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Jussi Mäkinen wrote that Finnish immigration discussion, in his experience, had focused on the need for workers in low-paying jobs and funding for the pension system. He criticized that councilor Meri was condemned for speaking about what she thought. Mäkinen also pondered whether conclusions could be drawn from the names of those accepted into the Swedish-speaking medical faculty. Mäkinen criticized Marin's government's decision to raise the compulsory schooling age to 18. According to him, the reform had provided state-funded textbooks and school transportation for upper middle-class high school students, but at the same time enrolled youths in education who might not attend classes. He mentioned hearing from acquaintances in vocational schools in the capital region that, for example, selected students in electrical studies had not showed up for school even after the second academic year had started. Mäkinen also claimed that educational institutions received funding based on the names on student lists, even if the student did not show up. Mäkinen wrote that the proportion of those completing secondary education had risen from about 77.9 percent to 79.4 percent among those young people who turned 20 by the spring of that year. He challenged Meri to publish a positive update when the students on the list would have graduated. Mäkinen estimated that nearly 90 percent of those accepted to high school had Finnish backgrounds and nearly 90 percent of those accepted to vocational schools had immigrant backgrounds. He also shared that his friend, a Master's degree holder in business sciences who had come to Finland as a refugee from Kosovo, had said that they had learned better Finnish on a football team than in a classroom with immigrant-background students. Finally, Mäkinen reminded of a previous discussion where it was deemed important to transfer Finnish children from their local school to a school where the majority of students belonged to the S2 language group. He wrote that the backgrounds of the names on vocational school student lists could not yet be discussed. #maahanmuutto #koulutus #suomi (translated)

Onni Rostila wrote that a thin agreement was, in his opinion, better than a big dispute. According to him, this also clarified the stubborn opposition of others to the moderation of the distribution obligation. Rostila criticized the RKP's continuous obstruction and also said that the National Coalition Party had opposed the means advocated by the Finns Party. According to him, support was not received this time. https://t.co/kOKDMDzp1f #politiikka #suomi #keskustelu (translated)

Teemu don Hiilinen wrote that the school had removed the matter because the message described by Otto Meri as a dog whistle had reached the ears of other similar commentators. He claimed that the names of underage children had been spread and used as targets of ridicule, as Meri had done according to him. Hiilinen assessed that Meri would not feel shame or apologize, and described this as arrogant using a derogatory term. #koulu #koira #yhteiskunta (translated)

Seida Sohrabi wrote that FEMYSO had issued a statement with other NGOs, in which the Islamist resolution was described as a new peak in Islamophobic attacks on civil society. Sohrabi claimed that FEMYSO did not oppose political Islam but labeled the opposition to Islamism as Islamophobia. According to her, the left supported this line, which she termed "useful idiocy." #Islamofobia #PoliittinenIslam #Vasemmistolaisuus (translated)

Mika Treuthardt pondered whether instead of so-called extremist groups, it could be ordinary people who were frustrated by being treated as second-class citizens accused of racism in their own country, while, according to him, even the most serious crimes of others were aggressively silenced. He blamed traditional media for the situation, describing it as pathetic, biased, and negligent in its duties. #rasismi #media #kansalaisuus (translated)

Otto Juote wrote that the citizenship test assesses whether an applicant for citizenship other than Finnish has sufficient knowledge and skills to obtain citizenship if other conditions are met. He suggested that anyone could perhaps become a Kurd, but Finns are a people, and a passport or language skills alone do not make a person Finnish. #kansalaisuus #Suomi #monikulttuurisuus (translated)

Kamal Jafi wrote that his political aim was to prevent Finland from repeating the mistakes of other European countries and to keep the Middle Eastern problems away from Finland. He stated that he came to Finland for a better and safer future and wanted the country to remain that way. #Suomi #politiikka #tulevaisuus (translated)

A 76-year-old man drove ten kilometers in the wrong direction on a winter slippery highway, which posed a serious danger to the life and health of other road users, and he was sentenced to conditional imprisonment for gross endangerment of traffic safety. #liikenne #rikos #Keminmaa (translated)

Tuukka Kuru wrote that European nations had formed from the merging of the same ancestral populations, which he believed explained their similar phenotypes and genetic relatedness. He added that 90 percent of the genes of Finns were the same as those of other Europeans, although Finns had genetic peculiarities. Kuru asked how it could be concluded, in his opinion, that nations and races that had never lived there should be deliberately settled in Europe and Finland. #Eurooppa #kansat #geneettika (translated)

Mika Merano wrote that it was not about class but corruption. He claimed that Members of Parliament, other significant and former politicians, and their close circles received rewards on the boards of associations funded by tax money or directed funds to their own projects. According to Merano, organizational subsidies and, for example, the funds used for Garden Helsinki were taken from elsewhere and were also reflected in the support received by poor families living on subsidies. He accused politicians of pursuing their own and their close circles' interests and expressed his anger towards such activities. #korruptio #politiikka #veronmaksajat (translated)

Tuulia Alanko wrote that many others besides traditional supporters of the Finns Party had also expressed similar views, in her opinion. She praised Riikka and the Finns Party ministers for their responsibility and ability to implement. Alanko stated that the Finns Party, according to her, did not want to serve the elite or accept unrestricted use of taxpayers' money. She criticized the Social Democrats for their talk about civil society and believed that climate actions alone did not address the challenges related to immigration or hybrid operations. Alanko described the Minister of the Interior as having acted to reform immigration policy and demanded changes to open invitations for immigration and the granting of citizenship. She also praised the Finns Party Minister of Justice for changing the line on criminal law and tightening penalties, even though, according to her, he had been criticized for populism. Alanko wrote that neither Riikka nor other members of the Finns Party should change their positions to please everyone. She believed the party would maintain its stance despite red-green criticism and pressure, describing the Finns Party as a caretaker party. #persut #poliitika #Suomi (translated)

