Randahl Fink

Well… that is a first. In yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Denmark, painter and provocateur Kristian von Hornsleth tried to bribe voters into voting for the Enhedslisten party.

On his Instagram account he offered artworks for votes if voters photographed their vote, proving that they had indeed voted for Enhedslisten.

Obviously, this is a violation of the Danish penal code and punishable by up to 2 years in prison.

Yesterday, Hornsleth was arrested and charged by Copenhagen Police.

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Show threadAnders Cornelius Madsen23h ago

@randahl

Expect him to start whining and claim to be a victim since it all was just an artistic happening in 3....2....1....

Show threadUrbanEdm23h ago
@randahl What, they didn't investigate for 3 years before quietly dropping the matter? What kind of democracy is that? /s
Show threadIanto Jones23h ago
@randahl what's it like living in a country that holds people accountable?
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺23h ago
@randahl Provocation accomplished.
Show threadRandall Lee23h ago
@randahl musk committed this crime multiple times and nothing happens to Nazis in the US when they commit election fraud and voter fraud. Now that the US is an openly corrupt oligarchy pretending to be a democracy the laws are only applied to political enemies regardless of the legitimacy of the claims
Show threadLeeloo23h ago

@randahl
Polling places should have a stack of prefilled ballots for photo ops, one with an X at each party (ideally each person), with a large "invalid" stamp on the parts of the ballot that you are not taking a picture of.

Bonus points if they are filled in manually at the polling place, so the X will be different.

That would make it hard enough to prove anything that offering to pay for photos would be useless.

Show threadMatt Hall22h ago

@randahl

What's it like to have a nation of sane laws where those laws are enforced?

Show threadCarlos Solís23h ago
I'm surprised that 1. there's a jurisdiction that takes vote bribing seriously and 2. there's a fool actually intending to perform such an act in the first place
Show threadGeorge Liquor, American21h ago
@randahl We should have arrested Musk, but he owns everything and everyone sooooo
Show threadEllen Bakker21h ago
@randahl And did it help the party at all?
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦21h ago
@randahl sex is great but Schadenfreude can be deliciously better
Show threadDadbod AntiFa21h ago
@blogdiva @randahl
Por que no los dos?
Show threadSpeed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸21h ago
@blogdiva Where I live we often say "Skadefryd er den eneste sanne glede" (Schadenfreude is the only true joy) . A bit harsh, so we usually say it about other people :) .
@randahl
Show threadMissConstrue21h ago
@randahl Apologies for not having the bandwidth to track down context, but is said painter on the side of the people, or on the side of fascism? Like, was this a protest of sorts, showing the fragility of a system, or was this just flat out vote buying?
Show threadJens Christian Skov16h ago
@MissConstrue He claimed to be member of the party he tried to support, but at first the party couldn't confirm this claim.
Show threadrhempel20h ago
@randahl The FAFO is strong in this one.
Show threadWhiskers 🇦🇺19h ago
@randahl Excellent. Checks and balances. Sadly here in Australia political parties do this on an industrial scale - which is our big problem.
#auspol
Show threadGrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸19h ago
@randahl The US needs to start doing that stuff to Elon
Show threadviolettejean17h ago

@grumpydad @randahl

I was just thinking that. except it did not happened, and will not, and billionaires go on buying their politicians.