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New comment by Aarchive in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

Aarchive — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:26:43 +0000

Study says

> France is the country with the highest level of discrimination, followed by Sweden. By contrast, Germany, Norway, and the United States have lower rates of discrimination.

It specifically contrasts Sweden and Norway, you just make it a „Nordic“ thing through confirmation bias.

> People forget Europe is a collection of literal ethno-states.

Because they aren’t.

> The US on the other hand is all the way on the other end of the spectrum, almost egalitarian in hiring by comparison.

It says Germany is on the other hand of the spectrum, similar to the US.

New comment by Aarchive in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

Aarchive — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:03:18 +0000

It's the opposite of what you think, if some countries get privileges without following the basic principles, then the EU would be unpopular.

New comment by Aarchive in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

Aarchive — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:08:33 +0000

> Like the Banking regulations, the DMA, the GPDR, the AI act, this law cannot be used by individuals to achieve their rights against companies

Of course the GDPR gives individuals rights, counter example:

> The first application of the GPDR was to remove links about Barrosso's personal history from Google.