My real name is Ben Royce.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I do not fucking care

That's a luxury not a lot of people have

Some are trans

Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations

Some are exploring themselves and want to be free of humiliation and regret if they fuck up and need to go dark

Lots of valid reasons for anonymity

And so no Mr. #Merz, that's terrible idea, fuck off

"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"

Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.

Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)

#Deutschland

[inpc@go.mxtthxw.art]

@benroyce We can all use Friedrich Merz, it's a real name apparently.

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@benroyce what's a "real" name?

that sounds like an arbitrary rule made up by a control freak

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@inpc @benroyce

I am Spartacus!

No, I am Spartacus!

Me, too!

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@benroyce
I don't understand how "Real Life" and "Real World" matter so much to these old white guys.

The Internet is REAL.

[gnaddrig@mastodon.social]

@xinit @benroyce
That, and they often have their heads in the clouds and don't know all that much about the real world or what life is like for most people.

[gnaddrig@mastodon.social]

@xinit @benroyce

I'm sure, more often than not they have no idea what (in particular: negative, sometimes literally lethal) consequences their suggestions, if implemented, would have for many people, nor do they seem to care at all.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@bweller @benroyce

I remember reading that a lot of native Americans were suspended from Farcebook because they were accused of using names that weren't real.

They were real. Farcebook just couldn't believe real people had surnames like Littlewolf or Runninghorse or Snowowl.

[lordkhan@social.cologne]

@benroyce he is on a run: he has talked about so many stupid, intolerant and even discriminating ideas that this guy became the worst chancellor we had so far. He is white, rich, privileged and old and has no clue what real life even means.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@bweller

you can call me Dingbat Dipshit Ignoramus

I will call you Delightful Cloudless Night

🤭

[proscience@toot.community]

@benroyce

Never forget that he's still proud of his Nazi grandfather.

That's pretty much all it takes to know his worldview and ideology.

And yes, he fully knows that both German and the European court will take his appalling "demand" down.

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@benroyce ooh i like it 🥰

the latter one . i could call you the former, but it'd be undeserved*, and there are a lot of dipsticks deserving of being called out

*though I take your point in contrast to being called Merz

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @bweller

Those sound suspiciously like...real names.

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@davidtheeviloverlord Tezcatlipoca

@benroyce

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@bweller

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you call me whatever you want, Delightful Cloudless Night

[thierry_van_kerm@mastodon.social]

@davidtheeviloverlord @bweller @benroyce What about a name like Trump.Also unlikely to be real

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@benroyce "real names considered harmful"

[ccferrie@mastodon.ie]

@benroyce Some of the most vile shit I've seen on social media has been from people using their real names

[tattered@social.vivaldi.net]

@benroyce You are absolutely correct.

I wish someone with more journalistic clout than me would draw attention to the fact that Jeffrey Epstein (With his links to Palantir, Steve Bannon, and Israeli Intelligence) was also on the Trilateral Commission, an anti-democratic think tank.

Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz & Mark Carney have also been TriCom members. And, Lo!, their policies increasingly align with Palantir, Bannon, and Israel.

It seems like this should be worth someone’s attention; especially in the UK, Germany, and Canada.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@thierry_van_kerm @bweller @benroyce

If only Donald Turnip was fake, nothing more than a figment of the fevered imagination of some hack writer.

Wait. I believe his family changed their surname from the original German surname Drumpf. His name is as fake as his business acumen!