#Trump: *says crazy shit about every group, calling for violence*
#MainstreamMedia: *Sanewashes Trump's insanity for 6 months straight, as if this is real #journalism and not #FakeNews*
Trump: *Threatens to turn the press into a shooting gallery*
Mainstream Media:
#PSA #Misinformation Warning for the #US
In the next 9 hours, Donald Trump will declare Victory Preemptively.
THIS WILL BE FALSE: the votes will not be anywhere NEAR counted enough to make any calls until at least tomorrow, and possibly DAYS from now.
He will make claims like that there are "fake votes" or that things are "rigged', and will likely make statements which his more extreme supports may interpret as calls for violence. We may see people on this network spamming or harassing people.
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.
Election Results are not counted until after the polls close, take a while to carefully check, and are thoroughly vetted on multiple levels by numerous groups both in and out of government.
Do not panic, do not spread Misinformation.
Vote in the election if you are a US Citizen: your vote will likely decide some major things.
Let's get through this together.
- TechHub #Moderation
And on the subject of how we on the Fediverse should view the US Election, take a look at my post about my concerns about Trump and Elon Musk in regards to the Fediverse...
As we get closer to the election, I have realized something which is important to the #fediverse, be it #Mastodon, #Misskey, or any other #instances... Elon Musk, the person many people fled Twitter to avoid is now effectively a member of Trump's inner-circle, and should Trump win, he will have direct influence over the #FCC and #FEC. The consequences of this will be disastrous, not only because it will end all regulation of his businesses, but will allow him to directly attack the Fediverse using regulatory levers. While it's not clear if there is any legal backing for this, most #US based #servers cannot handle this. This is on top of the partisan fight over #NetNeutrality, which Trump went after during his time in office, but Harris will likely protect, just as previous Democrats did. That is why I have no choice, not simply as an #American citizen in a marginalized group, but #TechHub's head of #moderation, to tell my fellow American users to vote for Kamala Harris. Our #Network may depend on it.
TechHub (techhub.social)
In light of the US Election tonight, the network is expecting a wave of #spam, #harassment, and #misinformation, especially after Trump preemptively declares victory.
#Admin s, do your #Moderators a favor and make sure you've got the worst-actor servers blocked.
This is a list I have assembled of all the worst servers TechHub has encountered, with explanations. These are not simply things I saw on #FediBlock or #InstanceBlock, these are hardcore servers where I personally found serious reasons we could not have them on the timeline: #Racism, #Harassment, #Pedophilia, etc.
I just added a couple more.
You can download an importable CSV at...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H6TljzFoEtZ23QE_vaGlJUl6bC7J1I4J
While I encourage you to glance over the reasons, and reach out to me if you think there are any servers that shouldn't be there, I do not recommend going to them to check: many contain illegal content.
Let's all keep Fedi safe together!
@JesseSkinner
Just another reason for Americans to vote for Kamala Harris today...
#WhiteSupremacists: spend huge amounts of money to enslave black people and bring them to #Georgia.
Descendents of said Black People: Vote to give Georgia to #Biden in 2020, and may give it to #Harris in 2024.
White Supremacists:
@jwalker007 @inthehands @marcoarment
So is it just me, or did you make this account entirely to talk about Donald Trump? 
And what makes you think any of this will be convincing to people who support continuing the democracy and oppose scapegoating minorities?
@ShadowJonathan
First I imagine some insane situation where you have politicians training up their secret service teams, like fucking gladiators, making all these rules about what is and isn't allowed in a proper dual, then creating a whole league around getting their secret service teams to beat each other up.
Then I imagined a pretty awesome video game in which you train up your secret service team to fight the other one, and at the end of the fight, once the secret service team is down, you get to walk up to the other player and start beating up their candidate while your secret service team holds them down.
@realtegan @mekkaokereke
Intersectionality is critical.
Do not let optimistic pollsters fool you into thinking this election is already won: the majority of votes that will be cast are going to be cast today, and we are down to the fucking wire.
The #2024election will decide whether the #US remains a stable democracy, or devolves into some sort of crazy white supremacist fascist thing.
This is too important to think you don't need to go out and vote, or to #protest the obvious flaws of the two-party system with a #ThirdParty vote that won't stop Trump from getting elected. Even if you aren't excited about Kamala Harris herself, we need her to win.
So many states are on the line, and any one of them could be the one that tips it to Kamala Harris, and yours may well be one of them. Hell, #Texas, #Florida, #Alaska, and #Iowa are seeing some surprisingly close numbers.
Don't let #WhiteSupremacists and #fascists make this decision for you.
Go out and outvote them.
Get your friends to vote.
Today is the final day, and we don't get another shot at this.
And the individual policy priorities are important too.
Kamala Harris offers a continued #economic recovery (the US is currently leading the world in #job growth) with a renewed focus on #unions, #SmallBusiness, and the average person. Trump offers more tax cuts for #billionaires and passing the burden to the average person, a policy that proved disastrous in the 2019 #financial downturn.
Kamala Harris has talked about the need to expand healthcare access. Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act, claiming he would replace it with the "best healthcare plan", a promise that he has never elaborated on in the past 8 years beyond claiming to have "a concept of a plan".
