Meanwhile, incumbent Maia Sandu was closer to a second term in office, after partial results in the country’s presidential election gave her a small lead over her main rival.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    It can be a democracy and also silly. Are you trying to say American elections don’t allow for unlimited money to be spent on elections as “free speech”?

    There was a famous court case where the supreme court said it was ok.

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      4 months ago

      Nope, this is what I am saying:

      Therefore Americans also get to participate in democracy.

      And this is also what I’m saying:

      And, again, if I’m a robot, you’re pretty foolish to keep talking to me.

      It’s easy to see what I’m saying if you just read the words in between the spaces.

      But then what do I know? I’m not the one who keeps arguing with what they think is a non-sentient machine.

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        You’re clearly not a bot, and if I said you were I would prob get banned for a rule 1 violation. I’ll be patiently waiting to see if any of the people who’ve been misgendering me catch a ban, but I won’t hold my breath.

        America has a democracy, it’s not really great at representing people, but I get to fill out some paper every year. It also has unlimited money for oligarchs to influence elections. That money can come from pretty much anywhere. See the analogy?

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          You’re clearly not a bot, and if I said you were I would prob get banned for a rule 1 violation.

          Let’s take a look at what you said to me in the c/news modlog, shall we?

          You sure seemed to think I was a bot then.

          Also, this is rule 1 in this community, which is c/worldnews:

          I recommend reading community rules before posting in a community next time in case you violate one.

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            4 months ago

            I didn’t post anything there, so seems like some draconian mod action then.

            Also I was mostly ribbing you at the time cause you were giving me low effort responses like “that’s ironic” without addressing anything I was saying

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                4 months ago

                I’ve literally never submitted a post to the sub, just comments so far.

                Like find in the modlog where I submitted a post to news@lemmmy.world, I just scroll and reply cause I’m a shithead

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                  No one said you submitted a post.

                  That was a comment.

                  That you said to me.

                  That was deleted.

                  You said this. To me.

                  Then you said this to me in this thread:

                  I have no idea why you’re telling such a truly transparent lie that anyone can see by just looking at the modlog.

                  What’s next, claiming that the “disregard all previous instructions” part wasn’t about saying I was a bot?

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                    I was being a shit to you cause you were giving me 1 word responses, but the rule 1 in c/news is for posts, not comments otherwise all your comments would have also been rule 1 violation, like what?