Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)

game recognizes game

#fashion #serendipity

"#Republicans suddenly think the economy’s great and the election wasn’t rigged
Less than two weeks since Donald #Trump’s victory, consumer sentiment in the #Republican Party has skyrocketed...

The #economy Donald Trump said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans soared

Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure"

Huh. That's so weird. It's almost like, could it be? They're full shit?

🤔

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/republicans-trump-win-economy-election-security-confidence-00189941

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html

"#Biden Allows #Ukraine to Strike #Russia With Long-Range U.S. #Missiles

With two months left in office, the #president for the first time authorized the #Ukrainian #military to use the system known as #ATACMS to help defend its forces in the #Kursk region of Russia"

FUCKING FINALLY

#West: stop being spineless handwringing milquetoast

complying with the abuser's demands leads to more abuse. period

what you do is, you hit them back. period

#UkraineWar

posted for no particular reason

no reason at all

yes yes, mmm

"Blues Brothers," 1980

@humanhorseshoes

we need to call their bluff

@humanhorseshoes

#APF #AlwaysPunchFascists

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/misogynistic-phrases-bullying-women-girls-since-election/

"#Misogynistic #social posts, #bullying of #women and #girls have spiked since #election"

We need to make #Mastodon a #sanctuary

Mastodon has delivered excellence with no #algorithms and good #moderation (I've met a few bad mods- it's #decentralized, to be expected. Also some of the best mods I've ever met are here)

But, it has to get a grip on the #replyguy problem

Everyone knows this, #BlackMastodon and #QueerMastodon have been vocal on the issue for a long time

@JonChevreau @mardigroan

i have an account i barely use to watch #bluesky

my point is not the current tenor of the site

my point is, if you aren't dealing with a #nonprofit, if bluesky grows influential enough and angers #fascists, #plutocracy can move in and control it

that's the essence of #plutocrat manipulation via #corporate control

like how #musk defiled #twitter

bluesky is at best a temporary reprieve and already has #capitalist decisions that render it dubious at best

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk

"#Guardian will no longer post on Elon #Musk’s X from its official accounts

Platform’s coverage of US #election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian"

👏 👏 👏

#Twitter

bear with me for a second:

a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia

where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies

the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?

it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists

so... how do we fight?

we need our own

and what do we have

#mastodon and the #fediverse

we need to grow like a fucking weed

am i wrong?

@NZedAUS

exactly

we can't play on traditional corporate social media. it's all fascist and plutocrat algorithms

we need our own

mastodon is the closest fit

we need to make it happen

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/11/russia-faces-a-wave-of-bankruptcies-as-borrowing-costs-skyrocket-a86981

"Russia Faces a Wave of Bankruptcies as Borrowing Costs Skyrocket"

#russia is on a devastating decline

any "peace" deal (meaning surrender, no peace without justice) in #ukrainewar gives russia time to recover

if you aren't airhead naive, take a wild crazy guess what russia will do after it recovers 🤔🤔🤔

#usa just died in regards to any international legitimacy, so it's all on you #europe:

give #ukraine everything

the pressure is working. slowly. but it is working

👇 👇 👇 👇 👇

@rysiek

there is a reason for it (i didn't say good)

hollywood

When you take soldiers from one of the most oppressive regimes in the world and put them on the frontline of a war in a far off land...

they become #porn addicts

"Thousands of #NorthKorea soldiers deployed in #Russia to fight for Vladimir #Putin have reportedly taken up a new hobby after being given unfiltered access to the #internet.

A source at the Financial Times cited someone who said soldiers deployed to Russia are ‘gorging’ on #pornography."

#UkraineWar

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/north-koreans-given-internet-access-for-first-time-already-have-dodgy-search-histories/ar-AA1tFocC

@dansup

pay attention #fediverse:

dansup is writing the future you will communicate in

💪 😤

@Harrybear @GottaLaff @SherBeareth @rabbijill @bkahn @punkhaiku

i believed in the basic goodness of my fellow american

i don't anymore

@jnl

this is the way it always was and always will be

the disappointment is not that we still must work to maintain our freedoms

the disappointment is those airheads who think you fight for something once, and then its over, and that valuable thing is never in jeopardy again

that's just not how life works

luckily, a large chunk of the work required is in one simple easy thing:

#vote

ps: one final bit, because feeling good is good for you right before a big game, regardless of the outcome:

https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/it-turns-out-the-only-pollster-i

"I have felt for a long time that not only is #Trump going to lose (because, yes, I have a lot of faith in the goodness of my fellow #Americans), but Kamala #Harris is going to win, and win big."

#vote #usa #politics #election #election2024 #america #president

i'm going to unplug from #socialmedia now, wake up early tomorrow and vote

there's too much out there now, it's all overload

there's not much else to say, and not much else to change

it's dangerous to put on rose colored glasses, i felt that way in 2016 and was severely disappointed

it's also dangerous to be mindlessly negative, i felt that way in 2020 and was severely delighted

all that matters now folks is one thing:

you #vote #harris #election2024!