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by chubasco 2878 days ago
As an American, this is definitely what it looks like to me.
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Really? I suspect you have very little knowledge of the EU or how it works or its history. Here for example is an EU treaty, which took years to prepare and agree by the governments of all the countries but was abandoned after failing narrowly to pass referenda in France and the Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
...and then was modified a tiny bit and passed anyway. That’s one of the most obvious examples of what they’re talking about.
Whereas in the US, the result of an election is decided by informed voters who don’t have to take into account what the majority of electors voted for. Much more efficient :D
Still sour about that Google fine then?