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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (30 children)

To be fair, they're (understandably) under martial law which has been extended in 90 day increments since 2022 with parliamentary approval. Elections aren't to be held under martial law per Ukranian law, and there have been ~~referenda~~ votes held among the Rada to determine if elections should be held, which failed.

Edit: referendum would entail direct democracy. That isn't what happened - it was just a vote by the legislature.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~Who is the third from the left?~~

PS: Sorry that was politically incorrect, let me rephrase my question: Who is the second from the far right?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Keir Starmer, aka Kid Starver and Kiev Sturmer

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[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

It's just a bourgeois democracy.

[–] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

And the reason they haven't had an elections is because they don't want this guy to be in charge?

I wonder if I'll be down voted?

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

You're saying that of they held an election, people would either vote for Putin or someone that is pro Russia? I thought Ukraine was united against him.....

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (15 children)

My favorite trope is how libs will inevitably start screeching about Russia when faced with the fact that their ideology is midwifing fascism.

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[–] m532@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (50 children)

This totally makes sense if we consider the fact that many westerners don't consider nonwesterners to be people.

Colonizers can't choose the presidents of sovereign nations anymore, the people there do the choosing now, and that makes the colonizers furious.

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[–] oyzmo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

multi party system, you get all the shades / 32bit if you like 🙌🏻. two party system result in us vs them (see US), only black and white / 1bit system.

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