Another world leader caught on video partying while ruining your jobs and businesses during Covid.

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Finnish PM Sanna Marin under fire after party video surfaces​

Finland's Sanna Marin has been seen regularly at music festivals, nightclubs since taking office​

Finnish PM Sanna Marin under fire after party video surfaces | Fox News

A leaked video shows Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing with friends, and she defended her actions, saying, "I am going to be exactly the same person."

www.foxnews.com

 

[Webster]

 

[Nebulous]

No fun allowed!

 

[Webster]

For fuck's sake, it had nothing to do Covid, you simple-minded prudish pricks....

Finland’s PM is a young woman in power. Her partying is the total opposite of disgrace

Sanna Marin is a symbol of feminist achievement that closet cultural-Putinists are fighting to contain

www.theguardian.com

Northern European politics rarely rates a mention in Australian media, but the young prime minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, has been making headlines here for a week. “Finnish PM apologises for topless photo as steamy images emerge” ran Wednesday’s headline in the tabloid the Herald Sun.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the images are of Marin herself, especially given the Herald Sun’s stablemate news.com.au similarly ran with “Finland prime minister Sanna Marin apologises for topless photo” and everyone from Australia’s public broadcasters the ABC and SBS to commercial channel 9 shared the tales of Finland’s “Party PM”.

The “topless images” are not, of course, of the Finnish prime minister – they’re not even particularly “topless”. Those on public view playfully shield the subjects’ breasts with a sign that reads “Finland” – a gesture of on-brand patriotism if ever there was one.

One infers the “steaminess” derives from the depiction of two women kissing, which for those of us who live in liberal, modern western countries like Finland – or Australia – is about as steamy as a Sunday dinner with your parents. For Marin, who was raised by lesbian parents, this is, perhaps, literally the case.

As has been pointed out in solidarity videos made in support of Marin and shared all over the world, women dancing, “grinding” and smooching at parties is a ubiquitous enough a western pastime to be considered, frankly, ho-hum. The issue is not, of course, that Marin does in her spare time what 36-year-old western women somewhere are doing at any given point in time. It is that a 36-year-old western woman is holding down a position of leadership that ancient prejudices still – still – associate with old men and a different, gendered set of standards.

There are topless photos aplenty of Marin’s Russian neighbour, the 69-year-old Vladimir Putin, whose idea of a party is quoting song lyrics about rape as he invades sovereign nations.

These stories about Marin have appeared at the precise time the young Finn outflanked the old Russian autocrat, asserting both strategic deftness and military preparedness with her government’s request that Finland join the Nato alliance. In this context, footage of her partying is the opposite of disgrace. Putinist images of unrestrained power rooted in twee, kitsch stereotypes of masculine dominance are brutally undercut by a prime minister who can both party on with the girls and stare down militarism to her east at the same time.

They’re literally visible proof of the political strength of western liberalism – that destroying prejudicial barriers to power is what brings your best to the front. So why has there been some tutt-tutting in the media and online?

Other commentators have made the point that those who are attracted to Marin as a physical object may be distressed and resentful that her position as prime minister affirms her power as a subjective individual. She’s a symbol of the feminist achievement that recidivist and resentful closet cultural-Putinists in the west fight – with everything from internet harassment to anti-abortion laws – to contain.

Power as western tradition understands it indulges the older white men who wield it their proclivities – sexual, chemical or otherwise. Their personal lives are their footnotes, not their story.

Note that Australia’s new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, 59, received a celebratory reception for his own big night out on Monday. The infamously rock-loving “DJ Albo” was cheered by crowds at a Gang of Youths concert, skolling beer, wearing a Joy Division T-shirt.

No one obliged him to take a drug test, like Marin. Indeed, the event represented a humanising movement of what we understand as power coming to where the people are. What Marin represents is the people coming to where the power is, and the shaming of her for it is revealing.

For far too many of media and cultural influence in the west, it is one thing for a woman to hold office … but the democratisation of also having a good time is, as yet, unendurable.

 

[Mini Maul]

Media just out to get her cause she is different from all the others.

She is doing nothing wrong.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Media just out to get her cause she is different from all the others.

She is doing nothing wrong.

She was partying while a entire nation couldn’t even visit family without being arrested. She is the ultimate evil hypocrite politician.

 

[Mini Maul]

She was partying while a entire nation couldn’t even visit family without being arrested. She is the ultimate evil hypocrite politician.

