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Apparently Brave got a little cheeky in Google Playstore (I don't see this in Tim Apple's store) and Mozzila is coping hard.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738158874XnG8urLTNcMJ_g.webp

Firef*x claps back after Brave browser's Play Store shenanigans

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17381588737i9bMjzWOt3O7w.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738158873hnwcW8KMO4i5Sw.webp

:marseyg#arfieldrofl:

https://old.reddit.com/r/firef*x/comments/1ic4w56/i_guess_this_is_a_response_for_braves_forget_the/

Pretty lame response. "We are just minding our business and fading into obscurity". They should have use this opportunity to promote some benefit of using Firef*x over brave.

Why would they give their competitor free advertising

where is the competition? the true privacy browser is firef*x

*conditions apply. Please turn off data collection, sponsored links, non-privacy-preserving website advertising preferences, weather on New Tab page, pocket sponsored posts, default browser agent, Normandy, as well as suggestion improvements for search and web browsing. Be sure to not enable AI, and set default search engine to something that isn't Google.

**kindly please ignore that even if you turn off data collection, we will still relentlessly reach out to incoming.telemetry.mozzarella.org and location.services.mozzarella.com.

:#marseysike:

Firef*x really be doing anything but enable hdr support on YouTube.

:#marseyprojection:

I don't get the drooling love some people have for Brave. I personally don't think I would ever trust the browser for anything other than just another option when the ones I like don't work due to the history of crypto schemes and ad/affiliate link hijacking.

Same reason I doubt I will ever trust something made by Lenovo. They screwed up in such a bad way in the past with that whole root cert thing on their OEM images that even a decade+ on I still associate them with it and never consider their products as an option if I can find anything else to do the job.

It is essentially a cult. The crypto crowd loves to overhype stuff as they are used to do it in their pyramid schemes.

Some other people also believe brave to be some kind of anti woke browser. It's just ideology.

https://media.tenor.com/hBYXqOXpQQQAAAAx/toyama-kasumi-bang-dream.webp

Firef*x is objectively the best browser in the world

in a newly-bought Macbook, install Firef*x and Chrome, then compare. despite having the M4 processor and generous amounts of unified memory, Chrome lags while Firef*x is buttery smooth

i feel sorry for people who's using Chrome, they don't even know they got used to terrible experience that they think it's normal. it's like not knowing what's above 60 Hz refresh rate or not having experienced OLED

Firef*x for everything. Safari if I want to stream 4K on Netflix. Chrome if my work will be primarily on Google Docs or Gmail. Brave if it's winter and I want to use my computer as a space heater

I use Firef*x on my computer and brave on my phone. I haven't noticed brave heating up my phone though. What's going on with Brave that everyone hates them so much?

personally, i don't like that you can't disable or hide the features that are bundled with the browser - vpn, crypto, and ai. as for the company behind Brave, i dislike their marketing because they have no business hating on other browsers if they're just a Chrome reskin themselves.

as for the heating part, well, that's my experience on Mac because it's so unoptimized. Chrome is slow as it is, but when you bundle it with other bloat, it takes a toll on your machine. there's also a long-running joke that Brave mines crypto, that's why it gets hot

https://media.tenor.com/OCg7gWewq-0AAAAx/brooklyn99-jake-peralta.webp

Brave on my old M1 laptop literally has better battery life than Safari. You can turn all the shit off. Neighbor what world are Mozzilatards living in? Oh yeah, one where Furryfox has a 69% market share and they're not a fat slob in a boring butt IT job for some middling company.


https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738158873IMFDkmqD7FX24A.webp

Don't be a lameass Furryfox user, be brave! The browser that puts you first | Brave

!braveshills

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our resident gay :marseysalutepride: furry :marseycatgirl: is a celebrity on the orange sight!
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Jap Banks collectively start to commit coomacide and block American revenue to japanese developers for their degenerate hentai games on Steam :marseychingchongitsover: :marseyfreeman:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1idg5ed/japanese_developers_on_steam_cant_receive_revenue/

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738249506nkWtdEBCRs9Riw.webp

:marseyneckbeardgenocide#:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17382495069cXE5PWh7FORbg.webp

:marseyakshually#:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17382495076y4nq7jzcozYcA.webp

:marseyhesright#: :marseyxesright#:

this is literally B !anime

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So I met up with this :marseytrain: off Grindr and fricked him.

mtf, stereotype, communist, neurodivergent, type shit

Dude was rambling about some nonsense, and I just nodded along, waiting to get it over with. About an hour in, we got down to business and I fricked his butt (with a condom, obviously).

Tbh I felt kind of disgusted, but you know, neighbors just gotta take what they can get

It is what it is.


To find the mystical true femboy (biological male that passes as female with the exception of the peepee)

But as it turns out, they don't really exist or at least, they're so incredibly rare they might as well not exist

It's like finding a cryptid, but at the same time, trying to find that true femboy is almost addictive...

It's like gambling, trying to hit the jackpot.

"Maybe the next one... maybe just a few more profiles..."

Darn


Trans QUEEN in question. Dilapidated room , dirty carpet and greasy pikachu plushy an all!

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738329674J_3A-W4yVmoQkQ.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738329674SHXG2izAxiDRhA.webp

!chuds :marseynull: lost another soldier in the r-slur war.....

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chadmom helps child choose a more productive hobby, reddit calls it "abuse" :marseyeyeroll2:

					
					

who the frick even stands with their toes touching

and as @corp discovered, it was all anime girls

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17397197337LaxxeYBBMEDHw.webp

!chads !art

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"What do you feel uncomfortable about saying here?"

!oldstrags did you know Metafilter still exists? It does!

Did you know it's a giant circlejerk even more insular than reddit? Of course you did.

(For those who don't know, MeFi is an ancient internet forum that costs $5 to join. It's like SomethingAwful if it were never funny, or rdrama if you losers had jobs and could afford 5 dollars to keep out the thirdies)

Anyway, in 2014 they had a struggle session about thinking the unspeakable wrongs.

