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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   1675 thread views

Transnational Thursday for January 25, 2024

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The election came and went. Stubb and Haavisto, the main candidates in the polls, advanced to the next round. Halla-aho was left third, with a considerable gap to Haavisto.

The second round is in two weeks, and for the first time in my life, I'm seriously considering leaving an empty ballot. Not as a protest, but simply because this is the biggest Tweedledum and Tweedledee election I've seen in my lifetime; there's not much difference between the candidates expect in nuance (both are socially liberal, Atlanticist and Europhile), neither particularly causes me a feeling that I should vote for them, neither causes a feeling that I should vote for the other one to vote against them, neither causes much feelings at all.

On the other hand, this is probably the perfect state of politics to be in anyway...

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