My real name is Ben Royce.
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@benroyce ooh i like it ๐ฅฐ
the latter one
. i could call you the former, but it'd be undeserved*, and there are a lot of dipsticks deserving of being called out*though I take your point in contrast to being called Merz
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@davidtheeviloverlord @bweller @benroyce What about a name like Trump.Also unlikely to be real
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce "real names considered harmful"
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce Some of the most vile shit I've seen on social media has been from people using their real names
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce You are absolutely correct.
I wish someone with more journalistic clout than me would draw attention to the fact that Jeffrey Epstein (With his links to Palantir, Steve Bannon, and Israeli Intelligence) was also on the Trilateral Commission, an anti-democratic think tank.
Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz & Mark Carney have also been TriCom members. And, Lo!, their policies increasingly align with Palantir, Bannon, and Israel.
It seems like this should be worth someoneโs attention; especially in the UK, Germany, and Canada.
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@davidtheeviloverlord @bweller @benroyce What about a name like Trump.Also unlikely to be real
@thierry_van_kerm @bweller @benroyce
If only Donald Turnip was fake, nothing more than a figment of the fevered imagination of some hack writer.
Wait. I believe his family changed their surname from the original German surname Drumpf. His name is as fake as his business acumen!
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@benroyce he is on a run: he has talked about so many stupid, intolerant and even discriminating ideas that this guy became the worst chancellor we had so far. He is white, rich, privileged and old and has no clue what real life even means.
He's a puppet of the capital. His task is to deflect from anything that could harm the interests of the rich class.
And in that regard, he's not really different from all the other chancellors before him, just that his way of deflection strikes as being dumb to the extreme. That, however, fits with the current global trend among political leaders; in other words, capitalism breeds too many idiots in power.
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@davidtheeviloverlord
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@davidtheeviloverlord
Was that really about having no real names?I suspect it was more about racism.
A refusal to believe that names unknown in their own culture could actually be valid in another culture.
And an unwillingness to learn about other cultures.
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce People don't know my name when I'm walking outside either. That's a good thing.
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I suspect it was more about racism.
A refusal to believe that names unknown in their own culture could actually be valid in another culture.
And an unwillingness to learn about other cultures.
@davidtheeviloverlord
Will racism ever come to an end? -
@benroyce In my socially obscure case, I'd like to see those glasses try muhahaha
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce there sciantific research what is essentials for democracy, and it's whistleblowers. So corrupt politicians know it too. The reason why they pushing user control - it's fear.
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@davidtheeviloverlord
Will racism ever come to an end?I hope so.
And I say that as a white man, someone who can get unfair advantages from racism, even though I don't want to.
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I hope so.
And I say that as a white man, someone who can get unfair advantages from racism, even though I don't want to.
@davidtheeviloverlord
I really admire people like you who are opposed to such unfair acts. Racism itself won't end because the racists guve birth to children and influence them to be racists. But we can minimise it if we join the efforts against the common cause. Do people know that Racism didn't end but simply evolved? -
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My real name is Ben Royce. I frequently shoot my mouth off on Mastodon. I don't fucking care
That's a luxury many people don't have
Some are trans and live in the USA
Some are in sensitive domestic or work situations
Some are exploring themselves and don't want humiliation or regret following them if they fuck up
Lots of valid reasons for #anonymity
So no Mr. #Merz, that's a stupid idea, fuck off
"#Germany's Merz calls for real names on the Internet"
Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names. "I want to see real names on the internet.
Yahoo News (www.yahoo.com)
@benroyce Thank you very much for this Ben. Of course the title and the name shown here aren't real. Why not?
Usually I'm an extremely transparent person. But I live, in another country to the one I was born and grew up in; in a very rural, low pop. area, and my real name is distinctly foreign, thus easily traceable. I used the name first on Twitter in 2009 (to protect my family) because I'd read how discourse there could be brutal, and I've grown to like it.
Merz is dead wrong here.
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