#US stuff

[tiggymalvern]

When the right wing had spent forty years slowly shifting the goalposts while pretending they weren't. This 'backlash' against progress didn't happen overnight. It was deliberate and calculated and it's finally paying off for the billionaires.

[snailchimera]

Letting Trump win will not save a single Palestinian life. Trump and his Evangelical base are far more emotionally, politically, and financially invested in the ongoing genocide, and have far less reason to listen to us when we say US involvement needs to stop. A Trump win will not convince Democratic leadership that they need to give a singular flying fuck about us. There is no benefit to not voting, for anyone, anywhere, aside from fascists.

What a Trump win will do is kill a lot of people, including Palestinian Americans, Palestine protestors, Muslims in general, and leftists in general. It will kill a lot of Jewish people- remember how many Trump supporters are literal, self-proclaimed Nazis- which should be a good enough reason to stop him by itself, but also makes Israel stronger by showing non-Israeli Jews that there really is no safe place for them in their own homes and communities (this is Israel's primary justification for every horrific thing it does). It will probably kill you, and me, and we can't change anything if we're dead.

One of these fuckers is going to be president regardless, and unfortunately which one it is really does matter, not just for those of us in the US but for everyone in the world. We're not voting for a leader. Neither of our options are fit for that, I agree. We're voting for a chance to survive. One option gives us that chance and the other one doesn't.

It sucks. It's not fair. It shouldn't be this way. I know, and I'm so sorry. But I want to live. Don't you?

[dreamerinsilico]

my coworker, hacking and coughing, visibly unwell and also miserable:

me: um, should you be here?

coworker: I used my only sick day yesterday, I just started so I don't have any more

coworker: it's not covid though

me: YOU'RE STILL SICK and also not doing anything in the lab, go work from home or "work from home," FFS

[tiggymalvern]

A white cop (now ex-cop) who pleads guilty to raping a 13 year old girl gets a sentence of 20 days. The same week, a Black woman who pleads guilty to killing the man who sex trafficked her gets a sentence of 11 years.

[fanvoidkeith]

are you setting off bombs tonight

nah, i think fireworks are banned in my area this year. there's been a lot of wildfires, the smoke is making it hard to breathe for everyone (even people like me, who aren't in danger from the fires), and it's just... not great. i'll probably make a grilled cheese to celebrate or something (ivyprism told me it's very american, lol, and i don't really enjoy hot dogs). i've heard there's several virtual fireworks events, though!

tbh, i'm not a huge fan of the fourth of july/independence day as a whole, and fireworks give me huge sensory issues. they're pretty, for sure, but i'd rather experience them through pictures or videos, y'know?

[loki-zen]

feel like US-dominated World Anglophone Culture At Large has an image of doctors as way more inclined-toward-the-interventionist than I find to be true.

And idk how much of this is just people being Wrong (see: there is an abiding image of libraries as ‘strict’ when public libraries are frequently among the least strict public spaces you can be in, and university/hospital libraries are laxer than that even)..

…and how much is actually true, bc Humans Follow Incentives and Organisations Follow Incentives to Create Incentives and y’know for-profit medicine is a crime against humanity etc

[sonicenvy]

even more midterms memes because how else am i going to cope. glad we had a good night in IL, CO, MI, and PA thought.

[scarefox]

Ob ich das mal meinen Eltern schicken sollte, wenn sie wieder Scheiße über LGBTq reden 🤔

Wir sind SPRACHLOS!!! Reaktion auf: Wie CDU & AfD den Hass nach Deutschland bringen

(Transphobie-Welle aus Amerika in Deutschland)

[pumpkingeorge]

🦀🦀🦀

[snailchimera]

I got a fundraiser text but initially dismissed it as another weird clickbaity way to try to get me to look at fundraiser texts, like all the "DEMS PUMMELED???!?" ones that I also tuned out. It was like getting major news from one of those postcards advertising sketchy reroofing services.

[snailchimera]

If you're refusing to vote for the sake of sending a political message to a party you already know and expressly state doesn't actually care, you have written off a vast number of people you claim to support as acceptable losses. You are willing to let those people die for the political equivalent of a junk mail flyer that goes directly to recycling without being read. Or, you're willing to let them die because inaction just feels better to you.

So how exactly do you expect those people to believe you'll stand with them when there are actual consequences for doing so, like getting arrested or shot or having your whole family targeted by modern day brownshirts? You've already demonstrated exactly how much you think their lives are worth.

[dreamerinsilico]

"Your doctor"

I don't have a doctor, even though I do actually have health insurance. Accessing care in this godsforsaken state is prohibitively both expensive and difficult.

I have promised in front of my sibling that I will jump through the necessary hoops to Get A Doctor once I get moved. I need to. I'm *exceedingly* depressed and currently unmedicated, my back is fucked, my sleep is fucked, and also I want top surgery.eventually. But holy fucking shit, accessing medical care should not be this hard.

[tiggymalvern]

"Ambulances were once considered a public good and were funded by the federal government. But in 1981, the Reagan administration transformed funding for emergency medical transportation..."

[tiggymalvern]

Their product is 'We give you permission not to die. Sometimes. Except when we say you should.'

That is a very strange thing to normalise companies selling...

[fanvoidkeith]

yeah i thought the Loud Noise from my Cellular Device was gonna be at. a few hours from now. so i woke up from a weird dream i was having just to hear

BZZZZZZZRRRTRTTTRT