Finland is surprisingly corrupt (it’s just not the sort of corruption where you bribe cops) and Finns are generally stupid and gullible enough to think we’re not corrupt

“Understandable, I hope you have a better one”

Surprisingly few downvotes so far.

Lemmy stalinists are going to enjoy this one

Almost like fascists didn’t want people to know all the fascist shit they get up to

Huge surprise that a social media platform run by a billionaire cryptofascist who hired a Project 2025 member to run the site’s public policy in the Southern US would let anti-government militias do whatever they want.

Oh yes it makes absolute sense, I just find it hilarious that reich-wingers will say “woke leftist commies are pro-Russia” like they think it’s a bad thing while simultaneously idolizing Russia and Putin. I’d hate to drag 1984 into this, but it’s just such a classic example of doublethink that it’d be amazing to behold if these fucks weren’t in power

Yeah the democratic socialist party here in Finland that I vote for (The Left Alliance) has had some of the most vocal opponents of Russia for years now, even before Russia’s invasion of Crimea way back when. Funnily (?) enough the right wing extremists currently in government say leftists are pro-Russian like they think it’s a bad thing, while at the same time being explicitly pro-Russian – some going as far as visiting “Hitler youth camps” organized by Russia some years ago and claiming they were doing super secret spy stuff when questioned about it earlier this year.

What really baffles me about some self-described leftists is how can anyone look at the shit Russians do on a daily basis and go “yes, this country seems nice and progressive and very anti-imperialist.”

Operation Unthinkable should have happened. It would have meant millions more deaths right after WW II, but it would have prevented decades more of Russian oppression in the Soviet “republics” (ie. their colonies).

It was our last chance to unfuck Russia, but now that they have nuclear weapons, they’re going to be a threat to the rest of the world for as long as they exist.

Average conservative political activist

And the whole time Russia has been saying it’s a dangerous escalation, and that sending weapons to Ukraine is tantamount to participating in the war.

Remember, if “the west” so much as sends letters of warm regard, let alone troops, to Ukraine, Russia will feel like that’s justification for starting WW III. They can naturally do whatever they want, because Russia.

Huh, interesting (and more than a bit worrying) that it’s not happening just over here in Finland too. Crime rates have generally gone down for a while now, but there’s been a huge uptick in particularly brutal violent crimes perpetrated by under 15’s

The absolutely breathtakingly idiotic shit conservatives will happily believe never fails to boggle the mind.

How the fuck these people even manage to function in day-to-day life is completely beyond me.

Ohh based on the headline I thought they were like giving cops backdoor access to users’ devices or something, but they’re just selling devices to cops. So, while yeah this is pretty ironic, nothing about what Apple promises regarding device privacy really seems to have been broken here – cops are using “iPhones for surveillance” just like they’d use any smartphones in their line of work

Next in the news, Israel explains how Ireland is actually Hamas, which is why they had to use white phosphorus on UNIFIL troops

and their criminal records.

Conservatives will see that someone has statutory rape charges or 34 felony counts and go “well this one seems like my candidate”

And the problem isn’t just in the US; conservatives pretty much around the world are just as deranged, and it’s become obvious that until we somehow deal with the danger they represent, peaceful democratic societies are in danger.

Knowing conservatives, I’d be surprised if the majority wasn’t not only tolerant but actually supportive of this unhinged shit. The handful of conservatives who aren’t shitty people might be turned off by this, but I suspect that even for many of them it might be more a question of optics and how this’ll affect their chances to win than any real disagreement with what Trump’s saying