Diplomats walk out on Israeli prime minister’s speech at UN to protest against devastating war on Gaza and latest attacks on Lebanon

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    A process where people were meaningfully enfranchised wouldn’t need to rely on something so abstract as votes.

    how is this one supposed to work? Just curious, since voting seems to be the only real method of direct representation, unless you’re suggesting a global at will military force, which, would be a thing.

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      1 month ago

      Federated communities that make decisions on consensus, with the fundamental rule that “those affected get to decide”.

      There’s a lot more to it and there’s a lot to unpack in just the above paragraph, but if the only alternative you can imagine is a global military dictatorship then it’s hard to know where to even start explaining it to be quite honest.