▲ 387 ▼ Mayor Mamdani says he has balanced NYC's budget, will not raise property taxes - CBS New York (www.cbsnews.com) submitted 3 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world 51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) If you "organize" a nation full of people to decide on the "rules", then that is "government" writing the "laws". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (1 child) So the IEEE and web consortium unicode and Wikipedia foundation are governments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) If Wikipedia were the sole organization operating within a territory and they decided what people were allowed to do in that territory, then yes they'd abso-fucking-lutely be the government. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) So what if there isn't that and everyone kind of gets a say You know that's not even how government worked for most of history right that's super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated That's not even how modern us government works Edit: so my ex gf was Canadian. She lived in Los Angeles in winter. A sanctuary city. Matters because she was an immigrant and didn't do any paperwork about it. Feds would arrest her city cops were forbidden from arresting her for that and we both smoked a ton of weed which feds say is illegal but the state/province if California said is legal and fine and needs to be taxed but the feds would fuck your shit up for if you were known for it. There is not one authority deciding what is and isn't okay even here and now and it used to be way more fractious complicated. Imagine if I was catholic or wahabbist. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (1 child) So the IEEE and web consortium unicode and Wikipedia foundation are governments. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) If Wikipedia were the sole organization operating within a territory and they decided what people were allowed to do in that territory, then yes they'd abso-fucking-lutely be the government. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) So what if there isn't that and everyone kind of gets a say You know that's not even how government worked for most of history right that's super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated That's not even how modern us government works Edit: so my ex gf was Canadian. She lived in Los Angeles in winter. A sanctuary city. Matters because she was an immigrant and didn't do any paperwork about it. Feds would arrest her city cops were forbidden from arresting her for that and we both smoked a ton of weed which feds say is illegal but the state/province if California said is legal and fine and needs to be taxed but the feds would fuck your shit up for if you were known for it. There is not one authority deciding what is and isn't okay even here and now and it used to be way more fractious complicated. Imagine if I was catholic or wahabbist. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 3 months ago (1 child) If Wikipedia were the sole organization operating within a territory and they decided what people were allowed to do in that territory, then yes they'd abso-fucking-lutely be the government. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) So what if there isn't that and everyone kind of gets a say You know that's not even how government worked for most of history right that's super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated That's not even how modern us government works Edit: so my ex gf was Canadian. She lived in Los Angeles in winter. A sanctuary city. Matters because she was an immigrant and didn't do any paperwork about it. Feds would arrest her city cops were forbidden from arresting her for that and we both smoked a ton of weed which feds say is illegal but the state/province if California said is legal and fine and needs to be taxed but the feds would fuck your shit up for if you were known for it. There is not one authority deciding what is and isn't okay even here and now and it used to be way more fractious complicated. Imagine if I was catholic or wahabbist. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) So what if there isn't that and everyone kind of gets a say You know that's not even how government worked for most of history right that's super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated That's not even how modern us government works Edit: so my ex gf was Canadian. She lived in Los Angeles in winter. A sanctuary city. Matters because she was an immigrant and didn't do any paperwork about it. Feds would arrest her city cops were forbidden from arresting her for that and we both smoked a ton of weed which feds say is illegal but the state/province if California said is legal and fine and needs to be taxed but the feds would fuck your shit up for if you were known for it. There is not one authority deciding what is and isn't okay even here and now and it used to be way more fractious complicated. Imagine if I was catholic or wahabbist. permalink fedilink source parent