MTV: Finland withdraws from Ukraine equality alliance due to Finns Party minister's anti-LGBT stance
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WTAF Finland.
The minister in charge of these issues is a religious homophobe and the "party" he represents is more like a loose protest coalition of confused conservatives and racists.
Our prime minister "would have liked Finland to join the initiative, but the ministers have the authority in their own cabinets". The racists have our prime minister's balls in a grip, since the government would dissolve if they got offended and decided to leave. And since the current right wing government is the only chance to crush the labour unions' power, prime minister Orpo seems to be more than willing to suffer one humiliation after another to win this prize for the corporate sector.
It's not as bad as the US. We don't have a presidential candidate openly calling for the end of democracy. It has been getting worse. But we're not there yet.
Perkele!
Hateful assholes running the place over there I guess >:| And I used to like that place, despite their best efforts to convince me not to! I'll just pick a different place that uses a language I like. Let's seee.... 👾 🦹 👿 💩🤡 🔍🤔 .... Yeah maybe I should pick a new language to like v.v
If the god they claim to believe in exists I’m pretty sure it’ll be more angry about leaving than staying
That sounds...reasonable?
Because it's a lie told to cover up bigotry.
Sure... if you ignore the entire rest of the article.
I mean I'm not doubting the minister is a bit of a homophobe but I don't think it's wrong to focus aid on the disabled.
That's true I suppose. His motivation does not appear to be altruistic but if it was a case of diverting limited funds, I can see his excuse not to fund this being reasonable.
Oh good, so you agree that his excuse is unreasonable then! I'm glad we had this little discussion.
Yes, thank you for the polite discourse.
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