Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government’s messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood.
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Anthony Albanese said Fatima Payman disrupted the government’s messages around cost of living relief by conducting an interview to declare she would cross the floor again to vote in support of Palestinian statehood.
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@naevaTheRat “Actual democratic institutions which work by direct representation”
…such as?
what do you mean? Any number of things… The system you have with your friends to decide who hosts the next movie night, your community astronomy club annual meeting, your Union, idk what are you involved in? What is this question even? Democratic decision making is as old as time and as varied as the seasons.
@naevaTheRat democratic decision making doesn’t mean you all get what you want. To the extent that government is democratic - to that extent we submit ourselves to the will of the people. Quite often having to abide by decisions we don’t agree with. Often our elected representatives are Slaves to compromise and party policy.
I thought you could give an example of a government sized democracy doing better.
Don’t put words in my mouth, democracy has nothing to do with getting what you want is has to do with participation and voice in the decision making process.
We have almost no representation in government, no choice as to whether or not we are bound by it, we have no democracy at work, deciding economic priorities anything like that.
You’ve been told you live in a democracy but aside from being told that what evidence is there that you do? Can you even fire the government? Your boss? Do you really have a voice?
here’s a Democratic government.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation
@naevaTheRat violent overthrow is one way of changing government. Conservative forces can also stage a coup. Once the new government has power, what then? Appoint ourself as the head of secret police. Then we are back at the start. Just different people being oppressed. I confess my outlook is far more menshevik and gradual. Apologist really. A gradual conservative coup seems to be under way in Australia.
Are you high? They’re just an example of Democratic governance that’s all.
@naevaTheRat Not really familiar with the Zapatista movement. “Can you even fire the government?” Was your question. What is the point of having ideal governance if it can be fired? You are correct in that we vote seldom for a party rather than for policy. I am not sure anarchy is a great alternative
I want some of whatever you’re on, this is incoherent. The gov system you’re defending can be fired by the GG or through a DD resolution. Mechanisms to fire governments are in all non totalitarian systems I’m aware of.
Suppose you vote me in on my platform of not killing you, but surprise! I lied! you can’t hold me accountable for 3 (or 6!) years. That is obviously messed the fuck up, if you have no power to recall me I’m not representing you, I’m just someone who convinced you to give me some power for a while.
why do you dream so small? why are you convinced that it’s this pathetic little dribble of political power or we murder each other in the streets. Fuck dude, anarchic societies are usually pretty peaceful even in the case of zero external government. Anthropologists have spilled a lot of ink on this.
@naevaTheRat Still getting my head around concept of anarchy. To some extent, it seems like the ultimate extension of ‘separation of powers’ in that decisions are decentralised. Not only to each individual, but each moment.