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The interesting thing about EU is that, because it’s a bureaucratic dictatorship, it can force it (worse, citizens are mostly obedient). So it’s particularly da
by aborsy 4y ago
The interesting thing about EU is that, because it’s a bureaucratic dictatorship, it can force it (worse, citizens are mostly obedient). So it’s particularly dangerous.
Imagine France orders this! It’s not like Apple responding to consumers’ opinion.
- Hakashiro 4y ago> dictatorship Any source?
- jhrmnn 4y agoDictatorship means total authority over a domain. EU is so very far from that. If anything it’s the opposite of dictatorship. The federal EU institutions are mostly toothless with respect to the nation states.
- native_samples 4y agoThe EU is a partially constructed dictatorship. Within the domains delegated to it in the treaties, it has total power without voter accountability (the most voters can do is elect MEPs who slow things down a bit). Also in some areas where the EU has effectively seized power without a treaty change, this is also true e.g. corporate tax law. In some areas like health and defense it has failed (so far) to take powers, and so the usual democratic mechanisms at the state level are mostly still working. So I think you're not really disagreeing with aborsy, unless by "domain" you mean exclusively physical domains.