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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)

Experts question the limits established by the Supreme Court in 2001 that differentiate self-consumption from drug trafficking, arguing that they are opaque, outdated, and discriminatory, especially for certain profiles, such as gay and bisexual men who practice chemsex. #Autoconsumo #TráficoDeDrogas #Justicia (translated)

D. Wagner wrote that numerous German patriotic voices had not been refuted by arguments, but had remained silent after a Yandex data center had suddenly gone down, according to his account. He used a derogatory term for these voices. #DeutschlandsZukunft #Patriotismus #Technologie (translated)

Le Chiffre estimated that French law deemed 16-year-olds sufficiently capable of discernment to emancipate, marry, enter into a contract or a will, be imprisoned, work, and drive a car, but not to vote. He asserted that, in his opinion, there was no argument for this exclusion other than contempt for young people. #Démocratie #Jeunesse #Voter (translated)

Lucas Mourão stated that even if Janones' channel had some potentially illegal content — a hypothetical he only admitted to argue — the legally appropriate measure would be to order the removal of only that material, not all past and future publications. According to him, Minister Kassio Nunes' decision to censor nearly 3.5 million people at once constituted prior censorship and was unacceptable and indefensible. #LiberdadeDeExpressão #Censura #DireitosHumanos (translated)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested the investigation and prosecution of the participants in the documentary 'NAZA', which exposes the killing of civilians in Gaza, arguing that it promotes a false narrative and severely harms Israel's image. #NAZA #Gaza #Netanyahu (translated)

David Lisnard congratulated the left for quickly organizing a primary and its winner. He believed that the right should do the same, a proposal he claimed to have advocated for months without receiving a genuine counter-argument. According to him, a primary would help avoid divisions that could lead to defeat and arrangements among political leaders. He added that if the situation did not change, he would accept all endorsements of the New Energy project without negotiation. On the other hand, he stated that he would never support those he held responsible for having led and weakened France, before concluding by celebrating freedom. #Politique #Primaire #Liberté (translated)

In a debate article, it is argued that Sweden wastes valuable plant nutrients in manure and digestate, which increases vulnerability in agriculture and the risk of eutrophication, and that better policy is crucial for effectively refining and transporting these nutrients where they are needed. (translated)

"I believe there are legitimate arguments to support that the president does not respect the law," said Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina, who is set to retire from the Senate at the end of his term in January, according to Reuters, as reported by News.ro. #Trump #Republicani #Rusia (translated)

The article criticizes the rising prices of public transportation in Austria and argues that the policy does not promote environmentally friendly mobility while simultaneously favoring car driving, thus labeling the mobility situation in the country as autocratic. #Mobilität #Klimawandel #Öffis (translated)

MEMIS wrote that the argument that people were already on site was one of the worst against repatriation. As a comparison, he described someone who entered a home, made a mess, and then referred to the fact that the person was already there when the police arrived. He added that mistakes and violations should obviously be corrected. #återvandring #rättvisa #migration (translated)

Augusto Cesar reported that Vasco da Gama had filed a new request with the courts to play against Boca at the Maracanã. According to what he wrote, the club added that it had already sold 46,000 tickets and that this figure exceeded the capacity of the Nilton Santos Stadium, the other venue under consideration. Cesar indicated that a decision was expected and that the deadline to present the stadium to Conmebol had expired the day before, although the matter was still under judicial review. #VascoDaGama #Maracaná #Conmebol (translated)