Olli Sorainen was convicted last week of aggravated bribery and abuse of public office, but says that a closer examination of the Finnish civil service would reveal "quite a few similar" cases.
  • @[email protected]English
    27•2 months ago

    Finland is surprisingly corrupt (it’s just not the sort of corruption where you bribe cops) and Finns are generally stupid and gullible enough to think we’re not corrupt

    • funkajunkEnglish
      13•2 months ago

      Don’t worry, any positions that offer some degree of power (such as those in government) all seem to attract the same kind of asshole people. Doesn’t matter where in the world it is, they are all mostly corrupt.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 months ago

        Didn’t Plato say something about the people who want power being the ones you shouldn’t let have power?

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 months ago

          I think Plato said philosophers like him should have power. Philosopher-Kings.

          More of a Lenin vibe

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        Absolutely, but at least in many countries people understand that – here people love to pretend that there is no corruption here at all and that we’re good, honest folk all of us.

  • @DownToClownEnglish
    23•2 months ago

    Minister convicted of corruption says that pretty much every other politician is corrupt after he got caught.

    Yes corruption exists in Finland especially on higher levels but this “everyone else is doing it” is just the oldest defence there is.

  • @ouchEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Torille 🇫🇮