Wendy Carlos is a transwoman. Seriously, I mentioned this once and it got instadeleted because WTF? apparently some longstanding flame war of which I wasn't even aware.

I don't know who Wendy Carlos is, but I know that trans :marseyclapping2: women :marseyclapping2: are :marseyclapping2: women :marseyclapping2:. There's no such thing as a "transwoman".

Anyway, after few thousand comments the thread devolves into people getting their fee-fees hurt and demanding apologies

If you want a personal apology for a comment that was not directed at you then you might as well just come out and say so instead of continuing to harp on it despite the fact that sweetkid has explained her reasoning and sincerely apologized to the actual people involved.

Then later on, down the end there's a big argument about whether it's okay to dox a 27 year old dude :marseypedo: who really really likes a 17 y/o :stabler:

This comment does not look to me like an apology or an expression of misunderstanding. It looks to me like an admission he googled the information and intentionally doxxed someone he was characterizing as a "libertarian" and "sexual predator."

So folks are free to read the actual MeTa I am recalling and decide for themselves whether or not I am wildly misremembering anything or mischaracterizing it.

Y'all can't behave!

Painful. Might be time to close the thread?

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Sorta kinda maybe Mavis (again)

She is harder (for me) to draw than she looks

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Brave Dramasoldier Has Ended Up Causing a Chain Sneedaction

You might know this guy from a recently posted thread from @BussyBoy where he says some mean things about a dead minecraft youtuber. I don't know if he wants his channel to be associated with rDrama so I'm going to refer to him as Brian.

Apparently BB/Brian NOT ONLY made fun of a dead guy BUT two weeks before he also made a very insensitive joke where he refers to a black minecraft pig as a "pigger". In fact, this issue was so massive that the part where he says it is the MOST REPLAYED part of the video AND sponsorblock has it marked as the highlight of the video.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942256V4GIktebzSFYMg.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942256SQX2vM1S02FesA.webp

This generated its own sneeding with many users calling this joke really insensitive.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942256xKPZuSHKPzH0tg.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942256aEqGolcH2Wp8Mw.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17379422563D8hC0Ie99lyMw.webp

Not long after posting the drama died down (because preteens have the attention spans of flies) and everything was fine... UNTIL someone brought it up again in the drama referenced earlier.

The replies are pretty boring because, like I said before, we're dealing with children.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942256HPz67zbuMCkebA.webp Just wanted to include this screenshot because it's so fricking funny that this dude doesn't get the joke after like 3 replies.

HAVE NO FEAR, ANOTHER YOUTUBER IS HERE! Totaling at 770k subs, TheMisterEpic chimes in to defend Brian!

He whiteknights for Brian like a good friend and mentions the obvious fact: it's ragebait made to generate discussion

Here's his whole discussion with OP

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942257DH6OUotK8IMGdA.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942257PMS5Zlc6LfooQQ.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17379422573wmPFphz5-I-cw.webp

Now, back to the main tweet. Xitter user TheWorstOfTwt informs everyone that TME is a heckin chud and that nobody should subscribe to him.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737942257Sgm5gto3yDx7WA.webp

I don't care for minecraft so all of this discussion is boring. Feel free to mess with people, maybe deny all the atrocities that happened? Maybe claim these youtubers are black? Idk

editorial note post writing: the guy who made the callout thread is suicidal lmfao https://x.com/Owehttamy https://www.twitch.tv/owehttamy

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ŘСddΓ­tΠΎΕ™s must bΠ΅ nΠΎw uΔΌtΕ™Π° mΠ°d sΓ­nсС 3 wΠ΅Π΅ks Π°gΠΎ thΠ΅Ρƒ сļаímΠ΅d nΠΎ wΠ°Ρƒ Γ­ts Ε™Π΅Π°ΔΌ

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Tom Holland:marseyspiderman:ID'd While Buying His :pervertedspiderman: Own Non-Alcoholic Beer :marseyrussian:

https://media.tenor.com/EGzey9sssp0AAAAx/peter-parker-tom-holland.webp

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Rdrama bookclub. "Petersburg" Discussion Thread #3 :marseyflagrussia: :marseyww1russian1: Chapter 3

!bookworms to discuss chapter 3 of Andrei Bely's "Petersburg".

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739291597har_Cb7IaOsGjg.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739291599mMqvGKNvTogObA.webp

I loled at this passages. Despite being a commie himself Bely could take a joke and make fun of his own movement. Despite the rather complex language this book is quite satirical.

Aleksandr Ivanovich is sort of a charming neurodivergent for a terrorist. Nikolai Apollonovich is a whiny cute twink and his dad is right about him.

Sofia Petrovna needs better friends and would seriously benefit of owning a dildo, but unfortunately she's a weeb in 1900s Russia.

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Finally saw cabin in the woods. In depth review and analysis.

I was just going to leave the thread blank for two reasons:

1) Since the film is so in love with cutesy little meta-metacommentary it seemed appropriate because

2) I felt absolutely nothing for this movie,

however that's too subtle, so like Cabin in the Woods itself I will now belabor the point long past anyone's ability to care.

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this. It wasn't offensively bad or anything a la Black Swan, it isn't good-bad like Chopping Mall, it's not just plain old serviceable and therefore solid in its decency like The Omen, and it certainly isn't good. And it's like it was written to preemptively shield itself from criticism.

I could call it formulaic. The defense would be that of course it's formulaic, that's the point of the movie haha they even named the generic slasher archetypes at the end, the formulaicism is part of the joke.

I could call it uninspired. The defense would similarly be that of course it's uninspired, there's a Cube-style room of rooms with all the monsters from everything, it's all deliberately derivative and referential.

I could call it not scary. The defense would again similarly be that this is also intentional, look how it's also billed as a comedy. Nevermind that it's not funny either, because it's also billed as a horror.

