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0 pointspeoplefromibiza3y ago0 comments

if the EU is anti democratic, then there's no democracy on this planet.

Show me another place where 27 countries live peacefully together and jointly govern an entire sub continent, by collaborating together and discussing publicly about their political proposals.

Of course it has its problems, of course it takes a lot of effort to bring 27 countries together on a subject, of course there will be controversial opinions among its members, depending on the POV (a lot more people in EU agree with the chat control proposal than those who disagree), but that's the price of democracy.

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cardosof3y ago· 2 in thread

The price of democracy in a region or organization is the minority of votes not getting the result they want and only that. Nothing to do with privacy. Not having privacy is a consequence of authoritarianism, be it for a greater good (to find child abusers) or not (to find dissidents).

peoplefromibizaOP3y ago

> The price of democracy in a region or organization is the minority of votes not getting the result they want and only that.

The price is having to make compromises every day.

It means putting together and listening to the people who say "immigration must be stopped" and "countries should have no borders" and everything in between, but no side tries to silent the others using violence.

What you're talking about is the tyranny of the majority, which is not democratic and is not categorized as democracy, in a democracy the effect of the majority taking it all is moderated by a carefully balanced separation of powers.

For example in a democracy the justice system is usually independent from the government.

> Not having privacy is a consequence of authoritarianism, be it for a greater good (to find child abusers) or not (to find dissidents).

But we have privacy in Europe, unlike most places in the World.

Blindly repeating that EU is authoritarian doesn't make it true.

mdp20213y ago

The point of mentioning flexing "democratic" status is, in general in these contexts (say, the EU), about unnatural distancing of government, i.e. having dramatic decisions over everybody taken by an entity "distant" from the sub-regions. As opposed to a federalism in which substantially the special rules over the special, and the broad rules only when appropriate.

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weberer3y ago

>if the EU is anti democratic, then there's no democracy on this planet.

Switzerland is very democratic. People get to vote on individual laws, instead of having 3 different layers of abstraction between who you vote for and what laws are passed.

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