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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 25 2018, @10:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the Pitches-and-forks-time-lads dept.

It's that time of year again where the good folks of Gavle, Sweden build a gigantic goat and the bad folks of Gavle try to burn it down. For five decades, Gavle has built a Gavlebocken, a large scale Yule Goat made out of straw. For decades Santa will be putting coal in their stocking for trying to destroy the gigantic goat. In its 52nd year, technology and goat protection methods have improved including fireproofing and a live web cam. Only 15 out of 51 goats built were not destroyed in years past. Let's hope this one survives.

[The linked story has incorrect spelling of the name of the town in Sweden and goat — it should be Gävle and Gävlebocken, respectively. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @12:03AM (2 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @12:03AM (#778439)

    Don't I know it. The open borders together with gutted police force has made things go to shit. And yet the major parties keep pretending there's nothing wrong (and that they've done nothing wrong). And when the only party leader with common sense is the one of the supposedly far right extremist Sweden Democrats (SD), you know things have gotten out of hand. And still the regular parties are more concerned with keeping SD out than addressing the issues the country faces. Damn farce it is.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @03:45AM (#778477)

    Same like the AfD in Germany - but there the MSM is programmed against them too. I don't know if that is the case in Sweden.
    You'll hear the epithet "neo-Nazi" thrown about whenever the AfD is mentioned in international media. But at least their official platform is similar to what Merkel's party, the CDU, used to stand for in the 1980s. Yeah, probably every Nazi is currently attracted to the AfD, just like every KKK member probably votes Republican. But it doesn't make the party "neo-Nazi", nor the concerns of the people voting for them irrational.

    • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28AM

      by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28AM (#778493)

      Yeah that sounds quite similar. SD has historically been known as the neo-nazi party, though they've cleaned up their act considerably since. Their policy platform isn't too dissimilar to that of the Moderates ("Moderaterna"), albeit with a more pronounced "we have to put our citizens before those of the world" slant. Which honestly, should be common sense. That's the priority I expect *every* country to have.

      Now that's not to say there aren't still some rotten eggs [twitter.com] in the party still. I couldn't find any good English write-ups of the whole story, but they guy seems to be an ass-hat at best.