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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I don’t know… This is the path Sweden has been seeing for some time, so not too surprised. To draw as close parallels to Musk’s Nazi salute as possible: Last general election in Sweden, the far right still gained ground. On the election night, one of their front line public personas raised her arm and started to say the swedish version of ‘sieg heil’ but changed one of the words last moment and closed her fist. Everyone on the right, liberals, conservatives, still wants to collaborate with them. The next election, for EU, the same party is playing the ‘auslander raus’ song and a partymember happens to sing the words onto a journalist microphone. Still full collaboration by the right for this party.





  • Swedens far-right party does not have ministers, but are allowed to participate as part of the government in many ways (speaking as representatives of the government at press conferences, closed door meetings to ensure the far-right policies are being implemented as agreed, etc) and the government parties have adopted their retoric in some ways (“SD has always been correct when it comes to immigration” is an insane statement a government rep. has said, as SD is wellknown for “having been” a neo-nazi party started by actual nazi SS volonteers.). So Sweden is ahead in how close the far-right is to power. SD has been a bit less open about some far-right policies than AfD, I think. But since they are emboldened by how accepted they are by the other rightwing parties they are now more open. Their representatives now often talk about and defend replacement theory stuff, compares pride symbols with pedofilia, and such things.



  • This happened in Sweden as well, and has worked quite well for SD, sadly. The dropped youth group had some more openly radicals in it, hence dropped by SD. They started a new party (AfS, Alternativ för Sverige) with a little more radical policies. SD then could use AfS to gauge the acceptance of more radical policies without having to lose face. “Can we start saying replacement theory stuff yet? How did that work for AfS?”, “Can we go for mass deportations now? AfS has laid the ground work there already”.