• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        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

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          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!!!

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            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.

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          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.

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            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

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              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”

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          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.

      • 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.

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        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

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      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’

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

      🥵

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        Same.

        There’s no shame in that.

        Or maybe there is, who knows.

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          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.

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

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    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

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    The Tony Blair Institute has had an increasing influence on Keir Starmer’s U.K. Labour Party, having hosted Starmer at its Future of Britain Conference

    The institute for liberal losers gains another loser

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

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

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    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.

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        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.

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    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

  • Oh there is talk about digitalisation and Finland… from someone working with marginalized folks in Finland who have to try and deal with these neoliberal tech solutions of ours I’d have so much to say about this to our Neoliberal Princess, but I am just too tired for that now.

    She did throw the entire unemployed, disabled and sick part of this country under the buss with her “It’s time to live” covid is over-announcement. It’s Biden lite.