@autonomoususer and that fact justifies vitriol and behaviors like this in which way?

@petrescatraian@libranet.de Apparently the video is not displayed, rather there is a link to download it, wtf.

Hope you can see it if I post it from my Mastodon account

Edit: maybe with the direct link to the upload...

https://mstdn.ro/system/media_attachments/files/113/760/164/323/825/720/original/547920f6ed0192d8.mp4

@trams_trolleys_streetcars

@macattack yeah, but people (on Mastodon at least) are very opinionated so to say, and they will go out of their way to call people out for scraping their data without consent. They even go ahead and send you death threats, doxx you or even upload CSAM on your platform just to take it down.

@Teknevra

@federalreverse right, ok, I'll repost it there

@Wizard_Pope Cancelled for good. The first round will start again in March, and all the candidates will have to go all the way to gathering the support signatures (which is the 1st step). We already have one new candidate - Nicușor Dan, the incumbent mayor of Bucharest, which just announced he'll run yesterday evening.

@FundMECFSResearch

@federalreverse no worries! :)

@federalreverse Thanks for the context. Indeed, it was a nazi group and a highly overlooked one.

@akesi_seli Try seeing things from different perspectives too. Especially regarding EU. People take to the streets for it.

@akesi_seli the policies have been quite ineffective, that's for sure, but the EU as a whole did bring something good to the member states

@akesi_seli Romanian here. In my opinion, no! not at all. We had much to gain from EU membership, not just financially. The fact that we also had some foreign institutions overwatching us when politicians tried to alter the rule of law weighed in a lot in our internal politics, and made the difference between democracy and dictatorship. We had the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism which helped the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) jail some high profile politicians like Adrian Năstase, Elena Udrea and many others.

Laura Codruța Kovesi, former head of DNA, is now the first European Prosecutor, due to her remarkable activity in heading the institution. She now has the power to investigate every corruption scheme in all member states, at a European level, and is actively aiding Moldova and Ukraine on corruption issues. Europe gained a lot because of her in this regard.

And stop asking if Europe has been expanding eastwards too soon. We have the same issues as you do: Russian meddling in the elections, supporting pro-Russian far-right candidates etc. What's the difference between Georgescu and that AfD member who said some SS members are not criminals? None. We are struggling with fascism as much as you do. And we are supporting NATO and EU especially in high numbers because we know it will help us get a better future for our country. Without you we are doomed!

@Joker

@superkret You mean who is going to support who in the runoff? Well, by the looks of it, it looks like all the democratic forces will either back Ciolacu or nobody. Simion and Georgescu will likely back each other, whoever comes in second, so it will basically look like Germany, sure.

If Lasconi gets in the 2nd round instead, I'm expecting most of the other candidates to back her. Including the whole right (democratic or far-right - just to spite PSD, but there can be surprises as well).

Just to get an idea, PSD never really lost a single election in its entire history. In the last (soon to be) 35 years since the 1989 Revolution, it spent the biggest time in power.

PSD is the direct descendant of the former Communist Party, so it has a huge apparatus all over the country. There's basically not a single village where PSD is not present. This is why in the 2000 elections it got a landslide result against far-right Corneliu Vadim Tudor. And this scenario might happen again.

@superkret

So what happens in the second? Does every citizen go vote again between the 2 front-runners?

Yes. If the first candidate doesn't get a majority of the votes (which is likely to happen), there is a runoff between the first two.

If the “lower” candidates all announced support for one of the 3 at the top, what would the likely percentage be then?

I don't think that would happen, as the ballots just closed, but I don't think that could have happened either. It is also a risky thing to do altogether. One of the candidates announced right in the middle of the election debate that he would pull out of the race, but I saw a jump for the Liberals instead. There are no less than 13 (yes, lucky number) candidates on the list, so things can get pretty volatile.

@theangriestbird A bit anxious tbh, I did not expect Călin Georgescu to take up these many votes. However, the political offer as a whole is pretty poor. USR, while being a reformist party and with people with good intention, are pretty bad at communicating, and Lasconi makes no exception. Having her run against PSD and the various far-right offers makes it the only agreeable option, at least for me.

Having watched this documentary about Iohannis and his last 10 years as a president makes me worry that if Lasconi and USR are not getting a majority of the seats in the parliament at the next elections, or are at least not able to form a coalition with other democratic forces (right-wing or not), we might be witnessing the last free (at least to a certain extent) elections in this country. That is, if these won't be frauded either until the end of the count.

@Fitik@fedia.io Have you tried using Firefox Multi-account containers for this purpose?

@Boomkop3@reddthat.com @Psychodelic@lemmy.world @FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org

@thegreenguy It doesn't, but if you're lucky, your city might have a transit app itself (mine does). Even if chances are that it's not open source either, you'll still be able to cut your dependency to Google to a certain extent.

@tootnbuns

@Kit It's just a different experience to see the picture on a bigger screen.

@t3rmit3 I was talking about the current elections. I do not think that that guy's act was a specific act of revenge for the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, especially if that guy was a Republican registered voter. Otherwise, he could have acted sooner instead of waiting for a presidential term to finish. The guy's attempt was specifically due to Trump's current nomination as a candidate. That's why I asked you how did it already happen during this election process, not in the past.

Yes, absolutely.

I think you might not be that different from a Republican on this one :) even though for a different reason.

I think you’ve got the question backwards. States are the worst instigators of violence against marginalized, smaller, and weaker groups

States are also the ones using public money to fund healthcare centers, centers for people in need (eldery, women escaping abusive relationships, unwanted children), they are also making the public space more accessible for people with disabilities, they are providing public transport options for people unable to ensure themselves this option, sometimes even providing means of communications (through mail for example). Of course, you could point out that there is more work to be done in some cases and in many countries, but it's still an effort in the right direction and, imo, these sometimes provide better options than letting individuals work by themselves in order to solve these problems.

If you'd ask me, I would feel safer in this regard when accessing these services provided by the state instead of relying on a fringe (sometimes) armed group, looking to gain power for themselves. But that's just me, I guess...

@t3rmit3 My server is dead today, so I cannot reply from my main account.

Obviously, yes? [...]

I gasped for a moment, but yes, we are talking about internal violence committed by a group of people inside that country.

Hmm, you mean like has already happened?

How exactly has it already happened, more specifically, during this election? Did anyone try to shoot Biden or any Democrat in this campaign?

Assassinations are an action that occurs to protect a given status quo.

This is highly debatable. The nazis, fascists, legionnaires did a lot of politically motivated crimes in order to get in power. Does that make them the protectors of the status quo? What about various terrorist organizations around the world? What about people trying to kill Hitler? Anyway, I won't go on with this because it is more of a separate discussion.

But do you think that a state that doesn't have this ability of protecting its own power and its own monopoly on violence would be a safer, freer and more just to its people than a state that has it? Do you think that such a state could protect marginalized, smaller and weaker groups better than a state that has this monopoly of violence?

@baatliwala Now I feel old...

@PhlubbaDubba @tardigrada You still need email for pretty much most services. You need to log in? Create an account using your email and password. Need to work somewhere? A phone number is essential, but the employers will also use your email to message you if you cannot be reached on the phone (happened to me once) or when sending video call invites.

WhatsApp is ubiquitous when it comes to chatting, but for more elaborate communications, email still rules.