Passwordsarehard4May 3
SmutMagDotArt

I am begging everyone to be looking at your city councils right now. These are the people who say whether or not a corporation can come into your town and take all of your resources, pollute the environment, and kill the residents.

Cit Council members who hand your welfare and lives over to corporations should never have a moment of rest from the people. These are the people you can actually have an influence on, and these are elections you can actually get in on.

May 3 at 3:12pmWeb
Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦May 3
@smutmag Ours, like most, are safely tucked in the back pocket of developers.
Show threadSmutMagDotArtMay 3
@zazzoo Time to organize everyone to vote them out!
Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦May 3
@smutmag We try, oh boy, do we try. 👍
Show threadaverageGuy101May 3
@smutmag thanks for posting this. It's true.
Show threadj5y7May 3
@smutmag Now more than ever there are no small elections. It only takes a handful of votes to easily swing one of these elections and they have profound, direct effects on your life.
Show threadJoe 📷 🖖🤨May 3

@smutmag all politics are local but local elections get abysmal turnout.

Sigh…

Show threadPasswordsarehard4May 3
@smutmag everyone knows how evil Nestle is, all of their backdoor deals were with city councils. That’s what data enters are doing right now too. A million dollars at a national level gets you a handshake and a photo op, at the local level it gets you unrestricted water rights and a mediation agreement in case someone dies.
Show threadCatherine is not complacentMay 3
@smutmag city council and zoning board. If you can introduce and pass laws so zoning board members can’t hold real estate licenses.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMay 3

@smutmag not voting is submission to fascism

VOTE!

Show threadcraignicolMay 3
@benroyce @smutmag and council turnout is always low, so anyone who votes can have an impact on the election, especially when you can take a friend or 5.
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.May 3
@craignicol @benroyce @smutmag
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Show threadPhrackerMay 4
@smutmag
Something like that happened in the US where Republicans in red states voted to allow tech companies to build massive data centers in rural red areas that are driving up their electricity costs while primarily benefiting people in blue cities. It's a beautiful irony that conservatism seems almost self-defeating in the sense that it will always destroy itself for the good of corporations.