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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fascist 80 years ago, fascist today

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Isn't it weird how we've collectively gone back in time 50 years to the Cold War? It's become more and more common to hear libs and conservative call each other commies, the Hammer and Sickle are being banned, and Capitalists talk about the Russian Federation like it's the actual Soviet Union.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

also isn't it weird how communism is to blame for every problem in this society created by a hegemonic capitalist system?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Turns out class conflict is a real thing that emerges from material conditions and not just something the Soviets made up.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pretty funny in its own way that the fall of the soviet union didn't end the cold war

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fascism requires an enemy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is more capitalism requires empire for the expansion of new markets

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd argue we are going as far back as the 1920s, with the global economy on the verge of imploding, socialism becoming popular in western nations, and the increasing tolerance of fascism (even nazism) and anti-communism reaching dangerous levels.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago

What a joke. The government consisting of neoliberals and nazis banning communist symbols, when the communist parties of Finland get like 0,1 % of the total vote every single election. Stalin should not have stopped at Tali-Ihantala.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 years ago

Fascists gonna fash

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Finland: Bootlicking fascists since 1939.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Freedom and democracy. Free speech. Civilized world.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Heated NATO moment

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd be lying if I said I was surprised

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

I'm only surprised it took them this long

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Safe to say that banning the symbol of the people that defeated the Nazis probably makes you a Nazi

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well their air force flags literally still have swastikas in them. But no, hammers and sickles are the problem! Nazi scum nation.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Actually, they replaced it a few years ago with something that's totally not a sonnenrad.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Then just make a new symbol, the sickle is not as representative today as it used to be when it was invented anyways, since agriculture is more industrialised now, at least in Finland.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hammer and sickle is over ❌🙅 Time to use tractor and keyboard 🚜⌨️✅💪

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sympathetic to the Juche symbol as well.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (4 children)

They can't ban stars and the color red, lmao. So long as those are around they'll be good.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is that they’ll just ban the new symbol if it gains enough traction

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's always either Ukraine, Baltics, Finland or Poland, even Balkans, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia are silent, alwayse these bark 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

The trufinns party demands the existence of falsefinns. Thank you liberals for allowing them to rule.

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