A new law in Sweden lets police seize unexplained luxury goods

Post by dijit » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 9:14 PM UTC

bjornsing wrote: post #40

rdtsc wrote: post #15

> The Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden, which opened in 2000, made illegal firearms and drugs easier to transfer. > Ten years ago Sweden, with 10m people, had one of the lowest rates of gun violence and murder in Europe. It now has one of the highest Is Denmark known for illegal firearms and drugs export? The way it's written it's almost blaming Denmark for its issues. And besides, wasn't that 20 years ago.…

I live in Malmö, on the Swedish side of that bridge. The police quite regularly stops local youths on their way to Denmark with guns and grenades. The Danish minister of justice recently referred to them as “Swedish child soldiers” and threatened to close the border. So yes, most Danes would probably object to that characterization.

Post by huuhee3 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 9:16 PM UTC

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #67

huuhee3 wrote: post #26

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The problem is not immigration or too many migrants, but rather the fact too many of them lack educational background you need to be successful in modern Western society. Mostly it's young men who arrived as asylum seekers without much education who fail to integrate and get marginalized.

I think that's an unnecessary distinction.

Post by ipaddr » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 9:17 PM UTC

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #49

bryanlarsen wrote: post #45

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It's too reductive to claim that immigration didn't cause problems, and it's too reductive to claim that immigration is the source of most of the problems.

What do you think causes the problems?

Post by bryanlarsen » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 9:20 PM UTC

inglor_cz wrote: post #64

twelvechairs wrote: post #53

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Integration is a two-way street. I've known many people born in England, France, Germany who feel excluded from education opportunities, workplace opportunities, healthcare and general civil society because of their family origin, cultural background and pure skin colour. Probably also how they speak in the UK. This issue is much less in new world countries (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Let people into societ…

Integration of randomly arrived (as opposed to selectively chosen and well-educated) Muslims has proved nigh impossible everywhere in the world of "unbelievers". As far as the UK goes, Hindus and Sikhs, who look every bit as exotic and dark-skinned as Pakistanis, are on average richer than white Britons and also societally very successful. If there is some kind of "pure skin colour"-based racism at work, it somehow d…

Post by Yeul » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 9:21 PM UTC

foxglacier wrote: post #51

rurp wrote: post #11

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Is that based on any evidence? I'm not familiar enough with the situation to know what the causes are, but I am aware of the long long history of scapegoating immigrants for any and all problems, so I'm inherintly a bit skeptical of that assumption.

Unfortunately, the opposite effect of being afraid to acknowledge crime by immigrants is also present. It looks like the government is unwilling to publish data that would resolve that question but here are some clues from Wikipedia [1]: "58% of men convicted of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were immigrants born outside of the European Union" "of 100 suspects of murder and attempted murder using fi…