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2026-07-13 21:39:20 UTC

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i'm confused
you're saying nonvoters are liberals?
what?

2026-07-13 21:28:37 UTC

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nope
nonvoters presented with a better option go "they aren't perfect" and still don't vote
because their concern isn't bettering our world
their concern is tweaking their smug sense of superiority and entitlement to do nothing but whine, at the expense of us sliding into fascism
they don't care about that
they are fake leftists, just empty whiny losers
avoid this pathetic trap in life
vote and participate to better our world

2026-07-13 21:15:46 UTC

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Mamdani was a choice because the voters fucking showed up and put him on the ballot in the primaries
Bad candidates do not cause nonvoters
Nonvoters cause bad candidates

2026-07-13 20:42:33 UTC

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they tried to push cuomo down our throats and we showed up and got mamdani
if we went "they are trying to push cuomo down our throats, waah waah, life sucks and then you die, waah waah, it's never worth it to get off our ass and vote, waah waah" then we would have cuomo
do you get it?
NONVOTERS ARE THE PROBLEM. the self-fulfilling prophecy of toxic useless whiny stupid cynicism

2026-07-13 19:10:52 UTC

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if people voted, we could take over the democrats, the mamdani template
if people do not vote, and just whine online, they are helping MAGA in their inaction
that's not trolling, that's simple reality
it does not matter what centrist dems think. fuck them, why do you care about them
just replace them
but we can't replace them, because some people will use any excuse to do nothing, and consider themselves "righteous"

2026-07-13 07:36:16 UTC

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people who say "i want better or i'm not voting" when offered better say "i want even better or i'm not voting"
because their point is holier-than-thou self-regard, not participating constructively
real leftists are in the mud working hard with a sucky payoff
but they put in the fucking work so they eventually get better
that i respect
i don't listen to nor respect entitled whiners who think endless demands and not doing shit is "helping"

2026-07-13 04:52:35 UTC

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that's what mamdani and the DSA are for
but the problem is the people who aren't voting, like the primaries, so no DSA candidate either
so you're talking about people who just whine and complain and don't vote, only helping MAGA win and make things shittier even faster
there is nothing in such losers worth a single fucking thing. they are just entitled useless inert assholes always fucking complaining and doing absolutely nothing about it

2026-07-12 07:02:32 UTC

'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure'
- Clarence Darrow
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-dies-71-brief-sudden-illness-rcna552722
#LindseyGraham #USA #Politics

2026-06-04 12:37:41 UTC

The New York Stock Exchange recently
#SpaceX #Musk #Grok #Twitter
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/691/862/274/669/452/original/360d93e23e6dead6.jpeg

2026-06-02 13:36:00 UTC

The #Icelandic #comedian #Greipur with some witticisms
https://www.greipjokes.com/
#Iceland #ísland #humor #comedy #greipjokes #jokes
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/680/773/642/968/082/original/ca7eaef0835b791c.mp4

2026-05-31 16:45:54 UTC

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no disagreement only clarification:
#AOC/ #Mamdani are #DSA that ran as #democrats
the way forward is take over the #democraticParty, not 3rd party (or worse, not voting)
with #FPTP voting in the #USA a 3rd party vote only divides the left vote and #MAGA wins
( #parliamentary #FPTP like the #UK lends 3rd parties stability)
worse: no #vote because "dems suck." while true, that only keeps them sucking
show up in the #primaries and choose the AOC/ Mamdani #candidate

2026-05-11 15:32:01 UTC

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and not voting is simply capitulation to MAGA malice. some people convince themselves they are taking a principled stand by not voting. this is delusional entitlement. to not understand or not admit the stakes and think they have the luxury is some sort of sick mixture of cluelessness and vanity. vanity because they think anyone gives a shit what they think if they don't vote

2026-05-11 14:15:38 UTC

#Tennessee removes it's #black US House district in #Memphis
#MAGA goons celebrate
"It's rigged why vote"
On the contrary people not #voting got us here as much as MAGA
Getting out of this means many things. But voting is a small effort compared to the other efforts so voices against voting are inauthentic or #troll #psyop
#Hungary had as bad or worse manipulations against #democracy, and look what Hungarians delivered
Are you angry? Do you want to fix this?
#Vote
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/tennessee-republicans-pass-new-map-erasing-majority-black-us-house-district-2026-05-07/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/556/350/894/676/934/original/6389752590de84c9.mp4

