Twenty percent of Romanians live outside the country – a total of 5 million people
In the first round of the election on 4 May, the Romanian far right obtained even higher results outside its borders than it did within – Simion came first with more than 40 per cent of the vote in Romania, but took more than 60 per cent of the vote in the diaspora.
ZeroGravitas as in the artist?
Also, are your friends leaning the same way?
No, ZeroGravitas is just my modest tribute to Iain M. Banks.
And fuck no, they’re appalled by the rise of braindead populism. We have a saying in our business: for every complex problem there’s a solution that’s simple, easy to understand and completely wrong. Can’t remember whose quote that is, but it perfectly captures the populist propaganda.
I Like that. Sounds like most of the solutions they use at my work that I have to deal with afterwards.