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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fosstodon.org/users/bert_hubert/statuses/113503312676939194">bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:24:54 JST</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert" title="bert_hubert@fosstodon.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/91208-48-20230123121904.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺</a></section><article><p>After every terrible election result we get 100s of pieces telling us exactly why this happened. But the supposed reasons are all different &amp; conflicting. Below I argue we should take a leaf out of the  UK's Home Intelligence WW2 project, where they fought propaganda &amp; tracked "the vibes" to keep everyone on board with the war effort. We only have a few elections left to get to grips with populism, so we should stop the amateur hour sleuthing &amp; figure things out:<br><a href="https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4021827#notice-7858867">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-18T20:24:54+09:00" title="Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:24:54 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/113503312676939194" rel="external" title="Sent from fosstodon.org via ActivityPub">fosstodon.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/113503312676939194">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: berthub.eu</div><h5><a href="https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/">We don't know why people are voting like that, and the results are terrible - Bert Hubert's writings</a></h5><div></div></header><div>We get tons of articles and reports explaining why people just voted like that. However, even for specific elections, these explanations are wildly inconsistent and can’t all be true. In essence, we don’t understand it and we don’t get it. We reasonable people (who care about democracy, rule of law, human rights etc) stand no chance at all to improve things if we don’t understand what is going on, or where people are getting their (dis)information from.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:24:54 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺
After every terrible election result we get 100s of pieces telling us exactly why this happened. But the supposed reasons are all different & conflicting. Below I argue we should take a leaf out of the UK's Home Intelligence WW2 project, where they fought propaganda & tracked "the vibes" to keep everyone on board with the war effort. We only have a few elections left to get to grips with populism, so we should stop the amateur hour sleuthing & figure things out:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/
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  We don't know why people are voting like that, and the results are terrible - Bert Hubert's writings
  We get tons of articles and reports explaining why people just voted like that. However, even for specific elections, these explanations are wildly inconsistent and can’t all be true. In essence, we don’t understand it and we don’t get it. We reasonable people (who care about democracy, rule of law, human rights etc) stand no chance at all to improve things if we don’t understand what is going on, or where people are getting their (dis)information from.

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