#primaries

@flipper@mastodonapp.uk · May 06, 2026

Opened my California primary ballot today and saw this wall of names. This is just for the governor -- there are more pages for the other items. #uspol #California #primaries #governor

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@benroyce@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

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

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@benroyce@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social you're being aspirational, and correct, but you're not announcing *how* to achieve that it's like going "arrest #Trump!" ok and? how? to get #rankedChoiceVoting, which is creeping in in the #USA, and would allow for stable viable 3rd parties... how? we have to elect #Democrats who support that (some do, some don't: vote in the #primaries people!) the #GOP has taken a blanket stand against #RCV nationally, so this is the only way forward

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@benroyce@mastodon.social · May 02, 2026

"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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@benroyce@mastodon.social · Mar 25, 2026

@cascheranno@hachyderm.io @RegGuy@mstdn.social that model has been established: #mamdani corporate centrist dems fought him in the #primaries. people showed up anyways then they positioned cuomo in the general. people showed up anyways now we have mamdani BECAUSE PEOPLE FUCKING VOTED so the model? fucking show up and #vote! get in real leftists! especially the #primaries people whining that centrist dems suck doesn't mean shit. it's a red herring. it's a self-defeating whine ignore centrists and replace them

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@benroyce@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

@ErikUden@mastodon.de 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?

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@benroyce@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Qasim is right about the #DemocraticParty establishment But I want to underline an important point: "I won't #vote until centrist #Democrats magically turn left" is not a coherent position What you do is you vote, in the #primaries, and replace them They won't change. *You* have to vote Not voting merely means they get worse, and #MAGA wins Low voter turnout from the left helped them become as they are today You have to vote IN THE PRIMARIES What did #Mamdani teach us?

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@benroyce__dup_2975@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

"#Hungary's opposition #Tisza party widens its lead ahead of #Orban's #Fidesz" 🤞 🤞 🤞 If Hungary goes sane in April, and then if enough of the lazy entitled lumps in the #USA show up to #vote in November (after showing up in the #primaries to get real left candidates: BE THERE), then we can put a real dent on our emergent #fascism Fuck your #cynicism VOTE Let's do this, "degenerate Westoids" 🤭

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