Easy bait
No matter what the country is, these far righters are always idiots.
see also the flag of Liberia
They’re no idiots. They’re calculated authoritarians trying to seize public narrative to usurp power illegally
The funniest part about all of this was that the exit polls were heavily biased against him. Like (last night was hectic so pardon my rounding errors) Nicusor Dan had 55% while this clown had 45% coming out of the exit polls, and yet he STILL claimed he’d won :facepalm:
Then he tried to pull a MAGA stunt and tweeted “I am the president of the romanian people, count the votes correctly!” Before finally conceding victory, all within the span of 3 hours. Needless to say, last night was a bit of a rollercoaster.
For more context, at least how I saw this crapshot of an election, this far-right candidate, Simion, capitalized on the fact that there’s almost 6 million Romanians who’ve left their home country bound for the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany etc. He promised to bring them home, offered 2-room appartments at 35000€ (the Simion Plan he called it), bogus claims, promised to bring back industry into the country etc etc.
Thing is , here in Romania the president has less powers than you might expect. He’s basically responsible for foreign affairs and representation, chief of the millitary and armed forces, and has the power to dissolve Parliment, but that’s about it. So even if he wanted to do the things he claimed he’d do, he couldn’t.
It’s sad to see so many people voted for him. He’s riding off the backs of desperate people, who left families behind because doing, say, construction in Romania barely makes you a living wage. But the cognitive dissonance is what gets me: Simion was mostly voted by Diaspora, or the Romanians living in other countries. How can you, a Romanian living in let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy, who says “hurr durr EU bad”, while benefitting from all the EU has to offer? It’s simply insane.
…oh , man, that was a wall of text and a half…
How can you, a Romanian living in let’s say Germany, vote for someone who has an isolationist policy
UK foreign expats living in Spain voted in favour of Brexit, and are now all upset that they have to leave and come back to the UK. They literally voted for this.
The basic problem is that most people don’t actually bother to investigate the policies of the people they vote for, they treat it like a popularity contest and just vote for whoever they personally like. I’m of the opinion that people should be required to prove an understanding of proposed policies before they’re actually allowed to vote, if only to the extent of a quick Google search while standing in the queue to vote.
And their slogan is literally “we didn’t vote for this” when they voted exactly for this. Not a smart bunch, those.
I think he’s taking a page out of trump’s book and is gonna claim stolen election and stuff.
🇮🇩 🇲🇨
🇸🇳 🇲🇱
🇳🇿 🇦🇺
🇻🇪 🇪🇨 🇨🇴
🇸🇮 🇸🇰 🇷🇺
🇱🇺 🇳🇱 🇭🇷 🇵🇾
🇱🇷 🇺🇸 🇲🇾
🇲🇽 🇮🇹
🇷🇴 🇹🇩
🇧🇭 🇶🇦
🇱🇮 🇭🇹
🇮🇳 🇳🇪
🇧🇴 🇬🇭
🇭🇺 🇹🇯
🇦🇷 🇳🇮 🇸🇻 🇭🇳
🇪🇬 🇮🇶 🇾🇪 🇸🇩 🇸🇾
The whole flag situation isn’t really ideal.
I have another one for you: 🇦🇹 🇱🇻 On TV I often have to take a second look myself.
While we’re talking about Austria, if we’re going to a subnational level, check out the Austrian state flags. Over half of them are just a red-and-white horizontal stripe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_and_coats_of_arms_of_the_Austrian_states
Salsburg, Austria:
Tyrol, Austria:
Upper Austria, Austria:
Vienna, Austria:
Voralberg, Austria:
Not to mention the state of Hesse in Germany:
And then Poland:
Monaco:
and Indonesia:
I don’t understand, I just see a bunch of red lines. Where is the white?
Also 🇧🇻 🇳🇴 🇸🇯 “These are all the flag of Norway” you might say, and that is correct. But one is for Bouvet Island, one is for Norway, and one is for Svalbard and Jan Mayen (in that order, here). Norway’s national day as recently and it is fun every year to see so many people celebrating Bouvet Island (it shows up first in alphabetical lists).
🇧🇪🇩🇪
Don’t forget 🇮🇪 🇨🇮
And, if it’s been out in the sun for a while, 🇮🇹 can start to look like 🇮🇪
they look fine to me :P
Are you running something special?
