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601.
by petre 2y ago
Yes, but they were sleeping at the wheel and making the wrong sort of plans that they always make without accounting for foreign interference.
602.
by petre 2y ago
Dunno, people are already brainwashed with Russian propaganda and convinced that the majority party somehow stole the elections, when in fact they're as surprised as everyone else. If they disqualify the guy his votes would likly go to
603.
by petre 2y ago
They did not have acces to the declassified reports then and the initial complaints were for something else, voting irregularities in a few named polling stations.
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by petre 2y ago
I've read the actual reports, they contain facts and details, with names blacked out, not suspicions. They point to Russian interference. They state that the campaign is similar to the ones in Ukraine before the invasion and the one du
605.
by petre 2y ago
The're not losing the right to vote, they just get to do it all over again, hopefully without another state actor tainting the ballot. And without inept politicians combining the presidential and parliamentary elections over the course
606.
by petre 2y ago
It was not a democratic election specifically because of massive foreign interference. Democracy doesn't work with an adversary propaganda channel in your society. This is why RT and Sputnik news were banned just about everywhere in th
607.
by petre 2y ago
If the secret service tells the president it's Russian interference, then it is what it is. The report was declassified and the Constitutional Court has acted on some of the interference complaints, of which there were at least three a
608.
by petre 2y ago
> The people who voted for this guy have agency and decided for themselves They got brainwashed into the vote. The other parties had very weak candidates, some with a bunch of corruption issues that the press raved about just before the
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by petre 2y ago
> This whole thing is just a narrative of the forces who want to keep down "EU-first" movements. Sure. There is documented evidence of both FPö and AfD ties to Russia. Maybe it was different in the '90s but now Russia prom
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by petre 2y ago
> Russia, on the other hand, never experienced a Spetember 11 Maybe not on that scale but they had a few major terror attacks of their own: Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, the 1999 apartment bombings, the Moscow theater hostage cris
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by petre 2y ago
> Russia appears to be able to propel politicians who are closer to the their politics Not really, they propel useful idiots. In the US that would have been Robert Kennedy Jr. In Germany it's whatever clows AfD has, in Austria it&#x
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by petre 2y ago
It was pushed upon me by management. I would have opted for Svelte or Lit. So I hate it, I hate writing code in it, I hate that it wants to control all your DOM, I hate how they "re-invented" HTML with JSX components and how the c
613.
by petre 2y ago
They should also test with cracked pebbles.
614.
by petre 2y ago
What stops political campaign money from funding accounts and bots?
615.
by petre 2y ago
Except he can't be banned from TwitterX like Trump. Imagine Musk as a future Republican candidate with a social network. This DODGE thing is a political ramp for him. The other potential candidate is Zuckerberg with his fascination wit
616.
by petre 2y ago
I said wait. Every fascist regime begins with a purge. Then it was the communists, now it might be federal workers? I guess we shall see.
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by petre 2y ago
Just wait and see what he'll do to the federal workers, before he gets to screw up Mars for good. Maybe replace them with AI, since that's the current hype train. Think of full self driving but for government. https://w
618.
by petre 2y ago
Niche forums and gaming communities? HN? They've grown up, some have become braiwashed by corporate culture, some have wives, kids, dogs, cats, mortgages.
619.
by petre 2y ago
Also trips to medical conferences abroad, at least in Europe.
620.
by petre 2y ago
It's not the tech but the attention capitalism and the assault on general purpose computing who screwed up the tech. The people, their greed and their desire for controlling others got in the way, unsurprisingly. This is becoming incre
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by petre 2y ago
> It sends a signal to all of Europe to be wary of doing business with Israel, which is a big deal. They can resume business once Netanyahu is gone. In fact Viktor Orban has already invited him to Hungary to the dismay of EU officials. H
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by petre 2y ago
I won't criticize the Pentagon. They're taking orders from higher up who's waiting for Russia to escalate in order to respond. The ballistic missile strike on Dnipro is a new devlopment: "This could have been a strategic
623.
by petre 2y ago
> This reminds me of videos from "Bald and Bankrupt" where people in villages have said that life was better under communism. It's part of the post-WW2 generation inductrinated by state propaganda who had access to food an
624.
by petre 2y ago
Try this. https://understandingwar.org/
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by petre 2y ago
I've read the original Zeit article. What a bunch of mumbo jumbo. https://www.zeit.de/politik/2023-09/nord-stream-pipelines-at...
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by petre 2y ago
> I am sorry but providing additional aid at this stage would likely prolong the war rather than bring about a resolution. That would only give Putin time to replenish his forces and attack again. The time to act is now. If the Russians
627.
by petre 2y ago
Billions of dollars worth of Gulf War era weapons some of which they need to replenish anyway. It actually did help a lot but it's apparently still not enough to win this war. I beleieve that the US strategy is to slowly grind the Russ
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by petre 2y ago
They should really complain about plastic food packaging instead. Non detachable bottle caps are just an attempt to start somehere and hopefully discourage usage. I'm sure there are other ways to attach a bottle cap without annoying th
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by petre 2y ago
Germany was told to stop buying Russian gas financing the Russian war machine by the previous Trump administration. They were told to pledge 2% of their GDP for defense, contributing more to NATO. They didn't listen. This is what happe
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by petre 2y ago
Thry do but it only benefits Ukraine. So they're the ones who should blow it up, preferably with with weapons of their own in order to avoid NATO escalation. Just lke the Moskva sinking.

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