Wow, really?Quotas were introduced in the Stalinist USSR at one point in the 1930s, I think. Before that, you had to prove that you were innocent to have a shot at escaping imprisonment. Before THAT, authorities had to prove you did something wrong (they almost always found something, though).Both of these early approaches were simply too inefficient to man the gulags and run the country into the ground, I guess.
I guess they didn't pay heed to what John Morley stated more than 100 years ago:"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."
It's not make-a-wish. Most of the time, you have to vote for the lesser evil.
Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:
News: American
Politics: American
Memes: American AND political
I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans' everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.
You just quilt the thread.