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Non-fiction writer Ari Haasio said that there would be no Finns without immigration. He described Finland's story as a narrative of its people: they had changed both society and the notion of Finnishness, and they did not remain stagnant. https://t.co/JVAY5tRSDC #maahanmuutto #Suomi #kulttuuri #FI (translated)

Urho Haho wrote that he had been amused by the panic of the National Coalition's Niilo Heinonen and his partners. According to Haho, Heinonen tried to commit the city to what he described as fanatical climate goals together with the Greens in the Oulu city council. Haho believed that Heinonen was now presenting himself as right-wing, even though he was not distinguishable from the Greens in Oulu. #politiikka #Oulu #ilmasto (translated)

Mats Uotila wrote that the EU had a new social climate fund that, according to him, motorists would practically finance while refueling. He mentioned that the fund would pay for, for example, energy renovations for Greeks and said he nearly used an ugly word to describe the situation. https://t.co/BgKQyJ6HMV #ilmasto #EU #sosiaalisuus (translated)

Keijo Kaarisade wrote that when condemning the oppression of women, it was agreed, in his opinion, to speak vaguely about religions and cultures without referring to Islam. He criticized that a member of the National Coalition Party had been assigned to the matter and they themselves had followed along, and said that he would have to explain the issue to the imam again with Petteri. https://t.co/bbPqxHiqBm #naistenoikeudet #uskonto #kulttuuri (translated)

Sture Fjäder wrote that his party was in third place and the support for the PS had increased. According to him, the party's support would not grow unless its chairman announced that the National Coalition Party would not join a blue-red government. Fjäder mentioned that the discussion was heated about whether the National Coalition Party would join a blue-red government instead of a right-center government, and estimated that this would undermine the party's support. #vaalit2027 https://t.co/FI3ByOSP3i #vaalit #politiikka #puolueet (translated)

According to the author, racism is not related to immigration either. He wrote that one can support strict immigration policies and talk about the problems of immigration without constant racist remarks if one cares about equality. https://t.co/Z0mLGPJGkt #rasismi #maahanmuutto #yhdenvertaisuus #FI (translated)

The author described the harassment, surveillance, and coercive control discussed in the Helsingin Sanomat article as serious violence, which he deemed unequivocally condemnable. He emphasized that home should be a safe haven and that everyone had the right to privacy and to live without violence or the threat of it. The post ended mid-sentence, beginning with the words "The National Coalition Party advocates." #yksityisyys #väkivalta #turvasatama #FI (translated)

Farmers hopefully will receive some compensation for damages caused by bears, as the bear population in Estonia has increased and they are causing more and more damage to agriculture, without there being a mechanism for compensating for the damages. #медведи #сельскоехозяйство #ущерб (translated)

Juho Hirvelä wondered why Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, according to him, defended the Finnish climate panel in its newspaper. He claimed that the panel aimed to reduce domestic meat production and wrote that shutting down the panel, which operates with an annual budget of 750,000 euros, would not bring sufficient savings. Hirvelä questioned whose interests Maaseudun Tulevaisuus was serving and linked to the newspaper's article. https://t.co/foiWC8BJVq #ilmasto #lihanproduktio #MaaseudunTulevaisuus (translated)

Alex Günsberg wrote that, according to him, an equivalent amount to Finland's average pension could be accumulated by investing 1,500 euros in the S&P 500 index for a child at birth if the retirement age were 70 years, or 2,100 euros if it were 65 years. He claimed that through the Ponzi scheme he described, 2.4 billion euros in investment costs and 438 million euros in implementation costs were transferred to interest groups of the state. Günsberg stated the TER for costs was about 1.15% and the TER for the S&P 500 index fund was 0.03%. According to him, savings would accumulate about 3 billion euros per year without changes to current pensions if the state's manipulation were stopped. #eläke #sijoittaminen #talous (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Donald Trump's Russia policy may not have been guided by a coherent strategy. According to him, Trump made decisions one by one, seeking quick political gains, and then had to fix the consequences. In his assessment, Vanhanen linked Trump's diminished commitment to arming Ukraine, the energy price increases resulting from the war in Iran, and the recent diesel trade with Russia. He believed that trade could bolster the Russian economy and give Vladimir Putin a means to pressure Ukraine into halting strikes on Russia's oil refineries. Vanhanen also criticized Trump for condemning strikes that he claimed weakened Russia's war economy. Vanhanen noted that Trump’s administration had not sought significant new funding from Congress for arming Ukraine. According to him, previously agreed deliveries had continued, and European countries had purchased American weapons for Ukraine. He stated that Trump was not fundamentally on the side of Ukraine or Europe but was primarily pursuing his own interests. According to Vanhanen, Finland's security should not be built on the assumption that there is a plan behind Trump's decisions that would turn in favor of Europe. He urged preparedness for the possibility that U.S. aid could be delayed or smaller than expected, to strengthen the availability of defense equipment and air defense, and to deepen cooperation with Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Britain, Poland, and the Baltic countries. He also believed that Europe should be able to support Ukraine and maintain economic pressure on Russia by its own means. #Trump #Venäjä #Ukraina (translated)

Juho Hirvelä wrote in a Yle news article that 145 data centers were planned in Finland and that four of them would use more electricity than 2.2 million Finns. He compared this to the decline of domestic meat production, which he claimed was justified by saving the climate, and described the situation as hypocrisy. https://t.co/6vikQsLpvR #datakeskukset #ilmastonmuutos #Suomi (translated)

Maria Rautanen questioned the transportation of foreign waste to Finland for energy production. She referred to information from Kaleva, which indicated that nearly 50,000 tons of waste had been brought to Oulu for incineration at Oulu Energy and Syklon facilities since 2021. According to her, waste had even been transported from the outskirts of a landfill in Rome and from the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Rautanen wrote that according to Kaleva, nearly a third of the imports had occurred with figures that had been mistakenly approved by the Finnish Environment Institute. She demanded a transparent investigation into the permit errors. Rautanen criticized the downsizing of Finland's domestic energy production, particularly the reduction of peat use due to taxation and emissions trading costs. According to her, Finnish contractors and energy entrepreneurs had ceased operations, machines had been sold, and expertise in the sector was disappearing as energy was produced by importing waste from thousands of kilometers away. Rautanen called for open life cycle assessments to justify the import of foreign waste, taking into account transport by road and sea, combustion emissions, ash, waste impurities, and domestic fuels replaced by imported waste. She also demanded information about the quality of the waste brought to Finland, its monitoring, and the effects of combustion on flue gases, heavy metals, and fine particles. Rautanen believed that Finland's energy supply should fundamentally rely on domestic raw materials, local labor, and supply security. She found it difficult to accept that waste transported from Rome was used for energy production while the use of domestic peat had been reduced, and she questioned whether this constituted sensible circular economy practices. https://t.co/2CjRydkxAO #ilmasto #energia #kiertotalous (translated)