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ZeroGravitastoday at 4:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

Spot the odd one out:

> Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.


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dijittoday at 6:16 PM

To understand why there might be a desire to limit spending on art;

There was a recent case where city of Malmo was building a hospital; during the building of the hospital it was decided that a splice of the oldest tree in the world would be installed.

A very expensive life-support system was developed and an enormous amount of money paid for the splice. (not including the life support system, which was also an inordinate amount).

The tree didn't take, and needs to be replaced.

It's called "Spruce Time": https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/region-skane-har-lag...

nitnelavetoday at 5:03 PM

For context, from wiki:

> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations [...] to their place of racial ancestry

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KaiserProtoday at 5:23 PM

> large scale remigration

which is literally kicking out people who don't look or sounds like me, out of the country.

Whenever that has happened it has been rather bad for most parties.

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threetonesuntoday at 5:02 PM

We want everyone here to be exactly like us, but we do recognize we have bad teeth.

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throwitaway222today at 5:00 PM

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