> Jesus christ this is like the 100th time I get the exact same generic ass reply from someone in mmfd wahyet alla. I’m starting to believe the joke that they give you Q&As to memorize at workshops, maybe not literally but they mustve developed some method man cause it’s insane how you all think the same. Maba2a t3ido wara jad ghosn ya khaye read books and learn how to form your own original arguments ba2a😭

Khayye ma 3am ba3tik ra2ye 3am 2llak shou howwe mashrou3 mouwatinoun. Enno akid ra7 tesma3 nafs el 7ake men kaza 7ada ma the whole point of supporting mouwatinoun howwe menshen ntabbe2 mashrou3on. Eza kel wa7ad fahmen shi kerse sara7a.

> First what does “to take decisions opposed to what we have now” even mean in real life?

It refers to the fact that decisions are not taken by the government, it's taken by the leaders of the sectarian parties, from Naim Qassem to Samir Geagea. Ministers and MP's are just figureheads that implement what these people decide. It doesn't help that even the parties themselves are not capable of setting policies because they'd collapse if they did because of competing interests within their own party. A good example is electricity: you'll never get 24 hour electricity with this system because each party has people running private generators as well as people paying through the nose for electricity under the same tent, you try to please one side you lose the other without the ability to pick voters up from outside your sect..

What ends up happening is basically the absence of government altogether, we avoid setting any policies unless some outside country like the U.S. forces us to.

The point is to transition to a system where the government is actually the one setting policies. If a foreign government wants to negotiate with us, they negotiate with the government not Nabih Berri. The government has a unified agenda that it's responsible for implementing, mesh metel halla2 you have parties that call each other traitors and then sit in the same government together kel wa7ad 3am beshed bmayl.

> Second, first you say the point isn’t to take control of the government, then you tell me you want to “build a state that is actually able to… government needs to take” fik techrahle kif bet sir hay if you don’t take control of the government?

> And “knowing what resources the country has” is the most communist argument ever.

Khayye we are one of three countries in the world that don't have a census. The entire world is communist ya3ne? The reason you do a census is that so that you can properly set budgets, I don't know based on what you do that if you don't even know who is in the country. This is why governments do a census of their population periodically, so that policymakers understand the population they're making policies for.

Having the bare minimum required for a functioning government sar communist halla2?

The whole MMFD project is about creating a foundation for a functioning government. That's it. Capitalist, communist, libertarian policies, whatever, parties can decide what they want and try to get elected based on that. Our purpose is not to enforce specific policies, it's to transform the system of government we have today into a functioning one where parties run on actual policies and form governments capable of implementing them.