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this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Immigrants voting for someone who would never let them into the country.
then how do they vote?
They are playing 4D chess: Dumbass, Disturbed, Duped, and Derpy are the four Ds.
And Dickhead.
Reminds me of all the Latinos who vote for Trump.
"Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo"
Lots of misinformation in la familia group chat
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Pro-EU centrist Nicuşor Dan was on course to become Romania’s president on Sunday, according to exit polls, leading a run-off against an ultranationalist Eurosceptic who had topped the first round and raised fears about the country’s pro-western orientation.
The live results can be checked here: https://prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidentiale18052025/pv/results/?region=total&pv-scope=total&pv-relative-max=max&pv-candidate-chart-type=bar.
A little bit confused by the graph but it seems like he's solidly ahead with most votes counted? So he's secured the win?
Yes, thank god.
Hey, this guy starred in one of the only memes I’ve ever made. Neat.
Nostalgia for being oppressed is in full force.
"Ștefan Șerban, 69, sitting on a bench with his friend Nicolae Carja, 74, said life had been better under the former Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. “We were a rich country then,” he said. “Industry, petrol, gas, goldmines. And no debt.”"
I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
Just look at how much of Russia's foreign policy is basically "damn, remember when we were the USSR?"
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. "Future shock" was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn't/wouldn't deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
I'm reading it right now. I still can't believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner's book, "Stand On Zanzibar' won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It's set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
Now I'll have to read that too. Thanks!
One more thing...
USSR foreign policy was basically "Damn, remember when we were an empire?"
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They were probably very drunk in '89. Otherwise they would have remembered that the dude got clipped for using the country as his own personal bank account.
like all russian pensioners saying life was better under stalin since they could just move into an apartment of the people whose whole family was killed.
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Please don't blame the minority of a minority, majority of which can't vote yet.
We can though. Yes it was a minority of a minority and not likely to have made a difference. I blame everyone who voted for the end of democracy, human rights, rule of law, but especially those who voted most against their own interest
Latinos and people from West Virginia. wtf did you do that for. You’re the people hurt the most, but you’re taking the rest of us down with you
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I have friends who immigrated to the Netherlands and then complained that "all these emigrants ruined the Netherlands".... I was blown away...
Very common to hear this. I've heard family that were complaining that male only, illegal immigrants are moving in to steal jobs, when they were exactly in the same situation, just on the other side, some 20 years ago. It honestly shakes my hope in humanity.
Is your friend white while complaining about non-white emigrants?
Well that depends on who you ask of course, white is not a constant, but if you ask them, yes.
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A Florida native once wrote that that the people who most want to stop Florida overdevelopment are the ones who brought their house last week.
Almost 60% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump, the second time...
Castro is still winning...
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