Related to news. The national news of Finland has taken the time out of their Russia = bad focus to tell us plebs that Rednote is bad and heavily state controlled and nobody should use it.

Seeing a status quo maintenance piece about the TikTok ban and Rednote is a great example of the vassal state status that we now occupy.

You know what, I've decided to become angry at this. I am going to turn the few shitty paperbacks I have by this guy to our sauna kindling.

When the Sandman series was a thing I ended up in a stuggle session with Gaiman stans on Twitter because I thought the depiction of Despair in the series was utterly violent towards fat people. I was told I just don't get it.

I have always felt that I am missing something about the books of this literature genius because to me the books are mediocre at best. And I kind of felt like an outsider for it.

Turns out this guy is the monster that is hidden in plain sight in between the lines. And while I am against book burnings, I will burn these books. For all SA victims like myself.

I am so tired of how the world we live in keeps making stars and celebrities of the worst of us. Imagine the stories we could have if they were written by good people. I don't mean some goody two shoes type of good, but people who are kind, have solidarity towards others and do not glorify the darkest impulses of humanity only.

Same. I get the same unease with Pratchetts apparent love of violence that is very similar to Gaimans, he kind of revels in the meanness in a similar fashion. It's like the author makes these types almost into heroes of a sort (teatime is an example).

And, his treatment of womens bodies tends to always be very pathriarchal. I despise the way he makes points of women being only of interest to men if they are thin and conventionally hot (young). I get it was different times, but once you start noticing it, it's everywhere. I still listen to the stories every night as my audhd sleep aid, but certain books I will not touch anymore and almost all have parts that make me feel very uneasy.

I always felt this guy was sus af because when I tried to read his stuff he revels in mean violence in a way that made my skin crawl. Not to mention the way he treated fat bodies, it's always a red flag. The objectification and dehumanizing is right there.

The really disgusting bit to me was the way he hid behind neurodiversity as an explainer for being a monster, like this guy threw an entire minority under the bus to justify his actions. It is similar to the way celebrities have tried to hide behind behavioral addiction (not real) as a justification for horrible behaviour.

Also isn't it just nice how the society we live in keeps raising people like this? How many does it take before people realize that there is something wrong with both these people and the system.

It's been depressing to see how many carnivore diet grifters there are now in the longcovid sub that I lurk in.

It's wild to me that even though we see images like this all the time, many still fail to understand that these people are not on their side. That they are the same and they are on the same team.

Isn't it telling how they focus on the lost homes of people who have several homes.

Landmarks and luxury and tourist areas.

And productions of shows.

The situation of normal everyday life and people is but a sidenote.

Afaik the DCA that the ghouls signed at least in Finland made it so that these fuckers are entirely untouchable.

So the protection will probably mostly have to be staying out of their way like you say. Can be pretty difficult as at least Norway has reported drunk driving accidents too.

Truly interesting times.

I want to print a t-shirt that I can wear around all the natohawks that says something like: "Feeling safe yet? Who is annexing who you bootlickers!"

Also nobody had probably raked the forests.

This will definitely happen. We will see these people walking head on into lamp posts because "muh liberty".

Just going to comment that with this one, we are going to need eye protection as the virus really likes the eyes.

So for this one, masking isn't enough.

If anyone does riskier stuff, stoggles or a face shield, a good mask and protective gloves are probably a good combo for safety. And of course hand washing and avoidance of hand-to-eye contact.

LDH reports first U.S. H5N1-related human death

As is tradition they remember to make public that the patient was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions, so nobody needs to care and it is unnecessary to stop consuming or think about this much.

Go for it. I had to eventually give up, because the way the narration tries to always make it about the nuclear family or how odd it is if someone to not be in a heteronormative relationship and how everyone just longs for that companionship etc. got so triggering that I had to walk away. You'll definitely notice it.

Gorgeous landscapes though.

In some episodes they are in the traditional lands and in what I assume to be an attempt to be balance, there are a few where one of the people featured has Sami roots.

Most of the episodes interestingly really work to other both the people the show features as odd and not living to the norm and yet also feature them as exotic. They brush ever so cautiosly on the ways the country has ended services and factually enforced remote areas to be places where only the most privileged can now choose to live.

This show would be a great one to analyze as a whole.

That is true and same for Finland. All of them here also had non-Finnish names originally that they then changed to names sounding Finnish that were often nature-theamed during this period.

Most of the bourgeoisie also never were from here, the families that is.

The at least banal nationalism of today is largely based on the things from this era.

So maybe a better framing would be that it originates from European enlightenment.

As someone who has grown up in these countries I'd say that this is probably heavily tied to nationalism and banal nationalism. And is also super-actively utilized in country branding.

I have watched "at nokon skulle bu" and it perfectly fits the nation building rhetorics that are common in these countries with a myth of "the independent farmer/dweller" who (a man) lives of the land by carving a spot from the wilderness etc. The show btw. is also very pathriarchal in its narrative and extremely heteronormative with nordic country equality discourse qualities. It is the perfect "The Nordics" PR show.

From the Finnish pov I know that in the late 1800s the national bourge heavily took on this project of portraying nationalism into the local nature, the forests and fjords and animals. And unifying the masses under this image. This never included the indigenous Sami or Karelian or other minorities however.

Tolkien supposedly kind of engaged in this myth building about the North or the people living in the north and so did the nazis. Which is why I think it resembles the sort of myth making you often see of places like the Scottish Highlands as well. Places were groups of independent white men live of nature and the nature is wild. I think it is coded with white supremacy.

But today in neoliberalism these countries are very effectively commodifying this. And also commodifying the myths of the socdem haven in the process. The way the nordic model is talked about or things like "finland has eradicated homelessness" get thrown around are a testament to this. You add to this a few pictures of gorgeous aurora and a discourse about equality, the myth starts to live a life of its own. But a lot of actual time and money is spent on this branding I think, tourism is what helps post-industrial capitalists and landowners survive.

So I don't know. It doesn't seem like it can be compared to Orientalism because a lot of this originates from within. Then again some of these countries have been more oppressed than the others so these nation building rhetorics are not a monolith.

I found a uni course to do this year with Capital as the material so I'd be in.

I was in the previous group at the start, but other course work reading and work steamrolled over me and I could not keep up. But this year I've scheduled it in.

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