But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government

"The #USA has the best #military and growing #freedom!"

Mmm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mmm

While my fellow Americans huff that cringe lying #cope, the truth is that there is a country that has the best military and growing freedom

#Ukraine

Ukraine is now the real "leader of the free world"

The USA is rotting

I wish my fellow Americans would FUCKING #VOTE ALREADY. Entitled assholes

In the #primaries. Real left candidates

Not #voting is submission to #fascism

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-rises-to-55th-in-2026-world-press-freedom-index-ahead-of-several-g7-countries-18366

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The World Press Freedom Index showing that in 2025 USA ranked 57, and Ukraine ranked 62. But in 2026 Ukraine ranked 55, and USA ranked 64

There are many problems with #USA #democracy

Like the stupid #ElectoralCollege

Gore beat Bush in 2000, Clinton beat Trump in 2016. In the popular vote. The EC erased it

Well here's another reason for you to #vote in the #primaries and the general #election:

The #Democrats, if they win enough in November, can kill the EC

It's been a 20 year effort of states agreeing to void the EC if enough agree: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #PuertoRico #USPolitics #Law #Legal #Fraud #Election #Prison #Vote

I know who I'm voting for in November.

The people NOT BANNING BOOKS!
#Vote
#Caturday
#NoKings
#theZone

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Levar Burton holding a huge meme of a cat reading. Meme text There has never been a time when the people who've banned books were the good guys.

"Ex-local leader of #Orbán’s party arrested at #Budapest airport over #fraud case"

https://tvpworld.com/92933472/hungary-ex-fidesz-leader-rdi-feriz-arrested-at-budapest-airport

#Elections have #consequences

The #vote has consequences

*Not* voting also has consequences: you reward #malice, you block #justice

Are you listening Americans?

Do you want #MAGA goons punished?

And how do we achieve that?

Are you going to put two plus two together in your mind and figure out that means four, and fucking vote?

"But I want perfect, waah"

😠😡🤬

#Hungary #USA

AMERICANS

we have 999 days left of a pedophile rapist narcissist racist with dementia in the White House because 1/3 of the country is bigots and ignorants and 1/3 of the country is too entitled to #vote

https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/6119379/end-of-trumps-presidency

what are we going to do?

we are going to fucking show up in the #primaries

pick real left #candidates

then in november you vote against #MAGA no matter who wins the primaries

"not good enough i want perfect waah"

shut the fuck up and vote to freeze #Trump's agenda

@troy_frizzell @jensorensen

because the dem establishment leans centrist, corporatist and spineless

they spend their time obsessing over getting #MAGA votes

it's fucking stupid

since they won't look left, where winning lies, what do we do, us on the left?

the unfortunate, wrong response is "don't vote"

that means the #democrat establishment drifts further right, and MAGA wins

the real answer:

#vote

especially in the #primaries

and just replace these assholes

like what #mamdani did

@ErikUden

the #democrats fucking suck

but remember: we're stuck in 2 party because we are a shitty #FPTP voting system

3rd party in our system divides the left #vote and helps #MAGA win

(we can fix that with ranked choice voting... that's a whole other post)

so we are stuck with one way forward:

take over the democrats

how?

we have #primaries coming up and this is your chance to replace your spineless #democrat turd rep with a real leftist

mob the primaries

what did #mamdani teach us?

FYI, there’s just a couple days left in Phoenix’s SRP election! This is what the 10 million Turning Point USA signs plastered all over the valley are about.
Those signs tell you which candidates are fascist dirtbags who want to kill your neighbors for data center money, but who should you vote *for*?
Behold! The janky low-budget website of the clean energy folks who need your votes!
https://www.srpcleanenergy.org/
#AZ #Arizona #AzPol #Phoenix #PhoenixAZ #vote #SRP #srpelection
(PS!! It’s too late to mail in your ballot because post-marking doesn’t count anymore, so you’ll have to drop it off or vote in person!)

" #Tennessee #library director ousted after refusing to remove #LGBTQ #books"

There are 2 types of people

1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no #resistance

2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a #vote. And demand their new reps put in safeguards

Be the second kind of person

#Cynicism is acceptance of #fascism

https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/

The order would use federal #data to help state #election ​officials verify who is “eligible” to #vote in their jurisdictions. It would also require #AbsenteeBallots to be sent only to ⁠voters on each state's “approved” mail-in ballot list & mandate “secure” ​ballot envelopes with unique tracking barcodes.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #Constitution #states #federalism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder on #mail #ballots, escalating #election overhaul push

Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at tightening mail-in voting rules nationwide, including by ​directing his admin to create a list of confirmed #US #citizens eligible to #vote in each state, & said he did not see how the measure could be challenged.

