Skiluros

To be honest, I've given up on trying to read Trump (in context of the russian invasion of Ukraine).

I just hope putin and other russian thugs continue to publicly insult and humiliated Trump. He genuinely doesn't seem to like it and takes it very personally, which is a good thing for Ukraine.

Rajoelina, 51, was first president from 2009 to 2014 before returning to power in 2023. He was increasingly isolated after losing the support of a key army unit that joined thousands of youths activists known as “Gen Z Madagascar” to protest against corruption and poverty. The movement had earlier turned down an invitation to meet him for dialogue and demanded his resignation.

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Among the demonstrators were soldiers from the elite Capsat unit, which played a major role in the 2009 coup during Rajoelina’s rise to the presidency after mass protests forced his predecessor Marc Ravalomanana out of power.

I believe I read in another article that the soldiers that helped his return to power in 2023 also publicly called to oppose Rajoelina.

I don't really understand how the president was allowed to have dual citizenship. For senior positions in the judiciary/legislative/executive branch, I don't think dual citizenship should be allowed. You can make rare, special exceptions, but not for the presidency (or say the supreme court or party leadership).

I know there were fake elections, I just don't remember any of my family mentioning the fake voting.

Maybe this was automated (the party voted for you) by the 80s? The turnout numbers in the last election section of the Wikipedia article seem incredibly high.

That does sound right for early USSR. I don't think this was a thing anymore in the 70s/80s (I was born in the tail end of the USSR, but I was really young).

I will ask my family members about this. Curious if this was even employed as a formality by the 80s.

My family never mentioned anything about voting. They had to go to May Day parades and other similar events, but there was never any voting (even of the fake kind).

I mean this was true 20 years ago, it wasn't as obvious before they invaded Georgia in 2008 (let alone now), but multi decade research (including research that accounts for preference falsification) has clearly shown a consistent level of support among a strong majority of russian society for genocidal imperialism.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind visiting North Korea (or the northern part of unified Korea), but only after the senior leadership is put on trial and executed and all fake commies either interned or required to do community service work.

We both know you would never go to North Korea. They wouldn't even believe a tankie like you, they would assume you're grifting teenagers for donations by pretending to be an edgelord communist. They may be cruel, but they are not stupid.

"Anything I don't like is a BIA conspiracy" is not a real argument.

Ah, yes! Having some corrupt goons edit and censor the media you consume is the height of civilization!

A great society to live in! Everyone is immigrating to Cuba! $2 a month salaries!

Unless you are a well connected government thug!

I don't know, what would you call individuals who lionize an equal opportunity gulag or an equal opportunity firing squad?

Yes, the commies were very progressive. Everyone got sent to the gulag, men, women, homosexuals, bisexuals. No discrimination, comrade.

Same thing with voting! No one got to vote, it didn't matter what your background is. Equal opportunity authoritarianism!

The real irony is we both know tankies regularly use the term roaches and call for death over the stupidest things (with fantasies about killing posters with ice picks).

Some degenerates claiming that "everything I don't like is a BIA conspiracy!!!" are not my (are anyone's) equals.

Do you want to move to North Korea?

They execute people for watching South Korean soap operas.

No one is buying your pretend concern about colonialism.