They would make this illegal so fast.
They learned from the private jet trackers.
Being observed is for the underclasses.
Is there an actual source for this? I did a quick search and didn’t find anything but I can’t search Swedish texts.
Swede here, it acutally made it to the news some years ago!
Youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1K4S42RHfLk&%3Bpp=0gcJCVMCo7VqN5tD
Here is from a quite bad newsoutlet, (currently getting ivestigated for forcing cookies on you, you can bypass it with other websites I think)
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0EovME/overklassafari-polisanmald
And here is thier own webiste:
https://alltatalla.se/in-english-strategy/
They don’t mention it by name, but to be honest I assumed from this it to be real (fits their mo), if there are swedish comrades saying otherwise i will stand corrected though (and in the tweets replies people didn’t dispute it). I suspect this was around 2012-14, at the edge of occupy/davos/g8 protests
Thanks!
It was real and pretty successful too. I remember old media writing about it and being upset. They got a lot of attention for not a lot of investment.
Can confirm that this works. I have a job that takes me into the deep dark reaches of Brentwood, CA, and that’s probably turned me more away from capitalism than anything I’ve ever read on Lemmy, lol.
Growing up my parents had a close friend who was fairly wealthy who would bring a couple friends with family to semi-annual vacations, and one time when I was around 15 he brought us to his condo in Naples, Florida. He took us out on his boat into the beautiful mangroves with manatees and fish and birds and all kinds of wildlife, and then we hit the mazes of colossal personal mansions that turned out much larger than the mangroves. And as we boated through that maze and they fawned over how pretty the mansions were, they mentioned that decades ago when they were like 20, the land that all of those mansions and roads stood on was more endless mangroves. All the wildlife I’d just been shown was the last gasp of an incredibly vibrant and rare ecosystem actively being raped by the ultra wealthy, and these dense motherfuckers on the boat didn’t see an ounce of the horror of it. That moment probably radicalized me more than almost anything.
Turns out much of Florida is just like that now. The whole state is a fucking tragedy.
Did you ever went back, now radicalized, to #landback?
This wouldn’t work in the US, some cripple with lead poisoning is gonna think he can become a billionaire too and vote for a guy who fucks couches recreationally
I’m doing ok career-wise, but occasionally I’ll be in some neighbourhood that’s out of my price range. My thoughts are never aspirational or envious, but I get a kind of nausea in my soul like, is that all there is?
All that work and exploitation and whatever else it was that happened for you to be able to afford this and it’s what, a circular driveway so that you don’t have to use your reverse gear? Nicer brickwork for you to look at and say mmm don’t we have nice brickwork? A private tennis court so that you don’t accidentally meet people using a public tennis court? A security guard because now you’ve got nice stuff you’re living in fear that someone will take it?
It seems like so much for so little; to want to chase it seems like a sickness on par with heroin addiction.
Brentwood in norcal or socal? The one in in norcal is a middle class exurb afaik, idk about socal
So Cal, it’s near The Getti if you’re ever passing via 405. Quite a few gated mansions, although it’s not quite as high as Bel Air which is adjacent.
Can you bring back trophies in that Safari?
Like heads and stuff or a car?
In my day the best trophy was the mercedes star ⭐🚗 easy to pop off too.
Would like to do this in Asheville, but the wealthy neighborhoods are totally gated off. Hm wonder why.
Scrap metal you say? Thousands of pounds of it? That’s crazy.
Some of the rich have a weird kink where they want to be eaten last.
At least we know where they’re caged up.
I feel like the American version of this is Down Rodeo.
Yeah I’m rollin’ down Rodeo wit a shotgun
These people ain’t seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one
Safaris can be dangerous, so, bring a gun.
… for self defense, of course.
The lyrics of that song go so hard
We need this
I think there was a party/protest a few years ago in Berlin that involved mobile soundsystems and rich asshole neighbourhoods, not sure if they’re still on.
Allt åt Alla still exist, they have great podcasts, organizes demonstrations, sharing events, and much more. The safari was a long time ago though.
Do you know how sweden is today compared to luke 30 years ago? There was no über class really back in the day (with the exception of some small places in and around Stockholm really).
It is quite a broad question. But class divides are increasing. I do not have the numbers, but I think the biggest is a more wealthy upper middle class, who loans more, get more tax deductions, while the lower blue collar working class has worse access to schools, healthcare, higher rents, and so on.
On a higher political plane… Everything is privatized now, and some right wing lobby group or paper declared that Sweden is no longer a socialdemocratic project, as they managed to sell everything (including to criminal gangs). 30 years, -ish, ago the nazi party were in the streets celebrating a massmurderer at their demonstrations, that party is now a part of the government. So like, yeah, that is where it is going.
