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A lot of citizens do want an European federation. The topic is not in the mainstream so it's hard to gauge, bit either way Volt isn't a single-issue party, there's more to it than just EU federation (which is a long termine goal of the party)

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Within volt views are probably mixed. Dure there may ne some starry-eyes but you won't get far without a dream after all. And again it's not something that can't be fixed by joining and contributing, which is probably better than sitting on your screen and being on Lemmy to debate how everything is flawed tbf.

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Just because it "works on your machine" doesn't mean it works for many. You were lucky, but I, for example, have witnessed several instances of people not being able to see each other's messages in the local LUG group because of encryption vs within instances. I also had my bridges break because of it.

I was also able to join rooms and shit but I found it unintuitive and I know for a fact that someone like my grandma, mother, aunt, most of my friends, etc would not find it will struggle with it and won't bother because it is a pretty silly way to navigate it.
There's a bias here: you are on Lemmy, you're already more familiar with these concepts than the average user so obviously for you it is easier, but for others it is not atball easy to mavigate and in fact it can be very confusing, and it would be silly and counterproductive to dismiss that as them not wanting to learn and to say that matrix is as well developed as WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal, cause from a functional point of view it just isn't.

P.S.: I realize the tone of my message may seem a bit hostile from the text but it's not meant that way.

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Software part was in response to the last paragraph:

I wish EU was stronger and both the EU and its citizens (and netizens) les reliant on external services (like youtube, reddit, whatsapp, discord, etc.), and I want to do something about it, but I feel completely lost and hopeless.

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lot of citizens do want an European federation.

Idk, I had assumed that, but negative votes on my lemmy posts, made me think differently.. FYI, I did vote for Volt. Most local and international issues make sense. Plus for Mr a like the difference in that aspect.

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I mean, Lemmy isn't exactly a representative sample of the population

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The current problem is that the EU is not very democratic and dominated by a few large member states. As long as there isn't an effort to limit the power of these overly large states, the smaller ones will never agree to more integration as it would just mean assimilation for them.

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dominated by a few large member states.

I do agree that the EU should be more democratic, it's always annoyed me.

You mean France/German EU axis?
There's also a positive discrimination/preference for founding & larger members. But since EU is mainly alot of smaller states and some bigger states, I mean the bigger ones do have more people (and money). How would you even that out?

Seems though times are changing , i e. current Polish EU council presidency ( and their role in leading the House) and also Kallas.

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Germany for example could easily be split up into its federal states and those could have a representation at EU level. The same is true for Spain and to a lesser extend France and Italy.

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Wealth disparity is the number one enemy of the modern world. Every millionaire with a net worth over X is a threat to democracy and actively reduces our chances of maintaining a democracy. I think I remembering hearing X being 10 million from a scientist researching this thing, but even if you bump it up to 20 or 50 million - still insane piles of wealth - removing the rest via taxation would change the world for the better overnight.

Break up monopolies and tax the rich out of existence, that should be the platform of every party, the single policy that we should strive to complete this year, before it's too late. The US is what too late looks like, this is all a consequence of allowing the Uber wealthy to continuously drain the network of the bottom 99% of people.

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Could be a way. Maybe in some decades, but not in the short term. Not sure Germany is the best example, as it was relatively recently unified. Unification and Splitting up, can be a charged subject too (Serbia & Moldova; Romania & Transistria etc. etc).

Though splitting up countries in more automous provinces/cantons, would be a big plus for more direct democracy in the future, if and when people and local government can be trusted. which at the moment is a big "if".

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Or alternatively smaller states could be grouped by culture (Balcans, Baltics, Iberians, Anglos, Nordics) and those groups would have a council to represent them in Europe in equal footing with single large countries.

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