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  • I got really excited about the Pirate Party in Iceland a few years ago. I’m not sure what happened to them (it’s hard to get news from other countrues sometimes) but one of their big initiatives was a crowd-sourced constitution. It was the first time I’d thought about something like that being really possible, and I think that if it weren’t for the one percent of the population who are megalomaniacs, the internet could be truly democratizing.

    In the meantime, sign a strike card on the completely decentralized https://www.generalstrikeus.com/, which is also a pretty exciting notion to me. Sadly, I’m now considering what leaders might float to the top if we ever do reach 3.5% of the population… Decentralized organizing does not mean decentralized leadership. Hm, i’ll have to think about that more.








  • tamal3@lemmy.worldtoMental Health@lemmy.worldDo you agree?
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    4 months ago

    Well, my dad was the black sheep such that his mom thought he was possessed and needed an exorcism, but even after she came around he still had that same classification among my aunts and uncles. Now, long after my grandma has died, he’s still the odd one but the siblings are all very fond of each other. Not sure if grandma’s Catholicism started it all, or his undiagnosed ADHD, or just generally being the oldest and quite rebellious in a large household, but it’s all love these days.