2026-05-08 19:16:17 UTC

"They want from #Ukraine a permit to hold their parade, so that they can go out onto the square safely for one hour once a year, and then go on killing our people and waging war...
We have also received messages from some states close to #Russia, saying that their representatives plan to be in #Moscow. An odd desire in these days. We do not recommend it"
This fucking guy
{chef's kiss}
I love #Zelensky
#UkraineWar
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/540/546/323/527/192/original/9abc1c9fcb4628ec.mp4

2026-05-07 18:21:39 UTC

"‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes #AI replicate itself"
I find this article to be sensationalistic, but I agree there is a reckoning coming
People conjure dramatic scenarios like the movies, but I feel if AI does fuck us up, it will be according to the most boring and mundane of ways
My particular terror is turning all of #socialMedia into a wasteland of exquisite mechanized #psyop for #politics
Until such time, unplugging the damn things can work
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/534/665/389/840/635/original/1d42e990b106bea9.png

2026-05-06 12:30:43 UTC

#Democrat #ChedrickGreene beats #Republican #JasonTunney in a #Saginaw area special #election in #Michigan
Meaning:
The Michigan State #Senate will be 20-18 in favor of the Democrats, rather than a tie
"Who cares, #Trump is the problem"
On the contrary, the #presidency is just a capstone on a huge system, and when we take our eye off the little #elections, we get a systemic rot that leads to someone like Trump
#Vote. Every election matters. Especially the #primaries
https://www.wlns.com/your-local-election-hq/democrat-chedrick-greene-wins-state-senate-special-election/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/527/634/203/899/903/original/0ca8fec731098ddf.webp

2026-05-05 23:23:49 UTC

There are many problems with #USA #democracy
Like the stupid #ElectoralCollege
Gore beat Bush in 2000, Clinton beat Trump in 2016. In the popular vote. The EC erased it
Well here's another reason for you to #vote in the #primaries and the general #election:
The #Democrats, if they win enough in November, can kill the EC
It's been a 20 year effort of states agreeing to void the EC if enough agree: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

2026-04-17 14:07:20 UTC

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mamdani ran as a democrat
so the third party benefit of rcv, that we both want, is a different topic re mamdani
stop thinking "we need this" "we want that"
think: *how* do we get it
so: we both want ranked choice voting
and?
*how* do we get it
we vote
in the current shitty system, to get a better system
it's not good enough to say "arrest trump!" for example and then... nothing
we need to fucking vote, to get the people that will do that

2026-04-17 12:32:58 UTC

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right but the lesson of mamdani is we have to stop obsessing over centrist corporatist spineless dems and
just. fucking. vote.
that's it
just replace them
stop feeling anger, disgust, revulsion, etc for these cowardly turds in the democratic party
stop feeling *anything at all*
give them *no thought*
why? why are we wasting our time caring about them at all?
just show up in the primaries, and fucking replace them
that's it

2026-04-16 18:02:31 UTC

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the only choice in the world is harm reduction or greater harm
sitting things out and thus helping greater harm win is you being an idiot, or you being a troll trying to help MAGA win

2026-03-12 17:05:04 UTC

" #Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets"
remember the game plan:
1. #vote in the #primaries, get real left #candidates
if you don't, don't complain about corporatist dems ever again: you're the fucking problem
2. #vote in the general #election no matter who wins the primary
yes the dems fucking suck. but if you're willing to do nothing, helping #fascism, because you want perfect: you're an entitled moron
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/democrat-new-hampshire-bobbi-boudman

2026-02-05 09:46:37 UTC

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interesting hijacking angle
and while i have no problem with your agenda, the way you hijack this discussion isn't going to win you any converts

2026-02-05 08:01:44 UTC

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i won't troll you but i will castigate you
never mention #Chomsky again
nevermind him licking #Putin's boots over the invasion of #Ukraine
Noam is in the #EpsteinFiles defending #Epstein
he did this *after* Epstein was revealed as a pedophile human trafficker
Fuck #NoamChomsky
And I am not attacking the left, ironically, in contradiction to what I have said above:
A pedophile/ #imperialism apologist is not of the left
Chomsky is not of the left
Not anymore at least

2026-02-05 06:06:41 UTC

Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy
Toxic idealism
Spineless capitulation
Mindless cynicism
"Polite society" "high road" cluelessness
And lazy entitlement
Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism
Make MAGA the target of your venom
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/016/503/140/933/725/original/ecc1b6e19afc9545.jpg

