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

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

  • @[email protected]English
    1•3 months ago

    People are indoctrinated to believe that because votes are involved the process is somehow magically subject to meaningful reform and input from the masses.

    A process where people were meaningfully enfranchised wouldn’t need to rely on something so abstract as votes. Voting is a process by which people are convinced to trade in their actual power in exchange for a piece of paper.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 months ago

        Thanks, I don’t think it’s worded quite right though, because “in exchange for” implies the vote itself does something. The reality is that people are convinced to give away their power because they believe in the piece of paper.

        The oiece of paper itself is almost worthless.

        I only say that because I’m sure someone will want to split hairs over it.

    • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
      1•3 months 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 months 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.

        • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          global military dictatorship

          it’s not necessarily a global military dictatorship. Although that would be one aspect of it.

          Currently i would argue that global geopolitics IS a federated system of operations, that’s why wars and conflicts happen.

          piracy is kill on lemmy.world, dbzer0 hasn’t killed it. There are many examples here.