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Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

MiddleOne posted:

I must admit that they've gotten way better at dogwhistles over the years. The recent motion to supress media consolidation by "ethnic groups"(:godwinning:) being the latest example.

The last thing I have apparently missed?
Care to elaborate?

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Cardiac posted:

The last thing I have apparently missed?
Care to elaborate?

http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sd-riksdagsledamot-minska-bonniers-makt-ta-bort-presstodet/

I believe someone is about to get the boot again.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012


So "pure ethnic" Swedes will only be able to own 5% of the newspapers?
The stupidity of this is amazing.

Especially considering most of the Swedish newspapers will be dead within 5-10 years, where papers like SvD (Norwegian owned) and GP will probably go first.
Mittmedia recently said they would fire like 450 out of 600 journalists this year and next.
There are speculations that Aftonbladet will go all digital this or next year, which will also make Expressen go all digital (they have the same printing press).

If she were a little bit lot smarter she would just wait after next election, when Alliansen likely be in power with indirect support from SD.
Anyone going to be surprised when SD makes sure to cut pressstödet as well as other things related to culture in order to "save money"?

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

So they want to reduce the media monopoly by cutting all financial support to them? Won't that just solidify the monopoly? They even want to get rid of SVT and SR to make sure of it. There's no way they're not just trying to create one big media company. Are we going to hear how they received a lot of funding from Bonniers in the future or something? Are they just using an unusually stupid SD member as a sacrifice so the rest of the party can make ridiculous claims:

”Sverigedemokraterna försvarar en ordning med fri och oberoende media. Vi ser pressfriheten som grundläggande samt ställer oss bakom public service”
I haven't heard such an obvious lie since one of my friends claimed that his pick of race for pen and paper roleplaying wasn't at all imbalanced despite getting absolutely massive bonuses to all combat related stats.


What a loving farce. One side is so incompetent they couldn't tie shoelaces and the other uses their minimal competence for pure malice. :smithicide:

Svartvit
Jun 18, 2005

al-Qabila samaa Bahth

Cardiac posted:

Surprise that SD was right or that organised begging exists?

Regardless, until next election the rest of the parties are going to have to live with SD being all :smugdog: and basically going "I told you so" to most things.
Going to be interesting to see how they deal with it, considering how few things actually stick to SD in terms of polling.
The same things we see with Drumpf now and his ability to ignore scandals is the same political position that SD managed to reach long ago.

That romani beggars were (often?) part of an organized effort on someone else's behalf. SD is right about things the way a broken clock is right every now and then. It's just that they and their supporters think that not being wring about something is worthy of adulation.

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

Poil posted:


What a loving farce. One side is so incompetent they couldn't tie shoelaces and the other uses their minimal competence for pure malice. :smithicide:

This. loving this. Who the hell are you supposed to support when one side is full of shortsighted career politicians who only care about their jobs and the other side is a bunch of Drumpfers. Ugh.

freelancemoth
Apr 28, 2014

McCloud posted:

This. loving this. Who the hell are you supposed to support when one side is full of shortsighted career politicians who only care about their jobs and the other side is a bunch of Drumpfers. Ugh.

Satanistiskt Initiativ

"Why settle for lesser Evil?"

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

freelancemoth posted:

Satanistiskt Initiativ

"Why settle for lesser Evil?"

:same:

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.

McCloud posted:

This. loving this. Who the hell are you supposed to support when one side is full of shortsighted career politicians who only care about their jobs and the other side is a bunch of Drumpfers. Ugh.

rösta [blankt]

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
Old video has surfaced of a current politican with a reasonably big assignment in which he tells a highlaaaaaarious story about a bunch of maxis who pummels a sheep to death while pretending it's a Jew. (Laughing, while reminiscing this happy occasion).



Wanna guess what party? It's Swedish....and..."democratic"....

Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

MiddleOne posted:

Speaking as someone actually from that side of Sweden, Göteborg has had troubles with crime and begging since way, and I mean waaaaay, before the current Romani situation. I'd be careful about conflating the two.

Reallly?
Because then the scale must have been way different. I literally nerver encountered beggars in the city center, except a few "regulars", until that EU expansion happened. We have had lots of homeless people, but they were not begging actively on the street for some reson.