"The 36-year-old Social Democrat did not violate the country’s public health rules, as Finland does not require vaccinated people to quarantine. But guidance does “strongly recommend that you voluntarily avoid contact with people outside your household” while waiting for access to a test or results of one.


Marin said a staffer initially informed her that there was no need to quarantine because everyone exposed was vaccinated. She did not question that instruction, she said, because it was similar to the health agency’s guidelines."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/08/finland-prime-minister-clubbing/

"Although Finland has not applied a nationwide lockdown, other measures have been taken to contain the spread of the virus. At the moment, certain national and regional restrictions are in place to slow down further spread of COVID-19 in the country."

Topic: Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Finland

Find the most up-to-date statistics and facts on the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Finland

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"The restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 epidemic have been lifted. All temporary obligations under the Communicable Diseases Act affecting events, customer premises and food and beverage service businesses expired on 30 June 2022. "

Current restrictions

valtioneuvosto.fi

Cant get much info on howstrict their "lockdown" was but it looks like Nordic countries went with a very loose lockdown policy:

"Neither country even has a mask mandate, though both implemented mask recommendations in August. In Norway, private gatherings in public places are still permitted, though the capacity was recently reduced to 50 people (down from 200).

In Finland, people say daily life hasn’t changed very much.

“My daily life actually hasn’t been affected too much,” healthcare assistant Gegi Aydin told one local news station.""

This country has been named the world’s happiest for the fifth year in a row

Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

www.cnbc.com

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The fact Finland have been named happiest country along with other Nordic countries shows that they are at least a well oiled machine

This country has been named the world’s happiest for the fifth year in a row

Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Webster]

She was partying while a entire nation couldn’t even visit family without being arrested. She is the ultimate evil hypocrite politician.

Wrong.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Wrong.

As I said a government stooge and hypocrite. She just happened to miss a text😂😂


Quote: Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.

Finnish PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact - BBC News

Sanna Marin went on a night out on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mini Maul]

As I said a government stooge and hypocrite. She just happened to miss a text😂😂


Quote: Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.

Finnish PM sorry for clubbing after Covid contact - BBC News

Sanna Marin went on a night out on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive.

www.bbc.com

Though it wasn't against any rules?
It's not compulsory to isolate if you are in close contact in Finland. They advise you do so but they explained why they didn't as they felt all being fully vaccinated would be okay.
Then instead they try and jump on the drugs side of partying. To which she did a clean drugs test.

Just the media trying to take someone down who breaks the mold, no news story here.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Though it wasn't against any rules?
It's not compulsory to isolate if you are in close contact in Finland. They advise you do so but they explained why they didn't as they felt all being fully vaccinated would be okay.
Then instead they try and jump on the drugs side of partying. To which she did a clean drugs test.

Just the media trying to take someone down who breaks the mold, no news story here.

I don’t care about if she was using drugs or partying. I don’t care if people wanted to party during the height of Covid. What I care about is the hypocrisy of these elites and politicians that say we should all stay home, wear a useless mask, take poison vaccines but yet they don’t do any of it themselves. She is among those piece of garbage hypocrite people.

 

[Smiley]

She apologized for being found out, not for doing what she did. That's what politicians always do when they're caught red-handed - say they're sorry, keep a low profile for awhile until the media storm dies down and the public shifts their attention to something else, then it's business as usual. Twice the standards, double the hypocrisy.

 

[DrLeftover]

I need a drink.

 

[Smiley]

Soft or stiff?

 

[Webster]

Just the media trying to take someone down who breaks the mold, no news story here.

Exactly.

 

[Webster]

What I care about is the hypocrisy of these elites and politicians that say we should all stay home, wear a useless mask, take poison vaccines but yet they don’t do any of it themselves. She is among those piece of garbage hypocrite people.

And this is bad how again?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

And this is bad how again?

It’s immoral.

Did more harm than good.

Entire generation of screwed up kids. Countries can’t find enough mental health experts for this crisis.

Created a substance abuse crisis.

The science lied and it wasn’t about your health in the least. Gave government more power and a gave a corrupt medical industry trillions.

 

[Webster]

It’s immoral.

Did more harm than good.

Entire generation of screwed up kids. Countries can’t find enough mental health experts for this crisis.

Created a substance abuse crisis.

The science lied and it wasn’t about your health in the least. Gave government more power and a gave a corrupt medical industry trillions.

Again, so what? *shrugs*

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Again, so what? *shrugs*

People usually don’t like our crumbling society

 

[Nebulous]

Soft or stiff?

I'll take a stiff one.