Marin, who stepped down as leader of the Social Democrats after finishing third in April’s election, to resign as MP
      • FlakesBongler [they/them]English
        27•1 year ago

        I think clowning is a noble profession

        Someone who dedicates themselves to making other people happy through buffoonery and farce

        It’s actually rather sad that people have such a negative view of them really

        • Grimble [he/him,they/them]English
          9•1 year ago

          Same here, I kinda love clowns! People who call it creepy either had a bad experience (fair) or dont like how visually over-the-top it all is. Guess we’re so heavily trope-conditioned and hyperaware of any Deviance From The Norm in fashion, art etc. now (thanks to lib metaculture, ick) that nobody’s used to “”“Weird”“” traditions. I struggle to find a more lively kind of performance art that’s still alive in Western pop culture. Personally think Clowning should be a timeless order, like the Freemasons lmao

          If clowns are considered “creepy” in North America, its no wonder us kkkanada crackers have such stupid shit to say about our First Nations - our “culture” can’t even handle dancers in colorful masks! Our entertainment is men in suits with snappy arguments, that we absorb on TV between office shifts! Bullshit!!!

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]English
            4•1 year ago

            I think part of it is an actual inability to distinguish the art from the artist, and equating the skillful performance of apparent incompetence with actual incompetence, which is then reinforced by them being depicted that way by other media.

            Also, pantomime is the only comparable performance art I can think of, which is often just clowning: the musical.

      • mar_k [he/him]English
        21•1 year ago

        yea but it was an INFAMOUS thread that got referenced for a long while after. someone made a post basically congratulating her on her win, and there were a TON of people thirsting over her in the comments (as well as infighting)

        i also remember at that time the less lib r/cth2 made a parody post comparing her to sexy lola bunny or something

        • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]English
          17•1 year ago

          Elected officials not performing their due responsibilities as representatives to the people are based now?

          I’ll remind you that the scandal took place during a 40-year high inflation in Finland.

          • Venus [she/her]English
            16•1 year ago

            yes-chad

            It’s not like Finland is socialist. This is a lib politician elected by libs who want her to do lib shit. Disappointing libs and partying instead of enacting lib shit in public office is based

            • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]English
              18•1 year ago

              I get what you’re trying to say, but there are people, working class people, who actually suffered under their policies (literally giving up cheap Russian electricity and nuclear power projects which in turn caused high energy price inflation, which I assure you was mostly shouldered by the poorest in the society, while the upper class parties on. This was what made the scandal so revolting in the first place.)

              This sounds like one of those “red states deserve to be poor and suffer from it because they kept voting for the Republicans”

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]English
          24•1 year ago

          context matters. a proletarian fucking off and partying on the boss’s dollar is cool because it goes against the normal oppression happening.

          a bourgeois public official partying and fucking off while being paid public money is business as usual.

      • NoLeftLeftWhereILive [none/use name, she/her]English
        11•1 year ago

        Even then she was kind of doing her job for the capitalists. The partying was a part of her “it’s time to live” drive to minimize covid after many million euros making artists and other petty bourge had cried in the media for weeks about bringing concerts, gyms, festivals and restaurants back. This is very small country so some of these same people were in said parties.

        The leather jacket was a propaganda look for nato, she was dressing for the part.

        The speed in which she flipped on both covid and nato has been something to behold.

      • yoink [she/her]English
        8•1 year ago

        i remember people going in on her for being a woman and partying, and some sexism on some ‘which way western man’ shit that got push back, if that’s what you mean?

        not to defend a ghoul but i specifically remember that mini struggle session

    • dinklesplein [any, he/him]English
      21•1 year ago

      dude holy shit the wording of that post still lives rent free in my head stalin-stressed

      ‘say hello to finland’s new left wing social democratic president, sanna marin’

      • Barabas [he/him]English
        10•1 year ago

        Remember people posting a picture of her on here when she wore a leather jacket. Spray bottles were needed.

        I don’t know if it is a lack of going out and touching grass, or if it is just a politician thing. She just looks like a fairly unremarkable 30-something. Same applies to the baffling amount of horny for Trudeau.

    • ikiruEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      No, I do not remember that and I am definitely not horny over her, thanks for asking.

      🥵

      • ikiruEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        Same.

        There’s no shame in that.

        Or maybe there is, who knows.

        • ChapoKrautHaus [none/use name]English
          9•1 year ago

          There’s no shame in that. Or maybe there is

          Shame or not, there’s practical consequences - I once was scolded by mods and had posts deleted for being horny for Tulsi. zelensky-pain

          So the lesson is, don’t be horny for neoliberal girlboss warcrime politicians.

          • ikiruEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Damn, you’re like a modern-day Nelson Mandela.

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]English
    37•1 year ago

    lmao the press release even said the quiet part out loud, that this is her reward for bringing Finland into NATO

    Ms Marin has a record of accomplishment, from setting one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets – enabled by a full programme of digitalisation and deployment of technology – to shepherding her country’s accession to NATO following Russia’s aggression in Ukraine (the swiftest accession in the alliance’s history).

    https://www.institute.global/insights/news/sanna-marin-former-finnish-prime-minister-joins-the-tony-blair-institute

  • @SooperstitionEnglish
    36•1 year ago

    What do we want? Market-based, means tested solutions!

    When do we want it? In a reasonable amount of time!

  • Nationalgoatism [any]English
    34•1 year ago

    Can you imagine what kind of vicious freak you have to be to want to be associated with Tony Blair?

  • Barabas [he/him]English
    29•1 year ago

    On a slightly unrelated note, I think Finland is the only country in the world where Pete Buttigieg would be a leading politician.

    Finnish people love an ineffectual lib that is “qualified”. Most of them seem like they were made in a lab. Tarja Halonen is the only finnish politician I’ve seen that isnt dead behind the eyes. I guess it is preferable to the alternative which is the saying the quiet part loud party.

      • Barabas [he/him]English
        14•1 year ago

        Sweden doesn’t really do the technocrat much, and when we get them they’re usually dunked on. Only buttigieg-y politician in Sweden I can recall being successful is Bildt, but he fucked it up for all technocrats to follow. Kristersson also has a similar vibe, but he is a leading politician because he is being buoyed by the saying the quiet part loud party, not because he is well liked.

        Can’t speak much for Norway and Denmark however.

        • Egon [they/them]English
          10•1 year ago

          Fair, Denmark is technocrat country though, everything thing is “nuanced” (nuance is when the left wing government does tax cuts and the libertarian does anyi-immigration policy)

  • kristina [she/her]English
    25•1 year ago

    lmao they got the most soulless looking still of her for this

    also fun fact, the party that controlled finland during ww2 is now in charge. thanks social democrats pit

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]English
      24•1 year ago

      That’s not really new. They, the social democrats and the former agrarian party basically played musical chairs and formed various coalitions with each other for decades until the True Finns exploded

      The True Finns being the mask-off epic online poster fascist party

  • ReadFanon [any, any]English
    21•1 year ago

    TBI as an abbreviation for the org is kinda funny though. The jokes practically write themselves.