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Current affairs in Sweden

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  • #32
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    It's so, so unbelievably depressing how the left, which used to embrace cultural libertarianism as a fundamental core value, has become so unbelievably, gleefully supportive of ubiquitous political and ideological censorship over the last six or seven years. Truly depressing.

    Come on, 'the left' or at least as it's known today, is a construct of the fearful right IMO. Anything conservative and uncool, the left. Banning a licence plate is more of a classic right wing move than left, just because it's Trump?


  • #33
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Get the violins out for this poor chap, he's had a rough experience.....

    Not sure what your major defect is, son.


  • #34
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Muzzlims, wha?



    'Triggered' is a word used to try shut down opinions. You can only disagree or be annoyed at certain things it seems. For example, you felt the need to shut him down because you didn't like what he said so you use 'triggered' to make him seem like he's over reacting. Seems like he 'triggered' you into action ;)

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    And I saw that same member getting very annoyed at someone giving out about tattoos. Much more annoyed than Deedles got - Deedles didn't even get that annoyed at all, but because it's a view the poster didn't like, the auld "triggered" sneer.

    Anyway, I didn't think vehicle registration plates could be just modified willy nilly? If the guy got into trouble for tweeting something pro Trump, I'd understand concern, but there are restrictions on licence plate modification.


  • #35
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Seems Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a worldwide epidemic.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #36
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,050 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    interactive wrote: »
    Chain of fast food shops over here called MAO, even have images of him in their establishments, the son of a bitch is responsible for millions of deaths and unimaginable suffering, the PC SJW folk have zero problem with this, now thats a strange one.
    I wonder why?
    Are you sure about that?

    I assume you have been in touch with them to register your disgust and are trying to get them to change their ways, right?


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  • #37
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Likely a message to Trump. Might even be a set up.
    Trump has a thing for Sweden, an odd thing.

    It's a general alt-right thing and has been for some time.

    While it might seem weird to be so concerned with the internal affairs of a country in northern europe with a population of 10 million people, you need to remember that every time an immigrant commits a crime in Sweden, breitbart gets a new front page. These guys know more about Sweden than the Swedes themselves. It's really quite impressive.

    To be fair, I can see where the obsession came from. Various Swedish governments over the years have leaned a bit to the loony side of social issues.


  • #38
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,516 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Political plates routinely get rejected all the time, especially political plates or those that can be seen to misrepresent someone as an official - in this case TRUMP but in other cases eg. POTUS MAYOR GOVNR etc. get rejected too. Politically aggressive plates are even more regularly applied for and denied, eg. FKTRUMP, NOBAMA, etc.

    NY State did at one time approve an OBAMA 08 plate but the driver found themselves constantly under threat of having the plates vandalized and stolen right off his vehicle.

    Frankly I'm not sure what the fuss is here.


  • #39
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    biko wrote: »
    Swedish man is prevented from having vanity plate with "TRUMP" on it. Swedish authority says it's offensive.



    https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-09-06---must-not-have-trump-as-number-plate-.HyMlTFXg8B.html
    https://www.nyteknik.se/fordon/bilagare-ville-ha-trump-pa-registreringsskylt-uppfattas-som-stotande-6970898

    Oh my god. I'm so angry. Somebody kill the world.


  • #40
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    Simple solution: Have a normal reg plate and stick as many "Trump" political stickers as he wants on the bumpers.


  • #41
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Seems Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a worldwide epidemic.

    TBF, Trump is deranged. They did him a favour :)


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  • #42
    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    What opinion did he shut down?


    All I saw was a question without a question mark. Leading me to believe its a rhetorical question. Can you shut down a rhetorical question?

    Are you for real?
    What are you smoking?

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #43
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,895 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I have, and in the city I stayed in white Europeans were very much in the minority.

    What city was that? By very much, do you mean like 25% of the population?


  • #44
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Overheal wrote: »
    Political plates routinely get rejected all the time, especially political plates or those that can be seen to misrepresent someone as an official - in this case TRUMP but in other cases eg. POTUS MAYOR GOVNR etc. get rejected too. Politically aggressive plates are even more regularly applied for and denied, eg. FKTRUMP, NOBAMA, etc.

    NY State did at one time approve an OBAMA 08 plate but the driver found themselves constantly under threat of having the plates vandalized and stolen right off his vehicle.

    Frankly I'm not sure what the fuss is here.
    It's likely this is the reason, but of course it's being blown up as Trump derangement syndrome or a depressing example of censorship by the left. Exceptional dishonesty.


