ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 29

"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"

It's just so fucking embarrassing

Americans:

WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING #VOTE

enough of your "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" mindless lies and your "votes don't count anymore" premature spineless capitulation

get off your fucking asses and fucking vote, for the side that sucks, but is obviously better. it matters

incremental improvement works, toxic idealism means shit

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassador-hoekstra-rant-9.6957854

#PeteHoekstra

U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News

The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News

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Show threadDemocracy Dies in DumbassOct 29

@benroyce Ahh yes, "Diplomacy"

"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 29

@ShredderFeeder

my country is going rapidly down the toilet

partly because of #MAGA #fascist #bigots

and partly because of these cringe weak "but i want perfect" #nonvoters

yes, the #USA sucked before: that's a silly observation when you realize how much worse it can suck

you get better or worse in this life. that's all you will ever, ever, EVER get

perfect isn't on the menu. never will be

#vote you dumb motherfuckers

#politics

Show threadRichard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Oct 29

@benroyce @ShredderFeeder

Asking for people to be better than the least of two evils is before voting for them is hardly demanding perfection. People need a system that allows them to vote for who they want not just who they don't want least.

Show threadNeil E. Hodges
@ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist @benroyce Relevant. We won't get a new system if we continue to allow the current system to thrive. :/
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"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative" It's just so fucking embarrassing Americans: WILL YOU PLEA...

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Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 29

@tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist

exactly!

does the #usa voting system suck?

absolutely

so what do you do?

some of you don't #vote

then what happens

obviously, it gets worse

🤦 🤦 🤦

but if you hold your nose and participate, it will still suck...

but a little less

then you iterate. and it sucks even less next round

that's how you do it!

meanwhile, what does whining and sitting things out achieve, genius nonvoters?

HELLO?

#vote motherfuckers

Show threadI_give_u_wormsOct 29
@benroyce @tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist that is definitely not going to be enough and it is the exact same plan Kamala had
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESOct 29

@i_give_u_worms @tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist

well then pack your bags for the concentration camps

because if you never fight, it's endless MAGA fascism

i agree plodding incremental strategy is dreary and boring

and we need a left candidate with fire in their belly to appeal emotionally

this isn't a problem. that's human nature. there's no denying it

but you have to understand:

we're talking about assholes who don't even show up in the primaries to get those real left candidates!

Show threadGrassroots JoeOct 29
@i_give_u_worms @benroyce
Is it?
Did she clearly lay out the negative ramifications of sitting out the election?
Did she own up to not being perfect, but inarguably a long way better than the adjudicated rapist, especially for people of color?
Did her campaign employ effective communication methods and channels to get her message to people she really needed to hear it?
Did her campaign leverage highly effective ads produced by progressive groups?
...
@tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist
Show threadGrassroots JoeOct 29

@i_give_u_worms
No, no, no, and no.
Especially the last one. Amplify Freedom, a construct of the Freedom Over Fascism Movement Briefing consortium, produced great ads addressing attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ+ people in general, trans people in particular.
Harris' campaign didn't appear to know they existed much less put $ behind them.

If they had Bob Casey, maybe Sherrod Brown would still be Senators, possibly a sane person in the White House.

@benroyce @tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist

Show threadDemocracy Dies in DumbassOct 29

@tk Disagree. We need incremental change. But if you always vote for the "left-most" viable candidate in every election, eventually we'll get there.

Radical change or "tear it all down" gets people killed, plain and simple..

@the5thColumnist @benroyce