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A small, idiotic part of me wishes this actually passed. Let's just get this over with as quickly as possible. Let the EU purge their bottomless need to "save"
by anfogoat 8y ago
A small, idiotic part of me wishes this actually passed. Let's just get this over with as quickly as possible. Let the EU purge their bottomless need to "save" the world and write as many regulations as they have in them, or can be influenced into, and maybe eventually the deluge will touch enough citizens so it becomes clear that this much concentrated power was a mistake.
It's not like this not passing will matter anyways because there'd be another attempt, and then another, and another, ad infinitum. The EU would clearly have passed this thing thousand times over already if it wasn't for the pushback from its subjects, but you only get the pushback on the first couple of attempts. Eventually, people's interest fade. They've got shit to do, can't police their representatives each waking moment, and foolishly assume that a representative body will honor the will of their far away constituents, should the same matter ever again be decided on. So really, as long as there's the EU and special interests that want this, it's pretty much a sure thing this will eventually be passed.
With the GDPR, it seemed like the EU turned into a PR firm that mounted a massive union wide marketing campaign but there's no such effort this time. Is this the difference between EU's own pet projects and directives where they're just a clueless underwriter?