"#Hungary's opposition #Tisza party widens its lead ahead of #Orban's #Fidesz"

🤞 🤞 🤞

If Hungary goes sane in April, and then if enough of the lazy entitled lumps in the #USA show up to #vote in November (after showing up in the #primaries to get real left candidates: BE THERE), then we can put a real dent on our emergent #fascism

Fuck your #cynicism

VOTE

Let's do this, "degenerate Westoids" 🤭

@benroyce not sure you can actually vote out facism.

@idahobucks

who won the 2020 us presidential election? and who was president at the time?

thank you to everyone who showed up and voted then

you agree?

so get the fuck out of here with your cowardice and premature capitulation

vote, you spineless asshole

if fascism does destroy us democracy, it will be because of MAGA, and meek submissive fear-addled weak whiners

you CAN vote out orban

you CAN vote out trump

you CAN vote out fascism

fuck this weak whiny defeatism

@benroyce you are missing the big picture. There is no real push back at all right now. We the people seem to think the Dems will save us which is not the case. We are in the five alarm stage now and people keep talking about voting and laws. The president doesn't worry about laws as he does what he wants like making himself billions of dollars. I have no idea what to do and don't see any real push back. Minnesota pushed back for a while and it's over even though ICE is in the suburbs right now.

@idahobucks

Do you vote?

If so good

That's what we need. Then we gradually iterate to better

Buy if you don't vote, go fuck yourself. You're the reason as much as MAGA why we are sliding to fascism

All these fucking lazy rationalizations do is serve various weaknesses and character failures that, in aggregate with other whiny losers, leads to fascism

That's it

VOTE

@benroyce @idahobucks Pauline Hanson would like an explanation please.

The existence/election of Fraser Anning might be a salutary example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Anning

Australia has compulsory voting and a wider "universal" franchise than the US but still manages to elect and give power to utter bastards.

Fraser Anning - Wikipedia

@moz @idahobucks

I don't understand what the point is

We should all vote, right?

PS: is this the guy who got an egg to the face from a teenager?

@benroyce @moz @idahobucks
I vote on everything that is important enough for me to study and understand. That certainly includes presidential primaries and elections. I often don't know enough about local non-partisan candidates (e.g. county coroner) to have an opinion, so I leave those blank rather than tossing a coin. I guess if my county winds up with an awful coroner, it's my fault.

@brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

sure but the #primaries coming up this year can get us real left candidates who can freeze #trump's agenda if we also show up in november in the general #election

so try to focus on that, this year at least

@benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

Also, the chances of even very center-right dem candidates being anywhere near as awful as the MAGA are really slim. There may be a Tulsi Gabbard hiding somewhere we don't know about, but beyond that, not saying or doing Nazi s... is a fair recommendation compared to the alternative.*

* I say this as a European left-winger, meaning that even American left-wingers look quite right-wing to me.

@SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

I agree with you

You're speaking of long term tactics, good strategy, a rational approach

I would prefer a real left candidate but barring that: hold the line, iterate, get real improvement the next round of voting

This is the only way to achieve anything

The lesser of two evils is still less evil

Of course for saying this we now incur the wrath of the seething howling toxic idealists

As if those assholes ever achieve anything in life except whining

@benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

True and in this case the choice between "The lesser of two evils" is likely to be the choice between somebody at worst not that good and someone for whom "disgustingly evil" is an actually valid description - and, if anything, an understatement.

@SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

Write it, post it, send it: a rational approach to voting

Receive in reply: voices whining they don't get perfect, have zero plans, make zero effort, then help #fascism by not voting. Fucking losers. They howl about #shitlibs and #blueMAGA when in fact the only result of their ineffectual purity drama is to help #MAGA if they don't vote

Real life isn't a game of social media scorn, useless entitled #toxicIdealism whiners

Think. Act. Fight. #VOTE!

@benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

And you literally can't tell who is the toxic supposed left winger and who is the MAGA sock puppet.

Personally, I take them all to be sock puppets and just block.

#ShrugAndBlock

@SuneAuken Heuristic : Block toxicity

@benroyce @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

Such a shame that you have to cry out like an Old Testament prophet to an indifferent, apathetic public, Ben. The palpable truth and wisdom of your jeremiad really shouldn't need such repetition, but sadly it does.
@copter_chief
@SherBeareth
@JonChevreau

@Harrybear @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks @copter_chief @SherBeareth @JonChevreau

eh, i'm a hothead. it has the appearance of a virtue, as long as i'm shouting at the right foolishness

@SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks If we're not careful, especially with the primary, we could validate some of the awful though.

The Overton Window has shifted now to make Newsom mainstream with his anti-trans and anti-homeless (anti-Labor in the big picture) policies.

If he's the nominee then he's the nominee, but real harm is going to result from it.

@gooba42
The difference between Newsom and any Republican is: Newsom is an opportunist, and the Rs are a bunch of white Christofascists with no mental flexibility. Newsom can be swayed by the public, whereas the Rs actively disdain anyone not one of them.

Mind you, I am not fond of him, but compared to the deep MAGAts, he is slightly better.

@SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

@c_merriweather @SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks No doubt, I'll hold my nose and vote for him if necessary but I really wish the bar were higher.

@SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

For once, this is not just about "the lesser of two evils". This midterm election November 3rd is different.

You are not voting:
republican versus democrat
red versus blue

You are voting:
fascism versus democracy
subjects versus citizens
trickle up versus trickle down
total control versus basic freedoms
no rights versus civil rights

It's not about the lesser of two evils. It's about #democracy winning over dictatorial autocracy.

@MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks That was last election. Sorry.

@NickSchwanck @MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

whether we have free and clear elections

or we're being marched to concentration camps

or any situation in between:

you fight

always

all there is is the good fight in this world

any artificial line in the sand that says "past this point, stop fighting, it's hopeless" is a stupid lie

and the only reason we're even at this point is not enough of us were fighting to keep it good when we had it better

so we learn the hard way

@benroyce @NickSchwanck @MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks We must live our lives as though we can always snatch victory back from the jaws of defeat, even if that's difficult to believe sometimes and the odds against us seem overwhelming. As others have pointed out, when governments resort to strongarm tactics to suppress dissent, that's when they're at their weakest.

Minnesota and Minneapolis have shown that consistent mass resistance *will* erode the resolve of the fascists. ✊🏼

@NickSchwanck @SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

A lot of USA voters did not know this in 2024.

More people see it now.

The regime exposed themselves with the killing and cover up of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti.

That tactics used in #Minneapolis showed us that this is not business as usual.

The DOJ, DHS, FBI all lied despite evidence with the above and #Epstein .

This was 2024 but is also in your face exposed current issues we can fight against.

@MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @benroyce @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

At worst, it's a choice between getting half a loaf and eating rat poison.

@n1xnx @MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

"but i want gold encrusted steak"

"that's not on the menu"

"well if i can't get what i want i'm not choosing"

"if you don't choose, you'll get the worst option"

"it's not faiiiiir"

"rat poison it is"

#vote

@benroyce @MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks
Yup, that's the last election in a nutcase - I mean nutshell.

I hope the woman who told a reporter she didn't vote because "the Democrats must be punished" enjoys her D-Con smoothie.

@n1xnx @MrBranch40 @SuneAuken @brouhaha @moz @idahobucks

ah the ol' cut my nose off to spite my face routine

classic genius maneuvre that

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