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yes very swedish response, aggressively conformist and narrow minded

I assume you are american, must be very blackpilling to visit Sweden. Imagine living in a functional democracy and society where things work like public transport and holidays.

https://youtu.be/xrTTIYd2OyY?si=3ZVicQxgxzXhu4s9&t=27

Not OP, but I'm not American, have been to Sweden (and lived most of my life in countries with better public healthcare than Sweden), and I also think yours is an aggressively conformist take. I'm not sure what value it is meant to be adding to the overall conversation. Save it for Reddit next time.

Despite being supposedly secular societies, their protestant tendencies are quite strong. Many find it stifling.

American but speak Danish and almost moved there a couple of times.

I'm permabanned on Reddit unfortunately so I cannot participate in that site :(

I make a new account and it is immediately shadowbanned + real banned for evading in 24h. Even with a VPN. They are crafty.

Anyway Reddit is leftie infested too, so they don't like me ether but I liked some specific hobby and work subreddits.

As below said we have that hardcore protestant work ethic, not suitable for everyone. Only Germans do it better.

My point is we have a functional society, healthcare, public transport, schooling and world leading companies, one of the highest HDI in the world etc. We are just the best :)

So you're a religiously-tinged nationalist. I'm happy that you're happy, but is that really meant to be particularly unique or interesting? Or even germane to the topic at hand?

mrbukkake said it was a very Swedish response and from there it went, the germane topic at hand, and I'm like, yea?

We banned smoking in public in 2005 and have had a special government alcohol store since 1955.

Nationalist is a bad word nowadays but then people cannot deny where people want to live is in the north or western Europe or USA/Canada. Maybe Japan and SK also.

I live in none of those places. I enjoy a (free) public healthcare system consistently ranked much higher than Sweden's, and smoking has been banned virtually everywhere except for designated areas for several decades. (There is much more public smoking in Europe than here.) Our HDI is equivalent to Sweden's, our household wealth and incomes are significantly higher; lower crime, more nature, much better weather. There are over two millions European migrants living here. Many are economic migrants - nurses and doctors, for example, since our public healthcare system pays better, and offers better work-life balance, than those in Europe.

The thing is, I still don't see how any of that matters. This is a pointless nationalist dick measuring contest that leads nowhere. You're not going to convince anyone of the superiority of Sweden, nor are you likely to be convinced of the superiority of other places, so what is the point of the discussion?

> germane

lol

> lived most of my life in countries with better public healthcare than Sweden

Please name one of those? Especially if it was a Spanish-speaking nation?

I'm a New Zealander and I live in Germany. What other pearls of Swedish wisdom do you have for us?

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