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Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Is it really impossible? Why? Do you think there really aren't conservative young people?

I somehow missed when conservative became a dirty word, and have a hard time understanding why anything right of center is "ruining" young people lives.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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I really don't get HN sometimes. The russian doping ban article was flagged fore political, yet this one stays up even tho I feel this is more political https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742239

And before everyone says "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate". I'm not complaining just observing situations like this + HN lacks appropriate open ways for meta discussion (which Reddit actually does better), you can only do this in submission comments

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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> Mr Rinne stepped down after a plan to cut wages for hundreds of postal workers led to widespread strikes great to see a politician actually facing consequences for their actions

He is still the leader of the democratic socialist party and prime minister by proxy. Actual concequences would be having a new election and reforming the government. Obviously the current government is against that since they know they are unpopular for their incompetence.

Not true. If Marin decided to call an early party confress Rinne would be pretty much automatically ousted as the party leader. Because everyone knows the outcome, I believe it was decided Rinne could continue as party leader until next party conference in summer 2020. But by all means Marin holds the true power in her party, unless you know something the public doesn't (which I doubt not least because you misspelled the party's name).

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Congratulations to her but it seems like age is seen as less of a factor in these countries. From an outside perspective, the Nordic countries have a very by the book form of government. Meaning the government/prime minister isn’t the result of the hopes and dreams of the constituents but more of how do we get things done with the least amount of turmoil. Kind of like how your local city government is run, where thin…

Perhaps that is because many of the Nordic countries are about the population of a large metro area. Finland, for instance, has about 5 million people.

Yep, that's over a million people less than the Houston metro area and nearly two million less than the Dallas metro area.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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post #24

I really don't get HN sometimes. The russian doping ban article was flagged fore political, yet this one stays up even tho I feel this is more political https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742239 And before everyone says "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate". I'm not complaining just observing situations like this + HN lacks appropriate open ways for meta discussion (which Reddit actually does…

I thought Russia doping one would at least have some matter for debate and discussion. This news is just a factoid.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Currently youngest. Sebastian Kurz, former (and very likely future - he's been reelected and currently in coalition talks) chancellor of Austria, is younger.

He technically isn't a Prime Minister, but Chancellor.

But yes, definitely a head of government.

So the headline is literally correct, but factually wrong.

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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post #24

I really don't get HN sometimes. The russian doping ban article was flagged fore political, yet this one stays up even tho I feel this is more political https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742239 And before everyone says "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate". I'm not complaining just observing situations like this + HN lacks appropriate open ways for meta discussion (which Reddit actually does…

The doping article is more likely to stir up drama. People have strong feelings about Russia, drugs, the olympics, etc. This article is just interesting - it may involve political figures but there's not really much politics at play. To quote the on-topic guidelines: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM

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Congratulations to her but it seems like age is seen as less of a factor in these countries. From an outside perspective, the Nordic countries have a very by the book form of government. Meaning the government/prime minister isn’t the result of the hopes and dreams of the constituents but more of how do we get things done with the least amount of turmoil. Kind of like how your local city government is run, where thin…

if old people are not fighting to get the job, there 's probably not a lot of power involved

It's not that there is no power, My experience is that the Finns (working with them) always came to a consensus when making difficult decisions. Everyone has a voice. Just a different style of Leadership than most of the US Companies I have worked for.
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