RomCom1989 [he/him, any]

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  • It’s really something to see an area decline in your lifetime

    Like the poster above,I’m from Romania,born after the fall of communism and I actively remember there being more people in my town when I was young (I’m still living here for the time being)

    Now,to be fair,it’s a smaller town,less populated area,but both me and my mom who now works and practically lives in Norway can recall a time when there were more people in the city

    When I was born we had almost 100k people,the biggest recorded population in our history,and now we’re at something below 65k,it’s really wild,I can recall the town being a little more lively,but now it’s not empty,but just…it feels like something is missing






  • Moldovan elections final results: Sandu 55.33% to Stoianoglo 44.67% with a 54.34 voter turnout

    Diaspora came to the “rescue” again,it seems. My initial prediction of it being a 10% diff seems to have come true, mostly based on the fact this happened last time: initial opposition lead,only for the diaspora to quash it.

    So yeah, Eastern Europe is a diasporacracy,where the voices of those who don’t even live there matter more than those who do. By the way,if you’re tired of American electorialisn,you may have to look forward to me doing some Romanian electorialism come the 24th,seeing as we’ll have our own presidential elections.

    We’re a semiparliamentary republic,so these don’t matter as much,but the prime minister does have to be approved by the president,so it’s still not insignificant. But I should warn you, it’ll be a shitfest of pro-NATO bootlickers,but maybe some useful analysis will come of it,who knows?

    My hope is that I’ll give a good enough overview and maybe even show you all a bit of the circus going on (we had a local tv station,that was bought by CNN some years ago do “town hall” style debates with the candidates and then a debate where each contender sent two supporters to debate with the other person’s picks,it was a circus,with the journos trying to mimic actual journalism but failing,the most pointless questions and more,I’ll see if I can find a way to make them accessible to the English speakers here) and show you a glimpse of the hellscape that is Romanian politics