Comment by perks_12
10 hours ago
Take a look at how they play with regards to chat control. The EU is just the same corrupt BS like D.C., only with a lot more virtue signaling.
10 hours ago
Take a look at how they play with regards to chat control. The EU is just the same corrupt BS like D.C., only with a lot more virtue signaling.
Sorry, I don't agree with that. The amount of corruption in the USA right now is simply off the scale.
Nah, it’s just more visible. It’s not that much of a sea change. And it’s ridiculously naive to pretend that the major countries in Europe don’t have their own mechanisms to regularly and effectively bypass any democratic inconveniences when necessary. They regularly push through things that no constituent would ever want or vote for.
Meanwhile the President sits in the Oval Office and says, in a televised interview, with absolutely no shame, that all of his kids and family are insider trading, all the time.
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Nah, it’s worse now than ever.
You're right, just the other day our MP lined his pockets to the tune of a couple of billion, pumped his shitcoin, tipped off his friends about about the stock market movements he was going to cause, sent a couple of good deals to his kids and threatened war on a couple of countries just to please his buddies. And that's just the last couple of months... /s
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It's not, you're just watching CNN too much.
or maybe you're watching Fox News too much?
What you do is called "black-and-white thinking" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)?useskin...
A parliamentary process where a law is being proposed, amended and voted upon isn't "corruption".
Just because you disagree with a law, that doesn't make it "corruption" - it does make you an authoritarian that attacks democracy as soon as other people don't vote like you want.
Chat control 1 was rejected by the parliament and then passed anyway because parliament doesn't matter. Hardly democratic.
That's a lie - chat control was amended and then passed via parliament vote.
Please stop spreading fabrications - even when you dislike the result. That's fascist behaviour.
Chat control 1 or 2?
Not nearly the same thing. Trump and his family have made billions. I cannot say the same of von der Leyen.
Which of those two leaders were elected by the people?
The European Parliament is elected by vote and has to ratify the chosen members of the EU council. The president of the council included.
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Certainly Van Der Leyen.
I suggest you show up for next EU election if you don't like the option.
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I'm not sure what that's supposed to imply because if Ursula von der Leyen manages to be less corrupt without being elected by the people that has some uncharitable consequences for the quality of the American electorate, I think HL Mencken had something to say on this
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What's your point? You'd rather have a democratically elected but corrupt leader than an appointed but honest one?