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> Nowadays, not so much… The thinking seems much more primitive. But the threat is so much greater. I live in Sweden too, and there was a bombing near my apar
by nivenkos 4y ago
> Nowadays, not so much… The thinking seems much more primitive.
But the threat is so much greater.
I live in Sweden too, and there was a bombing near my apartment. A shooting at the metro station, etc.
With the massive influx of weapons from the remnants Yugoslavia, and criminal young men imported from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. - Sweden just isn't the same as 20 years ago, and law enforcement has to adapt to that too.
Sweden still has laughably light sentencing for gang crime compared to Denmark for example (nevermind the UAE, Singapore, etc.) so it's no wonder that the situation has spiralled out of control.
- bombolo 4y ago> and criminal young men imported from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc Yes Sweden was truly a paradise before all this immigration. When a prime minister could just wonder around the streets and be killed. Try giving equal opportunities to people instead of passing the message: "you are born poor, and such you shall remain" and see that people might be less inclined to become criminals. > Sweden is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with its so-called Gini-coefficient, as calculated by Credit Suisse, higher than every country apart from Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei, Botswana, Brazil, the UAE, Yemen, Laos, Russia, South Africa and Zambia. > Sweden’s billionaires own 16 percent of Sweden’s national wealth, double the share they had in June 2016, and quadruple what they had in 1996. In 2021, the wealth of Sweden’s billionaires amounted to 68 percent of GDP, up from just 6 percent in 1996. > The richest 0.1 percent of Swedes hold about 29 percent of total household wealth. In the US, the richest 0.1 percent hold only 19.3 percent. > Sweden’s 542 billionaires, who Cervenka points out could all just about fit into a single Airbus 380, own as much as the poorest 6.2 million Swedes. Source: Girig Sverige. But sure… immigrants are the sole problem here. /s Keep voting SD and keep avoiding stressing your brain. Immigrants=bad. Ok. Sure.
- nivenkos 4y agoI don't vote SD, and I agree with you. We need a lot of tax reform - it's crazy how working is punished so much meanwhile there is no inheritance tax or land value tax. But I'd also support the death penalty for violent criminals - we need the carrot and the stick, and a lot more of both.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago>> Try giving equal opportunities to people instead of passing the message: "you are born poor, and such you shall remain" and see that people might be less inclined to become criminals. Why would poor people be more inclined to become criminals? I know plenty of poor people who aren't, who break their backs trying to make ends meet working multiple jobs. There are plenty of people (whom I do not know personally) who end up homeless because they can't provide for themselves for many different reasons, and who do not resort to violent crime. If poor people are more inclined to become criminals, then most Africans, Indians, Afghans, etc, should be so "more inclined to become criminals". Well, that's exactly what those people argue who want to control migration for their own political gains. That's what Nigel Farage was doing when he stood in front of that poster with the line of refugees fleeing the war in Syria: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farage-defends-ukip-breaking-point-poster-queue-of-migrants https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag... (He was trying to terrorise the British with the spectre of poor -and foreign!- people entering the UK in large numbers.) Equating poor people with violent crime is making some kind of fundamental mistake in reasoning.