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Weird, given how hard they intentionally make the process of getting HRT.
The defense is in charge of prescribing HRT?
I guess I could have been clearer, I meant Sweden as a whole makes it difficult to get HRT.
I'd rather have the option to join the armed forces than be banned from them like I am in the US.
Couldn't help but laugh at the juxtaposition of these soldiers being in full camouflage including face paint, while walking around holding up this giant rainbow-colored obliterator of stealth, lol
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woaw, so inclusive! now LGBTQ+ folk can also proudly die or become traumatized for the benefit of a handful of rich pedophiles! /s
- When did any of that happen in Sweden?
- Oh no! Not actual equality! The horror!
It happens when Swedish soldiers go to foreign countries - Bosnia, Kosovo, or Afghanistan, for example.
I'm gay asf, my point is, FUCK WAR. Wars are for the elite pedophile club to send us working class people to die in for them to make more $$$.
π³οΈββ§οΈ: "Never thought I'd die fighting beside a Swede"
πΈπͺ: "Oh no, you misunderstand. I'm sitting back in Malmo piloting the drones."
π³οΈββ§οΈ: "Well, fuck this then, I'm leaving."
πΈπͺ: "So you just want Trump to win?!"
Rainbow-Nationalism?
Well, I would not be so hasty. The current government is working with the far right, which has heavily critiqued this ad campaign. They have representatives calling flying the pride flag a sign of celebrating pedofiles, and have banned the flag on municipal properies. If their coallition wins this election, the far right will be running this country.
Only one thingβs ever stopped Nazis. You can start now or wait until it becomes much more difficult.
If their coallition wins this election, the far right will be running this country.
Yes, that is typically how democracy works. The ones that win get to rule until the next election.
And just to mention, the right leaning coalition is already running the country. And have been doing so for the past ~4 years.
But yes, BjΓΆrn SΓΆder (which is the guy being loud about it) is a disgusting human being. And how a party can make the decision to keep such a person is dissapointing and appaling. No disagreement there.
Glad we agree liberal democracy is not a bulwark against fascism.
Fucking right! Let's fucking go Sweden!!!!!!
The stars and the rainbow. Flags worth defending
Not with our current government. Try South Korea, they defeated their would-be dictator
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is that cool or imperialistic pinkwashing?
Hardly imperialistic. Sweden's stance toward Finland and Norway has always been union rather than protectorate. Sweden did hurt its native population in the North and is still not doing a great job on that front, but imperialism is not the word you're looking for here.
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I'm too tired and too ADHDing for this article, but have fun:
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Somehow I highly doubt that ~~denmark~~ Sweden (as any capitalistic country) would not just throw queers under the bus with everyone else if it means securing capitalist interests (which is like the main reason for war)
Bro wtf are you on about? Yes Sweden is capitalistic. So what. It can still hold up its values and protect Queer people.
Capitalism has no ethics. If it is more profitable to act like you care about queer people, it will sell itself like it does care, but it will just stop acting like it cares the minute it becomes more profitable to not care.
I will give you an example. Just remember what pride month looked like 3-4 years ago. Fucking everything was plastered in rainbows. You could not escape it. Now compare this to what pride moth last year looked like.
I would say, that this gigantic difference in how companys sell themselves is a prime example of my point. Once shit starts to hit the fan and support is needed more than ever capitalism usually just tucks away, because it always follows the path if the least resistance.
Capitalism has ethics. Even if the profit motive were supreme, that would be an ethic. Choosing to be evil is an ethical stance.
But in practice capitalists are always ready to sacrifice their profits and prosperity to maintain hierarchies, and more specifically white supremacy. Capitalists will pay billions to bail out banks so that the banks maintain their hierarchy over the capital of the petit bourgeoisie.
Capitalists will pay trillions to fight wars to destroy a nation's production capacity to prevent them from becoming socialist egalitarian, or to secure control of oil deposits that will produce mere billions in profits to shore up their dominance over the market.
Capitalists will burn down a low-status corporate department and spend millions on temporary replacements rather than admit their work is necessary. They will work employees to the bone rather than profit off their relaxed creativity.
Capitalist insurance companies will rather waste billions of dollars on birth complications rather than tell doctors to defer to midwives on birth positions. They will rather be in the lurch for millions of dollars of emergency healthcare for the medically bankrupt than provide preventative care.
In capitalism, profit is an excuse for exploitation. If you intend to exploit people and you're upper class, there are always venture capitalists willing to give your idea a try. If you intend to empower people and have scientific studies to prove it's profitable, then sadly they just need a couple more studies believe you.
And if you manage to crowdsource the funding to do the profitable empowering thing, inspectors and cops and vandals will come crawling out of the woodwork to tear you down. And if none of that sticks, they will create a competitor to operate at a loss to drive you out of business and restore the capitalist hierarchy.
I think you're confusing businesses and organisations with the governance of a country...
Theres no difference. The state, which job it is to secure capitalist interests, will follow the same path, which means exerting oppression to divide the proletariat to secure capitalist interest.
This is a Swedish armed forces ad, what does Denmark have to do with it other than having been to war with Sweden a lot of times in the distant past?
Whoops, my mistake. I meant Sweden.
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A cow person disliking swedes is a meme that writes itself.
Swede -> suede -> danish pastry better -> danish
Can't be added to make it :(
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That's so fetch
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