#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #Constitution #states #federalism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #privacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-mail-ballots-escalating-election-overhaul-push-2026-03-31/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho

but there won't ever be a trial later if we don't vote

we have to #vote

any rationale for not voting is simply self-subjugation to #fascism out of entitlement ("it doesn't affect me") or mindless cynicism and learned helplessness: personal weakness

#MarALago

#Trump's Plutocrat-Bigot-Child Rapist power nexus

Now in a #Democrat ruled state district in #MAGA #Florida

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/dems-win-mar-a-lago-gregory-00843333

"They'll steal the vote"

You'll do #prematureCapitulation and not vote?

"Both sides the same"

You're an idiot fine with MAGA #fascism?

"But my obsessive single issue"

You're fine with destroying #transRights, #womensRights, #immigrantRights, etc in #ToxicIdealism?

#Vote

#Primaries and November

#Democrats suck but we can freeze Trump's agenda

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A Mar-a-Lago flip: Dems win Trump's hometown Florida House district Tuesday's results add more tallies to a trend of Democrats flipping Republican-held seats in state legislatures across the country over the past 14 months. FILE - This is an aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) "I think it demonstrates where the Florida voter is," Gregory told POLITICO after her win. "They want someone who is focused on solutions and the issues and not focused on the noise." | AP

@aho

they can't

see people are worried about the erosion of #democracy in the #usa and they are correct

and the solution is we vote *more* and get real leftists in power and close the loopholes

but there is this unfortunate human hopelessness where people just give up (or outright troll #psyop cosplaying left encouraging that)

i don't understand why people don't #vote. they only help #fascism. it's #entitlement: "won't affect me." or cluelessness (it will affect them but they don't know)

" #Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets"

remember the game plan:

1. #vote in the #primaries, get real left #candidates

if you don't, don't complain about corporatist dems ever again: you're the fucking problem

2. #vote in the general #election no matter who wins the primary

yes the dems fucking suck. but if you're willing to do nothing, helping #fascism, because you want perfect: you're an entitled moron

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/democrat-new-hampshire-bobbi-boudman

@fathermcgruder

i don't understand your complaint

"what if something bad happens"?

of course. there's numerous other scenarios where something can go wrong

or the centrist dem can straight up beat the leftist dem in the primary

and?

the simple point is:

if you vote, you may lose. if you don't vote, you *will* lose

nevermind that if leftists show the fuck up, their concerns will be addressed rather than ignored

no elected official cares about people who don't #vote

you *make them* care

@fathermcgruder

There *is* something entitled to your vote:

Your society

You're not trans or an immigrant etc so Trump's malice doesn't threaten you

So you are privileged to play silly games like "teach dems a lesson" and allow your society to go to shit. Because it doesn't affect you (or you're too stupid to realize it affects you)

Centrist dems aren't listening to your "lesson." Not voting means you don't care

You have to show up and *replace* centrist dems in the primaries

#vote

The #NAACP & other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the #FBI.…

#Georgia residents entrusted the #state with their “sensitive personal information” when they registered to #vote, & the Jan 28 seizure of ballots & other #election documents from the #FultonCounty #elections hub “breached that guarantee, infringed constitutional protections of #privacy, & interfered with the right to vote,” the orgs said…

#law #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia-elections-fulton-county-2020-ballots-e0eb5970169ade6f775e317f7fa12d5e

@isaackuo

that's a perfectly fine motivation

that's why i don't understand people who don't #vote

it's so easy, and you get to thumb your nose at what you despise, at the very least, a form of #protest

what kind of fool just sits there like a passive lump not taking an easy way to send a message?

"Well that's great, socialists making gains in #NewYorkCity and #Seattle, I still can't be bothered to #vote becaus-"

"After trailing by more than 10,000 votes the day after the election, Wilson, 43, chipped away at Mayor Bruce Harrell’s margin as late-counted ballots broke her way. She took a tiny lead in Monday’s count, and with Tuesday’s additions, Wilson is now ahead by 1,346 votes."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/katie-wilsons-lead-grows-in-race-for-seattle-mayor/

will you just #vote you stupid assholes? do you see what happens when people do?

Ah...

Perfection

We envision perfection

Then we act

Knowing we will never reach perfection- but that action is the most important thing

As opposed to standing on perfection, and doing nothing but casting judgments

As if we have a magical authority

Especially as our lack of action does anything but remove our sincerity and authenticity

But for some, existing in the mind as a holy avatar of perfection is more important than action?