The plain and simple of it is that it is formulaic, and this goes for the meta-meta narrative as well. Yes the silly organization's point is to enact the contrived ritual that plays out with horror movie tropes because it's supposed to, that's not whats formulaic about it. It can be argued that every beat up to the descent into the facility is formulaic by design, but once they're through that door that excuse falls flat.

The plain and simple of it is that it is uninspired. One of the technicians remarks early on that they're allowed to cheat to make things play out as needed as much as they want. Later we see that security personnel gunning down the sacrifices meets the requirementsβ€”there's no reason not to lead with that and just shoot the whore first. Or to bomb the cabin after shooting the whore. Or literally anything else. The overarching narrative cannot be flimsy because the arguably intentionally shitty internal narrative is wink-wink-shitty to allow room for that larger one. The overall story is just there as an excuse to make 8104 different references (HAHA THE WHITEBOARD TALKS ABOUT THE R*PE TREES FROM EVIL DESD LOL) and give 3 second cameos to creatures from other movies. The facility and organization itself is just a Cube Zero knockoff anyway.

The plain and simple of it is that it is neither scary nor funny. There are no stakes even with the apocalypse on the horizon and then actualizing to end the film. Everyone is boring and sucks. Literally Shaggy from scooby doo as the lead can't go any other way. The humor predates it by several years but it all smacks of that atrocious Rian Johnson Star Wars movie with the yo momma joke; it's quip "comedy" without the quips but the exact same degree of unwarranted and omnipresent self-satisfaction.

This is, however, a lot more negativity than Cabin in the Woods strictly deserves. I don't feel any sort of profound loathing for it or anything, it did nothing to elicit any particular emotion that strong. It's a completely unremarkable hour and a half.

For a movie with such an incredibly promising cover and inexplicably golden critic reviews from the beforetimes when critics evaluated things by metrics other than how much gay s*x a film has in it, the only thing I feel in any notable sense is confusion as to how either of these things happened. That and I want to watch Hellraiser because cenobites are great even if they are bootleg and have 30 seconds of screentime in an utterly mid movie.

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†

!kino your thoughts?

cc @LainkeyKong as requested

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kpop thot :marseygeisha: accused of that most heinous :carppearlclutch: of crimes; liking young men. :marseysmughipskorean: redditors FREAK out :soysnooseethe:

scene: there's and old kpop group called 2NE1(it's kpop your parents listened to, just ask them :capyboomer:), one of the members is called Dara, who is very pretty and cute. :platyheart:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739253136EdSGvplO9qQyTg.webp


anyway, redditors recently discovered a clip from her blogging channel called DaraTV, in said clip she talked about how she once dated a 14 year old guy shortly, the catch? she was 19 :marseypearlclutch: at the time(altough she told the dude she was 16).

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naturally, redditors think this is heccin manipulative and basically amounts to r*pe :platyhappymerchant: and yada yada yada, you know the drill. here's a few reddit threads with people losing their minds

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpoprants/comments/1ij1xyi/2ne1s_dara_tells_minzy_that_she_dated_a_14yo_when/

https://old.reddit.com/r/kpopthoughts/comments/1im3xmr/dara_said_she_likes_younger_men_and_for_here/


as for me? i have already put in my application to become Dara's fulltime boytoy :marseyagreesuperspeed:

!kpop

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Granblue will reveal the entire season pass at EVO Awards

Not entirely unexpected, they are following Crapcum's steps. I expect most if not all FG devs are going to start doing the same

At least two characters are pretty much confirmed

Ilsa

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739526514nWkhLNrVd4Yo0g.webp

Siete / Seofon

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739526515JAZe8mXZs_7n0Q.webp

The other two are wild cards. They could go with a Divine General rep

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739526516fi-5fvQ9frVWNQ.webp

Six Dragon rep (I want the fricking cat)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739526517shindP_56Ea2WA.webp

And some others but I got lazy halfway in.

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Is "Jews jews jews " better than "Trump Trump Trump"?

					
					
					
	

				
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Four Nations Tournament thoughts
  • First, don't look at main RS sub…gloating Canadian phags. "Trump bad Canada good", get fricked. Unironic Canada posting is just sad. Unable to afford homes, overrun by Sexy Indian dudes and CUCKED by Trump, Canadians feel the need to gloat because this one sport is the only thing that brings glory to their nation.

  • Having said that, this tournament was great. After a lame Super Bowl matchup, this became a marquee sporting event. NHL players are wired differently, and they clearly were proud to rep their countries and played hard. All star games in most sports now just suck but this was the opposite.

  • The game last night was one of the best I've seen in years. 2-2 going into OT, the US went balls to the walls for the first few shifts. They came so close to scoring. McDavid was left wide open and that lapse was it…you can't leave the best player in the game wide open in front of the net. Biddington deserves credit for his performance in net.

  • This will fuel the 2026 Olympic storyline. Hopefully US gets revenge. πŸ™πŸ»

  • Was happy that drunk Bostonians booed the Canadian anthem in retaliation.

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:stabler: - 56-Year-Old Roblox User Groomed By 68-Year-Old Roblox User - The Onion

>FAIRHOPE, ALβ€”Exploiting the popular online game platform for his own perverse ends, local Roblox user Rodney McKinney, 68, was accused of grooming 56-year-old Roblox user Walter Rhodes, sources confirmed Wednesday. "For the past several months, Mr. McKinney, a 68-year-old Roblox user, used the game as a means to foster an inappropriate relationship with an impressionable young 56-year-old that was sexual in nature," said officer Mike Cavazos, noting several obscene messages in which the baby boomer offered the much younger Gen X user Robux in exchange for lewd images of Rhodes' flabby, mature body. "It was clear from their correspondence that Mr. McKinney knew the victim was 56, as he stated in chats that he was 'old enough to be [Rhodes'] supervising manager.' And though he claimed that messages inviting the victim to move off Roblox to a more private LinkedIn chat were innocent, we believe otherwise." At press time, authorities claimed McKinney attempted to conceal his indiscretions by warning Rhodes not to "tell your mom, if she's still alive."

