Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by tutuca on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:54AM (#20885758)

Here in Argentina we had that program canceled by the current President Mauricio Macri, and the former was prosecuted for pushing for this program to be implemented nation-wide. There was also a big media campaign from the local multimedia monopoly to lay shame of the program [1][2], although it covered way more items than in Finland.

The boxes (qnitas) were left to rot in a warehouse. Trully fascist.

This was later found to be without basis and the goverment have been ordered to restart the program, without effect.

[1] https://www.clarin.com/politica/paso-paso-fraude-licitacion-... (in spanish)

[2] https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/plan-qunita-inseguros-c... (in spanish)

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by the_af on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:49AM (#20886607)

Thanks for posting. I was instantly reminded of qnita and its shameful persecution by the macrismo. What's worse is that the political points scored by Macri were never retracted -- few if any Argentinians know how the program ended, or that all the accusations were baseless.

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by JaviFesser on Thursday September 05, 2019 @08:48AM (#20886092)

I remember that. Really a shame that this plan wasn't executed. We can't have nice things

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by shitgoose on Thursday September 05, 2019 @12:20PM (#20888211)

i would use a lighter term to describe rotting baskets. words have meanings and "fascist" means something else.

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by radeklew on Thursday September 05, 2019 @12:49PM (#20888512)

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distributed instead of being left to rot, so the president deciding against that in order to strengthen his position could be seen as tending towards autocracy or dictatorship.

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by shitgoose on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:05PM (#20892677)

many parents then can be called fascists - they exercise strong autocratic or dictatorial control over their children. diluting the "fascist" term is a huge disservice to countless victims of real еvil.

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by Gabriel_Martin on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:58PM (#20889740)

Related: I've begun to put people who are extra-pedantic about the word fascist into their own little silo.

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by dang on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:39PM (#20890046)

I don't know what you mean by extra-pedantic but the site guidelines ask users not to call names in arguments, and that certainly covers the F-word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) by shitgoose on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:09PM (#20892694)

one doesn't have to be extra-pedantic to see the difference between rotting card box and gas chamber.

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