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Swedish PM Rejects Referendum on Possible NATO Membership (aka reject democracy while praising it)
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Posted on 04/28/2022 9:24:14 PM PDT by captain_jonas

Sweden does not plan to hold a referendum on the subject of NATO membership if its Parliament approves of the measure, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson announced on Thursday, suggesting that putting the matter to a vote would be a “bad idea.”

“I don’t think it is an issue that is suitable for a referendum,” the Swedish leader told reporters, implying that Parliament’s support was sufficient. “There is a lot of information about national security that is confidential, so there are important issues in such a referendum that cannot be discussed and important facts that cannot be put on the table,” she explained.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechens; chechnya; nato; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; sweden; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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So in other words Sweden like all globalist nations these days constantly screams about "democracy" but refuses to let their people have an actual democratic vote
1 posted on 04/28/2022 9:24:14 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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[So in other words Sweden like all globalist nations these days constantly screams about “democracy” but refuses to let their people have an actual democratic vote ]


The US must be a dictatorship, since none of its defense treaties was ever subjected to a referendum.


2 posted on 04/28/2022 9:28:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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You are unironically correct, God forbid the people vote on treaties and not a Congress bribed by defense contractors


3 posted on 04/28/2022 9:31:41 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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To: Zhang Fei

“Captain Jonas” signed up April 22 to show support for the Russians


4 posted on 04/28/2022 9:35:44 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

April 18


5 posted on 04/28/2022 9:36:23 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: captain_jonas

Umm, what?

Sweden is not a democracy. It is ‘Parliamentary Monarchy’

Do you also think the USA is a Democracy ?


6 posted on 04/28/2022 9:37:25 PM PDT by algore
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To: Zhang Fei

And I will guess using a vpn to access FR


7 posted on 04/28/2022 9:38:18 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: algore

Sorry but you don’t scream “democracy, democracy” and suddenly do a 180 when it doesn’t suit you


8 posted on 04/28/2022 9:38:49 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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To: libh8er

Hey Neocon those buzzwords don’t work anymore, I guess Soros isn’t sending his best anymore


9 posted on 04/28/2022 9:39:49 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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[You are unironically correct, God forbid the people vote on treaties and not a Congress bribed by defense contractors]


Congress gets bribed by educrats, quotacrats, labor unions and non-defense contractors. Maybe we should have referendums on every issue under the sun. Why even have executive, legislative or judicial branches? Let’s make every governmental decision by referendum. Maybe you should start your own country and experiment with this.


10 posted on 04/28/2022 9:40:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: captain_jonas

…and a crash course on using FR language


11 posted on 04/28/2022 9:42:13 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Zhang Fei

God forbid the people have a voice in their nation becoming a tripwire for nuclear war


12 posted on 04/28/2022 9:42:15 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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Didn't you get the memo? The US is a Republic not a Democracy.

You should be rooting against Democracy.

13 posted on 04/28/2022 9:43:15 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Pretty sure the reason we have a “representative Republic” is to not have the populace deal with all that stuff.


14 posted on 04/28/2022 9:44:35 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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Ok fine, but your saying then that it was OK for Biden to become president even though he didn’t get the majority of real votes?


15 posted on 04/28/2022 9:44:40 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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To: SPDSHDW

You mean “Representatives” like Joe Biden? What is the point of a “Representative Republic” when those “Representatives” cheat themselves into power?


16 posted on 04/28/2022 9:46:00 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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If you are personally attacked and the ones attacking you have no evidence of what they accuse you of being and bring up Putin or Russia they are using a common attack line like John McCain used or Rachel Maddow uses.

Ergo, by using a neocon/liberal attack line they can’t possibly be a true conservative.

In the end, others can as such accuse them of working for Biden’s new bot, Nina Jankowicz. Shoe fits based upon the evidence.


17 posted on 04/28/2022 9:46:54 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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[God forbid the people have a voice in their nation becoming a tripwire for nuclear war]


Everything’s a tripwire for nuclear war. The way we avoid it is to convince Putin that if he uses nukes he will kill himself and everyone related to him along with Russia because of our response. Nukes are basically a form of mutual hostage-taking. Except we are taking Putin and everyone related to him as hostages.


18 posted on 04/28/2022 10:02:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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I was being sarcastic. People who say silly things like "The US is a Republic not a Democracy" are just plain dumb.

In any case, of all the things that should be decided by our representatives rather than the people as a whole it is Foreign Policy.

And yes I know that "our representatives" seldom represent us, but instead the lobbyists who keep them in office until they are 90 and demented.

Still, the lobbyists are by-and-large rather intelligent folks who may occasionally urge their bribees to do the right thing just because they don't want their $10 million apartments in NY to be wiped from the Earth.

19 posted on 04/28/2022 10:03:18 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: SPDSHDW

[Pretty sure the reason we have a “representative Republic” is to not have the populace deal with all that stuff.]


Indeed.


20 posted on 04/28/2022 10:03:49 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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