Post AziEx04LPZvsY1FqK0 by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
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(DIR) Post #AziEwyp42u7EgL67rk by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T16:32:04Z
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"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"It's just so fucking embarrassingAmericans:WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING #VOTEenough of your "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" mindless lies and your "votes don't count anymore" premature spineless capitulationget off your fucking asses and fucking vote, for the side that sucks, but is obviously better. it mattersincremental improvement works, toxic idealism means shithttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassador-hoekstra-rant-9.6957854#PeteHoekstra
(DIR) Post #AziEx04LPZvsY1FqK0 by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-29T16:46:14Z
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@benroyce Ahh yes, "Diplomacy""#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"
(DIR) Post #AziEx1CXCc4u3i5tj6 by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T16:49:01Z
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@ShredderFeedermy country is going rapidly down the toiletpartly because of #MAGA #fascist #bigotsand partly because of these cringe weak "but i want perfect" #nonvotersyes, the #USA sucked before: that's a silly observation when you realize how much worse it can suckyou get better or worse in this life. that's all you will ever, ever, EVER getperfect isn't on the menu. never will be#vote you dumb motherfuckers#politics
(DIR) Post #AziEx2FlI6FnK0bzOa by john@vyrse.social
2025-10-29T16:57:15Z
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@benroyce @ShredderFeeder in the primaries I mean
(DIR) Post #AziEx2m1MA3ew3hkg4 by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T16:59:56Z
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@john @ShredderFeederrightand if people SHOWED THE FUCK UP in the #primaries that wouldn't be as big a problemof course corporate centrists #democrats would still win some racesbut lessthen you *iterate*. you keep voting. you keep participating. you keep at it. it's not fucking hard!then even less centrists win next roundif people SHOWED. THE. FUCK. UP.instead of not showing up and whining the choices suckno shit, and that's on *you*, nonvoter#vote!#primaries #primaries2026
(DIR) Post #AziEx3RUrxEd0h6sKG by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2025-10-29T17:23:01Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AziEx3x2yeTKaXs4VE by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T17:27:01Z
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@admin @john @ShredderFeeder and none of that will ever change until we all participatemeanwhile making up endless excuses for why we won't participate by cynically positing these problems as insurmountable obstacles only means we're saying "i accept this"of course we don't accept itso we need to fucking participate!and thereby change the system. which will not happen overnight. so we persist. resist. fight!it is the only waynot voting is acceptance#vote
(DIR) Post #AziEx4WUqqpQMUSNl2 by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2025-10-29T17:38:54Z
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@benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder Voting for an organization that is trying to keep you out is acceptance. Things will change when we participate in the work of actually organizing our communities and building institutions we can trust. The voting part matters but it's far from the most important thing. It won't do shit until we fix some of these other structural issues first."If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal"
(DIR) Post #AziEx53SsHCS0jsi92 by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-29T20:35:31Z
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@admin @benroyce @john @ShredderFeeder not voting is just deciding the status quo is ok.
(DIR) Post #AziEyy9tUArVCYmzuS by ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.com
2025-10-29T20:36:05Z
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@tregeagle That is the absolutely best way to put it. not voting = acquiescing... @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com @benroyce @john
(DIR) Post #AziFBySteoyPutsYQi by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T18:27:49Z
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@AeonCypher @admin @john @ShredderFeeder you see it with AOC too"oh no, look at {X}, oh no, she's not perfect"and then they endlessly whine about left elected officials... and utterly ignore MAGAda fuq?navel gazing self-destructionsome of them might be genuinely this fragile and impotentbut they might as well be MAGA or geopolitical troll farm trying to hurt the left with this weak psyop, because that's the only real world effect
(DIR) Post #AziFBzpyYV1qAlgV2e by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2025-10-29T18:41:05Z
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@benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder because we all know MAGA fuckin sucks, but so many people pretend the DNC is our damn savior. They're not. They're mostly keeping people trapped in a cycle of voting for corporate stooges. They keep people voting for assholes like Manchin because "At lEasT he'S nOt a RepUbliCan!" and thinking that alone is going to be enough to save us.Vote for the best person on the ballot regardless of which, if any, party sponsors them. Support the best person running regardless of how much money they've got. And support community groups beyond those owned by a party that's owned by corporate interests. We'd be in a much better place if people did some more of those.
(DIR) Post #AziFC0nsxkx1AZiLQG by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T18:55:51Z
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@admin @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder yes, yes, i'm well aware of the endless endless "dems are omnipotent beings of power i can do nothing about, and i'll criticize the fuck out of the left side of things and ignore the right literally murdering us" level of brillianceMAGA and Russia love your broken mentality friendis it that you don't care about the effect of your rhetoric? or is it that you're deploying this rhetoric on purpose to sabotage the left? which is it?
(DIR) Post #AziFC1kjQy1S75FL96 by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2025-10-29T18:59:26Z
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@benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder The DNC are the ones sabotaging the left by endlessly convincing people to vote for the kindler, gentler oligarch. The Democrats are still a right-wing party by any objective metric.If we have the power to reform the Dems, then we have the power to stop fucking around with these corrupt middle-managers and build something better. If we don't, then we need to fix that first before we can do anything else. Either way I don't see where getting in bed with corporate lobbyists and CEOs actually helps us.
(DIR) Post #AziFC2Pqy4uqAcUBF2 by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T19:14:56Z
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@admin @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeederagain, i told you i am well aware of this endless cynical "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" shtick. it doesn't impress me. you do not speak of reality. you speak of your mindless cynicism and weak helplessnessyou speak of your acceptance"no i don't"you dowhat you do is you fight, and you start with the tools before youspeak of the fight, or be pegged as another whiner helping MAGA. because that is all you are doing whether you are aware of it or not
(DIR) Post #AziFC3FxqKbEmErnSy by admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com
2025-10-29T19:28:54Z
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@benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder choosing the lesser evil is not fighting, it is accepting evil. We need to put up an actual fight. On every front, not just the occasional election. And against every enemy, not just the worst of the worst. Anyone that's getting millions of dollars in bribes -- sorry, "campaign contributions" -- from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, Comcast, AT&T, etc are not our allies. They *are* the system we need to defeat and I fear their propaganda has captured you. "Acceptance" and "helplessness" is saying that we must play by their rules within their system, that we cannot possibly hope to create any alternative that isn't owned by the billionaires.
(DIR) Post #AziFC4DAIDxFjqZ4k4 by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-29T20:38:19Z
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@admin @benroyce @AeonCypher @john @ShredderFeeder Voting for anything other than the incumbent is a part of the fight. Not voting is just accepting the status quo.