Karpaw
Oct 29, 2011

by Cyrano4747

BigglesSWE posted:

Old video has surfaced of a current politican with a reasonably big assignment in which he tells a highlaaaaaarious story about a bunch of maxis who pummels a sheep to death while pretending it's a Jew. (Laughing, while reminiscing this happy occasion).

Sounds halalious. What mosque was it filmed at?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Zudgemud posted:

Reallly?
Because then the scale must have been way different. I literally nerver encountered beggars in the city center, except a few "regulars", until that EU expansion happened. We have had lots of homeless people, but they were not begging actively on the street for some reson.

Did you literally never travel from the train station? I'm not sure how one could miss it. :psyduck:

But yes, the scale was different. It was a few hotspot instead of the current literally everywhere.

Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

MiddleOne posted:

Did you literally never travel from the train station? I'm not sure how one could miss it. :psyduck:

But yes, the scale was different. It was a few hotspot instead of the current literally everywhere.

Cant remember that they were constantly there begging during late 90s early 2000s. There were definately numerous homeless people and Faktum sellers in the city center though.

CAROL
Oct 29, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Flashback is down and none of my friends will stop talking about it

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

eightpole posted:

Flashback is down and none of my friends will stop talking about it

There is a TV debate among all the Swedish party leaders on at the time of your post. But we shouldn't talk about politics in this thread.

Also, not the first time Flashback is down.

CAROL
Oct 29, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Who cares about Swedish politics tbh

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

eightpole posted:

Who cares about Swedish politics tbh

Considering the debate was mostly discussing the result of the last election, that was two years ago, no one?

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
Löfven is handsome

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!
Åkesson was all like "environment concerns? naaah, not our problem."


SD is literally the worst in all categories, in my books.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

BigglesSWE posted:

Åkesson was all like "environment concerns? naaah, not our concerns.

Too bad literally no one supports SD based on environmental concerns.
Also, what about that coal?

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

One thing I noted in the debate was Löfvens deflections when it came to asylum seekers.
Leaving that issue aside, he constantly deferred to EU to handle regulations which accordingly would relieve him of responsibility for future policy changes since it is all EU.

While that is somewhat true, there are 2 issues with that argumentation.
1. Considering how asylum is handled in EU, that part will take a long time to happen.
2. Löfven is basically trying to transfer the blame to EU, making them the scapegoat.
That line of argumentation is pretty bad and we have seen the result already in Europe with Brexit and UK politicians blaming EU for everything bad.
He should also consider which parties in Riksdagen benefit from a negative opinion to EU i.e. V and SD.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Cardiac posted:

One thing I noted in the debate was Löfvens deflections when it came to asylum seekers.
Leaving that issue aside, he constantly deferred to EU to handle regulations which accordingly would relieve him of responsibility for future policy changes since it is all EU.

While that is somewhat true, there are 2 issues with that argumentation.
1. Considering how asylum is handled in EU, that part will take a long time to happen.
2. Löfven is basically trying to transfer the blame to EU, making them the scapegoat.
That line of argumentation is pretty bad and we have seen the result already in Europe with Brexit and UK politicians blaming EU for everything bad.
He should also consider which parties in Riksdagen benefit from a negative opinion to EU i.e. V and SD.

You really should give prop 2015/16:174 a read. Just page after page of the responsible government ministers answering "we're doing this because the EU minimum says so" over and over again when critiqued on the specifics by our courts, government agencies and civil society organizations. Doesn't matter that it's not true, that's the story they've decided on to sleep at night. Coincidentally, this has also been the answer provided whenever the issue has been brought up in interviews and debates since at least Almedalen.

It's loving pathetic.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

MiddleOne posted:

Just page after page of the responsible government ministers answering "we're doing this because the EU minimum says so" over and over again
I don't know what I'm talking about but are they just admitting to just doing the bare minimum (even if it's true)? How is it EU's fault they're not doing a better job? Will they get punished by the other EU ministers by jantelagen or something? Please tell me I'm wrong again.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Poil posted:

I don't know what I'm talking about but are they just admitting to just doing the bare minimum (even if it's true)? How is it EU's fault they're not doing a better job? Will they get punished by the other EU ministers by jantelagen or something? Please tell me I'm wrong again.

