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Sweden goes French again

Started by Duque de Bragança, May 24, 2013, 06:41:40 AM

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Vricklund

Quote from: The Brain on May 26, 2013, 06:24:23 AM
In Sweden's situation a growing gap is a good thing. The gap has been far too narrow far too long.
Tell them that, I'm not the one rioting.

The whole "it's got to be worth it" rethoric must come from people with some seriously fucked up work ethic - are you saying you'd rather be on welfare if it wasn't for our last three tax cuts?

Tamas

I don't get this "omg they have problems". What difference does that make? Is poverty -in a country with extensive welfare and a free education- sufficient ground for rioting and destroying other people's property?

The Brain

Unlike General Kala a Socialist will never take personal responsibility.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Tamas on May 26, 2013, 09:04:28 AM
I don't get this "omg they have problems". What difference does that make? Is poverty -in a country with extensive welfare and a free education- sufficient ground for rioting and destroying other people's property?
I think the issue with immigrant communities in Europe isn't poverty so much as whether there's an open society. Work and opportunity are good things. Even if you've the best welfare system in the world if the same people are always going to be on it then that'll cause anger. You're effectively paying people to be excluded which isn't what welfare's for and isn't good for those communities either. I'm not sure how that applies to Sweden though.

Although with riots I think they happen because of crowd mentality and a breakdown of order.
Let's bomb Russia!

Syt

Quote from: The Brain on May 26, 2013, 09:27:05 AM
Unlike General Kala a Socialist will never take personal responsibility.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Brain

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 26, 2013, 09:47:41 AM
Quote from: Tamas on May 26, 2013, 09:04:28 AM
I don't get this "omg they have problems". What difference does that make? Is poverty -in a country with extensive welfare and a free education- sufficient ground for rioting and destroying other people's property?
I think the issue with immigrant communities in Europe isn't poverty so much as whether there's an open society. Work and opportunity are good things. Even if you've the best welfare system in the world if the same people are always going to be on it then that'll cause anger. You're effectively paying people to be excluded which isn't what welfare's for and isn't good for those communities either. I'm not sure how that applies to Sweden though.

Although with riots I think they happen because of crowd mentality and a breakdown of order.

There's plenty of opportunity in the ghetto. You want to be a doctor? Engineer? Lawyer? It's all free.

We're not the best country for entrepreneurs, but by no means bad when compared to say southern Europe. Lots and lots of people are self-employed in Sweden.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Liep

The French won't be out done. 200000 demonstrate in Paris against gay weddings, several attacking the police.

Yeah Europe!
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

11B4V

Quote from: Liep on May 26, 2013, 04:46:03 PM
The French won't be out done. 200000 demonstrate in Paris against gay weddings, several attacking the police.

Yeah Europe!

Wow, I can say the US is superior.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

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Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Liep on May 26, 2013, 04:46:03 PM
The French won't be out done. 200000 demonstrate in Paris against gay weddings, several attacking the police.

Yeah Europe!

Only several? :(
That's only a provincial football brawl vs gendarmes...

PS: Valls, interior über minister claims there were hundreds of them :)  :frog:

Liep

Several of 200000 can be hundreds, no?
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Neil

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