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Peter Christian Zinkann, the long-time managing director of Miele and grandson of one of the company's founders, has passed away at the age of 98, which causes the company, the industry, and the community to mourn a remarkable entrepreneurial personality and dedicated honorary citizen. #Miele #PeterChristianZinkann #Unternehmerpersönlichkeit (translated)

Riikka Purra responded to Mika Meranto and wrote that they had just been pondering out loud what had happened in such a sense. She described the megalomaniacal dissonance breaking her head and wondered why the thoughts it produced were still wanted to be presented publicly. #mielenterveys #ajatukset #dissonanssi (translated)

Onni Rostila wrote that the French government specifically accused the far left of inciting riots and violence. He urged people to assess for themselves what kind of group was rampaging in the streets and criticized Yle's reporting on the youth protests, as well as Helsingin Sanomat's talk of the far right. Rostila found the reporting to be contradictory. https://t.co/rgtFE1A7ox #Ranska #Mellakat #Politiikka (translated)

According to Mats Uotila, in Tampere, there was a proposal from the Greens to implement an internationality voucher, which would pay employers 3,000 euros from taxpayers' money for taking on a foreign Finnish student for an internship. Uotila stated that he opposed the proposal in the council because he considered it wrong. He said that international students should also be employed and companies should benefit from their skills, but not at the expense of Finnish students. #Tampere #koulutus #työllisyys (translated)

Joakim Vigelius referred to the riots in France and recalled the parliamentary speech of SDP's Tytti Tuppurainen from a couple of years ago. According to him, Tuppurainen had said that France had welcomed immigration from almost all over the world but would still remain France. Vigelius observed that the riots over the weekend showed how much France had changed. He wrote that young men of immigrant backgrounds had looted and destroyed property, set buildings on fire, and violently resisted authorities. He reported that the riots had led to over 2,000 arrests and a thousand policemen being injured. According to Vigelius, France was still France, but no longer the same as it used to be. He described the nation's national pride and homogeneous culture as being under pressure due to tensions and unrest from ethnic parallel societies. He assessed that even a small incident in France or elsewhere could trigger a wave of violence and destruction. Vigelius regarded France as one of Europe's most cautionary examples and questioned whether it was time to acknowledge that, in his view, immigration was permanently and irreversibly destabilizing societies. #Ranska #maahanmuutto #yhteiskunta (translated)

Tuomo Saarni wrote that he was amazed by people who thought that rioting, destruction of property, and anarchy were pleasant things. According to him, these people did not understand what the takeover of anarchy would mean, nor would they be able to protect themselves or their loved ones if the police could not help. Saarni said he could not share Heidi's update because she had blocked him because of the perspective he represented. #anarkia #yhteiskunta #yhteisö (translated)

Saara Huhtasaari interpreted the raised eyebrows, large eyes, and open mouth as indicative of cognitive dissonance. She wrote that a person defending immigration and asylum seekers had asked in France why the rioters acted that way, and had received a shove in response. Huhtasaari described the rioters as Islam-leftist and pro-Palestinian and claimed they had destroyed places. Huhtasaari called such empathy "suicidal empathy" and argued that it did not take into account the intentions or reciprocity of the recipient. According to her, the identity of a "good person" could lead people to vote for the same party despite the riots, and maintaining and projecting beliefs overshadowed the facts. According to Huhtasaari, the mainstream media framed the events as student protests, but reality emerged nonetheless. She wrote that change would only begin when a person could admit that immigration had not worked. #maahanmuutto #kognitiivinendissonanssi #mediakritiikki (translated)

Sture Fjäder wrote that Patrizio Laina, the chief economist of SAK, considered Finland's tax rate too low and believed that taxes could be increased. According to Fjäder, Finland already had one of the highest tax rates in the world and the strictest income taxation, so taxes should be lowered. #verotus #Suomi #talous (translated)

Tuomo Saarni pondered what it would feel like for an entrepreneur who had built their small business for a couple of decades to have it destroyed in an instant without society being able to help. He described neighbors staying behind locked doors and the entrepreneur having to start over the next day. Saarni also wrote that the state would require the entrepreneur to continue paying taxes so that the people who destroyed his property could, in his view, exercise their freedom without regard for others. He criticized the press for reporting that the demonstration had the support of the neighborhood and regarded Western democracy and journalism as being in crisis. #yrittäjyys #demokratia #journalismi (translated)