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    2. upthetruth1 on

      The right-wing government (M + L + KD + SD) in Sweden has passed a law to strip people of citizenship for crimes. I disagree as it leads to second-class citizenship for minorities. Regardless, this is a big constitutional change so even though the government passed it this term, they have to wait for another election and for it to be passed a second time with identical wording. Now, S, the main centre-left party, thinks it’s too broad and wants to focus specifically on gang crimes and terrorism and keep it strict so it’s rarely used. V and MP, the Left and Green Party are both categorically against it as are C, the Center Party (a pro-immigration, fiscally conservative, socially liberal so I think this sub would probably really like them) are also against it. Polls suggest that S, V, and MP can win a majority along with C who are completely against SD, all 4 parties want no agreement with SD (the far right or right populist party). So, the next government if led by S will either drop it for a coalition or try to pass a watered down bill. If they pass a watered down bill, that would require yet another election, pushing this constitutional change until the 2030s.

      I think there’s a chance this may never be passed, especially as minorities and young women are moving towards V, MP and C over time.

      Personally I hope it doesn’t. I don’t support in citizenship revocation.

      I think the whole centre-left across Europe (especially the UK) needs to keep an eye on Sweden and Denmark’s elections this year. Let’s see if S’s anti-immigration shift works out if they become the government.

    4. phi-fun on

      moth posting

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    13. NmTrump on

      > Steve Bannon calls for Trump to **deploy ICE and military troops to polling sites**
      The Trump ally was one of few GOP voices to support the president’s push to nationalize voting.

      He’s the one of the ones *saying it out loud*. They desperately want to rig elections.

    19. Leoric on

      Yes, the administration will get Maduro to claim he helped steal the 2020 election

      No, no member of the Republican party will stand up to the farce

      TBD if they’re able to rig the midterms

    22. -mialana- on

      Graham Linehan went from British centre-left Twitter progressive making snarky Tweets about American gun violence to defending a far-right Gestapo kidnapping children

    24. TheCornjuring on

      Confirmed Wurlitzer for Prevue, “In one draft [of Ridley Scott’s unmade Dune film] I introduced some erotic scenes between Paul and his mother, Jessica. I felt there was always a latent, but very strong, Oedipal attraction between them, and I took it one note further. It went right in the middle of the film, as a supreme defiance of certain boundaries, perhaps making Paul even more heroic for having broken a forbidden code.”

    25. bartbug on

      guys ive been coming out of my cage and doing just fine, but I’ve gotta be down because I want it all.

    26. bartbug on

      ridley scott’s recent work has definitely had ups and downs but the last duel is excellent, excellent, excellent.

    27. TheCornjuring on

      Near where I grew up there was a large amusement park. One half of it was rides and coasters, the other half was a water park. Obviously, the summer jobs there were a great pull when you were a teenager, and they employed a huge number of my friends on summer break from college. The jobs over in the water park were generally considered more desirable, although I was never abe to get them because I am a horrible swimmer.

      Basically, the water park opened later and closed earlier, so the shifts were nicer, and they had to pay you more because you had to be first aid and CPR and lifeguard cetified. A lot of my friends worked there, and I knew about three of the people involved in this story.

      It started at a water slide, one of the huge tube slides that you had to walk up 7 flights of steps to get to the top. One lifeguard was posted up top, telling people when to go down, and one of my friends was the lifeguard at the bottom, who helped people off the slide, and gave the all clear for the next person to go.

      A family had come with their child, who was very young, and apparently barely the height limit to go on the ride. The family was in line with the father first, kid second, and mother last, so that someone would be with the kid at both top and bottom of the slide.

      The father goes down the slide, gets off and the lifeguard gives the all clear. And waits. He can’t really see whats going on up top, but finally the next rider comes down. It’s the mother, who walks over to the father and asks where their son is.

