Vilhelm Junnila, already criticised for Nazi ‘joke’, found to have called for abortions in Africa to combat climate crisis

The good people of Finland decided to elect the most right wing government in the history of the country just a couple of months ago. The government is a coalition of an extreme right wing party, a right wing christian party, the Swedish People’s Party (nominally centrist) and a “fiscally conservative” party – ie. they mostly leave saying the bigoted shit out loud to the other two parties, but occasionally eg want to fund a Waffen SS volunteer “memorial organization” with government money, to spread “true information” about the SS volunteers who totally weren’t ideologically motivated and totally didn’t participate in the Holocaust (they absolutely did and we have archived war diares as proof, but it hurts the neo-nazis’ feelings if you say that out loud.)

The parties finally managed to come up with a plan on how to run things 10 days ago (hint: not well), and the extremist party has already gotten into multiple PR fuckups due to being full of neo-nazis and neo-nazi sympathizers, and now one of the newly minted ministers had to resign officially due to making a “joke” (ie. it’s not a joke until it gets him in trouble, and then it’s a joke) about how climate change could be solved by forcing Africans to abort children.

The actual reason is that the fresh minister in question also made a speech at a neo-nazi rally and made “jokes” about HH / 88, made a klansman snowman complete with a noose, hired a senior adviser who is a literal neo-nazi and has made eg. social media posts admiring Hitler, lied about almost literally every achievement in his life – university, multiple years of work experience, etc – and the list just goes fucking on and on.

And don’t get me started on what these people are doing to the country’s public sector funding. Education is fucked, public healthcare is double fucked, welfare is extra triple fucked with fuck on top.

  • g0nz0li0@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    That’s rough. Come to think of it, I remember seeing the headlines about “outrage over Finland PM doing young-person things”.

    It’s such a weird time and if we hadn’t seen a swing in my country towards the far more reasonable left wing I’m sure I would feel pretty grim about the future. I hope there’s a shift over there before they have a chance to ruin things too badly!

    • interolivary@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s been less than two weeks and they have:

      • gutted the welfare state
      • severely limited workers’ rights, including the right to strike and the right to not get arbitrarily fired
      • cut funding for university and primary / secondary education, apparently with the plan to introduce tuitions at least for universities down the line (or, rather, make the universities beg that they can introduce tuitions so they’ll stay afloat since government funding is going to be minimal)
      • cut taxes for the rich
      • cut funding for public healthcare while at the same time funneling public money towards private healthcare providers
      • nominated several right wing extremists to ministerial or similar positions (Junnila, the one who resigned, was just the most egregious one), while at the same time claiming all this “nazi” business is just a witch hunt by leftists, nevermind the proof that eg. Junnila attended that neo-Nazi rally

      None of this is fixable as long as the majority of people vote right wing, and all the austerity measures guarantee that things will continue to get worse meaning people will continue to vote right wing. This’ll take decades to unfuck.