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   Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 03:00:03 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

   "#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"

   It's just so fucking embarrassing

   Americans:

   WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING #VOTE

   enough of your "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" mindless lies and your "votes don't count anymore" premature spineless capitulation

   get off your fucking asses and fucking vote, for the side that sucks, but is obviously better. it matters

   incremental improvement works, toxic idealism means shit

   https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassador-hoekstra-rant-9.6957854

   #PeteHoekstra

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     Steve Holden (holdenweb@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:24 JST Steve Holden

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     • Democracy Dies in Dumbass
     • Matthew Loxton
     • John Mierau

     @mloxton @admin @benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder
     If ever America failed a “lesser ov two evils” decision (usually the only choice) it was the last presidential election. Harris was not an attractive choice, but look at what it got.

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:25 JST Matthew Loxton

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     • Democracy Dies in Dumbass
     • John Mierau

     @admin

     Okay, you find it too hard.

     Here is a cheat: Look at what the most vulnerable people are saying, and vote accordingly
     - Black women
     - Trans women
     - People with severe disabilities

     If black and trans women give a proposition or candidate a thumbs-up, vote for that
     If the wheelchair-bound blind person smiles about something, vote for that.

     If we had all voted like black women said in 2016, this would be a better place now

     @benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:27 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

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     • John Mierau

     @john @ShredderFeeder

     right

     and if people SHOWED THE FUCK UP in the #primaries that wouldn't be as big a problem

     of course corporate centrists #democrats would still win some races

     but less

     then you *iterate*. you keep voting. you keep participating. you keep at it. it's not fucking hard!

     then even less centrists win next round

     if people SHOWED. THE. FUCK. UP.

     instead of not showing up and whining the choices suck

     no shit, and that's on *you*, nonvoter

     #vote!

     #primaries #primaries2026

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     SlightlyCyberpunk (admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:27 JST SlightlyCyberpunk

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     • John Mierau

     @benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder Not everyone has the time to do that research. It ain't always easy. I'm regularly voting based on literally nothing more than a four year old interview on local radio from when the person was running for some different office. And for some races even that would be a lot of information. In at least one election all I could find to go on were photos of the candidate putting up yard signs! You only even get *claims* about what they want to accomplish at the highest level races, and even those require carefully watching their past history to know if they actually believe a single damn word of it. I struggle to figure this shit out and I'm invested enough to be taking classes on how to research candidates!

     It'd be great if we had a party that actually held their candidates to some standard; an organization to do some of that vetting for us; instead of Ds and Rs that switch parties like an NFL draft without actually changing their positions...

     Running under either party is basically just running with a corporate sponsor at this point. The only thing it proves is money and/or connections. And if you truly believe that people can all independently determine and vote for the best candidate then why does it matter which party? Why do we need parties at all? These organizations are either irrelevant or failures. Or they're highly successful as gatekeepers against us.

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     Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:29 JST Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

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     @ShredderFeeder

     my country is going rapidly down the toilet

     partly because of #MAGA #fascist #bigots

     and partly because of these cringe weak "but i want perfect" #nonvoters

     yes, the #USA sucked before: that's a silly observation when you realize how much worse it can suck

     you get better or worse in this life. that's all you will ever, ever, EVER get

     perfect isn't on the menu. never will be

     #vote you dumb motherfuckers

     #politics

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     John Mierau (john@vyrse.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:29 JST John Mierau

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     @benroyce @ShredderFeeder in the primaries I mean

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     Democracy Dies in Dumbass (shredderfeeder@shredderfood.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 05:54:30 JST Democracy Dies in Dumbass

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     @benroyce Ahh yes, "Diplomacy"

     "#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"