      There’s a moment of confusion and my friend is pulled over by the family. The kid had been the next one to enter the slide up top, before his mother, but had never come out the bottom. My friend is confused, calls up to the top lifeguard who verifies that the kid went down the slide. Neither my friend nor the father saw the kid come out the bottom. Until this is figured out, they shut down the ride. The top lifeguard calls security and reports this as a missing child, while my friend calls a supervisor.

      The supervisor shows up and is apparently afraid the kid is wedged in the tube somehow, and in such a way that the mother failed to dislodge him coming down the slide. They way she said it it was apparently obvious she was assuming some injury to be involved. The parents are obviously upset at this point and freaking out, and the super has the upper lifeguard go down the ride himself, spread out to make sure there’s no child jammed into the turns of the ride. He comes out the bottom, having not dislodged the corpse of the child, and everyone is more confused than ever.

      Meanwhile, security called saying they just turned up a missing kid near one of the coasters, could they get a description of the child missing? The super sort of dismisses it out of hand that it could have been the same child. The coaster they found the kid by was clear across the park, and the child was only missing for a few minutes at this point.

      Instead, she has a bunch of lifeguards run up the stairs and come down the slide, still hoping to dislodge the kid while other employees quietly look around the bottom in case the kid somehow managed to fall out of the tube. Meanwhile, upper management is called in, as the parents of the kid are alternating between yelling and blaming each other, panicking, and threatening to sue the park. Upper management calls security and asks them to pull the security camera footage from the top of the slide, to try to figure out what happened.

      A kid a few years ahead of me in high school happened to be working security, and he was there when they pulled the footage and one of the security guards says that he is almost positive that’s the kid they have in the next room. They get the kids name, and sure enough, he’s in the missing children’s room, safe and sound.

      Here’s where things get weird. The footage shows the father, kid, and mother entering the slide. It’s also time stamped, so they know when the child went down the slide. The incident report for when the kid was found clear across the park, behind a rollercoaster, shows he was discovered less than five minutes later.

      If you’ve ever noticed, nothing in an amusement park is laid out linearly. There’s always fences and bushes and buildings between you and where you want to go. The idea is to make you ramble about between rides to cut down on ride wait time. My friend the security guard tested it, and walking at a stiff clip and knowing all the shortcuts, it was a 20 minute walk for him.

      Furthermore, when you hit the edge of the waterpark, there were signs that shirts and shoes had to be worn past that point. If you saw anyone (even a kid) walking past there without them, you were to detain them. The kid was found barefoot and shirtless in just his swim trunks. The idea that no one across a 12 acres would stop this kid, who to travel that far had to be running, and ask him to put on appropriate clothing, is completely weird.

      Weirdest of all was that the incident report stated that the child seemed disoriented and was at first not able to respond to questions. It also stated that the kid (who was in a water slide five minutes prior) was bone dry.

      This was the talk of the park for about a week, with everyone trying to come up with explanations, guards searching the other security footage to try to find the kid going across the park, people trying to get from the slide to the coaster, etc. Then the upper management came out and basically hushed it up. Supervisors told that if they heard anyone talking about it that they would be fired. Pretty soon the park moved onto whatever the next drama was and it got swept aside.

      But yeah, child goes down slide and into time and space portal.

    31. Radiorapier on

      Was looking back through old r/youtubehaiku videos, it’s a ghost town now but I remember there used to be a lot of activity and original content there 7+ years ago.

      Some did not age well at all , good lord this thread is sickening to read through with h  much Musk was worshipped on the site for a time.
      https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubehaiku/comments/7vtf0k/poetry_elon_r_u_ok/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    33. JohnCrawnTawn on

      I’m glad the muppet show came back for even one episode. It was comforting and made me happy. Sabrina Carpenter did a wonderful job 

      I hope they bring the series back for more episodes 

    35. TomboyAva on

      How conspiracy theorists thought the elites talk: “the cheese pizza is in the box”

      How elites actually actually talked: “The cheese piza is in the box. Sent on my Iphone”

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