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Say what you want about "woke" (assuming you can define it), but its worst excesses were curbed by democratic elections. What's the endgame of a movement that
by Jordan-117 11mo ago
Say what you want about "woke" (assuming you can define it), but its worst excesses were curbed by democratic elections.
What's the endgame of a movement that seeks to discredit, overturn, and functionally control elections?
- pandaman 11mo agoDo you mean that the things like annulling the elections when the "wrong" candidate won [1] or barring the opposition candidates from running [2],[3] are not the worst excesses? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Romanian_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Romanian_presidential_ele... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen
- thunderfork 11mo agoAre these "woke" or just "events that negatively impacted far-right candidates"? Le Pen is a particularly egregious example, given it's an embezzlement conviction and not some kind of "too racist" penalty or whatever we're imagining
- bigyabai 11mo agoDo you have any less scandal-laden examples, or is this all of it?