The European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy has reached the goal of one million signatures! 🎉 I'm genuinely surprised how much it picked up pace this final week
That doesn't mean you shouldn't still sign it! It'll only be brought to the Commission if it has a million *valid* signatures, and some fraction is always found to be invalid. So let's give it some margin above one million!
@JosJuice That is absolutely fucking awesome!
I'll keep spamming people with it though :D
Edit: looking at the threshold percentages tells a lot about each country and how really different we all are. Weirdly proud about Spain to be honest.
@Johns_priv Wouldn't be too quick to draw conclusions from that.
France having 1100% votes doesn't mean France is 1100x the most LGBTQ-friendly, it just means the campaign was promoted the best on French social media AND people are inclined to participate in EU petitions.
There was an earlier EU petition for taxing the rich that only made the threshold in France mainly because it was only promoted in French, not cause others wouldn't support it if they knew about it.
@ninjadodo Well, for starters on your example you can see that only french speaking places would vote, not the best of examples isn't it?
From the results we can't see which places go more for left oriented policies, for two reasons.
First, Mastodon is way more left-wing than nazi-orientes Xitrer and it's replacement Blue sky.
Second, you can see which countries are not only more active in Mastodon but more lgbtq+ friendly.
Eastern European countries showing what we already know about them.
@Johns_priv You've entirely misunderstood on several levels.
You're drawing wild (clearly highly prejudiced) conclusions from percentages of votes when those percentages are influenced by *several* factors, not just average local politics.
You're also mistaken in assuming only people from Mastodon are voting. People can find this petition from anywhere. It's promoted on Bsky also.
"Eastern European countries showing what we already know about them" Maybe check your xenophobia there, buddy.
Jos（ユース）
Johns
Christiaan Moleman