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New government aims to reshape Finnish economy with carrots and sticks (yle.fi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Adding a language requirement to permanent residency and extending the citizenship residence requirement to eight years seems like a great way to ensure highly paid and highly educated professionals from abroad find somewhere else to live.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So are they sanitized fascists like the rest of the Scandivanian far right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would say no. Just populists out of touch with reality and pandering to xenophobia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems at least that they are comfortable standing next to them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Party#Controversies

But at least I don't see them been actual fascists who decided to wear masks, like Sverigedemokraterna and Dansk Folkeparti.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Finns Party is "not racist, but #1 among racists."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

9 out of 10 racists recommend the Finns Party!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is a good way to put it. Basic finns are the party that panders heavily to those who hate immigrants and minorities. Their politics do go beyond that however. For example bringing down the price of gas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our actual fascists are Sinimusta Liike. Here's a campaign flyer of theirs from this spring:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gross.