Tanja Aidanjuuri wrote that the plan in Helsinki to ban advertising of fossil fuels could, according to her, cost the city nearly 100 million euros in advertising revenue. She criticized the proposal as unnecessary and absurd and listed as examples of potentially restricted advertising gasoline and diesel cars, flights, cruises, synthetic clothing, plastic products, and fossil fuels. Aidanjuuri described that the Greens in Vantaa could, in her opinion, follow the same line and that advertising would then practically be limited to, for example, veggie sausages, rainbow flags, and new mosques. She also pointed out that taxpayer money would be used for the handling of the matter. Aidanjuuri cited a proposal stating that the advertising ban would be investigated in the preparation of the next outdoor advertising agreement for Helsinki's public areas and that the advertising agreements of Urban Traffic Ltd would also be taken into account. The assessment would examine, among other things, the legal boundaries of the ban, its climate and environmental impacts, effects on the city's economy, the city's own communication and marketing, as well as the media landscape. The proposal also mentioned the possibility of examining advertising's ethical principles more broadly and limiting outdoor advertising from entities considered to violate human rights and particularly polluting industries. #Helsinki #ilmastonmuutos #mainonta (translated)

Jari Sarasvuo criticized the increase in retirement age and claimed that as a result, more people would die of working age before reaching retirement. He wrote that people would have paid into others' pensions their whole lives without ever receiving a pension themselves. Sarasvuo described this again as a consequence of the politics against prosperity, which he claimed the country supported. #eläke #politiikka #ikääntyminen (translated)

The author wrote that Elon Musk's companies had more satellites in the sky than all other operators combined. According to him, the number was now 15,000 and would soon rise to 30,000. He mentioned that the satellites are changing their orbits daily to avoid collisions and noted that thousands of new satellites from other operators would soon be coming to the sky. #satelliitit #ElonMusk #avaruus #FI (translated)

Dennis Mitzner criticized Timo Stewart for suggesting that he believed Israel was an obstacle to the two-state solution. Mitzner argued that the Palestinians had not accepted Israel's state proposals in direct negotiations, the latest of which were the Camp David and Taba offers in 2000–2001, as well as Ehud Olmert's offers in 2008. He added that Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. According to Mitzner, the PLO's decades-old support for the two-state solution did not indicate that the Palestinians accepted Israel's existence as a Jewish state. Mitzner wrote that Stewart viewed the destruction of Hamas's ideology as unrealistic without killing all people. Mitzner interpreted this to mean that Stewart considered all Gazans as supporters of Hamas's ideology, but he himself said he would not go that far. He referred to Hamas's election in Gaza and claimed that no Gazan had attempted to help Israeli hostages in the past couple of years. Mitzner compared the situation to the Allies' victory over Nazism and the defeat of Japan, as well as the actions of the United Arab Emirates against the Muslim Brotherhood. He stated that the Western left should stop rewarding Palestinian violence and anti-Semitism. According to Mitzner, Stewart claimed that there was no Palestinian state because Israel occupied the territory and did not allow it to become independent. Mitzner denied this and described the area's history: according to him, it belonged to the British mandate from 1917 and prior to that to the Ottoman Empire. He wrote that the Arab leadership rejected the UN's 1947 partition plan, after which Jordan controlled the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza without establishing a Palestinian state. According to Mitzner, the territories came under Israeli control in the 1967 war, which Jordan, Egypt, and Syria initiated with the intent to destroy, and the Arab world's negative attitude towards Israel continued with the Khartoum resolution of the three no's. Mitzner claimed that Stewart ignored Palestinian actions and concluded by asking whether the dispute ultimately related to the fact that the opposing side was the Jewish state of Israel. #IsraelinVastaisetAsenteet #Palestiinalaiskysymys #KansainvälinenPolitiikka (translated)

Pekka mentioned that the five largest stock positions in his portfolio were Google, Micron, Nvidia, Apple, and Strategy in that order. According to him, the positions in Google, Micron, Nvidia, and Strategy included both stocks and derivatives, while the Apple position consisted solely of stocks. He added that it was not an investment recommendation and asked about the other five largest positions. #pekka #osakkeet #sijoittaminen #talous (translated)

Tuomo Saarni compared the state’s borrowing to people shifting their own expenses onto their neighbors and children. He wrote that the debts taken on by the state would be left for the children to pay, and tightening taxation on others would shift the bill to others. Saarni argued that real cuts in public finances could only be discussed when public sector expenditures consisted solely of statutory duties; until then, it would, in his opinion, be a matter of trimming expenses. #valtio #talous #lainat (translated)

The author considered the result as good news but noted that the pro-Russian party had increased its support. He also saw it as a negative that only just over 51 percent of people voted. According to the author, in a democracy, power should not be left in the hands of only about half of the electorate, or one should accept decisions made by others without complaint. #demokratia #vaalit #Venäjä #FI #RU (translated)

The author believed that the intrusion into the homes of members of parliament was an attack on the core of democracy and should not influence decision-making. He stated that he intended to continue making politics and expressing his opinions as before, and hoped that other representatives would act the same way. https://t.co/qtnzu6eJfo #demokratia #politiikka #ajatukset (translated)