#US stuff

[craycray-wolf]

IMPORTANT POST FROM THE BEACONTOWN SERVER

The following is a screenshot of the announcement, PLEASE READ

Someone also shared on the server the following prompts:

"SOME STUFF IF YOURE STUGGLING TO FIND WORDS FOR THIS

"I urge you to recount the election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. Ballots are being discarded. An investigation and recount for this election is urgently needed."

OR

" I am a concerned citizen, and I need you to hear me. I urge you to recount the ballots from this election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations, causing some to close early. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. An unprecedented number of ballots have been rejected and require curing. There have been reports of polling officers allowing voter intimidation in and outside of polling places across the country. And an estimated 20 million mail in ballots are unaccounted for. A thorough investigation and recount for this election is urgently needed. Please take action, all votes cast should be heard. Thank you. "

OORRRR

"As of the 6th of November 2024, there have been at least 32 fake bomb threats called into democrat leaning polling locations, which ended up in many polls to have been closed for at least an hour. Many people have reported that ballots were not counted for suspicious reasons such as signature invalidation which is information that vote counters do not have access to. These events have occurred in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, for instance. This is very coincidental and is unfairly in favor of candidate Donald Trump's favor after months of suggesting electoral foul play. A recount of the votes is not enough. Launch an investigation on tampering, interference, and fraud." "

[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?

[tiggymalvern]

Trump will have a red Senate and almost certainly a red Congress. The next two years will see a lot of really shitty laws passed.

In some cases, whether to enforce those laws or turn a blind eye will come down to individuals. When the law is wrong, breaking the law is the right thing to do.

[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

[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

[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]

🦀🦀🦀

[sonicenvy]

thinking about how one of those crappy things that you have to do when you work at any wide open public space or school or whatever in America is that annual active shooter drill or active shooter training. It's one of those things that honestly so fucking depressing about living in this country, that you have to constantly be prepared for the possibility that some nutjob with guns will randomly decide to attack your workplace or your school. Like ... is this a thing in other countries?? idk. But it sucks that not only are such individuals out there, but that in this country those bastards have ready and easy access to military grade guns.

The worst part is that over half of americans are in favor of stronger gun control and 81% of Dems/lean dems are in favor of stronger gun control. We want to improve gun control in this country, but the current laws are not in our favor.

So, for now, all you can think, in the back of your mind is will it come to me? when will it come to my community? There was a mass shooting 20 miles from where I live last year, and that day, while the shooter was still at large, all I could think about was will it come to us?

I think one of the top things I hate about living in this country is literally this specter of tragedy that we all have to live in. Schools, parks, parades, shops, movie theaters, clubs, and many more public places are all tainted with it. It happens nearly every day across our country. Guns are the leading cause of death for CHILDREN in this country -- in 2020 alone over 1000 children died by firearms in America. I fucking hate this so much. I honestly feel as though the NRA is a national terrorist organization for championing guns and easy gun ownership. Thousands of people in this country needlessly die because of firearms.

If you live in a country that doesn't suffer from massive, needless, tragic gun violence, I don't think you can understand. The fact that so many of these tragedies happen across this country that they blur together in our collective memory is horrific and, frankly, traumatizing for so many Americans. You just have to sit with the quiet background memory that it can come to you at any time. It is so common that employers like mine have their staff do drills or training for the possibility of an incident -- they're like clockwork, like a fire drill or a tornado drill.

I don't know where I was going with this post beyond being angry about the state of affairs over this issue in my country. Every time I have to watch those active shooter training videos for my job, it just makes me angry and sad. It's not fair that we have to live with this, that we have to sit with this, and it makes me furious when people from other countries (especially smarmy europeans) make fun of this whenever a shooting is so big that it reaches the international news. The things that I saw that some smarmy europeans say in the aftermath of Uvalde made me see red. CHILDREN died.

once again, the actual, main, central political theme of this blog is that the GOP and the NRA should rot in hell.

[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]

Well. Today's the day.

Time to find out if I still get to have a future.

[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.

[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]

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

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