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  • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyztoPrivacy@lemmy.mlCHATCONTROL STOPPED!
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    Most of politicians at least here in Europe have not started with a lot of money. You first start in communal politics, then when you’ve shown your skills in that, your party gives you more visibility among the general public. And then you might get to the national parliament, and if you’re doing your job well there, you might end up in a position where you become interesting for voting in as a MEP. Or as the president of your country.

    You cannot get into the national parliament out of nowhere, but I don’t really know why you should. It’s a very tough job, and it’s good that you’ve first had to gather some experience from communal politics before that.

    Though, this is of course only how it works with leftist and centrist parties. In the right wing parties the system is apparently somewhat different. But that’s one of the reasons I wouldn’t vote them anyway.




  • Put your oven to heat up to maybe 175 degrees? Take some flour and sugar and salt and, I guess, baking powder? Mix in correct proportions, add enough of some form of edible fat and a suitable amount of a liquid safe for eating. Mix well. Pour in forms.

    Put the forms on a baking tray and into the oven. If you’re very lucky and you remembered to add the unlisted ingredients in correct amounts, you now have something cupcake-like. Put some toppings on.

    Yoghurt.










  • This answer comes super late, but is perhaps still of use for you.

    Personally, I prefer Hufvudstadsbladet. It’s in Swedish and my Swedish is far from good, but I still feel that among all newspapers in Finland that one has the best investigative journalism, and it does a better job with remaining neutral than other newspapers do. Its only noteworthy bias is that it makes relatively big fuss about small events in small towns if those towns are by majority Swedish-speaking. And since what happens in those towns is largely irrelevant to me, that bias does not really matter. It just means that there is a certain low percentage of news articles that I skip.

    Besides that, there’s also http://yle.fi/uutiset/tuoreimmat that I like to follow regularly. There was a purge some ten-ish years ago where people who were not good enough friends with the political party Keskusta were removed from all decisionmaking, and that has not been reversed. However, that has apparently not hurt Yle’s neutrality in a very bad manner. I dislike Keskusta a lot but Yle’s news have not become uninteresting for me, because they are still neutral enough.




  • True, but there is the army that handed all the logistical trucks to the Red Army. The backbone of the Red Army was US material support. They provided the manpower, USA provided the tools. Plus, USA and UK provided a notable amount of manpower from another direction. And the tools for that manpower as well.

    It is true that the Soviet army did a lot there. But still, the Russian claim that they did basically all of the job, especially when a huge chunk of “their” soldiers were actually from Ukraine and not from the Russia, is a lie.

    It was a coöperational effort of several countries. USA could not have freed us of Nazis without UK and USSR. And USSR could not have freed us of nazis without USA and UK.