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ScazarMeltex posted...

Fuck you, I'm a communist and I've no love for Russia or tankies.

Reread what I responded to and take a moment and think about what I'm trying to say to that poster

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Ah yes, communists just love Russia don't they

teep_ posted...

And if I'm not mistaken, they failed miserably

I've seen people discuss this and come to the conclusion that ultimately that depends on what you mean by failure. But I don't know too much about the conflict myself (which honestly I should fix seeing as they're a neighboring country).

teep_ posted...

Are you referring to the Nordics or to Ukraine? I'd agree with you on the former, but I'm sceptical with regard to the latter

I'm talking specifically as a Swede. While I think that Ukraine getting closer to NATO and the EU is a factor in the current conflict, I don't necessarily think they were wrong in seeking those things.

DarkRoast posted...

Thank you for contributing that nonsense.

Tell me. Since the US was founded. For how many years have they not been involved in an armed conflict?

The US military is one of the largest employers in the world. It's in their economic interest that the US is constantly at war, which it has been for almost its entire existence as a nation. It's not unreasonable to suggest that they would be interested in escalating tensions in various parts of the world. And it's not unreasonable to not want to join a military alliance with them.

Hey guys what's going on with the US threats of military force against China regarding the Solomon islands?

Doom_Art posted...

Dude be better lol

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Bat178 posted...

That leaves Ireland as the sole Northern European country not in NATO.

That's not a definition of Northern Europe that I'm familiar with

Thompson posted...

I said this in another topic long ago, but I'll say it again: The only reason the Baltic states are still independent is because of NATO.
Also, now to add, Russia has never invaded a NATO country, but they sure are invading neutral Ukraine and are planning on extending the same favor to neutral Moldova, and guess what, Russia wants Finland and Sweden to stay neutral. Gee, I wonder why.

Yeah. I think it makes sense for states who were subjects of Russian imperialism to view NATO membership as an anti-imperialist measure. I don't think that makes sense from a Swedish perspective. Understandably the Finnish perspective is different.

Looks like Turkey bombing Kurds is also just a bunch of hot air to them, as well as the various US war crimes and US sponsored war crimes.

yeah i'm ready! But we're gonna do a pretty small just invite a friend and play some Mario Kart. We're both recovering from colds and stuff so it'll be a calm thing.

https://twitter.com/gumby4christ/status/1518610648166506496

My favorite is when he personally cancelled some guy's Tesla order because he was saying critical stuff online

elon stans are so weird

There's also the whole thing about a manned mission to Mars essentially compromising literally any scientific find we might do, because we bring our own host of organisms etc. It's less that it's impossible and more that scientifically, we don't really want to go to Mars. Elon doesn't really care, because he's scientifically illiterate.

How are you liking Mr. Group so far

Both and I'm far from a "Chad"

Kloe_Rinz posted...

some things they would teach include:

what a search engine is and how to google something
how to use a word processor, spreadsheet software, etc
who was email and how do I talk to him
what is a file on the computer and what is a folder
whats the difference between a computer and a monitor

stuff like that

zoomers are actually as bad or worse than boomers when it comes to tech

And here I thought you were going to talk about computing

FF_Redux posted...

The worst offenders are the ppl that just lifts the aluminium cover a bit and dont remove it.

But.. the best part of butter is when you get to remove that!!

That's so violent. What's wrong with just scraping off a bit at a time :(

BalanceLost posted...

Christian Democratic leader Ebba Busch yesterday asked why the police didnt shoot more people during the riots. When she got heavy criticism including from the police she did her typical I am being misinterpreted. Busch is like a US Republican these days. Horrible woman.

Tying back to the other topic, this is why the right is so keen on labeling everyone as religious extremists. Then she can wish that more islamists were shot, when actually, the people on the streets were regular people. Many of them kids. Acting badly and recklessly yes, but still people.
She's truly a disgusting person.

I'd probably say FF 7 is the easier one, but it's also the one I know better. And with proper knowledge, you break more or less every post FF 5 game quite early on.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Just because I keep voting for the almost-Communist party does not make me a communist!

Is that the "something something"-listan party?

