Randahl Fink

Watching tonights election debate in Denmark, I am very disappointed to see that 3 out of 12 parties are running on an anti-Muslim agenda: Danmarksdemokraterne, Dansk Folkeparti, and Borgernes Parti.

Denmark is an extremely well functioning country with just 3 percent unemployment, low crime rates, and a high level of happiness, and our Muslim minority is indeed a part of that. Were they not here, Danish employers would be missing hundreds of thousands of employees.

This makes no sense at all.

Feb 26 at 9:58pmIvory for Mac
Show threadWouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪Feb 26
@randahl everywhere the same fascist shit!
Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 26
@Randahl Fink Populism isn't about making sense, it's solely about pitching people against each other.
Show threadQuantumFeb 26
@hans @randahl But why pitch people against each other? The success formula is: Extort the lower/middle class from their welfare and give it to the extremely rich. In return the rich prop up your party with loads of money. The robbed people stay happy as long as others (immigrants) are lots worse off than they themselves. Btw, the far right learned this success formula from neo-liberalism.
Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 27
@Quantum
Btw, the far right learned this success formula from neo-liberalism.

Nah, the idea is much, much older than that. Caesar already used it when he conquered Gallica: "divide et impera".

He would pitch one Gaul tribe against the other and make them fight among themselves, so he only needed to clean up the remaining bits afterwards.
Show threadKing of TorsFeb 26
@randahl I know this is far from your point (which I agree with, 100%), but are Danish debates done on the set of The Weakest Link?
Show threadRandahl FinkFeb 27
@kingtor I honestly do not know why the set looked this strange. Usually tv programs from DR does not look like this.
Show threadKing of TorsFeb 27
@randahl sometimes I think a game show would be more effective than political "debates" in the USA
Show threadJohn CrowdenFeb 26
@randahl Christian Eriksen should run for prime minister. He'd win hands down.
Show threadMayor of Nerdocrumbesia 🏡Feb 27
@randahl
Show threadfullofquarksFeb 27
@randahl …did you just say 12 parties?!
Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 27
@fullofquarks That's child's play, we (the Dutch) had no less than 27 parties to choose from during our 2025 elections...

@Randahl Fink
Show threadfullofquarksFeb 27
@hans my brain does not compute. How do you even keep up with all of them?
Show threadHans van ZijstFeb 27
@fullofquarks We don't 😂

It's good that every possible idea in society is discussed in parliament, but this many parties doesn't work. Makes the landscape too fragmented.

Forming a majority coalition is pretty much impossible. So now, for the second time in our history, we have a minority coalition.

Last time we had that was in 1939, and that government fell after only one day 😂

A minority coalition however is normal in Denmark.
Show threadRandahl FinkFeb 27
@fullofquarks yes. And that is not even a high number. In local politics the count is even higher.
Show threadS.T. VejeFeb 27
@randahl Those parties have been running on that for decades. It's their bread and butter. What really frightens me is that lately I've seen signs that the rhetoric of "criminal immigrants" is even infiltrating people on the left, which tells me that the far right is slowly but surely winning the propaganda and disinformation war. No doubt thanks to Facebook's algorithm.