Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

No one likes libertarian candidates but most people are favorable towards the ideas.
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1354222915479359491 #Luke #Rudkowski #Libertarian

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“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#TerryPratchett #DiscWorld #Fantasy #magic #magick #Literature #Book Quote #Quotes

This rally is different.

Massive shift from highly-speculative, non-functioning tokens in 2017 to #Bitcoin and #Ethereum today, according to Pantera Capital.

RT Libertarian Party
Even at the last moment, #Trump fails to do the right thing and pardon @snowden, Assange, and @RealRossU. Four years later, the swamp remains intact, corruption is still excused, and the 45th #POTUS seals his legacy. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/ https://twitter.com/LPNational/status/1351919589333102600 #Wikileaks #Assange #Libertarian #Snowden

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“Why Mouse Guard Handles Failure Better Than Any Other RPG” https://mythcreants.com/blog/why-mouse-guard-handles-failure-better-than-any-other-rpg/

“Failure moving forward”, the system either has the GM present a new narrative challenge, or let you succeed at a cost that may play out later. It’s compelling as I understand that feeling of having stalled. #MouseGuard #RPG #ttrpg #tabletop #failure

@FreeSoftware I love Libre Software!

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If you moderate one of the groups at groups.qoto.org here is one useful tip.

You can add posts to the group by manually boosting them. Similarly posts made directly from the group account wont show in the group, if you wish for it to show in the group you must immediately boost your own post.

#Groups #GroupServer #Fediverse #Mastodon #Mastoadmin

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Interested in all things nerdy, often obscure things as well:
#science
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Feel free to poke me with conversation!

Just a little reminder of why the two party system is a fallacy and why you should vote third party tomorrow:

1) the chance of Biden-Trump being determined by a single vote is virtually impossible. There is a greater chance that a third party will win the election than there is of Biden and Trump being decided by one vote.

2) Because your vote wont actually determine the outcome of the election what you need to ask yourself is what vote will send the message you want for the future. You cant effect who will win but by bolstering the numbers of the party you think is ideologically the best you send the message for future elections that the party you support stands a chance. You are and always have been voting for future elections, not this one.. so the real vote is, do you wantt o perpetuate a two party system or do you want to see the two party system broken?

3) the primary parties will be on the ballot regardless. Third parties need to have a certain level of support to make the ballots at all. By voting third party you ensure that third parties show on the ballot in future elections and help drive change whereby we can push out the priamry parties from having a monopoly...

In short, there is no argument to support a two party system exists, there is no logical reason that your vote is more effective or does more good voting for a party based on its liklihood of winning. However not voting third party does do real measurable harm, even with just one vote.

If you care about america do the right thing, vote third party!

#uspol #election #election2020 #biden2020 #Trump2020 #Jo2020

Hi!!
I'm using Mastodon for the 1st time, finally I landed!
It took me some time, the signup process... It's hard to grasp but here I am, I heard well about all of this ^^
Before I've been in other decentralized communities, i.e. Minds, ZeroMe, Steem, decentralized video platforms like BitTube, Dtube..

Hopefully happy to be here too : )

Ive got a new version of qoto coming out soon... Stay tuned, new features incomming.