• jouhija@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    All fines should be scaled with income, like Finnish speeding tickets. A Finnish businessman was fined 120 000€ for driving 80kmh in a 50kmh zone.

    This of course wasn’t his first offence, having been fined many tens of thousands of euros beforehand. Makes me wonder though, why not just take his license away…

    Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges

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      7 hours ago

      A lot of people have a lead foot, at least where I live you have to do worse to get your licence pulled.

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      14 hours ago

      Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges

      You really can’t pay off judges here. But if you can show that taking your license away would make things considerable difficult for you (like losing income) they’ll let you keep it on certain cases.

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        14 hours ago

        You really believe that our judges and the rest of the justice system are incorruptible? Gee, I guess people like Vornanen have already been sentenced. Or did everyone just forget that a cop got blackout drunk, harassed a teenager and then shot a gun in the middle of Helsinki over a year ago? A pretty clear open and shut case which should’ve led to him being fired from the force but nope, he’s still even in politics and will be allowed to have the politicians pension.

        You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase

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          13 hours ago

          You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase

          It’s not in a sense that’s globally understood. Your Joe Average can’t just bribe their way out of anything. Political and other social cirles and generic cronyism is another matter, but even there currency is pretty often something else than money.

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            12 hours ago

            That’s my point: joe average can’t do it, but rich people and politicians? They’re doing shady as fuck deals around private hospitals and nothing’s being done about it. They are allowed to do what they want as long as they don’t get caught by the public, and even then they only get a slap on the wrist. Remember the cocaine findings in Arkadianmäki? Drugs for the rich and powerful but a weed smoker will be thrown to jail.

            Oh and don’t forget how the police are abusing their power to illegally spy on environmentalists. Who would benefit from stopping Elokapina, if not the rich and far-right aligned? You can bet nothing will happen to the officers in question