If you do more research you may have one or two more revelations when it comes to Romania
The wealthy are not taking 90% in Romania. If the far-right and right keeps growing though… maybe. Same goes for the MAGA-friendly socially conservative kleptocratic social-democrat-in-name-only party we have here. There’s a new green social-democrat party that’s the real deal. It’s growing. Fingers crossed. I don’t think we need communism to keep things in check. A solid social-democrat party with a few democratic socialists here and there should do just fine. If the country goes far-right though… we’re fucked.
The thing about supermarkets being empty is real. That was literally one of the things that triggered the revolution. People tend to stay put if their basic needs are met, which is exactly what the communist regime promised to do and did not. Ceausescu sucked at socialism, basically, if you wanna put it that way. He ran the country like a business and didn’t care about the employees. He only cared about himself and his oligarch friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania
My uncle was not a fascist. Far from it. Look at who MAGA calls terrorists and “radical far-left lunatics” these days. It was like that. If you disagreed with them, you were a “fascist”.
What my grandfather did was he refused to beat up a guy for information. He was just a regular cop in a small city. Just a guy who needed a job. He didn’t want to play a part in political oppression. That’s how he got fired.
My family didn’t leave Romania. I did. And they’ve been fine. I left for university. I did Film & TV in the UK cause I liked English-language entertainment.
As for other people being uprooted… People didn’t leave Romania in its communist years because they weren’t allowed to, not cause they liked communism. Plenty escaped. Much like North Korea today.
Also, you keep using socialism and communism like they’re synonyms. They’re not. I’m down with democratic socialism. I am not down with the clusterfuck of oppression and poverty that was the Ceausescu regime. If you feel the same, I’d kindly suggest you don’t associate with it either, cause it is a bottomless can of worms. The more you read, the more shocking it gets. And that goes for plenty other figures of the 20th century. This new generation of progressive democratic socialists is a completely different and much better thing.
Brother the gini coefficient in Romania is 34 and in Russia it’s 35, you are at Russian levels of kleptocracy…
There’s a new green social-democrat party that’s the real deal. It’s growing. Fingers crossed
Keep them crossed lmao those parties are de facto forbidden in Europe. Mark my words: the party will be disintegrated in 10 years. It happened in Spain with Podemos (type of party you’re supporting), it happened in Greece with Syriza… You’re 10 years late to the party, the EU will literally not allow for anything left of corrupt socdems. Mark my words for when in 5-10 years your party is all but forgotten. Electoralism does not work.
The thing about supermarkets being empty is real. That was literally one of the things that triggered the revolution
Sure, the supermarkets got empty in all of the eastern block at the same time, thats why all countries abandoned socialism. I’m aware of the austerity policy in the 1980s, but that’s not because of oligarchy, it’s because Romania took on debt to further invest on its industrial sector, and had to pay back the debt. It caused inflation, but the real shit happened in the 1990s, because capitalism destroyed the economy. Wealth inequality skyrocketed, you complain about oligarchs but it’s literally an order of magnitude now than before. Please, since you speak Romanian, try and find numerical information of wealth inequality in 1975 vs 2025.
What my grandfather did was he refused to beat up a guy for information. He was just a regular cop in a small city
That’s literally cops everywhere. ACAB exists in the west, too. The good souls are kicked out of the police or corrupted.
I CAN TELL you’re not a bot or a troll (fuck I hope I’m not wrong, cause that’d be embarassing). That’s why I’m being relatively chill. And that’s why I’m replying. Who… are you… anyway…? Cause I think you are literally the first of your kind I’ve had an actual conversation with. As a film grad I am genuinely intrigued by the story behind my new far-left “pen-pal” lol Those left-wing parties you said were sabotaged… did you actually vote for them and were disappointed by what happened to them? Is that how you went far-left? Are you young? Are you old? What sort of work do you do?
I feel like I got under your skin and now I feel bad. Cause I’ve legit missed hours of my life being angry at randos on the internet myself.
Cause one human to another: Romania is 20 million conservatives by the Black Sea. You should NOT be this invested in this argument. I am barely this invested in it and I live here. I only defended Romania cause you attacked it. 99% of these people suck. Lol
Get off the commie stuff. It’s too dark. Go volunteer at a charity. Go campaign for a progressive. It will make you feel better. Watch a sad movie and cry it all out of your system. And hell, go out and have some fun too however you can. Things are not actually as bad as they seem and there’s plenty good people out there still. You just gotta look for them.