All of this is to say:

#Vote today, American assholes

Alt...

VOTE FOR YOUR VOTING RIGHTS FIGHT PROTEST FOR YOUR RIGHTS VOTE YOUR IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS VOTE YOUR ABORTION RIGHTS VOTE YOUR LGBTQ RIGHTS VOTE YOUR ★RIGHTS VOTE FOR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS tt FOR YOUR RIGHTS VOTE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE

@gooba42 @NadiaPurge @tshirtman

what we need for a sea change in sentiment is more mamdanis

achieved how?

by voting

then why aren't more on the left voting, if the example of #mamdani is so illustrative?

because of exactly what you say:

discouragement

they don't have a valid, coherent, rational reason not to #vote

they have feelings

well, fuck their feelings

the path of #alienation and #learnedHelplessness leads to #fascism

they have to get up, and fucking vote

it's *not* that hard

On the crux of greatness

Tomorrow:

#Mamdani

Brought to you by

PEOPLE WHO FUCKING #VOTE

vote, you lazy motherfuckers

your cynicism is nothing but acceptance

#USA #Politics #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork

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Zohran Mamdani

@tk @ShredderFeeder @the5thColumnist

exactly!

does the #usa voting system suck?

absolutely

so what do you do?

some of you don't #vote

then what happens

obviously, it gets worse

🤦 🤦 🤦

but if you hold your nose and participate, it will still suck...

but a little less

then you iterate. and it sucks even less next round

that's how you do it!

meanwhile, what does whining and sitting things out achieve, genius nonvoters?

HELLO?

#vote motherfuckers

@ShredderFeeder

my country is going rapidly down the toilet

partly because of #MAGA #fascist #bigots

and partly because of these cringe weak "but i want perfect" #nonvoters

yes, the #USA sucked before: that's a silly observation when you realize how much worse it can suck

you get better or worse in this life. that's all you will ever, ever, EVER get

perfect isn't on the menu. never will be

#vote you dumb motherfuckers

#politics

"#US ambassador to #Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at #Ontario’s trade representative"

It's just so fucking embarrassing

Americans:

WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING #VOTE

enough of your "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" mindless lies and your "votes don't count anymore" premature spineless capitulation

get off your fucking asses and fucking vote, for the side that sucks, but is obviously better. it matters

incremental improvement works, toxic idealism means shit

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassador-hoekstra-rant-9.6957854

#PeteHoekstra

@log @Okanogen @A_Minion @MaryAustinBooks

we can expect of people strategic thought, not simply emotional passion

to make a rational #vote despite the dreariness

obviously, if we had excitement, with a further #left #candidate, that problem goes away

but

people don't fucking show up in the #primaries

so we get the milquetoast corporate #democrats

then we wonder why no one wants to vote

but it was because they didn't vote in the primaries...

etc, etc, ad nauseum

a feedback loop of doom

@A_Minion @MaryAustinBooks

we're in the shit we are because of #MAGA

but also because of those who don't #vote

and the more i think about it, the latter group might be worse than MAGA

because MAGA, the evil and the stupid, they at least show the fuck up. they fight for something

that means their fight can be defined, engaged, confronted

and defeated

but what do we do with these vague lumps in our society who do nothing but whine?

#Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month with #DHS’s point person on “election integrity,” eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created #Trump admin position might help safeguard the #vote ahead of next year’s #midterms.

But many of them left alarmed.

#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates

@MaryAustinBooks

"oh you just #vote? you think that's all you have to do?"

or

"oh you just #protest? you think that's all you have to do?"

etc

jesus fucking christ

i despise this sleazy #rhetoric

no one serious thinks *only* doing {X} is all we have to do

the rhetoric's point is to immobilize you

that your action isn't "perfect"

whether as the sincere shit talk of very toxic people

or as #agentProvocateur #psyop

you protest *and* vote *and* do #mutualAid

and more

fucking obviously!

Kamala Harris wouldn't have wrecked the White House.

#USPol #Vote

@Soozcat Good reminder! We also got our ballots today.

Not much on our ballot, but I definitely need to vote yes on the library levy!

https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/current-voters-pamphlet

#Oregon #WashingtonCounty #Libraries #Vote #VoteByMail

It's beautiful

“The Rainbow Crosswalk”

Terrazzo pavers, Art Deco pattern

in #SouthBeach, #Miami, a historic #gay community

and last week: it's gone

why?

