Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets

@bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox

yes, the us election system is completely fucked up

we need to fix it

how do we do that?

we show up and vote for candidates who will do that

we can't act like the problems are insurmountable and permanent, because that only helps the fascists

@benroyce Omg I didn't know if these calls to boycott were all hot air... I hoped it would work. I love to hear this. ️

@benroyce

No, it's policy. We decide to tell people not to come here, don't do business here - how will that get more people to vote for reasonable candidates?

It won't and we both know it.

@radioclash

I understand
I never liked running when it was a competition (although I was very fast), but I really enjoyed it alone. The competitiveness is sickening and I stay away from it anywhere it pops up.

I know what I'm good at and know my skills, and have been appreciated for them. But I don't like when it becomes competitive. Some people also seem to thrive on getting others down and criticise them just because they get a kick out of it. Just be kind, it's so important.

@benroyce

@benroyce @admin

You would have to find one and they don't exist

Waiting for The fascists in both party to provide real candidates is literally the definition of insanity

We have tried this for decades and it does nothing but get worse...

Even a mildly left platform including stopping genocide would have ended this in 2024

But Bush in a skirt lost to cheetolini because instead of being that candidate which would have won easily, she punted and promised more fascism just with a smile and some fun

We have to throw them all out because they will not help us they have made it quite clear

Collaborator/crypto Democrats are helping the nazis just as much (if not more) at this point by doing not a single thing

Fuckwads secret police are now shooting people in the face and then saying she deserved it

When it was all on camera

You think that these people are going to get voted out?

It is that type of apathy that is the biggest factor in fascisms advance

Just waiting for the elections is a privileged position... It means that they aren't shooting at you yet

Right now it is the VAST majority of people doing absolutely nothing that is making it easy for fascism to move forward

We all need a personal game plan about what sacrifices we are willing to make, because if not it will get so much worse so much faster and when it's all over if we are still alive we will be one of the people that has to lie when they say they were against it the whole time

@benroyce

If that's the case, then voting third party would have no effect on the other two parties.

I've been told that my vote for a third party helped Harris in the last election... I've been told that my third party vote helped Trump in the last election.

Both can't be true.. and if they are, then I need to be arrested and jailed for voter fraud, because that means I voted three times with one vote.

Third party voters are voting their conscience, as they should, and divides nothing. -c-

@benroyce

The "divides the vote for X party" argument only works if you assume that the third party vote already belonged to one of the two major parties to begin with - and it doesn't.

@benroyce

Y'know what might make a difference, roust out our gerontocratic Democratic leadership - now those folks have no grasp of reality. How about not-voting for them?

@radioclash

Ha, the gendering is so stupid.
The boys were creating very cool things with wood, metal, saws, and much more. All I had was a sewing machine (if I was 'lucky') but for the rest it was knitting and so on. Boring. I mean; it can be fun and I actually like it, but I really would have loved doing something the boys did. But alas, we were not allowed.

I was very good at swimming (super fast) but I was afraid to dive. So, I preferred swimming alone to avoid the bullying.

@benroyce

@tuban_muzuru

i don't think canadians are ceasing to come because i got on social media and said the usa sucks

i do think canadians are ceasing to come because an orange turd got on social media and threatened to annex them

and the question is why the orange turd is capable of doing that

and the answer is because enough couldn't be bothered to vote, and enough are ignorants who love bigotry, that he is in power

it's not anything we control anymore

we had control, and we blew it

@tuban_muzuru

the democrats fucking suck

replace them with young leftists

show up in the primaries

but just not voting and having no transition means you're just handing more to maga. and even less will visit the driftless

@tuban_muzuru @benroyce

I don’t think “reasonable leadership” is an option on the table anymore.

There’s no going back to the “old normal” here in the New Normal

The options are the unreasonable vs the wicked.

@benroyce

Somehow, FIFA is completely missed the fact that the World Cup in the United States poses a material health risk to anyone outside of the United States wanting to view it. And that toy prize they gave to Trump that didn’t help that did not help.

@pascaline @benroyce I struggle to sew now because it was so gendered in school. I'd rather they taught ALL of us to knit and sew....but we did a little sampler work once but it wasm't a thing.

Also being 'knot blind' doesn't help. It's not exactly dyspraxia but something like that, I can't tie knots at all, ties are a problem.

@admin

i don't know what to say to you. you're saying something that's just simply false. a third party vote divides the left and hands a win to trump

happened with nader in 2000

happened with perot in 1992 (in that case, it was dividing the right, giving a win to clinton)

are you familiar with the idea of someone who has good intentions but only winds up hurting something?

that is what you are doing

watch this, learn about voting systems:

https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk

(the title is just edgy)

@admin

that's not true

if i am left leaning, i prefer the 3rd party candidate, but if that candidate doesn't win, i certainly don't want trump

but i get trump, because of the way the voting system works, because i voted 3rd party

it's just math, in our sucky fptp voting system

@paninid @benroyce

"Inspiration move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb
To get to Terrapin"

Truth is, Ben, I'll be glad to be gone.

@tuban_muzuru @paninid

we all come and go

it's nice to leave a mark though

to matter, in a way that made a difference. doesn't have to be discovering penicillin. and to matter to our loved ones is the most vital

@kristen_d @benroyce My view is Fuck the US as it currently exists, in hope that we collectively remove our heads from our asses. Sadly, ‘cause and effect’ dictates whole scale suffering, when the majority accept malfeasance that harms everyone and themselves, but they can’t be bothered because it might upset their economies.
It is what it is. The STUPID ones blame liberals because they’ve been drinking too much of Humpty’s poison, and struck blind. 🧟‍️

@benroyce There is also a european wide campaign going to migrate away from US big tech. That one is going to hurt even more.
So far I've gotten rid of the streaming services, the social media, Microsoft and amazon. I'm currently working on leaving Google but that one is a bit more tricky.