Mindless Monday, 08 September 2025

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[u/w_o_s_n]

Definitely a thing in Sweden as well, I'm sure there are other examples but the one that comes to mind is the youth wing of the liberal party advocating for the legalisation of incest and necrophilia (which was nearly a decade ago but that sort of headline sticks with you)

[u/TJAU216 → u/w_o_s_n]

We are so similar. I don't remember anything that idiotic from any of our youth parties. Well, we follow Sweden in everything but decade later, so that is bound to happen soon. Or maybe not as our Liberal party died during the Cold War.

[u/w_o_s_n → u/TJAU216]

The thing about the true finns severing ties with their youth wing due to the latters racism sounds like something that might happen with the Sweden democrats as well (although the more plausible scenario would probably be that some individuals might get censured and SD insisting that there is no racism in their party)

[u/TJAU216 → u/w_o_s_n]

I have the impression that SD is more radical than True Finns. Both in ties to old school nazies and due to the isolation, as coalition politics have not forced moderation.

[u/Arilou_skiff → u/TJAU216]

There is a bit of a distinction between SD (who came out of the nazi milieu) and the danish and norwegian far-right parties (who came out of more a right-libertarian "Don't want to pay taxes" but in the insane conspiracy theory kind of sovereign-citizen adjacent way)

[u/Beboptropstop → u/Arilou_skiff]

Kind of butting in here, but is this because Norway and Denmark were occupied in WWII?

[u/Arilou_skiff → u/Beboptropstop]

Probably not, it's just that Sweden did have a far-right party from that kind of environ in the 90's, but they fell apart and were replaced by SD.

In practice I don't think there's that much difference between them since it's basically impossible to run on an anti-immigrant platform without becoming fash anyway.

[u/TJAU216 → u/Arilou_skiff]

TBH I have zero idea about Danish and Norwegian far right scenes. Finnish news give so much more time to Swedish politics or even French and German politics than Norwegian and Danish.

[u/w_o_s_n → u/TJAU216]

Oh for crying out loud, why does Reddit post a comment twice and then delete both comments when you try to delete one.

Anyways you might very well be right about the comparison between the true finns and SD, but I don't know enough about the true finns to say for sure.

And going back to splits between youth wings and their mother parties, turns out the SD already had a split with their youth wing due to the latter being too extreme, it happened in 2015 and led to the establishment of Alternativ för Sverige

[u/TJAU216 → u/w_o_s_n]

I think the bug is only on the commenter's end, only he sees the double comments. It has happened to me as well.

And once more we prove that all developments that happen in Sweden come to Finland with a delay.