Bowles insists that Fitztragic is our best hope for winning , so there ' s that . <| sep |> I feel like it can be levels to the stalking . Looking at their social media and fantasizing is one level , which most people do now . Then plotting to hurt them , yourself , and people in their life . Going around following is too much . <| sep |> Well , that ' s a huge chunk of it . I ' d say it ' s just one condition to make the other benefits single market common regulatory environment etc . possible . I don ' t think you understand the meaning of the advice word . Lots of countries advised Germany not to call for a million new foreigners . Look how that worked out . By the former agreements they made , countries had the individual power to decide how much refugees they were going to take . So I can ' t see how that ' s the fault of the EU , except for not being powerful enough to stop member states from having their own refugee policy . Btw , there is no fucking way these ones are relocated anywhere else in Europe . Germany ' s decision , Germany ' s problem . That ' s correct . The reallocation is intended to relieve Greece , Italy and other border countries from the side effects of the illconceived Dublin Convention . Yup . They can ' t be thrown out electorally . They can . At the time of European elections . How can Juncker face a vote of no confidence ? There is no vote . The Parliament may dismiss the Commission in a vote of noconfidence . And don ' t say that doesn ' t happen in practice , it already made the Commission Santer resign . National elections are already a hugely low bandwidth link between the people and their state . It is always some sort of a binary choice and it is usually every 5 years . That ' s a bandwidth of 0 . 2 bityear . And we should be using that already overcrowded link to pass a convoluted message ? On top of this message requiring european coordination ? No , you have direct EP elections for that . You ' re saying it can be done because they are sort of selected by people chosen by other people elected on a whole variety of other matters through a binary choice . I say there is so much indirection it is impossible in practice . Of course voting is not the end of the democratic process it ' s just the beginning . But that requires that you get off your ass , gather likeminded people and actually try to get some influence , of course . Or did you expect that the complete Commission would be able to visit every European citizen every month to hear how they ' re doing ? And that ' s the good case of no corruption or lobbying influencing any part of this chain . Lobbying is not a problem , only the disproportionate ability of wealthy companies to pay lobbyists compared to volunteer citizen organizations is a problem similar to the ability of richer people to pay better lawyers . And then , there is the whole other issue of making them work on a specific subject , namely population composition and immigration control . Gather people , make some noise in the press , start an association for that purpose , get members , act as their representative , start a party , get elected , . those are the ways you can have influence . What is your alternative ? Why are you against more decision power to the people ? You haven ' t proposed anything that gives more decision power to the people . You have just been complaining about a variety of things .