Does voting change anything?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

ps: i'm not misquoting the title, they seemed to change it just as i posted the link

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

THE POWER OF THE #VOTE

VOTE, MOTHERFUCKERS

"Asking #Ukraine to cede land 'unworthy' of #Hungary's 1956 resistance, #Magyar says"

Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance

"If someone says this — no matter how long Fidesz politicians have said similar things — you should ask them what would happen if Russia attacked Hungary: which Hungarian county would they give up?" Peter Magyar said in response to a question from a Kyiv Independent reporter.

The Kyiv Independent (kyivindependent.com)

#UkraineWar #EU

[thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social]

@benroyce You tell 'em! I believe the last push a LOT of "god-fearing Christians" were looking for arrived last night. Peer pressure keeps people quiet when they should be speaking up, but when religious leaders are attacked, change happens fast and unexpectedly.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@thepoliticalcat

fucking #trump is the #antichrist

like, i don't give a shit about this mystic mumbo jumbo, i don't believe in this crap at all

but for anyone who does believe:

wake the fuck up

you were conned. you're patsies. there was a scam, and you were scammed. are you going to double down in denial because of your ignorant pride? some of you, yes. because you're that much of a fucking loser

but for anyone else, the post last night is a radioactive red klaxon blaring. time to fess up

[thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Lifelong atheist here, and I grew up in parochial school, so I came by it honestly. I'm delighted that the same people who didn't give a damn that little brown girls were being bombed in Iran are now outraged that Pigball is attacking the Pope. SOMEthing had to set off their outrage button, and since pedophilia, sex trafficking, and BOMBING didn't work, I'm glad dumkopf found something that did.

[roundtrip@federate.social]

@benroyce
79.55% of those registered to vote, voted
Hungarian Election, 12 April 2026
National Turnout

Rooting for 80% national turnout in a real democratic election. May the US match Hungary!

(with 98.57% counted as of 1:20pm EDT 13 Apr 2026)

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[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@benroyce Had we all been paying attention we wouldn't be here with a monster for a leader. Had we all voted for our own good we wouldn't be playing patty cake with stupid. The goal of the Right has been the same since FDR, to control without limits. Anywhere since then we have had the opportunity to stop what was coming & is here. To complain is a bit late but if you pay attention & vote down ballot for what we want/need we might just change this path that has been hurting us for 55 years.

[blackburied@newsie.social]

@Roundtrip @benroyce #magyar may have won a democratic election, but now he faces the oligarchs, who will not give up their control easily. They own the media, they own the narrative.

Hopefully the people of #Hungary are ready for their next challenge.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@blackburied @Roundtrip

That's all life is

The good fight

Thing is if you keep at it, it gets easier

[roundtrip@federate.social]

@blackburied @benroyce
The fact that Tisza won a greater than two-thirds parliamentary majority enables them to pass changes to the ‘2011 fundamental law’ Orban created using his similar super majority. He used it to craft the power structure of his regime, so Magyar now stands a chance to dismantle it the same way.

Not easy, but winning big gives them a fighting chance: Vote big to win big! Go Hungary!