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Yellows and the blues. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cewf1c-vn9B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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View from an Aeroplane Window. #originalart #digital #digitalartwork #digitalart #artoninstagram #art #artistsoninstagram #artistic #artistsofinstagram #artwork #artstagram #artist https://www.instagram.com/p/CHF16qlHCj_/?igshid=1naee55l0jdpm

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~ self control.

Another day I hold my tongue

Another day I watch the woman clad in a brown saree

Take her days’ dues; they are barely enough 

To feed her family.  I would have helped

But I need to leave here in one piece.

I’m sorry.

Another day I don’t fight back

As once again they tell me

I’ve done something wrong in the bathroom I never use

I don’t even shake my head, in fear.

Another day I slowly siphon

Small spatulas of self-esteem 

Into my journal

(I had to make a cipher).

Another day I feel stress

Running through my veins,

Constricting my memories,

Incapacitating my abilities.

Another day of lying to the ones

Who don’t care for the truth:

That I am me and not them.

Just another day.

I’m tired.

I’m used to it.

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I'm aware it's a fallacy, but what else am I supposed to say if your response to a logical rebuttal to your points is you saying that "a party enables riots"? You haven't provided a logical counter argument to the OP that told you why it was necessary to vote Blue, and why voting independent would be futile. I'm not a politics grad, but we know that Dem politicians, on average, are less likely to be genocidal maniacs than American conservative politicians, the latter of whom literally want to overturn Roe v Wade, who enable voter suppression in areas where the BIPOC population is in the majority, mismanage or straight up lie to the American public about how bad the pandemic is (or openly support anti-maskers), lie to the American public about tax returns, have multiple sexual assault allegations against them, etc. (We know this based on differences in statistics between Democratic and Republican presidencies. I'm on mobile so can't link stuff right now, sorry)

For an independent candidate to win in enough constituencies to win the election, their policies would have to garner widespread support and their faces should be plastered everywhere for people to even consider voting for them. As an American living outside the US who is going to vote in the November election, personally I don't even know the names of any independent candidates besides Sanders. Even someone like Sanders (more to the Left than the Democrats and Republicans on most key issues) who was fairly well-known lost out in the end to Clinton, an establishment politician (I don't know if this is the correct academic term, correct me if I'm wrong).

You would need tremendous financial backing and visibility amongst the demographics (sorted by age, ethnicity, income, etc) that vote the most often for an Independent presidential run to be viable (unless you want to use the run to increase your visibility; I don't know the pros and cons of that, however; maybe a politics grad can enlighten us, quite possibly even the one who responded to your post earlier). Right now, financial campaign support for Democrats and Republicans is far more than any Independent candidate has in the present electoral college system. They can put up more ads, do more door-to-door campaigning, be more visible than independent candidates who don't already have a commanding presence nationwide. Marketing also matters, sometimes even more than policy. How do you think Trump won in 2016? People literally voted for a wall.

Waiting for your rebuttal to these specific points. I think the best counters to my points would be either: 1. If you find some justification for why marketing or constructing a cult of personality isn't the thing that wins politicians their seats/ constituencies, or 2. Evidence that Democrat politicians are, on average, as sexist, racist, homophobic, etc or as incompetent as most Republican politicians are. By evidence I mean a comparison of the number of different offenses (with respect to the various despicable views I have outlined above) the average Democrat politician has committed vs the average Republican politician. You can add offenses by Independent candidates into this metric, if you so wish; maybe that'll give us some insight into the "establishment Vs independent" problem we're discussing here.

These are the only 2 ways I can think of right now, of course, there certainly might be more. To make things clearer, we're talking about if we should vote Democrat or Independent in the specific context of Trump currently being the Republican candidate for the 2020 elections.

Apologies for the word salad, but you've got some nerve telling me I've committed a logical fallacy while you haven't even bothered responding to the politics grad's logical arguments. You all are free to call me a bootlicker, I don't really mind. Just make sure you show me a viable third option considering the present method of vote counting America employs.

Edit: if you do not counter my arguments I will assume you don't really have a strong argument in favour of voting third party in 2020. Toodles.

A lot of people are genuinely terrified about what will happen if Donald Trump wins reelection and it’s really weird how some of y'all are acting like everyone begging you to vote for Biden is some privileged, rich, out of touch, neo-liberal when a lot of them are just vulnerable people who don’t want to like…die in a brutal civil war or watch all their remaining rights get stripped away by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.

I do not know how to express to you how much worse it can get.

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Jessica McGarry Bartlet - Rossi Road in Snow, 2018

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Is this person saying this to, like, a literal politics grad and almost-professor of politics??? I can'tttt lmfaooo they sound like a climate change denier talking to a climate scientist

Like why do you think people were so pissed at the Bernie or Bust crowd in 2016? You want a repeat of that in 2020? Yikers!

A lot of people are genuinely terrified about what will happen if Donald Trump wins reelection and it’s really weird how some of y'all are acting like everyone begging you to vote for Biden is some privileged, rich, out of touch, neo-liberal when a lot of them are just vulnerable people who don’t want to like…die in a brutal civil war or watch all their remaining rights get stripped away by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.

I do not know how to express to you how much worse it can get.

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omg i found south asian tumblr!!!  you know, i was feeling somewhat out of touch with my indian-ness and feeling overwhelmed by the steadfast... europeanization (is that even a word) of discourse on here -- and also by internalized racism due to unresolved trauma making me want to completely deny that i ever felt connected to being indian at all -- but even just looking through all these desi hashtags makes me feel so much better!  i realized i don’t have to “act white” and erase my past or my ties to desi culture to eventually move to america (which is something i really want to do because i miss it a lot.  i need to go there before i can even entertain the idea of living here for the rest of my life.  otherwise i will get massive fomo).  i -- i don’t know, i’m just over here feeling grateful to brown people like me just for existing on tumblr.  thank you.  thank you all.

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nobody is irrelevant. nobody is invisible. your neighbors know your name and see you set off to school or work or the backyard everyday, sometimes with a spring in your step and sometimes with hunched over shoulders. there was this one time some stranger pointed you out to their friends and said “that’s the haircut I want” or “I have that shirt, too” or “they go to my school”. someone has admired the way you carry yourself or gave a presentation or even the way you’re so polite when you first meet a person. you’ve made comments or jokes that have stuck in minds of overhearers and eavesdroppers. when old classmates of yours think back to kindergarten or fourth grade or sophomore year they remember you and have an opinion of you. you’ve made recommendations of songs and restaurants and even cookie brands and actually introduced people to their all-time favorites. the cashier at the grocery store knows exactly what laundry detergent your household uses, or even if you don’t do your laundry at all.

you can never be irrelevant. there’s pieces of you everywhere, in a dozen lives, in a hundred dreams, in a million memories. maybe it’s true that you don’t have any friends, and you have a sucky relationship with your family or no family at all and no-one ever checks up on you, and you’re really very lonely, but that doesn’t determine your worth. you do. and so do the billions of small attributions you’ve already made to the world, both long-term and short-term. so thank you.

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A lot of people are genuinely terrified about what will happen if Donald Trump wins reelection and it's really weird how some of y'all are acting like everyone begging you to vote for Biden is some privileged, rich, out of touch, neo-liberal when a lot of them are just vulnerable people who don't want to like...die in a brutal civil war or watch all their remaining rights get stripped away by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.

I do not know how to express to you how much worse it can get.

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for fuck’s sake when will people without mental illnesses stop infantilizing those of us who do have them??? ugh.