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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

SnowblindFatal posted:

Yeah I suppose this is Akava business? Good luck with that.

-member of Akava

Is Professoriliitto in Akava?

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SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011
I reckon most of the highbrow academics are.

But seriously, look at this: https://www.akava.fi/

What the gently caress is their agenda? Try to find something you can grab onto on that page. Truly the union of GPs and DIs.

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
It's days like this I wish I could travel back in time and punch the stupid Mongols who turned north instead of south and cursed their descendants with this frozen hell.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Well now, NC's Elina Lepomäki is going to vote against the new SOTE bill the government coalition has spent years rubbing together, condemning it as inefficient, weakening and expensive. She also thinks the "freedom of choice" - that NC's favorite clause - does not lead to a more robust and competitive market.

One NC parliamentarian isn't probably enough to knock the SOTE-train off the rails, but it'll give the opposition some bipartisan flair to their criticism.

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

DarkCrawler posted:

It's days like this I wish I could travel back in time and punch the stupid Mongols who turned north instead of south and cursed their descendants with this frozen hell.

There's no such thing as cold weather, only inadequate clothing. These great cold, sunny days are really the best.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Darkest Auer posted:

There's no such thing as cold weather, only inadequate clothing. These great cold, sunny days are really the best.

speak for yourself, i burned my skin :supaburn: should be kaamos 24/7/12/365

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Darkest Auer posted:

There's no such thing as cold weather, only inadequate clothing. These great cold, sunny days are really the best.

I work 8 hours a day outside. I love taking off a suit of armor off every time I piss, eat, stab insulin, go talk to my boss, etc. I can feel my contacts, tears and snot freeze as the wind of the Baltic tears at everything exposed. It is so cold that it literally hurts my eyeballs.

Man was not meant to live here.

Nenonen posted:

speak for yourself, i burned my skin :supaburn: should be kaamos 24/7/12/365

There is no such thing as too much Sun, only inadequate melanin :smug:

Also if this government was a human it would be begging to be euthanized:
https://www.hs.fi/junkkari/art-2000005585902.html

DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 1, 2018

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

DarkCrawler posted:

I work 8 hours a day outside. I love taking off a suit of armor off every time I piss, eat, stab insulin, go talk to my boss, etc. I can feel my contacts, tears and snot freeze as the wind of the Baltic tears at everything exposed. It is so cold that it literally hurts my eyeballs.

Same, actually, but I unironically love it. One thing I've noticed that the colleagues who complain the most also tend to just stand around the most.

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Darkest Auer posted:

Same, actually, but I unironically love it. One thing I've noticed that the colleagues who complain the most also tend to just stand around the most.

Sadly it is literally part of my job description to mostly stand around and direct people to where they need to go. Lucky enough not to physically work, unlucky enough not to work inside. :qq:

HerraS
Apr 15, 2012

Looking professional when committing genocide is essential. This is mostly achieved by using a beret.

Olive drab colour ensures the genocider will remain hidden from his prey until it's too late for them to do anything.



https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000005586677.html?share=68968da35d4c73025ba5557dc1b5aff0

:getin:

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

quote:

Jos hallitus ei keskeisemmässä reformissaan onnistu, on selvää, että hallitus ei ole toimintakykyinen ja se on vakava paikka silloin.

As opposed to all the other great successes this trashfire of a government has had :downs:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. It's not like Sipis hasn't been bullshitting before.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Eronpyyntölentokonetta tankataan parhaillaan, miten Juhan mahtaa tällä kertaa käydä :ohdear:

junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs

quote:

se on EU-oikeuden vastainen, lisää kustannuksia eikä täytä tavotteita

:vince:

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
Breaking news: Sipilä ajaa pillurallia eduskintatalon ja presidentinpalatsin välillä erokirje kädessä

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

DarkCrawler posted:

Breaking news: Sipilä ajaa pillurallia eduskintatalon ja presidentinpalatsin välillä erokirje kädessä

Pitääkö taksiuudistuksen jälkeen pääministerinkin aina neuvotella taksa etukäteen?