2026-02-03 05:09:58 UTC

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Because of the FPTP voting system 3rd party only divides the left and hands MAGA the win. So we are stuck with the need to take over, gut and cannibalize the democratic party and make it an apparatus of the left. And we can that. The centrists are weak and the anger is strong

2025-12-10 14:44:07 UTC

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yes, like germany did with russia's gas
and then what happened?
i said specifically that nuclear should be a last resort, a stopgap
you can't handle all demand (rational demand, not AI datacenters) without nuclear in the mix as we wean ourselves from fossil fuels
and then we can eventually wean ourselves off nuclear too
so i have zero argument with everything you're saying except one:
stop with the absurd antipathy to nuclear. the new tech is far far safer

2025-11-14 14:29:28 UTC

How does one quantify a declining country's level of rot?
I don't know, but here's one datapoint:
'She implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn’t quite fair to call Jeffrey #Epstein a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors—which Kelly appallingly defines as “like, 15-year-olds”'
I think in a healthy country this person would not able to command a widely available media channel
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedophilia-russell-brand/
#EpsteinFiles

2025-11-05 03:29:35 UTC

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the Dean F exit poll works! 😁

2025-10-30 00:12:39 UTC

"The whole of the West is sliding to fascism and bigotry"
Well, hold up a bit:
"Centrist D66 wins Dutch election, knocking far-right #PVV to second, exit poll shows"
See what happens when people show up and #vote?
https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/29/centrist-d66-wins-dutch-election-knocking-far-right-pvv-second-exit-poll-shows
EDIT:
as a nondutch person, my understanding is shallow, please read this comment by @npub19ta…htff for better context:
https://mastodon.social/@Frieke72/115460923001777228
#Wilders #Netherlands #Nederland #Elections #GeertWilders

2025-10-22 14:43:49 UTC

Most of us are dissatisfied with the #NobelPeacePrize in one way or another
Whatever you think of the recent choice of #MaríaCorinaMachado, I hearby announce, with absolutely zero authority whatsoever, that the People's Choice Peace Prize, which I just made up, should go to the #ERRs
The what?
#Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms
"Most are young women. They feed the hungry, restore electricity, fix water wells, evacuate civilians..."
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/10/16/sudans-remarkable-mutual-aid-groups
https://archive.ph/lA1Ks#selection-1265.195-1265.366
#MutualAid
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/418/343/747/382/523/original/8772b6e15ec5a3f4.webp

2025-10-16 02:23:07 UTC

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facial recognition on the video ran a few days ago 😩

2025-09-30 19:22:13 UTC

I don't want to sound like an airhead optimist
#Ethnofascist #imperialism has a death grip on Russian leadership. #Russia can weather a lot of misery
But if sustained and deepened, #Ukraine's relentless #drone strikes on #oil #infrastructure really fucks up Russia in spectacular ways
It *will* pay dividends militarily and politically
#SlavaUkraini!
💪 😤 🇺🇦
"Frontline report: Ukraine’s #refinery strikes trigger nationwide #fuel collapse across Russia"
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/30/frontline-report-ukraines-refinery-strikes-trigger-nationwide-fuel-collapse-across-russia/
#UkraineWar

2025-09-19 20:37:41 UTC

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any mob will do. as long as it's a mob that fucking votes and jettisons this centrist corporate trash from the democratic party. because 3rd party or no vote are not options, that's helping MAGA win
anyone who holds disgust with the democratic party as more important than beating MAGA is incoherent. of course the democratic party fucking sucks. so take it over. don't alienate and let MAGA take more from you

2025-09-12 15:23:17 UTC

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the problem with this take is that it doesn't propose an alternative
if you are championing anarchism, the problem with removing state power is that in reality there is no such thing as a power vacuum. it is filled by something, always
you could imagine some eternal anarchist effort explicitly fighting the emergence of state power
but then this anti-power is, of course, a new power
to transcend state power you need a viable alternative framework, not merely opposing what is

2025-09-10 22:10:08 UTC

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doesn't matter. it doesn't matter the political ideology of his killer
#charliekirk based his entire identity on hate and ignorance
someone out there popped off
*inevitable*
in any population of human beings, someone carrying pain hears his words, and whether the most leftwing or rightwing zealot, or anyone in between:
you can't say lies and bigotry with a smile and think no one is going to react
angry words
a punch
or worse
WHY DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT

