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  • #16
    Socialist wimps need to see the firm manliness of conservatism!
    "On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
    - Lone Star

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    • #17
      Socialist wimps need to see the firm manliness of conservatism!
      Boom chicka chicka boom chicka chicka...
      "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
      "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Aivo½so
        Also read this if you know Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyhete...110075,00.html
        Quite.

        This is so very disgusting. I can't help but to think what would happen if some other country tried to pull a stunt like this on a prominent citizen of thiers. There'd be a friggin' revolution.

        Here in Socialist Welfare Utiopa, though, people just look away. I the Social Democrats did it, it can't be wrong.
        "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
        "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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        • #19
          Re: Swedish Socialist Art: The Uglier Truth

          Originally posted by moomin

          You guessed it by now, haven't you? That awful, disgusting pile of elephant poo is the new Raoul Wallenberg monument in Stockholm. While the Social Democrats couldn't stop the monument from happening, the could sure send a clear message: we crap on Raoul Wallenberg, we crap on the people he saved and we crap on the people he didn't manage to save. This awful pile of sun-dried feces is what the Social Democrats in Sweden think Wallenberg deserves.



          You're gone

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
            Note that not even the Moderates dared break neutrality, in face of public opinion.
            I thought that the Swiss were the only ones so fanatically devoted to not having an opinion.

            Zorba: You're gone

            You do that the monument does look like a collection of doo.
            Last edited by DinoDoc; August 13, 2002, 16:04.
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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            • #21
              Beside the pointless point of moomin trying to weave this piece of so called art into his social democratic world conspiracy I do agree that there's a point with this talk about ugliness.

              Good art or bad art is for others to decide, that's very subjective really. The artist might have had a good point with his twelve pieces of sh!t. But art in a public space should have a message that people that visits this public space can relate to. It does not have to be such a obvious thing as a statue of Raoul W. but something that uses a language that people can relate to. Not some esoteric piece of art you need a degree in modern art to understand.

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              • #22
                Moneypenny,
                fill in the missing word:... think?

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by DinoDoc
                  I thought that the Swiss were the only ones so fanatically devoted to not having an opinion.
                  Snappy is pulling your leg. The moderate opposition has been pro-NATO for a long, long time. Not that it matters, since the Social Democrats own Sweden.

                  Swedish cold war policies were up to the usual Swedish standard: undercover collaboration with NATO, hiding this from both the people and most of those elected to the Parliament - thereby exposing Sweden to terrible risk, since the Soviets surely knew, while NATO would never have risked final showdown over a formally non-aligned country - while publicly denouncing the US as a "racist, imperialist oppressor" and singing the praises of the People's Progress in the Soviet Union and in Mao's China.

                  Come to think of it, this policy has now largely been exported to the EU at large. Desperately trying to be covered by American economic and military protection, while damning the US for it's "aggression" against poor Saddam at the same time, hoping in vain that the terrorist attacks will continue to happen in the US only. No wonder EU is so popular in Sweden these days - we're right at home.
                  "The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
                  "I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.

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                  • #24
                    "Come to think of it, this policy has now largely been exported to the EU at large. Desperately trying to be covered by American economic and military protection, while damning the US for it's "aggression" against poor Saddam at the same time, hoping in vain that the terrorist attacks will continue to happen in the US only. No wonder EU is so popular in Sweden these days - we're right at home."

                    Yes, this is the natural conclusion to the argument you made earlier.

                    But us Americans would never have thought you'd do such a thing!
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #25
                      If Sweden had openly sided with Nato there was a great risk of destabilising northern Europe. I hardly think it's very constructive to point fingers of the more or less moral choices of politicians under those circumstances when the critic sits safety in his chair decades later and interpets history into something that fits his or hers political agenda.

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                      • #26
                        "If Sweden had openly sided with Nato there was a great risk of destabilising northern Europe."

                        Hogwash.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #27
                          Easy to say now...

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                          • #28
                            Yes, it's very easy to say now. Did Western Germany's siding with NATO create instability in Central Europe? How about Italy's in Souther Europe?

                            What makes Sweden so special?
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #29
                              DanS, it would have annoyed us Finns.
                              "On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
                              - Lone Star

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                              • #30
                                Who said it was something "special" about Sweden?

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