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Postby Greed and Death » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:33 pm

The military just voided the results sorry
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Postby Geilinor » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:36 pm

Mike from Progressive wrote:
Tolko Temnota wrote:Like what? She seems extremely supportive of democracy to me.

Do you live in Burma?

You don't either, for that matter.
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Postby Kraylandia » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:41 pm

Geilinor wrote:
Mike from Progressive wrote:Do you live in Burma?

You don't either, for that matter.


Neither do you.
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Postby Geilinor » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:42 pm

Kraylandia wrote:
Geilinor wrote:You don't either, for that matter.


Neither do you.

I can look at the election results and believe that the people of Burma did what was best for them. I trust people to vote, it looks like you might not. Anything is better than a near-genocidal military junta.
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Postby Gauthier » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:43 pm

Geilinor wrote:
Kraylandia wrote:
Neither do you.

I can look at the election results and believe that the people of Burma did what was best for them.


And I can think of two places where Westeners thought they knew who would govern them better than the people who voted.
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Postby Tolko Temnota » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:44 pm

greed and death wrote:The military just voided the results sorry

Um, what? Source?
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Postby Gauthier » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:47 pm

Tolko Temnota wrote:
greed and death wrote:The military just voided the results sorry

Um, what? Source?


Greed likes spouting nonsense to rile people up.
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Postby Geilinor » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:49 pm

More detailed information from a Burmese source.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/election/results
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Postby Greed and Death » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:51 pm

Gauthier wrote:
Tolko Temnota wrote:Um, what? Source?


Greed likes spouting nonsense to rile people up.

you are supposed to let it go for a page or two
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Postby Tolko Temnota » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:53 pm

Gauthier wrote:
Tolko Temnota wrote:Um, what? Source?


Greed likes spouting nonsense to rile people up.

Ah. Well, consider me thoroughly riled. :p
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Postby Greed and Death » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:56 pm

Tolko Temnota wrote:
Gauthier wrote:
Greed likes spouting nonsense to rile people up.

Ah. Well, consider me thoroughly riled. :p

good only when your are riled up will democracy be protected
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Postby Ganos Lao » Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:00 pm

Gauthier wrote:
Geilinor wrote:I can look at the election results and believe that the people of Burma did what was best for them.


And I can think of two places where Westeners thought they knew who would govern them better than the people who voted.


Only when it was politically convenient, anyway.



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Postby Verdiga » Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:01 pm

As a Filipino, I applaud our fellow Southeast Asian nation for their "legitimate" democratic milestone, especially after a time of tyranny (<insert military junta here>). The 1990 election is a truly legitimate democratic milestone, as with all other elections during and after a period of tyranny, but the junta had to ruin it now, didn't it?
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Postby Tolko Temnota » Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:06 pm

greed and death wrote:
Tolko Temnota wrote:Ah. Well, consider me thoroughly riled. :p

good only when your are riled up will democracy be protected

No kidding. When you said they voided the results, I was seriously like "no no NO FUCK NO NOT AGAIN" before my skepticism kicked in.

Anyway, what do y'all think of the election committee's policy of slowly releasing the results like this? Seems pretty shady to me, and I can't bear having to wait a week after the election for the full "official" results, even though we all know what's they're probably going to be.
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Postby The Greater Aryan Race » Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:40 am

Tolko Temnota wrote:
Gauthier wrote:


White supremacist. Serious. Can't let Those Ignorant Slant-Eyes run their own government without the guidance of the White Man. *nod nod*


Pretty odd how someone called "The Greater Aryan Race" is actually pretty sane and not a white supremacist or authoritarian, while someone with the name "Saiwania", which sounds vaguely Asian to me, is quite the opposite. :p

I've seen stranger things.

Anyways I'll be watching the post-electoral development in Burma keenly. The electoral defeat of Thein Sein and the USDP may impact Singapore-Burman relations badly in the future.
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Postby Herskerstad » Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:09 am

greed and death wrote:
Gauthier wrote:
Greed likes spouting nonsense to rile people up.

you are supposed to let it go for a page or two


You just cost me seconds of my life and I cannot even rickroll you back?

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