2025-08-28 07:44:37 UTC

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fuck Proton
fucking Trump ass kissers
good luck Mitex on recovery and refund, but cut your ties regardless, you don't want to deal with those fucking sleazebags

2025-08-18 18:09:59 UTC

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i think that sweden and mongolia can arrive at an amicable understanding of their "historical grievances" concerning their old borders now in russia's borders and successfully divide russia between them
🤭
because apparently, in this world, we can go back in time and pick a random snapshot
and fit that to a current imperialist agenda
and the rest of the world has to just accept that
just because
and some morons will even buy this lying malicious bullshit
because "historical"

2025-08-18 17:48:35 UTC

#Putin wants to end the #UkraineWar by redrawing #Ukraine's borders
Currently #Europe's leaders are meeting a certain orange turd, #Trump, to... I dunno, clap and sing and soothe the demented thing in the White House
I propose that Putin is correct
Let's redraw Ukraine's borders with #Russia
To respect
1. historical grievances
howabout we pick 1919 borders? sanity is not a prerequisite here
2. the suffering of Russians
give a chunk of them to Ukraine so they will have a better life
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/050/992/451/013/730/original/f9a9f60b3c0ff111.jpg

2025-07-28 11:48:54 UTC

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you're correct he has failed upwards in the domestic context of usa politics
but here on the world stage, this is pure failure
we are watching the usa die

2025-07-25 13:57:25 UTC

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i'm in dad joke hell 😂

2025-07-09 21:38:51 UTC

#Liberia was created in #Africa by the #USA in the 1800s
Many Liberians are descendants of freed American slaves
Liberia's Declaration of Independence in 1847 charged the USA with #racism, violence, and #inequality; that it forced them to leave and create a new nation
Anyway, here's the ignorant orange turd #Trump meeting Joseph #Boakai, the President of Liberia, not knowing that English is the official language of Liberia (not knowing any history, the complete moron)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-president-liberia-english-official-language-speaks-good-eng-rcna217827
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/825/377/876/949/109/original/79080320fa2b8d18.mp4

2025-06-21 06:19:52 UTC

#BillGates and #LinusTorvalds just met each other for the first time
(The other two are Mark Russinovich and Dave Cutler)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thrill-of-a-lifetime-hosting-dinner-activity-7341857033932914691-f5Kw
#Linux #Microsoft #Windows
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/719/881/801/572/551/original/06b1ed6ffcc9a350.jpg

2025-05-02 14:42:40 UTC

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jk rowling can't have a heart attack
all these old hatemongers don't have hearts
trump as well should have died of atherosclerosis already
their lives are unnaturally extended through concentrated malice
it's some sort of dark art of bigot necromancy

2025-05-02 14:38:27 UTC

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while that would be hilarious, all future harry potter media just needs to die now because of jk rowling

2025-05-01 19:46:28 UTC

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"Oh I remember. I played in it"
😂

2025-04-16 21:09:13 UTC

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more people need to vote in this stupid fucking country
not enough do
until that happens, impeachment won't even matter

2025-04-16 19:00:21 UTC

Old white #GOP people in #Iowa pissed off at #Senator #ChuckGrassley for not doing anything about #USA concentration camps in #ElSalvador
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/349/178/535/926/514/original/95d7221a464ffc19.mp4

2025-04-01 17:13:01 UTC

Happening now:
#NJ #Democrat #CoryBooker is delivering a #filibuster in the #Senate
For nonAmericans, it simply means you block all business as long as you can speak
He started at 7 PM Monday, and spoke through the night, and is still going as of 1 PM today
We need *a lot* more than that but it's a start
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech
livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
edit: it's not even a filler filibuster, where you read the dictionary or something empty, he's still on point the whole speech
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/263/838/060/141/159/original/ea5222c7263d7209.png

2025-03-24 13:32:32 UTC

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even if they're messing with the vote, if we all fucking voted, it becomes readily apparent that's what they're doing
if stupid assholes don't show up, it's smaller margins, so who can tell?
we have to always fucking vote
anyone who doesn't vote is guilty of giving us trump as much as maga

2025-03-24 03:16:30 UTC

“They want 1939 Germany; they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around.”
✅
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/215/230/003/084/665/original/faa79d6daac1c8b3.mp4

