Current affairs in Sweden

Overheal

biko wrote: »

Sweden is becoming explosive news
Note they are called explosions when bombings would be more accurate.


Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on?
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-50339977

Well at least the BBC didn't call it the Explosion Squad

But, "Bangers, improvised explosives and hand grenades," don't really all rise to the label of a Bombing do they. If I light some firecrackers in the toilets thats not a bombing (but taking a **** is... hmm) and using a grenade, I have never heard anyone use 'bombing' as pejorative for it. The lad is a grenadier, not a bomber.

And (sidenote) while the bombings are intended to scare people, "The attacks are usually carried out by criminal gangs to scare rival groups or their close friends or family, she says," that doesn't sound like it is applicable to label it terrorism. Though yes people have been harmed. I certainly hope they crack down on it.

kildare lad

biko wrote: »

Sweden is becoming explosive news
Note they are called explosions when bombings would be more accurate.


Sweden's 100 explosions this year: What's going on?
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-50339977

Good to see Diversity working so well then

silverharp

Overheal wrote: »

Well at least the BBC didn't call it the Explosion Squad

But, "Bangers, improvised explosives and hand grenades," don't really all rise to the label of a Bombing do they. If I light some firecrackers in the toilets thats not a bombing (but taking a **** is... hmm) and using a grenade, I have never heard anyone use 'bombing' as pejorative for it. The lad is a grenadier, not a bomber.

And (sidenote) while the bombings are intended to scare people, "The attacks are usually carried out by criminal gangs to scare rival groups or their close friends or family, she says," that doesn't sound like it is applicable to label it terrorism. Though yes people have been harmed. I certainly hope they crack down on it.

it is Sweden, this ought to be more shocking than 100 explosions in Dublin 4. plus their media tried to cover it up.

Beechwoodspark

Sweden used to be the gold standard for western society under a range of indicators.

It seems to have gone completely downhill in the last 5-10 years.

What the hell happened??

Wanderer78

Beechwoodspark wrote:

What the hell happened??

They imported the same ****e political and economic ideology as the rest of us

biko

Another victory for Swedish government..

https://www.thelocal.se/20191114/six-pistols-stolen-from-building-where-swedens-pm-works

Six Glock-17 pistols and 300 dumdum bullets have been stolen from the building that houses the offices of Sweden's prime minister, to the embarrassment of the country's government.

"They don't want this to come out, it's all being hushed up," a source told Dagens Juridik, Sweden's leading legal newspaper, which broke the story.

The weapons and the ammunition were kept in a weapons cabinet in the Rosenbad building, next to Stockholm's Royal Palace. They were intended to be handed out to the buildings security guards in the event of a major security incident, such as a terror threat or attack.

Beechwoodspark

This is beyond farce

Wibbs

Overheal wrote: »

But, "Bangers, improvised explosives and hand grenades," don't really all rise to the label of a Bombing do they. If I light some firecrackers in the toilets thats not a bombing (but taking a **** is... hmm) and using a grenade, I have never heard anyone use 'bombing' as pejorative for it. The lad is a grenadier, not a bomber.

Talk about being ridiculously pedantic for the sake of avoiding the bloody obvious and the bloody point. Never mind that grenadier doesn't mean what it originally meant a couple of hundred years ago.

And (sidenote) while the bombings are intended to scare people, "The attacks are usually carried out by criminal gangs to scare rival groups or their close friends or family, she says," that doesn't sound like it is applicable to label it terrorism. Though yes people have been harmed. I certainly hope they crack down on it.

Oh yeah, that makes it less of an issue. Jesus. There's a point where there's only so much progressive bullsh1t that avoids the elephant in the room I can stomach.

The facts are - and even the right on Swedish authorities and press agree - that these attacks are overwhelmingly down to immigrant populations, worse, more likely to be second generation and the uptake of said populations in Sweden(and elsewhere) has kicked off a wave of antisocial and criminal behaviour. Big shock as again this has gone down in every single bloody country that has tried to run this retarded social experiment. If the first generation have problems, the subsequent generations get worse, not better. If this multicultural nonsense was workable you'd expect to see the opposite.