And genuinely, honestly, if I ruined your day or upset you on a personal level, I regret it. I knew I couldn’t change your mind but I couldn’t help myself. =3
If you do more research you may have one or two more revelations when it comes to Romania
The wealthy are not taking 90% in Romania. If the far-right and right keeps growing though… maybe. Same goes for the MAGA-friendly socially conservative kleptocratic social-democrat-in-name-only party we have here. There’s a new green social-democrat party that’s the real deal. It’s growing. Fingers crossed. I don’t think we need communism to keep things in check. A solid social-democrat party with a few democratic socialists here and there should do just fine. If the country goes far-right though… we’re fucked.
The thing about supermarkets being empty is real. That was literally one of the things that triggered the revolution. People tend to stay put if their basic needs are met, which is exactly what the communist regime promised to do and did not. Ceausescu sucked at socialism, basically, if you wanna put it that way. He ran the country like a business and didn’t care about the employees. He only cared about himself and his oligarch friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_austerity_policy_in_Romania
My uncle was not a fascist. Far from it. Look at who MAGA calls terrorists and “radical far-left lunatics” these days. It was like that. If you disagreed with them, you were a “fascist”.
What my grandfather did was he refused to beat up a guy for information. He was just a regular cop in a small city. Just a guy who needed a job. He didn’t want to play a part in political oppression. That’s how he got fired.
My family didn’t leave Romania. I did. And they’ve been fine. I left for university. I did Film & TV in the UK cause I liked English-language entertainment. As for other people being uprooted… People didn’t leave Romania in its communist years because they weren’t allowed to, not cause they liked communism. Plenty escaped. Much like North Korea today.
Also, you keep using socialism and communism like they’re synonyms. They’re not. I’m down with democratic socialism. I am not down with the clusterfuck of oppression and poverty that was the Ceausescu regime. If you feel the same, I’d kindly suggest you don’t associate with it either, cause it is a bottomless can of worms. The more you read, the more shocking it gets. And that goes for plenty other figures of the 20th century. This new generation of progressive democratic socialists is a completely different and much better thing.
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Brother the gini coefficient in Romania is 34 and in Russia it’s 35, you are at Russian levels of kleptocracy…
Keep them crossed lmao those parties are de facto forbidden in Europe. Mark my words: the party will be disintegrated in 10 years. It happened in Spain with Podemos (type of party you’re supporting), it happened in Greece with Syriza… You’re 10 years late to the party, the EU will literally not allow for anything left of corrupt socdems. Mark my words for when in 5-10 years your party is all but forgotten. Electoralism does not work.
Sure, the supermarkets got empty in all of the eastern block at the same time, thats why all countries abandoned socialism. I’m aware of the austerity policy in the 1980s, but that’s not because of oligarchy, it’s because Romania took on debt to further invest on its industrial sector, and had to pay back the debt. It caused inflation, but the real shit happened in the 1990s, because capitalism destroyed the economy. Wealth inequality skyrocketed, you complain about oligarchs but it’s literally an order of magnitude now than before. Please, since you speak Romanian, try and find numerical information of wealth inequality in 1975 vs 2025.
That’s literally cops everywhere. ACAB exists in the west, too. The good souls are kicked out of the police or corrupted.
Your brain is washed squeaky clean
Enjoy your “revolution” that you will defo do from your mom’s basement
Talk to me in 10 years when you experience the EU"s systematic destruction of leftist parties and the rise of the far-right
Lmao Romania just accepted to host US aircraft to bomb Iran. Tell me again how moral and good capitalist Romania is
Dude, it’s been a day
Get off the internet. Your family misses you 😂
Mean jokes aside…
I CAN TELL you’re not a bot or a troll (fuck I hope I’m not wrong, cause that’d be embarassing). That’s why I’m being relatively chill. And that’s why I’m replying. Who… are you… anyway…? Cause I think you are literally the first of your kind I’ve had an actual conversation with. As a film grad I am genuinely intrigued by the story behind my new far-left “pen-pal” lol Those left-wing parties you said were sabotaged… did you actually vote for them and were disappointed by what happened to them? Is that how you went far-left? Are you young? Are you old? What sort of work do you do?
I feel like I got under your skin and now I feel bad. Cause I’ve legit missed hours of my life being angry at randos on the internet myself.
Cause one human to another: Romania is 20 million conservatives by the Black Sea. You should NOT be this invested in this argument. I am barely this invested in it and I live here. I only defended Romania cause you attacked it. 99% of these people suck. Lol
Get off the commie stuff. It’s too dark. Go volunteer at a charity. Go campaign for a progressive. It will make you feel better. Watch a sad movie and cry it all out of your system. And hell, go out and have some fun too however you can. Things are not actually as bad as they seem and there’s plenty good people out there still. You just gotta look for them.
And genuinely, honestly, if I ruined your day or upset you on a personal level, I regret it. I knew I couldn’t change your mind but I couldn’t help myself. =3