No matter what the country is, these far righters are always idiots.
They’re no idiots. They’re calculated authoritarians trying to seize public narrative to usurp power illegally
They are idiots who once read a book on how to become a dictator and now think they are hot shit.
All these extremists right wingers read the same book, since they all use the same tactics.
- Spew lies as long as it confirms peoples biases
- Vilify your opponent and all their policies, using more lies
- Get elected on broken promises they can never achieve
- Call out a crisis in order to bypass the other branches of government
- Do whatever they want, blame all the problems on previous administrations or “the others”
- Make sure the population is infighting so they don’t blame you
Little of both
Yay he lost fuck him with a baseball bat
That makes them organized and dangerous idiots to me.
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 he’d won :facepalm:
Then he tried to pull a MAGA stunt and tweeted “I am the president of the romanian people, count the votes correctly!” 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 there’s almost 6 million Romanians who’ve left their home country bound for the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany etc. He promised to bring them home, offered 2-room appartments at 35000€ (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. He’s basically responsible for foreign affairs and representation, chief of the millitary and armed forces, and has the power to dissolve Parliment, but that’s about it. So even if he wanted to do the things he claimed he’d do, he couldn’t.
It’s sad to see so many people voted for him. He’s 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 let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy, who says “hurr durr EU bad”, while benefitting from all the EU has to offer? It’s simply insane.
…oh , man, that was a wall of text and a half…
I think he’s taking a page out of trump’s book and is gonna claim stolen election and stuff.
It’s sad to see so many people voted for him. He’s riding off the backs of desperate people, who left families behind because doing, say, construction in Romania barely makes you a living wage.
Is there a party willing to change these things?
Appreciate the insight 👍
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The whole flag situation isn’t really ideal.
Don’t forget 🇮🇪 🇨🇮
And, if it’s been out in the sun for a while, 🇮🇹 can start to look like 🇮🇪
they look fine to me :P
Are you running something special?
It would be interesting to display the flag followed by the country code in a parenthetical.
windows 10.
its the same on linux, because I’m running a half broken arch install.
Hmm. That’s a good thought. IIRC fontconfig on Linux can merge different fonts with different priorities, so I think that someone could make a “flag override” font that has extra-wide emojis and has both the ISO code and the flag, even without changing the original font.
That’s awesome!
I have another one for you: 🇦🇹 🇱🇻 On TV I often have to take a second look myself.
While we’re talking about Austria, if we’re going to a subnational level, check out the Austrian state flags. Over half of them are just a red-and-white horizontal stripe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_and_coats_of_arms_of_the_Austrian_states
Salsburg, Austria:
Tyrol, Austria:
Upper Austria, Austria:
Vienna, Austria:
Voralberg, Austria:
Not to mention the state of Hesse in Germany:
And then Poland:
Monaco:
and Indonesia:
My takeaway here is that vexillologists really like Pokeballs and/or Voltorb.
I don’t understand, I just see a bunch of red lines. Where is the white?
I zoomed lol
Jamaica’s flag is pretty unique… Let’s all copy theirs…
Only country flag without red, blue and white!
I like St Lucia’s flag, quite unique but stays simple enough. 🇱🇨
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Also 🇧🇻 🇳🇴 🇸🇯 “These are all the flag of Norway” you might say, and that is correct. But one is for Bouvet Island, one is for Norway, and one is for Svalbard and Jan Mayen (in that order, here). Norway’s national day was recently and it is fun every year to see so many people celebrating Bouvet Island (it shows up first in alphabetical lists).
If Bouvet Island ever changes their flag and all the fonts update to reflect that, there is going to be a lot of suddenly-confusing text out there!
🇱🇹🇲🇲 Myanmar why did you steal our flag and de saturate it?
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I always get India and Ireland confused.
The all seem to share the same level of intelligence
Talk about one orange braincell.
Not much of a Chad, is he?
I hear he wants to build a presidential vacation home on the virgin Islands.
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?
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
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.
Apparently Nicusor Dan won. Disaster avoided, I guess.
😮💨 also this makes the other guy look like even more of a doofus
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One of those rare cases when I very much approve of A-not-so-I
This kind of dishonesty should be taken out early. Criminalize it.
He wasn’t be serious, unless he decides he was (remind you of someone?)
Easy bait
They’re extremely similar, Romania has a slightly lighter blue, but they’re 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 hasn’t done anything. Maybe this will prompt the new president to do something.
At a glance, when small, or on a bad monitor, they can also be confused with Belgium, which has black yellow red.
For me chad seems like a bit deeper red(on the emoji at least)
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.
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.
