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Why is every fucking election between a Nazi and a centrist? Can we get one fucking world election where there isn't a 50% chance of a Nazi winning
A common trend behind all these cases is Russian propaganda and troll farms. They're trying to subvert democracy everywhere in order to weaken states that might otherwise resist their imperiallist ambitions.
And the inevitable decline of neoliberal politics. People have been taught and indoctrinated by the media, that the right is economically proficcient but hindered by the left. And now they double down on neoliberal bullshit politics because not going hard enough didn't help them and going more left is generally presented as an economically worse choice.
The sad truth is: Going more left would leave "the economy" (the stocks / rich peoples wallets) worse of but help the real economy by giving expendable income to people who right now, cannot spend what they don't have.
And China. Since every time a fascist wins TikTok is the lynchpin of it all.
Almost as if some rich foreign power has spent decades and billions of rubles to fertilise the ground for them.
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If the elections were fair, and I'm assuming they were since it's the second time Romanians are voting since the previous far right candidate got banned by eu, but correct me if I'm wrong: Uhm what the hell is wrong with Romanians? He will take their rights away but sure pick the most dictator-like guy sounds smart yeah. Anti vax movement? Are you fckng kidding me lol well if they wanna die from easily curable disease be my guest but wtf??
Don't underestimate the lots and lots of Russia money involved.
the previous far right candidate got banned by eu,
Bullshit, he was banned by a Romanian court.
U're right! I phrased it incorrectly
Lots of uneducated people and lots of propaganda and bought classical media.
The thing is that what this guy says in not necessary wrong, he is right that the politicians are fucking over simple people and only care about their fat checks. But his methods on addressing the issues are non existent, he is clearly pro Russian.
We are in a class war hidden as "good old traditions" vs "deranged" lgbt.
Edit: As a fellow Romanian I don't see it in anyway different than Trump, AfD in DE, Marine in France and Meloni in Italy. Putin is having fun and the horrible social networks don't help
The previous rightoid guy won because he did all of his media campaigning on social media like TikTok and bought an army of influencers. While the other candidates campaigned the traditional way. Romanian voters were swayed by fucking TikTok. who owns TikTok by the way?
The deaf man heard what the mute man said
Then they all followed where the blind man led
The "sovereignists" had about 30% of the parliament already, but I imagine it was the decision to cancel the first set of elections that tipped the scales. Heard of plenty of people that decided to vote Simion out of sheer spite after that stunt.
out of sheer spite
That's exactly what puts fascists in power every time.
F***s sake
He'll probably sit on 40% of the votes by the end of the count. It's pretty fuckin grim.
Did the elections go fairly or?
About as fair as you can hope for in this country, I suppose. I imagine the large parties pulled all the stops and still couldn't grab more than 20%. And I know they didn't covertly support Simion (yet) because last night they were pissed.
Someone needs to get Trump talking on camera about making Romania the 52nd state.