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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 17:35

What's this?

A frame from a movie?

A dad and his 3 adult children?

Some sort of professional or support group? -

Yes, that's it

Jonas Gahr #Støre, Prime Minister of #Norway

Ulf Hjalmar #Kristersson, Prime Minister of #Sweden

Cai-Göran Alexander #Stubb, President of #Finland

and Mette #Frederiksen, Prime Minister of #Denmark

Meeting yesterday

Coordinating on #Putin and #Trump

Putin is 80 feet away at the long end of the table and Trump is in the bathroom on a gold toilet (/s)

[#]Nordic

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Descendants

Written by Taran Rampersad on 2025-01-27 at 17:37

@benroyce I want to know what they're eating. That seems important.

Because I'm hungry.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 17:41

@knowprose I will bet the green stuff on the bread is dill, I know that's big in Nordic cuisine

The Swedish PM has a beer

The bread looks plain, not Scandinavian rye bread. Booooo

other than that I'm at a loss

-source of scholarly research: a few visits to the IKEA food court in my life

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Written by Taran Rampersad on 2025-01-27 at 18:00

@benroyce Plain bread works for me, once it's fresh and hot.

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Written by 🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼 on 2025-01-27 at 22:15

@benroyce

Oh well, you're not missing anything, really! It's not as if IKEA has great cuisine. But it's well marketed. And is 'different' from what people abroad are used to, so they milk the 'swedish idea' 😊

Same with their products names; most are not real Swedish but are made up and sound Swedish, and are 'nice to pronounce' by people who don't know Swedish.

@knowprose

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Written by Karen E. Lund 💙💛 on 2025-01-31 at 16:39

@knowprose @benroyce I'm betting there's seafood. Salmon and/or herring? That would explain the dill.

Probably potatoes or other root vegetables.

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Written by MooMoo the Cat on 2025-01-27 at 17:43

@benroyce I love that they are eating together. This is such a great image.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 17:49

@flowerpot

A little table in a little room

No comically long table

No gaudy gold bullshit

These are the true leaders of a people

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Written by Roknrol on 2025-01-27 at 17:51

@benroyce @flowerpot Nobody nervously wondering if their drink has been poisoned.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JmJI1AxefIM

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 17:55

@roknrol @flowerpot

"but only a strong leader is killing and backstabbing! that's real strength!"

🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦

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Written by Sam Fleming on 2025-01-27 at 17:58

@flowerpot @benroyce I wanted to say the same thing. This gives me hope. Leaders who understand they are people first, like the rest of us. These are the kind of politicians we should look to.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 18:00

@ravenbait @flowerpot

i only trust leaders who fleece their own cult followers with cryptocurrency scams (/s)

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Written by Richard W. Woodley RNKD BLTS 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️ on 2025-01-27 at 19:17

@benroyce

The Fennoscandia Table

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Written by Fitheach on 2025-01-27 at 20:18

@benroyce

Perfect timing!

Only a few hours ago I repeated my call for Scotland to be part of the Nordic group of countries. We share much in common with them, and they are some of our nearest neighbours.

Your image perfectly encapsulates my idea of government done on an informal and small scale.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 20:23

@fitheach

it's long been my assertion that scotland should stop talking about or even mentioning leaving the uk

simple and always just talk about rejoining the eu

after all, you didn't choose to leave the eu, you were ripped from it against your clearly articulated will, and you merely desire to return to where you belong

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Written by Fitheach on 2025-01-27 at 20:36

@benroyce

Scotland choosing independence and re-joining the EU are both decisions for the people of Scotland to take. It is my assertion that the latter will never happen without the former.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 20:39

@fitheach

of course

but I'm not talking about legal accuracy, and your words are accurate

I'm just talking political framing, salesmanship. Accentuating the positive

Also I'm in western new york state so I'm not exactly the best opinion on the topic

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Written by Fitheach on 2025-01-27 at 20:53

@benroyce

Actually, it is extremely rare for countries to have a referendum to choose independence. The most common route to independence is for countries to declare independence (or act independent), and for a "substantial" number of other countries to accept that call.

This is roughly what happened with, for example, New Zealand. The last vestige of direct British control didn't end until 1986.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 20:56

@fitheach

i think y'all suffered enough for the darien scheme

time for scottish independence

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Written by Fitheach on 2025-01-27 at 21:01

@benroyce

The Darien scheme investors were the 17th century Scottish equivalents of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos etc.

So, you don't need to feel too sorry for them. 😉

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 21:07

@fitheach 🤭

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Written by Jim Hubbell on 2025-01-27 at 20:24

@benroyce

Do they have a common language? Or do they need the assistance of interpreters?

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-27 at 20:28

@dougfir

the way i've heard it it's something akin to spanish and italians, or portuguese and spanish, sort of understanding each other- and stubb is a swedish-speaking finn. so i think they'd get across rudimentary concepts, but not be able to engage in high level fast speech

but i think this was just a nice photo shoot, not a working session. or it could have been with interpreters and staff just out of the picture or in another room- apparently this is Frederksen's dinner table at her house

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Written by Karen E. Lund 💙💛 on 2025-01-31 at 16:53

@benroyce @dougfir It might have been a friendly meal before or after a more formal meeting.

Now I want to know who took the photo. Was it a staff member or someone in the family? That would tell us a lot about the meal.

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Written by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-31 at 19:44

@Karen5Lund @dougfir

it's such a great photo. it's like a family picture. and yet, it is a family picture

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Written by Karen E. Lund 💙💛 on 2025-01-31 at 16:49

@dougfir @benroyce Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are similar enough for general conversation ("please pass the dill"), but Finnish is so unsimilar it's not even an Indo-European language, and if they get into the nitty-gritty of international policy they'll probably go with English. The Finnish head of state probably knows one of the Scandinavian languages as well.

I was wondering why Iceland isn't represented. Probably insisted they use Old Norse as their common language. ;-)

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