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Cake day: March 9th, 2025

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  • Or, and I say this as an Australian where we have compulsory voting, do the exact opposite:

    • Compulsory voting so everyone is forced to vote.
    • Make it very easy to vote because of that.
    • Support education of what voting means and why.
    • Make it on a weekend so it’s even easier.
    • Early voting and mail-in voting to make it easier.
    • Transferable vote and ranked choice voting.

    This allows for multiple parties, weeds out/waters down the crazies and in general, the population get a more representative democracy. Mixed-member proportionality would be even better.

    Your version leads to disenfranchisement, a second-class citizenry and oppression - which is exactly what the fascists and white nationalists want. Do you know literally anything about how hard it was for people to gain the right to vote over history?







  • Mantzy81@aussie.zoneOPtoLiminalSpaceOffice floor a few levels below.
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    Some floors go through phases of occupancy. It’s a government-hired building and every now and then an agency will pop up, and either survive, grow and go off to find another space or be mothballed and it becomes empty again.

    The 7 floors of staff above (or at least those feeling social) piled in there earlier in the day for a morning tea so it becomes slightly less liminal during those times. Kinda. Still feels weird being in an empty office with hundreds of other people.