2025-03-22 16:58:54 UTC

The future of the #USA:
#AOC with the #BernieSanders assist
15,000 just showed up at a rally in Tempe Arizona, where this picture was taken
#MAGA: eat shit and die
#nonvoters: show the fuck up you entitled privileged fuckwits
#centrist spineless #Democrats: shut the fuck up and fall in line
centrist #GOP archeological artifacts: what even the fuck are you, fuck off
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/207/125/746/766/886/original/602f816b8e4343cb.png

2025-03-21 16:18:41 UTC

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Daryl Davis' story is extraordinary and exciting
and exceedingly rare
you're dreaming idealistically and cluelessly and you are incredibly naive about the weight of the bigotry hate and ignorance out there
it's very important to you that something be true, that is not remotely true
you're not a serious person
you are what we call a toxic idealist:
from your idealistic words comes attitudes and behaviors which only helps that which you oppose. enabling codependently

2025-03-06 05:48:49 UTC

Some high quality eyebleach for you
Apparently the duck nested in the school when school was in recess, so they got a proper send off when school resumed
😍
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/113/909/338/011/967/original/89111c4cbd3c1202.mp4

2025-03-04 13:44:13 UTC

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musks-doge-fires-federal-tech-team-that-built-free-tax-filing-site-2025-03-01/
"#Musk's #DOGE fires federal tech team that built free #tax-filing site"
#MAGA parasocially identifies with #plutocracy robbing them. Rich MAGA "doesn't pay #taxes." Poor MAGA hates taxes
So they think this is for them! "This hurts black people" and so they like it
The trick is mind-numbingly simple:
Be a stupid *poor* cruel ghoul
Adore *rich* cruel ghouls
Who rob them, see them as cattle to abuse
And they never. fucking. see. it.
How #bigotry is used for #power
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/104/460/925/724/586/original/bdba12f79f499d24.png

2025-02-01 21:09:16 UTC

Of course this is going to hurt the #USA as well as #Canada
So what's the point?
The standard #sadism playbook is inflict #pain, increase #suffering, and tell people the #sadist is their salvation while the sadist's enemies are the real cause of their suffering
And there are enough #idiots
And the #sadists control enough of the #media
That it might work
"#Trump launches #tradewar against Canada with a 25% #tariff on most goods"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-february-1-1.7447829

2025-01-05 18:19:26 UTC

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i understand, but the simple effect of
1. gop does bad thing
2. people, like you, blaming democrats for it
is weaker dems and stronger gop
what do you think of a narrative that says "it''s your fault for being mugged by walking at night"?
do you see the problem with that?
in fact, your rationale is a talking point the gop uses to avoid blame
don't buy their bs
howabout we blame actual malice for actual malicious things, no matter how much the dems suck?
*and* improve the dems

2024-12-10 22:22:51 UTC

You don't need to be a futurism savant to notice the connection and extrapolate a certain kind of future from these 2 sentences:
'Thursday afternoon in #SanFrancisco: On one side of Mission Street, hotel workers chanted and banged on a drum outside the Marriott Marquis, part of a monthslong strike for higher wages and more #jobs. On the other, a tech company’s billboard proclaimed, “Stop #hiring humans.”'
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php
#AI
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/630/867/373/283/613/original/c4eb98821843c53b.webp

2024-11-25 06:18:59 UTC

Many factors why #Trump won
The most crucial piece is that #socialmedia is the center of all attention
Not unique to the #USA
Example:
"#FarRight #candidate takes shock lead in #Romania presidential #election"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlw5pq967o
#Georgescu is anti-#NATO, anti-#EU and admires #Putin
He joined in August in 8th place. He is now in 1st
Why?
Social media saturation
Forget #cable, forget the #press: it's dead #media
Social media is killing #Democracy
This is now our greatest struggle

2024-11-23 17:38:36 UTC

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it's just so sad and stupid
this was settled before i was born
but they need to mine new material for bullshit means for political control, so they trot out the classic paranoia and ignorance

2024-11-23 17:28:57 UTC

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it's also a sad joke because... #fluoride and #drinkingwater freakouts is batshit #paranoia for morons from 70 years ago, 1950s #redscare #johnbirchsociety bullshit
they are mining old stupid crap that was lampooned before most of us were born
so our era is now:
yoke dum dums via #socialmedia for #political #power by pandering to their #ignorance and #indecency, #fear and #hate
this is our world now
😩
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/533/439/064/963/551/original/44354f0b8fd4f7ac.mp4

