@Aussiemandeus well, that’s a fair point. We do have a state authority (CNA) who should deal with misinformation and poor reporting, but it was politically infiltrated (and still is) and did not bat an eye at everything that was said on TV at stations that are pretty much affiliated with certain parties. There’s this station called Romania TV which pretty much takes all the most mainstream online conspiracies and gives them air time.

In addition we have some intelligence services who we don’t know what they were doing all this time, but who enjoyed poor state control and being politically affiliated as well (having been given a lot of power in the previous decade). What did they do with this Russian interference that was clear to appear? I don’t know.

So yeah. TikTok played a big role, but it was not the only one. They could see it coming. But they didn’t do anything.

@iagomago

@solo I’m really sceptical of AUR winning the elections. AUR is just an instrument of PSD designed to repeat the scenario in the 2000 presidential election, when we had to choose between a former Communist Party leader and a former communist gone nationalist who said that the country can only be ruled with the machine gun and threatened to invade Hungary. Of course, due to the former’s extended territorial apparatus, he won. Now the nazi doesn’t have links to the Communist Party, but is just a Russian bootlicker. The real competition is between a reformist candidate and PSD and it’s puppets.

@0x815 so now it’s becoming just as useful as @Mojeek (unless with much less privacy)

@maniacalmanicmania well, companies can make money without abusing user privacy if they so want. It’s been done before.

@Blaze There was a rather famous sitcom in my country that was making fun of emo people back in the day. The centerpiece was that they were listening to Tokyo Hotel a lot and were always talking about cutting themselves.

@peron Thanks!

@0x815 the situation was simply insane, with clear voter fraud schemes, election tourism and bomb threats across polling stations in Europe, which were meant to disrupt the voting process. However they failed to disrupt it.

After Sandu’s last term, I expect the country to be firmly onto a European path and pass more much-needed reforms on it’s way to EU. Hope she and her government will not take too much time like it kinda did in her 1st term imo.

70 schools still had “inadequate toilets”

Only 70 left? I’m surprised. Guess that’s the result of all these EU funds. They’re probably the only schools where the politicians managed to actually steal these funds, as they are notoriously hard to steal.

Shout out to all these people in the countryside that vote for PSD on every election, then complain that they do not have anything.

A while back this year, a commune was left without running water due to not paying the debts to the water company. What did the mayor say: Y’all have gotten used with the good times. You neglected your wells, destroyed your backyard toilets, and now you suffer. People have gotten mad, the mayor said he’ll resign, and then the debt were paid, and the mayor announced he’ll no longer resign.

At the latest local elections, the mayor received more votes than at the previous elections. And that thing is just an example…

@plactagonic I still have my Huawei phone and it works perfectly fine. I turned it into a Digital Audio Player, and I plan to fill it with music.

And it has Play Store support.

@0x815 just like in any totalitarian regime…

@BrikoX voter bribe sometimes happens in my country too (or at least there were documented cases in the past 35 years since we had free elections). But candidates themselves expressly telling people they would pay them to vote in a way or another is… a totally different level.

@101 In my country the Russia-friendly folks are more creative: they take advantage by the crime that Moscow did prior to WW2 in order to justify their opinion that we should not involve in helping our neighbor. And the fact that they somehow discriminate the Romanian minority in the territories formerly owned by us (of course they do not do that as they’re eyeing European integration, but fake news need to go round) is used to somehow temper the sympathies for Ukraine.

It doesn’t matter that Ukraine is fighting an enemy that is even less likely to return these territories to us, who will more than certainly treat the Romanian minority in these territories at least 1000 times worse than they are treated now just to get rid of any trace of Romanians living there if they control these lands by any means. It doesn’t even matter to them that the enemy that Ukraine is fighting actually owns our entire national treasury since the end of WW1 (comprised of old documents and art pieces but also tons of gold) and if we would border them, we would share half of our border with a hostile neighbor owning the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world.

All it matters for them is to not get involved into other’s wars

@tal oh, my! How are they gonna launder all this money now?

@peron Thank you!

'tis but a scratch

@F04118F Didn’t see this lol

@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works wrote:

EU-agnostic

Yea, that sounds more like it, indeed. However, they never miss the opportunity to blame Brussels for their own failures tho.

Well, they gotta pretend they’re not the anti-EU, pro-corruption populist POS they are at home, I guess.

@cron that is true, however Ukraine doesn’t do the same stuff. They’re relying heavily on drones and other modern technology to protect the lives of soldiers, and I think this is an advantage that Ukraine has over Russia. Man power will run out at some point for Russia if things go at the same pace.

@0x815 very good. The more it stays behind, the bigger of an advantage Ukraine can have on the frontline.