What is the popular opinion towards this?

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  1. Just a bunch of idiots and ignorent folk. Mostly get’s laughed at or ignored. I don’t think they are going to reach any of the demands they have set. We’ll see what what happens on friday, I guess.

  2. I think you will get a fairly one sided opinion on reddit about this here 🙂 every different website has its own echo chambers of course.

    In my circle yes we consider this movement a good thing.

  3. Retards.

    The funniest thing is that the last part of this list is “common sense”.

    I mean, if they had any common sense they wouldn’t be doing any of this shit in the first place.

  4. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it, but its entertaining for sure, sort of like a dadaistic performance.

    For realzies though: I do not agree with these people at all, but I do find myself thinking that if we lived in a truly inclusive society, that would have meaningful jobs for all skill and ability levels, affordable good quality housing, working social security net and effective mental health and addiction services, these people would probably be happily living their own life and not participating something thats as futile, silly and useless as this.

  5. It looks like some joke poster but it also seems to be real and trustworthy.. something like a truckers p2p meet.

  6. Shitshow shitshow shitshow

    Paranoid paranoid paranoid

    Fear, scare, monger.

    ”Bring common sense and good moods” – everything before that was direct opposite of it.

  7. This is my first time/night in Helsinki (on vacation) and I just wanna know where they’re gonna convoy to/from. I’m just asking cause the streets are small and the snow is piled pretty high. But, I’m all for watching the shit show. 🤣

  8. They are making a good point which I partly agree with, but they are overdoing it and its gonna be a shitshow tbh.

  9. No one seems to be responsible for organizing this, and as a result it has turned into a satirical trollfest. Probably the original organizers/funders have backed out long ago as well. It will be interesting to see what will eventually happen.

  10. It’s really embarrassing that we also have these people.

    Same time is also kinda funny watching this shit show to unwrap

  11. In Finlands case I don’t feel like there is need for this kind of copy cat movement. We have had mild restrictions anyway and THL(our health institute) is full of old fossils which only goal seems to be that we get prohibition back. This is going to be a flat pancake.

  12. Im Canadian, living in Finland and can tell you honestly that the Finnish convoy is a bunch of far right rednecks combined with the far left hippies, neither of who have personalities of their own, and feel the need to follow or adhere to some group for inner stability.

    The the far right immigrant hating rednecks hate that their government is telling them what to do, and the far left vaccine hating hippies hate that the government is trying to get things under control with covid certificates.

    Both these extremem idiots believe ;
    -covid is a regular flu
    -Bill Gates made the vaccine for mind control
    -Tin foil hats
    -media virus
    -masks cause oxygen deprivation
    -this is all a conspiracy.

    I have read so much crap on facebook from both sides of this dumbassery spectrum, that I am blown away with the lack of any semblance of unity towards the community. This, folks, is the new world we live in.

    This is how the zombie outbreak will start. “Its just a flesh eating bacteria. Bill Gates invented it to control us! Those people infected arent zombies! They are simply human beings who want to exist! “🤷🏽‍♂️

  13. I wouldn’t be surprised if Russia was involved. They’re good at doing this, to make it seem like activism is local, even if there’s a fair amount of Russian disinformation in the picture. Has happened before in Finland.

  14. The amount of butthurt going on over here makes me wanna support this Convoy Finland 😀

    Notwithstanding the fact that most of those who comment here cannot probably understand what’s written in that pamphlet.

  15. We’ll see tomorrow. It seems to be 50% trolling and 50% people really trying to get this going. I believe they already fucked up and there’s gonna be maybe 30 cars there. You can’t even drive to the centrum with a truck. So there’s that. And one of the organizer is a completely crazy. You should check their FB page for some head scratching and laughter.

  16. The demands are unrealistic, if they’d only stick with mandates it would be better. Instead they want the government to resign, halve the fuel tax, get back Tartu treaty borders, conquer the moon to Finland and make Finnish pre-euro Markka the petro standard

  17. Amazingly dense, dumb and selfish people doing amazingly dumb and selfish things. Pretty sure these are the same people who got their knickers in a twist with Elokapina’s protest last year when they blocked a street.

  18. The popular opinion on Reddit or in Finland? On Reddit, people are obviously laughing at this. In reality, however, much of the working class stands behind it. Many people feel that they’ve been lied to by the government and that the current restrictions are completely overblown.

    Also, unlike in Canada, regular gas here costs well over 2.5 CAD per liter. That by itself might not seem that high but when you take into account the low wages and the highest taxes in the world, you can understand why people feel they’ve had enough.

  19. While I would be tempted to say “lol shitshow” with the rest… this kind of disorganized populist movement is exactly the thing hate groups love.

    I lived in Ottawa Canada for over a decade, and we had hate groups protesting several times a year even though it never made even the local news. It was 10-20 people, they would fly their flags and make signs, and everyone would ignore them because it was a tiny group and all they really did was make themselves look even more pathetic. No one would go to a white suprematist rally because, well, it’s a white supremacy rally.

    But what they love are populist movements that they can co-opt. It gives them a palatable lie to get more people involved, that gets them media coverage, meetings with powerful people, legitimacy. People who would never go to a WS rally will show up to a populist event that is lead by white supremacists.

  20. That’s just a ridiculous meem. A total clusterfuck organized by some kid’s, those are recently been in the Army=Varusteluettelo 😂🙊
    If they would only protest against high fuel prices, I could support…

  21. It’s sad that people don’t realise this. Cutting 50% tax doesn’t make it 50% cheaper. Fuel price is no 100% tax.

  22. People are really enjoying their time bullying the people that drive the food, clothes, goods and utilities to their stores.

    Truckers convoy is the cherry on top of an already massive supply chain crisis. I sincerely hope our coffee won’t cost 25 a bag by the start of the summer. What happens if this comes to fruition? Will the rest of us go on strike against the government?

    We have to understand that for every truck that is off the road an entire store goes without supplies for a week to two months.

    I think we need to discuss in a more mature manner about what is happening because right now all we see are people laughing about defecation in plastic bags. Ridiculing people like immature ala-aste kids.

    You call them idiots, rednecks and low-lives….
    But they have the power to shut down the entire economy permanently.

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