Category Archives: Politics and Society

Articles about society, people, and politics.

NATO Expansion

NATO Expansion According to Russian Propaganda

American: It was a while ago we expanded… let’s expand into… what country is that? Atlantis? Africa?
European: It’s Poland.
American: Yeah! Let’s expand there!

NATO Expansion According to the Rest of the World

Russia has Georgia for breakfast.
Poland*: HELP!

* Poland here represents any country sharing maritime or land borders with Russia from Turkey to Sweden, or for that matter countries sharing history with Russia….

Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use

Guns are used millions of times every year by law-abiding citizens in the US to prevent crime, right?

Wrong!

The above list of sources proves the following in regard to gun threats and self-defense gun use:

  • Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
  • Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
  • Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
  • Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
  • Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
  • Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
  • Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
  • Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions

Trump is a “Tölp”

Trump is what we in Sweden call a “Tölp”. So are most members of his … regime.

“Tölp” translates to: fool, oaf, dolt, boor, jerk, boob, lout, idiot, chump, klutz, twit, clod, clown, booby, bumpkin, slob, blunderer, clot.

Words in bold are from a printed dictionary. It also adds yokel and clodhopper…

Maybe each “prominent” member of the regime can get their very own word… though I fear most words will have to be shared among several people because, boy, “Tölparna” (Tölp plural definitive) are coming out of the wood works…

Want to know how “tölp” is pronounced? Here you go:

Truth 2025

Here’s a 2025 MAGA-rebranding of the classical WTF “What Is Truth?

enum MAGAReply {
  Yes,
  No,
  DonaldTrump
};

I mean, that’s pretty much how it goes:

Q: How are we going to fix the jobs numbers?
A: Donald Trump!

Q: What are we going to do about all the problems?
A: Donald Trump!

Q: Where did the other sock go?
A: Donald Trump!

Ok, the last one is likely not going to come from MAGA, but who knows…

The Most Important WWII Memorial

What is the most important WWII memorial?
Americans: Normandy
The rest of the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau

This, likely, also explains the election of Donald Trump and the general shrug to his demolition of US democracy…

Americans haven’t been there. They haven’t done that…

Yet.

UPDATE: This is of course supposed to be “the most important memorial IN EUROPE”. Hiroshima would be the most important memorial in Asia. There could likely be a long discussion about which one is the most important one. Or we could just agree there are many and that those that put heroism before suffering are kind of childish and not really getting the lesson one should take away from WWII.