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MiddleOne posted:It's a rundown of swedish wealth and inequality statistics and their relation to the macro-economy in a funny, pedagogic and novel way. Would recommend. So picketty applied on Swedish economics? Sounds interesting.
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Cardiac posted:So picketty applied on Swedish economics? It's also not a 1000 pages with a text-size of 9p, so that's another plus.
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MiddleOne posted:It's also not a 1000 pages with a text-size of 9p, so that's another plus. You say it like it is a bad thing.
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poo poo, we're one month away from voting day. i thought it was in october or something.
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Cardiac posted:On the other hand, maybe someone would end up reading someone else’s PhD thesis for a change. who thinks people go around reading peoples' theses? what an incredibly quaint notion
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The people have spoken. Thread, please welcome your new IK, Cardiac.
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lol, we trained him wrong as a joke
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The people have spoken. Thread, please welcome your new IK, Cardiac. 
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I see a bunch of parties have tents out in Stockholm for voter outreach today. If I want to bellyache about lackluster library hours and want to see libraries get more funding, which party will likely be most sympathetic?
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Had some S people knock on my doors and they weren't happy to hear that I wasn't interested unless they had plans to start up the production of guillotines.
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Ofaloaf posted:I see a bunch of parties have tents out in Stockholm for voter outreach today. If I want to bellyache about lackluster library hours and want to see libraries get more funding, which party will likely be most sympathetic? https://www.biblioteksbladet.se/nyheter/politik/fem-fragor-om-bibliotek-det-har-vill-riksdagspartierna/ https://www.biblioteksbladet.se/nyheter/politik/alla-partier-motionerar-om-biblioteken/ I think V seems like a good option in your case.
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I did SvDs valkompass and apparently I'm an equal match for V and L.  Though a lot of the questions are of the type where the correct answer is more complex than "I (dis)agree" so I skipped a lot.
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thotsky posted:lol, we trained him wrong as a joke Well, you all wished for this. I feel like the acronym IK is rather suitable, so let’s turn the page (as the Swedish king said). Apparently I can’t shitpost and leave the thread now. Also, straight up insults gets a sixer. Veiled insults gets an applause.
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Congratulations! 
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SplitSoul posted:Congratulations!
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Collateral Damage posted:I did SvDs valkompass and apparently I'm an equal match for V and L. As a treat I give you this. I'm the Adelsons 
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An incredible twist in the history of this thread
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Potrzebie posted:As a treat I give you this. I'm the Adelsons
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Collateral Damage posted:What about backhanded compliments? I can think of none more deserving of the title or the awesome responsibility. Hail Cardiac the Just! 
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why in the world one would ever accept becoming IK of a thread in which one is already a firm minority opinion is not clear to me, but sure why not. install a swede again like it's 1645. we don't mind.
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V. Illych L. posted:why in the world one would ever accept becoming IK of a thread in which one is already a firm minority opinion is not clear to me, but sure why not. install a Norwegian again like it's 1940. we don't mind. Fixt
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Cardiac posted:Also, straight up insults gets a sixer. Calling someone a Norwegian/Dane/Swede is... which??
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Rasstapp! 
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V. Illych L. posted:why in the world one would ever accept becoming IK of a thread in which one is already a firm minority opinion is not clear to me, but sure why not. install a swede again like it's 1645. we don't mind. Since this thread is full of socialists, I thought you would like the option of fighting against an unjust power that governs you with an iron fist and jack booted goons.
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So anyway, since we have an election coming up in Sweden, I guess it is time to do a lineup of the parties. While the starting field is the same as last time, the last 4 years have been the most eventful in modern Swedish political history, so how the parties line up after the election is going to be fully dependent on the exact number of mandates in Riksdagen. So the parties involved are: Social democrats (S), your standard liberal social democrats. Their main ideology is to remain as the ruling coalition and anything is fair to reach that goal. Power trumps ideology. They got a new party leader in Magdalena Andersson, but the effect in the polls have diminished. Main problem is that their main voting base is literally dying off and they are now becoming more of a city party in terms of voters. Moderaterna (M), your standard liberal conservative party. Currently going big on law and order, but they have issues in taking off in the polls mainly since they have problems with the female demographic. Less focus on economy compared to previous elections. Sverigedemokraterna (SD), your standard nationalist/populist party. Compared to other nations they are rather lukewarm in terms of policies as befitting Sweden. Attracts voters from S&M that dislike the current immigration policies. A middle party when it comes to economic policy and M will need their support in order to rule (depending on the outcome) Vänsterpartiet (V), your standard reformed socialist/communist party. They have learned that playing hardball with S works. Had with their new party leader an intention to attract SD voters, but the Ukraine war put a dent in their trustworthiness. Opposed to NATO which will be a major headache for S depending on the election result. Centerpartiet (C), your non standard social liberal party. Changed side to the left block for power. Currently the richest party in Sweden and essentially run by a small clique surrounding the party leader Annie Lööf. Kristdemokraterna (KD) your standard Christian democrats. As always in Sweden, a more lukewarm version compared to other countries. Currently employing a media strategy inspired by the GOP with mixed results, where their party leader Ebba Busch Thor have made an habit of provoking inner city media. Miljöpartiet (MP), your standard Green party. More interested in social equality than environment nowadays. They also got a taste for power after the last 7 years in the ruling coalition. Anyones guess whether they will get kicked out after the election, especially as S threw them under the bus after they left the ruling coalition for stupid reasons. Also opposed to NATO so another headache for S. The looming energy crisis can be partly be attributed to MP which is another headache in the works. Liberalerna (L), your standard social liberal party. Have switched sides two times the last term and one party leader. Was a sure thing that they would get kicked out, but the only one left willing to lead the party apparently have made them recover in the polls by being funny. Other mentions: Afs, nationalist party consisting of people getting kicked out of SD, usually due to overt racism. No one cares about them except media. Klimatkampen, Gudrun Schymans latest attempt to get in on the party support money coffer. Even less pointless than her previous attempts Feministiskt initiativ (FI), have failed in every election and keeps having party leaders which are academics ( in academia you can succeed without popular support) Nyans, a party aimed towards the Muslim population in Sweden. Ironically they have also missed that Muslims is a mixed group depending on country of origin or branch of Islam, which was hilarious shown this week in sydsvenskan. Will undoubtedly implode if they have any success in the election. Main political questions: While SD tends to be the center of attention, the war in Ukraine, the cost of energy (petrol and electricity) and the inflation are likely to be the more important questions since they are tangible for most voters, especially after last winter. This is unlikely to favor SD, which would be a welcome change for once.
