Derek Powazek 🐐Sep 11, 2025
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Sep 12, 2025

It is very interesting to me how triggering this little thought is to a certain subset of people. They don’t just want us to be targets of their hate, they expect us to mourn their ringleaders, and my reminder that we don’t have to is very upsetting to them.

They’re delusional bullies, and the smallest act of resistance threatens them deeply.

I enjoy that.

Show threadmivox is exhausted Sep 12, 2025

@fraying I’m keeping a close eye on the LTE section of the local paper for the next few days…

Charlie got a smallish headline on B3 today, with most of the article (and a smallish B/W photo) continued on B4. 

Show threadsecretslothSep 12, 2025
@mivox @fraying this whole (wide gestures) is providing so many pearl clutchers for my block list though. I'd never even heard of him (would that it had remained thus,) and I've been making notes of who not to bother to go to the polls for down the road. Assuming we still have elections, which... I am not....
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@secretsloth @fraying Yeeeeah, I’m making no assumptions about future elections. And I am deeply horrified to say that.
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@mivox I'm frankly starting to wonder if they would be that helpful at this rate, with all the Democrats serving corporate interests and those corporate interests becoming ever more consolidated and more beholden to maga, and meanwhile, the supreme court being more and more clear that they have no intention of doing anything but bend the knee... like... obviously all of this is deeply bad, but the system can't be what it was, either. I don't have the answers, but. 💀 I know it's not this.
Sep 12, 2025 at 6:11amWeb
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@secretsloth I’m a big supporter of proportional representation, killing the electoral college, universal ranked choice voting, and barring any privately funded election advertising or donations.

How to make that happen when literally everyone in power is a product of our big money donation & first-past-the post elections? That’s where I’m a bit lost. 🙃

Show threadchriszanfSep 12, 2025
@mivox @secretsloth Sounds like you've arrived at the point where youve realise that you cannot reform the current systems because they are either corrupted beyond redemption or were inherently flawed to begin with
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@chriszanf @secretsloth Been there. Got to that point many years ago. 
Show threadsecretslothSep 12, 2025
@mivox well.... the government becomes illegitemate when it no longer represents the interests of the people, according to the *oh so worshipped* white men of yore, and SO, if we don't get to vote, it would be our constitutional duty to uh. (Checks notes) I guess, be the people? Yes. Be the people. I can be a people. I smell like dog but there's a people under all the slobber and tangled covers somewhere. I think. 
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@secretsloth I have every confidence you are definitely a people, even when disguised as a dog bed. 
Show threadsecretslothSep 12, 2025
@mivox it's always good to double check, just in case 👀 whew.