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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 <theguardian.com/australia-news>

Preferences are more important than ever this election. See where Australian voters sent theirs last time

In some seats, preferences will make all the difference…

The Guardian
Petra van Cronenburg

"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: theguardian.com/environment/20

#climateCrisis #climateActivism #tippingPoint #activism #communication #change #majority #resist

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

Making concerned people aware their views are far from…

The Guardian
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Lincoln

In 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

WIST Quotations

A quotation from Lincoln

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

WINGS_radio

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

FreeSchool = W🔁rk T🔁gether☑

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: zirk.us/@messaroundmarx/109865

#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!"

#Commonism #SystemChange

Post: zirk.us/@messaroundmarx/110266

💬 My added hashtags as comments:

#Change #System vs. #Change #Minds ?

#Alternative #Authoritarian #Alternatives

#Thinking #minority vs.
#Unthinking #majority

Mess around Marx (@messaroundmarx@zirk.us)

Content warning: For a new #paradigm !

zirkus
BSM (sw.s) 🇨🇭

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?

#usa #WTFUSA #brokenlove #ELECTION2024

Nov 10, 2024, 07:24 · · · 1 · 0
Tim Mocarski

"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