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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 1d

That's the default option. No need to tick.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 9d

As we wait for the results:
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...

Moldova Elections: Managed Stability, Fragile Politics

Should PAS fall short of an outright majority, political instability would likely follow. Potential coalition partners are considered either unreliable or politically compromised, leaving any post-ele...

carnegieendowment.org

wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, you're right. I mixed the threshold for PPDA with that of Alternativa. Thanks for correcting!

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 9d

Gaugazia has a special status within Moldova and the right to self-determination if Moldova ceases to be an independent state. Unification with Romania would trigger this clause, but not EU accession. Though I'm not Moldovan and not that familiar with the local politics.

wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Transnistrians with Moldovan citizenship can already vote (remember those anti-Sandu buses?), even if turnout is rather low. But yes, the patterns of support are different, and that is a problem.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

As far as I know Alternativa is a swing party here (but declaratively pro-EU). PPDA must pass an electoral threshold of, I think, 7%.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

😀👍

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Transnistria is a part of Moldova de jure and, soon I hope, also de facto. The contempt for Moldova was very palpable in your post.

Don’t forget that many Westerners had the same attitude toward Poland just 35 years ago, and Russians still have it today.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

You sound like a pro-Russian chauvinist. Don't you advise your fellow citizens that Poland should be tripartite as well? Here is a live feed from Moldova's Electoral Commission: pv.cec.md/preliminare

Rezultate preliminare

pv.cec.md

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Here you can see the already counted votes:
pv.cec.md/preliminare

Rezultate preliminare

pv.cec.md

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Isn't that a fully expected side effect of, say, maturing?

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Subordinate countries should not have their independent political science.

wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Never come to the US.
bsky.app/profile/drre...

Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 11d

He's doing such a great job "protecting" 🇺🇸, ain't he?

To the 🇨🇦 tourist: we love you. He doesn't represent all of us.

REPOST. PLEASE.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

Don't settle in the US
bsky.app/profile/reic...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Mr. Ramirez, who was working LEGALLY at the factory, has U.S. citizen children and a wife here. He repeatedly asked to call his lawyer. DHS refused him at every turn, and threw him on a plane to Guatemala within 72 hours.

DHS claims he waived a right to a hearing. He says that they're lying.

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‘I did not sign anything’
After Ramirez Perez was taken from the factory in Cato, he was taken to the Border Patrol Station in Oswego.

“We were there all day without even eating anything, not even water,” he said.

That evening they were moved from Oswego to the Batavia detention center and got there around 10 p.m., Ramirez Perez said.

“We were there only for the night because the next morning, they took us to the airport and then flew us to Texas,” he said.

At the McAllen facility, Ramirez Perez said he was given some food for the first time in two days, but they had to sleep on the floor using sleeping bags. He kept asking the agents for the opportunity to talk to his lawyer. They denied him, however, saying that it was the weekend. He would need to wait until Monday, they said.

He was deported before Monday came.

“In the meantime, they woke me up at 1 a.m. on Sunday and they said that I needed to leave, that they were going to take me to Guatemala,” Ramirez Perez said.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 10d

And it was not his first message repeatedly copied & pasted this way.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 11d

Indeed, he repeated the exact same post like 10 times.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 11d

And won't stop until Moledives!

wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 11d

They only have to dig a tunnel under Ukraine, right to Maldova. That's anyway somewhere near Moledives?

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, I think Belarus will attack Maldova first. Definitely.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 12d

--Hey chatGPT, your opinion?

--Sounds like someone’s ready to swap Congress for Clippy with a neural net upgrade. Sure, ChatGPT-3 might draft nicer emails, but it still can’t filibuster, shake hands in Iowa, or misplace classified documents in a bathroom.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 12d

At least the damage to the UAV was extensive.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 13d

“The intention is to create division and to make us scared,” Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told reporters Thursday.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 14d

Partnership!? Kid me not, irrespective of Israel's behavior.

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for clarifying!

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wergenga @wergenga.bsky.social · 17d

"The servomotors, initially manufactured by KST Digital Technology Limited, are rerouted through a nonexistent Chinese company [...]. From there, the goods are passed through additional companies [...], where they are rebranded as products of Taiwanese firm TRC—a name used without authorization."

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