Moldova says 'no' in vote on joining EU: partial results – DW – 10/20/2024
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A partial count of ballots showed a 55% 'no' vote in a referendum on whether Moldova should add its EU membership plans to the constitution. Early presidential election results gave incumbent Maia Sandu a narrow lead.

Meanwhile, incumbent Maia Sandu was closer to a second term in office, after partial results in the country’s presidential election gave her a small lead over her main rival.

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1016·
      16 days ago

      Doesn’t look much less silly than American democracy where all the oligarchs just have PACs where they can influence elections with.

      I can’t reply on the news comm because apparently saying someone is being pedantic is a rule 1 violation on 1984.world

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
        201·
        16 days ago

        “The US, known for its flawed democracy, has a flawed democracy; therefore all democracy is useless and we should just let genocidal dictators decide”

        Have you ever been to Europe?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        185·
        16 days ago

        Your first claim:

        At least the people of Moldova got to participate in democracy

        Your second claim:

        Doesn’t look much less silly than American democracy where all the oligarchs just have PACs where they can influence elections with.

        Therefore Americans also get to participate in democracy.

        I’m not sure that’s where you wanted your own logic to go.

        And, again, if I’m a robot, you’re pretty foolish to keep talking to me.

        • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          510·
          16 days ago

          It can be a democracy and also silly. Are you trying to say American elections don’t allow for unlimited money to be spent on elections as “free speech”?

          There was a famous court case where the supreme court said it was ok.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            86·
            16 days ago

            Nope, this is what I am saying:

            Therefore Americans also get to participate in democracy.

            And this is also what I’m saying:

            And, again, if I’m a robot, you’re pretty foolish to keep talking to me.

            It’s easy to see what I’m saying if you just read the words in between the spaces.

            But then what do I know? I’m not the one who keeps arguing with what they think is a non-sentient machine.

            • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
              36·
              16 days ago

              You understand you completely agreed with that guy, right? Why are you acting like you have any outstanding disagreements?

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                75·
                16 days ago

                We actually don’t agree. If you would read their comments in other threads, you would know that they do not consider Americans to be participating in a democracy which is why they said that about Moldova.

                Also, @Diva is clearly a she, as she gives her pronouns in her username.

                • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
                  26·
                  16 days ago

                  A) Guy is a gender neutral term.

                  B) normal humans do not examine the entirety of a users comment history. In this thread you two have agreed that Moldova and america have the same level of corruption in their respective democracies.

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                    23·
                    15 days ago

                    Please do show evidence that ‘guy’ is a gender neutral term.

                    The dictionary seems to think it’s gendered.

            • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
              36·
              16 days ago

              You’re clearly not a bot, and if I said you were I would prob get banned for a rule 1 violation. I’ll be patiently waiting to see if any of the people who’ve been misgendering me catch a ban, but I won’t hold my breath.

              America has a democracy, it’s not really great at representing people, but I get to fill out some paper every year. It also has unlimited money for oligarchs to influence elections. That money can come from pretty much anywhere. See the analogy?

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                85·
                16 days ago

                You’re clearly not a bot, and if I said you were I would prob get banned for a rule 1 violation.

                Let’s take a look at what you said to me in the c/news modlog, shall we?

                You sure seemed to think I was a bot then.

                Also, this is rule 1 in this community, which is c/worldnews:

                I recommend reading community rules before posting in a community next time in case you violate one.

                • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  37·
                  16 days ago

                  I didn’t post anything there, so seems like some draconian mod action then.

                  Also I was mostly ribbing you at the time cause you were giving me low effort responses like “that’s ironic” without addressing anything I was saying