• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I dont exist in structures where the meeting facilitator has that much of an impact to the point that the meeting would be derailed by a shitty one, but I guess that’s a difference between the ways our ideologies organize.

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      7 months ago

      it was the smallest amount of power I could concieve. certainly, there is an authority in small things like setting the agenda and deciding on how strictly to adhere to timetables.

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        7 months ago

        Wouldn’t that disagree with your ai generated notion of authority, if someone is appointed to facilitate it through a democratic mechanism?

        Wait, do they not do that at anarchist meetings?

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          7 months ago

          a lot of the meetings that I go to are pretty much organized as do-ocracies. someone says they are willing to do the work of taking notes or do the work of facilitating, and everybody’s relieved that they didn’t have to step up.

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            7 months ago

            That doesn’t sound consensus based or consent based at all, lol, you don’t even have a democratically elected and instantly recallable committee to assign the work? Damn, anarchists are out here having more hierarchy in their political structure than the tankies.

            Earnestly: while we live in a deeply stratified society, if you dont intentionally form power structures informal, incredibly undemocratic ones will fill that void, as is this case with what you’re describing.

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              7 months ago

              I mostly organize with mlms, actually. they are far more prevalent in my local scene