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I don't think you guys understand just how big those tits were. Look at the side view.

I think they were discussing philosophy or quantum computing or Red Hat Linux or something.

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The rate of obesity in particular rose steeply, doubling in adults between 1990 and 2021 to more than 40 percent β€” and nearly tripling, to 29 percent, among girls and women aged 15 to 24.

https://media.tenor.com/tcrKUpIJq9kAAAAx/crying-the-office.webp

I am so happy for our girls

"Obesity comes from genetic, physiological and environmental interactions," she said. "It's not the fault of any one individual who has the disease."

I agree father mother skinny daughter fat, genetic not her fault

Completely unsurprised. Have been watching this happen for about the last 20 years. Watching school kids get more and more overweight, compared to my high school days in the 80's, where there were only 2-3 what would be called "obese" kids in my class of 300. And they weren't even THAT big.

Go to a flea market in the U.S now on a weekend. That is a real eye-opener, to the current mass obesity phenomenon ..

We are headed for the space ships of Wall-E ...

I spend 3 years in high school with 12 foid classmates and 2 were overweight rest obese to super obese. I respected them a lot

https://media.tenor.com/xautHv11lQUAAAAx/ethan-dolan-maybe-not.webp

I remember once's when they started talking about guys and what they like I was like this

https://media.tenor.com/NLp57LxPlJMAAAAx/omg-gif.webp

Because I thought they were delusional to think they don't deserve what they want obviously, they first and all were for me genderless persons.

So they coped by calling me gay because I never hit on any of them

https://media.tenor.com/gI9R-RqD3toAAAAx/i-really-don%27t-care-klavier-gif-klavier-gif.webp

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Lawyer gets his Wiener stolen

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/17388906153nu--UTP_i6U2w.webp

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You are wrong.

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This is like some overly complicated spy movie that developed over a month so it's pretty long, but literally nothing makes sense and things drastically changed from day to day so hopefully it's still an interesting read :marseyfsjal: I'll use the same marseys to distinguish between the candidates and their respective parties to help everyone keep track :marseyfluffy:


Quick background information that you should know :marseyreading:

Romania was never a democracy and it will probably never be one either, it's a known 'secret' that the country is controlled by our secret services. After the revolution we never disbanded the secret service responsible for all the horrible shit happening during communism, we just asked them to stop killing people and left them to do whatever they were doing. So they just rebranded under a different name, retained all the control they had over the country and shaped the new 'democracy' and it's political landscape to fit their needs. Per capita, Romania has the most known secret service agents in EU, but the exact number of people employed is kept a secret, we just know that there are more than the official number. We don't even know how many glowie organizations we actually have since some of them are completely hidden, we just know that more organizations exist out there but nothing else. The secret services have no transparency and answer to no one, they have to give a briefing to the parliament about their activities every now and then, but beyond that no one can actually check on whatever they're doing. Obviously, there are a frick ton amount of conspiracy theories surrounding them and they are blamed for every unusual thing that happens in the country. And this is exactly what I'll be doing here :marseywholesome:

Second thing, we're an extremely docile nation who accepted pretty much everything those in power did over our history. Even during the revolution we calmed down immediately after killing Ceausescu and his wife, meaning that no one else was made to answer for the atrocities that happened during communism. Which is why the former generals and politicians still remain in politics today and why the secret services still control the country. So while reading this just remember that the population barely reacted to everything going on, aside from bitching on the internet a lot :marseylaptopangry2:


On to the parties! We have three main political factions:

  • the classic parties (PNL and PSD) :marseysuit: They are the first parties established after the communism's fall and have people in all the state's institutions in order to control them. They are also known for closely working with the secret services and basically being owned by them. They make sure the glowie wishes are being fulfilled (for example it's accepted that the constant pro-EU and pro-NATO attitude Romania has has been enforced by the secret services) and in exchange they are allowed to steal as much tax money as they want. They have ruled for decades, each playing opposition to the other, while happily mooching money together. But they also neglected to do literally anything for the country so the population got increasingly fed up with them. While PNL started to fall to the side, PSD remains the biggest and strongest party in the country and is accused by every other party of manipulating the elections every single time. And yes, they actually do it every single time :lelolidk:

  • the woke parties (mainly USR) :chadleftoid: The party was created after people got fed up with the other parties for not doing anything to improve anyone's lives. They have modeled their program after the lib parties in Europe and America (mainly gay stuff but with some pro-Palestine messages too recently) but have libertarian tendencies. They infight a lot and split up in ever smaller parties all the time.

  • the far right parties (AUR, SOS, POT) :marseyauthright: Newest and the most untested faction we have. Parties of all sorts of -ists, generally pro-Russia and anti-EU and NATO. Also lots of antisemitism, this will be important later. They argue a lot with each other but still try to form coalitions. All of them have been accused of being russian spies.


And lastly the candidates!


Lasconi :chadleftoid:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17334063821992216.webp

  • Exceptionally stupid, has no idea on anything going on in the world despite wanting to become president

  • Leader of the 'gay party' but tried to pretend to be trad and a christian. Nobody bought it.

