As a Finn this whole thing feels like an unmasking of all the stuff that already started to become unmasked during the pandemic. And before that during the austerity years.

This is a countryvthst had people who kidnapped communists in the 30s. Communists were put in camps during ww2. Our civil war was a class war. Interestingly everyone has forgotten our own history.

The basic finns have spun things with the exact same playbook that the US fox news types have used. They keep moving goalposts, muddying waters and now we “both sides” this.

There is a concept called the sameness myth here that explains a lot too. The idea of equality as it has been framed has always been about being “nice and civil”, about respecting “both sides”. It has always made inequality disappear. It has always been equality for the privileged.

A proud academic just told me yesterday how happy they were that they were able to sit in the same table and compromise with these peoole who do this. How we can still “find common ground”. Then these same people act surprised when the Overton window keeps sliding to the right. It’s all about being nice, never kind. Never standing up for anything or saying no.

Sorry, this really gets under my skin because this was absolutely always going to happen in this socdem hell. I mean we make our unemployed work for 9€/day and call it a social service.