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Quite the opposite, they just proved it.
How so? A candidate who nobody knew about built his following on a platform known for CCP control, short attention span, and repetition. What is the substance?
A bit of context: the presidential candidate in question was predicted below 1% on all polls days before the election. He declared a campaign budget of absolute zero. He had no posters, no tents, no apparitions on TV, absolutely nothing. After a massive presence on TikTok in the last couple of weeks he won 23% of the votes, placing him first and wining a spot in the final elections where just the first two placed can…
It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown. (Twitter apparently now has a patchwork of hacks like the famous “author_is_elon” multiplier that slipped into their public source code release, but that’s nothing like TikTok’s meticulous selec…
> massive influence among the 13-28 demographic So not really the people who vote.
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How so? A candidate who nobody knew about built his following on a platform known for CCP control, short attention span, and repetition. What is the substance?
The substance is many people there didn't want Romania to get into a catastrophic war with Russia like Ukraine did and see hundreds of thousands of their countrymen die (likely ultimately for nothing, as Trump seems to be planning to let Russia keep the land it took).
I know some Romanians, and they ain't no papa laptes.
That's certainly easier than sitting down and questioning your own decisions over the last couple of decades and wondering why people are voting in ways you don't like (For the record I'm not a Tiktok user and I think it's a net negative to society)
The real culpability of politicians and governments the world over is that they have endorsed this freak development for decades.
They are all present on social media, they are advertising both directly and indirectly, by placing links and "follow us on xyz" on every damn government website.
They have made a faustian pact with the devil and now the devil is extracting his pound of flesh.
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How so? A candidate who nobody knew about built his following on a platform known for CCP control, short attention span, and repetition. What is the substance?
The substance is many people there didn't want Romania to get into a catastrophic war with Russia like Ukraine did and see hundreds of thousands of their countrymen die (likely ultimately for nothing, as Trump seems to be planning to let Russia keep the land it took).
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How so? A candidate who nobody knew about built his following on a platform known for CCP control, short attention span, and repetition. What is the substance?
The substance is many people there didn't want Romania to get into a catastrophic war with Russia like Ukraine did and see hundreds of thousands of their countrymen die (likely ultimately for nothing, as Trump seems to be planning to let Russia keep the land it took).
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> massive influence among the 13-28 demographic So not really the people who vote.
Most people in the stated age range can vote.
> Turnout among young people in Romania is generally lower than the turnout of elder people.