@ricardoharvin @dragonfrog The best way to counter all of that is to get more people to vote. All other paths lead to violence and much less certain outcomes.

That is why I always push back on the "voting don't matter" narrative. It will always matter, it will always be worth fighting for the right to vote.

@ricardoharvin @dragonfrog We had exactly this discourse after 2016.

https://circle.lt/post/20200403-money-for-people-with-minds-that-hate/

"Clinton received 3 million more votes than Trump, and lost the electoral college 0.23% in Michigan, 0.77% in Wisconsin, and 0.72% in Pennsylvania. Jill Stein pulled away more votes than that in each of these three states. The Comey letter has cost Clinton around 1% in the polls … voter suppression and the Russian troll farms … Take any one of these four factors away and Clinton likely would have won."

@ricardoharvin Bullshit. If they really didn't, they wouldn't be pouring so much money and effort into making it harder to vote.

@randahl He's not giving away the game, this statement itself is voter suppression. Journalists and influencers amplifying this message are helping him scare people into not voting in November.

For the rest of the game, watch what #TulsiGabbard is doing. Gerry-mandering and voter suppression might not be enough this time, they're preparing to seize the ballots and voting machines under bogus national security pretenses and prevent certification of the vote by the states.

@MissGayle Saw this in #Belarus in 2020.

The regime turns enforcers into criminals not merely because it needs them to commit crimes, although yes of course it does -- it needs them to have a vested interest in preventing a return of the rule of law.

Same with Trump's tweets about #Iran protests: the instruction to "save the names" was as much a message to the regime's enforcers as it was to the protesters. That death toll is on him, too.

@AliceStollmeyer The Venezuela war, too: https://mastodon.circle.lt/@dmitry/115867345241149937

Every Trump decision makes better sense once you start asking yourself "how does Putin benefit?"