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>Ursula von den Leyen has been pushing internet blocks in Germany for the sake of the children since 2009. Which is when "Zensursula" nickname has been coined.
by joe_mamba 6mo ago
>Ursula von den Leyen has been pushing internet blocks in Germany for the sake of the children since 2009. Which is when "Zensursula" nickname has been coined.
And then in a completely democratic mannner, Europeans said "that's who we want leading us".
- wafflemaker 6mo ago>And then in a completely democratic mannner, Europeans said "that's who we want leading us". No, it wasn't. She was chosen by a group of country leaders during a closed doors voting. If it's democratic at all, it's very tangential.
- pronik 6mo agoI've taken that comment to be very sarcastic, but maybe it wasn't.
- rayiner 6mo agoThere's an election in the chain. Voters elected the national MPs who then selected the national PMs, who then selected von den Leyen. Democratic-ish.
- joe_mamba 6mo agoAfter how many levels detached from the general population, does the vote stop being democratic?
- rayiner 6mo agoIt doesn’t stop being democratic. It’s just a scale from more to less democratic. America’s founding fathers were skeptical of democracy, so they provided for the president to be elected by the Electoral College, which was originally appointed by state legislatures. It’s still “democratic”—just less so than a direct election.
- joe_mamba 6mo agoAmerican people went to the polls to vote(or not) for Trump, Europeans didn't go to the polls to vote for Cenzura. Kind of a big difference on the democracy scale.