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You've voted for the people who elect the European Commission, though I'm sure you know that, just conveniently decided to leave it out, you're a known troll on
by cbg0 11mo ago
You've voted for the people who elect the European Commission, though I'm sure you know that, just conveniently decided to leave it out, you're a known troll on Reddit too.
- nuffisnuff9 11mo agoEU elections are notoriously anti democratic Candidates are not elected by voters but positioned. Once people have cast their vote, members of the comission are not automatically determined but negotiated across political families, and the bureaucracy. Time to tear down this ridiculous administrative, bureaucratic, corporative and very expensive leviathan.
- reliabilityguy 11mo agoThe ability of citizens to vote doesn’t make the country not a dictatorship. There are many examples here, e.g., Russia, multiple middle eastern countries, etc.
- cbg0 11mo agoAre you trying to argue that elections aren't free and fair in EU countries? Or are we splitting hairs?
- reliabilityguy 11mo agoYour claim (as I understood it) is that if an elected person elected someone else (to be the rule), then there is not dictatorship in place. In my opinion, elections are not the only condition to have a functional democracy. So, having elections is not enough.
- zrn900 11mo ago> You've voted for the people who elect the European Commission And they 'magically' approved a short list of US-lobby-backed unelected personas for leadership positions, who are pushing everything ranging from the chat control law to this privacy-killing 'deregulation', while ruining Eu's trade relationships with everyone from China to Africa to boot.