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

DarkCrawler posted:

There is no such thing as too much Sun, only inadequate melanin :smug:

I hope you remember to eat your vitamin D pills, non-mutant :c00l:

Obfuscation
Jan 1, 2008
Good luck to you, I know you believe in hell
Guys, this is hard to admit, but I kinda like Lepomäki. Sure, she's a Libera vampire who wants to kill the poor, but at least she's quite smart and ideologically consistent about it. Her critique of Sote is very good even though she is attacking it from right. I really hope that there's enough rebel cocks to sink the whole mess.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Well, I suppose she could be guillotined last.

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Definitely this time.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

Obfuscation posted:

Guys, this is hard to admit, but I kinda like Lepomäki. Sure, she's a Libera vampire who wants to kill the poor, but at least she's quite smart and ideologically consistent about it. Her critique of Sote is very good even though she is attacking it from right. I really hope that there's enough rebel cocks to sink the whole mess.

Looks like most NC members from Helsinki loathe the proposed bill. They share the same suspicion that Helsinki will foot the bill for the social and health reforms.

junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs
:qq: But it’s been in the pipeline so loooong, we’ll seem incompetent and dumb if we dont force it throuuugh :qq: there’ll be plenty of time to unfuck it at some point in the future, just let us have our maakuntahallinto :qq:

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin

Rexroom posted:

Looks like most NC members from Helsinki loathe the proposed bill. They share the same suspicion that Helsinki will foot the bill for the social and health reforms.

All city reps should hate it. It's a rural useless political representatives coup. But I guess anything for rampant privatization...its literally the only time they can even try to get it through, what with Prime Minister Cocklite and so on.

DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 2, 2018

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Now there's a quote that looks good on the old resume

HerraS
Apr 15, 2012

Looking professional when committing genocide is essential. This is mostly achieved by using a beret.

Olive drab colour ensures the genocider will remain hidden from his prey until it's too late for them to do anything.





:supaburn:

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

Now watch as SDP go and poo poo themselves in the elections.

DarkCrawler
Apr 6, 2009

by vyelkin
How many times do you think Antti Rinne has ejaculated today

I'm thinking...six.

Anyway there goes the chance of Kok triggering new elections.

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Obfuscation posted:

Guys, this is hard to admit, but I kinda like Lepomäki. Sure, she's a Libera vampire who wants to kill the poor, but at least she's quite smart and ideologically consistent about it. Her critique of Sote is very good even though she is attacking it from right. I really hope that there's enough rebel cocks to sink the whole mess.

I'm gonna be a little more cynical and say that Lepomäki would probably be fine with the "privatization for us, maakuntahallinto for you" arrangement, like many Kokoomus MPs still seem to be, she's just afraid that the legal and budgetary issues will cripple the privatization, meaning the end result is her party getting totally played by kepu.

It's fun and refreshing to see kokoomus be the one getting shat on by a coalition partner though.

For siniset and kepu their popularity has been so in the toilet that they want to avoid new elections at any cost because it means losing the power they still enjoy, while kokoomus has been willing to go with it since they've been sitting pretty at #1. If the calculus changes for kokoomus and sitting in government means they have something to lose come 2019, they might throw a tantrum.

The coalition majority is only six or seven seats, remember.

DarkCrawler posted:

Anyway there goes the chance of Kok triggering new elections.

It could still happen, Kok just needs to think that doing something big to trigger the new elections will give them something to campaign with too. It's just that the most hated parts of the government's agenda are kokoomus policy through and through!

Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Mar 2, 2018

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
SDP are dumb af, but they'd probably eke out a win because both the other big parties are even dumber. Or who knows, maybe the Greens manage to pull off an upset because the big parties are all run by a buncha complete incompetents?

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks

Cerebral Bore posted:

SDP are dumb af, but they'd probably eke out a win because both the other big parties are even dumber. Or who knows, maybe the Greens manage to pull off an upset because the big parties are all run by a buncha complete incompetents?

The Greens really shot themselves in the foot with their principle of only allowing someone to chair the party for a limited time. Niinistö would be making bank right now, but Fuckboy Touko is amazingly incompetent (also, apparently a complete drunkard).

