Romanian far-right candidate prematurely and falsely declares himself the winner of the election, proceeds to confuse the flags of Romania and Chad
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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.
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How can you, a Romanian living in let’s 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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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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they look fine to me
That doesn't really solve the problem either. After all which country is IQ?
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Didnt even know romania had elections. But i gladly woke up to those news
I mean I assumed that they had elections. Most places do.
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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.
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That doesn't really solve the problem either. After all which country is IQ?
Good thing the codes are an international standard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#IQ.
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The whole flag situation isn't really ideal.
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The whole flag situation isn't really ideal.
I have another one for you:
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How can you, a Romanian living in let’s 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.
And their slogan is literally "we didn't vote for this" when they voted exactly for this. Not a smart bunch, those.
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Don't forget
And, if it’s been out in the sun for a while,
can start to look like -
TBF those flags are waaaaay too similar, and leaving the little logo off someone might just think the artist is being a little lazy or the design was simplified for emoji form. its happened before.
edit: lol, its hilarious to me that people are downvoting this. are they not similar? Or are your feelings just hurt?
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's because AI models probably don't see emoji they probably just see the Unicode character but they don't actually know what it looks like.
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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.
I would have said the same thing about Israel but look how that turned out.
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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.
Maybe they can pull a Canada and actually come up with a flag design that works so well for them that almost rewrites history.
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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.
That's just part of the MEGA right-wing playbook. They never actually care about the country they just care about the power.
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The whole flag situation isn't really ideal.
Also
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"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). -
No matter what the country is, these far righters are always idiots.
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They look really similar though