  • Believes that Israel should do a ceasefire because Hamas and Hezbollah are fighting each other in Gaza

Georgescu :marseyhitler2:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17334063824214005.webp

  • Massive schizo, internet conspiracy theorists could learn new conspiracies from him

  • Independent, but part of the far right faction

  • Believes romanian language was the one that created the latin language not vice versa

Ciolacu :marseysuit:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17334063825543985.webp

  • Average Eastern Europe politician - corrupt and with no actual principles, will change opinions to keep his power

  • Leader of the biggest party in the country and the candidate with the most control over the institutions

  • Doesn't know english despite wanting to be president and meet other world leader

Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17334063826560795.webp

  • Closeted gay gypsy. Politely doesn't mention he's a gypsy so we mostly pretend we don't notice

  • Leader of the AUR :marseyauthright: party

  • Yes, aur as in gold. Gypsies will forever remain gypsies :marseysigh:

Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17334063827951086.webp

  • Very fat and vey angry all the time. Will fight literally everyone at any moment, even her 'allies'

  • Leader of SOS :marseyauthright: party, also yes named after her :marseychonkernoticeme:

  • The last two aren't that important on their own, but since Georgescu :marseyhitler2: basically didn't exist until voting started they were the most important :marseyauthright: representatives. Both fell to the side after Georgescu appeared


Before the elections :marseyclueless:

Quick note: we had two different elections recently, the presidential ones (in two parts) and the parliamentary ones. So, since we only vote on sundays, three weeks of voting in total.

  • At this point in time Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was completely unknow to anyone so the older parties :marseysuit: :chadleftoid: were expecting to fight only two :marseyauthright: parties, both ruled by loud and stupid leaders. :marseysuit: and :chadleftoid: parties have been mortal enemies for years while the :marseyauthright: are fighting both groups while also screaming at each other. Despite the rightoids slowly growing in power nobody thought they can do much in the elections.

  • Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: has been forbidden by the Constitutional Court to candidate for the president position because she made some 'unconstitutional' statements - anti EU/NATO and for some antisemitism. This is a huge breach of the Court's duties because they have nothing to do with how the elections are organized, other institutions are responsible for this. But the Constitutional Court answers to no one and their decisions are law (I'm sure you can see a pattern) so she got kicked out of the race despite all her angry screaming. The decision was later retracted but oops too late to rejoin the race :marseyteehee:

  • The Constitutional Court is made from judges appointed by different parties, mostly the :marseysuit: ones, so everyone was aware that :marseysuit: are manipulating the elections again. But since Sosoaca is annoying and since she's suspected of working with Russia nobody really cared.

  • In a rare public announcement SRI (main secret service organization for internal affairs) announced that the AUR party :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: is suspected of having ties with Russia too. This wasn't news for anyone but it's nice to have an official confirmation I guess. But they also said the there is no proof of any external interference in any political candidate's campaign so they won't interfere with the elections in any way (it's still unclear if the last statement applied to Georgescu as well or not since he basically didn't exist at this point).

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: who has been accused by everyone to work with Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: to win the elections reacted angrily to this. Basically, he'll support the :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: party to reach the second voting session and there AUR :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: will be this huge threat that will scare people into voting for Ciolacu in exchange of whatever political benefits he promised them after his win (like naming their leader prime minister). Anyway Ciolacu :marseysuit: accused SRI of overstepping it's boundaries. They didn't react to this. Everyone else was angry that PSD :marseysuit: is manipulating the elections again and even of risking Romania's security by working with a russian spy, while some even accepted that they'll manage to win. But beyond these points things moved on smoothly.

  • This section is mostly important as a contrast to how the secret services and other political institutions reacted to potential russian spies (keep an eye out, open communications, quick decisions) and how they'll react from now on.


First presidential election! :ivoted:

  • The battle was supposed to be between Ciolacu :marseysuit: and Lasconi :chadleftoid: Ciolacu should win most votes inside Romania but Lasconi could beat him with the votes gathered from diaspora.

  • A news article about a 'surprise' coffee house meeting between Ciolacu :marseysuit:, Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright:, the other :marseysuit: party's leader and a secret service officer was written sometimes in the last weeks before the elections and someone rediscovered it. Lasconi's :chadleftoid: voters are annoyed. This is clear proof that PSD :marseysuit: is once again manipulating elections.

  • Voting happens and after that the counting starts. For awhile things were normal: Lasconi :chadleftoid: first, then Ciolacu, :marseysuit: Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: and on the fourth place some independent candidate nobody heard about, Gergescu :marseyhitler2: . Who is he and how the frick did he get so high?

  • Then Georgescu :marseyhitler2: climbed on the third place replacing Simion :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: No seriously, who is this guy? Nobody heard of him.

  • Then he dethroned Ciolacu :marseysuit: from the second place. This was quite shocking because the idea of PSD :marseysuit: not ending in the last presidential election tour was unthinkable. This were the last results most people witnessed before going to bed. The counting will go throughout the night and the official results would be announced in the morning. Lasconi's :chadleftoid: voters were naturally overjoyed.

  • Morning came... and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was on the first place, way in front of the other candidates. :marseywtf2: just happened?


The week before the parliamentary elections :marseysweating:

  • The parliamentary elections happened a week after the first presidential elections. Obviously it was a very busy week after such a weird turn of events :marseydizzy:

  • Everyone was confused as shit and started to search who the frick Georgescu :marseyhitler2: even was. Turns out that he was a complete nutjob: he believes in all sort of new age shit (mystical energies, crystals, communicating with spirits, natural healing bullshit) every conspiracy theory out there (moon landing is false, covid is a hoax, aliens, jews control the word, satanic NWO, you name it), is very against NATO and EU to the point where he wants to pull Romania out of them, and praises Russia at any given opportunity while hating Ukraine and considering it a fake country. He also praised our version of Hitler and called him a hero :lelolidk:

  • So, where did this schizo came from? All of his campaign happened on TikTok. No media appearances, no poster, no fliers, nothing. He just gathered a following on TikTok through his insane ramblings and convinced these people to vote for him. Since he was deepthroating Russia's peepee left right and center, and since Russia is known for manipulating social media through an army of bots, everyone (aside from his voters) started to get worried that he's yet another russian spy trying to overthrow our democracy.

  • Wtf are our secret services doing? What's the point of them eating so many of our taxes if they can't even defend the country from Russia? How could they miss this huge attack on our country? :marseyraging: But every one of them remained silent and didn't react in any way to all this chaos.


