Oh god, these ovens have always been nightmare fuel for me as I’ve worked with these in bakeries and large food factories. Always thought that all it would take is a slip really.

What a terrible way to go. :(

This seems to be the play, after all they seem very interested in “an access to the Arctic”. The fash here really learned nothing from the nazis burning Lapland as they left.

Finland to take part for the first time in annual Nato Steadfast Noon -nuclear war rehearsals that start on the 14.10.

The Left Alliance is voicing opposition to this, stating that there has been no discussions about this in parliament. Failing to aknowledge for the fact that they themselves voted for Finland to join NATO knowing fully well that this would follow.

But to uphold the mask of some kind of left politics they’ve put up a stern post critizining this move, a post that of course changes nothing. Link in Finnish.

Even Norway does not take part in these, but Finland is now speedrunning imperialism as the local bourge has finally been able to seal the deal on NATO after almost a century of propaganda. Nothing is being discussed in public or if it is, it’s all glorifying american imperialism. Making Donald Duck the go to reading material for kids in Finland really paid of for the fascists.

Yeah it is EU wide I think. It was touted as a mechanism of straight democracy. It is fully a system that gives people a sense of false agency, none of the initiatives that have not aligned with the interest of the powers that be have passed/impacted anything.

Two recent examples: One passed where people signed it to stop the destruction of peatlands. No impact.

Another one was to ban fur farms, the government gave fur farmers even larger bailouts aften ignoring it.

We have been doing these for ten years now, the parliament has declined 90% of the ones that have passed. These have to be taken into consideration when 50 000 people or over sign them.

The parliament also often drags ass on them and many have been inside the system for years without getting assessed.

It is said that with this system citizens can take part in the political discourse, but mostly it seems that these are just a spectacle to do stuff that looks democratic.

Denmark do be revealing its colonialist colours as of late.

In Finland news the government is going to privatize water next

There was a citizens initiative to counter this in 2021, but as is to be expected it made no difference. There is now a new initiative (essentially a "please don’t do this) up, but looks like we are getting privatized water next.

The EU citizen’s initiatives are the biggest scam in optics imo. Finns love them, they are doing so much democracy by signing them.

Maybe they should like, I don’t know, aknowledge covid-19 and longcovid and how the virus affects the heart.

I love how people like these call the just in time-structure they have implemented into everything a “supply chain challenge” every time their lean, mean, market machine proves it does not work in real world conditions.

Blaming Russia for everything has a long and proud history around these parts. We put the russo in the phobia so no mandates needed unfortunately.

This seems to be the plan now that they have reached their goal of turning us into a US vassal state.

In the neoliberal hell that is Finland the government that managed to make striking illegal earlier this year is now pushing through a change into labor practices to have a pay gap in lower paying jobs. This would mean the wages can never go above a certain level. They are calling this “an export focused wage model”, loosely translated.

Our self-proclaimed “left” party Left Alliance is countering this by asking people to sign yet another petition.

Finland is also doing a fence and putting a NATO base 200km away from the Russian border to point guns at them.

Interesting times for sure, making sure my passport is handy.

Iain M. Banks Terry Pratchett