#Florida doesn't want 'ideological messages'

🤦

Now, I don't want you to get sad

They want to break your spirit. So don't do that

I want you to get angry. I want you to act. *You*

Don't demand someone else fix it. Don't whine and give up. Cynicism is acceptance

>>#Vote<<

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/florida-officials-gut-rainbow-crosswalk-232952556.html

#LGBT #LGBTQIA #USA #Fascism #Bigotry

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“The Rainbow Crosswalk” designed by Savino Miller studio, is made from terrazzo pavers, arranged in an Art Deco pattern at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 12th Street in the Historic Art Deco District of Miami Beach, Florida and seen here on Friday, September 12, 2025

Hear how Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney for the Department of Justice, explains how Trump's pardons prevent billions of dollars from being paid out to victims.

Trump's pardons wipe out the obligation of convicted criminals to compensate the victims.

The structure:
1) Give Trump money (bribe Trump)
2) Trump pardons
3) Your debt to victims is wiped out

https://youtube.com/shorts/ktyjH0ff4hI?

#Trump #Pardon #WipeOut #Oyer #DOJ #Victim #Vote

Do the #Democrats suck?

Yes

The Democrats are also #Mamdani and #AOC

Do you view the Dems as an omnipotent alien monolith?

Why? They are an empty vessel. Fill them with your will. 50 AOCs. 50 Mamdanis

Do the centrists disgust you?

Good

Mob the #primaries. Vote them out

No?

You'd rather just feel disgust and disengage?

What does that achieve?

Are your feelings more important than our reality?

Fucking #VOTE goddamn it

How many fought and died- for your indolence and ineffectuality?

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LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia. After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no "black blood." Snipes died two days later. This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. People died trying to vote.

@forthy42 @PaulaToThePeople I never told people that #Biden would be a saviour,so stop making that shit up!

All I said is that as of now #VoteBlue isn't just a "#LesserEvil" but a "#NecessaryEvil"!

If you really believe that bs then please kindly fuck off because I do intent to outlive #LateStaeCapitalism by all means necessary and sadly that's not gonna fly with the orange tyrant in power.

• Call me a fucking opportunist if dividing the world into binary good/evil makes you sleep tight, or even hate me personally for shattering your naivity, but never ever be angry at me for the wrong reasons because then you got played by them aka. MAGAts that want you to rather waste time and effort in infighting than see a #ProgressiveFront to undo their #Project2025.

Yes OFC I wished we'd see #BernieSanders and #AOC instead on the roll, but sadly in the #AmericanOligarchy., the #SuperPAC|s and #BigDonors decide who can even candidate because it's a cleptocracy.

• Or do you really think Trump won't accelerate #war if he'd get big campaign contributions for that in return like the ones he promised #FossilFuel execs?

One can #vote for Biden whilst being a public #opposition on the streets, but you can't vote for Trump without inherently having the right to oppose him being stripped by him - as he already publicly stated as his intention!

• Do not mistake #NonVoting and #Abstention as a for of heroic #political #protest similar to refusing #WarService and #conscription, because it ain't; Non-Voting is #SilentConsent to whatever comes out of it and in the case of the #USA it's about preventing the #OrangeTyrant from ruining the entire world even faster than anyone else who could've been chosen.

I don't tell you what to think, I'll merely tell you how things are going to pan out exactly:

• Either we get a 2nd Term of Biden who can't get a 3rd so he'll have a vocal voted-for-you - opposition and he can't actually loose big donors so he'd have a shot at doing things better

OR

• We'd get #Trump turning the #USA into a #dictatorship faster and harder then #Nazi - Germany did because the sheer amount of #SurveillanceTech, #cyberfacist #laws and #Capital at his disposal would make everyone from RSHA to Stasi weep out of jealousy.

I'll end this right here because at this point everything has been said and the sheer fact that #USpol is going to to impact my life against my consent despite being neither citizen nor resident nor eligible to vote is alteady nerve-wrecking and I think #defaitistic #FUD like yours isn't gonna help the situation anyway...

#EOD #thxbye #next

#Criminals of a feather…

Advisers to #Trump have discussed giving Mayor #EricAdams of #NYC a job in the admin to clear the field in Nov’s mayoral #election & damage the chances of the #Democratic front-runner, #ZohranMamdani, per 3 people….

The talks have also involved finding a possible place in the admin for the #Republican candidate, #CurtisSliwa.

The goal would be to give fmr Gov #Cuomo a better chance of defeating #Mamdani.

#law #politics #corruption #vote
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/nyregion/trump-adams-sliwa-quit-nyc-mayor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare