Nothing gives Israel a special right to invade neighbors, bulldoze their homes, and create a DMZ.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Pine_Affinity @pascaline @Netraven @mcnado

and then you argue for people not voting, and enough did not vote as you desired, and now trump is bombing iran

you're helping that

it's about harm reduction, then iterating to better. it's never about perfection

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

yes

and so you argue for voting in the primaries, and showing the fuck up, to stop this

right?

you think i am defending centrist dems while i argue continually for showing the fuck up in the primaries to replace them?

are you arguing against what i am really saying?

or do you think you can play a shell game and lie to yourself about what i am saying and prove anything other than that you can't follow the simple fucking point

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@benroyce @Pine_Affinity @pascaline @Netraven @mcnado

Here is a simple difference:

Democrats:
Advocate for the use of the scientific method, and the improvements in life from the Enlightenment, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights movement. Also, that people are basically good, and should choose what they want to believe or not believe, and have control over their own bodies.

Republicans:
Believe that the Bible (KJV, of course) is the literal word of their vindictive god, who was created by dudes who got lost in a desert, and failed to ask their wives for directions. Then they created a demi-god myth based on a Jewish dude who was executed for pissing off the Romans. They want to turn the US into the theocratic hellscape envisioned by the Calvinist colonizers (see Project 2025). Then they want a war in the ME, for all the Jews to convert to their brand of "Christianity," all so -only they- get raptured up into their heaven, to live in eternity with their brutal god.

That, friends, is the difference.

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@msbellows @benroyce @Pine_Affinity @pascaline @Netraven @mcnado

If your Democrat is very left (IE far to the right of our sane parties) then they may pick up few votes from Republicans disgusted with their Party.

[mikelovesbikes@hear-me.social]

@JakeKb @Pine_Affinity @benroyce @Netraven @mcnado I blame it on the surveillance state, the First Past the Post system, and especially the deep and apparently irreparable social isolation. These aren't conditions conducive to political organizing.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mikelovesbikes @JakeKb @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

and people who speak from a position of ignorance on the usa voting system like jake are not helping. in fact what they argue for only helps MAGA

[thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social]

@Pine_Affinity @benroyce @Netraven @mcnado And? If your friends tell you to jump off a cliff because the Raptor is happening tomorrow, are you gonna jump off a cliff? Or think and strategize? I hate this self-defeating shit. If you won't DO anything to change the world, OF COURSE nothing will change. Sitting on your ass and whining is the worst response.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@thepoliticalcat @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

"because the Raptor is happening tomorrow"

you mean rapture but PLEASE do not correct your typo, it is exquisite

[tagyourtoe@mastodon.social]

@Pine_Affinity @benroyce @Netraven @mcnado "why would I vote"

You wouldn't. It would interfere with your carefully cultivated worthlessness.

[thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado No, I actually DO mean "Raptor." Some lunatics announced it a few days ago, and posted a Velociraptor and a Pastor Raptor pic with it, and I was simply enchanted. I want to participate in the Raptor!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@thepoliticalcat @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

The Raptor is coming

Praise be

We will be judged and if found wanting we will be consumed

If we are pure we will pass to the realm of dino delights

HALLELUJAH!

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@screwturn if only there were, actually, a "cast them all into a volcano" option

then only the most confident and thoughtful persons would run.

however, I know Nevada has a NOTA option on their ballots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_These_Candidates

@A_Minion @Kierkegaanks @benroyce @Netraven @JakeKb @mcnado @Pine_Affinity

[amoshias@esq.social]

@Pine_Affinity @benroyce @Netraven @mcnado oh no! The Hill!?! Well if a tabloid said it, that certainly gives you an excuse to stay home and not do anything!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Amoshias @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

"i stand against the corrupt status quo

...

i accept the lies of the corrupt mouthpieces of the status quo to justify my indolence and cynical acceptance via inaction of the corrupt status quo"

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@TagYourToe @Pine_Affinity @benroyce @Netraven

my partner will not donate to DSCC, which is mailing us in the postal mail all the time for contributions, until he is gone. all money begs are returned in the envelope with no money, but sharpie art and words explaining that constraint very explicitly.

...going back to the original post by @mcnado , perhaps a thing to test in primaries is whether the candidates support properly requiring AIPAC to register as a foreign agent. they are lobbying on behalf of Israel ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act#Allegations_of_selective_enforcement

[a_minion@mastodon.social]

@draNgNon @screwturn @Kierkegaanks @benroyce @Netraven @JakeKb @mcnado @Pine_Affinity

Thanks, It never occurred to me to look it up. I guess it's just too obvious and thought folks would have said something if it existed, well, either that or boy am I dense. I'll go the the former to salve my wounded ego. . . 8*) The Volcano option is sure enticing tho as a permanent solution.

Peace

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@draNgNon @TagYourToe @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado

more usefully, show up in the primaries and vote for the candidate who does not accept dark money

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@A_Minion lol I only looked it up becuase I remember them doing it and hoping it would catch on. nearness matters, I'm in Cali and have friends living in Nevada

imagine how different things would be if NOTA + Ranked Choice was the law of the land

@screwturn @Kierkegaanks @benroyce @Netraven @JakeKb @mcnado @Pine_Affinity

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@draNgNon @A_Minion @screwturn @Kierkegaanks @Netraven @JakeKb @mcnado @Pine_Affinity

which we get by supporting dem candidates who say so

not because dems are perfect, but because you have dems against RCV and dems for it, and we have to make that choice

meawhile the GOP in 2024 took a blanket stand against RCV

[haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com]

@screwturn

I agree with you that there is a qualitative difference between them and that not voting at all or even voting for trump is beyond stupid.

Still, blaming the current situation solely on them is ignoring reality. Every US president has killed many thousands of people, many of them noncombatants.

The USA is an imperialist state which is controlled by capitalists. They are the driving force behind this.

It is like pumping the brakes one meter before the cliff. People need to organize