Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺

eli5?
- Immigrants voting for someone who would never let them into the country.

They are playing 4D chess: Dumbass, Disturbed, Duped, and Derpy are the four Ds.
- And Dickhead.

Reminds me of all the Latinos who vote for Trump.
- "Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo"
- Lots of misinformation in la familia group chat
- "This thing that's happening reminds me of a different thing that's also happening" isn't exactly an unusual sentiment.
  
  Yeah that's fair, I could only process it with such limited information by comparing it to something else. Sorry.

https://on.ft.com/4jaMyVF
Pro-EU centrist Nicuşor Dan was on course to become Romania’s president on Sunday, according to exit polls, leading a run-off against an ultranationalist Eurosceptic who had topped the first round and raised fears about the country’s pro-western orientation.
- The live results can be checked here: https://prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidentiale18052025/pv/results/?region=total&pv-scope=total&pv-relative-max=max&pv-candidate-chart-type=bar.
  
  A little bit confused by the graph but it seems like he's solidly ahead with most votes counted? So he's secured the win?

Hey, this guy starred in one of the only memes I’ve ever made. Neat.

Nostalgia for being oppressed is in full force.
"Ștefan Șerban, 69, sitting on a bench with his friend Nicolae Carja, 74, said life had been better under the former Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. “We were a rich country then,” he said. “Industry, petrol, gas, goldmines. And no debt.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/between-a-mathematician-and-a-trump-loving-hooligan-romania-stark-presidential-choice
- I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
  Just look at how much of Russia's foreign policy is basically "damn, remember when we were the USSR?"
  
  Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. "Future shock" was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn't/wouldn't deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
  
  USSR foreign policy was basically "Damn, remember when we were an empire?"
  
  But the world of the Boomer's parents was ww1 into ww2. It was a pretty big deal
- They were probably very drunk in '89. Otherwise they would have remembered that the dude got clipped for using the country as his own personal bank account.
- like all russian pensioners saying life was better under stalin since they could just move into an apartment of the people whose whole family was killed.
- "They yearn for the mines".
  
  Except it became so expensive to run them.
  Similar thing happened to the copper mines of Hungary, at one point it became so expensive to mine it was cheaper and easier to shut them off, at least temporarily. We potentially even have some gold in the same mine, it's just allegedly so deep no current technology is able to mine them.
  Same with the local closed coalmines, but with environmental concerns, and my house is sinking because of them. However, there's way more conspiracy theory is out there about them.
- Rich? They were poor AF and everybody knew it, it was a rolling joke in the west.

Please don't blame the minority of a minority, majority of which can't vote yet.
- We can though. Yes it was a minority of a minority and not likely to have made a difference. I blame everyone who voted for the end of democracy, human rights, rule of law, but especially those who voted most against their own interest
  Latinos and people from West Virginia. wtf did you do that for. You’re the people hurt the most, but you’re taking the rest of us down with you
- You would be surprised what younger Romanians have learned of the (not English!) US lexicon.

I have friends who immigrated to the Netherlands and then complained that "all these emigrants ruined the Netherlands".... I was blown away...
- Very common to hear this. I've heard family that were complaining that male only, illegal immigrants are moving in to steal jobs, when they were exactly in the same situation, just on the other side, some 20 years ago. It honestly shakes my hope in humanity.
- Is your friend white while complaining about non-white emigrants?
  
  Well that depends on who you ask of course, white is not a constant, but if you ask them, yes.
  
  How did you know?!?!? \s
- A Florida native once wrote that that the people who most want to stop Florida overdevelopment are the ones who brought their house last week.
  
  Almost 60% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump, the second time...
  
  Opposing overdevelopment =/= Hating refugees.
  Is this "Florida native" in the real estate industry or just brainwashed by them?
  I'm pretty sure that anyone who believes in the ongoing climate catastrophe is rationally opposed to overdevelopment, especially in Florida ffs.
- I’m a descendant of immigrants in the Netherlands and there is definitely a small subset of 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants who is ruining it for all immigrants. PVV would have never been voted in as the biggest party if the parents (who never bothered to integrate and to learn the language) of these trouble making 2nd/3rd gen migrants weren’t given permanent residency.
  30 years ago people who pointed out the problems these non integrated migrants could cause in the future were labeled racists by the left wing parties at the time, even though the leader of the socialist party warned about this. The labor party who was in power at the time also didn’t bother to tackle this issue, since they relied on the immigrant vote. And now since the Muslims started their own center right conservative party, labor lost a big voting block and the fascists are in power because people have had it with the inaction of the labor party.
  Same thing is happening with the refugees. The illegals who have zero chance to get a refugee status and who are committing crimes have soured people's attitudes towards the real refugees. Towns that were once welcoming towards refugees want to see the refugee center in their town gone.
  
  Same thing is happening with the refugees.
  Yes they are being used as a straw man to scare and polarize people.
  The illegals who have zero chance to get a refugee status and who are committing crimes have soured people's attitudes towards the real refugees.
  And it is working.
- Is your friend the current minister of the justice department? Because that sounds a lot like her.
- I live in Denmark, I'm a "non-EU" person, but I'm here based on my skilled work. I do stuff, I am useful. So I have nothing against immigration in general, only against the part of immigration walking around malls in their slippers at 1 p.m., because they still haven't spent all the money they got by faking disability.
  
  I do stuff, I am useful.
  So go do stuff and stop trying to control what other people do in their days off.
  
  This is a good time to remind everyone that not all disabilities are visible.
  
  How do you know they fake disability?
  How do we know you are not faking being skilled?
  
  So basically you just like to shit on less fortunate people. Class act.
  
  It has nothing to do with immigration, the native citizens can do this all the same, and some probably do.

Just wait until you see the results of the Polish presidential election.

Stupid fucks, go back to piss poor Romania or better yet, shove off to Russia. They remind me of the Volga-Germans who support the twat, Putin.

I had managed to keep myself entertained this morning and not fret about this but... yeah, nope, there you are, anxiety, I guess you didn't go far.
Here's hoping that a bunch of Romanians woke up a little. With how low participation typically is people could figure this out if they could get over their whole "politicians are just thieves" deal for five minutes for anything but supporting Russian nazis.
I'm gonna go see if I can get myself distracted again. Good luck to everybody voting today.
- "All politicians are the same" they say while always voting for the two same parties that happen to be the closest on the political spectrum.
  
  Not only always voting within the two same parties, but actively voting for the worse of the two. Which is typically how things go here in Canada too.
  
  I have little knowledge of Romanian politics, but it does seem that in this presidential race, Nicușor Dan does have some serious track record from his time as mayor of Bucharest.