Brutkey

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

#Voltaire's prescient quote on #Fascism and #SocialMedia #Disinfo

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱
@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk

@benroyce@mastodon.social

tl;dr "it's always OK to punch Nazis"

@Robo105@mastodon.social @LoranJohn@mastodon.social

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @Robo105@mastodon.social @LoranJohn@mastodon.social

#AlwaysPunchANazi

#APAN

required viewing from #AamerRahman:

credit: https://www.youtube.com/@foabrownplanet

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Happy #MemorialDay

For all those who gave their lives in the previous struggle against #fascism.

Let us make sure it was not in vain, and that we learn from their sacrifices.

x/x

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

addendum:

required viewing for all Americans

for everyone in the world

made by the US War Department at the end of WWII, a discussion between a regular Joe who almost gets seduced by a fascist street preacher, and a Hungarian immigrant who tells him this is how Hitler started, in detail

at a moment of historical clarity, an inspired piece of propaganda

how #fascism rises: divide and conquer with hate, while regular folks go "just crazy talk"

"Don't Be a Sucker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

I was told following a lot of people is a sign of inauthenticity

But I like the firehose of content

I'll wade into it and get swept away to parts unknown. Isn't that the point of social media, discovery?

And you can make a list for posters you don't want to miss

Someone says something funny... I feel like following them

Why not? Who cares? Are there magic rules here?

FUCK IT

I'M GOING TO FOLLOW EVERYONE!

(Unless you're a "both sides the same" troll/ idiot, then I'm blocking your ass)

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

this gif is all #socialmedia ever was, is, or will be

people blowing off steam, sometimes in impressive ways

so go ahead and enjoy yourself

you can complain and shitpost, of course

you can get into arguments now and then

it's all good

but the primary point should be mirth, enlightenment

if your primary purpose is to stir up division then either

1. you're a sadistic edgelord

you need to rethink your personal issues

or

2. you're part of a purposeful #trollfarm agenda

we see you

😤

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets

#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting

Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)

As an American: don't come here

Don't do business with the #USA

Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates

https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/

#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Don't risk everything trying to save that which needs no saving

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Something extraordinary is happening in #Iran:

#Women are really really not giving a fuck anymore

What started as protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini by religious morality #police in 2022 for not wearing her headscarf simmered and now is snowballing. Women and girls are not wearing the mandatory #hijab at ever increasing rates

https://apnews.com/article/iran-hijab-mahsa-amini-protests-israel-war-d953ebfce090c044ac948aa5e476e7b1

#WomensRights #religion

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Also in 2013:

The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama

Today, the USA coughs up embarrassing shit from incompetent clueless morons like this:

"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/jd-vance-asks-why-dont-ukraine-and-russia-stop-killing-each-other-and-start-trading/ar-AA1QQ8uV

#UkraineWar

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Dear most esteemed intellectual statesman #JDVance:

#Ukraine and #Russia can't "stop killing each other and start trading," you pathetic piece of shit, because Russia daily mass murders Ukrainians for ethnofascist #imperialism

2 days ago a Russian missile struck an apt bldg in #Ternopil, killing 31

2nd grade student Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother Oksana were found burned to death, embracing each other

This happens regularly, you fuckwit fucking shitstain

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0yere4k0zo

#UkraineWar

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

November 21, 2013, 12 years ago: #Ukraine's govt suspends integration with #Europe

Very soon the center of #Kyiv looked like this:

The rest, as they say, is history

#Euromaidan #EU #UkraineWar

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

Also in 2013:

The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama

Today, the USA coughs up embarrassing shit from incompetent clueless morons like this:

"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/jd-vance-asks-why-dont-ukraine-and-russia-stop-killing-each-other-and-start-trading/ar-AA1QQ8uV

#UkraineWar

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

November 21, 2013, 12 years ago: #Ukraine's govt suspends integration with #Europe

Very soon the center of #Kyiv looked like this:

The rest, as they say, is history

#Euromaidan #EU #UkraineWar

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @contrapunctus@en.osm.town

of course that's terrible but why do you think that supports what you're saying?

accepting the fediverse remain fringe and fractured means you also accept continued dominance by facebook

why?

we must accommodate people (nonbigots, no disinfo)

we must not accommodate the whims of asshole mods

it's not about follower count, it's about reach. greater reach means more impact. lowering impact to accommodate douchebags on a powertrip does not help what you linked

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @contrapunctus@en.osm.town

"Federating with servers that spread bigoted lies is wrong"

of course

look at my bio: #NoThreads is displayed prominently

and that is an entirely different topic

the topic here is amongst servers: asshole mods severing connections on pique, not violation of serious rules

individual people should block with abandon

server mods should follow serious rules to suspend, not whim or cruelty

or you rot the #fediverse, you drive people away due to capricious bullshit

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

The end of the video has an inevitable consequence that all #dog owners know 🤣

Also: holy shit, this #doggo has a 10x better care and cleaning routine than I do

#dogsofmastodon #pets #dogs

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
@benroyce@mastodon.social

It's not irony

It's design:

foment ignorant panic about #trans people

and insist on genital inspection

thereby revealing oneself to be the pedophile abuser one accuses, as a lie, trans people of being, and as a deflection of one's own malice and #hate

every accusation is a confession

we will see more and more of this:

"Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her #gender in restaurant bathroom"

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/minnesota-teen-says-server-forced-prove-gender-restaurant-bathroom-rcna224562

#lgbt #lgbtqia #transrights #womensrights #women