Dave Volek / is on Nostr

I am the inventor of Tiered Democracy Governance. It's for average people to build a new democracy.

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2024-09-07 15:35:34

The TDG is So Granulated
Why we need to reduce the size of our basic electoral units:
https://medium.com/tiered-democratic-governance/the-tdg-is-so-granulated-02db8210ea99?sk=35b3491ef64601044b41b8ce3c6ce9d6
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2024-04-05 00:49:23

1848 Was An Interesting Year
This was the year when the people made their voices heard. The aristocrat systems had to give some way to the common people.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=36
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2024-03-08 15:34:10

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@npub15th…6nvx
Communism changes with time and place.
At the time I was in CSFR, most enterprises were still state-owned but were being sold. There were classes, but with much less variation than Canada of 1990.
In a like manner, "democracy" is a transitory term. People have different definitions. Some have claimed that many western nations are not democratic.

2024-03-08 06:56:01

My Experience with Communism
https://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=124
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2023-11-29 22:02:52

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@npub132h…f594
I saw a good part of that episode. Strange that owner of Iris was so candid with his victimization by the CRA. His explanation of how his company earned revenue was unsatisfactory. Yet he proudly displayed his rich-man toys.
When the GST was implemented in 1990, I could see the possibility of bogus out-of-Canada companies getting GST rebates. The Fifth Estate did not explain this very well.

2023-08-06 21:26:29

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@npub1rc6…g7hx
We need to build a new democracy.
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2023-08-02 15:20:33

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@npub1qzc…yetl
The graphic is right on: "Voting does not work." I have been working on an alternative democracy since 1997. Yet 99.9999% of activists believe that voting can work. So they prefer to keep the old ways.
I don't understand
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2023-07-13 22:28:49

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@npub1qzc…yetl
When I first heard about exporting wood chips half-way around the world, I shook my head.
Sawmills do have wood waste, which used to be be burned. They could have hooked up the kiln to a small steam turbine and put electricity back in the grid----instead of shipping it across the world to put electricity in the grid. .
How exporting wood chips can be profitable is mystery to me.

2023-07-02 21:03:43

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@npub1788…9nku
I need to read more Marx some day. I agree with his theory that capitalism will eventually fall in on itself. But I'm not sure where Marx is in regards to people who do not agree with a Marxist society. Repress them? To what degree? I don't know.
You still need to convince many more people of Marxism. Unfortunately, there is a lot of bad history (rightly or wrongly) that needs to be overcome to get that approval.

2023-07-02 18:40:06

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@npub1788…9nku
I recall the western stories that to do almost anything in communist countries, one needed to spend hours working the bureaucracy to get permission. Things were never that bad.
https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/9-levels-of-freedom-higher-degrees-of-political-freedom-are-possible-9105cfcc55a0
The article above describes 9 levels of political freedom. I would put Canada at a 5. China at a 3.

2023-07-02 16:07:11

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@npub1788…9nku
I just watched a mini-documentary on the state of democracy in Hong Kong. It is declining. Arrests and jail for organizers, suppressed media, and emigration for better pastures. This documentary is counter to the main message of the meme.

2023-06-24 14:07:27

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@npub1788…9nku
Spot on! Most political junkies just cannot see this connection.

2023-06-24 13:42:19

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@npub1788…9nku
If I were to take this analysis to the next level, I would ask "Why do 40% of Americans not bother voting?"
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2023-04-01 16:27:51

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I'm not exactly sure what "malcontent creator" entails, but maybe you might be interested in building an alternative democracy.
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