The Swedes I know on socmedia aren’t all as positive as you are, including non-white Christian/atheist Swedes. They ask interesting questions like what’s the current Jewish population of Malmo and what was it ten years ago?
jostly
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For sure, there are people I know on social media who aren’t as positive as I am. Some are downright negative. That doesn’t make the “muslim takeover” any more factual.
Are there places in Sweden, especially in the big cities, where violence is escalating? Sure. Malmö is one of them, where the number of gang-related shootings have been increasing the last few years. In Stockholm, where I live, there’s also a rise in some suburbs, as well as a tendency to attack police and rescue workers with stones.
But do I for one second believe these things are religiously motivated crimes, a sort of jihad on Sweden? No, of course not. It seems that the common denominators are, as they often are, poverty, unemployment, and the illegal drug trade.
Oh yes Sweden is in a terrible crisis. Their already very low crime rate is gently declining!!
https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics/swedish-crime-survey.html
Think of how many law enforcement jobs are at risk here! Truly, as Trump said, these are problems like never before!
Well hey, here in the U.S. the crime rate is the worst it’s been in 47 years, apparently.
KevinC
5596
That’s fake news. Their crime actually got so high they had an integer overflow in their crime tracking software, which makes it appear lower.
Banzai
5597
Fake president? Has a nice ring to it.
Exactly. I tried putting an insert Godwin reference here tag in the post, but apparently if you surround something with the brackets that isn’t an actual command Discourse just deletes it. Or maybe Discourse is pre-programmed to delete Godwinning? ;-)
Timex
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You know who else was programmed to delete godwinning?
Hitler.
magnet
5600
A joke I heard today:
A little kid meets Trump and tells him, “When I grow up, I’m going to be the first Mexican-American President!”
Trump angrily responds, “Are you out of your mind, or are you an idiot?!?”
The little kid replies, “Never mind, I guess I don’t meet the requirements.”
ShivaX
5602
And by abundantly clear we mean he off-handedly said something a while back about something else.
And then purposely omitted mentioning Jews when talking about the Holocaust.
Quaro
5603
I’d be harsher. By abundantly clear we mean, bragged about his electoral victory when asked about the anti-Semitism of his supporters. “Yeah we had them backing us and kind of encouraged it with dog whistles… but it worked as you can see by our electoral victory so I sure as hell aren’t going to stop now.”
He hasn’t made it abundantly clear but isn’t it a good thing that there is at least an official communication Ex Cathedra Presidentis that such things are bad?
Is that like when he made it abundantly clear that his followers should exercise the right to bear arms against his political opponent?
LMN8R
5607
Literally the only thing he made abundantly clear is that he does not want to discuss anti-Semitism at all, and that he finds it insulting to be asked about it, and then made the question about himself (again) and (lies about) his margin of fictory.
He never actually denounced the attacks in any way - not specifically, not broadly.
vyshka
5608
By abundantly clear, he means he told the Jewish reporter to sit down and be quiet with his insulting question about the rise in antisemitism.
ShivaX
5609
I mean, I guess I knew this would happen.
