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MarineHaddock
Dec '15

One of my co-workers and their constant insistence that certain people don't deserve human rights, or more about how when you try to tell them otherwise they basically cover their ears and pretend they can't hear you.

Also the entire last volume of Spiral The Bonds of Reasoning. Never have I seen a character go through a personality and moral change so fast. One page he's threatening to kill the guy that hurt his friend and the next he says his friend deserved it and a lot of other horrible things. He then just does morally questionable thing after morally questionable thing and everything is wrong. Everything is horrible and out of character and why did the one nice character get treated so horribly.

AnnaLandin
Dec '15
Aspie_Gamer

They're an entire political party that has its roots in literal neo-Nazism. They just wear better suits these days, comb their hair and pretend they know stuff about politics, even though their answer to every problem is "deport immigrants!". Their politicians can't go a week without saying or doing something disgustingly racist. They denounce the indigenous population of Sweden as "not Swedish", they're convinced that Muslims are genetically predisposed towards violence and rape, want a national register of Muslims "because we all know some of them are terrorists, right?", they want to use the military to stop the flow of immigrants across the border even though Sweden has a long-standing ban against using the military against civilians for reasons they would know if they actually gave a damn about Swedish history, etc., etc.

Oh, and let's not forget all the times when they've been caught on tape/by the media doing horrible things! Like that one time some of their top MPs were caught on film (filmed by themselves, in fact) arming themselves with metal pipes "just in case we need to beat up some [slur for immigrants]" and cracking jokes about how the police would never arrest them because they're white. Or that one time one of their MPs accused two innocent men of theft because they were people of colour, even though a.) the thing he claimed stolen was actually left behind in a restaurant he had gotten thrown out of for being drunk and disorderly and b.) they were only trying to help him, because he'd fallen out of his wheelchair.

And that's just the tip of a very disgusting iceberg. And yet a good chunk of the Swedish population still vote for them.

I'm considering moving to the moon.

mariusthered
Dec '15

That idiot prime minister who here in the Uk has got the vote to start bombing Syria,
before that it was the events in Paris,
before that it was the shootings at the school in the us,
in short people make me speechless, how can killing anyone get your point across? and what gives anyone the right to kill another person when the cannot make life?
the human race has the intelligence to talk things over and sort this world out, but they continue being dumb and thinking that killing is the way forward. but the short answer is mankind will never have peace while money and greed are in the world,

rant over.

Vikiro_Hop
Dec '15

It seems like everyday people on my facebook feed seem to one up each other with ill thought out opinions and blindly regurgitated rhetoric. I like having dissenting opinions in my life to keep me on my toes, but this is getting ridiculous. I never thought I would regret people taking time to show an interest in world events and politics, but now I can't help but feel that some peoples two cents are worth more than others.

Yeah colonizing other planets might be our best bet, I'm convinced our society can't handle this many people on one planet without devolving into an insane mess.

@Savannah I have to agree, I already have enough shame as a grown man watching cartoons I don't need the fandom to make it even worse.

Stellamari
Dec '15

Most of the rascist and sexist things that comes out of the politician's mouth in my country these days. There are times I wonder if a country have any hope of advancing with these people at the helm.

getsuart
Dec '15

My country getting ultra racists and sexists elected on the first round of votes for its regions.
That's terrifying.

Vikiro_Hop
Dec '15
SpavVy

Yah shame is probably not the right word,I enjoy what I do, but yeah I know all too well the situation of the above comic. The hypocrisy is painful.

DynamoToon
Dec '15
SpavVy

Omg, someone finally said it. I like seven universe and i applaud it for being a very progressive show, but some people take that WAY too far.

elampson
Dec '15
AnnaLandin

Oh god, Sweden has its own Republicans/Tories (for Canadians). I guess every country has a political right that embarasses them.

@toadsteroven I totally imagined going to the store to pick up a carton of a dozen Donald Trumps

SpavVy
Dec '15
DynamoToon

Some of the people in the fandom are just self entitled a**holes and they p*** me off, I feel so bad for the fan artist Zamii. Those people harassed her so bad to the point she tried to take her own life. My friend's friend once drew Amethyst skinny and people attacked him for it until he would draw her bigger. It's just fan art guys, calm the f*** down...

PS: Sorry not meaning to rant on everyone who replies xD

AnnaLandin
Dec '15

We have right wing parties that are the equivalent to the Republicans (though it should be said that even our right-wing parties are usually more left-leaning than the American equivalents; comes with having been a Socialist nation for so long) - but Sverigedemokraterna aren't just a right-wing political party. They're far right extremists, with members who literally used to be Neo-Nazis. Like, shaved heads and swastikas. When they first got into parliment, images got leaked to the press of one of their MPs at a Neo-Nazi meeting, dressed in a Hitler Jugend-uniform - brown shirt and all! - and heiling towards the camera.

Before the party polished up their rethoric and got into parliment and pretended to actually care about politics beyond "deport all immigrants!", their political pamphlets used to talk about the horrors of white Swedish women having children with men of colour, and how this destroyed the purity of the Nordic race. One of their local politicans in the south of Sweden actually wished, out loud, that she could stand on the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark with a submachine gun and murder immigrants. This ain't your garden-variety "shut down the borders"-right-wingers - these are the "Hitler did nothing wrong"-right wingers.

Sweden has a long-standing problem with Neo-Nazis - Stormfront, Svenska motståndsrörelsen, Nordfront, etc., etc. - but in the last decade, they've started gaining real, political power, and that scares me witless.

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15

This sentence alone has left me speechless.

AnnaLandin
Dec '15

@zelkats Me too. I think she was kicked out of the party, but the fact alone that she felt comfortable enough to say that goes to show that their attitude, at least internally in the party, allows that sort of opinion. There's tacit approval from the party leadership.

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15
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Damn.. Sadly, plenty of politicians and political parties have gotten away with open hate speech. Topped with the fact that they're current or possible future leaders and have people voting for them, it just makes us shake our heads at humanity. I've heard plenty of stupid things from politicians from my homeland and the U.S. but the Swedish politicians you talked about probably take the cake. Extremist, much? :/

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15

If you ever come across people like that, dare them to go to Japan and tell every single salary man in a business suit that they're stealing the British culture, lol.