Attention #fediverse / #mastodon
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@benroyce Almost immediately after reading your reply I saw this video short from one of my favorite political vloggers on YouTube and I loved her response to the people replying to her videos calling for "revolution" https://youtube.com/shorts/FON8dJG8QBk?si=ArNYreHCWadreC0t
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@benroyce I've been noticing an uptick of "So you really think you can vote yourself out of this?" posts on Mastodon. It wasn't from a bot account but the cynicism is really starting to ramp up from the "burn it all to the ground" quarter.
My response to that is something along the lines of, "Uh, no? I don't? Now go vote, asshole." -
BUT I WANT PERFECT NOT BETTER!
WAAAH WAAAH!
{and thus, the idiot did not participate. and thus, the idiot aided fascism}
@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
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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)
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@benroyce @axolotl Tell that shit to my father's generation. He was in WWII on the Pacific Front, and came back to bring me and my siblings into this world while some of the Nazi and Japanese war criminals were hanged.
I know I am much older than the current crop of younger activists but I still say if they can defeat fascism, so can we.
@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.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social Здорово, русский бот-пропагандист докладывает: к скармливанию фейков американцам готов. Привет из Ботсваны!
@benroyce@mastodon.social Годная копипаста, кек)))
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@benroyce@mastodon.social Годная копипаста, кек)))
не пытайтесь покинуть Омск
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Attention #fediverse / #mastodon
We're entering #election season in the #USA. The #midterms
That means something for you:
You will see an increase in #trolls
Messages along the lines of
"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah" #cynicism
And
"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point" #perfectionism
All of which is designed to suppress the #left #vote and help #MAGA
You have been warned. Brace yourself
@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!
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@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!
you block, i'll mock
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you block, i'll mock
@benroyce thank you for your service
. Send the trolls and denizens of the sewers back whence they came from! -
@benroyce thank you for your service
. Send the trolls and denizens of the sewers back whence they came from!@fiigvam {hat tip}
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Attention #fediverse / #mastodon
We're entering #election season in the #USA. The #midterms
That means something for you:
You will see an increase in #trolls
Messages along the lines of
"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah" #cynicism
And
"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point" #perfectionism
All of which is designed to suppress the #left #vote and help #MAGA
You have been warned. Brace yourself
@
︎VOTE
︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) how am i to see this increase if i don't follow such people/bots?
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Attention #fediverse / #mastodon
We're entering #election season in the #USA. The #midterms
That means something for you:
You will see an increase in #trolls
Messages along the lines of
"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah" #cynicism
And
"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point" #perfectionism
All of which is designed to suppress the #left #vote and help #MAGA
You have been warned. Brace yourself
@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.
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@︎VOTE︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) how am i to see this increase if i don't follow such people/bots?
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
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@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.
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?
🤭
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Attention #fediverse / #mastodon
We're entering #election season in the #USA. The #midterms
That means something for you:
You will see an increase in #trolls
Messages along the lines of
"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah" #cynicism
And
"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point" #perfectionism
All of which is designed to suppress the #left #vote and help #MAGA
You have been warned. Brace yourself
@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.
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@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.
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.
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