Democracy is when people elect someone and a court (totally not controlled by the imperialism) decides they voted wrong and ban the candidate from running again

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not what happened though. If you want to be protected by electoral rules, you have to abide by them. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

What happened then?

[–] jimbel@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Will be interesting how this develops. After all he was voted for by a lot of people. Nevertheless a democracy has to defend itself. And i think it is clear that a lot of misinformation etc. Was spread. So lets see what this leads to...

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like there is more going on than a coordinated TikTok campaign, but they don't want to say anything less they tip off the Russian actors that they know what they are doing.

Still, imagine if SCOTUS banned the Democratic nominee from running for president because some foreigners were posting TikTok about then.

[–] BlueFootedBooby@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

Ikr? Even convicted felons can run for president in the US, Russian plants are also welcome.