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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I live in a country with a sane voting system

You don't have a spare room by any chance, do you?

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately the voting system is the only sane part about Finland. Our current government is so far right that it includes multiple literal neo-Nazis and a pedophile neo-Nazi (who stepped in to replace a neo-Nazi), and multiple ministers (well ok, a minister and the Speaker of the Parliament) have fantasized in public about murdering eg. gay people or foreigners. The Speaker of the Parliament is also one of the right wing mass murderer Breivik's idols, and has obliquely spoken in support of Breivik's act of terror.

This place is a conservative shithole and I suggest anyone considering a vacation here to go somewhere else, especially if you're not white or cishet

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Speaker of the Parliament is also one of the right wing mass murderer Breivik’s idols, and has obliquely spoken in support of Breivik’s act of terror.

Killing the outgroup is popular. This is because "if we oppress them, we look good because we have power."

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

People like him make it clear that we're soon going to be in a "us or them" situation here – these people literally want to murder leftists, 50% of the country's voting age population supports them (and distressingly the youth vote went to the right), and their rhetoric is getting more and more violent by the day.

This current government is normalizing fascist speech and tactics, and it won't be too long until talk of some sort of final solution to the leftist question will be completely normal, and after that it won't be too long until they actually start implementing it. Unfortunately the majority of people who are willing to use political violence are conservatives, because like I said, soon it's going to be us or them.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago

If you don't defend human decency against violence, you don't get human decency.