I'm doing my part as well in that regard.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Whether you agree with harsher deportation or not is one thing

but how can anyone justify deporting an entire family for the actions of an individual?

It's easy, the people who proposed it are neo-Nazis who want foreigners/Muslims out of the country no matter what.

Doesn't sound weird. She's partly right and partly wrong. The Russian minorities in Ukraine have been under a bit of threat. So I don't think it's weird she'd side with Russia, even though she's a bit off the mark in some regards. The CIA were famously involved with some quite violent elements during the Maidan revolts, for example. And I bet that a lot of Russians actually prefer the Soviet Union to the hellish void that came after, regardless of their being left or right. The fact is that the pretty massive privatizations that happened after the fall of the Soviet Unions were so unpopular that Gorbachev and Yeltsin to this day are quite disliked in large parts of Russia. And I wouldn't be surprised if the current leadership, while being just as bad or worse, is actively feeding sentiments like that.

tl;dr I can very much imagine that if she feels like she has "first-hand accounts" of how things "actually" are, she'd be convinced of all sorts of things. Some of them correct, others not. But I'd imagine it's pretty convincing to have loved family members give their side of the story, compared to western media that might be correct on some issues, but is definitely also riddled with propaganda of its own.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Fair. Kind of surprised you didn't have that already.

Temporary residency can be rescinded AFAIK. But when it's permanent, in some sense the idea is (or at least my take is) that you're a part of society, and thus should be treated as part of society, for good and for bad. There's a big risk of opening the door for legally second-grade citizens if you start tampering with this. Especially when it comes to citizenship. But even permanent residents have the right to vote in local elections etc, and they've generally been contributing to society for many years to even get granted PR in the first place.

BalanceLost posted...

Even Vnsterpartiet (the Far-Left) refused to comment on the 30-point proposal from Sverigedemokraterna (Nationalists).

They seem terrified of being villified as "condoning the riots" and it's very sad.

BalanceLost posted...

Paludan got exactly what he wanted.

Yeah, exactly this. It's depressing to see how these types of suggestions more or less dominate public debate.

The internet is weird, but I'm sure you'd find the same kind of dissonance in various groupings IRL as well. I've read some legal brief about this from a while back that looks very damning for Heard, but in the end I'm convinced that this whole issue is about two abusive assholes being really abusive towards each other. I'm sure there's an argument for why one is more of a victim than the other, but I'm generally of the opinion that the rule of thumb for Hollywood celebs is that they are fucked up as heck. So I'm not really finding a lot of sympathy within me either way.

Guys, it's perfectly possible to lose your sense of smell from a regular cold as well. It's not a uniquely COVID symptom.
Krya p dig!!

pegusus123456 posted...

It's sold by Rogier if that's who you mean.

And yes. It took me a little bit to understand how it works too, but that Ash of War gives a weapon the Magic affinity which makes it scale with Intellect.

AFAIK, even if you don't make the weapon magic affinity, the skill itself would scale with INT, right?

alright then, have fun

Ruvan22 posted...

Which of Trump's policies do you find progressive?

How have you been here since 2002 and still don't recognize one of the most obvious and notorious gimmick posters on CE. No offense

Punished_Blinx posted...

She's an anti-LGBT politician who directly responded to a gay couple's announcement. It's definitely an LGBTQ issue from her perspective. That's why she called it a vanity project.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

She's repeatedly come out with the most patently absurd statements about gay and trans people.

My most sincerest apologies if I was in any way presumptuous in this particular case, considering she was referring to surrogacy by a gay couple.

Oh I see. Broken clock and everything

The_Creep_2020 posted...

It's not weird you realise what they're trying to do.

Gay people raising children is just yucky. That's the first step, then gay couples adopting children will also be super liek totes yucky.

That's sarcasm, in case I needed to spell it out

As far as I can tell, you're the one who typed up "gay surrogacy" in the topic title, whereas the article you linked just talks about surrogacy.

TheRealDill2K22 posted...

This was an innocent typo. No need for the ridicule over something so meaningless.

Now here's a name I haven't seen in a long, long time.

It's really weird to make a distinction between gay and straight surrogacy, as if it matters. The issue is the exploitation of women's bodies, and trying to disguise it as an LGBTQ issue is really dishonest pinkwashing.