2024-11-23 17:23:33 UTC

It's not really funny because it just means more #tooth #cavities, as well as downstream health effects (#heart #health), but...
It's funny
In a sad, dark humor way
Because it's so fucking predictable
They have to invent outrage, because morons don't understand it, and they win the trust of morons for political power this way
It's just so pathetic and obvious
"#Florida #surgeongeneral says #fluoride shouldn't be added to #drinkingwater: '#Publichealth malpractice'"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-surgeon-general-says-fluoride-144517867.html

2024-10-30 15:29:48 UTC

"So why are you voting for #Trump?"
"Because the #economy sucks"
reality:
"U.S. economy grew 2.8% last quarter, powered by #consumer #spending"
the biggest problem behind Trump's rise are these legacy #media and #socialmedia silos that have captured, for lack of a better word, dum dums, and kept them trapped, feeding their #fear and #hate
this is the absolute biggest threat to #democracy
i'm not saying i know how to fix it
but something has to fix it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-2024-third-quarter-consumer-spending/

2024-09-13 03:43:45 UTC

Sure, #womensrights are under attack in the #USA but if you go back 350 years you'll find levels of deranged sadistic #misogyny and #women #hatred that we will just no way, no way return to....
"#MAGA Pastor Claims Kamala #Harris Deployed '#witchcraft' in #Trump #Debate"
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-pastor-claims-kamala-harris-deployed-witchcraft-trump-debate-1952902
...uh, nevermind

2024-09-11 01:44:15 UTC

"she wants to do transgender operations on immigrants in prisons"
oy vey what a farce
#presidentialdebate
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/116/382/894/980/508/original/b88c80ddb746c05c.png

2024-09-02 16:21:48 UTC

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i didn't think it was that bad but i stand corrected and that's really galling
it also sounds like light pollution on steroids interfering with our ability to study the heavens

2024-09-02 13:01:08 UTC

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the problem is #elonmusk is "winning" by embarrassing #brazil. ignoring their laws and brazil unable to do anything about satellites delivering #twitter
even if brazil convinces the #usa to intervene and #geofence brazil out of #starlink by force, all the fascist losers love musk more as some "hero"
in my fantasy life, the usa delivers elon to brazilian authorities
but this world has a real problem with holding #plutocrats responsible, especially the usa

2024-09-02 12:52:44 UTC

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#elonmusk's whining #twitter and #starlink are separate companies is a "winning" argument in some #usa court of law, on unrelated details
but the issue here is law of #brazil
brazil considers the two companies linked, and that's what prevails
the law of brazil takes precedence over some theoretical usa #corporate law argument, and definitely takes precedence over an edgelord manchild #plutocrat whining

2024-09-02 12:16:07 UTC

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when i was young i thought the villains in james bond movies were ridiculous
but no, jokes on us
#elonmusk is an actual bond villain
not only ignoring or whining about a nation's laws, but, in mad cackling moustache twirling #plutocrat style, openly warring with a nation with high tech against their control and ability to do anything about it: #starlink will still deliver #twitter in #brazil
what a world

2024-08-22 00:13:40 UTC

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Polls showing good things for #Harris?
Doesn't matter
Doesn't matter Doesn't matter Doesn't matter
The poll that counts is in November, and Hillary was projected to win in Aug 2016
#Vote!

2024-07-28 20:47:23 UTC

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when it happened with the whigs 170 years ago (the last time it happened) it *replaced* one of the other two parties
then it's same shit, different name
so i don't think it will happen again. but even if it did, it would be a replacement, not 3 stable parties

2024-07-28 18:58:42 UTC

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why sad?
we're never perfect, there's always room for improvement
as long as the larger arc of history is towards progress, we're doing ok. something to be happy about, not sad

2024-07-28 18:49:17 UTC

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the #UK does better than the #US in terms of political structure
but #australia looks at both of us and calls us poor bastards, with their compulsory voting, preferential voting (what we call ranked choice voting), and parliamentary democracy
we're jealous aussies

2024-07-28 17:23:24 UTC

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the problem is we get enough people who act like you and suddenly it's monumentally stupid because you help the GOP
all i get from you is you are entitled and privileged to act without thought as to strategy
like nader voters in florida in 2000
the iraq war is a direct line to nader voters in florida in 2000
they meant well, their hearts were big
but their brains were very very small

