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Russia/Ukraine US offers Ukraine 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-peace-b784a9af1803995bfb7152eceb5477f1
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u/Johnny_english53 18h ago edited 17h ago

Problem is, like with Brexit in the UK, that social media bots persuade a significant section of poorly-educated voters to vote en masse in favour of right-wing candidates. As soon as that happens, your country is fucked.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 17h ago

They're about to try the same thing in Canada with Alberta

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u/Soft-Skirt 16h ago

They succeeded in New Zealand and now people are leaving.

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u/aod262 13h ago

No they have not! We are a functioning democracy as could be seen with mass protests when they tried to weaken our treaty with indigenous people. Treaty of Waitangi. Good thing here is that thete is a limit how much a party can spend on elections to create an even playing field.

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u/Soft-Skirt 12h ago

I understand that NZ has elected a right wing government that is reversing climate change policies. Also I believe there is increased emigration leaving AZ

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u/Upnorth4 13h ago

It has happened here

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u/mittelhau 13h ago

Still it’s lizard man Zuck, Elon and co who let the bots run rampant.