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The author said that Islam could be criticized harshly and mentioned that he had done so himself. However, according to him, urging an imam born in Finland to return to his home country and the cheering of thousands of people were something entirely different. #monikulttuurisuus #kotoontuminen #uskonto #FI (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

Riku Ranta wrote that he thought Marin would have understood that she had been a good politician for a time and aimed for her own career. According to him, however, Marin seemed to consider herself a wartime stateswoman. https://t.co/lyvYjZbOxh #politiikka #ajatukset #Suomi (translated)

According to the author, the government had forgotten the middle class, to which a large part of the Finns belonged. He said that the linked article had summarized the issue well and noted that people could not be commanded to trust the future: trust arose from the belief in their chances of survival. https://t.co/f49M10CCjN #suomi #keskiluokka #luottamus #FI (translated)

Tuulia Alanko wrote that many others besides traditional supporters of the Finns Party had also expressed similar views, in her opinion. She praised Riikka and the Finns Party ministers for their responsibility and ability to implement. Alanko stated that the Finns Party, according to her, did not want to serve the elite or accept unrestricted use of taxpayers' money. She criticized the Social Democrats for their talk about civil society and believed that climate actions alone did not address the challenges related to immigration or hybrid operations. Alanko described the Minister of the Interior as having acted to reform immigration policy and demanded changes to open invitations for immigration and the granting of citizenship. She also praised the Finns Party Minister of Justice for changing the line on criminal law and tightening penalties, even though, according to her, he had been criticized for populism. Alanko wrote that neither Riikka nor other members of the Finns Party should change their positions to please everyone. She believed the party would maintain its stance despite red-green criticism and pressure, describing the Finns Party as a caretaker party. #persut #poliitika #Suomi (translated)

It is thought that when people work for as long as possible, Finland somehow would cope better. A large portion, or quite a few, of 70-year-olds are already, for example, suffering from memory diseases, so that path cannot be sustainably walked, Holopainen said. Instead of raising the retirement age, Holopainen hoped for a discussion on improving productivity at work. #eläke #muistisairaudet #politiikka (translated)

The author compared the display of the death penalty to a direct return to the Middle Ages, when people gathered in the squares to watch executions. He argued that the decades-long prison sentences in the United States should be sufficient and that such practices did not belong in the 2020s. https://t.co/WHMCeIF6zG #kuolemanrangaistus #oikeus #ihmisoikeudet #USA (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo wrote that he found it astonishing that encouraging people to pay higher taxes led them to pay more taxes. He previously wondered who believed the Earth was flat but said he no longer wondered about it. Sarasvuo described the attitude toward reality as "reality phobia" and believed that some did not understand the matter. #verot #todellisuusfobia #ihmiset (translated)

Suvi-Anne Siimes wondered about the city council's decision. She noted that the city manages its own advertising spaces, but found it peculiar that the people in the city were treated, according to her, as subjects while the decision-makers made study trips abroad using fossil fuels. #kaupunkipolitiikka #ympäristö #kestävyys (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen quoted Yle's description, which stated that the True Finns had made breakaways in the government after the election defeat and had been in the public eye due to racism scandals. He claimed that people wanted the current economic and immigration policies to continue to be stricter than before. https://t.co/az4oeqcJn3 #politiikka #maahanmuutto #rasismi (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Vladimir Putin turned 74 today and reminded that journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow on Putin's birthday, October 7, 2006. According to Vanhanen, Politkovskaya had documented the atrocities of Russian troops in Chechnya, torture, and abuses of power, and was one of the sharpest critics of Putin's Russia. Vanhanen assessed that Politkovskaya's murder on Putin's birthday could have been a message or a grotesque gift from the mafia state he described to the pinnacle of power. He wrote that the murder reminded of the system that Putin built: power became concentrated, violence became a tool of politics, and those defined as enemies of power could pay for their resistance with their lives. Vanhanen urged to remember also those who tried to tell the world what kind of Russia Putin was building, according to him. #Putin #Politkovskaja #Venäjä (translated)

Tuomo Saarni compared the state’s borrowing to people shifting their own expenses onto their neighbors and children. He wrote that the debts taken on by the state would be left for the children to pay, and tightening taxation on others would shift the bill to others. Saarni argued that real cuts in public finances could only be discussed when public sector expenditures consisted solely of statutory duties; until then, it would, in his opinion, be a matter of trimming expenses. #valtio #talous #lainat (translated)

Samu Mökillä wrote that in Finland, with its long distances, many families needed a car for their daily lives, and that the fuel prices raised by the Middle East crisis had increased the cost of essential transportation. He criticized the proposal to use the commuting tax deduction to alleviate the situation, arguing that it mainly benefited commuters. According to him, the support would not help, for example, farmers, the transport sector, or lawnmowers. Mökkilä asked why fuel prices could be lowered elsewhere in the world but not in Finland, and considered the commuting tax deduction insufficient if the cost of living was also rising. He estimated that individual support lost its significance as general inflation consumed purchasing power. The rise in fuel costs would also increase freight rates, food production, industry, and logistics, which would be reflected in the prices of many products. He called for a reduction in distribution obligations and taxes instead of subsidies and described the commuting support as a small band-aid for a broader increase in living costs. According to Mökillä, politicians wanted to appear to be doing something, even if the support's impact on people's wallets was overshadowed by rising prices. Mökkilä also wrote that the state budget was heavily in deficit and dependent on revenues collected from motorists. He stated that high fuel taxes were part of climate policy, but rural residents, actors in the transport sector, and small entrepreneurs often had no opportunity to change their fleets or reduce driving. He criticized politicians for disregarding the situation of ordinary Finns, saying that while there was talk of savings, millions were sent to a terrorist organization. #Suomi #polttoaine #talous (translated)

Mika Merano wrote that with the support of society, it would be possible to establish positions for multicultural coordinators, intersectional experts, unemployment advisors, and embodiment interpreters to employ the unemployed brought in from abroad. She estimated that workers would pay taxes and other fees from their salaries and claimed that the artificial employment of all unemployed individuals would be profitable for society. Finally, she asked whether there was a problem in the equation when all the figures were placed side by side. #yhteiskunta #työllisyys #monikulttuurisuus (translated)

Repeat several times behind. Development country, developed country, development aid, third world, target country, field, departure to the field, poor people, vulnerable people, beneficiary, benefactor, empowerment. Fingo does important work. Good night. https://t.co/VyDzfnCK4J #kehitysapu #hyväntekijä #voimaannuttaminen (translated)

Now think about it, people: an immigrant gets a guaranteed pension after living here for three years. Similarly, the rights of an immigrant to social security are the same as those who have lived and worked here all their lives. Finnish decision-makers are, in their ignorance, a class of their own on the whole planet. #maahanmuutto #sosiaaliturva #Suomi (translated)