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peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
I'd say it makes it "fewer" true ;)

Surely we can agree that if such kids exist then they must be very, very few in number?
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
I don't think so. It was a "support" comment, not a "you're wrong" comment.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
And then he became a Socialist with power. Seems to me he remained a Socialist.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
The people who have managed to build countries people wish to live in are Euros or East Asian. Nothing intrinsically to do with their skin colour, of course, but it is a fact that some peoples have done it again and again (and again) and the rest haven't.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
The sex tourists in Thailand and Cambodia are vile.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
Most of those children wouldn't be able to communicate with their own parents, if that were the case.

Somalis are usually not spread out among the natives. They tend to clump together in ethnic enclaves where it is very easy to learn Somali (and where life is unpleasant for the unfortunate child who doesn't learn it).
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
Why? It is perfectly possible to be a legal immigrant and a parasite. It's even possible to be a completely homegrown native and a parasite. Wouldn't you call essentially all career criminals parasites?
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> But the dismantling of the democracy is proof that they were outside of the political spectrum.

That's very close to arguing that Communists aren't on the (far) left.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
Spelling won't be a problem with either language, pronunciation will (likely) not be an issue with Finnish (depends on how well you handle phonemic vowel length).

Vocabulary will be tough. There are surprisingly many Germanic loanwords in Finnish, both new and very(!) old, but most of them are not obvious until you've studied the language for some time.

Grammar will also be tough. It's not just "a bunch of suffixes".

Some people can communicate really well without being good at the language they are using. I bet you are one of them!
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
That might be down to your personality... or the language barrier in the case of China (or you were in China before Xi or very early in his reign).
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
A2 is a depressingly low bar.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> they don't speak the language - should they be forced to attend language school?

I disagree. They should learn the language of their own accord or get kicked out.

> C1.

Yes! And I would expect immigrants in citizen-facing jobs in the public sector to be at C2.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
It takes a lot longer if the immigrant groups are (locally) large. They are a lot more than just locally large in Sweden. It also takes a lot longer if the state bends over backwards to accommodate the immigrants, which Sweden does.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> stronger in numbers. we are the majority still.

That won't last long among the young in Sweden, actually. Not if the current immigration policies continue, that is.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> one montessori teacher can handle 30 children.

Montessori kids tend to have parents that produce better kids (both in the genetic sense and in terms of how they are raised).

It's a selection effect (also on the teacher side), not because they have a magic way of turning disruptive/dangerous/criminal kids into little angels.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration process.

They already do that.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
Not all cultures are compatible. It's nothing to do with "races".
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_consul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
> There ARE bad actors, they must be kept out.

There are very good (and well-documented) reasons to believe a large part of the recently immigrated foreigners in Sweden are exactly such bad actors.

Your arguments don't really work the way you seem to think they do.
peterfirefly
·11 dni temu·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_finance_in_Sweden

> is that any individual is able to pour millions into a political party of any persuasion.

It's an even bigger problem that political parties are heavily subsidized by the state, which favours the establishment.

This goes beyond purely monetary subsidies. Some people employed by the state have an essentially political function or have a large political influence over the population and they have been hired (and incentivized) by the established parties over decades.