!notvoting@slrpnk.net
Place to hang out, memes, share experiences or just vent.
Welcome to all not wanting to vote, not able to vote or just annoyed by the US presidential election taking over Lemmy and other social media.
Coming here to argue about voting will result in a ban.
Be kind to each other & follow the server rules.
Be specifically aware that not everyone here is from the so called USA.
!notvoting
@slrpnk.nethttps://slrpnk.net/post/7207058
# Introduction Each month we pin a post to give all members an update on the state of the instance, as well as a place to direct public comments and discussions. # New moderators / communities Anyone who accepts the responsibility outlined in the SLRPNK rules [https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/lemmy-instance] can start their own community on this instance. Several people have started communities in the last month you may want to check out: * Anti-car living [https://slrpnk.net/c/anticars] - !anticars by @wildcherry [https://slrpnk.net/u/wildcherry] * BreadTube [https://slrpnk.net/c/breadtube] - !breadtube by @ProdigalFrog [https://slrpnk.net/u/ProdigalFrog] * Geoengineering [https://slrpnk.net/c/geoengineering] - !geoengineering by Mambabasa [https://slrpnk.net/u/mambabasa] * Not voting (in your election) [https://slrpnk.net/c/notvoting] - !notvoting by @punkisundead [https://slrpnk.net/u/punkisundead] Also, @maanskyn [https://slrpnk.net/u/maanskyn] of The Radical Storytelling Crew [https://slrpnk.net/c/thersc] has set up shop on our instance, and while they have not decided how much participation they want from the rest of us, their community !thersc may be something interesting to watch. # Controversy Over !NotVoting Anarchism is an philosophy of horizontal organization and consensus building. While anarchists have historically taken several positions on engaging in electoral politics, many have and still do view it as a distraction from the grassroots organizing that brings real change. The strongest expression of this tendency is to promote non-involvement in all elections. Last month, a couple [https://slrpnk.net/post/6276409] posts [https://slrpnk.net/post/6183745] expressing this opinion in !anarchism [https://slrpnk.net/c/anarchism] have been downvoted and rage-posted in from accounts outside the !anarchism [https://slrpnk.net/c/anarchism] community. @punkisundead [https://slrpnk.net/u/punkisundead], a long-time contributor and valued member, created !notvoting [https://slrpnk.net/c/notvoting] to try and solve this problem. Whether it will help or merely compound the issue remains to be seen. In addition to aspiring to be a space where anarchists feel welcome, we are also struggling with the dilemma of how to both encourage good-faith engagement and protect communities from out-group harassment. Lessons learned from @punkisundead [https://slrpnk.net/u/punkisundead]’s moderation strategies may help us with other communities with similar problems. We recently closed !twoxchromosomes [https://slrpnk.net/post/7193115] due to lack of moderators to respond to similar abuse. As admins, we support @punkisundead [https://slrpnk.net/u/punkisundead] in holding unpopular but principled positions, and have put the fate of !notvoting [https://slrpnk.net/c/notvoting] in their hands. They’ve volunteered to discuss their vision for the community with anyone with questions in the comments below [https://slrpnk.net/comment/6692423]. # User Stats In the last monthly meta, I included a member-requested ‘user stats’ analysis. Because we switched to Lemmy 0.19 mid-January, the way that activity was reported changed, making the sudden inflection in the activity graph suspect. I thought it would be interesting to check in on that again this month. [https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/12edfedc-fa6b-4f21-826a-51093c563b94.webp] Fediverse Observer continues to report an upward trend, though not as steep as it was in January when all the members who voted but didn’t post or comment were first added to the count. [https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/5ac1a781-40df-4866-8d14-82c774c8e990.webp] The total post count continues its exponential growth pattern from last month, which I interpret as a linear trend of members becoming geometrically more comfortable with using the platform to share news. As I said last month, our goal is not to be the biggest or best by metrics, but to build a healthy community of support and solidarity. You’re all part of an exclusive group. @poVoq has expressed the intention to limit membership at a certain point so that the community doesn’t get too big - so ultimately the success of SLRPNK will be judged by what its members are enabled learn and build with the help of this community. It’s nice to see numbers going up, but what is important to us is mostly intangible. I’m pretty happy with the vibe of this instance, and your words of kindness and encouragement are well-received and appreciated. # Community Pruning When gardening, it’s customary to remove weaker or redundant branches to give healthy branches