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   JW Prince of CPH (jwcph@helvede.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:38 JST JW Prince of CPH

   Fuck "undecided voters". Makes it sound like they're so deeply mulling things over they haven arrived at a conclusion yet - but two weeks before an #election there's only two kinds of "undecided": Those who know who they're voting for but won't admit it & those who won't be voting & thinks "undecided" sounds better (see above), which is also a decision, namely that of being lazy & leave it to everyone else to take a modicum of responsibility.

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:33 JST pistolero

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     @leyonhjelm @jwcph San Francisco. Yeah, you won't need to nudge him: when I get myself onto the drone strike short-list, I will just go there and hang amongst the douchebags at their brunch places.
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     ランファン (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:34 JST ランファン

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     I refuse to travel to San Francisco to nudge him
     
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:35 JST pistolero

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     @leyonhjelm @jwcph Holy fucking shit.
     
     Look, man...no one would say shit if instead of a jump, he got "nudged".
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     ランファン (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:35 JST ランファン

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     This is a professional group and I have repeatedly and openly told him he should become an hero. Everyone else seems to agree and everyone thinks he is a retard.
     
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     ランファン (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:36 JST ランファン

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     @p
     
     There's this one motherfucker in a group I'm in who won't shut the fuck up about election gambling odds, as if that somehow matters. I want that guy to go jump off a cliff.
     
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:37 JST pistolero

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     > Fuck "undecided voters".
     
     The only reason these people frustrate you is that you want the polls to tell you the future and you can't just sit still and wait a couple of weeks. Try just ignoring politics a little while.
     
     :wtsherman: Fuck opinion polls.
     
     > there's only two kinds of "undecided":
     
     So, there is a third type: "I can't stomach any of these people and I don't want to think about it. I'm going to put a mark next to someone but I won't know what until I get in the booth." Last election in LA, we had two really terrible choices for mayor, and I didn't know who I was going to pick: they were both as corrupt as hell, they were both in bed with the real estate developers that have been gutting this city for years. You know, someone tells you that on a certain day in two weeks, you're going to have to pick one of two plagues to die of, you might have a difficult time.
     
     Then tack on that you have personal relationships that will end if you pick "wrong", plus you go onto a website where you think you can make some jokes with your friends and all you see is shouting about politics and people that are angry, plus a bunch of Europeans that resent American intervention in their politics but that spend more time telling Americans how to vote than they spend keeping up with their own news and everyone is so goddamn angry about politics. People that like ad blockers get angry when you tell them you wish you could ignore politics. So you figure maybe you ignore the browser a little while, you pull up a PDF you've been meaning to read and then your phone buzzes and it's SMS campaign spam. Take a walk, yard signs; take a drive, billboards, protests, some kids are hanging a sign from the overpass on the freeway, "HONK IF YOU LOVE WW3".
     
     So then you get sick of it: you get a phone call about a poll, they want to know how you are voting. Lie to the person taking the poll, because fuck everyone that can't chill on the politics. It's going to be a shitshow anyway: we're gonna get recounts and contested results and riots and lawsuits.
     
     I'm voting, sure, but if someone calls me and is taking a poll, I'm lying. I'm completely done amusing the people that can't sit still until they know how everyone thinks they're going to vote. Fuck anyone with the gall to be pissed off about that.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:47 JST pistolero

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     @Zergling_man @jwcph I actually just keep my phone off while I'm at my desk and half the time I'm away.
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:47 JST Zergling_man

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     @p @jwcph For some reason, even though I knew you are sensible, I didn't expect you to be that sensible.
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:30:49 JST Zergling_man

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     @p @jwcph Just reply to every political call with "nigger" and see how long it takes them to hang up
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:32:18 JST pistolero

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     @Zergling_man @jwcph It's a device that exists to interrupt you, and you can use it to interrupt other people. I don't have a lot of use for it. You can play chess on the toilet, things like this.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@majestic12.airforce)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:32:28 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @leyonhjelm @jwcph We're all going to the FEMA camp bros.
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