  • People started to get more confused and more videos of Georgescu :marseyhitler2: saying insane shit were uncovered. More and more voices started to scream about russian interferences, but a few people pointed out an uncomfortable truth - PSD :marseysuit: was always viewed as the party that supports the current political 'system' and USR :chadleftoid: as the anti-system candidates but that was when USR was founded. Now it's been years since then, USR won some important political positions and did nothing important with them or messed up... they've became part of the system just as much as PSD. The :marseyauthright: :marseyhitler2: are voted mainly for being new faces against institutional corruption rather than because people agree with their insane positions. How do you earn these voters back now that they're about to throw Romania into Russia's arms out of spite? :marseyveryworried:

  • Vote observers from small villages came forth and said that PSD :marseysuit: told them to count their votes to AUR's :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: tally to propel them into the final round so he can have an easy win ("We fricking knew PSD is manipulating elections once again!" :soyjakanimeglasses: ). But it turns out that they were giving their votes to Georgescu :marseyhitler2: as well. Wut? Did they know about him?

  • Meanwhile Georgescu :marseyhitler2: declared that he received zero money for his campaign and that he also spent no money during it (this is important for later). This lead to people saying that this is proof that Russia financed him in order to destabilized the country. Also multiple people were fined for still campaigning on the voting day with is illegal, and to everyone's annoyance Georgescu's supporters, who were doing it too, were completely unaffected :marseyhmm:

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: and the leader of the other :marseysuit: party stepped down from their leadership positions due to their embarrassing defeats (this will be important later on too).


  • Now some weird accusations start to appear :marseyglow: Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: accused Georgescu :marseyhitler2: of being a Mossad spy while an AUR member :marseyfortuneteller: :marseyauthright: accused him of being a CIA asset instead. Both of these parties like to scream hysterically at everyone else so nobody really took them seriously. A former president known for his collaboration with the former communist secret services told everyone to calm down since there is no proof that Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was financed by outside actors. He was actually financed by individual inside the country. Wtf does this means? :marseyveryworried:

  • Research into Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: past revealed further oddities. Man was probably part of the old communist secret services (very few people were allowed to travel outside the country and despite being completely unremarkable he was allowed to go out multiple times), has been working with the KGB (to spy on them), has been a member of the Club of Rome (think tank for helping humanity develop sustainably or some shit, the important part that another romanian politician with ties to the secret services was there too), he was part of the UN and has been a freemason (for the last two he claimed that he left them because of all the evil shit happening inside the organisations). He also has been arrested in the past for his support of nazis but his cases were mysteriously closed with no explanation given :marseysquint:

  • A handful of r-slurs protested every day since Georgescu won the first tour but nobody cared :marseyprotestno:


The recount and the slow death of Romania's democracy :marseyflagromaniagenocide:

  • A few days after the official election results come in an independent candidate who only gained 1% of the votes decided to contest the elections despite having no chances to win. He wrote two different complaints, one against Lasconi :chadleftoid: and one against Georgescu :marseyhitler2: The accusation against Georgescu was rejected because it was made after the three days limit expired, despite the complainer's insistance that he made the contestation in time. But the accusation against Lasconi :chadleftoid: was accepted. His declaration stated that in three different locations the votes that were supposed to go to Ciolacu :marseysuit: were actually counted for Lasconi. The Constitutional Court once again overstepped it's boundaries and ordered for all the votes to be re-counted.

  • At this point people were starting to get worried. Half of them were accusing PSD :marseysuit: of preferring to burn down democracy rather than accept that they lost the elections for the first time (again, most of the judges appointed to the constitutional court came from the two :marseysuit: main parties). Basically, since you didn't vote for our candidate we'll remake the elections until Ciolacu :marseysuit: enters the final round. And since the difference between Ciolacu and Lasconi :chadleftoid: were really small while Georgescu :marseyhitler2: was way ahead of both of them, it means that Lasconi will get kicked out of the race in favor of Ciolacu, which means a landslide victory for Georgescu due to the anti-system voters.

  • The other half noticed that up til now everything happening favored Georgescu :marseyhitler2: He avoided every possible consequence despite multiple irregularities in his campaign unlike other candidates (for example Sosoaca :marseychonkerfoid: :marseyauthright: was pulled out of the race for saying milder shit than him) and all this scandal would further raise his popularity as the anti-system candidate. Is it possible that the secret services are actually protecting the nutjob? It would explain why they haven't done anything to stop him. They haven't even said anything to reassure the population that things are fine. Shit... :marseysweating:


  • Some politician made a petition for TikTok to be banned in Romania for the duration of the elections to prevent Georgescu from campaigning. People were torn between considering this yet another hit on democracy but enough of us were happy to do anything to stop Georgescu :marseyauthright: (same thing for the recount actually). The petition wasn't approved and later on he apologized for trying to shut down the funny videos app for everyone.

  • Our secret services still said nothing at this point, and the EU decided to finally do something in their place. They called the owner of the application and demanded explanations for the bot filled campaign. Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: voters got angry at this and said that this is proof that EU interferes in Romania's business and that we should distance ourselves form it. The investigation didn't reveal much, lots of bots, some russian but not all. No real proof of election interference :marseyshrug:

  • Our current president finally decided to react to the panic and said that the secret services hadn't given him any warnings about Georgescu :marseyauthright:

  • As a shock for everyone, Ciolacu :marseysuit: came out and said that he disagrees with the Court's decision and that he'll pull out of the race if he's declared winner after the recount. B-but all this was supposed to be his plan to steal the election to enter the final round, wtf is going on? If he doesn't want this then who does? Predictably, most people realized that he's bullpooping and that he'll walk this back if he actually wins :marseyunamused:


  • Now things get nasty. A weird facebook poster claimed that he was accidentally added to a mail list between multiple former secret service agents that were discussing using Georgescu :marseyauthright: to stage a coup. Basically the members of the former communist secret services were upset that the country distanced itself from Russia and wanted to forcefully bring us back into it's influence zone. One mail specifically said that we should become a satellite of China (?). Panic started to settle now, this was proof that at least some secret services wanted Georgescu :marseyhitler2: to win and since they control the country then there's nothing we can do to stop them :marseyscared: After this news people discovered that the :marseyauthright: parties (all of them) have the largest number of known former secret services officers as members, further cementing the conspiracy theories that our own secret services are dragging us all towards Russia :marseysad:

