• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        I think clowning is a noble profession

        Someone who dedicates themselves to making other people happy through buffoonery and farce

        It’s actually rather sad that people have such a negative view of them really

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          Same here, I kinda love clowns! People who call it creepy either had a bad experience (fair) or dont like how visually over-the-top it all is. Guess we’re so heavily trope-conditioned and hyperaware of any Deviance From The Norm in fashion, art etc. now (thanks to lib metaculture, ick) that nobody’s used to “”“Weird”“” traditions. I struggle to find a more lively kind of performance art that’s still alive in Western pop culture. Personally think Clowning should be a timeless order, like the Freemasons lmao

          If clowns are considered “creepy” in North America, its no wonder us kkkanada crackers have such stupid shit to say about our First Nations - our “culture” can’t even handle dancers in colorful masks! Our entertainment is men in suits with snappy arguments, that we absorb on TV between office shifts! Bullshit!!!

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            I think part of it is an actual inability to distinguish the art from the artist, and equating the skillful performance of apparent incompetence with actual incompetence, which is then reinforced by them being depicted that way by other media.

            Also, pantomime is the only comparable performance art I can think of, which is often just clowning: the musical.

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    lmao the press release even said the quiet part out loud, that this is her reward for bringing Finland into NATO

    Ms Marin has a record of accomplishment, from setting one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets – enabled by a full programme of digitalisation and deployment of technology – to shepherding her country’s accession to NATO following Russia’s aggression in Ukraine (the swiftest accession in the alliance’s history).

    https://www.institute.global/insights/news/sanna-marin-former-finnish-prime-minister-joins-the-tony-blair-institute

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    The Tony Blair Institute has had an increasing influence on Keir Starmer’s U.K. Labour Party, having hosted Starmer at its Future of Britain Conference

    The institute for liberal losers gains another loser

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    What do we want? Market-based, means tested solutions!

    When do we want it? In a reasonable amount of time!

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    lmao they got the most soulless looking still of her for this

    also fun fact, the party that controlled finland during ww2 is now in charge. thanks social democrats pit

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    On a slightly unrelated note, I think Finland is the only country in the world where Pete Buttigieg would be a leading politician.

    Finnish people love an ineffectual lib that is “qualified”. Most of them seem like they were made in a lab. Tarja Halonen is the only finnish politician I’ve seen that isnt dead behind the eyes. I guess it is preferable to the alternative which is the saying the quiet part loud party.

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        Sweden doesn’t really do the technocrat much, and when we get them they’re usually dunked on. Only buttigieg-y politician in Sweden I can recall being successful is Bildt, but he fucked it up for all technocrats to follow. Kristersson also has a similar vibe, but he is a leading politician because he is being buoyed by the saying the quiet part loud party, not because he is well liked.

        Can’t speak much for Norway and Denmark however.

  • Oh there is talk about digitalisation and Finland… from someone working with marginalized folks in Finland who have to try and deal with these neoliberal tech solutions of ours I’d have so much to say about this to our Neoliberal Princess, but I am just too tired for that now.

    She did throw the entire unemployed, disabled and sick part of this country under the buss with her “It’s time to live” covid is over-announcement. It’s Biden lite.