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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
19h ago“What made you feel like your voice actually mattered in your community, even once?”
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- Benzi...
The best thing I’ve done ( to "...get rid of the MAGA nonsense and move forward.") is creating real life friendships with people who voted for Trump.... - annabeth...
Politics self-assessment quiz from an integral perspective
I’m obsessively working on a course I’ve been trying to build for 4 years and have recently made big breakthroughs with. I’ve just completed the first draft of questions in the topic of politics.... Everything is a mirror of everything. I can definitely see parallels between my online and offline behaviour. I think I often refrain from posting online due to beliefs like, "people don’t care what you think" and "it’s not worth engaging with this".... - annabeth...
So cool to read this. Had me think of a version of rank-choice voting where you can weight your choices too, spread out 100 units of your preference among as many people as you want.... In Australia we have compulsory voting. You get fined if you don’t vote. I think that came from a belief that we’re pretty apathetic and might not engage with the system otherwise. This isn’t always a clear win.... - yurio...
Who am I to decide?
California General Election is here and once again I’m asked to decide the fate of a few propositions which I believe I’m in no position to make decisions on. For example, Prop 2 an 4 are asking for $10B of debt each to fund various important things.... - EZG...
- Philip...
I think it’s definitely ethical to choose not to vote. Elections as they are presented to us today are a very specific frame that we all choose to buy into (mostly without being aware that it’s our choice). Choosing not to engage is also a choice, and a perfectly valid one imo.... - xander...
I do some google searching, like I am now for prop a in Travis county (which was opaque to me, but now after maybe 10 minutes of research seems like a good idea). I spend maybe an hour total reading overviews and a pro vs con.... - Derek...
Bravo! I think our country has an abundance of well meaning, truly good people who would really like our country to be run by people who want the same. Different ideas about how best to achieve that exist for sure, as well as what that means.... That is about as heartbreaking and enraging as I was expecting, unfortunately. Sounds like we need better mechanisms for selecting these coalitions. Although my shooting-from-the-hip guess is that I stared at that for a while I'd find other equilibria around civic engagement,... - amahone...
I feel as if we as a country, and a "United" people, have been in a free fall since 2016 and recent years before. I have never seen public opinion become so weaponized as it has been over these past years.... - Daniel1948...
- Aaron Oakley...
I am a data analyst with an economics background. Actually, data analyst probably undersells what I do. I don't just crunch numbers and spit out reports, I find meaning and relevance in data and information to help answer my partners' burning questions.... - onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼byHerbalrph...
Are you an American? I believe lack of participation and keeping our politicians accountable has been 2 of the biggest issues with how We, the People, have treated of relationship with our ‘governing’ bodies (local, state, and federal).... Hello everyone. I'm Stephanie Green, a childcare provider, community organizer, and builder from southeastern Oklahoma. Most of my work centers around one question: How do we create places where children, families, and communities can thrive?...