hazelnot May 13, 2025

Nicușor Dan (the non-fascist presidential candidate): "education in Romania sucks so why don't we privatize education :)"
People: "maybe education should not in fact be privatized, what the fuck?"
This guy's turbo-supporters: "If you're opposed to privatizing education you're a Simion [the fascist candidate] supporter and functionally illiterate and you were paid to promote him"

🙃

Show threadhazelnot May 13, 2025

Ok this is reductive cause I wanted to be a bit funny with it, he didn't outright suggest privatizing education, but he did talk about bringing in private contractors into the educational system because "the state education system has failed"

So sure, he's not proposing the whole thing, but he's proposing making the first steps in that direction 😬

Show threadhazelnot May 13, 2025
To clarify this further, he identified the problem correctly - the education system does suck, and it sucks because most of the competent people left years/decades ago, due to low wages and shit working conditions. It's just that the solution is funding education, improving conditions, and fighting corruption, but that would be "government bloat" which like two thirds of his supporter base hate cause they're neoliberal/libertarian corpos
Show threadIso
@hazelnot this is the evil in the phrase lesser evil when it comes to this election unfortunately... i think it's part of the culture clash between well off people who managed to thrive in corpos, and... everyone else e.g the elderly and decreței who remember pre 89 and "how they sold/privatized everything," the poor, rural communities etc.
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Show threadhazelnot May 17, 2025
@isopropyl yeah, I'm still voting for him cause like, I'd rather have a neoliberal than a fascist president, but it would be nice if PSD were, you know, Actually social-democrats 😭
Show threadIsoMay 17, 2025
@hazelnot absolutely, I'll count my blessings if these are the issues we'll have to deal with after tomorrow. i keep saying this, ffs we need at least 1 (one) *actually* left wing party. hope stuff like SENS gets bigger :(
Show threadhazelnot May 17, 2025

@isopropyl There are SENS and DEMOS, so we have at least two of them... it's just that they're really small and a lot of their voter base voted with USR cause "tactical voting" :<

Also can you please stop removing the CW on every reply? It gets really frustrating having to add it back manually every time 💀

Show threadIsoMay 17, 2025
@hazelnot oh sorry, didn't get added automatically to my replies so i edited. hope that's ok (I'm new to fedi lol)
Show threadhazelnot May 17, 2025

@isopropyl oh weird, when I reply to a CW'd post the CW gets automatically copied to my reply, I thought that was just the default way things work so I assumed you were manually removing it from yours o.o

Maybe it's just a shit .social config that disables this? 😭

I know Gargron actually hates CWs cause "muh engagement" 💀