Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

D wrote:

  On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Coogan's Bluff wrote:
 

Today I heard a story about a businessman in lithuania who told the new
government "f*ck you, I'm leaving" because apparently he had been trying
to build a factory that would bring 6000 jobs, and the government, both
the previous and the new, have been fighting him on every single level,
since he is not a party member. So when the new government only spoke
about increasing taxes, he said, "I'm done".
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I think if more business men would be equally principled, taxes would
come down rather quickly. As it is, they remain sycophants in the hope
of receiving benefits from the party in power.

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Really good trickle-not analysis there.
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Here's a timely piece by a disgraced NYT columinist pondering why "they" lost the people this election:
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https://archive.is/2V2Cw

 Wow, good stuff! Talk about awakening!

Yeah, glad you appreciated that insightful mea culpa.

Some high lights:
 "are primarily motivated by identity group solidarity. This model assumes
that the struggle against oppressive systems and groups is the central
subject of politics. This model has no room for what just happened."
 Woke:ism perhaps is starting to implode! =) I have predicted this,
because it will always end up in the groups waring against each other.

Has to given its artificial origins.
People can only be force-herded for so long, which is rather too long in my opinion...

"Even the most solid identity group categories are fluid. As a recent Pew
Research Center study found, among people who married in 2022, 32
percent of Asian Americans married outside their ethnic group, as did 30
percent of Hispanics, 23 percent of Black people and 15 percent of white
people."
 Only 15 percent of white people married outside their ethnic group? I
had no idea!

The TeeVee of course gulls into their artificial couplings as if they were a norm.
Not.

"As I try to update my own models, a few stray thoughts enter my mind.
First, you don’t reduce racial, ethnic and gender bigotry by raising the
salience of these categories and by exaggerating the differences between
groups."
 That's why wokism eventually will collapse. It ends up as a war of all
against all.

The demons who have done this must pay!

"Fifth, seeing groups in all their complexity requires seeing
individuals in all their complexity."
 Welcome to reality Mr. Journalist! =D

If I see you only for your nationality how might I ever hope to explain your conservatism?
Etc...

Amen! We must pray and pray hard, that sweden will some tiem get its own
Trump! Only a man with Trumps powers and characteristics will ever be
able to uproot the ingrained socialism from swedish society!

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Do you think that will be harder or easier for Sweden?

 Much harder! Imagine a country caught in a woke mind prison for 100
years. Sweden is very collectivist, so it will take a strong shock to
the system to break the psychosis.

The 100 year servitude of collectivism is potent, indeed.

But sweden is also a very good follower. So if big parts of the world
lead the way, sweden is sure to follow. Small countries are always
anxious to be seen as good, so if the global trend changes, and strong
countries lead, eventually sweden will follow.

That's not a bad thing, as long as one recognizes and honors the process and tendency.

A third factor is the internet and global american culture. If Trump can
engineer a culture change in the US, it will eventually spread to young
swedes. In fact, I think you can already see some of that happening
among the young. The sweden democrats became the biggest party in high
school elections. So in 20 years maybe there will be some Trumpian
shifts in sweden. We must pray hard for this!

In Christ's eternal name!

I ask that in the consideration that you've a royal family that now seem mere figureheads at best.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Sweden

 Oh yes... they are legally prohibited from expressing a political
opinion. Sadly the crown princess is woke on steroids, so she will
completely destroy the trust in the monrachy over time, unless she
changes.
 The current king on the other hand, he's a good guy! He enjoys life,
drives around in his ferraris, has an affair or two, and just "crushes
it" as the young kids say! ;)

That's very non-damaging of him, which is a thing to be recognized.

Eriksgata was the name of the traditional journey of newly elected medieval Swedish kings through important provinces to have their election confirmed by local Things. The actual election took place at the Stone of Mora in Uppland and participation was originally restricted to the people of that area; hence, the need of having the election confirmed by the other parts of the realm. The Eriksgata gradually lost its importance when, as of the 14th century, representatives of other parts of Sweden began to participate in the election. After 1544, when hereditary monarchy was instituted, that meant that the Eriksgata had little practical importance. The last king to travel the Eriksgata according to the old tradition was Charles IX, whose reign began in 1604. Later, kings, up until present times, have made visits to all the Swedish provinces and called them an Eriksgata, while those visits bear little resemblance to the medieval tradition.

 This is the truth!

Your nation's history is quite fascinating, even the wiki version.