I just want to stop the Global North from killing itself!
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Tantric Turanist ๐ซ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Stained wood parquet flooring that I designed back in 2014
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It's interesting that when it comes to the actual lifestyle, the Nordic countries are perhaps the closest to America in Europe. Car-centric suburbs, big box-stores, chain restaurants...
(supermarket in my home town where I went shopping with my mom every week growing up)
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2010's and 2020's residential suburban sprawl in Oulu, Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
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In Finland, we do not have many "European style" small historic towns and villages. Instead, our villages were sparsely built and have quite few historic buildings left, many were demolished to build supermarkets and parking lots.
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This type of an American neocon is a fascinating breed, they think they can just ignore Trump and keep on lecturing and shaming West Europeans on Ukrainian aid like they still had some moral authority on that issue.
I sometimes wonder what Ukrainians really think of Western Europe. They die and suffer terrible injuries - not to mention all the emotional trauma - while the rest of Europe double-deals with Russia. What a shameful chapter in Western European history...
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As a citizen of a country bordering Russia, I can confidently say that the disappointment I and my countrymen feel towards Belgium for trading with Kyrgyzstan a bit is microscopical compared to the disappointment we feel towards the US leadership becoming openly Putinist.
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This is a major migration wave in Europe, mostly hidden in the statistics and public discussion. "Yookay" is the only true multicultural state in Europe where unintegrated migrants can thrive and find employment, continental Europe tries to forcefully assimilate them.
Interesting bit in The Economist on the composition of some of our EU immigration.
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Here in Finland, the GREEN PARTY is now proposing mandatory daycare for immigrant children for forced language learning. State-enforced migrant assimilation is the liberal, "woke" position here.
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The UK is probably the only European country that has state-funded Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Hindu etc. schools and allows 100% faith-based admission in religious minority schools. This was a CONSERVATIVE policy.
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Tantric Turanist ๐ซ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Oulu has far more affordable housing than the capital region or Tampere and far better demographics than any city in Finland that isn't way smaller, but nobody who isn't already from North Finland wants to live there because it's too far away.
Perfect place to disappear.
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2010's and 2020's residential suburban sprawl in Oulu, Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
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(Imagined) European validation of American low culture is like crack cocaine to them, it seems. At first, I found it baffling how Red Americans actually seem to feel nationalistic pride of hamburgers, gas stations and cars rather than their national heroes, achievements etc...
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This Norwegian kid visiting the US for the World Cup is straight-up floored by In-N-Out. ๐
From struggling through the order (โthree burgersโฆ only bread and meat!โ) to devouring it and calling it โDelicious!โ โ pure joy.
Europeans come here and realize Americaโs high-quality life isnโt a myth. Best burgers, friendliest service, and freedom fries. ๐บ๐ธ๐
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...but then I remembered they were kicked out from every single city they built, every single cultural or scientific institution they founded for more than half a century ago already. That's all they've got left. This is Red American nationalism.
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Every US every cultural institution is blue, all the universities are blue, all the tech centers are blue, Hollywood is blue, New York is blue, DC is blue, California is blue, urban culture is blue, pop culture is blue... Only guns, cars, burgers left for the Reds to claim.
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In Finnish, we lack the word "have" and instead say something like... "I have" = "At me, there is"
Which is similar to Russian "ั ะผะตะฝั ะตััั...", thought to be a Uralic loan into Russian.
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Kind of interesting that in English and French and German and the Nordic languages, โI haveโ means both โI possessโ and โI didโ (past tense). But not in Spanish!
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Tantric Turanist ๐ซ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
While the U.S. government cites national security to regulate AI, Mistral AI is preparing to raise โฌ3 billion to build a sovereign European alternative.
The company is also hiring aggressively all over Europe, with more than 270 open positions on LinkedIn.
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Tantric Turanist ๐ซ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
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Chinese govt measure its success by how well the livelihood of its people is improved and safeguarded under crisis, not by raking up victory points before 2050 by destroying everyoneโs economy as if itโs playing a modded Hearts of Iron 4.
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China really has no interest in weakening US hegemony, because their own development is directly tied to it
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Americans are just way more comfortable using money, more generous with money. At least here in Lutheran Europe, it's very ingrained into our culture that using money is Bad and trying to always save money is Good. It's not even about money per se but about morality.
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Why are Americans known as easy to scam? Why do they get overcharged at restaurants, taxis and tourist traps around the world? Even by businesses at home. Or with FIFA and WC ticket prices.
Because being a sucker is less shameful than being a loser
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Also, Americans make it easy to do Keynesian economics through private consumption with tax cuts etc. Here in Finland, we've got the problem that the govt tried to pump the economy by doing tax cuts to increase private consumption.... and then people just refused to consume more.
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Real wages are up but consumption is not increasing because people are just saving up everything and paying off their debt so the economy keeps shrinking.
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