Swedish social democracy blames immigrants for their own disastrous coronavirus response. It's high time US socialists stopped idolizing Sweden.

  • BookOfTheBread [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    As a Swede, bloody everyone is to blame.

    Disagree, pushing personal responsibility for issues like this is pointless, your government is 95% to blame for trying to coast through this by doing basically nothing. It has generally been the case that where governments stepped in fast enough and locked down hard there has been little issue and many such counties have been able to return to some normality. Don't put too much blame on other people even if they are behaving irrationally. It is the governments job to control pandemic outbreaks not an individuals and in this case your government has failed. The blame is theirs.

    • Nothing44 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I see what you mean. But I still feel that if the government does shit wrong, it's our duty to shame them, to force them to do whats right, to kick in doors if we have to.

      It's wrong of me to be mad at everyone who thinks their night out is worth thousands of deaths, but I'm still pissed off, and I can't stop being pissed off.

      I'll keep being pissed off until this shit's over, because the alternative is just being hella sad and going to bed drunk every night.

      But you are right. Still pissed off tho. Part of it is that I ran into a bona-fide anti-maskers the other day. Still processing that. I used to think people were just lazy. Hoping that pretending shit was normal would make shit normal. And then I ran into this fucker just... Just being the worst.

      Still kinda processing that.

      But you're right. I'm just... I'm just so fucking tired all the fucking time.

      • BookOfTheBread [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's an understandable reaction tbh, its not like you go outside and see your government sitting around in the street doing nothing, you see people doing stupid shit so it's very easy to fall into blaming that much more tangible reason.