• Greasecat
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    Why would they write “NATO ally” instead of “Sweden”?

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      I believe it is called “clickbait.” As in “Click here to find out what terrible thing just happened to which NATO ally!”

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      Somehow “ally” in this context makes it sound like Sweden is not part of NATO.

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    Here are a few potential theories:

    • Conspiracy nut
    • Criminal gang acting on behalf of a foreign government
    • Domestic terrorist, recruited by foreign government
    • Foreign agent

    At this point I am leaning towards it being a conspiracy nut

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      russia has been found to pay delinquents and gangs to sabotage stuff in their countries. A conspiracy nut would probably be even cheaper, you just have to wind them up enough.

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        Simply because there are more conspiracy nuts than people and governments wanting to destroy infrastructure

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    Newsweek is a terrible publication because all of their articles are extremely left leaning:

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      Not sure if you are joking or not, but I’m pretty sure that only shows a default starting position of the “gauge”, and not the rating it has received so far. It’s bad design because it looks like everything is left-leaning, but I guess they wanted to uae a gauge in the neutral position as an illustration. I might be wrong though…

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        It is objectively bad design that the arrow is leaning far left by default. It makes you wonder what else they messed up.