• alleycat@feddit.org
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    “If, for example, you ignore paying your debts, if you don’t comply with decisions from Swedish authorities, if you cheat the benefits system, if you cheat your way to a Swedish residence permit… then you do not have the right to be here,” Forssell said.

    Other examples the government cited as examples included working without paying taxes or not paying fines.

    “Just don’t be poor.”

    “Statements – that is, things a person says or expresses – should not in themselves be regarded as evidence of lack of honest living, but they may be an indication of, for example, links to violent extremism, which can then be a sign of deficient character,” Ludvig Aspling, migration policy spokesman for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats which is propping up the government, told reporters.

    Absolutely dystopian.

    • Pip@feddit.org
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      Please stop equating being poor with being fraudulent and criminal. The list of fraudulent behavior has nothing to do with being poor.

      And fighting violent extremism is in no way dystopian.

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        “The law in its majestic equality forbids both the poor and the rich from sleeping under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”

        - Anatole France

        In the Netherlands, there was a massive scandal a few years back where the government had declared thousands of migrants to be fraudulent based on an automated system that used their ethnicity as sufficient cause, driving those people into debt and forcing many to work illegally to avoid homelessness.

        Please develop some class consciousness. They will come for you too when the exploitation of those below you no longer satisfies their lust for power.

      • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.social
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        These guys are not in any way stopping att violent extremism.

        The guy on the photo, Johan Forssell, had advocated - and slammed on social media - that we should send home entire families based on a single individuals crime. Yet when his own son was found to be part of a violent nazi organisation it was handled like a case of boys will be boys. He’s constantly generalising over immigrants and yet he’s only part of the conservative party that have been paving the way, openly, for the party that started as a nazi party in the 90s, in order to get to power.

        These changes might look harmless but these fucks are just power hungry sell-outs that have decided that nazis are fit to rule if it allows themselves to stay mildly relevant.

        There is no current definition of honest living and everyone from the ruling parties that was asked about it have answered wildly different.

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        And fighting violent extremism is in no way dystopian.

        Sweden going to cut ties with the USA, then?

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      Nah man, I’m poor as fuck right now, I barely make minimum wage, but I properly file my taxes and you know what? Because the system in my country is good, I don’t have to break the bank to do so either.

      Fraud, debt evasion, tax evasion etc are not a consequence of poverty and instead do affect all other people who do things right. You can’t benefit from tax money and from the system if you’re actively cheating it.