Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 15 hours agoWhy is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1277arrow-down120
arrow-up1257arrow-down1message-squareWhy is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 15 hours agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareReality@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 hours agoDoesn’t Iceland have some form of parliament that includes everyone for a thousand years?
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours agoWho could participate in the original Althing: Chieftains (goðar) held the real power—they controlled the agenda and made laws Free men, particularly land-owning farmers and their dependents, could attend, speak, and vote on legal matters Women could be present as observers but had no voting rights
minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 hours agoAlso happened before that year in France, that first in the world claim is bs
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 hours ago Also happened before that year in France, that first in the world claim is bs … The granting of suffrage to women in France, finalized in 1944 https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/women-s-studies-and-feminism/france-grants-suffrage-women
Doesn’t Iceland have some form of parliament that includes everyone for a thousand years?
Who could participate in the original Althing:
Chieftains (goðar) held the real power—they controlled the agenda and made laws
Free men, particularly land-owning farmers and their dependents, could attend, speak, and vote on legal matters
Women could be present as observers but had no voting rights
Also happened before that year in France, that first in the world claim is bs
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https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/women-s-studies-and-feminism/france-grants-suffrage-women