#politicals
Just how big a difference did you make in GE2017?
This graphic, shared by @williamjordann, shows a significant disconnect between the intentions of young and old voters. We already knew that young voters overwhelmingly supported Remain in the Brexit referendum, and now a very similar trend is seen in the election results: the majority of young people voted for Labour.
We’re certainly not saying the hung parliament was entirely the result of increased youth turnout, but there’s no denying that we as an age group have suddenly moved up the priority lists of politicians everywhere. We mean something now. We’re an engaged group of voters with an almost universal political identity.
We’re a very big fish and, should Corbyn slip up, we’re seemingly ready to be caught.
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im honestly really disturbed by the turn a lot of online activism has taken where people object to like, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, food shelves, libraries, etc on the grounds that they are not always 100% a universal good and may have their own drawbacks and abuses, and their proposed solutions are like (thing that is literally not possible with current infrastructure) (thing that is not possible without total socialist revolution, which is not happening any time soon) (bravely making many posts about it on the internet) (the many, many changes that would need to be put in place that would create a society without homelessness/poverty in the first place, which should absolutely be pursued but people will continue to be homeless and poor in the meantime) (bold new idea which is functionally indistinguishable from what theyre objecting to)
The european citizens initiative for unconditional basic income is running out june 25th and so far only has 245.092 out of 1 million required signatures with only 3 countries out of 7 required meeting their goal.
so
heres the link
- European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income 2020-22
i know this is usually just a lighthearted tf2 blog with some personal rambles but goddamn it i hadnt even heard about this until like an hour ago so i just want to share this, this would be huge.
i’m sentencing everyone who believes that media consumption is activism to fifty volunteer hours helping the real actual people they’re so busy wringing their hands over
