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[scriver]

Well, it's going to be a mess, because suddenly if you want to bid on a Finnish contract that require sending staff there, you'll have to change all your employee's contracts to fit Finnish law, so you'll not bother to bid and Finnish firms we alone enjoy the market.

Why should anyone be able to work in Finland without following Finnish laws?

[Sheb]

No one should, but it's still a sort of protectionism. It's just one of those case where protectionism is okay.

scrdest: Yeah, but letting immigrants work in a country without respecting Finnish labor law would be unfair competition.

[scrdest]

No one should, but it's still a sort of protectionism. It's just one of those case where protectionism is okay.

scrdest: Yeah, but letting immigrants work in a country without respecting Finnish labor law would be unfair competition.

I would respond, but you already did in the first sentence.

[Sheb]

So we all agree. By the way, Bosnia is also full of protests at the moment, protests that started with the privatization of factories.

[LordSlowpoke]

mother of fuck, the balkans are apathy central, what sort of bullshit was that privatization up to that they managed to spark anything

* LordSlowpoke fondly recalls the existence of a bosnian in this very thread

[Sheb]

Apathy central? They were at war not 20 years ago! Anyway, I'm with Owlbread* on this one: Bosnia-Herzgovinia (BiH) should have been split long ago. Its structure make it ungovernable, and it was only put together because the international community is afraid of nation-state dividing.

¨* Technically Owlbread hasn't answered yet, so I used my best estimate of my position. My apology if BiH is the only place on earth were he doesn't support separatism. :p

[Guardian G.I.]

Here's an interesting link: RT compares anti-Soviet propaganda art in Western media from 1980 and anti-Russian propaganda art from 2014.
For those allergic to Putin's bloodthirsty gay-lynching websites, here's simply anti-Soviet propaganda from 1980 without English commentary.
One of magazine covers from that era even predicted the Olympic rings gaffe from the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony that made all Western progressive community label it as utterly ruined.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Here's an interesting link: RT compares anti-Soviet propaganda art in Western media from 1980 and anti-Russian propaganda art from 2014.
For those allergic to Putin's bloodthirsty gay-lynching websites, here's simply anti-Soviet propaganda from 1980 without English commentary.
One of magazine covers from that era even predicted the Olympic rings gaffe from the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony that made all Western progressive community label it as utterly ruined.

Remember, it's the Jews that are making Russia hostile to foreigners, arrest dissidents all around the country, and makes them unprepared for hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-in-budget Olympic events. I think they must've spent all that money on the troops, because it wasn't spent in the half pipes or the hotels.

I'd argue the 1980 fear campaign was less necessary, but it's quite telling that Russian reactionaries will label any criticism of Putin's perfect Russia as western propaganda [Especially blaming it on the ever-present 'Jewish/Liberal/US media'].

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeews! Jewish propaganda!

We actually need more Israeli propaganda/state TV news stations, to show these people what actual Jewish mud-slinging looks like. Trust me, we have plenty of criticism to lay at the feet of Putin's perfect Russia and they should be glad we don't.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Here's an interesting link: RT compares anti-Soviet propaganda art in Western media from 1980 and anti-Russian propaganda art from 2014.

These are all private artists, a few of them even fully independent. "Propaganda" is not really the right word.

One of magazine covers from that era even predicted the Olympic rings gaffe from the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony that made all Western progressive community label it as utterly ruined.

That's not a prediction. America boycotted the Olympics then, the rightmost ring is the red ring, the red ring has been thought of to represent North and South America. And that's certainly not why Western progressives are against the Olympics. Western progressives are against the Olympics because it has a history of being a human rights travesty performed for the sake of nationalist dick-waving. Putin's Russia is not the first offender, and it will probably not be the last.

[Owlbread]

It's also amusing that "the West" would be pulled up for using seemingly anti-Soviet style propaganda in 2014 when Guardian consistently compares us to Nazi Germany.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I'll remind my Jewish cabal to lay off the anti-Scottish propaganda, my bad Owlbread.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No, keep it going, those Scots are probably crypto-Stalinists. The Daily Mail told me so.

[LordSlowpoke]

but then, take one look at nazi germany and what is has accomplished

the nazis said they'll get germans breathing space? check. they said they'll fix the economy? a-yup. said economy was fixed in an unsustainable way in general but hey it worked (also there was this thing about losing the war but who cares about that? they weren't in power after the war)

now look at contemporary governments. sure thing populism still happens, but they don't end up doing jack shit most times

the nazis have several good reasons to be shunned, but we could learn a thing or two from them nowadays - something along the lines of marginalizing political opponents so you can actually build what you were almost-elected to build, or occultism. i'd donate to a campaign to bring an occultist government into power for shits, giggles and the tolerance they'd have towards whatever whoever would want to practice

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No, keep it going, those Scots are probably crypto-Stalinists. The Daily Mail told me so.

They told me that I should have had cancer fifty times by the time I was three due to the stuff I eat.

You see, this is why it's important to listen to the Daily Mail. I have mine hand-delivered by non-English British couriers every day, all the way across the Atlantic. If the ink isn't still wet when it reaches me I have them beaten.

[Sheb]

"I know it's true because I read it in the Daily Mail"