Explaining Romania's presidential elections of this November

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voting itself is a broken system here and you can't use a broken system to fix a greater broken system.

The electoral college system seems really weird from Europe's perspecive...

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I know things are bad in Europe right now, but there are a few nations standing up to Globalism

I'm personally not against Globalism, as a existential nihilist, I don't give a shit about the predominant color of the population.

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At the same time I'm against brainless immigration, letting massive populations migrate cause racism in the countries that host them. Instead, I think that educated migrators are more likely to accept our culture and have a critical thinking towards politics instead of voting blindfolded for a candidate that may believe in the same religion they do for example.

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I think there's an elite group of people pulling strings in our government, and in many other governments as well.

When I think of things like that, I remember about an algorithm I heard about once. The chance of a secret being revealed.

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The more people keep a secret, the faster it will be revealed. Just like Snowden, NSA got it's employees to keep this secret and eventually one of them said no. That's why I think conspiracies that involve entire races or implicate a lot of people are impossible because out of so many people, at least one would reveal the secret.

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Ceaușescu created the FDSN, which turned into the PSD

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Ceausescu got executed after trying to escape with the helicopter. The communist party wasn't made of friends either, everyone waited for their turn to rule and the opportunity came, Iliescu had to keep his enemy close so that's why there are photos of them being friends when really he just waited to take the power.

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generational "cold-war" happening culturally. Through the internet, entertainment industry, music industry as well as the media. The press/news loves bashing the younger generations blaming them from problems or writing articles that degrade them

Have you heard of James Flynn? He talked a bit about generations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhW9uI

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Lmao, it seems weird from a US Citizen's perspective too, as we're taught throughout school that we pretty much have what's called a "direct democracy" when we really have a "republic with representative democratic properties". I think with each passing year, those "properties" are getting more totalitarian.

I'm personally not against Globalism, as a existential nihilist, I don't give a shit about the predominant color of the population.

Ahhh, I was an existential nihilist at one point, that led down a dark rabbit hole of thinking. If nothing truly matters, then what's the point in doing anything? I had to switch my views up. But for me, Anti-Globalism isn't about preserving the color of a population, it's about keeping the culture of a nation alive.

Like I said to you before, if you entered an ice cream shop and wanted vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream specifically, and they only had one flavor; every flavor blended into one, and that was the only type of ice cream available anywhere, ice cream would be boring and dull. It's a silly metaphor, but the same goes for culture; as humans we have the opportunity to visit places like South America, the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain, and even Romania, and experience their unique cultures. Globalism promotes the migration and interbreeding of people of different cultural backgrounds; forget people's "skin color changing", the original culture which is what made the place unique and beautiful, will be gone. The traditions both you and I know today in our separate countries, would be gone. And I personally think that's a bad thing, I know others don't, but I think it's important to remember where we came from and culture adds flavor to life as well as brings us together.

At the same time I'm against brainless immigration, letting massive populations migrate cause racism in the countries that host them. Instead, I think that educated migrators are more likely to accept our culture and have a critical thinking towards politics instead of voting blindfolded for a candidate that may believe in the same religion they do for example.

I agree with this, this is the thing we seem to be struggling with right now. As long as you immigrate legally, and assimilate with the culture of the country that's taking you in, there's no problem. It's what our ancestors did and what you should be doing too; here we have illegal immigrants who are having children here, taking advantage of our system and help from the government with tax-payer's dollars while they don't pay taxes, and some receive much more help than US's own citizens do. All while saying "Fuck America". It's a big problem.

Ceausescu got executed after trying to escape with the helicopter

That video is pretty awesome lol. That's good to hear, so there is hope then! In the US, many politicians are either family friends, or related by blood throughout generations.

And nah gonna watch the Flynn video right now!

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Lmao, it seems weird from a US Citizen's perspective too, as we're taught throughout school that we pretty much have what's called a "direct democracy" when we really have a "republic with representative democratic properties". I think with each passing year, those "properties" are getting more totalitarian.

I don't expect US to change the system, they view everything that the founding fathers did as a foundation for the American nation. Except slavery lol.

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Ahhh, I was an existential nihilist at one point, that led down a dark rabbit hole of thinking. If nothing truly matters, then what's the point in doing anything? I had to switch my views up. But for me, Anti-Globalism isn't about preserving the color of a population, it's about keeping the culture of a nation alive.

This philosophy doesn't say how to look at your life, therefore you need to get a view yourself. There's no point in doing anything. The thing is, I don't need a point, I live my life because I was born, even if it doesn't matter in the end, doing things that I like brings me pleasure and I decided that one of the goals of my life is to bring myself pleasure.

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This philosophy also helps with anxiety, worrying about what other people think suddenly doesn't matter.

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Whether or not you want to follow moral rules is a personal choice. In comparison, morality rules of religions are not a personal choice therefore if I choose to respect moral rules I have a higher morality than most religious people who accepted these rules on society's pressure.

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Like I said to you before, if you entered an ice cream shop and wanted vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream specifically, and they only had one flavor; every flavor blended into one, and that was the only type of ice cream available anywhere, ice cream would be boring and dull. It's a silly metaphor, but the same goes for culture; as humans we have the opportunity to visit places like South America, the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain, and even Romania, and experience their unique cultures.

I find History more interesting though, whether we want to or not, we are a species that have to reproduce. Tradition inevitably changes and the only thing that's left behind is history. If a population has an understanding of it's history I think that your hope of national identity will remain.

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I agree with this, this is the thing we seem to be struggling with right now. As long as you immigrate legally, and assimilate with the culture of the country that's taking you in, there's no problem. It's what our ancestors did and what you should be doing too; here we have illegal immigrants who are having children here, taking advantage of our system and help from the government with tax-payer's dollars while they don't pay taxes, and some receive much more help than US's own citizens do. All while saying "Fuck America". It's a big problem.

In Romania, the situation is pretty funny, the anti-immigration supporters say we should protect our Christianity from Muslim immigrants. The funny thing is, no Muslims want to come here, we have shit economy due to corruption and they are afraid of nonexistent threats lmao.