• FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    Let people decide. What if they want a far right leader? I dont think its good, but its people righ to have the leader they choose.

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      59 minutes ago

      I dont think its good, but its people right to have the leader they choose.

      Well, that’s all well and good in an idealistic liberalist abstract, but in reality it often leads to (and Romania’s own history did lead to) mass suffering, extermination of minorities, and getting invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union after their fascist leader Codreanu allied with Hitler. So, it’s best nipped in the bud, no matter what the majority believe.

      Șoșoacă, in fact, is under investigating for commemorating Codreanu in public.

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      7 hours ago

      Ok, but there are laws involved here. In Romania, you can’t be president if you are under 35 years old, or, among others, if you have a criminal record. The people that were stopped from running for president weren’t barred because they went against the mainstream parties, but because they openly promoted personalities that were doing the equivalent of the Holocaust in Romania. This is punishable by law by up to 3 years in jail, and they’re being actively investigated.

      The lady in this post was previously denied her run in the summer of last year, and she kept quiet about it until now because they probably told her they won’t pursue it further if she steps back. She took the deal, probably because she realises that she’d rather keep grifting on Facebook than spend 3 years in jail.

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      11 hours ago

      I feel the same.
      as long as their program is not against the law extreme right parties can take part everywhere else in Europe.

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        58 minutes ago

        …the leaders generally get to make the laws, so I don’t think legality is a useful safeguard.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s the same reason you don’t let your kids have candy and ice cream for every meal.

      Because the people are idiots.

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          9 hours ago

          Well for starters, I don’t support far right candidates which sounds like I have a leg up on you at least.

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            9 hours ago

            You support authoritarism over the peoples choice, wich kinda makes you far right yourself, but yeah you probably have many legs

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              9 hours ago

              authoritarism

              Romania has 6 other political parties, ranging from centre-right to far-right. Are you insinuating the people don’t have a choice?