A SEAGULL
OF WEALTH AND TASTE

Cardiac posted:

Also LOL at Sweden having a free market economy.

hello it's 2014 not 1974

on the left
Nov 2, 2013
I Am A Gigantic Piece Of Shit

Literally poo from a diseased human butt

computer parts posted:

Their GDP are growing at a higher rate than most other nations.

Yeah, because having a bunch of surplus population allows you to treat your population like poo poo to secure an economic advantage. Sweden probably isn't planning on sending these people to work camps like the Chinese do.

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

on the left posted:

Yeah, because having a bunch of surplus population allows you to treat your population like poo poo to secure an economic advantage. Sweden probably isn't planning on sending these people to work camps like the Chinese do.

Well if they're like Australia there will be camps of some sort.

TheFluff
Dec 13, 2006

FRIENDS, LISTEN TO ME
I AM A SEAGULL
OF WEALTH AND TASTE

Ligur posted:

Heja heja, only 50% are "temporary". You think they will ever get a "get out of here, go back home" stamp? How do you send anyone away? Which was what we people who don't really believe in the system were talking about. And even if only 30% or 50% of the seekers were somehow via magic sent away on a magic carpet and actually left (which will not happen), 30k or 50k is a fuckton. And their family members who were not along will follow the year or the second after via family re-unification. Like, 10 x more then your neighbours. It's not a few thousand here and there like you said and which you can laugh about and then ignore.
I don't really know how to argue against this because you just keep making poo poo up. People who don't get a permanent residence permit are deported when their temporary one expires. They get taken care of by the police and are sent back to their country of origin. I guess an airplane with a state-paid ticket is a "magic carpet" to you? It would be cool if you could actually source your claims instead of making sweeping statements about how reality actually works according to Ligur. And no, your personal anecdotes don't count.

30k refugees really isn't anything special either, we've hit that number in a year several times since the 80's, the peak being 45k in 1994. Have some hard numbers: http://www.migrationsverket.se/download/18.5e83388f141c129ba6313943/1400506277636/tab1.pdf

I would also like to reiterate that regardless how much you keep screaming about all these large numbers of scary brown people, the raw number of people we let in isn't the problem. Our failed integration policy is the problem, and it is a problem we have to solve regardless of whether we let in five thousand people or fifty thousand.

TheFluff fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Sep 18, 2014

Pimpmust
Oct 1, 2008

The immigrants we really should keep an eye on are the perfidious British :colbert:

I mean, I'm not racist and I'm good friends with at least one semi-British itperson (do they count as people?) but you know those sorts are trouble waiting to happen. Just look at India or North-America.

Just sayin'

Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?
Regarding immigration numbers, I went through them in another thread a while ago.

Rutkowski posted:

Mass immigration is a myth.

http://www.migrationsverket.se/Om-M...verige-....html
103 059 people moved to Sweden in 2012, 20 462 were Swedes moving back home.
Of the other top ten nations in the first graph is Poland, Denmark, China, Thailand and Finland, none being opposed by SD. The remaining countries are Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan, four continued violence hotspots.

Then we have 51 747 personer who moved out of Sweden in 2012 of which 38 percent were Swedish citizens.

That means we have a + in people living here through immigration and emigration of 51 312. That's 0.5 percent of the entire country.

That's not mass immigration.

EDIT: here's a source with a pie chart that's interesting.
http://www.migrationsinfo.se/migration/sverige/

23% is EES-certified Right of Residence
17.9% is work immigration
13.6% is asylum seekers
29.9% is relation-immigration and adoptions
7.1% is relation-immigration for those with temporary asylum and asylum-seekers
The pie chart to the right of it is students(number is not displayed but it's of a very similar size)
The dark blue unnumbered piece is UN-quota refugees
The dark brown(?) unnumbered piece is people living in Sweden without legal papers but unable to be deported due to different reasons

So that's what, roughly 61% of all immigrants(if we count ALL adoptions and relation-immigration as being for non-Swedes which is, well, plainly wrong) not of Swedish citizenry that's 50385 that entered the country that weren't EES-holders. That's less than half of all who moved to Sweden and less who moved out of Sweden.

Amongst these 20% is people with heritage from Finland, the balkans(90's and 50's), South America(primarly Chileans, 70's and 80's), central Europe(50's and 80's) and eastern Europe(post-94). It's not unrestricted immigration, not in any way. People are deported every week even when they have cause for asylum because of our immigration laws. I mean, poo poo, I'm considered an immigrant by those measures because my father was born in Germany and moved with his mother to Sweden when he was three weeks old.

ReV VAdAUL
Oct 3, 2004

I'm WILD about
WILDMAN

Pimpmust posted:

The immigrants we really should keep an eye on are the perfidious British :colbert:

I mean, I'm not racist and I'm good friends with at least one semi-British itperson (do they count as people?) but you know those sorts are trouble waiting to happen. Just look at India or North-America.

Just sayin'

There are more recent reasons to worry:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/20/spain-expat-elections-power-british

quote:

An impassioned Colin Timms was on the campaign stump in Rojales, eastern Spain, just around the corner from The George pub and a shopping street packed with bars offering Tetley's beer, all-day British breakfasts, karaoke nights and evening quizzes.

"The British do not forget and that is why we put the socialists out at the last election," he told an audience of silver-haired expats in Ciudad Quesada, a residential estate with signs advertising a British dental surgery, Danny's Garage and the cheddar cheese sold at The Chop House butchers.

"You are the people who will decide," he insisted, as he urged them to vote in Sunday's Spanish municipal elections. "You can break or break the whole of Rojales."

Timms is one of a new breed of local politicians in Spain – those who deliver a British vote that is decisive in towns where huge expat residential estates have dramatically altered local demographics, sometimes turning native Spaniards into a minority.

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Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Atal Vataman posted:

some of them are even human i've heard

If you are implying that i do not see them as human you are wrong. They are just one of many groups i dislike based on my personal interaction with them. It`s no different form you disliking SD really. You view them as negative but do not deny their humanity. So it is with me and gigpsies.

But back to the topic of swedish politics. NATO Membership: Will the next goverment want to figth for it or is that a dead duck?

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