Yeah, like. The big thing for me is that I know that the actual likelihood of anything happening internationally that threatens Finland is really low. But I also know that the likelihood of our internal politics getting fucking insufferable for the next eight years is extremely high, because that's what happened the last time Trump was elected and immediately made a huge mess of international politics.
But if I talk about how this will embolden Finnish racists, I get crickets from Finns, so I have to keep contextualising this in an internationally comprehensible way. Finland is not gonna be the next Ukraine -- I am actually way more concerned for the Baltic nations, because I also don't want to see more war in Europe, because that will make racist-ass protectionist entrenchment worse, making racism in Finland worse!
But I have to care or I'll go crazy. I can't lie to myself and act like it's fine because I won't ever personally know any of the people this will harm, because it harms me and it harms my culture that the choices other people make somewhere else let Finns be more cruel to people who have done jack shit to us. I can't stop thinking about this through the lens of How This Affects Me and How Will This Make The Nationalism So Much Worse, because I don't want to not care about both the people I never meet and the people I have to share a country, an economy and a culture with!!!
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Yeah, like. The big thing for me is that I know that the actual likelihood of anything happening internationally that threatens Finland is really low. But I also know that the likelihood of our internal politics getting fucking insufferable for the next eight years is extremely high, because that's what happened the last time Trump was elected and immediately made a huge mess of international politics.
But if I talk about how this will embolden Finnish racists, I get crickets from Finns, so I have to keep contextualising this in an internationally comprehensible way. Finland is not gonna be the next Ukraine -- I am actually way more concerned for the Baltic nations, because I also don't want to see more war in Europe, because that will make racist-ass protectionist entrenchment worse, making racism in Finland worse!
But I have to care or I'll go crazy. I can't lie to myself and act like it's fine because I won't ever personally know any of the people this will harm, because it harms me and it harms my culture that the choices other people make somewhere else let Finns be more cruel to people who have done jack shit to us. I can't stop thinking about this through the lens of How This Affects Me and How Will This Make The Nationalism So Much Worse, because I don't want to not care about both the people I never meet and the people I have to share a country, an economy and a culture with!!!