Posts by benroyce@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B25VmIO92AYFj66hrk by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@TCatInReality @grumble209 @eswag @Pepijnpeople who don't #vote love the "lesser evil" quote by #HannahArendtthe problem:the quote is from her 1964 essay “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship”she is describing life under #fascism, where people have no real choiceit has nothing to do with choice in #democracynonvoters are misusing her quoteif Hannah were commenting on #USA #elections today, she would say "fuck! vote, you entitled assholes!"(she would say it nicer than that)
(DIR) Post #B25dYRFC6yI0lqp9bU by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@theothersimo @Pepijnthat's funny because the "i'm not voting" validation performances are the gleeful ego masturbation in question herethe most important thing for the entitled nonvoter is their self-regard. it isn't making a differenceif somehow their demands before they show up and vote are met they still won't vote. they will find some other reason not to votebecause *that* is the point for them: their high holy purity self-regard song and danceyou don't see how toxic nonvoters are
(DIR) Post #B25dYTB0vU8MlSsqMi by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@mister_shade02X2 @theothersimo @Pepijn you could be like me. i pick at this infuriating scab of mindless cynicism and toxic idealism entitled do-nothings and never fucking shut up about it until they all block me, so i never see their comments 😂but i know they are therehopefully i serve as a counterbalance of reason and sanity in a sea of useless whiners
(DIR) Post #B25hpHfrLS5zpVaIpk by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@aapis @AeonCypher we're all mad, deep thinker, including youbut some of us are mad at the right things to be mad at, and others are just reply guy edgelords
(DIR) Post #B25kuSm3notvZAe7bk by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@AeonCypher @aapis no see aeon, if stony comes across, for example, some citizens of russia talking about how to get rid of putin, or some citizens of china fuming about abuses in china, for example, the point isn't to help them or even just listen and offer moral support. the point is to strut around and proclaim them stupid losers, and how everything is their fault. this is called being a great revolutionary, a person of great conscience (/s)
(DIR) Post #B25wYgQLZTpuyms3VY by benroyce@mastodon.social
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#Russia just hit #Ukraine with an #oreshnikThey've done this only once before (they are extremely expensive)This is in #Lviv. The target is #Europe's largest underground #gas storageObviously the payload was not nuclear (what oreshniks are designed for, see how fast the warheads are?)Perhaps the idea was to disrupt the gas storage? But the storage consists of deep, porous sandstoneI don't understandIt's terrifying but might have been ultimately pointlessDesperation?#UkraineWar
(DIR) Post #B25xSNYCvcpuf66aem by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@Darkphoenix i don't know. it just happened a few hours ago so we'll be sure to get more info
(DIR) Post #B25xa6T8K2OI04PnkW by benroyce@mastodon.social
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Interesting note on this #oreshnik strike:#Ukraine got a heads up something big was happening from the AmericansIt's not spycraft, #Russia called the #USA and told them it was launching something bigWhy?An oreshnik, being a nuclear capable Mach 10 weapon whose target would be unknown at first, means the Americans would otherwise be on a hair trigger for their own nuclear responseWonderful world we live in, huh?https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kyiv-ukraine-january-8-2026/#UkraineWar
(DIR) Post #B26J29XmsBq7IpsI76 by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@dgar I've always accused Mercator maps of being inauthentic, but it turns out that was projection
(DIR) Post #B26rhLp6uBU00WIb44 by benroyce@mastodon.social
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The latest round of #protests in #Iran is large, significant and sharp. We shall hope and see if the people of Iran have success this timeHere's a little #socialMedia wrinkle and it is amazing#Women have been lighting pictures of the #Ayatollah on fire, and lighting cigarettes with itBurning photos of the supreme leader is a serious offenseWomen smoking is restrictedNot a single (mandatory) #hijab to be seenhttps://www.newsx.com/viral-news/symbol-of-resistance-iranian-women-ignite-viral-protest-by-lighting-cigarettes-with-supreme-leader-ali-khameneis-photos-see-pics-143567/#JinJiyanAzadî #WomenLifeFreedom #WomensRights
(DIR) Post #B26yM9oL4UNALimNCS by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@xs4me2 the struggle is all there is in this worldyou only lose when you stop fighting
(DIR) Post #B270xmy4eJSkPpP98a by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@hiphopheaven right but don't take the baitobviously this is about the people of iranif some orange turd in the usa starts ranting thuggy dementia about iran into social media late at night while sitting on his gold toilet, who gives a shit
(DIR) Post #B276WzbQAJd9VWPloG by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@grumble209 @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn the first thing they would tell you in class war 101 is to votebecause voting is just a tactic like any other in a broad repertoire of tactics. no better or worse than any othereven just a vote used as vandalism or sabotageto have antipathy to voting is merely an emotional block. it's self-serving, trying to justify a bad decisionrationalizations not to vote are absurdso instead of resisting the obvious, change your bad decision:vote
(DIR) Post #B276e0hUTvxGwJbGAC by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@miket330 well yeah, we aren't iranian #womenthey are strong, we are weakthey are threatened with death constantly. this is why they fight. i respect them immensely. i respect their wishes to be seen#JinJiyanAzadî #WomenLifeFreedom #WomensRights #Iran
(DIR) Post #B27NXLANgpi9biWDIG by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@grumble209 @paneerakbari @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn there are so many candidates because putin and trump understand the value of the spoiler effect in fptp that helps to elect trumpyou apparently don't
(DIR) Post #B27NXMIZTrrB7PMGhM by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@grumble209 @paneerakbari @TCatInReality @eswag @Pepijn oh yes, third party can be used to destroy the rightanother example: ross perot in 1992but of course, if you were honest, grumble, you would admit it works against the left toonader cost gore the 2000 election (sort of, it was stolen by the supreme court, but nader voters gave it to the supreme court to do that)we might even talk about 2016 and stein morons2024 it was just "i don't give a fuck" people and their not voting
(DIR) Post #B27OYMy6ZjxNRKpaj2 by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@blogdiva Oh yes Israel and the USA have designs on IranThis is the secondary concernThe primary concern is the will of Iranian peopleTo invert those concerns is to betray the Iranian people because hating the USA and Israel is more importantNahWhy do that?Do this:Fuck IsraelFuck the USAAnd fuck the Iranian regimeIt's not hard to say that. There's no contradiction. In fact that is the most principled stand
(DIR) Post #B27S6LEdpGe3lxSMvg by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@Huntn00 right but this is a post about the people of iranmaking everything about trump is rather insulting to the people iran and their struggle right nowplenty of other threads about trumphearing about the fight for rights in iran and going "anyway... let's talk about trump" is a kind of a troll maneuverdon't fall for that maneuvernot everything is about the usa and trump
(DIR) Post #B27XMy4ZhCNmd5UmHY by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@blogdiva so the question is the authenticity of the photosi would say that the women of Iran want to be seen, and I respect that wishyou would say it's... staged outside iran? in iran but illegitimate iranians in some way?
(DIR) Post #B27XMyzIIJkjT024gq by benroyce@mastodon.social
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@blogdivai agree the photos will attract a white male gaze predicated on leering colonist transgressionbut if we agree these are authentic iranian women protesting in this way, i choose to see them for what they chose to depict of themselvesthe loaded derivative meaning then gets injected into the photos after the women's intentionsi don't know how to solve this problemmaybe iranian women become aware of western gooners, throw up a little in their mouths, and no longer take such photos