if you can, please vote in the EU elections today—let's stop fascism in europe.
@mntmn voted, but I don't think EU elections have much of an impact. The EP mostly just rubber-stamps whatever the commission comes up with
@wolf480pl @mntmn which just proves they are both working as synchronized efficient body. Now imagine EP starts sabotaging all EC decisions, making it totally dysfunctional apparatus.
@ruff @mntmn
What I meant is EP is unable to resist any stupid stuff EC tries to pass (and EC reliably comes up with stupid stuff, see chat control, link tax, etc).
Now, EP resisting good stuff EC is trying to pass would indeed be a threat, one that could lead to destruction of the EU.
I don't know what this looks like in other countries, but in Poland, the parties that would seriously want to destroy and/or leave EU (as opposed to only pretending to want that) are hovering around 10%.
@ruff @mntmn
Which means in Poland, my vote for MEPs has:
- little impact on whether we will have EU in the future (those parties aren't strong here anyway)
- no impact on what form of EU we will have in the future (tighter vs looser integration, mutliple levels of integration for different subsets of countries, etc)
- no impact on bullshit like chat control
Heck, my vote in national elections has more impact on that than in the EP elections.
@wolf480pl @mntmn the problem is that EP elections are notorious for being neglected by people (with the reasoning you outlined above and similar), therefore the results from those elections are not correlating with overall electoral layout. Which gives lifts to various jerks and marginals to boost into the high politics.
@ruff @mntmn
yeah... if only 20% of Poles went voting, but this included all of Confederacy's voters, that'd be bad...