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by cbg0 2y ago
On the other hand, this is the most impactful way to change antiquated rules.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Quite a lot of whataboutisms and straw men in your post, let's stick to LLMs, as that was the original topic.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Who will decide that the court has acted outside its own mandate? They are the only authority on constitutional matters. If you're referring to "the people" - based on what I've seen there's no street protesting goi
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by cbg0 2y ago
We're getting in murky waters about legally debating what constitutes as "proof" to a court that is the sole authority on the constitution and whether they need something to be proven in a different court to act. The vote rec
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by cbg0 2y ago
I'm not looking to get into a legal debate about this, as I'm not a legal scholar. You stated something factually wrong and I pointed you to the paragraph of the law. The court is the single highest authority on constitutional mat
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by cbg0 2y ago
> First, there is no process or even mention in any Romanian law about annuling an election. This is false. Law 370 20/09/2004: Article 52 (1) The Constitutional Court shall annul an election if the voting and the determination
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by cbg0 2y ago
The fact that the incumbents performed poorly during the past 4 years has led to them having a lot fewer %s in the parliamentary elections, and I think it was the first time that one of the establishment parties' candidates didn't
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by cbg0 2y ago
People voted, the question is how big of an impact do these bots have when it comes to promoting content on social media, because it seems like a lot. There's also a huge issue with TikTok being owned by China, which is not an ally nat
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by cbg0 2y ago
The parliamentary elections have been over for a week and we know the establishment parties took most of the vote, though considerably less than they did 4 years ago.
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TikTok is a social network where anyone can post any video they want, using it as a news source is very dangerous. And no, the election wouldn't be cancelled if a local journalist supported a candidate, though it's not an apples-t
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by cbg0 2y ago
From what I know the law says that they have up to 15 days after the election to submit their finance report, which is what allowed this to slip by undetected.
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This wasn't the case here, CG wasn't a well-known candidate with a large party behind him.
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by cbg0 2y ago
It is a good thing to stick with your allies and not side with potential enemies. We've been warring in Europe for centuries and we've managed to stop and get along, but Russia is still at it for some reason.
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by cbg0 2y ago
I don't trust the government, but I do trust history on this. If you're curious about the movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard I'm very grateful to live in Romania and have a lot of things
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by cbg0 2y ago
They do have a basis, as the candidate had flyers printed out, paid ads on social media as well as paid ads that were not marked as political ads, which is against the law, and so is not reporting campaign spending. Political polls from acr
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by cbg0 2y ago
We're not talking about an established candidate with pre-existing support, and this was just the first leg of the election with multiple presidential candidates, not the run-off, so don't compare this to Trump v Kamala. I'm
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by cbg0 2y ago
Care to name a few examples? Also, USA, Germany and France are allies to Romania as part of either NATO or the EU. Russia has invaded Ukraine, our neighbor and we have a pretty good reason to stay far away from them, not to mention some his
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by cbg0 2y ago
We don't have all the answers yet and there's a bunch of speculation that the intelligence services were a bit incompetent or even supported him in hopes of taking votes away from other candidates, but things may have gotten a bit
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by cbg0 2y ago
Nobody's calling him Hitler, there's a lot of very weird things the guy says though, as he's pretty heavy into religious mysticism and a bit of a nutjob, some of his hits: - Pepsi contains nanochips that enter your body - wat
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by cbg0 2y ago
The other parties reported spending as per the law, and this guy didn't. You can't run a campaign with no money, and he had no real grass-roots support (he was polling below 5% in all polls).
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by cbg0 2y ago
Options A and B are definitely not the reason why far right is on the rise in my opinion. It boils down to more basic things, like a healthy economy, immigration, health care, rising cost of living, and various country specific issues.
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by cbg0 2y ago
I don't think banning outright is the solution, but I do think that social media has a tremendous amount of power and can impact things like elections if you have control over the recommendation algorithm on one of these sites. I think
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Seeing "sponsored campaign ad" is an instant skip for most people.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Do you have a different solution than democracy? We've already tried communism in Romania for like 45 years and it was garbage. For the parliament election that happened last week, the winning parties of parliament were the establishme
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by cbg0 2y ago
But we already have open borders in the EU. If you're referring to allowing in migrants freely, that's deeply unpopular in Romania and no candidate is in support of it.
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by cbg0 2y ago
This isn't a few forgotten expenditures, this is a candidate which reported no spending on their campaign and which allegedly had support from a foreign state. You can get away with some things, but we're not just talking about a
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by cbg0 2y ago
I would contend that the anti-establishment movements are the reason why parties like AfD and LePen's sprouted in the first place.
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by cbg0 2y ago
> Immediately after the first election, the court (mostly consisting of SPD) ordered a recount. The recount was ordered after two complaints were lodged, one which was rejected and the one that was accepted was from another contender in
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by cbg0 2y ago
This has not happened yet, it's merely a speculation at this time, but the accusations have a solid foundation in videos of him talking about the subject and even plagiarizing speeches by famous Iron Guard members. Romania does not hav
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by cbg0 2y ago
> Nothing is stopping e.g. me from buying tiktok ads in elections (domestic or foreign). Yes, and that's a big part of the problem, which is why tiktok is also under fire in this whole situation.

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