Yes, but they're using it as a justification, as if there was some causal connection which there of course isn't.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

MiddleOne posted:

You really should give prop 2015/16:174 a read. Just page after page of the responsible government ministers answering "we're doing this because the EU minimum says so" over and over again when critiqued on the specifics by our courts, government agencies and civil society organizations. Doesn't matter that it's not true, that's the story they've decided on to sleep at night. Coincidentally, this has also been the answer provided whenever the issue has been brought up in interviews and debates since at least Almedalen.

It's loving pathetic.

I should do that.
Even while we probably don't agree whether the actions were necessary, we probably can agree on that these justifications are kinda bad and probably in the end, directly counter-productive.

Considering the massive PR campaign they did 2 months before the decision, I guess it would be a too massive loss of face to say " we were wrong" and instead they blamed EU.
Saying they were wrong would however have opened up a new line of questioning where it would become very obvious that they had information indicating what would happen several months in advance and then not acting on it.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Cardiac posted:

Too bad literally no one supports SD based on environmental concerns.
Also, what about that coal?

I once met a girl who voted for them because of their stand on animal rights.

Could just be a very desperate excuse tho.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
They're right about nuclear power. And the military.
Still not going to vote for them but hey

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

BigglesSWE posted:

I once met a girl who voted for them because of their stand on animal rights.

Could just be a very desperate excuse tho.

You know who else was big on animal rights? :godwin:

Wild Horses posted:

They're right about nuclear power. And the military.
Still not going to vote for them but hey

Broken clocks and so on.
I wonder if what we are seeing in the west is the beginning of a break-up between neoliberals and conservatives, where the latter have started to realise they are not working towards the same goals any longer when socialism is all but dead.

freelancemoth
Apr 28, 2014

Cardiac posted:

Broken clocks and so on.
I wonder if what we are seeing in the west is the beginning of a break-up between neoliberals and conservatives, where the latter have started to realise they are not working towards the same goals any longer when socialism is all but dead.

Neo liberals are always for profit margin, "free movement" of capital and low wage servants wheras the conservatives are more of a "law&order" party. Not really into that "multicultural" society if it means more burned cars and letting rapits go.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Cardiac posted:

I wonder if what we are seeing in the west is the beginning of a break-up between neoliberals and conservatives, where the latter have started to realise they are not working towards the same goals any longer when socialism is all but dead.

Yeah pretty much? Triangulation has been a thing in both the right and left after all. The traditional left gave up redistribution and the role of the state while the traditional right in reaction gave up on conservatism and the role of the military.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

MiddleOne posted:

Yeah pretty much? Triangulation has been a thing in both the right and left after all. The traditional left gave up redistribution and the role of the state while the traditional right in reaction gave up on conservatism and the role of the military.

Now we got the worst of both worlds.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

MiddleOne posted:

Yeah pretty much? Triangulation has been a thing in both the right and left after all. The traditional left gave up redistribution and the role of the state while the traditional right in reaction gave up on conservatism and the role of the military.

And now everyone is triangulating versus the conservatives, which turns out to be rather hard since it was a group that have been neglected for a long time by both sides.
S conservative voters are literally dying off and M, C, KDs went SD when M, C went all liberal and progressive.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
As i understood it there was some movement from S to SD as well

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

S in 2006-2010 and M in 2010-2014.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Cardiac posted:

You know who else was big on animal rights? :godwin

Yeah, Kent Ekeroth was caught crying over a sick calf. Clearly he's fit for office!

Or were you referring to a different nazi?

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

BigglesSWE posted:

Yeah, Kent Ekeroth was caught crying over a sick calf. Clearly he's fit for office!

Or were you referring to a different nazi?

Holy poo poo, do you youngsters actually learn any form of history ?
You clearly don't know your Godwin.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Cardiac posted:

Holy poo poo, do you youngsters actually learn any form of history ?
You clearly don't know your Godwin.

The great irony hear (apart from my joke) is that I'm actually studying history at Örebro University. Clearly I need it amirite?

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
Swedes aren't taught about Nazis because the politicians know the population would be all about that poo poo.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

BigglesSWE posted:

The great irony hear (apart from my joke) is that I'm actually studying history at Örebro University. Clearly I need it amirite?

Oh you poor soul :ohdear:

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