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Didnt even know romania had elections. But i gladly woke up to those news
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I mean I assumed that they had elections. Most places do.
The funniest part about all of this was that the exit polls were heavily biased against him. Like (last night was hectic so pardon my rounding errors) Nicusor Dan had 55% while this clown had 45% coming out of the exit polls, and yet he STILL claimed heโd won :facepalm:
Then he tried to pull a MAGA stunt and tweeted โI am the president of the romanian people, count the votes correctly!โ Before finally conceding victory, all within the span of 3 hours. Needless to say, last night was a bit of a rollercoaster.
For more context, at least how I saw this crapshot of an election, this far-right candidate, Simion, capitalized on the fact that thereโs almost 6 million Romanians whoโve left their home country bound for the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany etc. He promised to bring them home, offered 2-room appartments at 35000โฌ (the Simion Plan he called it), bogus claims, promised to bring back industry into the country etc etc.
Thing is , here in Romania the president has less powers than you might expect. Heโs basically responsible for foreign affairs and representation, chief of the millitary and armed forces, and has the power to dissolve Parliment, but thatโs about it. So even if he wanted to do the things he claimed heโd do, he couldnโt.
Itโs sad to see so many people voted for him. Heโs riding off the backs of desperate people, who left families behind because doing, say, construction in Romania barely makes you a living wage. But the cognitive dissonance is what gets me: Simion was mostly voted by Diaspora, or the Romanians living in other countries. How can you, a Romanian living in letโs say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy, who says โhurr durr EU badโ, while benefitting from all the EU has to offer? Itโs simply insane.
โฆoh , man, that was a wall of text and a halfโฆ
How can you, a Romanian living in letโs say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy
UK foreign expats living in Spain voted in favour of Brexit, and are now all upset that they have to leave and come back to the UK. They literally voted for this.
The basic problem is that most people don't actually bother to investigate the policies of the people they vote for, they treat it like a popularity contest and just vote for whoever they personally like. I'm of the opinion that people should be required to prove an understanding of proposed policies before they're actually allowed to vote, if only to the extent of a quick Google search while standing in the queue to vote.
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I think he's taking a page out of trump's book and is gonna claim stolen election and stuff.
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One of those rare cases when I very much approve of A-not-so-I
https://xcancel.com/georgesimion/status/1924166718122783128#m
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Does xcancel (nice hostname) not show the tweet anymore when it has been deleted on xitter? I assume it has been deleted?
Yeah, it seems to have been deleted.
One tiny victory at a time. Lets hope Poland and Portugal step up to rhe russians, too
Portugal did not and PiS is anti Russian, but also anti democracy. Not exactly a new idea that two nationalist groups hate each other.
๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐จ
๐ธ๐ณ ๐ฒ๐ฑ
๐ณ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐บ
๐ป๐ช ๐ช๐จ ๐จ๐ด
๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ท๐บ
๐ฑ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ท ๐ต๐พ
๐ฑ๐ท ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฒ๐พ
๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ฎ๐น
๐ท๐ด ๐น๐ฉ
๐ง๐ญ ๐ถ๐ฆ
๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐น
๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ช
๐ง๐ด ๐ฌ๐ญ
๐ญ๐บ ๐น๐ฏ
๐ฆ๐ท ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ป ๐ญ๐ณ
๐ช๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ถ ๐พ๐ช ๐ธ๐ฉ ๐ธ๐พ
The whole flag situation isn't really ideal.
The problem is no one has any imagination.
Put a dragon setting fire to a castle on your flag or something, don't just have three stripes.
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When you are among the first: ๐ธ๐ช (first but we're at bro-war with them: ๐ฉ๐ฐ)
๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ
they look fine to me :P
That doesn't really solve the problem either. After all which country is IQ?
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Can we talk about how "I am the new president of Romania" in itself is an absolutely stupid phrasing to use when prematurely declaring yourself the winner of an election?
Notice how it's in English as well. That wasn't meant for the people of Romania, that was aimed at the rest of the EU, presumably as a sort of vague threat.
Well he's a Chad!
Seriously, I totally agree. It's dumb, and would have caused more legal problems had he won.
These people are like little belligerent kids that just can't help themselves not to do exactly the thing adults just said is not OK to do.
If there is a single common thread that ties together the modern hard right upsurge is that it is absolutely fueled by the most transparent of idiocies that by convention we are expected to accept as everyday business
The low hanging fruit is the guy 1. Didn't actually win the election 2. And he declared himself president of the wrong country
The right wing are such liars that grammatical mistakes are the least of their problems
I guess the solution is to send him to Chad to go claim his presidency.
If I were a person wanting to be a far right leader of a country. Romania is one of the last places I would pick. At least when looking back at how the last dictatorial leader of the country left office.
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No, I am the real presidente of Cha- Romania.
Apparently Nicusor Dan won. Disaster avoided, I guess.
๐ฎโ๐จ also this makes the other guy look like even more of a doofus
Just doing a Big Lie. These dorks are still working from a century old playbook, they're just doing it on Xitter and propaganda rags.
@Hubi Grok knows all too well.
Grok didn't seem to get why he wrote the flag of Chad though. I wonder if any other LLMs know the answer to that.
Tried deepseek-r1, with internet search. It was clueless, and the I specifically asked why he might have mixed the flags up.
Given that Romania's flag (a double-headed eagle with two golden wings, red tails, and alternating horizontal stripes) is distinctly different from Chad's flag (which features an olive branch, sun, and crescent moon within a blue background), it is plausible that the mix-up occurred due to a simple error or oversight in copying text
Nuff said.
That is the military flag with the emblem, the regular flag is the three colors and chad has the same three colors. The flag of chad and the flag of romania have seperate emojis thougn
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This kind of dishonesty should be taken out early. Criminalize it.
He wasnโt be serious, unless he decides he was (remind you of someone?)
Theyโre extremely similar, Romania has a slightly lighter blue, but theyโre both blue, yellow, and red vertical tricolors. Romania used to be more distinct, with a coat of arms in the middle, but that was removed after the fall of communism. Chad has complained, as they had the flag first, but Romania hasnโt done anything. Maybe this will prompt the new president to do something.
For me chad seems like a bit deeper red(on the emoji at least)
Would have confused it with Moldova instead, I suppose.
But yeah, of the MANY things I can throw at this guy, confusing ๐ท๐ด with ๐น๐ฉ when tapping it on your phone is not it.
Mostly because I'm pretty sure I've done it myself more than once.
Honestly, they look identical on my phone.
They are. Romania has a narrower definition of the flag colors though.
I cannot see any difference. (Firefox on Windows.)
These are nearly identical on my display!
You're not running for president though, are you?
Not even a little bit. And posting "I am the new president of Chad" is absolutely fricking hilarious and extremely on brand.
It is also horrifying and chilling in light of the actual results, because you know he's following the MAGA playbook and depending on how close the diaspora made him look in the end he was hoping for a version of the US capitol raid.
But if I'm going to have an opinion about this tweet it's going to be about that, not the flag thing, for obvious reasons.
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Romania is not the priority, just like the US is not the priority for Trump and France is not the priority for Le Pen.
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