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@EvolutiaR Only that you’re missing (conveniently) the key element: nobody cancelled elections in Hungary.

JD Vance on Romania (Feb 2025): "If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising, it wasn't very strong to begin with." JD Vance on Hungary (April 2026): Flying to Budapest to campaign at Orbán's election rally, days before a vote where the opposition leader himself says "no foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections." In Romania, foreign interference was the problem. In Hungary, Vance IS the interference. The rule is simple: elections are sacred, unless your guy is losing.

@WoelfinDesWeiss So your great grandma would’ve been from what is today Belarus and was Poland before 1939. Your other grandma would’ve married a German swab in Romania, whose parents (your great grandparents) are from the Sudetenland.

I love Central Europe

@DinVrancea Ce relevanță are construcția cu sărăcia? Și in Vienna e o catedrală imensă și în Londra la fel, te încumeți să faci o comparație similară?

De ce atâta opulență?! La fel de bine te poți ruga la o biserică din lemn, la o simplă troiță. Slujbele ar fi mai oneste fara straiele bătute in aur ale preoților! În Irak, în zona șiită, două moschei (Najaf și Kerbalah) sunt, una din argint, la propriu, și una cu praguri de uși din aur… Iar acolo, cea mai mare sărăcie… Va suna cunoscut?!

@mehdirhasan @WalshFreedom And how many peace deals did the Arabs attacking them rejected? Pathetic argument…

It’s called the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. Israel rejected it. Google is your friend, Joe. One day you will stop apologizing for Israel, open your eyes, do some research, and be as embarrassed as having once supported Israel as you are now about having once supported the GOP.

Hey @mehdirhasan, I’m 78yrs beyond the “Does Israel have a right to exist”question. Israel DOES exist, and Israel ALWAYS WILL exist. The only question that matters now is - Will the Arab/Muslim world accept Israel’s existence? If they do, there’ll be peace. If they don’t, there’ll be war. So if you wanna be useful Mehdi, go ask Arab/Muslims in the region that question.

أوروبا لا تعاني من "مشكلة" واحدة، بل من ثلاث مشاكل: ثلاث دول أوروبية تعاني من حالة "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" الحاد. أولاً، المملكة المتحدة: تلك الأمة التي صوتت لصالح "بريكست" كي "تستعيد السيطرة"، لتكتشف لاحقاً أنها نسيت تماماً كيف تقود. إن أزمة الهوية البريطانية تشبه مشاهدة أسد متقاعد يحاول تبني نظام غذائي نباتي. لقد استبدلوا الثقة الإمبراطورية ببرامج تدريبية في "الحساسية السلوكية" تليق بقسم موارد بشرية. أرض "تشرشل" تُحكم الآن من قبل بيروقراطية "الدولة المربية" المترامية الأطراف، والتي تخشى الإساءة لأحد على منصة (X) أكثر من خشيتها من الانحدار الفعلي. أما الشرطة البريطانية، التي كانت يوماً ما محط حسد العالم، فتبدو الآن وكأنها تكرس مواردها للتحقيق في "حوادث كراهية غير إجرامية" وطلاء سيارات الدورية بألوان قوس قزح، أكثر مما تفعل في حل جرائم السطو. إنها أمة تتشبث يائسة بجماليات التقاليد — العائلة المالكة، المراسيم، الشاي — بينما نخر "العفن التقدمي" مؤسساتها حتى جعلها تبدو أكثر تطرفاً من حرم جامعة كاليفورنيا. إنهم يريدون "هيبة" القرن التاسع عشر، لكنهم مشلولون بالهشاشة العاطفية للقرن الحادي والعشرين. ثم تأتي فرنسا: العمة الغاضبة المدخنة بشراهة التي ترفض الاعتراف بأنها عاطلة عن العمل منذ عقود. يتجلى "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" لدى فرنسا في حالة دائمة من التمرد التي تتخفى وراء قناع "المشاركة المدنية". هويتها منقسمة بين نخبة واهمة لا تزال تعتقد أن باريس هي عاصمة الكون، وشعب يعبر عن "بهجة الحياة" بحرق مواقف الحافلات كل يوم خميس. يعاني الفرنسيون من "عقدة نابليونية" بدون وجود نابليون؛ فهم يطالبون بمستوى معيشة إمبراطورية فاتحة بينما يعملون 35 ساعة في الأسبوع ويتقاعدون في سن يكون فيه معظم الأمريكيين في قمة عطائهم. ينظرون للقيم "الجمهورية" والعلمانية المتشددة، ومع ذلك فقدت الدولة سيطرتها على مساحات شاسعة من ضواحيها. فرنسا باختصار هي متحف جميل في الهواء الطلق، حيث القيمون عليه في إضراب، والحراس يخشون الزوار، والإدارة مشغولة بإلقاء المحاضرات على بقية العالم حول "العظمة" (Grandeur) بينما فواتير الكهرباء لم تُدفع بعد. أخيراً لدينا ألمانيا: العملاق العصبي الذي قرر أن الطريقة الوحيدة للتكفير عن تاريخه هي ارتكاب "انتحار صناعي" بطيء. إن "دوار ما بعد الإمبراطورية" في ألمانيا هو مرض مناعي أخلاقي؛ فالبلاد مرعوبة من ظلها لدرجة أنها استبدلت الفخر الوطني بجلد الذات العنيف وقوانين إعادة التدوير. هويتهم مبنية على كونهم "القوة الأخلاقية العظمى"، وهو ما يترجم عملياً إلى إغلاق محطات الطاقة النووية التي تعمل بكفاءة تامة من أجل حرق الفحم القذر، كل ذلك بينما يلقون الدروس على جيرانهم حول البصمة الكربونية. إنها أمة من المهندسين الذين هندسوا مجتمعاً لا يعمل. الروح الألمانية، التي عرفت يوماً بالكفاءة والانضباط، تحورت إلى بيروقراطية مشلولة حيث ملء الاستمارة الصحيحة أهم من النتيجة النهائية. إنهم مستميتون لتجنب الظهور بمظهر "التهديد" لدرجة أنهم تحولوا أساساً إلى منظمة غير حكومية ضخمة تمتلك جيشاً يستخدم "مقابض المكنسات" بدلاً من البنادق، خوفاً من أن يُفسر إظهار أي حزم على أنه انتكاسة للماضي.

