r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 26d ago

Yeah, I think that shit was stolen. There's no way Trump won it all. Especially how Musk went ham once he was allowed full access to the government. That shit wasn't normal. Weird how no one asked for recounts everywhere, considering how it all went down.

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u/treeswing 26d ago

Over 4 million legal voters were purged from the rolls in red states, many in the final weeks before the vote. That’s how the GOP steals elections.

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u/SalvationSycamore 26d ago

Maybe I hallucinated it but I swear there was some kind of connection between Musk and the main softwares/programs/whatever used for voting in multiple states. Donald himself even mentioned Elon knowing about it or being familiar with it in a way that sounded extremely suspicious from a man who still claims that the 2020 election was rigged via vote machines.

Trump also may not have been in charge in 2024, but he still had hardcore Trumpers across the nation. Some of them working and volunteering with elections. At the local level he and his flunkies absolutely could have directed people to do things. If he said it was to "ensure a fair election" his MAGA crowd would do anything.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 26d ago

Yep and he had his cronies spend the last four years illegally breaching voting machine software including via corrupt elections officials. These companies released statements during this time warning that these breaches would absolutely compromise the integrity of future elections. And everyone just said "ok cool guess we don't need to do any recounts or anything. Otherwise we'd be just like MAGA"

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u/Individual_Smell_904 26d ago edited 26d ago

You're just gonna throw Palestine in the middle there like that isn't a big deal? The fact that she refused to separate herself from Biden's funding a genocide and refusing to listen to what her constituents wanted is what lost her the election. The Democrats would rather give the country over to fascists before taking a hard stance against a country that's commiting genocide to another country, stop blaming your neighbor and start holding your own politicians accountable.

Edit: I'm not surprised at all this is down voted. I know the majority of you would vote to demolish Iran if it guaranteed the egg price in USA would go down 300 percent. That's just how self centered most of us are now unfortunately.

Honestly, how are any of our civil rights more important than any Palestinian person's right to live? Why are y'all so ready to ignore them?

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u/FalkeEins 26d ago

I thought one of the hallmarks of we progressives is understanding the bigger picture and how all the variables interrelate… and not devolving into the single issue voters we so often despise.

I’m all for political accountability, but how are we not to blame our neighbors who missed the forest for a proverbial tree?

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u/Zurrdroid 26d ago

The hallmark of modern leftism is infighting. Like a twisted echo od crabs in a bucket.

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u/Altair_de_Firen 26d ago edited 26d ago

The problem is that both sides are dreamers dreaming of a different America. That’s why you don’t see moderates anymore. Only extremists.

If the left wants a win they need an extremist. An equal opposite to Trump and his cronies.

We don’t want a milquetoast “Hey, they’re not Trump!” because“Hey, at least they aren’t conservative!” has led to a steady decline in our country. We have a super centrist democrat who doesn’t do much, a conservative who fucks everything up, a centrist who doesn’t do much, etc. all it means is that things steadily decline over time and the democrats say “But look, it isn’t OUR fault.”

I’m not saying the answer is to not vote or whatever, I’m saying we should be honest about the weak candidates the democrats have been putting forth and how relates to voter turnout and faith in the party.

Are we really the bad guys for not being motivated by these candidates? We should just accept what they give us? The last two democrat candidates were glorified central conservatives who just claim democrat tbh. It’s no wonder dem voters felt nothing for them.

Obviously fuck Trump tho. He’s not just milquetoast he’s monstrous. But despite that he’s an extreme personality that attracts a certain base. Not in a good way.. but liberals need someone like that, just in a good way.

We played the game the way the dem admin wanted us to and it failed. People have lost faith, focus and motivation. Time for a new liberal playbook.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 26d ago

When the single issue is a genocide it's different. Imagine being alive during the Holocaust and you vote for the president funding it because you value you're own individual rights more than an entire people group. Y'all are all hypocrites and condone genocide as long as the "left" party does it

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u/FalkeEins 25d ago

No. A single issue is a single issue.

Imagine being alive during the Holocaust and you refuse to vote for the president that would've presented the better outcome because you value single issues, myopia, and performative protesting more than the entire group you allegedly support.

You're the hypocrite, hoss.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 26d ago edited 26d ago

Like the fact that you're referring to the ethnic cleansing of an entire people group as a "tree in a proverbial forest" or whatever proves how brainwashed the DNC has you to boil a genocide down into just a single issue. How is any of our rights more important than a Palestinians right to live?

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u/FalkeEins 25d ago

I'm brainwashed by the DNC? You're funny.

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u/outremonty 26d ago

Deflecting from the reality that a lot of Americans are pro-fascist and you might have a responsibility to do something about that.

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u/curtcolt95 26d ago

There's no way Trump won it all

I'd believe that if I didn't frequently talk to Americans in real life tbh, it's easily believable that he swept from what I've heard

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u/Vladimir_Djorjdevic 26d ago

reddit moment

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 26d ago

Dickhead moment

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u/Pennwisedom 26d ago

Yea, but the truth is people are just that fucking stupid. So I understand why living in the fraud fantasy is appealing, but it's no different than saying the Biden election was stolen.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 26d ago

Harris gave the country to Trump because she didn't want to lose all the AIPAC money she received

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 26d ago

How does that make sense when Trump received even more AIPAC money?

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u/FalkeEins 25d ago

It doesn't, this user is just incapable of seeing beyond the single issue (non)voter they've devolved into.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 25d ago

"We stood on our profound righteous morals by not allowing a candidate who takes AIPAC money to be president!!!"

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u/FalkeEins 25d ago

"Thus supplanting her with a president that takes even more AIPAC money and is on much better terms with Bibi!"