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

@pascaline @benroyce the weird thing?

At break, I was happy to play rounders - someone brought in a ball and bat...or football with a tennis ball with my mates - with one goal made of bags or coats!

But when it came to organised games, I was always picked last and the PE teachers would give me aggro.

So I wasn't against sports, or exercise but something horrible came in when it was made official. Competitiveness is ugly.

@benroyce

I sure wish I was as similarly convinced of the evil of the American public. Yeah, when our leaders run amok, the thing which will convince those rogue elephants of their evil ways is to damage ordinary people who didn't do anything to anyone, just trying to run a business.

That's "reality"

@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

@pascaline @benroyce also sports were gendered - boys had to play rugby, football and sometimes hockey. Only the girls could play tennis which I wanted to play. And I wasn't good at swimming - again I was abandoned cos I didn't progress fast enough and left to the shallow end.

There was no choice, and I didn't like team sports.

@benroyce

I don't agree on the necessity of Ranked Choice.

In the Presidential elections, the candidates with the most electoral votes wins.

It doesn't matter if there are 2 or 20 parties.

The system was set up before the "two parties" even existed. The first few elections were party-free; candidates published what they stood for, and people voted based on their wishes.

If you vote third party, it's because you don't agree with the left or the right, or their candidates, and that's all.

@benroyce @bazcook @ikuturso @lynfox Hitler wasn't unstoppable, so neither is Trump or Putin

@tuban_muzuru

yes. that is the reality. elections have consequences. and what let us down is nonvoters and MAGA. it is their fault. we will now suffer, because of them. and there is no way around that. i'm not saying it's good, i'm not saying it is bad. i'm saying it is inevitable

@admin

no. you don't understand the topic

first past the post means only two parties dominate. they cannibalize the platforms of smaller parties because of the math of the voting system. 3rd parties are unstable in fptp, and fade away

3rd party's only value in our voting system is to divide the left, or the right, and help the other side win

when you vote 3rd party, all you are doing is helping trump. this isn't your intention, but that is exactly what you are doing

it's just math

@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.