They are not oppressed at all. Nowadays most of them are indistinguishable from the swedes and finns, culturally and economically. The ones that stick out are the reindeer owning ones which has come to represent sami people as a whole both politically and in media. They regularly claim ore prospecting and mining constitutes oppression of them as a people, but of you were to look at the entire sami population instead of this minority within the minority you'd find most to be positive to such development as it would bring work opportunities. Reindeer owners are as a general rule pretty fucking well off and would hardly fit the image of an oppressed minority. Reindeer losing sub-1% of grazing grounds due to mining is a low cost given the benefit of nearby industries.
t. 1/4 sami
Isaiah Bailey
Are they basically kulaks?
Luke Richardson
Pretty much.
Ryan Mitchell
3/5 countries seems hardly "deeply enmeshed".
Evan Bailey
Sweden participated in the NATO bombing of Libya. When the rubber hits the road, they know where their bread is buttered. Probably same for Finland.
The whole "Nordic countries are socialism" shtick exists to my knowledge ONLY in the US. Nobody in Europe would call Denmark and Sweden socialist. It's just another example of absolutely retarded burger politics permeating the online sphere, trying to appropriate all definitions despite that burger politology is a fringe section within social sciences.
Same shit already happened with "libertarianism" (now only meaning nutcase Alex Jones tier AnCaps), "liberals" (now meaning SJW Hillbots who want all white people to die with heavy state intervention), etc.
Julian Wilson
I was told by a Swede parts of Sweden are run by Communists.
Jaxon Morris
Well a lot of Europeans are poisoned by thinking like Americans over the internet.
