• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    I fully hope that EU would be influencing the fuck out of those elections. Can someone say one reason why we shouldn’t be doing that, given how our enemies are 100% doing it.

    To answer my own question, I actually have one reason: It would be funny if Putin would lose in Hungary even if we didn’t do any influencing.

    • Trihilis@ani.social
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      7 days ago

      Because we follow the law. No matter how shitty that can be sometimes. The moment you stop following the law you lose credibility. Just look at the braindrain and loss of scientific instances in the USA right now.

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        7 days ago

        You can influence and still follow the law. And I am not talking about the shady stuff. Just tell people what you are doing and why are you doing it.

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          7 days ago

          Yeah true. But because of all the bad stuff happening in the world my mind immediately goes to illegal influencing (rigging votes etc.). Its honestly quite depressing.