Finnish municipal election

It's today. Thoughts?

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Perus literally means Turkeys in portuguese

I hope he wins tbh, it is just too funny to not happen.

I can't wait to see the finn sodem to be either:
Cockblocked because not elected
Being elected and doing incredible levels or mental gymnastic to affirm he' totally not selling out
Become disillusioned with Bourgeois politics ad become full tankie.

A teacher of mine who is very intelligent is a soc-dem. I'd rather vote for the leftists but my teacher is very competent and it would be very embarrassing if he looses by 1 vote

His main issues are climate, tax paradises and TPP, not sure how much he can change in the municipal council about those things but none the less admirable stuff

How should I vote?

please respond, poll booths close in five hours

it depends on how much do you hate rosa luxemburg

Can you vote for black hitler?

Might as well vote, note like you'll lose anything. Except maybe your sense of self-worth.

If you're on good terms you can maybe try to redpill him on certain issues later on if he does end up getting elected.

Always remember to agitate, educate and organize.

I'm doing something similar in the school I work at as a school assistant by discussing stuff like worker co-ops amongst my co-workers, one of whom is the school secretary and is running as socdem, she seems pretty open to many of the ideas that I've put out on our coffee table discussions.

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Might as well, bourg democracy is a sham anyway.

Voting does not change anything in bourgeois democracy, so might as well vote for black hitler because at least it would be funny.

Problem is the guy is one of them intellectuals. He writes intellectual shit in newspapers. He is more well read than me on practically everything. That motherfucker has even read Zizek. If I tried to agitate him he'd just turn me into one of them succ-dems with his superior intellect

Come on true finns!

Holy fuck my sides, these can't be real?

I hope Mika gets to be president.

I always thought the whole Finns have autism thing was just a meme. But no, it's literally an entire country pre disposed to aspergers.

"Kalusteasentaja": Furniture installer
"Vapaaehtoistyöntekijä": Volunteer worker
"Autonkuljettaja": Car transporter

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Aarno makes me Horny AF.

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Who is this man

Spede Pasanen

voted

Voted for the leftists (number 260 in helsinki) b/c it either doesn't matter or does a tiny amount of good. I do believe that the mainstream leftists doing better equals better chances for muh radical communist ideas as well. Communism was doing much better back when many more still believed in welfare state socdem shit, but of course back then everything was different, there was the real danger of soviet union and there was a proper workers movement and so on and so on.

Also I picked a candidate who has angered various fascist pieces of shit in the past so thats always good. And she is at least doing nice research as far as I know.

I couldn't help but vote a communist party (SKP) candidate. I know it doesn't really make a difference but i can't in good conscience give my vote for someone who isn't openly anticap.

I couldn't be bothered to get off my ass and get to the voting booth even though its just a short walk away from where I live.

Most of the candidates in my local area were either Centrists,Nat-Cols, "True Finns" or Christdems so its not like it mattered either way considering I'm not a classcuck or a moralfag.

Voted for a Left Alliance guy who most likely won't be getting more than a few votes.

What was his platform?

I can understand you but simultaneously I can't take SKP seriously. They're kind of shit.

There are ideological battles outside the basic class conflict and they can sometimes take precedence, when their time is right.

Vague promises of doing everything in his power to promote equality, better access to day care, studying and recreational activities for children and adolescents and improve and diversify urban culture.
The biglyest reason I voted for him though is that he was closest to me on the election questionnaire thing.

So he's basic run-of-the-mill Finnish succdem then?

Goddamn why is the political scene over here so fucking stale, I'd want to be anywhere else but here. Even burgerland would be better even with all its blatant corruption since you occasionally have a guy like Bernie who comes along and shakes things up but here its just a vicious cycle of different centrist, centre-right and socdem parties taking turns in running the country down just a little bit more.

Bernie was a succdem, FDR 2.0. Yes, that's considered radically leftwing and "socialist" here. Don't lie, you're better off than that.

Thoughts on KTP fellow Finns?

I know he was a succdem but my point was that even though he was a succdem he was so radically different from what the majority of people in U.S politics were like that it was seen as radical by almost everyone in burgerland.

We can't experience something like that because succdems and centrists are the status quo and have been for the longest time, pretty much since this country was founded. Tho to be fair the socdems during that period still actually had some principles and Nat-Cols were still the monarchist party.

Welcome to the modern welfare state.


Makes me wonder how radical a Finnish/Nordic version of Bernie Sanders would have to be. If it could ever happen at all.

Old time tankies/ML's. All of them are over 60 years old except TheFinnishBolshevik.

Will never get into power but otherwise pretty good.

Is there anything more fun than watching fenno-swede journos interviewing Finnish speaking people in Swedish who are desperately trying to remember their school Finnish?

This, the US only got "shaken up" by him because the US has a different ideological hegemony than Finland. Shit like public healthcare ain't new here. The extremely important notion of freedom is plenty different here.

Finland is very boring still. Maybe the Feminist Party has some potential if they stick to some principles. Feminism can't be The Cause for me, but it can be a cause, it can definitely cause some much needed division… Still, I'm afraid that they're going to end up another socially liberal centrist party like the greens, if they're not going to outright die out. The problem with feminism (as in the label) is that it is far too easy for any kind of bourgeoisie piece of shit to claim to be one. It is only useful for the fight against right-wing populism, really.

What I really hate about being Finn: there's practically no active radical left besides some anarchist folks and they seem neither organized nor theoretical enough and they seem too content in hanging out in their own circles and coming out to a protest every now and then.


Party for old people who can't let go of the old times. A joke party in my book. Being radical is not worth shit if it can't be put into practice in the current situation.


A decent basic income could be one less radical thing. I understand not considering it a big thing, but there's a big ideological division hidden there: the centre-right and right want it, but they want it so that it can be so small that people have to work for shit pay and so on. Maybe it could be the 8h working day of the 21th century.
An insistence on not respecting the class enemies would probably work as well. An insistence on not wanting to reach a consensus, but a division. If the right manages to fuck up things like healthcare and education, insisting on undoing the fuckups might work.

vaalit.yle.fi/resultat/kv2017/prognos

Prognosis when 70% of votes are counted, Greens up by 5 points, racist True Finns down by 4 points.

Red greens have 41.5%, government has less than 50% as well

That is illegal famrade.

There is a slight change that I could get deputy member`s seat. We will see soon enough.

lol, yeah whatever nerd

who are you/where are you? Left alliance right? You aint a literal Finnish succdem right?

You should have said you're name on leftypol to get several votes :D

My name was mentioned in the previous election thread, yes. I might want to change my party membership to greens or social democratic party in the future but for now I`m sticking with the party Ainakin maakuntavaaleihin asti, jotka pidetään presidentinvaalejen yhteydessä.

Skywalker?
sage for shameful shitpost

You're lucky I dont know your name or I'd be snitching on you to the party bosses

Feel free to do that, since I am vice-chair of the left alliance in Lappeenranta.

I had a friend who is Bourgie as fuck, wannabe Gordon Gecko motherfucker.

He lives in Hesinki but temporarily moved to Vaasa and was a candidate for the Fenno-Swede bourgie liberals (RKP). He has never lived in Vaasa, but moved there because he knew it would be easier to get elected, as you need just 100-120 for a seat with RKP

He got more than a thousand euros for his campaign from his parent's rich friends, and bought expensive newspaper ads. After all this bourgie bullshit all he has is 46 votes. About 50 too few

neat

YOur number was 69 hehe

Bourgeois democracy dosen`t work.
Revolution when comrades? We need to reform the red guards.

Centennial revolutionary celebration when?

I hope the lakupiippu guy wins

He only got 72 votes so nope.