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   lenazun (lzg@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:28 JST lenazun

   i've seen a couple of screenshots of terrible people being baffled that people are putting themselves in danger for their neighbors, random strangers, anon immigrants. it's like they can't believe empathy is real and not something others are faking just to score woke points. what a sad way to be, but also how wrong. we will win.

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     Mister Shade (mister_shade02x2@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:24 JST Mister Shade

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     • Alan Campbell
     • sarcoptus scabium
     • ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)
     • mpark

     @mpark @thegarbagebird @benroyce @alanthecampbell @lzg Yes. Voting is, and will always be, a part of the solution.

     There are many other things that can be done on the road to the midterms, of course. Donating. Demonstrating. Protesting. Advocating. Being hands that help.

     Addendum: telling people there won’t be midterms doesn’t help. Instead, tell people how you plan to help ensure we have them.

     #democracy #nokings #voteblue

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     mpark (mpark@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:25 JST mpark

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     • Alan Campbell
     • sarcoptus scabium
     • ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

     @thegarbagebird @benroyce @alanthecampbell @lzg Voting alone isn't enough, but we still need to do it. It's what we call in math proofs necessary but not sufficient.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     sarcoptus scabium (thegarbagebird@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:26 JST sarcoptus scabium

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     • Alan Campbell
     • ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

     @benroyce voting alone will not solve the problem, it will merely reset the clock.
     there needs to be a more profound shift away from a model that promotes the tendencies that lead to fascism as good, from the myth of the rugged individual, to neoliberalism.

     @alanthecampbell @lzg

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     ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:27 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

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     @lzg

     beyond right and wrong, self-interest alone justifies fighting #nazis

     people need to understand what #fascism is

     it doesn't create anything

     it only consumes

     it constantly makes new enemies because if it stops consuming, it dies

     fascism must always be on the move like a shark or it perishes

     so new outgroups to persecute are contrived and eventually you will be in one of them

     simple self-preservation:

     you must stop fascism now before it gets to you

     "doesn't affect me"

     oh it will

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     Alan Campbell (alanthecampbell@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:27 JST Alan Campbell

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     • ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

     @benroyce @lzg that's the key feature of fascism that people must know; it always needs 'others' to vilify and that can include you.

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     ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) (benroyce@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:42:27 JST ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)

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     • Alan Campbell

     @alanthecampbell @lzg

     any student of history sees the pattern of how #fascism operates

     what is happening in the #usa now is simple #ignorance of the nature of the new #nazis. we have collectively forgotten

     it's #MAGA who support it but will also become its victims

     and it's entitled complacent morons who don't #vote

     the generation that saw #wwii understands, but they are dying off. in their place are legions of idiots who don't understand what the big deal is

     they will learn the hard way