Please. The Western European, anti-immigrant voting slavs have nothing on our North American balcanic compatriots. We vote right in record proportions! For example the Canadian Bulgarians voted twice harder for the Revival party.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Diaspora, while benefiting from free movement and pluralusm, often feel like they're losing their identity. In turn, they seek to symbolically reassert this identity by remote-voting for the most far-right maniac they can find. The fact that such a maniac would never have let them in, and will ruin the country, doesn't bother them as they don't live there anymore.
Filipinos included, oh and Turks.
But, is there a method to the madness? Or are they just assholes? Are they voting the biggest idiot because they dont live there and want to watch their country burn (assholes) or do they somehow benefit here?
Thet benefit by feeling closer to (what they imagine is) their culture. We're talking about people who left for some quick cash and ended up spending 30, 40 years there. They have a daughter that's born there, grew up there, and never lived outside of there, and they worry she'll be sad when she has to break up with her boyfriend "when we all move back home". They feel like they're separated from their nation because they are, and psychologically deny this by voting for someone so rabidly and loudly nationalist they can hear him all the way in Frankfurt.
It's similar to folks from, idk, Boston, who will occasionally vacation in Ireland and conclude "they're not Irish at all over there, they don't even paint rivers green on St. Patty's!"
you know having uneducated right wing extremists is not exclusive to america. Every country has idiots. The educated, normal immigrants don't vote far right and tend to not be mentioned in any news.
they also tend to learn language and integrate more easily, because, you know, they aren't far right lunatics
strange
Immigrants voting for someone who would never let them into the country.
Makes sense, they're in and they want to pull that ladder right the duck up.
then how do they vote?
Becoming citizens
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.
At least one of them just wanted a free trip home.
"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
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I have friends who immigrated to the Netherlands and then complained that "all these emigrants ruined the Netherlands".... I was blown away...
Western expats in Japan are notorious for hating every other Western expat in Japan. It's even got a name, "My Japan Syndrome".
Same in Canada.
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.
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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.”"
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.
I'm reading it right now. I still can't believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner's book, "Stand On Zanzibar' won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It's set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
Now I'll have to read that too. Thanks!
One more thing...
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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.
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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.
While I can't read the language, the website is done very well. Loads quickly, simple but not flashy. I'm always amazed what happens when governments just use technology for the benefit of the public.
Australia has a open source public transit tracker system, where on mobile and desktop, you can see near real-time positions of buses, trains, boats, and estimated percentages of how packed it is, and how late it is. All for free.
Loads quickly
11 seconds here after a five second wait thinking I could be a bot.
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?
Yes, thank god.
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
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