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Day 32 cont
Take care #voting, make your #Preferences count.
“Preferences have become more important than ever in Australian elections, as the share of people supporting the major parties has dropped from more than 90% of primary votes in the 1950s to just 68.8% in the most recent federal poll.
The last Australian election saw 16 seats won by candidates who were not leading after the first count – the most ever, tied with 2016. And more than half of those winners were independent candidates – also the most ever.
Australia’s electoral system requires #voters to #number #candidates in their order of preference: their first choice, second choice and so on. During #counting, if no candidate has yet achieved a #majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and their votes are redistributed to voters’ next #preference. This is repeated until there is a clear winner.”
#AusPol <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/2025/may/01/how-do-preferences-work-voting-party-australia-federal-election-liberal-greens-labor>
In some seats, preferences will make all the difference…
The Guardian"People are instinctively drawn to majority views and are also more likely to do something if they think others are doing it too. Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed." New data against misperceptions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/activate-climate-silent-majority-support-supercharge-action
#climateCrisis #climateActivism #tippingPoint #activism #communication #change #majority #resist
Making concerned people aware their views are far from…
The GuardianIn this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-08-21), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 1, Ottawa, Illinois
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4895…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #consensus #enactment #enforcement #execution #influence #law #majority #power #publicopinion #sentiment
Finland’s wealth gap hits record high as richest 10% own majority https://www.byteseu.com/824533/ #10 #distribution #Finland #GAP #households #Inequality #Inflation #majority #money #nation #net #own #richest #wealth
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #anarchy, #authoritarianism #checksandbalances #Constitution # democracy #despotism #government #majority #mobrule #populargovernment #popularopinion #sovereignty #tyranny
Ari Berman reports for Mother Jones:
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) top targets for the 2025-2026 elections include defending one-seat majorities in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
DLCC wrote in a recent strategy memo. "Majorities in many states will likely come down to just a few districts and hundreds of votes."
#USA #state #legislature #democrats #elections #majority
#Hateful #Kansas #Republicans will try again to #ban #genderaffirmingcare for #Trans #minors.
The #GOP previously failed to #ban #PubertyBlockers, #HRT, and #surgery for #children with #genderdysphoria. This year, #Republicans hold a stronger #Gerrymandered #majority in the #Kansas #Statehouse.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kansas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Capitalism #Transformation #Cooperating #Commons ?
2 #Quotes I liked by @messaroundmarx
#Quote 1
"The most difficult question for a social #transformation will probably be how we change from competing lone warriors to cooperating individuals who are turned towards each other in the knowledge that our own well-being depends on the well-being of our fellow humans."
Post: https://zirk.us/@messaroundmarx/109865775711665644
#Wellbeing #Together #Humans vs #Alone #Individuals #Competing
#Quote 2
"The problem is: Even if a majority realized it, most people couldn't imagine a viable alternative. #Capitalist categories are so deeply internalized in our minds that a non-authoritarian alternative is not conceivable for most of us!"
Post: https://zirk.us/@messaroundmarx/110266395758764932
My added hashtags as comments:
#Change #System vs. #Change #Minds ?
Content warning: For a new #paradigm !
zirkus“The Asch #conformity experiments or the Asch paradigm were a series of studies directed by #SolomonAsch studying if and how #individuals yielded to or defied a #majority group and the effect of such influences on #beliefs and #opinions.”
The stigma is real.
#UAP / #UFO <https://x.com/truthstreamnews/status/1870726891885482328> / <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments>
2024 was kinda like the Ashe Conformity Experiment…
X (formerly Twitter)https://www.europesays.com/1678711/ Nebraskans don’t trust artificial intelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #distrust #majority #Nebraska #rural #Study
After #campaign's #antitrans #rhetoric, here's how #LehighValley #LGBTQ #activists #plan to #respond
The "#core #issue" is that the #majority of #Americans still say they don't #know someone who is #transgender.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Activism #Representation #Culture
Why #Black #Americans Feel They Have No #Allies After #DonaldTrump’s #Victory.
The Democratic party has never won the #majority of #White #voters since #LyndonJohnson #signed the #CivilRightsActof1964 into #law.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #BlackMastodon
https://www.levelman.com/why-black-americans-feel-they-have-no-allies-after-trump-victory/
I don't like writing this, but it is the #truth. A #majority of the states and people of the #UnitedStates...
- is fascist, misogynist, sexist and ableist
- wants a convicted liar, rapist, fraudster as president
- prefers to cling to conspiracy theories rather than truthful facts and figures
- votes first and only then looks up the meanings of the words used in the election campaign
...the majority rules - even if it is wrong.
Have I forgotten something?
#Kansas #Republicans gain even more #control over #abortion, #taxes and #transgender #rights.
#Statehouse #wins appear to give hateful #Republicans an even stronger #majority in the Legislature they can use to #override the #Democratic #governor.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kansas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
Kansas Republicans expanded the veto-proof majority…
Beacon: Kansas"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
#quoteoftheday #majority #Freedom #yeahhewonsothefuckwhat #resist #BeingHuman
#Majority of #voters view #Republican's #antitrans #ads as ‘#meanspirited’.
More than half of voters surveyed this month by #DataForProgress said #political #attackads #targeting the #trans #community have gotten “out of hand”
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4949915-gop-campaign-ads-trans-rights/