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Re: Donation Controversy

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the other lesson we could draw from America is that we shouldn't let everyone in, they'll kill us, take our place and feel bad about it a few hundred years later... maybe.

Don't forget the small detail you're neglecting to mention: That over 90% of their population had already been wiped out by disease over the last few hundred years prior to large-scale European expansion in the Americas. (And it was not intentional! The whole "small pox blankets" thing was in the 1700s, well after most of the deaths had occurred!) Adding that detail, the situations are a bit more apples-to-oranges.

I was being sarcastic, obviously.

The circumstances are obviously different, and the sarcasm was my point too: the situation then isn’t the situation now, you can’t possibly hope to compare American history to contemporary Swedish reality. It’s like comparing, as you said: Apples to Oranges.

Re: Donation Controversy

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For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party The party has been variously characterised as left-wing and right-wing, as well as populist, nationalist and conservative. Some key issues for the Örebro Party locally include strong secularism, a 30-hour workweek with retained pay, lowered wages for politicians, expanded social housing, abolishing preschool-fees, making public transport free of ch…

"Large-scale remigration" is quite the euphemism for "violently remove people in the country from their homes and send them to God knows where."

if they commit crimes.

Re: Donation Controversy

#63
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, you speak about this as though you are an American (not sure if you are) but you can't hope to understand the realities of living in a country that just injected 1/10th of its population in a decade. The demographic of the largest cities in Sweden has changed from 17% foreign born in 1986 to over 55% today- in a single generation. (Malmö, were I live as a migrant myself). At the same time, the healthcare servi…

Note that while Sweden has a low income inequality, it has one of the worst wealth inequalities in the world.

There's a lot of billionaires, but if they make more money Sweden taxes them.

Sweden doesn't go after the money you have earned already.

There's no standing wealth tax or inheritance taxes that I'm aware of.

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