"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

If you voted, you fucking moron, you wouldn't have to do that

Unfollow me at least, a block is preferable

[roblosricos@social.vivaldi.net]

@benroyce @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

fuck yourself, you order-giving fascist wannabe.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

Oh yeah, I'm a fascist because I want you to vote

[roblosricos@social.vivaldi.net]

@benroyce @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

no, you're a fascist because the US has been a fascist state since 1946, and you've voted to keep it that way your whole life.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

Well yes the point is to vote and keep fascism out

What's failing us are the morons not voting and doing call of duty edgelord fantasy life of revolution. Having not the slightest fucking clue what that is really like. They are either violent idiots or agent provocateurs out to sabotage the left

[phloggen@expressional.social]

@benroyce @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

So one point about that: If you want people to vote, you have make it:

A) Worth the effort (ie: votes actually mattering)

and

B) Not make their life a living hell.

Hint: Ask a "potential swing voter" in a "swing state" how the last year before election feels.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@phloggen @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

why are we catering to people who don't care enough to understand the stakes to their own lives

in which case we're dealing with a moron, no brain (i'm not talking genius levels of political insight, but really obvious choices)

or people entitled and privileged enough that they don't care to do anything but whine

in which case we're dealing with an asshole, no heart

what do you think is actually served by such an approach?

[phloggen@expressional.social]

@benroyce @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

First, I'm Danish, so I have grown up in country where 83 to 87% vote for parliament.

Second: Have you actually ever asked a friend, who is a "swing voter" in a "swing state", how many times they get accosted because of that designation and how much that can make life hell, almost constantly ?

Because if the insane voting system in USA, there is an enormous pressure on those "pivot voters", while much of the rest of the voters know that there is absolutely zero chance of their vote changing anything, because of where they live.

And the other part of it is that you dont have two-party system. You have a one-party system which cos-plays as a two-part system, and the voters are plenty smart to see right through that.

If you want to get people to vote, you have to change both of those aspects: Make all votes matter and give the voters a real choice.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@phloggen @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

"You have a one-party system which cos-plays as a two-part system"

ah, "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe"

Poul: that is an incredibly fucking stupid lie

you're danish?

would harris be making claims on greenland?

be honest

does it matter?

of course

so right there is something huge and concrete for your own concerns, nevermind domestic issues

so stop fucking lying Poul, and doing apologia for morons who believe really stupid lies

[phloggen@expressional.social]

@benroyce @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

It's really very simple:

No matter which party you vote for, the 1%'ers get richer and everybody else gets poorer.

All the rest is just play-acting and rearranging the deckchairs as far as I am concerned.

And really, Greenland ?

You know what that is about ?

Area(USA) + Area(Greenland) > Area(Canada)

Area(USA) + Area(Canada) > Area(Russia)

Yes, an orange man with a very small and predictable brain.

[nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org]

@phloggen
Yes to the orange Shitgibbon it was about growing the US, but that does not answer the core question @benroyce was asking: Would Harris have done that or even said she wanted to do that?

It might not be much, but it is a difference between the 'two parties'. But that too misses the point, if the mentally deficients had voted, perhaps we would have had Harris or even a third party president...
1/2

@roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder

[nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org]

@phloggen
Remember, roughly 40% of eligible voters chose not to vote, that means that the rest of the candidates combined had 60%, of which Chump got 49%... AKA roughly 30% of eligible voters, meaning those 40% could have elected whoever the hell they wanted and in their stupidity chose to stay home.

@benroyce @roblosricos @dnkboston @the5thColumnist @ShredderFeeder