Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Today came news of a local politician for that party having an "Adolf" tatoo: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/sd-politikerns-tatuering-adolf-i-runskrift-lamnar-sina-uppdrag

I'm disgusted by this, and also amazed: how can the current government fail to see that the whole thing looks really, really bad?

I mean, just the optics of it. Even if you want to throw away human rights and establish an authoritarian state, surely you must see that it looks bad to do it together with nazis? It's so wrong and so ugly.

How do these people think?

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Now, in Sweden, we have similar proposals from the current government, backed by the "Sweden democrats", a party founded by nazis and other fascist-leaning people.

The government is proposing increased surveillance, violating citizens' right to privacy, and letting the police stop and search people for "looking suspicious" or wearing the wrong kind of clothes.

All cheered on by the founded-by-nazis "Sweden democrats" party.

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About the Reichstag fire in 1933: "Only the morning after did I read about the fire in the parliament building, and not until noon did I hear about the arrests [people sent to concentration camps]. Around that time came the order abolishing the freedom of opinion and the secrecy of correspondence for private citizens and giving the police unlimited rights to [search, arrest, etc]"

Those were obvious steps for the nazis then, in 1933, when establishing their dictatorship.

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Reading "A German man's history" (Geschichte eines Deutschen) or "Defying Hitler", written by Sebastian Haffner in 1939 about the decades leading up to the Nazis coming to power.

Made me think about current Swedish politics. #svpol

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Snubblade över en punk-dokumentär på svtplay och där var det Ebba Grön såklart och jag blev påmind om hur bra de var, hade på nåt vis glömt av det lite. Jisses.

"Ung och sänkt", vilken låt.

Själv är jag väl inte så värst ung längre, men sänkt är jag minsann och det kan ingen ta ifrån mig 🙂

Whatever you do, do it because it's the right thing to do, according to you.

Don't do it because you expect someone else to thank you. They probably won't thank you anyway.

Möjligen är jag partisk som själv var med och arrangerade, men jag tror att #SamNet kan ha varit en av de bästa konferenserna någonsin i världshistorien. Varenda föredrag var super-intressant!

Se inspelningarna här: https://play.dfri.se/w/p/nCXb5kXYWpxkgHVsBqHL6N #PeerTube

Arrangörer: Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter (DFRI), ISOC-SE, Swedish Network Users' Society (SNUS) och Dataskydd.net

Mer info här https://samnet.se/

#integritet #decentralisering
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