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"it was considered bad taste to suggest that immigration and failed integration had led to severe problems with crime—or even that crime was a growing problem at all."

It's already started in the US. The grenades and bombs won't be far behind...

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Deniers are a frightening bloc, political, journalistic, social, public, private. Thank you for your article on the sad state of that once beautiful place.

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Hmm let’s bring in lots of military age males from war zones with little vetting, hand them free money and accomodation in a liberal safe society and let’s see what could happen. Well we know now don’t we. The left has lost complete touch with reality.

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Sep 26, 2022·edited Sep 26, 2022

So where are they getting all their guns? Aren't we continually told that America is gun crazy and Europe has less gun violence because they make it nearly impossible to get guns there? The Swedish vulnerable neighborhoods sound a lot like the south side of Chicago on a typical weekend, and even those don't have bombings.

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This is the next progressive policy coming down the road NO MORE cash bond

The use of Low bond over the last couple of years has been a failure

Now the Progressives are doubling down by Jan 1 2023 NO MORE cash bail in IL

DONT let this happen in your State !!!

When you double down on a bad policy you double down on the problems

Chicago as reported by CWB Chicago

"Termaine Patterson is the 42nd person accused of killing or shooting—or attempting to kill or shoot—someone in Chicago while awaiting trial for a felony this year. The alleged crimes involved at least 79 victims, 18 of whom died."

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"those people who noticed the problem—many of whom were working class—and spoke out about their diminished safety were accused of racism by leading politicians, the mainstream press, and the cultural elites."

Sounds an awful lot like the U.S. - which is why the GOP will likely have a very good day on November 8.

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Riots between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester, bombings in Sweden. Sixty percent of rapes committed by immigrants. You can’t just mass import third world individuals. They just bring the third world to you.

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I hope there is a heaven

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The scariest part of this story is I have not ever read or heard a word of it in canadian or North American media.

Just one more example of narrative control.

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The same pendulum swings in all democracies. The US will swing back from our current radical left swing, to a radical right one. Once things stabilize, the centrists and moderates will take over again, and after we get comfortable and start forgetting the past, the pendulum will find its wider arcs and the cycle will repeat again. Looking forward to change on both sides of the ocean.

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How do you turn around Sweden?

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How to fight Antisemitism by B.Weiss:

Pages 147-149

You are at war.

You have been invaded.

But like 3 year old boys- Sweden had stuck its hand in its pants to hold it's pee pee.

those who seek the revival of the Ottoman Empire have already conquered Sweden.

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I remember watching all the immigrants piling up in Greece about 7 years ago. Immigrants were 90% military age males and all of them voiced a preference for Sweden as their refuge of choice. I can only shrug at the Euros self-loathing and march toward cultural/ethnic suicide.

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People seriously need to get over their fear of being called racist. That's what's driving much of societal degradation; fear. Great reporting Ms. Neuding.

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Informative article but I find messaging gets muddled, at least for me, by trying to describe voter attitudes using adjectives like "left", "right" or, worst of all, "extreme/far right" which inevitably gets linked to authoritarian socialism. For many, including myself, right implies small government and belief in individual freedom as opposed to big government authoritarianism. Perhaps my definition is more north American as opposed to European. A more apt description of people who oppose rapid demographic changes would be Conservative I think. Certainly the tendency to actively discourage the public from discussing a problem should be described as authoritarian.

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Another experiment gone wrong. What did the left think was going to happen when you let literally millions of young Muslim Males into your country with the mistaken belief that you can assimilate them, they don't even have the balancing effect of women in their lives with children to consider. When will the world learn to read the history books first. This sort of experiment has NEVER worked yet we do the same thing again and again and expect a different outcome. Isn't that what is called insanity. Wait for the World Food Shortages early next year and then arm your citizens because you will need guns to turn back the tide that is about to happen.

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I was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter for my work to elect Barack Obama in 2008. As a descendant of poor Norwegian grandparents, I have compassion for immigrants. However, my grandparents worked hard and did not physically hurt anyone. While my assumed Viking ancestors might have done harm to others, I have no records that far back.

Islamists in Iran force homosexual males to have "sex-change" operations, and the mental health and medical field in the US says nothing (btw, Jackson Bone law firm in the US is taking on malpractice cases from detransitioners--see uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com for info)

Scandinavians need to claim "hygge" for what it is--comfort, stop feeling guilty for the rest of the world's problems. Just be.

Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

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Maybe that is why they are fleeing Iran? You think? "Ute"?

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