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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 08:05:36 JST Jay Baker

   Okay, this has to end. Please stop shaming people for not joining you in voting for genocidal careerist professional politicians hell-bent on the capitalist status quo and associated climate collapse just because they are Not Trump, and certainly stop trying to guilt-trip marginalised people into accepting their own harm because it may just be less harm than the alternative. This line is privileged, arrogant, ignorant, and cruel.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 08:07:13 JST Jay Baker

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     Let us not forget that a major reason we even have the rise of the far right around the world is precisely because of these "centrists" and "liberals" who slammed shut the doors on the Bernies and the Corbyns for their own careers and vested interests, leaving a confused, angry, and downright disenchanted population demanding a shake-up of a system taking us into disaster. The door slammed shut on socialists allowed fascists to the fore.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 08:08:53 JST Jay Baker

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     One of the most unsavoury things in this discourse is when powerful people get away with blaming the proles for not choosing their harm merely in order to stop greater harm - rather than promising no harm at all and giving people reasons to actually vote *for* something. Voting *against* something is so negative and doomed, doing more harm in the long term. Biden got in on an anti-Trump vote, and this time rather than Trump winning, Harris lost. Ask why, rather than blaming your comrades and browbeating them into voting to demean and devalue themselves.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 08:09:17 JST Jay Baker

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     And fundamentally, let's stop kidding ourselves that these are democracies anyway - "representative democracy" is a contradiction in terms, and it isn't "broken" but, in fact, operating as intended. Time is running out too fast to divert our limited energies into voter drives for a "lesser of evils" and careerists in power; choosing a master does not make us free; we need direct democracy now. Anything less is sure as hell leading us into the abyss.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:58:52 JST Jay Baker

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     • Spujb

     @spujb In fairness, more people mobilised (and voted) for Corbyn than Starmer. I think less than 25% of Americans voted for Trump this time. When the viable alternatives are stifled, scuppered, and sabotaged, the fascistic minority will inevitably seize power instead. And I honestly believe most of the Democrats are ultimately okay with that, because it doesn't affect them or the interests they serve. It is socialism that scares them.

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     Spujb (spujb@spujb.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 20:58:54 JST Spujb

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     @MediaActivist
     I just wish people would stand up and demand socialism when angry and disenchanted. Why do they ALWAYS opt for fascism? Wtf is wrong with people?

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 21:55:34 JST Jay Baker

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     • Spujb

     @spujb I can understand that.

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     Spujb (spujb@spujb.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 21:55:35 JST Spujb

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     @MediaActivist
     Yeah . . . I know.

     I've just lost patience with people's stupidity and lack of werewithal in general, on several fronts.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:56:19 JST Jay Baker

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     • Tariq

     @rzeta0 Whoah. That is messed up.

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     Tariq (rzeta0@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 01:56:20 JST Tariq

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     @MediaActivist

     100 damn percent.

     ( One of them told me on mastodon he will check in on me every few days to see if I repent my opinions on biden/trump. A grown adult apparently. Totally normal. )