That’s just the result of violent revolution, necessarily carried out by people so convinced that their ideology is right that they’ll use violence to assert it. Revolution requires unity, so dissidents present a real risk to a nascent movement.

I’ve heard it phrased as the Bolsheviks never really leaving behind their «underground party» phase.

Now that you mention that, I seem to recall something similar does already exist in the EU Parliament. Blue Cards, which I think every MEP has a few of.

From the first article (which I admit I just skimmed the top of it):

And to spice things up further, the group is also planning to “hijack” next week’s debate by attending as a group and using the so-called Blue Cards system on each other to allow them to start an impromptu Q&A with the speaker, according to Boeselager, who coordinates the group.

Could be interesting to see how that turns out.

There’s a quote in there:

For instance, it is not possible to interrupt a speaker at will, something that’s common in many national parliaments.

Where? At least here in Spain, you can’t interrupt the speaker when they have the floor. Doing otherwise seems like a recipe for disaster.

Cathedral-style coding isn’t very Open-Source

Cathedral vs bazaar is about development process, nothing to do with source code availability.

Nah, git has a bad command line UX. Which is why the developers are working to make it better, i.e. moving from checkout to switch.

The current system DOES allow it

Technically true, not in practice. On almost half of the provinces (those with less than 4 seats)* you risk your vote going to waste if you don’t vote for one of the big two parties.

it’s not a system like the American one, what does not allow it’s the will of the voters

It’s the same issue, but worse in their case. The American system also allows it if only the voters massively voted for some third party.

those on the right do not like a center party.

Do they?

* In fact, you could even include those with 5 seats, which would put it over the 50% of provinces and 30% of seats.

Unfortunately the current system doesn’t allow a small center party to survive and add nuance to the political scene.

There isn’t a binary «veto»/«simple majority». Supermajorities exist, and the Council already has rules like double-majorities to preserver a smaller country’s voice. Vetoes only work for small groups, and cause gridlock in all other cases.

Ireland, for instance is constitutionally neutral

That’s why article 42 is worded that way. Ireland (and Austria) not being able to contribute directly doesn’t mean that the 25 other countries can’t act.

Thanks, since the page didn’t mention where they had gone to I assumed they were just gone.

Gotta say though, not a fan on using subdomains. It would have been better to have everything under social-network.europa.eu (which I just tried and doesn’t have a web page). It’s not like there’s a limit on number of profiles per instance.

Aren’t the Olympics free?

I don’t think anybody in Spain cares about this.

In that case mods should do that ASAP, to give enough time to people to notice it before the server shuts down.

Also should probably create the new community, lemm.ee doesn’t seem to have one already.

Is there a way to move it to another instance?

Hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.

What’s the matter with this instance? I see that the main page doesn’t load.

I’m curious, what are the other electoral systems you’re talking about?

Might be an issue with fonts?

Honestly, just use Debian. It can run under 200MB of RAM (default install), so it beats all distros on the list except for TinyCore and SliTaz, and it actually has packages.

Doesn’t look like more direct.

EP parties usually have a candidate for the Commission that they show during election, so voters know who they will support. On the other hand, the European Council members are usually chosen from internal politics and issues, and at different times.

Last time a union had president, it was quickly dissolved before first term ended.

That’s just a name though. The election would stay the same, even if it were called «First Janitor».

I don’t think having one person on position like this is good for union.

The position is the same.

Why? It would give citizens a more direct way to choose the Commission.

Honestly, no idea. The only solution I can see are NGOs. Specially at EU levels, you need to show that your opinion has support, and that you aren’t just pushing your fringe idea. And on that front I believe the EU hasn’t been lacking.

I think the EP would be a lot more accountable if it was elected on single member constituencies. This also has its own issues (main one being no minority representation), but it would allow a more direct connection with their electorate and people would know who to talk to when they want to push for something.