<![CDATA[Attention #fediverse / #mastodon]]>Attention /

We're entering season in the . The

That means something for you:

You will see an increase in

Messages along the lines of

"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah"

And

"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point"

All of which is designed to suppress the and help

You have been warned. Brace yourself

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260915-russian-disinformation-campaign-sets-sights-on-us-midterms

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/5361c9c5-b703-4169-834f-eaf21b6794c3/attention-fediverse-mastodonRSS for NodeThu, 17 Sep 2026 07:31:02 GMTWed, 16 Sep 2026 22:48:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:43:34 GMT]]>@maxleibman @benroyce

The toothpaste probably sticks to you too 🙂

I've always regarded the phrase as meaning something is difficult rather than a literal statement that something is impossible.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/X31Andy/statuses/117284550386163308https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/X31Andy/statuses/117284550386163308Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:43:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:42:33 GMT]]>@benroyce A good idea is to see who your candidates are, look at what they represent, then ignore the news. If you have specific questions, contact them.

It should be offensive that folk who spend the most in PR are considered most in chance of winning.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/CStamp/statuses/117284546392069398https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/CStamp/statuses/117284546392069398Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:42:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:40:12 GMT]]>@maxleibman

1. get a new toothpaste tube

2. place the nozzle of the new tube against the nozzle of the old tube

3. squeeze the new tube

et voila

wait... was that was the point of your comment?

🤭

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284537127612620https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284537127612620Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:40:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:37:05 GMT]]>@jabgoe2089

they reply guy under popular posters

that gets them exposure

and some of them are popular accounts

there are accounts with thousands of followers on the fediverse doing the "but the democrats aren't perfect, waah" and "everything the same, nothing changes, waah" loser bullshit

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284524912598996https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284524912598996Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:37:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:36:43 GMT]]>@benroyce Something I heard a couple years ago that really sticks with me:

“You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

“Why not? Somebody put it in there in the first place.”

They were voted in; until proven otherwise, they can be voted out.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/maxleibman/statuses/117284523455687034https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/maxleibman/statuses/117284523455687034Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:36:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:34:24 GMT]]>@⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) how am i to see this increase if i don't follow such people/bots?]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/76e1de39-60e9-49b9-8709-91fa04b60dd2https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/76e1de39-60e9-49b9-8709-91fa04b60dd2Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:34:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:52 GMT]]>@fiigvam {hat tip}

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284358850938596https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284358850938596Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:33 GMT]]>@benroyce thank you for your service ✊. Send the trolls and denizens of the sewers back whence they came from!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/fiigvam/statuses/117284357632267826https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/fiigvam/statuses/117284357632267826Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:49:22 GMT]]>@fiigvam

you block, i'll mock

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284337234035788https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284337234035788Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:49:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:47:36 GMT]]>@benroyce thank you for saying what you're saying and helping lead the flight! But holy freaking shit did you make inhabitants below the sewer manhole covers surface! I guess a good opportunity to deploy blocks and even reporting!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/fiigvam/statuses/117284330339818857https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ravenation.club/users/fiigvam/statuses/117284330339818857Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:47:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:45:57 GMT]]>@Phobos

не пытайтесь покинуть Омск

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284323787629781https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284323787629781Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:45:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:44:25 GMT]]>@benroyce@mastodon.social Годная копипаста, кек)))

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://feels.moe/notes/ar8jv9scy4qj052vhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://feels.moe/notes/ar8jv9scy4qj052vThu, 17 Sep 2026 03:44:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:26:43 GMT]]>@LukefromDC @benroyce @axolotl My f-i-l's generation was willing to cross oceans, aim guns at fascists, and squeeze the triggers. It took them years to get to that point, but they got there.

I hope we get there too before it's too late.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117284248214401262https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/msbellows/statuses/117284248214401262Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:26:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:16:37 GMT]]>@thegarbagebird

as long as you vote, i don't care

they press learned helpnessness to make us not vote

and not voting, as much as fascism, gives us all of our shit (in the usa at least)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284208476682855https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284208476682855Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:16:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:01:25 GMT]]>@benroyce @PeterBlok @DeanFarrell it's funny that "anyone who isn't actively driving us off a cliff" was so much more accurate than we even could have imagined

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ketmorco/statuses/117284148717197042https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ketmorco/statuses/117284148717197042Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:01:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:00:09 GMT]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1789614009.620891https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1789614009.620891Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:00:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:55:56 GMT]]>@zalasur @benroyce I've travelled as far as 900 miles when it's really counted

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284127146760241https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284127146760241Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:55:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:54:42 GMT]]>@Phobos

Омич полуёбок, скажи ты наркоман? я просто тоже где то там живу, могли бы вместе уёбывать наркотики

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284122327160448https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284122327160448Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:54:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:52:56 GMT]]>@PeterBlok @DeanFarrell

BUT I WANT PERFECT NOT BETTER!

WAAAH WAAAH!

{and thus, the idiot did not participate. and thus, the idiot aided fascism}

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284115332234738https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284115332234738Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:52:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:51:38 GMT]]>@LukefromDC @axolotl

👏 👏 👏

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284110240408691https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284110240408691Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:51:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:50:28 GMT]]>@axolotl @benroyce In which case we keep fighting. One of two things now happens:

Either we get to pick our next opponents (ask any boxer the value of this!), or we get a hell of a lot of motivated people joining the fight.

Only if a stolen election is allowed to slide by the general public are we put in an untenable situation. Yes, that too may happen, you need to know exactly what you want to do in that case and be ready for it just like the other scenarios.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284105644710757https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284105644710757Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:50:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:48:25 GMT]]>@zalasur

👏👏👏

revolution is a cosplay by losers

1. too many people are apathetic. we'll get russia 2.0 not civil war 2.0

2. they're dead in the first 15 minutes

3. they are allergic to imperfection but revolutions are not magical beams of ideological purity. revolutionary leaders are just as, if not more, compromised than the candidates they despise

4. the suffering is 1 billion X our suffering now

5. after, it's the same whiny "not perfect, i'm not voting" by these turds all over again

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284097569566181https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/117284097569566181Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:48:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:46:10 GMT]]>@benroyce@mastodon.social Здорово, русский бот-пропагандист докладывает: к скармливанию фейков американцам готов. Привет из Ботсваны!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://feels.moe/notes/ar8hsdkoy4qj04yqhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://feels.moe/notes/ar8hsdkoy4qj04yqThu, 17 Sep 2026 02:46:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Attention #fediverse / #mastodon on Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:45:38 GMT]]>@axolotl @benroyce This election may be the one thing that can get the bone spurs off the public feet and get people into the fight.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284086668249956https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/LukefromDC/statuses/117284086668249956Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:45:38 GMT