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100% guaranteed she believes in a white Jesus and would go into apoplectic conservative rage if you pointed out good 'ol Jebus was brown

Requiring people to use their real name would take out a lot of the noise, the false and misleading info, and the unqualified opinions that people are blasting out into the ether, and then other people who don’t know any better find it and feel with their ape brains that their own malformed opinions and emotions are validated.

But requiring all internet users to identify (somehow, let's leave the implementation aside for now) would also mean that anyone living in a repressive regime would be even more fucked than they are now, and it'd mean that even people living in at least nominally democratic countries but with a nonzero amount of violent conservatives would be an easier target, since there'd be no pseudonymity.

As to your last point, we are definitely not cognitively equipped for what we have. Can we equip ourselves now, after the fact?

Frankly I doubt it. The cat is out of the bag, and I really don't know how we can unfuck this situation – at least without significant amounts of social upheaval and bloodshed in the interim

Right, it's only 2/4 "I can't believe it's not real fascism" + 1/4 "we'd be ok with concentration camps as long as they were privately funded" + 1/4 "we'd be ok with concentration camps as long as the signs are in Swedish and Finnish" which is much better. Especially the National Coalition Party is more or less indistinguishable from the Finns Party, and they've made it exceedingly clear that they're 100% fine with bigotry and many of their members are exactly as bigoted as the worst of PS / KD.

When the PM whines about how the opposition makes Finland look bad by talking to foreign press about literal fucking neo-Nazis in the fucking government, and makes several proclamations about how they won't stand for racism which is believable for about 4h until the next PS or KOK member says something incredibly racist, it's not exaclty going to inspire me to believe that the majority of people voting for those shitbags don't endorse this behavior as well

If ~50% of the voting age population supports an extremist right wing government (pretending they're not extremists is pointless when we have had eg. multiple governmental neo-Nazi PR flaps and the Speaker of the Parliament has said he's a "proud Aryan") and we're statistically one of the most racist countries in Europe, and immigrants have a notoriously hard time finding anything but menial jobs, I'm not sure what sort of other conclusions you can draw? Well, aside from blaming it all on the immigrants and proving my point, of course.

Good luck with that.

Finland is a deeply racist country and our current far-right government has exactly zero interest in worker demands in general – to the point of limiting people's right to strike – and they're going to be especially unsympathetic to pleas from people working for food courier platforms as they're generally immigrants. The platforms themselves have zero interest in paying people more, as that would likely mean fewer customers and worse revenue.

Nkunda is right in saying that jobs like this are pretty much the only ones many immigrants can get, and this is by design. Most companies won't hire immigrants (around 50% of our population is extremely conservative and very racist), so the only options left are exploitative jobs that are more or less tailored for immigrants – low pay and terrible conditions that nobody who has a choice really wants to accept.

I’m against innocent people being killed. I’m sorry that upsets you.
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You can get angry at me because I don’t like that, but that’s just another lack of compassion, and I won’t be surprised.

cries about people being rude

makes weird jabs about formatting when their hypocrisy is pointed out

People like him make it clear that we're soon going to be in a "us or them" situation here – these people literally want to murder leftists, 50% of the country's voting age population supports them (and distressingly the youth vote went to the right), and their rhetoric is getting more and more violent by the day.

This current government is normalizing fascist speech and tactics, and it won't be too long until talk of some sort of final solution to the leftist question will be completely normal, and after that it won't be too long until they actually start implementing it. Unfortunately the majority of people who are willing to use political violence are conservatives, because like I said, soon it's going to be us or them.

Unfortunately the voting system is the only sane part about Finland. Our current government is so far right that it includes multiple literal neo-Nazis and a pedophile neo-Nazi (who stepped in to replace a neo-Nazi), and multiple ministers (well ok, a minister and the Speaker of the Parliament) have fantasized in public about murdering eg. gay people or foreigners. The Speaker of the Parliament is also one of the right wing mass murderer Breivik's idols, and has obliquely spoken in support of Breivik's act of terror.

This place is a conservative shithole and I suggest anyone considering a vacation here to go somewhere else, especially if you're not white or cishet

I’m against innocent people being killed. I’m sorry that upsets you.
[…]
You can get angry at me because I don’t like that, but that’s just another lack of compassion, and I won’t be surprised.

cries about people being rude

I’m against innocent people being killed. I’m sorry that upsets you.
[…]
You can get angry at me because I don’t like that, but that’s just another lack of compassion, and I won’t be surprised.

If you think your stance is more moral than others' and would like for people to agree with you, have you tried not being a complete cunt about it?

I have no dog in this race since I live in a country with a sane voting system, so you can spare me your performative moral outrage.

Some of the worst shitbags in the world are online proudly under their own names.

Anonymity isn't the problem. Instant mass communication between creatures with plains ape brains is the problem. We are not cognitively equipped for this shit.

Why is a flawed democracy preferable to other systems? Why are we convinced that democracy is the only way to run a society? It's not like the only other possible options are autocratic dictatorships, we just refuse to entertain the thought that maybe letting idiots decide how to run a country maybe isn't optimal