• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    But I was told that Sweden is a socialist utopian paradise where there is no right wing, all the cities, bridges, and sidewalks are clean, new, and shiny, you can walk or cycle everywhere 365 days a year, free healthcare and lollipops are offered on every street corner, and everyone is happy and productive all the time!

    Did the internet lie to me???

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      7 months ago

      You can just look at any objective metric of wealth or wellbeing and notice Sweden very often near the top of the list. You don’t need to invent some theoretical internet opinion in your head to be mad at.

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        7 months ago

        You don’t need to invent some theoretical internet opinion in your head to be mad at

        This is a good one, I’m going to remember it for use in every other thread

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      7 months ago

      It’s thoroughly capitalist, but most people pay hefty taxes so public funding is in a much better place than most countries.

      But no right wing is wild. There’s quite a hefty following down south and historically Sweden was “neutral” in WW2 which included selling to the Nazis and transporting their troops around.

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        7 months ago

        This might be revisionism but laying down flat and doing your enemy’s bidding is the same as joining them.