I've been shushing people who say there won't be free #elections in the #USA anymore

[johnjburnsiii@kzoo.to]

@CptSuperlative @benroyce

I would rather see it stay how it is... "make the hackers really work to scam the system"... versus only having to learn one type and location for the data.

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But we do need better toughness on voting records to remain in voting districts - meaning no one can take the originals.

They can submit a FOIA and get a copy - at going $$ price... but they don't get the originals. e.g. the corruption they just foisted on Fulton County, GA.

And no voter data.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@jorgaborg @jaystephens

no problem. i am punch drunk from all the trolls so it's hard for me to tell

[diekehrseite@mastodon.social]

@benroyce stay strong! Germany did not and anyone knows how horrible that ended.
Hitler was the result of being weak and colaborative. May all nazis burn in hell.

@jawarajabbi

[cptsuperlative@toot.cat]

@JohnJBurnsIII

Yes, our Byzantine system is exquisitely hard to hack. But we can shore it up.

@benroyce

[bazcook@mas.to]

@benroyce - other truly democratic countries have arms-length federal body that runs federal elections. They provide the mechanisms / training for the election staff, they set the borders for each riding (based on giving each one approximately the same number of voters - not by skin colour or known political say) - and it’s not up to the country’s leader to direct his party to take over the election process.
That’s more along the lines of Russia or Belarus. Trump’s chums.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@bazcook

and those systems work

the usa's current problems are partly because our voting system is so antiquated. which other countries have vastly improved upon and are thus more resilient to the MAGA-like influences

but one benefit of our ancient crappy system is that it is so byzantine and locally controlled. therefore, harder for the orange turd to manipulate

[regguy@mstdn.social]

@benroyce And write it in COBOL to run on IBM 360 systems in keeping with the IRS system.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@RegGuy 😂

[wry@mstdn.social]

@benroyce I keep telling people this is the real reason he keeps saying it. If everyone gives up hope then it doesn't matter if it's true or not.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wry

Unfortunately there's enough mindlessly cynical cowardly spineless Americans out there that #prematureCapitulation is a real effect. These losers (literally, not an empty insult) just give up merely because malice exists in the world. In some ways they are worse than #MAGA. You can fIght MAGA. What can you do with empty inert lumps ready to just submit? #Cynicism is acceptance

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@benroyce
There is no one as tedious and annoying as the "both sides suck" "you're just voting for the lesser of two evils" edgelords

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@PamelaBarroway @benroyce
Amen sister ‼️

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@benroyce This ^ , this makes me so weary, tired (& somewhat angry) that I hear people saying things like this… & *some* are definitely not naive & are very learned people (who are much older than me & have had a lot more experiences) But they don’t seem to understand, well, this ^!
I keep fighting them back when they say things like this. Sometimes it just comes down to “this is not the country I’m fighting for” & I just tell them that they are going to make it worse by talking like that .

[darkphoenix@universeodon.com]

@benroyce @wry sheeple

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@benroyce regardless how I have been “mistaken” about the core values of this country… it still has to be said that there are enough of us who believe that this is the “land of the free and the home of the brave” for ANYONE who calls this country their home… and that’s the country that I want to see “reborn” as it were… and none of this white-supremacy Nazi tolerance. 😾✊🗽

[wry@mstdn.social]

@benroyce I have more hope than this. It's why I haven't stopped talking to people about it.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@em_and_future_cats

This whole era has taught me so many on the right are ignorant bigots. Which you could say I should have known and I agree but I did expect more infighting and not such vast meek complicit silence from so called "patriotic conservatives" against obvious fascism

But also much more sadly many on the left are impotent spineless whiners who won't fight

Vote. Protest

Wringing your hands and paralyzed in mindless cynicism and toxic idealism is just pure loser

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wry

Thank you. I'm a hothead and a loud mouth and I just yell at them. But I admit your approach is more constructive

[wry@mstdn.social]

@benroyce Hotheads have their place too. It will take all of us to survive this mess.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wry

The good cop bad cop routine

We'll make it work