@JohnWight1 …or a judean. Part of the kingdom of Judea, later Roman province of Judea. But rest assured, if Britain gets conquered by the aliens (extraterrestrial), hopefully people wont call you an alien!

Jesus was a Palestinian. Happy Easter.

@SelimKoru So it’s less likely to see a theocracy in America than in Turkey, right?

I'd say Turkey's Islamism is more like MAGA's Christian nationalism, less like the theocracy of Iran & Israel.

@rathor7_ Yeah, because they were stronger than India and did what most empires did in history. Unlike most empires, the British didn’t extinguish the Indian population, so here you are now using English to criticize the British.

Built with $45 trillion looted from India.

@rorilogorilo @WeirdMedieval Ouuu, grandpa thinks himself wise because he was alive when the Stockholm bank robbery happened. Take your medicine before opening your mouth.

@Avladro @WeirdMedieval Unlike you, I was actually alive when that bank robbery happened. You, of course, haven't a clue what bank robbery I'm even talking about. Silly little posh Nazi moron

not enough people know that Vlad the Impaler had a younger brother named Radu the Handsome who converted to Islam and besieged Constantinople

@rorilogorilo @WeirdMedieval You just found out what the Stockholm Syndrome is. You’re welcome.

@Avladro @WeirdMedieval You silly little idiot

@Husejohn10086 @brave_romania Just the ones that try to lecture us. Romania is not your shinny pampering Western Europe, so keep on doing what you’re doing, see what happens.

@Avladro @brave_romania If you don’t even have the guts to pick up arms and fight for your own children’s future, and you keep letting these corrupt scumbags rule the country, then you’re nothing. Hating immigrants only proves how low your IQ really is.

🇷🇴 Almost 1 in 10 people living in Bucharest is a foreign citizen. Latest data shows that around 7% of the capital’s population consists of foreigners. The largest groups are Nepalese, Turks, and Sri Lankans, who mostly came for work or studies.

@MihirFx @KieraDiss Sure, pour your frustration about it on X, on public campaigns etc but not by endangering peoples life.

@MihirFx @KieraDiss My friend, you’re missing the point entirely. Seems like your software is different. As much as frustrating and annoying and what have you seeing a driver hogging the middle lanes, no one should engage in dangerous driving because of that.

This absolute idiot recorded on dashcam on the M4 should not be on British roads. Driving like a total wanker. No excuse for this.

@SwordsaintPress @WeirdMedieval Radu IV ‘Bădică’ literally translates into Radu matey, argh! 🏴‍☠️ Ahahaha

@WeirdMedieval Scions of the House of Draculesti had some really fantastic nicknames

@alahahaddu @DecebalStalin Contemporary with the devirshme system. I agree with you, the system was used to produce manpower, expertise, etc. They (ottomans) invited Europeans initially to repurpose Constantinople after the siege, as they lacked the expertise to run such a huge city infrastructure.

@Avladro @DecebalStalin Enderun was an active school designed to educate smart children who will later become very important men in Ottoman Empire. (Also, do you really think European hostage exchange was contemporary? )

You forgot him getting groomed since birth to have a gay relationship with the Sultan because he was too pretty.

@alahahaddu @DecebalStalin No double standards!

@Avladro @DecebalStalin I am all for recognizing it (and the Greek suffering!) if they also recognize the Turkish-Kurdish women and children they slaughtered 😅 Lots of time to discuss later-wards, I hope.

@alahahaddu @DecebalStalin Now we can maybe progress to the Armenian episode? Hahaha For another time.

@Avladro @DecebalStalin Same here. Let’s hope regardless of which side is right, all perpetrators who hurt children gets punished in this life and other & all children of all centuries and nationalities are safe. 🙏

@Xwitter1Drew Oh sorry, yes, you’re right. The vlachs did it voluntarily, the Hungarians were forced. Power on, mate!

@Avladro Thököly's state was an Ottoman vassal. Just like Wallachia, which also provided soldiers as an Ottoman vassal. Despite this,and beside this the Vlachs often switched sides... voluntarily. Well then, we've cleared up who the historical illiterate is here.

Gyönyörű Kolozsvár☹️. 1910-ben 81% magyar 12% Román. Aztán jött a román kulturális népirtás és etnikai fészek parazitizmus. Eredmény. (Bár ez Kolozsvár külváros, 2 percre a reptértől)

@Xwitter1Drew Playing the victim card now it’s even more embarrassing.

It is you who started use insults alone...I don't know which part was etchnic discimination the erosion of Transylvania in the last 100 years is fact, but in this regard you are again super cynicism. Romania used much more radical methods to assimilated it's minorities than Hungary did ... Ahoj really you were entertaintment so far, but your womp became simple boring.

@alahahaddu @DecebalStalin You cannot sanitize the devishrme system, no matter how much you try. I’m not applying modern lenses, I’m putting the devishrme system in perspective -> was totally different from its contemporary hostage exchange between European monarchs.

@Avladro @DecebalStalin Religion was an extremely important and influential aspect of empires back then, yes. Do you think all Balkan rulers became Ottoman’s enemies because they were raped as children? Your understanding really goes as “Bad things happened under this administration, therefore all