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   Midge 💚✌🏼 🜃 (hempressemilym@13bells.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 21:50:34 JST Midge 💚✌🏼 🜃

   In unison “How did it get this bad?!” - nobody gives a fuck, that’s how.

   Population 17,200 -> the only people that show up to meetings are people involved.
   Back in March it was decided “flock group” would be installed and implemented
   https://youtu.be/xazjK15Vs04

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     victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 21:50:32 JST victor

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     @Hempressemilym The book "Sustainable" by Tom DeWeese goes into detail about how city councils are being subverted for the purpose of globalization. It's pretty much the same tactic everywhere, and it mainly works because the locals don't understand and/or don't care about what's being done.
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     Midge 💚✌🏼 🜃 (hempressemilym@13bells.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 21:50:33 JST Midge 💚✌🏼 🜃

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     https://www.flocksafety.com/about/ethics-center

     Prolly wanna see if your under this watchful eye.

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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 22:08:20 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     • victor
     > and it mainly works because the locals don't understand and/or don't care about what's being done.
     
     This largely isn't a fixable problem. I went through this frustration years back in student politics, it bothered me that hundreds of thousands of euros were being levied from students every year (without them having any say in it or even knowing it was happening) to pay for an activist group that largely operated without any real ties to them.
     
     I tried hard to get students to actually participate in the process and be more demanding about what was being done with their money. It was virtually impossible to get them to care, at most they'd show up at the elections and vote for whoever had the nicest poster to get free merch from the voting table.
     
     Some of the candidates didn't even understand the position they were running for, or thought they were running for a different position.
     
     My conclusion is that democracy does not work on any kind of large scale, certainly not the scale of a modern city. There's just too little connection between the top and bottom for it *NOT* to dissolve into a corrupt mess and it takes way too much effort to change even the smallest thing. People have to found whole political parties just to get the lift fixed in their apartment building.
     
     Cities are too atomised to be fixed, we need a completely different model of community going forward. I think a network of villages with close ties and cooperative militias might work.
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