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by ZeroGravitas 33 days ago
Spot the odd one out:

> Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.

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To understand why there might be a desire to limit spending on art;

There was a recent case where city of Malmo was building a hospital; during the building of the hospital it was decided that a splice of the oldest tree in the world would be installed.

A very expensive life-support system was developed and an enormous amount of money paid for the splice. (not including the life support system, which was also an inordinate amount).

The tree didn't take, and needs to be replaced.

It's called "Spruce Time": https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/region-skane-har-lag...

I think government art projects the western world over would fare better if they went through a reasonably local direct democracy type process. Instead we get unelected bureaucrats with absolutely bizarre tastes commissioning wildly expensive projects that the majority don't really appreciate. Even though that only describes a minority of cases I think it shouldn't be any surprise that it results in backlash and defunding.
I hope you don't think that is the odd one out.
For context, from wiki:

> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations [...] to their place of racial ancestry

For more context, from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

Sweden is the only country I'm aware of that has a Wikipedia page specifically about this incredibly niche local phenomenon which by the way has no correlation to anything being discussed here at all.

> Sweden is the only country I'm aware of that has a Wikipedia page specifically about this incredibly niche local phenomenon

Scroll to the bottom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Grenade_attacks_by_co...

Look again—there's only one “List of grenade attacks in x” article.
i keep coming back to this... what's the difference between the countries listed vs. Sweden singled out further down? Recency and context?

And we're led to believe that Sweden has been under sustained attacks pretty much annually, except for the years between 1994 and 2002...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

> large scale remigration

which is literally kicking out people who don't look or sounds like me, out of the country.

Whenever that has happened it has been rather bad for most parties.

What about kicking people out who don’t believe in equal rights for women?

Because, that is pretty core to the Swedish cultural identity.

so setup parallel schools to systematically "educate" non Christians, or is that deemed less of a core cultural identity nowawdays?
I think we all decided a long time ago that segregated schooling was a bad idea, it increased stereotyping and resentment according to studies: https://academic.oup.com/cdpers/article/10/2/81/8231636

Parallel societies have never been found to be a positive thing as far as I can tell.

It was more an observation on what happend to the Sàmi. Which rather backs up your point really.

What I don't understand is why integration is so poor in sweden(and the netherlands) compared to the UK. Outcomes for second generation swedes immigrant are terrible in education and employment.

As someone who was raised Christian, since when do Christians believe in equal rights for women?
> which is literally kicking out people who don't look or sounds like me, out of the country.

Or, more accurately, people who weren't born there (particularly first generation immigrants). No one's talking about legitimately doing deportations via family guy race cards.

> "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."

- Markus Allard

Yes they are
We want everyone here to be exactly like us, but we do recognize we have bad teeth.
No, we just want them to not hate us and our culture. People in general are tired of being tolerant to the intolerant.
Heh, "They hate us, but we're different, we're civilized, so it's fine when we hate them back.".
Yes. They are free to hate us from their own country.