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It's Independence Day on Tuesday. The extreme right will hold a torch march and the antifascists and anarchists will try to stop it. Last year the police cracked down hard on the anarchists and fired rubber bullets, which blew off most of the steam. I think it will be bigger this year, like it was in 2014, considering how divided this nation is. I've read questions online where they say "I don't relate with either movement, but I'll like to engage in fisticuffs". Members of the nazi Nordic Resistance Movement is going to be the 'security', and rumour has it they'll get muscle support from Sweden.
Perhaps stand yourself on a balcony in a highrise and bullhorn them in Swedish "slouta slåss era skitungar"
I'll support anyone who is against the Nazis, even those crazy 'anarchists' and far-left crazies.
Me too, in theory. I'd love to intervene the march, flip the bird and shout "you're not patriots but fascists", but I simply cannot relate as most others are extreme left and violent.
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Originally Posted by lommaren
Perhaps stand yourself on a balcony in a highrise and bullhorn them in Swedish "slouta slåss era skitungar"
Yes yes, we do that 363 days a year. Independence Day and 1 May are rioting days.
edit: funny story: the founder of the first torch march is Timo Hännikäinen, a far-right writer and a well-known misogynist. He was given an artist's grant by the government and he spent all of it on a prostitute, including her doing the dishes for him naked while he watched (and most likely jerked off).
Me too, in theory. I'd love to intervene the march, flip the bird and shout "you're not patriots but fascists", but I simply cannot relate as most others are extreme left and violent.
Huh, didn't expect Finland to be so divided. Thought that was more an American thing.
I told snj90 earlier that just because we're a nation state doesn't mean we are all united on the same boat. We have the same divisions the US has: urban vs rural, liberal vs conservative, rich vs poor, south vs north (with the exception that south means rich and north poor). Finland is aching and very fragmented these days, despite 94% of us being the same homogenous ethnicity.
The % of foreigners by province in Finland. Kronan's beloved Northern Karelia is darker than the other hellholes (Southern and Northern Savonia, Kainuu, Northern Ostrobothia, Lapland), but I think all the immigrants there are Russians, so they're all white, right?
Surprised that Finland Proper is only 7% 'foreignor', when Turku is like 12% other than Finnish or Swedish speaking.
I told snj90 earlier that just because we're a nation state doesn't mean we are all united on the same boat. We have the same divisions the US has: urban vs rural, liberal vs conservative, rich vs poor, south vs north (with the exception that south means rich and north poor). Finland is aching and very fragmented these days, despite 94% of us being the same homogenous ethnicity.
No, I wasn't assuming homogenous ethnicity implies quiet politics, just that I assumed politics was mostly non-extreme and rather quiet
The % of foreigners by province in Finland. Kronan's beloved Northern Karelia is darker than the other hellholes (Southern and Northern Savonia, Kainuu, Northern Ostrobothia, Lapland), but I think all the immigrants there are Russians, so they're all white, right?
I assume foreigner is defined as born outside Finland?
Åland is probably a majority of Swedish expats here?
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