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sofixa 15 hours ago

> Politicians won't tax gas because they'll get voted out.

Have you seen gas tax rates in the EU?

> We know that Trump is not captured by corporations because his trade policies are terrible.

Unless you think it's a long con for some rich people to be able to time the market by getting him to crash it.

> The EU is saying the elections in Romania was manipulated through manipulation of TikTok accounts and media.

More importantly, Romanian courts say that too. And it was all out in the open, so not exactly a secret

lucianbr 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Romainan courts say all kinds of things, many of them patently false. It's absurd to claim that since romanian courts say something, it must be true. It's absurd in principle, because there's nothing in the concept of a court that makes it infallible, and it's absurd in this precise case, because we are corrupt as hell.

I'm pretty sure the election was manipulated, but the court only said so because it benefits the incumbents, which control the courts and would lose their power.

It's a struggle between local thieves and putin, that's all. The local thieves will keep us in the EU, which is much better than the alternative, but come on. "More importantly, Romanian courts say so"? Really?

sofixa 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'm pretty sure the election was manipulated, but the court only said so because it benefits the incumbents, which control the courts and would lose their power.

Why do you think that's the only reason the court said so? The election law was pretty blatantly violated (he declared campaign funding of 0, yet tons of ads were bought for him and influencers paid to advertise him).