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Cardiac posted:Nyans, a party aimed towards the Muslim population in Sweden. Ironically they have also missed that Muslims is a mixed group depending on country of origin or branch of Islam, which was hilarious shown this week in sydsvenskan. Will undoubtedly implode if they have any success in the election. I haven't even heard of this party before, guess they have less traction up here in Svealand.
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Has any party mentioned any specifics on how they intend to try to solve the inflation and energy crises?
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ted hitler hunter posted:Has any party mentioned any specifics on how they intend to try to solve the inflation and energy crises? Yes, but so far they are all terrible, illegal or impossible; or a combination of the three.
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ted hitler hunter posted:Has any party mentioned any specifics on how they intend to try to solve the inflation and energy crises? A recurring theme is to re-open nuclear plants that are deemed impossible to re-open by, you know, nuclear plant experts. But politicians are allowed to be stupid, so... Another idea is to self-impose restrictions of selling electricity to the rest of Europe, where energy is more expensive (we make most of our own with hydro, not Putin gas), which would break the whole agreement on free movement of goods, which we'd get reamed in EU courts for most likely. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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lilljonas posted:A recurring theme is to re-open nuclear plants that are deemed impossible to re-open by, you know, nuclear plant experts. But politicians are allowed to be stupid, so... M, suggests price controls where the state will transfer huge amounts of tax payer-money to the coffers of electrical suppliers. It's very lol that they pretend to think this will work.
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Potrzebie posted:M, suggests price controls where the state will transfer huge amounts of tax payer-money to the coffers of electrical suppliers. It's very lol that they pretend to think this will work. 2022 vintage M: "We need to implement more state control over the free market so that we can get along with our adhd screenings of toddlers." It's like Ulf is trolling Reinfeldt o co. Speaking of bad ideas by bad people: SD: Slopa Kriminalvården – inför Straffverket i stället https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sd-slopa-kriminalvarden-infor-straffverket-i-stallet/ lilljonas fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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lilljonas posted:A recurring theme is to re-open nuclear plants that are deemed impossible to re-open by, you know, nuclear plant experts. But politicians are allowed to be stupid, so... The whole mess is like 40 years in the making due to an inconclusive referendum and non action by either side. The nuclear plants that were shutdown were old and ideally they would have been replaced with never and better ones, but different parties ( C and MP ) have been against this. So we have had a status quo. But ever since MP ended up in the ruling coalition, they implemented a bunch of things making the existing old nuclear plants uneconomic and basically speeding up the dismantling scenario. And without providing a decent backup scenario for electricity. So basically speeding on the process without understanding the ramifications like standard operating procedure for MP. As far as I know, you are located down in Malmö as am I, so I assume you didn’t particularly like your electricity bill in January. It doesn’t particularly looks like next winter will be better in that sense and if we get rolling blackouts down here, we have officially reached the point of a collapsing system.
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Cardiac posted:Klimatkampen, Gudrun Schymans latest attempt to get in on the party support money coffer. Even less pointless than her previous attempts So what’s the deal with Gudrun Schyman. My vague understanding is that she reformed Vpk into V in the mid 90s and made them give up on any delusions about turning Sweden communist. The only other thing I know about her is from my aunt (RIP, an FP/M voter), who said, and I quote, “hon kan käfta!” (I think this was a begrudging compliment)
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david_a posted:So what’s the deal with Gudrun Schyman. My vague understanding is that she reformed Vpk into V in the mid 90s and made them give up on any delusions about turning Sweden communist. The only other thing I know about her is from my aunt (RIP, an FP/M voter), who said, and I quote, “hon kan käfta!” (I think this was a begrudging compliment) I have a comic-book by Gudrun Schyman around here somewhere, it wasn't drawn by her (obviously) but it was basically feminism 101, it was a good book.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The people have spoken. Thread, please welcome your new IK, Cardiac. Nice, Cardiac IK sound like a rehab group for bypass patients.
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