more room to expand, and allow the crop to focus resources on growing bigger fruit with less plant. We’ve been doing this throughout our tenure as admins to local communities that are both inactive and unmoderated so that it is easier for people to find active and engaging communities on SLRPNK, and reduce our attack profile for spam and trolling. Usually there’s some discussion in Movim [https://movim.slrpnk.net/] chat, attempts to contact the moderators, and we’re now listing the communities on the Loomio forum [https://groups.f-hub.org/d/H7LuDKn9/community-pruning] so members can stay abreast of what communities are in the shears. The following communities will be pruned next month unless their moderators return or someone steps up to moderate them. * !decaf [https://slrpnk.net/c/decaf] * !rat_zone [https://slrpnk.net/c/rat_zone] * !castiron [https://slrpnk.net/c/castiron] * !boardgames [https://slrpnk.net/c/boardgames] We’re also pruning some long-unmoderated communities that are significant enough that we considered them worthy of their own !meta posts: * !cornelwest2024 [https://slrpnk.net/c/cornelwest2024] * !twoxchromosomes [https://slrpnk.net/c/twoxchromosomes] Discussion of those communities future should happen in the CornelWest2024 pruning post [https://slrpnk.net/post/7132959] and the TwoXChromosomes pruning post [https://slrpnk.net/post/7193115]. # Open discussion It’s now your turn to tell us what’s new! Any topic related to this community, our infrastructure, or the Fediverse at large is fair game. If you’ve created a new community, this is a great thread to tell us about it. All comments will get extra visibility up until the beginning of next month. Got questions? Ask’em!
Talked to one on the train. She told me she wants to remove the current government and I agreed. But she wants to replace it with a godly & holy goverment while I tried to explain my views on anarchism to her.
https://itsgoingdown.org/the-election-cycle-as-counter-insurgency/
It has been four years since a deadly pandemic ripped through the social terrain and the George Floyd uprising brought millions out into the streets, as those in power responded by telling us all to go back to work and sending in the National Guard. Months later, tens of thousands of Trump supporters, Proud Boys,...
https://anarchistnews.org/content/%E2%80%9Cshould-anarchists-vote%E2%80%9D-wrong-question
https://listverse.com/2016/02/10/10-alternatives-to-conventional-liberal-democracy/
Most people in liberal republics or constitutional monarchies consider the slow march to freedom over tyranny to be a laudable and inevitable historical
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/05/arizona-maricopa-county-schools-elections/
As false information about elections continues to spread, many school leaders in Maricopa County have closed their doors to the democratic process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOgbbHyii8
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https://www.rawstory.com/voter-registration/
New voter registration spiked to record levels in the first 48 hours after president Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign.The nonpartisan Vote.org website saw its highest level of new voter registrations of the 2024 election cycle in the first two days after Biden dropped out and endorsed vice ...
Apparently Wisconsin is the most important swing state this election cycle. So, any reasons why people would not vote in Wisconsin? Does Wisconsin do anything to discourage voting or abuse the privacy of voters?
(update) Yikes.. looks like the voter reg site for Wisconsin and https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/ are both Cloudflared, and the voter info site assumes I’m non-human and ejaculates a broken page while the steps for voting page simply drops my packets. Voting in WI is apparently exclusive and privacy deprecating.
What a shit show. That would be a show-stopper for me if I resided in Wisconsin.
(update 2) this page is openly accessible:
The one upside is that you can register as late as the day of voting. That’s more relaxed than I’ve seen anywhere. But that page does not state what they do with your address. Most states seem to publish it. Alaska is at least smart enough to let voters supply a PO Box address for publication. Not sure if Alaska is the only state with that degree of wisdom and privacy respect. In any case, with Wisconsin Cloudflare would be unavoidably in the loop for your residential address.
(update 3) Found an openly accessible voter reg form here:
https://www.manitowoc.org/DocumentCenter/View/12858/EL-131-Voter-Registration-Application?bidId=
The form has a mailing address, which I think is quite standard (e.g. in case you need an absentee ballot sent to a different address). The form makes no mention of which address is published.
Felons serving a sentence are blocked from voting. So funnily enough, if Trump were to try to “move” to Wisconsin to vote for himself, it would be voter fraud because I guess he would likely be serving a probation sentence for his felonies.