While the pandemic continues unabated, the Swedish government continues its denialist policy and blames immigrants.

Swedish social democracy blames immigrants for their own disastrous coronavirus response. It's high time US socialists stopped idolizing Sweden.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    the Social Democratic government

    :michael-laugh: I was sure it at least had to have been some Conservative ghouls' fault

    In November alone there were 985 Covid deaths in Sweden (97 per million inhabitants), compared to 128 in Denmark (22 per million inhabitants), 69 in Norway (13 per million inhabitants), and 49 in Finland (10 per million inhabitants).

    Honestly, what the fuck are they doing?????? I thought Sweden was supposed to be the more successful and put together one

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    Also, 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 🇫🇮 we beat you at corona and we're gonna beat you at hockey

    • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      They basically are conservative ghouls. Their coalition agreement literally includes a clause that explicitly excludes the left party from participation in government.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Very cool

        And here I thought they'd only agreed to exclude the Sverigedemokrater from the government. Such brave bipartisanship against extremism from both ends of the political spectrum, very inspiring.

        At least our current SocDem government also has the Left Alliance in it, but maybe your leftest-most mainstream party is too based to be let anywhere near power

        • Barabas [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          And here I thought they’d only agreed to exclude the Sverigedemokrater from the government. Such brave bipartisanship against extremism from both ends of the political spectrum, very inspiring.

          You joke, but the talking point that the left party are extremists eqvivalent to the sweden democrats (who were openly nazi as lately as the 90s) has been getting more common lately. Which is insane given that they have been in and around government since they split from the succdems because they didn't support the bolsheviks in 1917.

          They've never been in government as a coalition, but they've often had the role of making up enough votes for the succdems to be able to form a government. At least the new leader has started to call out the succdems on their bullshit more openly. Sjöstedt was way too cautious about his critisism.

          • duck [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            At least the new leader has started to call out the succdems on their bullshit more openly. Sjöstedt was way too cautious about his critisism.

            :this: somewhat optimistic but I'll still miss him and the party remains in the same dead-end position

            • SonKyousanJoui [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              If you're feeling too optimistic, she also said that she prefers Trump over Maduro, "as Trump was democratically elected". Then again, which politician today doesn't have shitty foreign policy.

              (in Swedish) https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/7KPyav/sa-tystades-kritiken-mot-usa

              • duck [he/him,they/them]
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                4 years ago

                yikes, I'm gonna hope she's uninformed on Venezuela. But yeah, it shouldn't be that hard to come up with reasonable leftisst foreign policy but politicians rarely care enough here (or most places probably)

        • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          What's the current Finnish government like? I'd heard good things, but was talking to a friend who said that the current PM essentially got the position because the old leader of the centre-left party was removed for being perceived as too close to the unions, which didn't sound great.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            I thought it was more due to the fact that he had some kind of major heart-related health episode shortly after the election

              • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                I mean, the union thing might definitely also have played part, but I remember whatever happened to him was serious enough that he was in a coma for a while