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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1620 on: April 06, 2016, 10:00:29 pm »

It's happening!

These guys have always done better in Iceland than anywhere else, but I wonder what they'll do now that they've suddenly been catapulted out of irrelevance.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1621 on: April 06, 2016, 10:08:37 pm »

It's happening!

These guys have always done better in Iceland than anywhere else, but I wonder what they'll do now that they've suddenly been catapulted out of irrelevance.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1622 on: April 07, 2016, 03:05:10 am »

In before the USA invades Iceland to protect Hollywood video rights.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1623 on: April 07, 2016, 03:28:40 am »

Why is that referendum even "valid" after 30%?

It's a advisory referendum, it doesn't "do" anything after becoming valid.

The only ACTUAL outcome is that most people didn't give a shit.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1624 on: April 07, 2016, 03:50:41 am »

Democracy sure feels not great when it gives out results that you don't want, eh?
I don't see what a referendum where the uninformed are allowed to vote on a single topic has to do with democracy. Referenda like that are more a tool of anarchists, leading to contradiction and disrupting the functioning of a democraticalluy elected government.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1625 on: April 07, 2016, 04:52:29 am »

It's the very definition of "direct democracy". It's still not necessarily a good idea, but it's ridiculous to claim that it isn't democracy.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1626 on: April 07, 2016, 05:10:16 am »

It's the very definition of "direct democracy". It's still not necessarily a good idea, but it's ridiculous to claim that it isn't democracy.

The actual result is that 68% of people thought it was a stupid referendum and decided not to vote.


Also if 6% of "yes" voters had decided NOT to vote, then the referendum would have suddenly been invalid.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1627 on: April 07, 2016, 06:38:45 am »

I still that this referendum is a good thing because it attracts more attention to Ukraine. Delaying some stuff from the association is not critical.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1628 on: April 07, 2016, 06:48:58 am »

I'm willing to bet there is Russia support involved in this stuff.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1629 on: April 07, 2016, 07:41:51 am »

It's the very definition of "direct democracy". It's still not necessarily a good idea, but it's ridiculous to claim that it isn't democracy.

The actual result is that 68% of people thought it was a stupid referendum and decided not to vote.


Also if 6% of "yes" voters had decided NOT to vote, then the referendum would have suddenly been invalid.
About the "low voted turnout". Let's look at the most democratic country in the world, an undisputed #1 country in societal, technological, and economical progress:

Oh hey, it looks like their midterm turnout is only about 10% higher than of this referendum! And you know what, the Americans consider that enough to make the results of said elections completely valid AND binding.

In general, it seems that people only agree with democracy when it gives out results that they want. If it doesn't, suddenly people start inventing all kinds of excuses as to why "this time doesn't count", like "it may have been different if more people voted" or "it wouldn't count if less people voted".

Well tough luck, this is how democracy works. You have to vote in order to make it count. Otherwise it wouldn't be democracy, now would it? I've seen so many people from USA saying that you must vote, even if you don't think it will change anything, or if you think it's pointless - because if enough people think that way, then stuff like this referendum happens.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1630 on: April 07, 2016, 07:58:59 am »

No in this case not voting would clearly have been the superior choice, since that would have invalidated the referendum.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1631 on: April 07, 2016, 08:00:15 am »

most democratic country in the world
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1632 on: April 07, 2016, 08:08:43 am »

an undisputed #1 country in societal, technological, and economical progress
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #1633 on: April 07, 2016, 08:46:24 am »

He's talking about Switzerland, right?
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