<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.</p><p>Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:</p><p>A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday &amp; dreading the approach of 8pm EST.</p><p>Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....</p><p>1/2</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/27484805-3c8e-4afb-ba24-0d60dbb82db9/the-following-is-mostly-a-reply-i-gave-in-someone-else-s-thread.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:22:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/27484805-3c8e-4afb-ba24-0d60dbb82db9.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:24 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:24:01 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/baronvonj%40mas.to">@<span>baronvonj</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> tell yourself some of us joined the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greens" rel="tag">#<span>greens</span></a> when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrats" rel="tag">#<span>democrats</span></a> were still a climate change denying party then check in on reality <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f525.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--fire" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="🔥" alt="🔥" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370954090593444</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370954090593444</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[stalbaum@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:24:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:13:22 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/baronvonj%40mas.to">@<span>baronvonj</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p><p>tell myself what?</p><p>reality?</p><p>reality is merely a whine you say?</p><p>i despise centrist democrats</p><p>i am articulating how leftists can take over the dems</p><p>it's the only feasible way forward</p><p>you meanwhile have... feelings</p><p>your brain is AWOL</p><p>when you vote 3rd party, in our stupid FPTP system, you divide the left vote and hand MAGA a win</p><p>you are a MAGA supporter</p><p>not in thought, but in action, you are</p><p>stop being immature and fucking think</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370912199116533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370912199116533</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:13:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:08:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/baronvonj%40mas.to">@<span>baronvonj</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> you can tell yourself that, it is a long time <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democrat" rel="tag">#<span>democrat</span></a> whine and we all hear you</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370894222550156</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370894222550156</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[stalbaum@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:08:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:52:14 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://social.coop/@chrispomeroyhale">@<span>chrispomeroyhale</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p><p>that's not the way it works</p><p>"i'm not voting until centrist assholes turn into real leftists" is insane</p><p>what works is us mobbing the primaries and replacing centrists in the democratic party with real leftists</p><p>thus, choosing not to vote until centrists magically change is moronic beyond belief</p><p>*centrists will not change*</p><p>the only way for change is for leftists to show the fuck up</p><p>especially in the primaries</p><p>and vote</p><p>and *replace* them</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370829114396754</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370829114396754</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:52:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:45:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/baronvonj%40mas.to">@<span>baronvonj</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p><p>thus, all 3rd party voices in the USA are working for Putin or MAGA. or are embarrassingly uneducated about how our stupid FPTP system works. deeply cringe because it's not hard to understand</p><p>i want 3rd parties</p><p>to get 3rd parties we need ranked choice voting</p><p>until we get rcv, which makes 3rd parties viable, anyone voting 3rd party now in the USA on the left is helping MAGA win by dividing the left vote</p><p>that's the cold hard truth</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370803988041770</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370803988041770</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:45:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:44:01 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> Hm. An alternative voting system is not pragmatic -- though we should keep that vision -- and work within the system we have, and change or work against the system when it makes sense.</p><p>However, the Uncommitted movement showed us that Democratic Party leadership are incapable of listening to the constituents they pretend to represent when they are in power. Instead, they demanded our votes, and prioritized inviting in anti-Trump Republicans. That gave Trump what he wanted: A competing party that is right of center. We tried working within the party and it didn't work. And the party denied us from an electoral process that would have allowed us to have hard conversations resulting in a rallying base.</p><p>Federation through fragmentation is the path forward. We both need to find our people AND get out of our bubbles. But it will ultimately be the conservative Democrats who struggle to retain power that mess it up.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/chrispomeroyhale/statuses/116370796836612864</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/chrispomeroyhale/statuses/116370796836612864</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[chrispomeroyhale@social.coop]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:44:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span><br />Perot is the perfect example of why 3rd parties are a.non-starter anywhere outside of county-level races without some form.of RCV. He won basically 19% of the national popular vote and not a single EC vote out of it all. Over 99% of state and federal legislative and executive seats are won by either the Democratic or Republican nominee and not one 3rd party was on the ballot in all 50 states in 2024.