Neat. Ninja Five-0 is a very underrated game.

Genuinely believing that the riots happened just because of a book burning when riots are increasing all over the world is also a little bit stupid.

https://twitter.com/showanshattak/status/1514694300273160192

BalanceLost posted...

Burning religious books does not fall under our hate crime laws. Paludan is a despicable person but he followed the law. Freedom of assembly and right to protest laws.

True. But it's also true that it was well within the police's discretion to not grant him permission for his stunts. He filed an application and they approved it. And they have every right to deny (even should deny) any application where they judge it can potentially turn unsafe, or if there's been similar events in the past that have turned unsafe. This isn't Paludan's first rodeo, and with minimal thinking the police should have known the risks. Yet they granted his application, and supplied him with police and SPO escorts. That's not part of the constitution. On the flip side, there are many leftist and anti fascist demonstrations that get denied. So it's not like they're very keen to preserve everyone's freedom of speech either.

ZeroV2 posted...

I wonder how many people would be ok with radical extremists burning their car and think well I dont agree with the action but I understand it

you must be very well off to think that because most people would be furious

It's one thing to "be ok" with it, and another thing to understand why they're angry. We can partially understand why Kanye is acting the way he is towards Kim (BPD episode), but that doesn't mean we have to be ok with it.

The bus incident happened one or two days later than the other cars burning AFAIK which might be why you didn't see it in the same reporting. You're right that it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that "a part of town" was on fire. But it's been a while since Sweden saw such violent riots.

DeadBankerDream posted...

I haven't really been paying attention to the nitty gritty details of this story, but I just watched a segment and apparently Rasmus Paludan is giving up entering Danish politics and is instead going for Swedish electorial success? I thought he was just there to rabble rouse with his pan-Scandinavian brothers, but this is great news!

It took a couple of centuries, but FINALLY Sweden has become useful to us.

Thanks!

:( Please take him back, he's your pedo

BalanceLost posted...

If you send neighbours and police officers to the hospital and destroy property in this way then youre a fundie.

The police say that several leading figures behind the riots in different cities are connected to gang activity as well.

All the hard working immigrants, including muslims, in these neighbourhoods who live their lives in peace and dont engage in these criminal attacks are victims. They live under this so called oppression you talk about yet dont injure people and burn cars and destroy property. The criminal fundies are not victims.

What's the point of calling them fundamentalists just because they're rioting? Are the BLM protesters who were provoked by the police fundies? The ones who did the Husby riots? The Gothenburg riots in 99? The Paris riots in 05-06? It's perfectly fine to find these acts despicable without falling into Paludan's trap and labeling it as Islamic fundamentalism. It's also not an excuse to look at the bigger picture and try to understand the roots of their rage. I think I've been pretty clear here that while their rage may be justified, their actions are not. And you can reach that conclusion without creating the dichotomy of good immigrants and bad immigrants.

Yes, the police say that several of the leading figures are related to gang activities. This is pretty much in line with what we know about gang related violence in general - the ones acting out the most are young men. You've likely seen the same hopeless cries for help that I have, from schools, soc offices, etc, about how they're almost literally watching kids in suburbs get recruited in front of their noses, but they don't have enough resources to help. Of course it's connected!
And of course poor, racialized people in the suburb are victims, in a broad sense, of systematic oppression. But ascribing victimhood is not providing an excuse. Much in the same way that it's not an excuse to point out that domestic abusers were often victims of abuse themselves. I respect you BL, and I expect you to be capable of that level of nuance.

AssassinFox posted...

It doesn't matter. Yes, the Charlie Hebdo attack was deliberately planned and executed. The riots in Sweden were not, as far as we know. Either way, both of them were fundamentalist overreactions to expressions of "disrespect" towards Islam, expressions which are protected by law in free societies.

And again you have no idea what you're talking about, these aren't fundamentalists, these are angry young men who are feeling more and more excluded and oppressed by the society they live in. The anger isn't just over a book burning.

AssassinFox posted...

And in that case, "the spark that lit the flame" was the publishing of cartoons that hurt the killers' feelings

Has a terror organization publically announced that they deliberately planned and executed the various riots?