kris ending chapter one grinning sinisterly at the player only to gradually become more and more miserable as their plan unfolds, culminating in them defeating a boss that uses the literal power of friendship to fight you where in any other context flowery would be the hero.
This wasn't a normal loss. The numbers on the board show a majority of MEPs actually voted to reject Chat Control today. It failed anyway, because the EPP used a rarely-invoked procedural maneuver to force a second reading, which flips the threshold from "simple majority to block" to "361 absolute majority to block," meaning every absent or abstaining MEP effectively counts as a yes for reinstating the scanning regime.
Parliament had already rejected this exact measure twice this year, most recently by a wide 311-228 margin in March. Getting it revived required deliberately timing the vote for the last session before summer recess, when attendance is predictably lower, specifically to make the 361 threshold hard to reach even with majority opposition in the room.
It's about a procedural trick engineered to make the popular outcome structurally unreachable regardless of how people actually vote.
Redo the vote until you get the outcome you want.
Guy who supports Communism because he reluctantly acknowledges that no other movement has proved more effective at ruthlessly uprooting and extinguishing Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in favor of the diffusion of modernity and rationalism
people love saying "history will not judge us kindly" as if history books aren't just like "Genghis Khan epicly killed 40 million people. what an absolute legend"