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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Look people, obviously somebody had to tell the unvarnished Truth about the hellscape Sweden has recently devolved into, and who better to do that than some rando who moved away a couple of decades ago?

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Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

I welcome Trump talking poo poo about Sweden. It really does suck.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Randarkman posted:

I welcome Trump talking poo poo about Sweden. It really does suck.

What can they say that's gonna be worse than what we have been saying about them for centuries.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.

Cake Smashing Boob posted:

lol Fox News just had some small time criminal nobody pose as a Swedish Defence Analyst

How the hell Did you get that av?

TheFluff
Dec 13, 2006

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

Randarkman posted:

I welcome Trump talking poo poo about Sweden. It really does suck.

The weirdest loving thing is that with all this attention in the last few days suddenly it seems like nationalism is working against SD & co. I'm seeing all kinds of people from all kinds of political factions popping out of the woodwork to say that no, Malmö really isn't that bad. Nationalism is the weirdest loving thing.

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide

Alhazred posted:

What can they say that's gonna be worse than what we have been saying about them for centuries.

Eh, they were way into smack talk all through the cold war (because apparently social democracy is basically communism and a threat to american freedom/profits). Nothing new under the sun.

Wild Horses posted:

How the hell Did you get that av?

Some friendly goon gifted it to me for being a liberal social justice commu-feminazi probably.

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide
I'm also a very vocal supporter of black genocide.

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails
I imagine most (reasonable...) Swedes are completely aware that there are legitimate challenges and issues linked to the refugee influx and are open to a conversation about them that doesn't dehumanize or treat refugees and muslim citizens as brainless agents of some kind of wave of fifth-columnist rape-sharia zombie uprising. So when foreign media talks about Sweden as if that zombie uprising is an actual fact and treats Sweden as some kind of failed state, those moderate voices respond with a complete rejection of that politically motivated delusion. I think it's heartening to hear that Swedes are turning their patriotism to defending their country's reputation against this far right agenda, and as an addition to what TheFluff says, seems like a clear example of a positive and constructive use of nationalism.

TheFluff
Dec 13, 2006

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

edit:

https://twitter.com/forsvarsakerhet/status/835483021608378368

TheFluff fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Feb 25, 2017

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.

murphyslaw posted:

I imagine most (reasonable...) Swedes are completely aware that there are legitimate challenges and issues linked to the refugee influx and are open to a conversation about them that doesn't dehumanize or treat refugees and muslim citizens as brainless agents of some kind of wave of fifth-columnist rape-sharia zombie uprising. So when foreign media talks about Sweden as if that zombie uprising is an actual fact and treats Sweden as some kind of failed state, those moderate voices respond with a complete rejection of that politically motivated delusion. I think it's heartening to hear that Swedes are turning their patriotism to defending their country's reputation against this far right agenda, and as an addition to what TheFluff says, seems like a clear example of a positive and constructive use of nationalism.

actually trump is a 7th level warlock, he can perceive events that have not happened yet.
it was just a simple mistake at a press conference that caused this whole debacle. :shrug:

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide

Snubben har ju fattat hur man tar sig fram i USA iaf. Bluff och båg.

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails

Wild Horses posted:

actually trump is a 7th level warlock, he can perceive events that have not happened yet.
it was just a simple mistake at a press conference that caused this whole debacle. :shrug:

I was referring to a longer trend of far right agitprop concerning Sweden culminating in that Fox News insanity.

As far as the press conference I think you're referring to, that being yesterday's barring other news outlets than those that dear leader likes from spicy boy's angry sermon against the media, I sure hope for the sake of the US that that indeed was a one time mistake. Private citizens retreating into a safe space echo chamber is bad enough, the US executive branch doing it is a national disgrace and a dangerous one at that.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
i'm kidding. its a reference to when trump was referring to "something" happening in sweden due to refugees, was derided for it because nothing had actually happened, and then some days later we had those riots with cops shooting to kill.


edit: this thing with media telling falsities is another thing entirely and it sucks

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails

Wild Horses posted:

i'm kidding. its a reference to when trump was referring to "something" happening in sweden due to refugees, was derided for it because nothing had actually happened, and then some days later we had those riots with cops shooting to kill.

