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

@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.

@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.

@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.

@benroyce Good. Fuck the United States, land of the criminal pedophiles, home of the free billionaires to fuck everyone and everything because feelings. I hope it's such an embarrassing dud just like needledick Trump. #Loser #FIFA #WorldCup #Boycott #SuckUp #Assholes who capitulate.

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

#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting

Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)

As an American: don't come here

Don't do business with the #USA

Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates

https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/

#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports

@PaulaToThePeople @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox

that's right

no uprising happens just because someone starts rioting. why are they rioting? what do they stand for? who knows

if people vote, and then the vote is denied, and the people rise up: absolutely everyone is crystal clear as to what is happening and why. so people join in, because they know the message being delivered

so we have to vote first. otherwise there is no coherency of meaning

@benroyce

Are you just trying to be optimistic or do truly believe he will let you have elections again?
He said there would be no voting after the last one, and he's trying to start world war 3 so he can cancel them.
If that doesn't work he'll just destroy the opposition votes.
The only option he's leaving you mass uprising and probably civil war.

@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

Just...wow. How do these people keep coming out of the woodwork to discourage voting and ultimately *meaning*?

Someone tried to take something important away from you--so you just let them? You don't fight to preserve something that's of existential importance?

Those are rhetorical questions, BTW.

@PaulaToThePeople @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox

@dnkboston @PaulaToThePeople @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox

unfortunately, there is a lot of weak will and mindless cynicism out there

these people don't seem to understand that their own attitude is willing submission to fascism

or they are troll psyop to suppress the vote with learned helplessness

i can never tell

@benroyce I tend to go with the latter. @PaulaToThePeople @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox

@lynfox

americans are entitled and indolent

so they don't vote, they can't be bothered. they invent bullshit "high minded" rationalizations for their complacency

given that a general strike is even more unlikely

revolution happens when people are hungry. there is hunger in the usa, but enough have access to enough food it makes uprising unlikely. if the economy tanks, you may see it

so the easiest thing, of the difficult things, for lazy americans, is to get off their fucking asses and vote

@benroyce @lynfox Also, on the “probably civil war”…

One of the U.S. FBI’s favorite tricks is to spur people into violent actions, and then arrest them for terrorism. This makes us very skeptical of anyone openly advocating for violence.