• Korkki@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    They hire like two lobbyists with 100k of splurge money and this won’t pass, for sure.

    If voting or filling a petition changed anything they would make it illegal.

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        3 months ago

        America brain, Its like they think everyone is in the same dystopia as them.

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            3 months ago

            I was under the impression that Ross Scott lived in Poland, but what does that matter its an EU and UK initiative.

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      3 months ago

      By the way, the left could have done this for any number of issues in the past but refused to.

      Like how hard would it have been if everyone who showed up to a George Floyd protest instead donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them in Washington to change laws and make sure the police officers and department actually saw justice.

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        3 months ago

        donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them

        It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn’t even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea’s far away from actual power as possible.

        I’ll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.

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          3 months ago

          The EU has gotten us pro consumer common sense a number of times already, like with iPhones and the GDPR.