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Breaking down walls, tearing down barriers and abolishing borders.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All 3 of these are stealing the money right out of the mouths of struggling CEOs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@db0 Could we get some moderators for this community, to kick out the low-effort trolls?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"I have always been a liberal radical, an individualist and an anarchist. In the first place, I am an enemy of the Church; in the second place, I am an enemy of the State. When these great powers are in conflict I am a partisan of the State as against the Church, but on the day of the State's triumph, I shall become an enemy of the State. If I had lived during the French Revolution, I should have been an internationalist of the school of Anacharsis Cloots; during the struggle for liberty, I should have been one of the Carbonieri." - Pío Baroja, anarchist and novelist. To stand on equal ground everyone needs to adapt to the ever shifting ground in cooperation, to help each other and themselves to stand on it equally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What Is Politics just made an episode about this, incidentally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same ideas, worded differently: https://i.redd.it/x6q4jkkc43xc1.jpeg

All 3 can see the game without supports or accommodations because the cause(s) of the inequity was addressed. The systemic barrier has been removed.

(original post: https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1ceonlj/a_cool_guide_equality_equity_and_justice_breaking/)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanna slip one good comment in here: they do need a little fence to hide behine if a ball comes

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pitcher needs to be shooting the red one just because there's no rules.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're confusing anarchism with anomie..

Anarchism is not the absence of rules, but rules agreed between everyone outside any form of authority.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rules without authority: impossible to enforce. Rules agreed by everyone: impossible to exist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Once again, you confuse authority with discipline. What is ruled by consensus don't need to be enforced by authority.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And when did this thing called consensus ever happened in the past 10000 years?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha ! good question, probably never happened...

That's precisely the nature of progress: to create what doesn't yet exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But, but Somalia!

[–] Gxost 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was leading a work group designing a new software. I tried to reach consensus, so everybody in the group would be satisfied with our decisions. But it didn't work. Everybody was arguing even on simple questions and didn't listen to arguments of others. Votings didn't help too, because the minority was rising the same questions again and again, trying to convince others to join them and then re-vote. And nobody was satisfied. We were wasting time. But when I said that now I only listen to others and make decisions on my own, everybody was ok with that. Our meetings became productive. So, I don't believe consensus is possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Consensus is really a function of group size.

I was in a group, there were 8 members we went back an forth for months to try come to decisions, it was not a great time and nothing was achieved.

Consensus is probably possible in groups of around 4-5