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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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Gävle, Sweden Gears Up to Defend their Goat
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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:28AM
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.