He’s got a good chance of being the least worst president so far. It’s a low bar, tbh, but still. Anyway, here’s to hoping he surpasses that :D

Depends how much propaganda they’ve ingested.

From my own research, there’s two things that people are holding against him:

One is his refusal to sign the authorization for the building of a children’s oncology hospital (his explanation was that they want to build it in the center where there’s barely any parking and it’s overcrowded as it is, and he finds the location illegal for approval, he’d have no problem with a different location), after some increased pressure, he finally signed.

The second being the issue of (hot) running water in Bucharest. An acquaintance has actually spoken to an employee of the hot water supplier and apparently the 60 or whatever year old plumbing that was being used was in horrible shape and it really needed changing. To me that seems more of a problem that has been ignored by previous administrations and should never had been allowed to reach that point. Imo, it’s actually a point in his favour that he had the balls to cause so much trouble for the people in order to solve the issue.

Beyond that, he’s praised for fighting corruption and stopping illegal constructions that had ties to some mafia and whatnot.

And lastly, a few years ago, we had a referendum to amend the constitution to change wording from “between spouses” to “between man and woman”. Same sex marriage isn’t legal in Romania, but this was an attempt to make it harder for the law to change in the future. His party wanted to vote on which stance to take or something like that. And apparently he had promised when he was elected to remain neutral arguing that it wasn’t an issue that needed debating and that remaining neutral would avoid division. He said he won’t renew his party membership if his party takes a stance and since they did he’s since been independent. And whenever he was asked about his vote he said he voted but not which way. My guess is that he’s pro same sex marriage but knows that admitting it would cost him a lot of votes since Romania is still very conservative, as proven by the millions that voted for Georgescu last year and Simion this year.

I think he’s taking a page out of trump’s book and is gonna claim stolen election and stuff.

Seen it in Europe as well. It’s good stuff, can confirm! (Altho I guess you’re German and you know that already, but still)

How come gog doesn’t get the same hate if it’s all steam fanboys and it’s all so unwarranted? How come it’s all focused at EGS? Are you sure it’s not because you’re mistaken? Maybe you’ve got a rage boner for Steam and you can’t see past it.

You’re unironically defending EGS and calling me a troll. If you think that’s how a store with 7 years and a billion dollars invested (Sweeney’s words, not mine) should look like, that’s fine, that’s your opinion and you’re free to use it. Personally I’m not a fan.

Yeah, poor multi billion dollar company has only had 7 years until now to make a decent games store. That’s definitely not enough time and money.

Exactly. The app has been shitty for almost a decade now. How much slack are we supposed to cut to a multibillion dollar company?

No, this is what those companies said and did. Let’s not pretend they’re powerless, lol.

No, not overwhelmingly. Partly. That’s what the article and a bunch of studies claim.

The thing is, he’s got the power to influence the world for the better but he’s not doing it. “Part of the problem or part of the solution” applies to him at the very least a thousand fold.

Right, but I’m not all the poor people. And I can’t control them either. Yes, if everyone stopped eating meat, we’d stop farming them and emissions would drop. But that’s unrealistic, never gonna happen. So yes, my impact in negligible.

And I’m not saying I won’t do anything because my impact is negligible. I still recycle and encourage others to do the same and so on. But realistically speaking, I’m nobody. What I do doesn’t change anything. At most I may have influenced 10 other people to be eco friendly. Still didn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. But maybe once a few more million people do the same we’ll be ok. We’ll see.

And the private jet flights and the monster boat are nothing?

And what about all the money he gave to Trump and to other politicians to influence policy decisions?

You can’t really blame individuals for society issues. If I drop dead tomorrow, the global emissions won’t change. Still the same amount of cows, still the same amount of cars on the road, still the same governments and policies.

Not saying we shouldn’t do anything as individuals, we definitely should, we can all do better. But you can’t blame any one random individual for any of these issues, imo(non multimillionaire, I mean). Feels so wrong.

That was just an example of a European brand over the top of my head. I’m sure there’s cheaper things, I’ve seen them everywhere, I just don’t remember any as I never go into the fizzy drink isle. And yeah, in the short term there’s gonna be issues, ofc. That’s unavoidable. But we shouldn’t put the blame on the European consumer, should we? We didn’t do this, and we shouldn’t be responsible for propping up mega corporations. We’re in a situation that we shouldn’t have been in the first place. There’s no easy way out.

Well, the thing is, when you stop buying coca cola and buy something like fritz cola instead, you’ll move money from one brand to the other. Coca Cola would ideally scale down while Fritz would have to scale up. I don’t see why this has to cost Europe fizzy drink making jobs.

All I know about Tampa is a bunch of the early death metal bands are from there so I’m all for that!

Easy to produce, spend the bare minimum, “spend” the rest on “marketing” and voilà, ez 38 mil in Melania’s pockets. Nobody said anything about the documentary being thorough or factual or anything of the sort, you’re thinking of the alternate reality where truth is a thing and Gwyneth Paltrow and other cunts aren’t allowed to peddle their bullshit

Eh, it’s mostly about the bribe, I’m sure. Having people pretend to be interested in her is just a bonus.

Nah, not chickened out, they’re in cahoots. Example … 40 mil for a shitty Melania documentary is outrageous. For reference, BBC’s planet earth cost 25 million. So… yeah…