No worries my bro just making sure :) thanks for clearing up

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Cake Smashing Boob posted:

lol Fox News just had some small time criminal nobody pose as a Swedish Defence Analyst

Stop spreading fake news! Fox News has the best defense experts in the world! Here is Nils Bildt in studio together with Fox News' Finnish defense analyst!

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide
LOOKY HEER EEHTS A RUSSIAN SURBMERENE-A-BORK

ulvir
Jan 2, 2005

an acquaintance of mine who is an active member of SV told me to vote Rødt over SV this coming election since I'm torn between the two. apparently a lot of internal conflicts going on there

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

It's not a proper socialist party unless it's being torn apart by infighting.

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

Grevling posted:

It's not a proper socialist party unless it's being torn apart by infighting.

Excuse me but I believe the proper term is dialectical praxis.

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

I don't know what that means

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails

ThaumPenguin posted:

I don't know what that means

Neither do they, I'm sure.

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

murphyslaw posted:

Neither do they, I'm sure.

Well I just made it up, so

ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

The main lesson to take from this is that parties are bad. :anarchists:

Retarded Goatee
Feb 6, 2010
I spent :10bux: so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
While socialism has yet to bring us a classless society, it did however invent the next best thing. Proggen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8pTVAz28ZU

I'm not sure they're too proud about cheering Pol Pot on anymore though.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

Yeah, some leftist anthems were fairly naive. Here's another example.
Heimevernslaget - Eritrea

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




But some are pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWEiMfn1bIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvD_ngn4nJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGR-0uvkOtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADllayaGe6I

Beeswax
Dec 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer
My jam

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

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

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

TheFluff
Dec 13, 2006

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

Progg for the post-ironic generation. It loving owns though.

seriously doctor kosmos is so bizarrely good, they're utterly sincere but so self-aware that it seems like they're being ironic

TheFluff fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Feb 27, 2017

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

TheFluff posted:

Progg for the post-ironic generation. It loving owns though.

seriously doctor kosmos is so bizarrely good, they're utterly sincere but so self-aware that it seems like they're being ironic

Their singer, Uje Brandelius, have been a press secretary for V since 2009 for those that didn't know.
It is nice for once to see an artist actually stand up for his/her opinions, instead of random moaning/hypocrisy.

Beeswax
Dec 29, 2005

Grimey Drawer
It's cool that two of V's high-up positions are held by people who used to be in bands I love(d). There's Uje and there's party secretary Aron Etzler used to sing Ny Akustik around the turn of the millennium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph3iXLKki_U

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Cake Smashing Boob posted:

lol Fox News just had some small time criminal nobody pose as a Swedish Defence Analyst

Even better/worse, he tried to get into Riksdagen for SD a while back: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/optraadte-som-sikkerhedsraadgiver-paa-fox-ville-i-riksdagen-sverigedemokraterna

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot

Cardiac posted:

It is nice for once to see an artist actually stand up for his/her opinions, instead of random moaning/hypocrisy.

Not always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obMdvSOh1dE

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

Beeswax posted:

It's cool that two of V's high-up positions are held by people who used to be in bands I love(d). There's Uje and there's party secretary Aron Etzler used to sing Ny Akustik around the turn of the millennium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph3iXLKki_U

The vocalist of the band with the Eritrea song I linked to went on to retire in Spain, only to come back and make songs calling immigrants "fleas and lice" who "smell like onions and hash".

It's hard to listen to his music without that coming to mind now.

Grevling fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Feb 27, 2017

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
Does Rødt have any actual replacement for NATO in mind, security policy wise?

