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So they will pass it until is a yes?

Exactly what happened when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty, they were told to vote again until they voted the "right" way.

Like UI saying "Yes" | "Ask later"

That's literally the entire Microslop Winblows set up screen flow. There's no "no", only "confirm".

Almost happened with Brexit referendum.

Heads I win, tails you loose. :(

It takes only one win to remove our rights but once they’re gone you’ll never get them back.

Modern democracy

Wait until you find out it's actually already implemented and they're trying to legitimise it.

The proposal they are voting on is about continuing the current time-limited implementation (voluntary scanning, Regulation (EU) 2021/1232).

This is not about mandatory scanning.

It was one of the things Ylva Johansson infamously said about it, Microsoft and Apple are already doing it so what's the big deal?

Makes me think about this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjhsLq3-ZWE

Or, as is also seen elsewhere, wildly popular ideas simply get curiously stuck.

Either way those elected to supposedly serve are the only ones winning.

    while not pass:
        try to pass something stupid, malevolent or that hurts people and democracies

Yes. The anchor chain got broken sometime ago. It's still there, but nobody want it anymore.

They only have to win once. You have to win every time.

Of course. They literally spell their playbook out for you:

“We decide something, then put it out there and wait for a while to see what happens.

If there is then no great outcry and no uprisings, because most people do not even understand what has been decided, then we continue—step by step, until there is no turning back.”

— Jean-Claude Juncker

There is a lot of people who will nod and agree with that statement, as long as the decisions are one's that they agree with.

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