But no, it's all OK. Bombings in Sweden. Something that wasn't even on the radar ten years ago as a crime is now happening on the regular. Diversity is our strength. My bollocks. :rolleyes:

biko

Overheal wrote: »

Though yes people have been harmed. I certainly hope they crack down on it.

In case anyone wonders about the people harmed comment

The son of a man killed after picking up a hand grenade in a Stockholm suburb says his father thought the object was a toy.
"It's so unfair that an innocent man is dead just because someone dropped or placed a hand grenade there."

https://www.thelocal.se/20180111/man-killed-by-grenade-in-stockholm-suburb-thought-it-was-a-toy

Where did the man get killed? You guessed it, a "vulnerable" area...

Vårby gård is one of the suburbs in Sweden classified as ‘vulnerable’ by the police, defined as somewhere "characterized by a low socio-economic status where criminals have an impact on the local community".

biko

At least this was called a bombing

https://www.thelocal.se/20190823/linkoping-bomb-up-to-40-times-as-big-as-recent-malmo-blasts

As much as 15-20 kilos of industrial explosives – placed in a cargo bike – was used to carry out the bomb attack in Linköping in June, making it up to almost 40 times as big as charges used in recent attacks in Malmö.

TomSweeney

Meanwhile Sweden is happy to import third world culture en masse.
Joke of a country.

WrenBoy

Looking forward to our own gang bomb wars kicking off in the coming years, Im starting a window business so its all good.

Mad_maxx

Anyone ever check out the twitterings of one Philip o Connor on twitter, Stockholm based "journalist"?

According to him, there are no issues with crime in immigrant communities in Sweden

Danzy

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Anyone ever check out the twitterings of one Philip o Connor on twitter, Stockholm based "journalist"?

According to him, there are no issues with crime in immigrant communities in Sweden

He has some very strange views.

biko

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Anyone ever check out the twitterings of one Philip o Connor on twitter, Stockholm based "journalist"?

According to him, there are no issues with crime in immigrant communities in Sweden

He is a Social Democrat, the ruling party in Sweden - it wouldn't behove him to say anything opposed to the Party line.
He lives in an area where the Swedish Social Democrats are very strong but the ex-commies The Left are even stronger.
He is also involved with Irish Social Democrats.

Wanderer78

biko wrote: »

He is a Social Democrat, the ruling party in Stockholm. It wouldn't behove him to say anything opposed to the Party line.
He lives in an area where the Swedish Social Democrats are very strong but the ex-commies The Left are even stronger.
He is also involved with Irish Social Democrats.

Of course he doesn't think anything is wrong with socialism...

i dont understand why such as statement would be made, sweden isnt a socialist state

Overheal

Wibbs wrote: »

Talk about being ridiculously pedantic for the sake of avoiding the bloody obvious and the bloody point. Never mind that grenadier doesn't mean what it originally meant a couple of hundred years ago.

Oh yeah, that makes it less of an issue. Jesus. There's a point where there's only so much progressive bullsh1t that avoids the elephant in the room I can stomach.

The facts are - and even the right on Swedish authorities and press agree - that these attacks are overwhelmingly down to immigrant populations, worse, more likely to be second generation and the uptake of said populations in Sweden(and elsewhere) has kicked off a wave of antisocial and criminal behaviour. Big shock as again this has gone down in every single bloody country that has tried to run this retarded social experiment. If the first generation have problems, the subsequent generations get worse, not better. If this multicultural nonsense was workable you'd expect to see the opposite.

