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If you didn't vote by mail-in, make sure you go out and vote. Participation in democracy is the only way things improve in this country. And while there are many ways to participate in democracy, voting is the first, foremost, and most important.

Voting in local elections, in state elections, in the general election, in primary elections, in all elections. Voting is the most foundational element of democracy. It's the defining factor of any democratic system.

There are people who want to take that right away from us. And if we don't use it, then we might as well let them. Don't let democracy go to waste. Vote.

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Okay, but. I'm pretty sure the height difference would be the other way around. Hajrudin is one of the tallest Giants we have an official height for:

And Road was like a full head taller than Hajrudin here:

To the point that the Straw Hats even commented on Road being abnormally tall by Giant standards.

Whereas Loki seemed to be shorter than the average Giant when we saw him as a silhouette proposing to Lola.

If Loki's looking at Road like this, Loki's standing on a box like this:

Me and my moots on xitter going a little TOO crazy over this shipp, I'M SORRY. THEY'RE SO..UHGHGG...

[It's called Roki]

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This reblog goes out to all the people who voted for Jill Stein in this poll on @apolladay and then complained in the comments about people still voting for Kamala over her.

Jill Stein has never been a good 3rd party option. Even IF a 3rd party stood a chance of winning, Jill Stein in particular would not be preferable to any of the Democrat candidates we've had within the last few elections.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We tried to warn them

https://x.com/SpaceProgKid/status/1853200212598145514

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Don't let people tell you that voting doesn't matter

My grandparents came to this country from an authoritarian dictatorship that literally threw out all the votes. And literally falsified the election results. A country where literally no one's vote mattered - and that was during the years you could vote. (You know, all the things people say about the US to try to convince you that your vote doesn't matter.)

It was a country that literally assassinated their political opponents. And literally sent people who spoke out against them to prison for years of hard labor. (You know, the things Trump has openly talked about doing in the US dozens of times.)

My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were both arrested for refusing to join the governing party. They were both imprisoned for years. Their daughter, my grandma, had to live in a boarding house.

My grandpa, her future husband, was imprisoned for two years because of his country of origin.

My great-grandmother forced them to let her out of prison after two years, but only by virtue of being extremely lucky, tough as nails, and willing to potentially die in the process. My great-grandfather was imprisoned at a work camp for seven years, until his legs stopped working from digging holes in the ground in subfreezing water, at which point they threw him in the snow outside the front gates. The only reason he survived was because of the kindness of strangers who drove by.

My great-grandparents lived the rest of their time in that country with surveillance equipment in their home. Hidden microphones and tapped phones, and my great-grandfather's deep-seated fear that his wife's unwillingness to stop talking shit about the ruling party would land them back in prison.

They tried to assassinate my grand-grandfather. They shot at him while he was walking home from the neighbors', and barely missed. They successfully assassinated his cousin, and almost assassinated eight or so other members of his family in the attack.

Voting matters. The right to vote matters. Imperfect elections still matter.

Trump wants to take us to a country like the one my grandparents moved here from. Don't fucking let him.

And don't let anyone persuade you that it's worth the risk to not vote or vote third party.

The country my family is from is now a democracy. Let's keep the US as one too, please.

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Just so everyone understands.

This is literally how democracy works. Whether it's through activism, electoral politics, protesting, what have you. The more people contribute their power, the stronger the attack becomes.

Unfortunately, if the attack isn't strong enough, this happens.

If we can't pool enough power into it, it's not gonna work.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. That democracy is useless. It just means the the strength of democratic action lies in how much it can gather from everybody around it. It needs power, and its power can only come from the people. With enough power behind it....

Democracy can change the universe.

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you! tumblr user!

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can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?

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Something not mentioned here is that you can control your own shadow to do things for you, shape-shift it, and even swap places with it from a long distance.

That's the main benefit of the Fruit if you're not removing shadows from other people.

WOULD YOU EAT THIS DEVIL FRUIT?

Name: Kage Kage No Mi, Shadow Shadow Fruit

Current user: Gecko Moria

Type: Paramecia

This fruit allows the user to manifest and control shadows of living creatures, as physical and tangible forms by stealing them. After that, they can insert them in bodies of other people, dead or alive. In the first case, these people become zombies after the transformation.

Fun fact: The way Moria produces shadows from his victims, by cutting them off like pieces of clothing from their feet, resembles Peter Pan's own cloth-like shadow.

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I feel like there's a difference between they/them (singular gender neutral) and they/them (multiple, not necessarily gender neutral).

Considering She-Venom is presumably a combination of the gender-neutral Venom and a woman, the name seems more like a portmanteau between both halves. Half She, half Venom. She-Venom.

Really, Eddie Brock should be called He-Venom.

Why are they called She-Venom if their pronouns are they/them?

Unless only Veddie's pronouns are they/them.

Either way, I bought this skin because I'm down bad horrendously for Venom.

Symbiotes in general.

