Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Wonder what is worse in Sweden. Dying of cold or boredom?

Very selective. Street fights are not all over this city (and nothing like places like Los Angeles, etc) but certain places. Sweden has a long history of being boring whether you like it or not. No doubt bright info fact by decades of letist ideology.....

Not that you would know it due to your limited grey cells dear osteoporosis supporter. This country was not ready for a war. Our Prime Minister tried to avoid having one knowing full well the history of WW1. He travelled to see Hitler twice and you come out with this drivel? We were badly bombed  in the major cities and large numbers died in the air attacks. By the end of the war the cost ran us into the ground not just in lives but infrastructure, rail, everything. Money was borrowed from America and not paid off until modern times so you made a profit from WW2 we did not. War although delayed by us was coming and the Polish agreement had to be followed while your lot stayed out for ages so we fought on virtually alone.  You are an embarrassment to your fellow countrymen and as you are a terror supporter an unprincipled oaf. Your misuse of historyand rat bag stuff at the lowest is disgusting. Shame on you!
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Well you are a generally typical ex-colonist mjsmsprt40! Any excuse to have guns and i know ell about farmers. When the Wild West gradually faded you had no great traditions like other countries so the gun was kept as some kind of worshipping item needed to defend, etc. Your country is gun mad and why there are police problems and you need over 200 million guns for defending yourselves? Uh? And you preach you are a modern, great example to the world and have a myriad of excuses for guns at home. Well why do other places in the world nt need to follow that poor example!? It doesn't give a very good impression of a country to be so up to the necks in this utter nonsense. The good things over there get spoled by the mass gun hysteria and excuse used for them.
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Talk about nut job land with even children in on the cowboy freakery. Safety for school/ What a terrible admission that one is and anyway doesn't help with school shootings being so frequent. Brought it on yourselves. You don't have to make head shaking incidents they are part of society.
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That one about Russian planes leaning on Finland. How about the US navy leaning on mainland China? Considering you are in hock to that country seems a bit stupid.
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Don'y worry jax the land of the free and home of the brave will deal with Saudi Arabia contradicting ex-colonial principles.........
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How can you be so infantile? Oh you like trying to be funny but fall back on the old hoary one about digging at the USA. It is so damn easy the way you act and you simple cannot answer the points about the police. It has been going on for ever over there and it is only nowadays it is getting more predominance and for very good reasons.

If your police cannot run after an unarmed man without gunning him with several bullets they are not trained right. The same applies to 30 odd officers shooting over 130 bullets at 2 unarmed in a car then that idiot on the bonnet pumping in dozens.  Every so often we see because of modern tv, mobile phones, etc, police beating people up sometimes more than one carrying out the battering, choking or whatever. Recently a documentary gave an insight into some mental institutions where the unifromed guards do not take on board the occupants have mental problems and beat them up and worse. It is obliviously a deep problem you have with cops.  Hey does anyone over there remember foot patrols instead of convoys of cars?
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Imagine someone from nutjobland calling some other person elsewhere naive or zombie like! Sharing success is anew one for ex-colonists.

This is the last chapter of the Elop effect.

Both songs were written by Swedes, as were a number of other entries, so victory was imbedded.

Honestly I think it is good they got gutted. They had a toxic company culture, worse than Apple. We wouldn't want to be in a world ruled by "connecting people". That applies to the now-dead handset division, I've had no dealing with the rest, if they were any better.

(I think, in this case, I should follow the sensible advice of George Washington: "Avoid foreign entanglements" — specially the squabbling between petty European states! )

....and people like RJ, Belfrager and Krake who spend all their time telling us how much worse we are at running the world than their respective countries were when they did it.

Amen, Brother Oakdale.

Now we try to be the world's policeman/mommy, and look what we get. An enormous military budget (necessary if you're going to have influence in the far corners of the world) and people like RJ, Belfrager and Krake who spend all their time telling us how much worse we are at running the world than their respective countries were when they did it.

Yup!
What do you suppose the chances are that Scotland, Portugal or Germany would like to foot the bill (in money, equipment and troops…) so we can retire and enjoy our dotage?

between 20-30 millions of people killed as a result of US interventions around the world since WW2

The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation.

The news that Russia’s eastern Zabaikalsky region would grant 115,000 hectares of land to the Chinese company Huae Xinban under a 49-year lease stirred up a maelstrom of controversy and anxiety in Russia.  A survey conducted by Rosbalt shows that 50.5% of that news agency’s readers fear such a deal “provides fertile ground for China’s colonization and then annexation of Siberia, and for a major war.”

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between 20-30 millions of people killed as a result of US interventions around the world since WW2

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The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation.

Obviously, the Soviet Union bore no responsibility for what happened. Gotta love studies!

According to one theory, all the trouble with Germany is due to the fact that Germany was the only major European power who never got a chance to run overseas colonies like others did. But I don't buy that theory. Germans had their chance long before there were any overseas. They ran the Hanse and colonised Czech, Prussia, and two Baltic countries beginning from the 12th century.