As #Trump bombs #Venezuela, a reminder of why we are here:

@peter_slwk @benroyce He'll get a Prize anyway: by Infantino.

@benroyce so, where are the democrate counter campains

@feike

You live in the Netherlands. So, you voted in which elections? Trolling much?

@benroyce

@pattykimura @feike

I don't mind Europeans commenting on US politics

except for one issue:

3rd parties

3rd parties work in their systems

3rd parties do not work in the US FPTP voting system (yes UK has FPTP, but they also have parliamentary which lends some stability and viability to 3rd parties the USA doesn't have)

if the USA is to have 3rd parties, we need a new voting system, like ranked choice

Until then:

Please world, shut the fuck about 3rd parties in the USA

Thank you

@energisch_ @pattykimura @feike

Get Putin out of Ukraine and keep Trump out of Greenland

@energisch_ @benroyce @pattykimura the #US tries to tell everyone they are the land of #freedom, meanwhile you have the "choice" to have shitty #jobs, the "choice" to drive everywhere cause walking or cycling is unsafe, the "choice" for tech, pharma and insurance companies to buy the #congress and the #presidency and the choice for politicians to pick their voters. #Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuH-aq9Gw0o

@feike

Yup. Meanwhile multi-party Europe has elected avowedly fascist Russia and Hungary and has rising fascists multi-party groups in most of the rest. The fascist Reform UK is surging in local polls overtaking the Tories and Labor.

As is true of the narrow-sighted, you believe that one single election system change is the magic bullet. This leads to naive somnolence and allows the fascist populist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, misogynist parties to band together and march in. The selfish refusal of left and center left parties to band together is another glaring failure in the multi-party system to fight fascism.

@energisch_ @benroyce