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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
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This is exactly how democracy is not working. EU just pushed it through. Despite multi rejections!
An entire generation is learning in real time, first hand, that Democracy isn't working.
I insist on calling it democratism - an ambition, nice ideal, doesn't work in practice. Same way they talk about other isms.
Not just multiple, more MEPs voted against It yet it got passed despite supporters being a minority.
Fact
this is the EU working as intended though.
is it though? After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.
yes, that's exactly what they want, what did you think? you live in a free country or some shit? i really dont get westoids, they literally invented fascism and caused 90% of the wars in the last 4 centuries and somehow they're the democratic people or something? smh
"i know it's smoking and smells foul like a 4 week old corpse but the bottle says YIM-YUM on it. how can it be bad?"
I'm too optimistic indeed. Fk eu
yes. the EU is a western institution, its purpose was never to act in accordance with the will of the ordinary people. it was to serve the capitalists.
It was born out of the european community for coal and steel, how could it have turned out any different...
The purpose of a system is what it does. If a measure repeatedly fails to pass and is then successfully made law regardless, then clearly the system must, in some way, be built to supercede voting authority.
This is our implementation of democracy not working. One might even argue that our system is not actually democratic, because, as this example shows, neither the will nor the interests of the people are represented.
I never voted for creating the EU
~~System is not working~~ System is working exactly as intended
How?
System is working how they want it to work. Democracy is a far cry