Yeah, I’m just reading up on the moral panic surrounding this event throughout this website. You are right, following the short squeeze story is huge problem for people here.
I used to post financial news all the time on the old Chapo sub, and I never saw this puritanical outrage. I can’t stand the direction this site has taken, so it’s best I leave.
So, is the problem that people are following the short squeeze story? I’m so lost.
I’m incredibly confused about what’s happening lol
Was their an influx of people from /r/wsb? Were they being shitty?
When you arrest two of your main opponents so that they can’t participate in the election, that’s rigging to and it also nothing new and happened before.
Tsikhanouskaya and who else? And do you know the grounds on which Tsikhanouskaya was arrested?
Given the history of imperialist intervention in countries aligned against the US empire, I just assumed he was arrested on legitimate grounds. Like Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela (predecessor to Guiado), who was arrested for proven ties to the CIA & organizing violence actions where hundreds of pro-Chavismo Venezuelans have been murdered. Although, I’m not informed on opposition groups in Belarus.
In 1991, 82.7% of Belarusians voted to preserve the USSR. Alexander Lukashenko was the only member of the Belarusian parliament to respect the democratic vote of the people, and voted against the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
He won the first post-Soviet presidential election with 80% of the vote. And he has won every subsequent election with between 77% and 85% of the vote - roughly the same percentage of Belarusians that wanted to preserve the USSR. The election results in 2020 match this trend: Lukashenko received 79% of the vote.
It seems to me that Lukashenko is genuinely popular in Belarus - or at least, recognized as the peoples’ best option in the bourgeois democratic legislature - and the accusations of “rigged elections” are unfounded. A similar situation to Putin in Russia. Do you agree?
Nah I’ll just check back on this place in bit, it’s way too annoying right now.