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[General]

[Chyros]

Invasion of the mutant space bats of doom!

[General]

Dooom!

[TheDR]

General, on 31 March 2024 - 12:02, said:

[General]

Turkish elections: Opposition leads in vote to run Istanbul and other cities (bbc.com)

Whats happening

[Chyros]

Turkey has an opposition? Oo

[General]

Well yes, it is not as bad as Russia's. But "his" supporters are quite fanatic, so that's why he is dangerous. I bet he will want to either start another military operation in Syria or Iraq very soon to look powerful again.

[Chyros]

So are the elections in Turkey fair? More or less?

[TheDR]

Well, perhaps the better term is not completely rigged.

[Chyros]

This is pretty amazing btw:

[General]

Chyros, on 31 March 2024 - 20:18, said:

So are the elections in Turkey fair? More or less?

Fair? No. Rigged? Also no (I know sounds weird)
Government owns or controls most of the main news channels. So they smear campaign 24/7 all the way through. But, actual voting is protected by the opposition parties. So they can't really steal votes except maybe on remote parts of the country.

Erdogan is a symptom, real issue we have is massive amount of uneducated, bigot people. He just know how to control them. Even with horrible economic situation, they still come out as close 2nd party on municipality elections.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

I'll give you a fair election in a minute.

[Chyros]

General, on 31 March 2024 - 22:19, said:

Chyros, on 31 March 2024 - 20:18, said:

So are the elections in Turkey fair? More or less?

Fair? No. Rigged? Also no (I know sounds weird)
Government owns or controls most of the main news channels. So they smear campaign 24/7 all the way through. But, actual voting is protected by the opposition parties. So they can't really steal votes except maybe on remote parts of the country.

Erdogan is a symptom, real issue we have is massive amount of uneducated, bigot people. He just know how to control them. Even with horrible economic situation, they still come out as close 2nd party on municipality elections.

Hmmm, so about 3.6 Roentgen, then?

[General]

Oh it certainly has terrible aspects but we mostly manage




This is from his speech right after latest election results. He tries really hard to hide his rage but i can see it. This is the face of a guy which is about to snap. I know because i had it most of my life, first time seeing him this way though

Edited by General, 01 April 2024 - 04:30.

[Chyros]

I'm guessing they were not as much in his favour as he would've liked?

[Destiny]

azur

[General]

Chyros, on 01 April 2024 - 07:33, said:

I'm guessing they were not as much in his favour as he would've liked?

Total votes 48 million, his party got 16 million of it.so yeah quite bad for him compared to previous ones

[Alias]

Omnishambles

[TheDR]

Ordinary bat people.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Let's have a look at what you could have won.

Edited by Slightly Wonky Robob, 01 April 2024 - 12:32.

[General]

Pipe Bob! There's pipe Bob over here!

[TheDR]

It's illegal to have a Pipe Bob.

[General]

I'm grabbing a Pipe Bob!

[TheDR]

Don't or I'll arrest you.

[General]

You can try *Holds Pipe Bob fimly in his hand*

Edited by General, 01 April 2024 - 17:35.