I get that NATO is used to protect capitalist interests in an imperialistic way, drags us into conflicts of aggression and allow the US undue influence on us politically and economically, but I don't see that Rødt is proposing any realistic alternative. I scoured the Rødt webside and they say they want a national defense made up of conscripts, and to train the civilian populace for an insurgency should we be occupied. That's not really... I mean, at the height of Norwegian mobilization, back during the cold war, the most we could hope for was to delay the Russians for a short while. We need an alliance.

I agree with the NATO criticism above, but I suspect some of the opposition is rooted in a historical belief that Russia could be our Marxist-Leninist comrades. I doubt there is anyone on the left who still sees Russia as ideological allies so what is the proposed alternative to NATO? Do most other people on the left believe it is better to risk our own security than staying with NATO?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Biomute posted:

Does Rødt have any actual replacement for NATO in mind, security policy wise?

I get that NATO is used to protect capitalist interests in an imperialistic way, drags us into conflicts of aggression and allow the US undue influence on us politically and economically, but I don't see that Rødt is proposing any realistic alternative. I scoured the Rødt webside and they say they want a national defense made up of conscripts, and to train the civilian populace for an insurgency should we be occupied. That's not really... I mean, at the height of Norwegian mobilization, back during the cold war, the most we could hope for was to delay the Russians for a short while. We need an alliance.

I agree with the NATO criticism above, but I suspect some of the opposition is rooted in a historical belief that Russia could be our Marxist-Leninist comrades. I doubt there is anyone on the left who still sees Russia as ideological allies so what is the proposed alternative to NATO? Do most other people on the left believe it is better to risk our own security than staying with NATO?

Personally I would rather risk the small chance of being invaded than contribute to the hell-machine that is NATO.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Biomute posted:

Does Rødt have any actual replacement for NATO in mind, security policy wise?

I get that NATO is used to protect capitalist interests in an imperialistic way, drags us into conflicts of aggression and allow the US undue influence on us politically and economically, but I don't see that Rødt is proposing any realistic alternative. I scoured the Rødt webside and they say they want a national defense made up of conscripts, and to train the civilian populace for an insurgency should we be occupied. That's not really... I mean, at the height of Norwegian mobilization, back during the cold war, the most we could hope for was to delay the Russians for a short while. We need an alliance.

I agree with the NATO criticism above, but I suspect some of the opposition is rooted in a historical belief that Russia could be our Marxist-Leninist comrades. I doubt there is anyone on the left who still sees Russia as ideological allies so what is the proposed alternative to NATO? Do most other people on the left believe it is better to risk our own security than staying with NATO?

I'm not really sure if a Russian invasion of Norway is all that likely ever in the near or distant future whether we are in NATO or not. But it quite possibly does improve our position in negotating disputes with Russia of a smaller nature.

I wouldn't really say a conscript army is anywhere close to what Norway needs anymore and is pretty expensive when it comes to having to train a new batch of recruits very frequently for ever more technically demanding tasks. Soviet war plans for Scandinavia were essentially to just send a whole load of nukes to major cities and military installations and ignore it. If Russia still has plans that involve fighting in Scandinavia I wouldn't imagine it being so different, though Soviet military power was vastly superior to today's Russia. If you want a military to defend against that I'd say you either need a comprehensive missile defense system (though that's very expensive and something Russia is really touchy about) or a nuclear deterrent (which we in essence have with NATO).

TheRat posted:

Personally I would rather risk the small chance of being invaded than contribute to the hell-machine that is NATO.

Hell-machine. Really?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Randarkman posted:


I wouldn't really say a conscript army is anywhere close to what Norway needs anymore and is pretty expensive when it comes to having to train a new batch of recruits very frequently for ever more technically demanding tasks.

When my brother was in the army he was told that his job, if Russia invaded, was to gently caress with the signs so the russians would get lost.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Alhazred posted:

When my brother was in the army he was told that his job, if Russia invaded, was to gently caress with the signs so the russians would get lost.

That sounds pretty effective.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Randarkman posted:

That sounds pretty effective.

Worked in the Wire.

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