Libertarian hip-hop. Former PNL mayor of Timișoara, Romania, uses AI to write a song about a destitute child who grows up to be a wealthy philanthropist and preaches: "poverty is only a test".

Facebook wall of a far-right Romanian mouthpiece⬇️. What makes this one special is that he was the campaign manager of the allegedly "centrist" presidential candidate Elena Lasconi, running for the allegedly "centrist" USR. Now, try explaining Romanian politics to a Western European audience.

... by the various public institutions subordinate to the Romanian Academy. Moving on, this one is priceless. President Dan pins a medal on a WW2 veteran who was part of a unit known its participation in the Pogrom of Iasi and other crimes against humanity. The Wiesel institute protests. 6/

... doesn't the Orthodox Church's former spokesperson sit on that council? Moving on: public celebration of Nichifor Crainic titled "NC and the right to memory". Crainic was minister of propaganda during the Holocaust, known for his theory of the "ethnocratic state". The event was organized... 5/

... whole memorial enterprise is on very shaky grounds. Moving on: various public institutions as well as the Orthodox church celebrated war criminals Vintilă Horia and Radu Gyr. The National Broadcasting Council which should act as a watchdog did not see any reason to bark. Note to self: ...4/

Here are some highlights. Various notorious neofascists and neofascist organizations were invited by government officials at the public celebration of "the day of anticommunist political prisoners of 1944 - 1989". Following a letter from the institute, "competent" officials took note of the... 2/

Première remarque : il faudrait s'accorder sur la définition de la préhistoire. Voici⬇️ un propulseur péruvien daté du XIIe-XVe siècle; il s'agissait sans doute d'une arme de prestige. Sinon, je pense que la réponse est largement liée à un avantage... 1/ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Take a look at this⬇️ map then learn that Romanian president Nicușor Dan signed, along with other EU leaders, the letter criticizing Sánchez over migration policy. Green-shirt boy wonder probably fails to realize how ridiculous he is.

... source: this book⬇️ by historian Lucian Vasile, which I just finished reading. Now, let's begin with the context. Contrary to what Dan claims these were not purely American missions. They co-organized by three parties: French intelligence, an exiled Romanian group called SIMRE... 5/

... past many of these people had. At this point let's begin by looking at what Dan actually wrote. 2/

In this 🧵 we will examine in detail some of the claims made by Romanian Nicușor Dan in an op-ed published in the far-right 🇺🇸 outlet Newsmax. We will specifically look at the infiltrators paradropped by Western intelligence services in communist Romania (1951-53) and the fascist or even Nazi... 1/

A textbook case of Holocaust erasure in public discourse. "The difficulties specific to the interwar period", i.e. the country embracing fascism, passing antisemitic legislation, becoming a Nazi-ally and murdering 280 000 - 380 000 Jews and 11 000 Roma during WW2.

Romania 2026. AUR leader George Simion (far-right) shares a post by USR libertarian guru and former economy minister Claudiu Năsui. Năsui was celebrating tax-cuts initiated and/or supported by AUR. Oh, well, surely the Zentrumspartei must be on the right side of history...

Nicușor Dan's CV at the end of his official career at the Institute of Mathematics was sub-mediocre. See metrics and publication list obtained via Harzing's Publish or Perish.

Why would a public university in Europe operate a "Center for Global Studies" under a partnership with the Heritage Foundation? I don't know, but we can always ask the University of Sibiu, Romania.

And that is no accident. Florian Bichir served as VP of the PMP for a long time and (unsuccessfully) ran for office under the PMP banner. In 2020 Bichir was caught on camera with a poster of Nazi-allied dictator Antonescu hanging on his office wall (see link). 4/ www.g4media.ro/florian-bich...

As I write these lines, one of the (numerous) PMP vice-presidents is Corneliu Bichineț, once a leading member of the far-right PRM. 3/

... managed to get his a** invited to Mar-a-lago in 2019. And that was four years after his party, the PMP, formed a joint group in parliament with the PP-DD. The PP-DD was a baroque far-right cesspool which defies any taxonomy known to political science. 2/

I should NOT find this funny but Romanian politics is the kind of tragic farce you can't stop laughing at. So there's rumor that president Dan is pushing for his councilor, MEP Eugen Tomac, to take over as PM. Tomac comes from the evangelical right and was for many years a TRUMP fanboy who... 1/

Neofascists march with tiki torches in downtown Bucharest, Romania. Also on display: flags and portraits of Iron Guard members, officials of the pro-Nazi Antonescu government and other paraphernalia. The march was approved by the City Hall, May 14th is a remembrance day for political prisoners.

Musings of a (former) fascist. Nov 1982. Emil Cioran explains, in a private conversation, the rise to prominence of the English language: " [...] the English colonized North America and the Indies - while the French colonized the cannibals". (Entry in Sanda Stolojan's diary).

Romanian far-right clowns at the court of the Ugandan dictator. The one on the left, with the shades is Mihail Neamțu, chairman of the House committee for culture. The one the right is a former general, naturalized French citizen and... *check notes* Freemason.

Surely you are joking? Romania is one of the most under-taxed economy in the EU + one of the economies where the highest profits can be made. Literally. The libertarian mantra that somehow "structural reforms" need to be carried out BEFORE anything can be done is BS.

The most popular international leader in Romania is... 🥁 Emmanuel Macron. To be taken with a grain of salt because, overall, 32.9% trust him v. 53.3% who don't trust him...

I still think it's very unlikely. The framer of the Constitution⬇️ made sure of that.

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My go-to example⬇️. Published in 2018 by Târziu's far-right publishing house.

There it is. The caveat here is that this is using aggregated data and for some reasons the methodology used to collect the data in my some of the sources changed in... 2014? That said, qualitatively, the graph does show it was austerity that caused the exodus.