• mrbutterscotch@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    A damn shame what he is doing to the States. It’s up to us europeans to defend freedom and democracy now

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      5 hours ago

      If you’re gonna start “defending freedom and democracy” the way the US does it, I’ll ask to please keep that shit to yourselves this time around.

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        Oh absolutely, I don’t mean in the way they invaded other countries for ‘democracy’ but rather in the way they acted as a shield for europe etc against Ussr/russia

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          See, that’s the problem, last time they acted as a shield against the USSR, here they organized a coup against a democratically elected president, and funded the following dictatorship for 20 years or so. And honestly that was nothing compared to what they did in, say, Cambodia and Vietnam (France, I’m looking at you too).

          But tbh it’s not like I expect them to stop doing this kinda shit once the hegemony is shattered, so I’m rambling for nothing

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            Fair enough. May I ask where here is? I guess what I’m saying is that europe has to defend their own freedom now. American Democracy was outdated anyway. And I agree, I don’t see an authoritarian USA being less imperialistic than they have been until now. I suppose it’s a good thing we won’t be helping them with it anymore

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      Like how EU did in Romania after they pressured Romania to invalidate the election and bar Călin Georgescu despite him winning the first round of elections and him polling at 40% per opposing parties’ polling companies?

      Now Romania looks like this.

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          As opposed to anti-democratic EU stooges? They are literally having Romania redo the elections and bar the winner until desired result is achieved.

          Perhaps if they don’t want this guy in office, they can do it democratically by actually appealing to their constituents.

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            3 hours ago

            The Constitutional Court annulled the results due to Russian Election interference. So he didn’t win shit

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              Except he did, even opposing parties’ polling companies placed him at 40%.

              If they let a little alleged social media campaign hurt their prospects of winning the election, perhaps they should actually appeal to their constituents.