albert180

New Month, new Banner Picture. As I previously said, I would like to have every month a different banner picture, showing beautiful places across Europe. It's always great to brighten your horizon.

I look forward to your submissions 😊

Best Albert180

The Rules

• Picture must be made on the European continent
• Only real pictures, no AI generated ones
• You must have took the picture and have all rights to it, or it has a Licence where usage is possible (e.g. Creative Commons), please indicate it accordingly.
• No personal identifiable data in the picture. Please blur any licence plates or faces (except when it’s a mass gathering of people e.g. a Christmas market, and the picture shows the christmas market and not singles out a single person)
• Please provide a short description where the image was taken and what it shows
• Deadline will be the 31.01.24 23:59

Hey everyone, I wish you all a happy new year, stay healthy, and let's hope it will be better than the last one 😅

geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/10139682

[Note: trying out /c/politics’ new international politics focus]

The Italian prime minister’s calculation isn’t hard to understand — her party has a comfortable lead in the polls, but it’s far from an overwhelming majority.

The optics are terrible: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made proposals for constitutional reform that are eerily reminiscent of another constitutional change made a century ago by Benito Mussolini.

Adopted in November 1923, Mussolini’s notorious Acerbo Law established that the party winning the largest share of the vote — even if only 25 percent — would get two-thirds of the seats in parliament. And after his party won the subsequent election — although intimidation and violence proved more important there than tampering with electoral law — the road to dictatorship was paved.

Meloni’s current proposal now echoes this Acerbo Law, as the Italian leader wants to automatically give the party with the highest percentage of votes a 55 percent share of the seats in parliament. In other words, as long as one party receives more votes than any other — even if that were, say, 20 percent of the national vote — it will be rewarded with outright parliamentary control.

As there were multiple unacceptable comments in the past weeks, I've added a further rule to make it explicitly clear that we won't accept or tolerate racist, antisemitic, dehumanizing or Nazi-Glorifying behaviour.

geteilt von: https://derp.foo/post/384106

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.