2024-07-28 17:18:27 UTC

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yes
you're helping #racism and #misogyny with a 3rd party vote, whether you admit it or not
we need a voting system where a 3rd party vote is not self-defeating
with #rankedchoicevoting #rcv people can vote their conscience rather than deal with shit strategy in our crappy #FPTP system
it's creeping in: maine, nyc, etc. #democrats are more receptive than #GOP, who want voter suppression
that should lead you the way to better, if you care

2024-07-28 15:56:24 UTC

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yes
those who push not voting and "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" are
1. russian troll farm/MAGA agent provocateur working learned helplessness,
2. sadistic edgelords trolling for shits and giggles, they understand what they are doing, or
3. well meaning, big-hearted but atrociously fucking clueless "deep thinkers"
then the fertile ground these douchebags operate on:
the unawares and despondent, who are turned against their own self-interests and immobilized
#vote

2024-07-28 15:32:26 UTC

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the essential lie those who do not #vote tell themselves is that by not participating they are not part of the shit show
assuming they aren't AI bots working a learned helplessness toxic idealism political angle to immobilize the far left, they live and breathe in reality, they do not inhabit a magic ivory tower, and they are a part of this, like it or not, there is no escape
and thus they *must* choose, if they are moral
or they are immobilized in a way that helps malice

2024-07-28 13:46:29 UTC

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Are you listening to A.R. Moxon / Julius Goat #America?
You vote
Not because you get perfect
That's not on the menu, and never will be
You vote simply because you move in a better direction
That's all you ever can do in this world
Voting does not make you complicit
Standing aside and crossing yours arms while things get worse makes you complicit
#vote

2024-07-26 12:16:26 UTC

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There once was a man from Nantucket
Who tripped and fell on a bucket
But due to his speed
Which was relativistic indeed
A series of fusion events and thermonuclear explosions preceded a massive shower of particles and gamma rays that created an expanding bubble of plasma that... ah, fuck it

2024-07-25 06:07:23 UTC

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because there's no value to it, now
at worst it helps trump
remember france? left leaning parties, some loathing each other, banded together, to defeat the far right. now until november, that's what we do to
so put your mouth where your vote is. then, after, i will be right there with you, knives out, working for 50 AOCs in 2026
this is just being smart. but you demand to shoot your mouth off. entitlement over smarts
go for it lety. we're all so impressed. zzz

2024-07-25 05:50:14 UTC

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i used to work AIDS education in NYC in the early '90s. schools, drug users, sex workers. this is before retrovirals
i follow based on interactions, i suppose we had a nice one at some point, alas
if you have a need to one up me because you think i'm a horndog, have at it. whatever you need to feel better about yourself. i think you are entitled and arrogant, it explains your need to whine about harris when we have trump coming for us. sex workers + GOP policies = hell

2024-07-25 05:30:43 UTC

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i don't know why i'm following you, but i'll fix that now

2024-07-25 04:27:44 UTC

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so what i wrote is an actual real choice, trump or harris
is reality for you nothing but a non sequitur?
that's an interesting bit of entitlement you have there

2024-07-22 03:52:39 UTC

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for a certain sort of person, "lesser of two evils" means "i don't want to engage with reality. i want to make believe the world is all the same hellfire and magic rainbows will come i just have to cross my arms and wait. and i can retreat and do nothing but whine and congratulate myself on my false superiority"
fuck 'em. I'm so sick of their simpleton sophistry and smug toxic idealism

2024-07-18 19:00:04 UTC

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there is always hand wringing over an "October surprise" event in US elections
Well wtf is that going to be this year when so far we've had a January, February, March, April, May, June, and July surprise, each seemingly more dramatic and some months multiple whiplashing events

2024-07-15 18:02:10 UTC

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right but the point is job 1: defeat trump
not argue about the holiness of joe biden
so why the fuck can't we just agree on the most important thing, leave it at that, and have these ridiculous fucking fights *after* job 1
jesus fucking christ

2024-07-15 17:35:00 UTC

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you're not helping
1. we all oppose trump
that's what matters
2. in 2026 we get rid of the centrist dems
but you're using 2 as a cudgel against 1
and thus your own words are doing the bidding of divide and conquer here in the service of MAGA and geopolitical enemies

2024-07-15 17:24:12 UTC

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primary the fuck out of them in 2026. get 50 AOCs
the problem is thinking the centrist dems are some omnipotent force who lord over us. they don't. so any argument that takes that as a premise is false. just ignore them and build better
when the centrist dems condescend and patronize, stick a middle finger up at them, keep to your primary concerns, vote against trump, route around them, and out organize them
don't center the world on centrist dem crap. wasted mental cycles

