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Sounds authoritarian to me. A leader, whether they're voted on or not, or whether there are term limits or not, means there is a hierarchy.
Most importantly, how do you convince any other anarchists that this is not a hierarchy? Because as they always do, they will call you authoritarian.
You're pretending like all communists, as an example, agree on how everything should be run. Of course there are issues that need to be sorted out. There always are. That's not the point. The point is that the "no government" image of Anarchism is purely propoganda and has nothing to do with actual Anarchist theory.
We asked you to describe a "non-authoritarian government without hierarchies or leaders", and you mentioned term limits and voting for representatives, features that exist even in capitalist dictatorships like the US and UK.
You only asked me how to convince other Anarchists to accept that some form of leadership isn't authoritarianism. Also, I didn't even mention voting or term limits. I mentioned leadership, where it's needed, needs to cycle. This doesn't even imply voting. Stop making shit up and saying I didn't answer it. There are a lot of solutions out there. If you care, you can look into it. I'm not spending hours listing all possible solutions to vague questions that aren't asked in good faith.
You sound like one of those people who go "communism can't work because..." and then give some stupid reason it can't work. It's not worth discussing because they aren't actually arguing in good faith the answers exist, and they're only against something because they're idiologically against it, not because they actually understand it.