Harris talks about #house prices, #PriceGouging in the #food industry, infrastructure and job creation, clean energy and #environmentalism, #ChildCare... Trump rambles vaguely about these things, but talks primarily about himself and how great he is.
The choice is clear. Don't let white supremacists make it for you. GO VOTE.
@Twitter_expat @marklevinenyc
Except they did have this at some point, then in the 2000s they were given the same choice we have now, and made the mistake of electing Putin. They now regret that decision.
Despite all the arguments Trump supporters have made to the contrary, #democracy is probably the best system of government we have, especially in terms of forcing politicians to consider the needs of the people, and enforcing norms against #corruption.
Kamala Harris has repeatedly talked about the need to #protect the right to #FreeSpeech and protest, even as she deals with a hyper-critical #news #media and #protestors at her own rallies. Trump and his people literally talk about ending the democracy and shooting protestors and reporters: Elon Musk even bought Twitter to mass-ban journalists, and now he wants control of the #FCC.
It is no coincidence that Trump was one of the most #corrupt presidents in modern history, and the prospect of electing someone who talks this way about democracy should terrify people. Many have been fooled into thinking this is a good idea, abd we need to outvote them.
This election is a mandate on democracy itself: a vote for Kamala Harris really is a vote for democracy.
I know for a lot of people this sounds like we are just simping for some candidate as if we were paid, but they're really is a stark difference.
Kamala Harris has talked of unity and the importance of respecting all #Americans, regardless of #race, religion, #queerness, or political opinion. Trump has brought wild divisive statements to new heights, claiming that Haitian immigrants are eating pets, Jews would be to blame for his loss, and members of the press and his own party should be shot.
It is no surprise that #MassShootings and other #HateCrimes shot up during his first campaign and peaked during his presidency, along with #CrimeRates in general.
Generally speaking, one can't even exist without seeing the ripple effects of this: people on the news, on the streets, at the kitchen table, repeating wildly divisive #misinformation that Trump and his movement have normalized.
We need to move away from the politics of #bigotry, #scapegoating, division.
We need to vote for Kamala Harris.
@snow @loganer
I doubt we will, no matter who is elected, just because Trump is so unhinged, and willing to rile up his followers...
But we will have a transition of power, nonetheless, and at the end of the day, Trump's supporters do not actually have the enthusiasm to violently overthrow the democracy. That's why he's going through this election cycle trying to win it rather than just demanding he be made a dictator.
If we want this to stop, we have to stop it here, by voting for Kamala Harris.
@snow
Don't get mad, go vote.
There is one ideology that pretty much all of this crazy shit is coming out of. Donald Trump is the one who says things like "if I don't win in november, Jews will be to blame". Kamala Harris is the one who will use the platform of the White House to remind people that this is bullshit.
@Twitter_expat @marklevinenyc
Is that true? I'm pretty sure that, in this century, democracy has actually become the norm. I think we focus so much on the big dictatorships and the few places that have regressed to undemocratic systems (as Trump asks us to) that we forget that democracy is a stable and popular system.
Yeah we can think of Russia and China and North Korea, but the the norm is democracies like Brazil, South Africa, India, Japan, and literally every country in Europe and North America. Even with the exceptions to that, the question is how democratic they are, and the trend seems to be towards becoming more democratic over time...
...which is why I keep telling people that if we vote for Kamala Harris, we will be able to push for an even more democratic system moving forward.
It's finally election day in the #US, and in about 14 hours, you will finally hear us shut up about it.
Until then, we'll be pushing for people to VOTE.
I believe that Trump and the Republicans will do everything they've said and more. We need to believe them, and get out the vote to stop them: whatever issues we might have with Kamala Harris, she is, at the end of the day, a caring and responsible candidate. Trump 2.0 will be a disaster for all of us.
If you have not voted, DO IT TODAY. Don't "wait and see", just get out there and VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS.
So many states could tip the close balance, including...
#Pennsylvania
#NorthCarolina
#Georgia
#Florida
#Iowa
#Michigan
#Wisconson
#Texas
#Nevada
#Alaska
...and likely your own state.
Talk to your friends: if you know anyone who hasn't voted yet, reach out to them, offer to take them to the polls, do what you can to get these people where they need to be.
Too much is at stake to not vote for Kamala Harris. Go out and vote!
@marklevinenyc
Kamala Harris is a great candidate. The enthusiasm for her is palpable, even outside her rallies, which is something Donald Trump doesn't have.
It's close, because there's a lot of people to whom the fascist / white supremacist argument really appeals to, but this massive enthusiasm Gap is what makes me think we can win this thing, if we just keep the pressure on.
Let's get people out to vote!
@timdesuyo
Hi there, while I understand the stress of the situation pushing people to do this, the entire point of the hashtag is so that people can walk away from things like politics.
Many of us have already voted for Kamala Harris, and the vast majority of people on this network are completely anti-Trump. There is no need to hijack a hashtag for this sort of messaging.
Please don't do use the Bloomscrolling hashtag for this sort of thing in the future.
