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I very much needed to see this quote, this 4th of July: (Original Post) Paladin Jul 2018 OP
. dalton99a Jul 2018 #1
Some follow up, dalton.. Thank You! Cha Jul 2018 #2
Yep, GOTV! dalton99a Jul 2018 #3
Samuel Adams could have no idea Cha Jul 2018 #4
Sam Adams has a lot of company, me included. (nt) Paladin Jul 2018 #5
A minority has prevailed Freddie Jul 2018 #6
That was my first thought too. calimary Jul 2018 #10
About 25% need to take a stand, according to research. That's a minority. Let it be irate & tireless Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #7
Let us be the 25%! lastlib Jul 2018 #8
Full speed ahead! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2018 #9
Ive been saying something like this all along... Javaman Jul 2018 #11
Unfortunately, the sword cuts both ways ... eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #12
We are the ones who will bring change NastyRiffraff Jul 2018 #13
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2018 #14
But THEY are the minority! RandomAccess Jul 2018 #15

Cha

(297,150 posts)
4. Samuel Adams could have no idea
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 09:06 AM
Jul 2018

of the horror to come to America over 200 years later when his quote reached its zenith.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
10. That was my first thought too.
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 11:23 AM
Jul 2018

The political arsonists on the far right have succeeded in burning down everything they see.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)
7. About 25% need to take a stand, according to research. That's a minority. Let it be irate & tireless
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 10:27 AM
Jul 2018

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-tipping-point-large-scale-social-change
(emphasis added)

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

07 Jun 2018
Research Related People: Damon Centola, Ph.D.

When organizations turn a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace, how many people need to take a stand before the behavior is no longer seen as normal?

According to a new paper published to be published tomorrow in Science (link is external), there is a quantifiable answer: roughly 25% of people need to take a stand before large-scale social change occurs. This idea of a social tipping point applies to standards in the workplace, and any type of movement or initiative.

Online, people develop norms about everything from what type of content is acceptable to post on social media, to how civil or uncivil to be in their language. We have recently seen how public attitudes can and do shift on issues like gay marriage, gun laws, or race and gender equality, as well as what beliefs are or aren’t publicly acceptable to voice.

Over the past 50 years, many studies of organizations and community change have attempted to identify the critical size needed for a tipping point, purely based on observation. These studies have speculated that tipping points can range anywhere between 10% and 40%.

...

The implications for large-scale behavior change are also the subject of Centola’s new book, How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagion (link is external), which will be published next week by Princeton University Press.

The full text of "Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention" can be found here. (link is external)

Media Contact: Julie Sloane, julie.sloane@asc.upenn.edu (link sends e-mail), 215-746-1798

Javaman

(62,517 posts)
11. Ive been saying something like this all along...
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 11:24 AM
Jul 2018

It's never the the majority that takes control, it's the most vocal minority that does

eppur_se_muova

(36,259 posts)
12. Unfortunately, the sword cuts both ways ...
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 11:49 AM
Jul 2018

RWers have succeeded in provoking a tireless minority into misinformed, ill-conceived outrage, and they have proven very effective at keeping brushfires burning -- but they are not brushfires of freedom, only brushfires of "we won the election, so suck it".

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
15. But THEY are the minority!
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 07:41 PM
Jul 2018

Trump only "won" by approx. 78,000 votes in 3 states. AND, the majority of Americans support typical Democratic policies and agenda.


Further:

Hillary didn't lose because she was less POPULAR. She lost because of James Comey's letters and because of some even more important factors -- more important because they're not going away. They will be used against us in every election going forward, unless we can stop them.

The big problems are voter suppression, Russian meddling, and targeted voter propaganda through Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other forms of social media. There is no question that the Trump campaign, through Cambridge Analytica, did this -- and that the Russians did this. The only question is how much they conspired together in the propaganda campaign.

We need to figure out how to defend the democratic process from fake news and micro-targeted AI propaganda -- or lose our democracy. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029576691



Here is how they stole the election, well this and KGB operatives V Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922

Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824

Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393
http://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/



23:00 6/25/2017
PALMER: Rigged election: Donald Trump won every surprise swing state by the same 1% margin
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/rigged-election-donald-trump-won-every-surprise-swing-state-by-the-same-1-margin/118/

The most commonly posited explanation of Donald Trump’s shocking election victory was that every professional pollster in the nation – despite each working independently and using differing methodologies – somehow managed to overlook the same pockets of Trump voters in these states. If such pockets did exist, they would have existed in varying sizes in each of the four states, thus resulting in different sized wins in each.

Ask any statistician and they’ll tell you that a reasonable distribution of the results would have been Trump winning one of the states by one percent, won one of them by perhaps three percent, won one of them by two percent, lost one of them by one percent, or something along those lines. But instead the voting tallies looked startlingly different from any natural distribution. In fact they looked startlingly the same.

According to the New York Times, the voting results broke down like this: Trump won Florida by just over one percent of the vote. He also won Pennsylvania by just over one percent. He won Michigan by just under one percent. And he won Wisconsin by precisely one percent. That’s not how numbers tend to work in the real world.

On its own, this kind of suspiciously consistent numerical dispersion across the four states that decided the election would be something that could be written off as a mere fluke. But when you put it within the context of the numerous other ways in which the voting tallies make no mathematical sense, it points to the numbers having been rigged or altered.


MikeFarb @mikefarb1
#unhackthevote
Did Trump win Michigan? I don' think so.
Won by 10,704 but wait
75,355 Ballots Thrown Out
87 Machines Broke Down in Detrioit





Ron Baiman (Ph. D.): U.S. 2016 Unadjusted Exit Poll Discrepancies.... (Affadavit)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210343625
Updated, Expanded and Corrected Affidavit Version: U.S. 2016 Unadjusted Exit Poll Discrepancies Fit Chronic Republican Vote – Count Rigging, not Random Statistical, Patterns https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319205877_Updated_Expanded_and_Corrected_Affidavit_Version_US_2016_Unadjusted_Exit_Poll_Discrepancies_Fit_Chronic_Republican_Vote_-_Count_Rigging_not_Random_Statistical_Patterns
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