A decade ago, Bradley Krae left the United States to teach English in Shenzhen, China. He spends less money and says the has found his own version of the American Dream there.
I’d say that our international reputation is kind of undeserved.
For example, we’ve previously been kind of prideful of our status as “neutral” in conflicts, but I don’t think we ever really were. During WWII we were doing the same eugenics stuff that Germany was interested in, we severely maltreated our native population, and ultimately while we didn’t exactly ally ourselves with Germany, we also didn’t stand against them. We let the nazis use our railway network to attack Norway for example.
Segue: the most recent eugenics law we got rid of, to my knowledge, was in 2013, when we abolished the requirement for trans people to get sterilised. Obviously, the nazi party was against this.
I wrote about a kind of pivotal event here, which ended up shaping how our labour system functions. However, the Social Democrats of old are not the same as those we have today. They’ve been catering more and more to the right, and the perspective I see the most nowadays is that they kind of just go with the flow. They don’t have any significant values, and haven’t for a long time.
This shows, because we have some very American problems in society now. Widening gaps between the normal people and the ultra rich. Significant parts of our welfare has been sold off and privatised. We have nazis sitting in parliament.
One example I think is particularly striking is our drug policy. It’s the one thing pretty much all parties are in unison on; drugs are and should remain banned, and people that use drugs need to be punished. The stats for drug related deaths here are scary, and the scientists are saying that the policies need revisions because the current draconic approach isn’t really working.
What don’t you like about Sweden, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’d say that our international reputation is kind of undeserved.
For example, we’ve previously been kind of prideful of our status as “neutral” in conflicts, but I don’t think we ever really were. During WWII we were doing the same eugenics stuff that Germany was interested in, we severely maltreated our native population, and ultimately while we didn’t exactly ally ourselves with Germany, we also didn’t stand against them. We let the nazis use our railway network to attack Norway for example.
Segue: the most recent eugenics law we got rid of, to my knowledge, was in 2013, when we abolished the requirement for trans people to get sterilised. Obviously, the nazi party was against this.
I wrote about a kind of pivotal event here, which ended up shaping how our labour system functions. However, the Social Democrats of old are not the same as those we have today. They’ve been catering more and more to the right, and the perspective I see the most nowadays is that they kind of just go with the flow. They don’t have any significant values, and haven’t for a long time.
This shows, because we have some very American problems in society now. Widening gaps between the normal people and the ultra rich. Significant parts of our welfare has been sold off and privatised. We have nazis sitting in parliament.
One example I think is particularly striking is our drug policy. It’s the one thing pretty much all parties are in unison on; drugs are and should remain banned, and people that use drugs need to be punished. The stats for drug related deaths here are scary, and the scientists are saying that the policies need revisions because the current draconic approach isn’t really working.
The parties however will not budge, instead they sit in parliament and sniff cocaine, and when they’re caught it obviously doesn’t get investigated.
A social democratic politician from Sweden is also the person responsible for initiating the whole Chat Control thing.