<br /><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/baronvonj/statuses/116370794068047256</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/baronvonj/statuses/116370794068047256</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[baronvonj@mas.to]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yeah like, "Well if Germans weren't Nazis then why didn't they stop the Nazis? They just let them Nazi up the whole place, because the German people are all secretly Nazis in denial."<br /><br />And my question is "Why didn't the Germans imprisoned in concentration camps stop the Nazis?" It's much easier to answer.<br /><br />CC: <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@courtcan@mastodon.social</a></span> <span><a href="/user/jorisbohnsonpm%40mastodon.social">@JorisBohnsonPM@mastodon.social</a></span>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1775677294.299852</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedicy.us.to/cy/p/1775677294.299852</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[cy@fedicy.us.to]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> </p><p>it's great you understand energy independence but politically you're a moron because you're helping MAGA</p><p>do you understand the idea of someone who means well but by their actions only makes things worse?</p><p>so when MAGA makes your solar install illegal because you have to guzzle gasoline to satisfy the oil plutocrats, remember how your political choices helped pave the way for that, simply because you don't understand how our stupid FPTP voting system works</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370784961811633</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370784961811633</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:39:35 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span><br />Eh? What state or federal races did the Green party win in 2024?<br /><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/baronvonj/statuses/116370779358421925</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/baronvonj/statuses/116370779358421925</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[baronvonj@mas.to]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:39:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:39 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> well, reality is what it is. I will take the ironic victory all the way. Planning a new solar install (my hobby) to charge our car with. Got our money out of federally chartered institutions. (Mostly...) Remember, the title to property is with your *county*, possibly the only safe paper ownership left standing. The feds can and will come for banking. I don't vote in your primary so I can't help you beyond, do what you can to protect the vulnerable, that is all.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370775698858412</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370775698858412</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[stalbaum@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:36:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/suzannealdrich%40hachyderm.io">@<span>suzannealdrich</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p><p>we can also remember ralph nader, who did not hand bushii a win in florida, but nader voters in florida did hand the results for florida to the supreme court, which pulled a nasty trick and voila: the stupid iraq war</p><p>the case with hillary in 2016 is less clear, but certainly green voters who went for a pro putin troll who just shows up every 4 years to divide the left vote is also a case of people who mean well, but don't understand FPTP</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370768710475549</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370768710475549</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:36:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:31:12 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> <br />I think the easiest way to explain it is, remember Ross Perot? That’s how the right wing lost to Bill Clinton, the independent difference was split. Then remember The Tea Party and MAGA? That’s how the right wing took over the GOP, they replaced all the individual candidates with their own in the primaries, and stuck with a 50 state, up and down the ticket strategy. Even school boards. Behind the scenes, billionaires funded and organized the whole thing.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/suzannealdrich/statuses/116370746393588909</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/suzannealdrich/statuses/116370746393588909</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:31:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:49 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/stalbaum%40mastodon.social">@<span>stalbaum</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> </p><p>no</p><p>i want 3rd parties but to get 3rd parties we need ranked choice voting</p><p>rcv is creeping in, but until then we have to focus on taking over the democrats</p><p>in an FPTP voting system, we only have a choice between 2 parties</p><p>it's not corruption, it's just math</p><p>the left splintering into different parties is as fatal for us as leftists not voting</p><p>"you want us to support spineless democrats!"</p><p>no, i want us to show up in the fucking primaries and replace them</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370705598499928</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370705598499928</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> only my party the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greens" rel="tag">#<span>Greens</span></a> are winning. The price of oil will be excessive until *at least* 2028. And that means, more solar and wind adoption. Less shipping and more local economic development! Weird, we didn't even get elected and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uniparty" rel="tag">#<span>uniparty</span></a> $#!+ all over itself and gave us a victory <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/270c.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--v" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="✌" alt="✌" />️. Have I said how much I love our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EV" rel="tag">#<span>EV</span></a> which is $10 to fully charge when using our house?</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370682689716455</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/stalbaum/statuses/116370682689716455</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[stalbaum@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:07:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> Sorry, but the rest of the world believes, probably correctly, that most Americans are happy their country thinks it can grab the rest of the world by the pussy. Until you guys get rid of Orange Hitler and make some serious, serious reforms and discover some national humility and politeness, we don't buy this not-all-of-us-ness.