• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    You are goddam right it does, it’s bleeding over, and hired hitmen as young as 14 years old have come from Sweden to Danmark to try to assassinate people. One victim was merely a completely innocent family member living a normal family life here, but was targeted just for being related to some Swedish gangster.

    In Sweden they have what we call “Amerikanske tilstande” which translates to something like “conditions like America”, which is an expression for just about the worst that can happen. It’s pretty common to warn against that here.

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      Amerikanske tilstande" which translates to something like “conditions like America”,

      Ugh, wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

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      It’s the same saying in Norway. Oh, and is it’s over the top, it’s called “Texas” 🤣

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      Amerikanske tilstande" which translates to something like “conditions like America”, which is an expression for just about the worst that can happen.

      Lol how the mighty have fallen

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        Absolutely, back in the days before the 80’s “only in America” was often used for something Big and Impressive. Now it’s used for something stupid or double standards.

        American society used to be considered the pinnacle of the world, but it changed in the 80’s, when they began to lower the quality of their society with extreme republican policies:
        They failed to acknowledge pollution of the atmosphere is a problem and did absolutely nothing about it despite their wealth. While Europe began to work seriously on ressource and climate sustainability already in the 70’s. Today USA has twice the pollution per capita compared to most European countries.
        Their healthcare and life expectancy is worse than any EU country.
        They have completely failed to get gun violence under control or even try for 5 decades now.
        They have extreme poverty despite being among the richest countries in the world.
        Their democracy is a flawed first past the post model and only barely a democracy, because it’s unable to reasonably represent diverse interests of the population.
        Extreme religiousness is widespread and permeates politics as seen with insane abortion restrictions that destroy lives and families.
        Corruption is widespread and obvious and even out in the open. Even the supreme court is both corrupt and politicized.

        Not an ideal to follow, and it’s very sad to see how they have failed to progress or even maintain the quality of the society they had in the 70’s.