Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>inthehands</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>StillIRise1963</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.io/@tarheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tarheel</span></a></span> </p><p>study the history of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chile</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/southkorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southkorea</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a></p><p>look at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serbia</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgia</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hungary</span></a> today</p><p>corrupt, murderous regimes, opposed</p><p>they fought! they're fighting!</p><p>what you about you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a>?</p><p>i will not listen to arguments saying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/american" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>american</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> is doomed:</p><p>hopelessness</p><p>cynicism</p><p>it only helps <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocrat</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigot</span></a> malice</p><p>you fight</p><p>you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a></p><p>now and forever</p><p>that matters</p><p>"but it should be easy"</p><p>never is and never will be</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a>:</p><p>show a fucking spine</p>