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/humourmetom/statuses/116370652909791331</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://newsie.social/users/humourmetom/statuses/116370652909791331</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[humourmetom@newsie.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:07:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:00:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh, when you’ve won - don’t forget to bring that corrupt &amp; murderous lot to justice</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JorisBohnsonPM/statuses/116370625419661633</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JorisBohnsonPM/statuses/116370625419661633</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jorisbohnsonpm@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:00:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:59:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/oldfartrant%40mstdn.ca">@<span>Oldfartrant</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span></p><p>Indeed. Centrist Republicans are spineless. Centrist Democrats are spineless. Meanwhile MAGA is turbocharged and the American left is despondent and dissipated. Some of this is due to plutocracy: they pump money into MAGA and they control traditional media and social media. One response to this is cynicial defeatism. But I say the left should take over the Democrats. Job #1 for that is shut down these pathetic voices on the left that are useless whiny entitled cynics</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370621414598657</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benroyce/statuses/116370621414598657</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[benroyce@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:59:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/benroyce%40mastodon.social">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> Republicans could remove Trump but are afraid to. They are the spineless ones.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Oldfartrant/statuses/116370593510077554</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/Oldfartrant/statuses/116370593510077554</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldfartrant@mstdn.ca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:42:29 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> But a surprising (to me, although I suppose I shouldn't be) number of Americans support "virtuous violence". In research years before this war, a similar scenario was presented to several groups. Over half — fifty-six percent — would order a nuclear air strike killing one hundred thousand Iranians. Forty-eight percent would order the strike, even if they knew that two million Iranians would die. <a href="https://medium.com/lawyers-guns-and-money/will-americans-nuke-iran-975ccedac423" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>medium.com/lawyers-guns-and-mo</span><span>ney/will-americans-nuke-iran-975ccedac423</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370275407219598/statuses/116370554850177183</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116370275407219598/statuses/116370554850177183</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[demcintosh@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:42:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:35:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/jorisbohnsonpm%40mastodon.social">@<span>JorisBohnsonPM</span></a></span> <br />As a German, I am used to being called a Nazi abroad, despite the fact that my mother was born ten years after the end of WW2. <br />Hitler was not elected by a majority of Germans. He became chancellor through backroom deals and the support of conservative elites, even though the Nazi Party never won an outright majority on its own. There was resistance but the regime’s repressive structures, Gestapo surveillance, terror, and lack of unified opposition, made it increasingly difficult over time.<br />I hope you can turn this around and recover your reputation.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115968202410153634/statuses/116370528743263064</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115968202410153634/statuses/116370528743263064</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[lijepasam@social.vivaldi.net]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:35:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:24:53 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> Was out protesting yesterday.</p><p>They'll probably keep thinking they're better than us right up to the point they're suddenly realizing they're surrounded by enemies who support the shit we're doing.</p><p>Just like happened to me.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116370485653867961</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116370485653867961</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:24:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:24:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> </p><p>Keep fighting, protesting &amp; voting <br /><img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/270c.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--v" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="✌" alt="✌" />️</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JorisBohnsonPM/statuses/116370482717215658</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JorisBohnsonPM/statuses/116370482717215658</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[jorisbohnsonpm@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:24:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else&#x27;s thread. on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:23:25 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/tawtovo%40mastodon.social">@<span>tawtovo</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/courtcan%40mastodon.social">@<span>courtcan</span></a></span> </p><p>I have a cranky ass message for end days people:</p><p>The rapture already happened and you are stuck here with the rest of us to fight and die in the last battle between good and evil. Sorry sunshine you didn’t make the grade.</p><p>My attitude is that the concept of finding religious fulfillment in global genocide is a moral test. People who are horrified at the idea which is not biblical mind you pass the test.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116370479886669958</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116370479886669958</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:23:25 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>