which is?

the vote is not binding?

Danish Maastricht Treaty Referendum was called off because of the supernarrow margin of victory.

how's that supposed to work?

why wasn't the 2000 US presidential election called off then, it was even tighter

?

Irish one was redone because, well, 🇮🇪 isn't a democracy, it's just a socialist dictatorship.

When it comes to bigtime referendums, countries tend to nullify them if the results are very close to avoid having almost 50% of the country really fucking mad.

well that makes no sense

why nullify?

voting is not supposed to be a sport

It ain't nice having around 50% of a country's population very unhappy, you usually want a not-tight race.

Going back to the list...
French EU Constitution Referendum = ignored for no apparent reason, negotiated by politicians backstage, new shit came out in 2007 and was then voted by parliament (no referendum). That's quite anti-democratic if you ask me.

Dutch EU Constitution Referendum = done 3 days after the French one, it was considered "irrelevant" because 🇫🇷 had already voted against it. Originally, the EU Constitution had to win in ALL countries to proceed. It's quite disgusting how 🇪🇺 ignored its own fucking rules.

"Mr. Speaker, I am about to say the N-word"
"PRIME MINISTER, GET DOWN!"

some pro EU probaganda from when Finland joined

1.The past
finland has fought in many wars and has done hard work on work of peace to stay with democratic europe and its culture HONOUR WORK OF VETERANS
2.peace
Eu was established to make sure for peace in europe. Nationalities, that rival and have market transactions do not attack each other VOTE FOR PEACE
3.freedom
EU is voluntary union between fre countries. It defends democracy and equality -european way of life- and basic values of the nations KEEP HOLD ON YOUR FREEDOM
4.independence
Finland has now possibility to participate on decision-making as independent, plenipotentiary nation without any pressure from any direction. it is valuable offer USE YOUR INDEPENDENCE
5.guality of life
being under EU membership lowers the price of food. Brings jobs and creates safety. As a member we assure quality of life and social security. VOTE FOR WELLBEEING FINLAD!
6.future
Future is youngsters. We must give europa that has freedom to travel, endeavour, work, and study!
VOTE FOR YOUR CHILDRENS FUTURE!

the irony

Something interesting about the role of Spaniards in social media.
· A lot more people than you think brigade posts of people enjoying bad examples of Spanish food such as paella, gazpacho and others. The people destroying the food usually receive joke death threats.

henlo frens

first orwell and goode show in ages is uploading

want me to premiere it?

Yes

ok

y'all know my internet is potatoy so it's gonna be like 2 hours for it to uplaod

upload

gonna workout and make some blackberry jam in the meantime

I know the feeling

👌

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006068165.html

"journalist Johanna Vehkoo was sentenced to pay fines for defamation of councilman Junes Lokka - both sides commented sentence to HS"

Basically Johanna called Junes racist, nazi clown (honk honk) and nazi. She has to pay 150€ on 15 day fines. Also she had go pay 200€ to Lokka himself. Lokka was asking 1500€ but the district court deemed that his contribution lowered a mouth of the damage compensation.

The court district also deemed that Johanna's statements weren't untruthful.

Tldr what Johanna said about the sentence: she's upset, probably going to take it into higher court. Plays victim and says how "this kind of sentences are alarming for especially journalists that have been harassed online"
Tldr what Lokka said: doesn't want to put anymore time to the matter but is pretty sure Johanna will try to get the thing into higher court.

"the court sees, that Lokka's political activity may have been critiqued, but the critic should have not been consentrated on Lokka as private individual."

Cba to translate further but ya'll get the picture by now. Journalist claiming that the guy is nazi, court hesitantly agreeing that it was in fact defamation but cause Lokka ain't exactly most Suttle of fellas in our political field the fine was quite small.

I should have put that into news... Oh well it's already here so...

what's interesting is that Johanna Vehkoo has won multiple prices from different journalist organizations in Finland. These same organizations push for criminalization of hate speech (read: thought crimes) and claim that journalists are "under attack" when someone calls out their bs @Finno

the nerve on these people

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/oulu_politician_wins_defamation_case_against_journalist_gets_slapped_with_ethnic_agitation_charges/10736850