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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

And still over 2.7% of Finland's population are estimated to be Muslims and the number is expected to rise fast in following decades by 2050 when there should be around 11% to 15% Muslims.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

For starters, the non-citizens were able to vote in these elections and especially SDP was active in non-citizens spreading election material in multiple different languages including Arabic, Somali, Russian, etc and this was actually 2 separate elections in one and a total of about 120,000 votes were rejected which must be a record high. For example in northern Ostrobothnia in last municipal & welfare region elections there were only about 700 rejected votes while this year there were 7000.

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Chukna 5 points ago +5 / -0

Over 76,000 votes rejected, that must be record high because usually the number is much lower... around 20k. I bet they were mostly votes for the Finns. SDP also got probably a lot of votes from non-citizens because they very actively sharing election material in Arabic, Somali, and other foreign languages.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20155854

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

Here in Finland diesel has been around €2/l for long time and 95 around €1.799/l and 98 around €1.899.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

Diesel has been for years about same price as 95/98 gas. That came after governments got everyone to buy diesel car.

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

Was probably $8.6 last week or couple weeks per gallon, now $6.44.

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

The reason for the lower prices is that the price of crude oil has fallen to its lowest level in years. It's still pretty high though, around $6.44 per gallon but just a few weeks ago the price was $8.59.

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well that obviously is bullshit. Europe should abolish all tariffs that they have on the USA.

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

What is bullshit? It's the fact that Europe puts huge tariffs on American products.

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Chukna 3 points ago +3 / -0

Trump should also demand backpay from all the years Europe has been freeriding in NATO & Finland and Sweden shouldn't have been allowed to join NATO before they have paid all the years they have been freeriding without paying.

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Chukna 1 point ago +1 / -0

USA is militarily and economically stronger country so US products shouldn't be charged VAT.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

Oh ok, so she was from Northern Ostrobothnia.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

She must definitely have come from Ostrobothnia, probably South Ostrobothnia, because that's where kropsu is from according Google results. It is also the area from which most Finnish migrants went to the United States.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, I had never even heard of kropsu, but after googling it, it sounds very similar to the pancake (pannari or pannukakku in Finnish) we sometimes eat, but kropsu according Google is a regional version from Ostrobothnia.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, the older relatives of my father's family also changed their Russian sounding names after WW2 to Finnish names because they experienced ethnic discrimination and younger relatives got automatically Finnish names.

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Chukna 2 points ago +2 / -0

I guess, half of my family comes from Karelia, some so far east it was never part of Finland. I still have relatives in Russia.

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Chukna 8 points ago +8 / -0

I singled out Finland because it's the only country I was able to find this data easily and also because I live in Finland.

I also wish the USA's tariffs help remove VAT which is too high in Finland so I kind of have a hidden agenda.

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Chukna 13 points ago +13 / -0

For everyone here complaining that VATs are not tariffs.

They are in effect a tariff on all US imports, regardless of whether your domestic goods are also taxed.

The US doesn't have a VAT, tax, on your exports. So, it allows you to sell into US economy cheaper than into your own country. Creating a stream of US dollars back into your country and nothing back into the US.

The days of stealing money from the US are over.

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Chukna 3 points ago +3 / -0

Should be additional tariffs also to each individual country.

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