  • #45
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Overheal wrote: »
    Political plates routinely get rejected all the time, especially political plates or those that can be seen to misrepresent someone as an official - in this case TRUMP but in other cases eg. POTUS MAYOR GOVNR etc. get rejected too. Politically aggressive plates are even more regularly applied for and denied, eg. FKTRUMP, NOBAMA, etc.
    In US I understand you cannot be driving around with POTUS, MAYOR etc, but this is a country on the other side of the world.

    If US itself allowed a OBAMA 08 plate then for Sweden to reject a TRUMP plate is pure nonsense.


  • #46
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    greencap wrote: »
    Are you for real?
    What are you smoking?


    You lads are gas.


  • #47
    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    You lads are gas.

    Good man.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #48
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    biko wrote: »
    In US I understand you cannot be driving wound with POTUS, MAYOR etc, but this is a country on the other side of the world.

    If US itself allowed a OBAMA 08 plate then for Sweden to reject a TRUMP plate is pure nonsense.
    But aren't there restrictions in general regarding licence plate modification? I mean it's virtually non existent here.


  • #49
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    What city was that? By very much, do you mean like 25% of the population?

    Kista


  • #50
    Dr.Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Dr.Sanchez


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I have, and in the city I stayed in white Europeans were very much in the minority.

    Really? Thats interesting, what city was this? Reason I ask is because I live in Sweden, and have been to every major city in the country yet I must have clearly missed out on something? :confused:


  • #51
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Dr.Sanchez wrote: »
    Really? Thats interesting, what city was this? Reason I ask is because I live in Sweden, and have been to every major city in the country yet I must have clearly missed out on something? :confused:


    Lagos.


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  • #52
    Dr.Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Dr.Sanchez


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Kista

    Kista is a small district in a borough in Stockholm, not a city. To say "...the city I stayed in white Europeans were very much in the minority." is utter horsesh!t.


  • #53
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,895 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    I have, and in the city I stayed in white Europeans were very much in the minority.
    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    What city was that? By very much, do you mean like 25% of the population?
    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Kista

    Kista's not a city. It's a small district in Stockholm. So the city you were in was Stockholm.

    According to the SCB (http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/), there was 320,902 people with a "foreign background" in Stockholm in 2018. That would include white Europeans from other countries.

    There were 641,252 people with a "Swedish background"

    So native Swedish people aren't in any way in the minority, let alone white Europeans.

    Maybe the same brown people were walking past you multiple times?


  • #54
    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    They have the stupidest off licence rules in the world.


  • #55
    HailSatan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭HailSatan


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    But aren't there restrictions in general regarding licence plate modification? I mean it's virtually non existent here.

    Here being Sweden? Or here being Ireland, with a pretend German plate passing you every minute in any decent traffic?


  • #56
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,268 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    This is a complete non-story. It's right there in the OP:
    Therefore, signs that are deemed inappropriate are rejected, for example if they contain political messages or offensive words

    It's a political message so therefore isn't allowed in accordance with the existing rules. I'm not entirely sure why it warranted a thread of its own in that case.


  • #57
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    I remember watching a Tim Pool documentary when he was in Sweden and some guy put up on Facebook he thought Trump would make a good president, he was then contacted by his friends and family to remove the post incase he gets fired from his job, They certainly have issues over there.


  • #58
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    Sweden be Sweden.

    Sweeds guna sweed?


  • #59
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,516 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    biko wrote: »
    In US I understand you cannot be driving around with POTUS, MAYOR etc, but this is a country on the other side of the world.

    If US itself allowed a OBAMA 08 plate then for Sweden to reject a TRUMP plate is pure nonsense.

    It’s their prerogative is what it is. They probably don’t want to police all the potential vandalism, petty theft and road rage that could result.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    But aren't there restrictions in general regarding licence plate modification? I mean it's virtually non existent here.

    If by here you mean Ireland, you can't legally have personalised/customised plates


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  • #61
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Muzzlims, wha?



    'Triggered' is a word used to try shut down opinions. You can only disagree or be annoyed at certain things it seems. For example, you felt the need to shut him down because you didn't like what he said so you use 'triggered' to make him seem like he's over reacting. Seems like he 'triggered' you into action ;)

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    Aww you went through the trouble of posting a pic of trigger from only fools and horses. How sweet of you. That determined I get your pointless point across. Nice try though. I’ll applaud your effort


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