It would be interesting to display the flag followed by the country code in a parenthetical.
Hmm. That’s a good thought. IIRC fontconfig on Linux can merge different fonts with different priorities, so I think that someone could make a “flag override” font that has extra-wide emojis and has both the ISO code and the flag, even without changing the original font.
That’s awesome!
windows 10.
its the same on linux, because I’m running a half broken arch install.
That doesn’t really solve the problem either. After all which country is IQ?
I get what you are saying, but how many country names start with I and has a Q in the name? I might be wrong I think it is only Iraq?
Einstan
Good thing the codes are an international standard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#IQ.
The problem is no one has any imagination.
Put a dragon setting fire to a castle on your flag or something, don’t just have three stripes.
Well we can do you the dragon at least: 🏴
Jamaica’s flag is pretty unique… Let’s all copy theirs…
Only country flag without red, blue and white!
When you are among the first: 🇸🇪 (first but we’re at bro-war with them: 🇩🇰)
🇹🇼🇼🇸
One of those rare cases when I very much approve of A-not-so-I
One tiny victory at a time. Lets hope Poland and Portugal step up to rhe russians, too
Portugal did not and PiS is anti Russian, but also anti democracy. Not exactly a new idea that two nationalist groups hate each other.
https://xcancel.com/georgesimion/status/1924166718122783128#m
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Does xcancel (nice hostname) not show the tweet anymore when it has been deleted on xitter? I assume it has been deleted?
Yeah, it seems to have been deleted.
Didnt even know romania had elections. But i gladly woke up to those news
I mean I assumed that they had elections. Most places do.
Can we talk about how “I am the new president of Romania” in itself is an absolutely stupid phrasing to use when prematurely declaring yourself the winner of an election?
Notice how it’s in English as well. That wasn’t meant for the people of Romania, that was aimed at the rest of the EU, presumably as a sort of vague threat.
Well he’s a Chad!
Seriously, I totally agree. It’s dumb, and would have caused more legal problems had he won.
These people are like little belligerent kids that just can’t help themselves not to do exactly the thing adults just said is not OK to do.
If there is a single common thread that ties together the modern hard right upsurge is that it is absolutely fueled by the most transparent of idiocies that by convention we are expected to accept as everyday business
The low hanging fruit is the guy 1. Didn’t actually win the election 2. And he declared himself president of the wrong country
The right wing are such liars that grammatical mistakes are the least of their problems
I guess the solution is to send him to Chad to go claim his presidency.
Apparently Nicusor Dan won. Disaster avoided, I guess.
😮💨 also this makes the other guy look like even more of a doofus
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Just doing a Big Lie. These dorks are still working from a century old playbook, they’re just doing it on Xitter and propaganda rags.
Not much of a Chad, is he?
I hear he wants to build a presidential vacation home on the virgin Islands.
@Hubi Grok knows all too well.
Grok didn’t seem to get why he wrote the flag of Chad though. I wonder if any other LLMs know the answer to that.
That’s because AI models probably don’t see emoji they probably just see the Unicode character but they don’t actually know what it looks like.
Sure, but surely it knows that that unicode is the flag of Chad, and surely it’s read articles about the similarities between the two flags?
Tried deepseek-r1, with internet search. It was clueless, and the I specifically asked why he might have mixed the flags up.
Given that Romania’s flag (a double-headed eagle with two golden wings, red tails, and alternating horizontal stripes) is distinctly different from Chad’s flag (which features an olive branch, sun, and crescent moon within a blue background), it is plausible that the mix-up occurred due to a simple error or oversight in copying text
Nuff said.
That is the military flag with the emblem, the regular flag is the three colors and chad has the same three colors. The flag of chad and the flag of romania have seperate emojis thougn
Ackshually, the blue in Chad’s flag is a shade darker.
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There are a few emoji like that. Those two above are different flags although I couldn’t tell you which is which.
TBF those flags are waaaaay too similar, and leaving the little logo off someone might just think the artist is being a little lazy or the design was simplified for emoji form. its happened before.
edit: lol, its hilarious to me that people are downvoting this. are they not similar? Or are your feelings just hurt?
This kind of dishonesty should be taken out early. Criminalize it.
He wasn’t be serious, unless he decides he was (remind you of someone?)
