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now too much time has passed since the original time of the post, and the joke you commented is no longer funny anymore

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In Summary:

There are 3 things:

Popular Initiatives - Swiss Citizens Collect 100,000 signatures within 18 months and the proposal is put on the ballot in the mext election. If a majority approves, it becomes law.

Legislative Referrendum - If the legislature passes a law, citizens can call for a referrendum by collecting 50,000 signatures within 100 days of the law being passed, and it goes on the ballot in the next election. If a majority disagrees with the law, it’s repealed.

Mandatory Referrendums - In some situations, such as changes to the constitution, a referrendum is mandatory. A majority of the people and a majority of the Cantons (Sub-National divisions similar to States/Provinces) have to be in favor otherwise the changes wont happen.

Basically, the elected officials are more like caretakers than people with actual power. It’s not perfect tho, people could still vote in bad laws and racist/xenophobic policies.

Read more about them here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland#Referrendums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_popular_initiative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_referendum_in_Switzerland

Since we’re on this topic, what do you think about the referrendum/initiative process that some jurisdictions have, such as in Switzerland?

Oh, I’m talking about this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33041848/15271204

db0 (instance admin) said voting is pointless… I disagreed

My point is: If this were .ml, I’d be banned (just check .ml’s modlogs lol), but this is not .ml, actual leftists can disagree and its fine. It’s funny how the fake leftists (tankies) get so mad and arbitarily bans for daring to disagree.

There are secret tankies. But instance admins do not like tankies.

If they start denying/downplaying Tiananmen Massacre, they will get banned.

dbzer0 is just very anti imperialism of all types, USA, Russia, China, is all bad.

The admin db0 does have a distrust in democracy and the electoral process and they have a “don’t vote in elections” stance which I have voiced my disagreement with, and I have not been banned.

I’ve citicized USA, Russia, China and not been banned. db0 seems to be sympathetic to Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

TLDR: dbzer0 are not tankies

The nazis during WW2 were defeated with love and kindness 🤗

(lol no, we shot them to death)

I’m the “9” of the 90-9-1 rule (aka: mostly comments)

hope that counts 👀

Wait a minute, you have a lemmy.dbzer0.com account?

Funny timing

Support response time. In my experience, Proton usually responds faster.

Yea this is worse. The politics thing could be brushed off as Andy Yen being uneducated on American politics. Moving away from an already established fediverse platform is contradictory to Proton’s mission. It doesn’t take more than a minute to copy paste their xitter posts to Mastadon.

Tuta is €3.60 a month or €3 a month if you pay for an entire year (€36) not sure if that’s “cheap” in your budget.

A .com domain is like $12 per year

Tuta takes like 48 hours to respons, slower than Proton who takes about 12-24 hours, but as long as the response is under 1 week, its fine by me.

I have only been using Tuta for like a month, still not sure if I’m staying tho…

There’s also Mailbox.org which is also about €3 a month, which doesn’t have encryption by default and they don’t have an official opensource client. (Tuta has their client on F-Droid)

I would just reply with a guide to shoplifting 😉

Lmao

Bruh, this is c/Fediverse, not c/Universe 🤣

Suggestion: Watch The Good Place, its worth it, helps come to terms with existential crisis.

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The first time people actually joined lemmy, before then was probably like 1 instance with near-dead activity.

Erm… checkbox… here: ❌️

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Probably an Anarcho-Communist.