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I grew up in Arizona around this time, and a lot of people in the rest of the US don't understand that these ideas were percolating decades before Trump took office.

My uncle-by-marriage, the son of a Mediterranean immigrant, was where I first heard what we now call "The Great Replacement Theory" (around the early 2000s) People have been talking for a long time about the idea that people from Mexico are coming north to have kids and eventually make the Southwest a part of Mexico.

Imo, Trump didn't come up with any of these ideas himself. Like many are saying, he simply popularized these racist fringe policies and brought them into the mainstream. People were already talking about them with their families and their coworkers, when they could get away with it.

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

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I love old union songs because it's like this fucking asshole was a scab so we fucking threw him in the river and he broke his spine and when he went to heaven he was scabbing on the angels so they fired him down to heaven and the devil was like you have to work in hell for being a dirty scab

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The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

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Reblog to give a trans woman a warm cup of soup

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If you genuinely think he’s a fascist that plans on waging a war of any kind on Americans or foreign nations then my god you’ve never heard or seen anything he’s done. You are truly brain dead if you believe the shit you’ve been fed lol

And this is coming from someone who hates him too but for the shit he actually does not the made up boogeyman you want him to be.

He literally said he want to use military force against the opposition! That is fascistic.

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I keep seeing americans on my timeline acting like voting doesn't matter because both candidates are pro israel...... There's like a bunch of other issues though? I have a lot of queer friends in America, I would like them to not die. And there's abortion rights. Don't get me started on project 2025. You should still vote. Am I crazy?

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she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

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you do not have permission to stop caring about vampires just because october is over btw. vampires are a year round event

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Had this conversation with my partner today. Let me have just one more day of spooky, *please*

  just hear those sleigh bells jingling

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thoughts on croagunk?

Little buddy

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Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops

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Are we boopin' again?

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I don't think I'll ever get to do this, due various (completely valid!) ethical restraints, but I think petting a large cat would fix me