Democracy is when people elect someone and a court (totally not controlled by the imperialism) decides they voted wrong and ban the candidate from running again

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not what happened though. If you want to be protected by electoral rules, you have to abide by them. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

What happened then?

[–] jimbel@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Will be interesting how this develops. After all he was voted for by a lot of people. Nevertheless a democracy has to defend itself. And i think it is clear that a lot of misinformation etc. Was spread. So lets see what this leads to...

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I feel like there is more going on than a coordinated TikTok campaign, but they don't want to say anything less they tip off the Russian actors that they know what they are doing.

Still, imagine if SCOTUS banned the Democratic nominee from running for president because some foreigners were posting TikTok about then.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The tiktok campaign was funded by the ruling political party to divide the vote of opposition parties since Calin was seen as a fringe guy with no chance to win. There was no russian intervention.

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-liberals-tiktok-campaign-pro-russia-candidate-calin-georgescu/

[–] BlueFootedBooby@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago

Ikr? Even convicted felons can run for president in the US, Russian plants are also welcome.