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This isn't about politicians but about EU employees. They shouldn't be running their personal political campaigns at all, be it on TikTok, Instagram or some Mas

This isn't about politicians but about EU employees. They shouldn't be running their personal political campaigns at all, be it on TikTok, Instagram or some Mastodon instance.

ajsnigrutin 4y ago
But those are intertwined. Some of our run down local politicians ended up in various eu institutions, and some have returned to our local politics and elections. This is probably true for other countries too. They never know where they'll have to go next, so keeping public appearances is a must for many of them, so people don't forget them. On the other hand, a lot of people make fun of those politicians here, and post the making-fun-of videos on tiktok (and youtube, and reddit,...), so those politicians want to see them too.
- luckylion 4y ago
  Sorry, you mean Slovenian politicians get hired as top EU bureaucrats (i.e. not elected to EU parliament, but working for the EU commission as executives in some capacity), and then return to Slovenian politics when they see a chance to win some local election?
  - ajsnigrutin 4y ago
    Ok let's leave slovenia out of this, because we're a small country, and lets go "big" I'm saying that eg. ursula von der leyen is a german CDU member (deputy leader of the party), a former minister of defence in germany, and when she stops being the president of european comission she'll probably return to germany with some big merkel-like political career in mind. So yeah, after her EU comission presidency, I can see her trying to go big in germany, and she'll need a lot of voter support to achieve that. Starting an election campaing while still in EU office is something she'll probably do.
KyeRussell 4y ago
It really isn’t. If we are ignoring security, using a work computer for personal reasons is utterly inconsequential and not at all newsworthy beyond some extremely American 24-hour-news-cycle alarmism. The only reason this is ‘newsworthy’ in the first place is because it’s about TikTok, and because people are spooked (rightfully or not) about China.

This isn't about politicians but about EU employees. They shouldn't be running their personal political campaigns at all, be it on TikTok, Instagram or some Mastodon instance.

ajsnigrutin 4y ago

But those are intertwined. Some of our run down local politicians ended up in various eu institutions, and some have returned to our local politics and elections. This is probably true for other countries too. They never know where they'll have to go next, so keeping public appearances is a must for many of them, so people don't forget them. On the other hand, a lot of people make fun of those politicians here, and post the making-fun-of videos on tiktok (and youtube, and reddit,...), so those politicians want to see them too.

luckylion 4y ago
Sorry, you mean Slovenian politicians get hired as top EU bureaucrats (i.e. not elected to EU parliament, but working for the EU commission as executives in some capacity), and then return to Slovenian politics when they see a chance to win some local election?
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago
  Ok let's leave slovenia out of this, because we're a small country, and lets go "big" I'm saying that eg. ursula von der leyen is a german CDU member (deputy leader of the party), a former minister of defence in germany, and when she stops being the president of european comission she'll probably return to germany with some big merkel-like political career in mind. So yeah, after her EU comission presidency, I can see her trying to go big in germany, and she'll need a lot of voter support to achieve that. Starting an election campaing while still in EU office is something she'll probably do.

KyeRussell 4y ago

It really isn’t. If we are ignoring security, using a work computer for personal reasons is utterly inconsequential and not at all newsworthy beyond some extremely American 24-hour-news-cycle alarmism. The only reason this is ‘newsworthy’ in the first place is because it’s about TikTok, and because people are spooked (rightfully or not) about China.