Anyway, about Lepomäki: someone somewhere mentioned that the business side of Kok (which is currently the majority fraction of the party) has always had two distinct factions: the bank/finance people and the corporate side. The bank/finance faction which Lepomäki belongs to, has always been for free markets for ideological reasons, and has had less concerns about the practical side of who benefits. This is probably a reason why she is against the kleptocratic Männistö side of the party right now.

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

What? Greens being the biggest party under Aalto is completely ridiculous. If I had to guess right now, SDP and Kok are going to be pretty close together but kepu will get enough seats that we end up with some sort of punamulta combination, unless SDP and Greens are suicidal enough to go into a coalition with Kokoomus. There won't be enough seats for a Kesk+Kok+PS coalition, though if there were, we'd definitely see Orpo and Sipilä eat every word they've said about Halla-aho.

Edit: Yeah, Aalto was clearly a mistake, but I don't know if any of the other candidates would've been much better, except maybe Ohisalo?

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


SulphagneSocialist posted:

What? Greens being the biggest party under Aalto is completely ridiculous. If I had to guess right now, SDP and Kok are going to be pretty close together but kepu will get enough seats that we end up with some sort of punamulta combination, unless SDP and Greens are suicidal enough to go into a coalition with Kokoomus. There won't be enough seats for a Kesk+Kok+PS coalition, though if there were, we'd definitely see Orpo and Sipilä eat every word they've said about Halla-aho.

Edit: Yeah, Aalto was clearly a mistake, but I don't know if any of the other candidates would've been much better, except maybe Ohisalo?

They definitely are

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Kemper Boyd posted:

The Greens really shot themselves in the foot with their principle of only allowing someone to chair the party for a limited time. Niinistö would be making bank right now, but Fuckboy Touko is amazingly incompetent (also, apparently a complete drunkard).

SulphagneSocialist posted:

What? Greens being the biggest party under Aalto is completely ridiculous.

Yeah, but have you seen the other guys?

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

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Andrast posted:

They definitely are

I Want to Believe, though. For the last 31 (going on 32) years they've been out of government for only one term.

Cerebral Bore posted:

Yeah, but have you seen the other guys?

People are just gonna vote SDP or not vote? Some of those potential Green voters might go to LA.

Edit edit: it just occurred to me that changing the rules so that Niinistö could be party leader for longer would have been electorally excellent but the usual suspect newspaper columnists would have had a field day over it. Basically the Greens did the sort of thing the Democrats love doing in the US, do the wrong thing because the right thing gets bad press from the commentariat.

Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Mar 2, 2018

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011
I hate to say this, but as long as the greens oppose nuclear power, they're unironically the most harmful party to mankind and I dearly hope they don't make gains unless they change their opinion on that.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Buddy, I think your priorities need straightening.

Like, yeah, it's a pretty bad opinion, but capitalism is going to kill mankind a hundred times faster than some ecohippies could ever hope to.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Cerebral Bore posted:

Buddy, I think your priorities need straightening.

Like, yeah, it's a pretty bad opinion, but capitalism is going to kill mankind a hundred times faster than some ecohippies could ever hope to.

the greens are just as capitalist as the koks are, though, and I don't understand why people still project GOOGLAA PENTTI LINKOLA KOIJÄRVI TAPA VANHEMMAS on them.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Pentti Linkola on hieno mies :colbert:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Nenonen posted:

the greens are just as capitalist as the koks are, though, and I don't understand why people still project GOOGLAA PENTTI LINKOLA KOIJÄRVI TAPA VANHEMMAS on them.

The greens might be puistokok, but even that is better than turbokok.

E: And both are somewhat better than the kind of hyperkok you find in the rest of the world, which is what'll actually kill us off.

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Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

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The Greens suffers from the "please vote for us, we'll do anything you want, just vote for us pleeeeaaaaseeee" thing SDP does. Except that the Greens pretend to be anti-nuclear to appeal to the eco-fascists whereas the SDP pretends to care about factory jobs from the 1870's because that's when all their voters were born.

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