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Romanian far-right candidate prematurely and falsely declares himself the winner of the election, proceeds to confuse the flags of Romania and Chad (infosec.pub)
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12678851

https://xcancel.com/georgesimion/status/1924166718122783128#m

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[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To be clear, these are the two emojis in question:

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ

I mean, when you're running for president you should probably double check, but... you know, he's done far worse today.

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So uh.. without alt text I can't honestly tell the difference. I wonder if it's cause my blue light filter is on, or they are just that similar?

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 17 points 4 days ago

Nope, they're nearly identical. The yellow and blue are ever so slightly different, but... yeah, the bad part about that tweet wasn't the flags.

The flags were the funny part, though.

[โ€“] pewpew@feddit.it 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He actually used both in the title

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

I don't think so, that'd be Moldova ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ, about which he seems to have... eh... interesting ideas.

It's a popular set of colors. And that's before you get into ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช.

[โ€“] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe he is declaring himself president of Chad because he lost in Romania