The Turku Without Nazis demonstration was qualitatively more or less what I expected, but much smaller than I thought it would be: there were maybe 400 people, max, at the largest point (compare this to the first rally in support of Ukraine, which had 3-4 thousand attendees). We still outnumbered the nazis by a factor of at least 10, if the news can be believed (I wasn't personally able to see their group from where I was), but that ratio could have been much better.

What I with I had seen was more anti-nazi protesters who were openly centrist/capitalist/liberal-but-not-left. Opposing nazis isn't something that leftists and anarchists have a monopoly on — I daresay it's probably a widely held view, once people actually think about it. I'm not expecting everyone to show up to demonstrations — I certainly don't go regularly — but in a world that already has far too many nazis in it, more moderates need to put their money where their mouth is.

(Osaan suomea; kirjoitin englanniksi kansainvälistä yleisöä varten.)

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Antigoverment protest of the week, Turku Ilman Natseja was today! (Turku without nazis.)

Couldn’t find any news yet so i’ll just share few screenshots from their fb-page. The videos shared there suggest there was at least well over couple of hundred people there. #turkuIlmanNatseja #antiGovernmentProtest #naziJokeGovernment #politics #finland #politicsFI #protest #antifa #antifaProtest

Brb, going to go complain about how there are too many nazis in Turku.

I'll try and post something about it afterwards if I remember.

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