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  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    31·
    9 days ago

    blech. literally every expert said we shouldn’t do this and the rightoids did it anyway because they’re obsessed with culture.

    edit:

    some of my favourite nonsense includes

    • a documentary from the 70s about the mods subculture
    • the criminal code
    • a waterfall
    • a speech about the welfare state
    • the post of national ombudsman of justice
    • a house where a painter used to live
    • a jet fighter

    this is insane. and when interviewed by aftonbladet, the cultural policy spokesperson for the sweden democrats said, quote

    Det är en bekräftelse för den öppna nationalism som jag och sverigedemokraterna står för

    lit. “this is an affirmation of the open nationalism that me and my party stand for”

    the fucking what

    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      18·
      9 days ago

      “It must be 50+ years old so no ABBA!”

      In 1974, ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with their song “Waterloo”.

      crickets

    • PotatoLibre@feddit.itEnglish
      14·
      9 days ago

      SD party has nazi roots, so you can have a better perspective.

      And now they’re the second parti in Sweden 😱

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        81·
        9 days ago

        did the “we” not tip you off that my perspective is, indeed, very much local?

        • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          9 days ago

          Posts in public forums are very often made for the sake of just about anybody reading the thread, not just the person they are directly responding to.

        • PotatoLibre@feddit.itEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Man, I hope you won’t believe anybody in the world cares about any single letter or sound you emit, cause it would be pretty sad for your life.

          If you think my post it’s out of focus, just go ahead, it’s called being an adult.