Post #3218365
2026-01-22 16:57 UTC
I lived in Sweden for a year in the '90's.
I am pretty sure I am not just ignorantly and flippantly rejecting Sweden out of hand.
I am certainly not defending Trump and Trumpism as a whataboutism.
What I am talking about is the old rotten core of Imperial Sweden before the Great Northern War. Like the statues at the palace in Stockholm.
Like in "The Folk Devil" by Ibsen.
Like in, "The Man Who Hated Women."
I am talking about the Swedish version of "janteloven."
@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @janeishly@beige.party
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@hhardy01@mastodon.social 2026-01-24 17:54
"“Many people that we meet say to us: ‘We came to Sweden believing this was a country that respected human rights: where are they?’” said Nannie Sköld, a counsellor at Stockholm Stadsmission’s Who Am I Tomorrow? project, which provides legal and psychosocial support to individuals and families with deportation orders. The latest government figures show that 8,312 people returned to their home countries in 2025, the highest number in a decade." @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org @janeishly@beige.party