  • Oddly enough Georgescu started to soften his positions. He declared that he doesn't actually wants to take us out of NATO and EU, he just wants us to stop agreeing unconditionally with everything they decide (like helping Ukraine), that America is Romania's most important partner, and despite being an actual nazi, he started sucking Israel's peepee hard. He said that on the first day after he's declared president he will move our embassy to Jerusalem, declare the arrest request for Bibi as unconstitutional and that he'll invite him to visit Romania, and that he'll not only make antisemitism a crime (it already is just not really enforced) but that he'll expand the definition of it as well :marseywut2: You'd expect his nazi followers to be upset at that but they barely reacted at all. There were a few disappointed messages but they got over it in less than a day :marseyshrug: Leftists were more affected than them because muh war criminal muh genocide :soycry:

  • Anyway, moving on, we still have so much more to cover :marseyfluffy: After the Israel stuff some guys noticed a few odd things about Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: videos. He praised Orban and mentioned stuff about Romania tightening ties with Asia, which was also present in Orban's declarations. Since Orban, and a few other eastern european leaders, refused to arrest Bibi, since his speech mirrors Orban's, since he wants to remain an ally to Murica but wants to sever ties with Western Europe and since he has similar ideas of 'befriending' Russia as Trump, rumours started that Georgescu :marseyhitler2: is an american and/or israeli spy. Basically, Trump wants to break ties with Western Europe but still wants to keep control of Eastern Europe and get it closer to Russia and China, who America will become friendlier towards, and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: is meant to force Romania to play it's part in this plan. So, what where those accusations about him being a CIA/Mossad asset again? :marseydespair:

  • This didn't reassure anyone because Trump is already viewed as Putin's friend and OMG America is going to force us back under Russia, and how the frick is a shithole from Eastern Europe supposed to defend itself from the CIA and/or Mossad? Especially since our secret services, the ones supposed to protect us, seem to agree with all of this? At this point the general mood became depressed and fatalistic :marseydeadinside2:

  • Rumours started that RFK jr and Tucker Carlson will come to Romania to show support for Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Some journo even showed a letter from Murica's embassy in Romania with Trump's signature as proof. But nobody on murican side confirmed any of this. Later on, one of Trump's former campaign managers also hinted at coming to Romania for this but in a really vague way. Everyone was confused :marseyconfused:


  • A new :marseyauthright: party appeared for the parliamentary race, POT, considered Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: unofficial party. They had the exact same TikTok strategy as him, but if we can assume that Georgescu managed to hide long enough from the secret services through TikTok how did these guys slip through? Surely, at this point our secret services are aware of this electoral interference, right? Why aren't they stopping it? :marseyworried:

  • Leader of this new party visited Beijing at some point and promised that Romania will have closer ties with China if they win. Why is everyone trying to make us China's allies anyway, we didn't had much ties with them in the first place? :marseyconfused2:


  • Recounts start. Constitutional Court ordered all recounts to be done behind closed doors, with no camera or supervisors. Shit, it's happening, we're getting couped :marseydepressed: Ciolacu :marseysuit: entering the final round won't help anyone since his party is completely controlled by the secret services and he won't do anything to fight their plans. Basically between him and Georgescu :marseyhitler2: we're fricked no matter who wins :marseycrying:

  • Another handful of r-slurs gathered to protest but were quickly told to go home. Nothing else happened :marseylibleftgenocide:

  • Oh, and that part about Gerogescu :marseyhitler2: declaring zero donations and expenses? Turns out the institution responsible for checking up the candidates' campaign finances 'forgot' to publish the financial declarations for nearly a week, which is why his absurd declaration flied under the radar. Also, it's too late to do anything about it now, contestation time limit has long since passed :marseytroll:


  • But plot twists! Turn out RFK jr won't actually come to Romania, turn out Georgescu :marseyhitler2: wasn't even a member of the Club of Rome, just part of some affiliated organization, and the same thing happened with his UN membership. Wtf, does this guy even exists at this point? :marseywtf2: But wait! He was actually part of the UN... but no one knows who appointed him there in the first place :marseybeanquestion: Clearly this is some glowie shit and we already know he was a glowie and that he's supported by glowies :marseyglow:

The parliamentary elections :marseyridin:

  • These are actually the most important elections since the president barely has any power here. The parliament makes the laws. Candidate parties need to meet a certain voting threshold to win and the winners will make alliances with each other. While a dominant alliance that owns over 50% of the seats is preferred for a stable parliament we can have multiple smaller alliances negotiating each action, but that's a really unstable situation.

  • The recounts are still going. Everyone is stressed and demoralized. Why do we even bother to vote if the Constitutional Court will just throw away the results again? :marseytabletired2:

  • Turns out the other :marseysuit: party managed to get itself kicked out of the diaspora voting lists for not listing a woman candidate among their member lists. Funny lol r-slurs :marseylaugh: but once again, why is every happening favoring Georgescu :marseyhitler2: ?

