StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]

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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • In Finland news.

    National news is running a story on the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 stating that it has visited Russian ports several times. This is the story, full stop. This is framed as being very suspicious although nothing is actually being said. The headline literally is “Chinese ship has suddenly visited Russian ports several times”. The newspiece has open commenting so the local conspiracy heads can rile themselves up well and good.

    This is accompanied by another news piece with speculation on a Russian war ship being parked at the Denmark strait near the Chinese ship. This is full on conspiracy brain stuff, in our national news.

    On Putin and the missile there are stories where history now starts from the missile. It’s Russian aggression and just happened for no reason. Putins speech is called chilling and a threat to the West. An expert is called upon to explain how the next weeks will be dangerous, but we are told that there is one thing that can appease Russia. I did not look at what this one thing is. No mention of the USA or UK.

    On Ukraine the story that most ukrainians would wish for the war to end is also up with an open commenting section. Hundreds of Finns have taken the time to comment on how we should fight to the last ukrainian.

    There is also a piece about the missiles having no payload which seems to puzzle the local natohawks somehow.

    There is also an interesting type of new anti-labor news story about a remote worker who works globally and thinks labor laws and such restrict this awesome new lifestyle.

    Several other stories on the cable stuff and much warmongering, but nothing much worth going over.


  • Thanks, this is very common here. You can get all sorts of different shapes and styles and most commonly they are hung from pockets on each side. Also lots of wearable reflectors like arm bands, small vest type things.

    From Natopedia: “In the late 1950s, Mr. Arvi Lehti a farmer and plastic manufacturer from Pertteli, Finland came up with the idea of a reflector suitable for pedestrian use. His initial idea was to join a pair of automotive reflectors together and attach them to clothing. This early concept was developed further by Arvi’s company Talousmuovi into a small, light-weight reflector fit for commercial sale. In the 1960s The Finnish police and transport authority wanted a reflector to improve pedestrian safety, they asked Talousmuovi to design one. The reflectors they created were eventually made for sale to Finns and later the world.”


  • I understand.Care-Comrade

    But a gentle reminder that this disappointment in other people is also a slippery slope to misantropic thinking that got hold of at least me when we got to the vaccine phase and so many people were left behind. This is where I faced the choice of whether to continue being angry and slipping down that path or going all in on understanding even this from a Marxist pov. I am glad I ended up the latter.

    Because the media did highlight only the most crass or absurd behaviours, the worst of us. And the powers that be really put in the work in creating an environment of suspicion and doubt. The entire thing got neoliberally framed as individualism and Chinas zero covid was demonized from day one, with many horror stories to boot. Then roll in the Ukraine war and libs here were standing in lines for iodine pills with their covids and naked faces, fearing nuclear war. It’s all very absurd, but the consent manufacturing was very effective. In our risk culture people have put their ontological safety in to the hands of experts who mostly told them it’s fine. this is fine

    I used to be very upset with them, but these days I am looking at this and things like the anti-vax movement and trying to understand how we got here.

    Because the early solidarity was there I feel there is no reason why it would not rise again. Even the post is a bit doomer about that, but we have previous examples of this like from hurricane Katrina where this also happened. The media spin that eroded that solidarity is fairly well documented.





  • My work is very mobile so I have a lot of stuff with me, but the essentials are: Backback with laptop, water bottle, pen, post-its, paper, snacks like nuts/trailmix, masks, disposable gloves, hair brush, chargers and their wires, a nose insert thingy that masks smells.

    Pockets have: Keys and id card in my neurodiversity lanyard, phone, home keys

    Lib balm

    Pastilles (xylitol)

    Nasal spray

    A CPR mouth cover in my keychain

    Pack of handkerchiefs

    Bluetooth ear buds

    A reflector or many in my clothes in the dark months




  • Same experience here, but am a bit older and the people around me have become very anti-capitalist. Including older previously very turboliberal ex-hippies. But most still are Nato leftists at best and discuss Ukraine or any actually important topic from the national news pov. They are still entirely sold on the myths of equality, social democracy and electrolar politics. There is a lot of petition signing, lots of bourge media consumption, lots of sending money to ngos and also a lot of brunch.

    And lots and lots of voicing discontent as long as the current outrage lasts and then going back to brunch and forgetting about it.

    Most have work, studies, kids, lots of dept and no time or energy to engage with any of this on a serious level.

    How to get these people to really care is the big question for me too.








  • I did this stuff actively for a long time and enjoyed the focus parts and skill parts of it. Am fairly competitive so did a few competitions as well and enjoyed it. It was also good for my physical self-esteem, but that I feel could have come from any sport I like. The actual physical stuff can be pretty fun and challenging. I think it’s a bit of a neurospicy catnip that kept me humming pretty well in everyday life.

    But, the people doing these sports were often not the best people, at least not where I am from. Cops, violent men, misogony and just all that. I participated in these sports as a woman and it always took me twice as much effort to get the belts or whatever “the boys” got very easily. I was also ostriciced a lot due to my gender.

    There was lots of stanning for Japan and a lot of the sort of weird male hierarchy that felt very uncomfortable. Eventually I quit and just instructed fitness boxing for others, just as a sport for all kinds of people, genders and bodies.

    I sometimes miss the actual sports, but not the clubs and people. I still practice at home and do some online martial arts combat classes sometimes, but just for covid alone I would not go back to doing this face to face anymore.


  • No way to be clearer in showing how they think the Asiatic Hordes are colluding to bring down “the core”.

    What makes this even more pathetic is the fact that Finland was never really apart of Europe and this was always a big problem for the local ruling class.

    This area of land was occupied by various peoples that were ruled over by Sweden and Tsarist Russia. Most of us are very much Asiatic Hordes ourselves if we really bother to look at where we are from, but the national bourge (they were in fact largely european) have always had such an inferiority complex over this that they have managed to infect the people with that same complex and this imo explains a lot of the anti-Russia sentiment today. I’ve spent my entire life listening to people whining about Finlands place at international tables. The EU was sold to us on this premise and this is what got us into NATO as well.