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Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide
Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a landslide victory in the country's presidential election, exit polls suggest.
The polls give the political newcomer, who dominated the first round of voting three weeks ago, more than 70% support.
Mr Zelensky, 41, challenged incumbent president Petro Poroshenko who has admitted defeat. The apparent result is being seen as a huge blow to Mr Poroshenko and a rejection of Ukraine's establishment.
"I will never let you down," Mr Zelensky told celebrating supporters on Sunday. "I'm not yet officially the president," he added. "But as a citizen of Ukraine I can say to all countries in the post-Soviet Union: Look at us. Anything is possible!"
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(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Tuesday April 23 2019, @01:49PM (1 child)
Uh, just in case anyone missed what's hiding behind the abbreviation "wsws" that that quote is from, it's the World Socialist Web Site, the mouthpiece of the International Committee of the Fourth International. It carries a... novel interpretation of world events.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:44PM
Will add with abbr (e.g. wswswswsws, paper of record of the ICFI). fwiw, their interpretation is certainly novel, one should be aware that when ever they write "working class protests blablabla" or "working class outraged by blablabla" what they mean is that their autoworker's steering committee somewhere in Detroit (where wswswsws is headquartered) representing about 50 people passed a motion. otoh, their cynicism usually ends up being vindicated it seems.
But it's more likely that capitalism collapses to feudalism (probably a few times over about 5k years, maybe 10k) before it advances to socialism. If humans require more evolution to get away from the sociopath megalomaniac leader with sheeple pattern it could be more on the scale of about 100k to 1m years, which seems like a safe minimum for evolutionary changes. What will probably happen is that humans just regress back to great apes. Another possibility is suggested by Erikson in his Malazan series that maybe a species capable of complex social pattern such as civilizations will eventually just give up the civilization idea entirely over 100k to 1m years and turn into solitary nomads. Maybe for humans, seems they're more happy living in small farming villages of somewhere around 300 people max, so maybe they'll simply give up on ideas like empires and city-states on the scale of 100k years. (Of course, it's tempting to envision these dispersed farming villages as being steampunk/clockpunk.)