Trying to wrap my head around backlash to #aabill anger: it boils down to “big tech companies are already doing unsavoury things with our data so why all this fuss”?!
The fuss is an attempt to avoid a headlong slide into a full surveillance state. Things can always get worse.
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I'm hearing mainly scares about if you don't put Labor as first pref, then you are putting the Liberals in power. I don't see how that works though with preferential voting.
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It doesn’t. Pure scaremongering
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Yeah, it's disappointing, because it continues to signal to Labor that they can do whatever they want, so long as they remain slightly better than the Liberals. No need to understand and explain complicated issues. 🙄
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Labor hasn’t been an effective opposition party for some time and we need to vote to signal that. They’re so far centre there is little of substance to distinguish them from LNP
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We don't. If we put Labor above the Libs in our preferences, then that still puts them in power thanks to the tendency towards two party rule in our system of local representation+preferential voting. It does however send a signal to Labor that we want their policies to change.