  • Voting happens and the votes are counted. Because of PSD's :marseysuit: bullshit not everybody can vote in these elections (you need to vote in the place you live in, so students or workers who travel for their jobs are eliminated) and diaspora's votes barely count. So the results now are different. All three factions failed to reach a majority. No matter what, the parliament is split in three and they need to negotiate with each other to make a majority :marseyshrug:

  • Since diaspora's vote didn't count here PSD :marseysuit: got most votes and become the most important player. No matter what, they will join the ruling alliance, and again the parliament actually controls the country not the president. This could be good or bad depending on whether they are actually trying to coup the country or if they just want to keep being able to steal tax money (later one means that they won't pull us out of EU) :marseycapitalistmanlet: But if they ally with the :marseyauthright: parties and if Georgescu :marseyhitler2: wins the presidency and if Georgescu appoints Ciolacu :marseysuit: (or someone else from their party) as prime minister then together they will effectively control all parts of the country. And again, if the conspiracy theories with the secret services forcing us towards Russia is true then no one will be able oppose that plan :marseysulk:

  • Yet no one moved to make any alliance at this point since the recount haven't been finished and nobody even knows who can become president yet :marseywait:


Current situation! :marseymath:

  • The recounts are finally finished! :marseyyayyy: ...and nothing changed. All the panic and all the conspiracy theories were in vain. The second tour of the presidential elections will go without any changes - pro EU Lasconi :chadleftoid: vs pro-Russia Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Last voting session will still happen this weekend :marseyletsgo: But then what was the point of all this bullshit and chaos? :marseyhmmm: Best anyone can come up with is that PSD :marseysuit: tried to steal the first elections but either failed or waited to see how the parliamentary elections faired to settle on one strategy. And since they basically won the important election there's no point in remaking the first elections. Politicians :marseysigh:

  • Ciolacu :marseysuit: revealed that he won't actually step down as PSD's leader. What a surprise :marseyeyeroll: Everyone is waiting to see who PSD :marseysuit: will support both as president and as an ally for the parliament but they still haven't decided. Shit maybe they do actually want to ally with :marseyauthright: ?


  • Until this point our secret services still said absolutely nothing about the situation, so Lasconi :chadleftoid: finally gathered the courage to do something that should have been done since the beginning: ask them directly what the frick is happening here :marseyclapping: She made a petition for them to make public the files they have on Georgescu :marseyhitler2: Which they agreed (but only gave a rapport rather the actual files) :marseythumbsup:

  • It don't reveal much: some 'state actors' helped promote him on TikTok in a way that proved that they were very familiar with the algorithm and with how to keep themselves hidden from the state. The campaign had lots of similarities with the disinformation campaigns happening in Ukraine and the election interference happening in Moldova, both carried by Russia. But they don't name Russia as Georgescu's :marseyhitler2: backers directly. Still, it's clear that Russia was behind this right? The secret services just can't reveal everything and endanger national security, yeah? The cops have decided to finally start investigating Georgescu :marseyhitler2: and the media is calling him a traitor. Ciolacu :marseysuit: came out and officially said that he supports Lasconi :chadleftoid: for president and that his party will join with her party and the other :marseysuit: parties to form a pro- west parliamentary majority in order to block out the :marseyauthright: parties. It's finally over and Romania is saved :marseyrelieved:


  • Well, you see, it's too late to remove the russian asset from the presidential race since the contestation time window is over and we can't kick him out any longer :marseytroll: Yes, he might be a literal traitor trying to sell the country to Russia, so what? :marseydisconcerting:

  • Plus the files also revealed that the secret services were aware of Georgescu's :marseyauthright: campaign and his ties with Russia all this time. Good thing they aren't incompetent, right? I mean, they literally rule the country :marseyclueless: But then, why didn't they do anything until it was too late to kick him out of the race? Why the frick aren't them kicking him out now? He's a literal russian agent that betrayed his country to serve Russia and frick us all, surely there must be some exceptions to the 'too late' rule :marseyaware: The president knew too, and Ciolacu :marseysuit: (current prime minister) revealed that he was also aware of this but couldn't say anything since it was a state secret... but why didn't he at least throw his support for Lasconi :chadleftoid: earlier? He could have done this without revealing anything else... What is going on? Why isn't anyone doing anything? :marseywtf:

  • Besides, despite making an official alliance with the pro-EU parties, PSD :marseysuit: can still either break the alliance at a later date and join the :marseyauthright: parties, vote alongside the pro-Russia parties despite their promise, and even if Lasconi :chadleftoid: wins the parliament can force her out of her position and call for new elections. Plus the parliament is more important than the president and they have the biggest share of it... maybe those conspiracy theories were right after all? :marseydespair:

  • The police and other authorities said that they received no warning for Georgescu :marseyhitler2: no message or documents, nothing despite the secret services having files on him for who knows how long. They are just as shocked as anyone else. Even if they start investigating him now it might take awhile to arrest him. The elections might be done already. Sure, they could still cancel his mandate on treason charges, probably, but will they? And what does 'state actors' even means? It could just mean our secret services. And even if they specifically mean foreign state actors, we can go back to the CIA/Mossad conspiracy theory :marseyveryworriedfed:

  • Are we still getting couped? Do they care so little about our opinions that they will tell us straight to our face that we'll join Russia and that there's nothing we can do about it? :marseycry:


Today :hysterical:

I wrote all this yesterday, so here are the latest developments :marseydance:

  • Gergescu :marseyhitler2: is still in the race. Yes, there are hints that some secret services support Georgescu :marseyhitler2:, presumably the others are against him... hopefully :chudconcerned:

  • We have notified NATO, EU and our neighbours that there were hostile foreign interferences into our elections

  • A criminal investigation on him by multiple institutions has started, but it's unclear if it will help with anything. What will happen if he wins the election? :marseyquestion:

  • EU demanded TikTok to not delete his campaign data

  • The guy who demanded a recount came back and asked for both elections to be cancelled. Nobody knows what's his problem :marseyxd:

  • America asked us if we're ok. We still don't have an answer to this question.

  • No seriously, why aren't they arresting him yet? Why didn't they actually do anything all this time? :marseyveryworried:


So, this sunday I'll go vote in an election that might have it's winner already decided or might just get cancelled after the votes are counted :marseyexcited: An one of the candidates is an admittedly traitor to the country. And last week's elections might have been the last real elections I voted in, even if Georgescu :marseyhitler2: loses this is the perfect opportunity for PSD :marseysuit: to tighten it's control over the country even more :marseyfluffy: But the whole shitshow is still going strong so I'll keep you up to date :marseywave2:

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