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Bookworm 📚
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Welcome to a post-American world.
It's not as fun as people thought it would be.
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Exactly. What a shame
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To be fair, the coverage in Western media was only focused on the first round results & the fascist candidate. You could only have seen it in the Romanian press or by seeing how many friends & family mobilised to vote
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Thank you, we stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇷🇴
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Wtf
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Agree. Seems based on the 1st round results without taking the last two weeks into account
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Good 🤞
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Doing our best 🤞 diaspora turnout is double compared to the first round, hoping for the best
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Previously, we kept our crazy politicians in Romania. Now, thanks to the "internationale illibérale" they get to spout nonsense everywhere in Europe and shame us all..with the support of Meloni, Salvini, Le Pen, Duda, etc
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Thank you 🫶
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Two criminals
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🤦♀️
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7-... and I don't believe that a country can find a good solution alone, it has to be a continent approach. Recommend this read as a starting point for thoughts on the subject.
PS: Love the Fitzcarraldo Edition of the book 🤩
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6-I don't think building higher and higher walls works, as there are constantly new roads opening, I don't think criminalising people who are fleeing war & poverty works, I believe that local residents in Greece/Lampedusa/etc are overwhelmed,...
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5-Whatever you think about the 2015 crisis (personally, I am not pro-full open borders & think the 2015 refugee crisis was terribly mismanaged by the EU), it is important to think & care of the people behind the numbers, and for us in Europe to come together collectively and propose real solutions.
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4-The author never judges any of the decisions (the refugees or the local Greek residents), he just really brings a human perspective in this complicated political situation, too often drowned in statistics.
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3-...miserable refugee camps, violent police, deportations and above all the constant waiting (waiting for a road opening, waiting for an unattended truck, waiting for a visa, waiting for news about missing loved ones, and so on).
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2-Thanks to his mastery of Dari and his Asian features, he manages to pass himself off as an Afghan refugee from Kabul and witnesses all the hazards & difficult decisions his friend goes through in order to reach Europe: how to handle his older parents, negotiation with smugglers, dangerous roads,..