But no, it's all OK. Bombings in Sweden. Something that wasn't even on the radar ten years ago as a crime is now happening on the regular. Diversity is our strength. My bollocks. :rolleyes:

Thank you for the refreshingly honest reply not the coy ‘wonder why all these are labeled explosions Hmm’ about way of not being direct with people that were talking about the migrant crisis. The post I was responding to asked ‘what is happening’ in Sweden, when apparently the answer is well known - itself a pedantic exercise. Your response more or less the clarifying construct I was hoping would result, not another 10 pages of typical CA/IMHO of people refusing to say what they actually mean.

biko

Wanderer78 wrote: »

i dont understand why such as statement would be made, sweden isnt a socialist state

I removed it but not for your unsourced reason.

Maybe you can elaborate on your definition of socialism and what makes Sweden non-socialist?

Overheal

biko wrote: »

I removed it but not for your unsourced reason.

Then, why

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This category of crime was not even logged prior to 2017.
Then, in 2018, there were 162 explosions and in the past two months alone the squad have been called to almost 30.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50339977

Meanwhile... Denmark (with a bit more sense) reinstates border checks with Sweden.

Wanderer78

biko wrote: »

I removed it but not for your unsourced reason.

ah shur, life sucks, i ll go and find a source, for the strangers on the internets, its my utmost highest priority

biko

I removed it because I didn't want it to be the focus of O'Connors texts. Instead focus on his work and his agenda.

Besides, I agree with Wanderer78. Sweden isn't socialist, it's a capitalist country.
The government are selling out public assets, which is opposite to what socialists would do.

Wibbs

Oh I'm definitely talking about migrants OH, specifically those from developing world crapholes and those of an ideological bent. I'm also definitely talking about the BS that is "diversity" and "multiculturalism". We've already been infected with it here on the back of freeloaders who showed up during the "boom" and ivory tower idealogues in the Dail and other vested interests. So far it's at a low enough level thank christ, but no more and we should resist this mental politic as much as possible. I certainly don't want here to become Sweden or have our cities reflect the ghettos of Britain, France, Germany et al. Sod that. Hell we can't even "integrate" Travellers in this country. It's already kicked off on a low level and needs to be nipped in the bud and Sweden should be an example of how not to do it.

Wanderer78

biko wrote: »

I removed it but not for your unsourced reason.

Maybe you can elaborate on your definition of socialism and what makes Sweden non-socialist?

sweden has become victim to the exact same political/economical ideologies thats plaguing most, if not all western nations, which is in turn destabilizing the critical systems of its functioning. sweden is experiencing rapidly rising inequality, rapidly rising costs of living, particularly in relation to housing and accommodation, etc etc etc. these ideologies are not actually based in socialism, but more so in free market capitalism.

Danzy

Wanderer78 wrote: »

i dont understand why such as statement would be made, sweden isnt a socialist state

They are hard to pin down.

They have a strongly interventionist state who believes in looking after people.

Commercially they are as free market as ourselves.

With migration even their radical left is adopting an Ayn Rand libertarian view.

Wanderer78

Danzy wrote: »

They are hard to pin down.

They have a strongly interventionist state who believes in looking after people.

Commercially they are as free market as ourselves.

With migration even their radical left is adopting an Ayn Rand libertarian view.

some good points, im expecting some weird twists and turns in each countries approach to the failings of these ideologies, unfortunately, im expecting the worst

Danzy

Wanderer78 wrote: »

some good points, im expecting some weird twists and turns in each countries approach to the failings of these ideologies, unfortunately, im expecting the worst

Ultimately their extreme position on migration will finish their Social provisions.

Budawanny

Wanderer78 wrote: »

sweden has become victim to the exact same political/economical ideologies thats plaguing most, if not all western nations, which is in turn destabilizing the critical systems of its functioning. sweden is experiencing rapidly rising inequality, rapidly rising costs of living, particularly in relation to housing and accommodation, etc etc etc. these ideologies are not actually based in socialism, but more so in free market capitalism.

Citation needed.

Wanderer78

Budawanny wrote: »

Citation needed.

many respected economic commentators have been writing about this for a long time, no citations as such are needed

Mad_maxx

Danzy wrote: »

He has some very strange views.

That's a charitable description