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  • On the other hand I am going to see Jimmy Carr live for like 30-40 euros.

    I think that actually has a value, concerts I find to be meh, it’s the same music you listen to anyway just very expensive, worse quality and surrounded by sweat, alcohol and too many people.

    I prefer going to a festival and then maybe there is a band like and maybe I discover some new ones.






  • The duty to vote in Belgium belongs to all adult Belgians. EU citizens can vote in European and municipal elections. Other foreigners have local voting rights when they have lived in the country for more than five years. Attendance is compulsory for Belgians in Belgium, not doing so results in a fine, 3 fines equals the loss of civil rights.

    It can be done, but I was also part of an election oversight or whatever committee, we counted votes and stuff. One of the things we did was we took a vote urn to the local retirement home and well I witnessed what happened when voting is mandatory. In the past It was mandatory in our country as it was part of the eastern bloc and this man just took the first paper, not even reading which party he voted for and just put it in the envelope and voted that way.

    So there are definitely downsides to trying to encourage voting too.


  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSo glad for Trump
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    Because any sort of goodwill attempt to eliminate people from voting will just increase the chance of it being abused by said nazis, well fascists, because nazis were the fascists from germany.

    Also fun fact, like many things IQ tests have a history rooted in racism, so if your plan was to use that then bad luck.

    Fun fact number #2 the likes of Trump, Orbán (HUN), Fico (SVK) almost always win because of a low voter turnout.

    The previous US election had what, 20 million more voters and surprise surprise, Trump lost.

    Extremists are always a passionate vocal minority the more you restrict who can vote the easier time they have to take over the election.

    If anything suggesting fines for not voting is a far less dumb idea than the shit you just said.



  • Don’t worry my country just this last cycle reelected a wannabe Orbán fuck as PM and his crony won the presidency, I already live in a clown country, now the US has followed it, as a bonus I am of Hungarian descent so I can’t even “go home” because obviously I would just exchange Orbán light for Orbán.

    I should go back to Czechia, already spent 9 years there, it’s just a better country.