2024-07-14 19:21:08 UTC

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If the vote still counts then obviously it's still a democracy
Even though of course plutocracy is doing its best and having mass success in shredding it
But thanks for your show of support to vote. Because yes the vote still matters, and as long as it does we all need to show up and #vote

2024-07-14 17:15:25 UTC

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and?
what are you suggesting is the outcome of your thought? it's perfectly ok to express what you say, but i want to know what your comment leads to
you still want biden rather than trump? you still want everyone to vote?
clarification i seek

2024-07-14 16:46:54 UTC

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do you know the TV show called "The Boys"?
it's always been a satire of the alt-right
only now, in season 4, are some loyal alt-right fans revolting against the show, because in season 4 they made the parallels blatant
you also have alt-right who were angry when the band Rage Against The Machine got "too political"
you have to be a fucking vegetable to not understand RATM's political angle, but, there you are:
they are complete morons, lacking all self-awareness

2024-07-14 16:42:52 UTC

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agreed, your words are correct
but a clarification: those who think the potential for violence from either side is the same, the good ol' "both sides the same" lie, are idiots

2024-07-14 11:56:17 UTC

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#trump is merely a broken twisted old man
but this shooting and his survival, to a mind that only operates in signs and portents, superstitious fools, the kind to be indoctrinated into #MAGA which is more quasireligious cult than political movement, this elevates him to god status
the devotion is going to rocket through the roof
any hope that the years have quelled the passion for trump, that they will peel off and not #vote, is utterly gone

2024-07-14 11:36:21 UTC

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the MAGA mind is conspiracy theory addled
right now that fever swamp is at 1,000 degrees working overtime
a little detail like the fact the shooter was a republican might make you think they'll blink, or introspect
right?
nope
facts and reality don't mean anything to the cult
anything and everything will be twisted to serve a narrative
and they will find a way to use the shooting as surely as the reichstag fire was used to usher in nazi germany

2024-07-05 20:22:57 UTC

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Is it emotional for you? You expect politics to be like a romance? You want your heart to fill with passion when you vote?
It's a steering wheel. You steer in the direction you want. Or you don't. So someone else steers it to worse
That's it. That's the entire magic. You will never ever get better than that
Well... you could get a good direction and build on it iteratively to better
But you won't vote. So we get worse
What is it about the obvious that escapes you here?

2024-07-05 16:22:27 UTC

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of course it doesn't serve you. you don't participate
just amazing how that works, isn't it professor?
so let me just get this clear, what you believe: without any input from you, the world is just going to magically provide you with the perfect candidate, out of nowhere. and *THEN* you vote
without any feedback (a simple vote), what you want is just going to appear out of thin air on a silver platter?
a simple vote for *a direction* is beneath you. you want perfect up front
🤣 🤣 🤣

2024-07-05 04:06:48 UTC

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It's not my responsibility to convince you to do your responsibility. You are merely defining the terms on how you are failing everything you care about, and you don't even understand how.

2024-07-05 02:48:51 UTC

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100% bullshit
a vote is a move in a right direction
not voting means you're fine with things getting worse
you never wait until you get perfect, then you vote. it never ever works like that
the only way you get better candidates is to vote consistently, then people build off why people are voting and you get better next iteration
not voting is for the completely clueless or toxic perfectionists, who have no idea of their vote's worth or how things work, and they only make things worse

2024-07-05 00:34:21 UTC

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voting is a social responsibility. the op ed is repugnant no matter who the candidates are

2024-06-24 19:59:07 UTC

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Zero argument.
I hate the #ElectoralCollege and most Americans do too. We need to get enough focus on the issue, over a sustained enough period of time, to get it abolished. That's hard to do. Compound that with the perception of a party that thinks it needs the EC to win, and we're screwed.
Some would take this as an argument to detach and vote less.
I take it as an argument to engage harder and #vote more, primaries and general.

2024-06-24 19:21:37 UTC

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#GreenParty voters vote with their hearts
But zero brains
Our FPTP voting system is a pile of shit. But that doesn't change the fact it is real. And in this crap system a 3rd party vote steals from the Dems and gives the GOP
I don't like that. But it doesn't matter if I don't like it. It's real
So for someone to be so clueless about that, or to simply go "well I don't like reality so I'm going to ignore it..." and then help Trump win?
Da fuq?