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2026-01-24 17:54 UTC

"“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

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@janeishly@beige.party 2026-01-25 16:08

@hhardy01@mastodon.social I'm not sure what you're trying to say here - yes, Sweden has racists. Yes, Sweden has shifted FAR too far to the right. Taxes have dropped for the richest, and public infrastructure has suffered. And yet it's still way way better here than in the US for the ordinary person. Not perfect. But better. Consequently, I feel, as I've made perfectly clear, that heading down the path being trailblazed by the US would be a Bad Thing. That halt, that moment of reflection, would also, I believe, imply reconsidering whether racism, jingoism and the ethnic cleansing and war that is their ultimate logical step might also be not ideal. Nowhere in the above have I said that Sweden is perfect.

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