• JackGreenEarth
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    10 months ago

    You say ‘caused’ in the past tense. Is Finland no longer capitalist?

    • ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      The past tense is in reference to the historical event, it doesn’t refer to the present state of Finland’s economy.

      If someone had a post titled: “How Trump caused a rift within liberalism in the US” the past tense would not imply that Trump no longer exists or that he is no longer a politician, it would simply be referring to the political rift as a historical event.

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      10 months ago

      No it still very much is. I think the past tense is referring to the historical events in the pictures