Four years ago I made a doc in Malmö about the gang violence. Trust me, it was too big to ignore then. It's outright negligible that the government has let it carry on till now. spectator.co.uk/article/sweden…
The problem with gang violence in Sweden is largely a mixture of the government pushing immigrant populations into a ghetto and ignoring them, under-resourced police, and overtly lenient laws when it comes to organised criminal violence.
Another issue is that both right and left play games with the situation. Left pretend it’s not happening and right pretend it’s bigger than it is. It then becomes a politicised issue. Meanwhile the working class in the gang neighbourhoods remain in a constant state of danger.
Personally I don’t believe there is a single political entity you can vote for that will properly help the working class in the UK, but otherwise this is spot on. East Midlands lad too ✌🏻.
Don’t know the source of this by the way. My mate sent me it this morning. Some saying it was a Momentum ad—Momentum is a fucking joke. Either way though, focus on the message. Still stands.
FAO Americans focusing on his fucking polo shirt instead of what he’s saying:
Last night widespread anti-police-violence clashes took place across #Colombia after police tasered a man to death in the street. Police responded by using live rounds on protester, killing several already.
A fiction film about the rise and fall of the Conspiracy of Cells Fire, directed by David Fincher, starring Edgar Ramírez and Sameena Jabeen Ahmed. Death Grips and Saint Pepsi on the sound track.
Opening scene: 🎵 Giving Bad People Good Ideas is playing in the background as a young man and woman do their first small scale bank robbery “for the cause”. They fuck up the getaway car as they can’t drive properly then get out and have to leg it. Laughing as they run etc.
(Actual film is more about young romanticism of direct action than it is terrorism as such, and then the perpetual spiral into more and more nihilistic ideas until they’re all in prison or dead. Chaotic romance between the two young militants is lynchpin too. Emo af on the sly.)