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Glorio does have some comedy to him, in that he's the one who knows and is used to the wacky stuff in the 3rd Demon World. Shin gets to play Straight Man to him when he's like "riding a plant rocket is completely normal" and stuff like that.

He's also really good at haggling, which seems to be a necessary skill here, and has fun little quirks, like he doesn't like eating medi-bugs.

And obviously he's got some ulterior motive, when Goku talked him into going to collect the Dragon Balls, there was a tense stare-down between him and Shin and then he smiled when he turned away.

I wouldn't really describe him as "grim". More just "serious". He's not pessimistic, just matter-of-fact.

And I would also say that Shin is helping carry the show almost as much as Goku is.

I hope some more characters join the team for DAIMA because so many of the demons have cool designs but Glorio and the little girl in the OP/ED are just blue, pointy-eared humans :( that lady demon with the tiny wings outside the hotel was way more interesting-looking

Yeah, more variety in character designs would be nice.

I'm not 100% sold on Glorio thus far. He's been intensely ultra-serious but not in a fun way where his seriousness provides a fun contrast to Goku's silliness. Kaioshin seems to be the designated Straight Man to Goku's Goofball, and meanwhile Glorio is nearby scowling.

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kinda thought the demon girl was gonna be, like, Glorio's little sister or something who gives him a lot of shit and forces him to bring out new shades of his personality. But apparently she's a completely unrelated rando they pick up on the side of the road. So. No idea how that's gonna go.

But Glorio desperately needs something more to his personality than just "being grim" and "owning a gun". Right now, Goku's having to carry the entire show on his back.

Which... again, I'm hoping the new girl will help with. She seems fun. But also, something desperately needs to happen to make Glorio grow a personality.

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Or:

Sorry I couldn't find a better Law picture

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On the topic of fact-checking, being an argumentative fact-checker is actually what radicalized me against the police, fun fact.

It's no secret by now that I grew up very conservative. My family voted for Bush both times and still to this day defends the Iraq War for "bringing democracy and stability to the Middle East". That's how deep red my roots are.

So I grew up basically worshipping and glamorizing the police. They were our superheroes. The warriors of peace and justice defending us from the scary evildoers of society. As an effeminate white boy with undiagnosed gender stuff and a chip on his shoulder about needing to come up with a way to prove his masculinity to himself, I actually wanted to become a cop.

So there I was, a twenty-something white boy who thought capitalism was neato and that racism was over, watching social movements spring up against policing.

And I made it my personal mission to throw myself into these conversations to exonerate the police and explain why they really did nothing wrong. Absorbing every scrap of information every time a controversial police killing hit the news so I'd be armed for verbal battle in the culture war around police.

A set of conversations that, in practice, went something like this.

"No see because if you actually read the article and don't just skim the headline, you'll notice that... He was running away and wasn't a threat to anyone... I mean. Okay, that one's a murder."

"But if you look at this one, then... body cam footage shows that they lied about him having a weapon. That. That's a murder."

"This one was lying flat on his stomach... and then they shot him seventeen times. I don't... I don't know why they did that."

"THIS one... is a murder. And that's a murder. ...they shot him when he was sitting at the dinner table?"

In the course of looking for material to defend cops, what actually ended up happening was I wound up educating myself about police brutality. That's when I made the jump to "Maybe it's a training issue. The police kill a lot of people for no good reason. But. You know. They serve an important role too. You know? We have to have police. We shouldn't have police like this, but... we have to have police."

What broke me was the Supreme Court decision that police have no legal responsibility to protect people. That their job is not to safeguard the wellbeing of citizens. I lost my mind, screaming, "THEN WHAT IS THE FUCKING JOB!?!? THEY MURDER AND THEY STEAL AND THEY LIE, AND WHAT IS IT FOR!?!? WHAT IS THE JOB!?!?"

And that's when I realized that they're just a mafia. A white supremacist militia group cloaked in an illusion of legitimacy, used to create a false sense of security for middle-class white people like my family. So nobody will question it when they deploy military-style against the underclass and "unsavory" minority groups.

An institution that can't be reformed because "reform" implies that there is some nugget of good, some intrinsic value to the organization that's simply been lost by the decay and corruption. But the actual job the institution exists to perform is to fund the state through writing traffic tickets, uphold capitalist interests, and shoot poor (mainly non-white) people for sport.

So.

Y'know.

Fucking abolish the police.

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The new Vivre Cards have canon heights for the Seraphim!

S-Snake is 208cm or 6'10", which is 17cm taller than Hancock (191cm or 6'3")

S-Hawk is 212cm or 6'11.5", which is 14cm taller than Mihawk (198cm or 6'6")

S-Shark is 320cm or 10'6", which is 19cm taller than Jimbei (301cm or 9'11")

S-Bear is 660cm or 21'8", which is 29cm shorter than Kuma (689cm or 22'7")

Hopefully, this'll finally get fan-artists to draw them at their proper heights.

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We’ll have to do dinner Thursday night instead.

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this is how i look hunched over my computer rn

rt tho i think robin would absolutely love boops and would be going ham on the boop button