#abolish time zones

[cuntvonkrolock]

being in a long distance relationship is so ridiculous bc when i wake up my first instinct is to go "i should say good morning to my boyfriend!" so i check my clock app to see if it's awake by now and then its like fucking 4:30 pm where hy is

[kettlefire]

Prepare for the unexpected. (DPxDC)

Everyone knew about the reign of Pariah Dark. Even those who did not dabble in those realms have heard the tale of the tyrant. A power-hungry man who ruled over the dead with an iron fist.

Following the rise of Pariah Dark, his realm had been effectively cut off from communication. Many mystics and magic users knew better than to open the door of nightmares that could arise if Pariah Dark's reach went further than his own realm.

Except, the universe had plans to bring the realm of the dead back into the cards.

A new opponent, one that had all of Earth's heroes scrambling for options. A being with powers of a god over weather, destruction was on the horizon. A world ending threat.

It's the only reason the Justice League was doing this. In a deep bunker, far from close civilization as a precaution, the heroes looked on with grim expressions.

The world was already being threatened. It would be destroyed regardless of what the league did. So it only made sense to make the last ditch effort. To summon someone strong enough to defeat the threat.

No one wanted to do it. No one wanted to be the one to pull the realm of the dead back to the living. The consequences were untold if this succeeded. If Pariah Dark was freed and defeated the threat, whose to say he won't want control?

That was a problem for later. For the aftermath. For now, the league could only watch on with bated breath as Constantine completely the summon ritual.

They watched on as the shadows in the room seemed to darken and grow. As the sigil sputtered to life with a glow that was growing increasingly brighter. A sudden gust of wind rushed through the room, the temperature began to drop with eaching ticking second.

And then it was all gone.

The room stood perfectly still. Just as it had been moments before. Nothing changed. No giant king standing before them, no sign that the ritual worked.

The room stood deadly still for another beat before the murmurs started. The team trying to make sense of the situation, figure out what went wrong.

Constantine swore up and down that this was the correct ritual, taking offense that they would even think the problem was on his end. It only made it better when it finally happened.

A loud sound ripped through the room, pulling everyone's attention back to the summoning circle. Just in time to see a tear appear in the space above the circle.

A thin tear that ran the length of eight feet. The fabric of the dimension seems to curl at the edges, pulling back to reveal a deep glowing swirl of greens. A dark gloved hand reached through, fingers curling around the edge of the tear, stretching it even further.

A portal. The ritual had worked, but there had been a delay. A delay that had every hero nerves on edge. Each team member tensed, weapons at the ready as they watched the being stretch the portal to the right size.

Then, a foot stepped out with a heavy thud. A dark boot that looked otherworldly despite its similarity to mortal clothing. A deep black that seemed never-ending. A second foot quickly followed before a full body emerged from the portal.

Not many people in the room have ever seen Pariah Dark, let alone know what to expect. Based on what Constantine and Zatara had said, this wasn't Pariah Dark.

A man had stepped out of the portal, standing at almost seven feet tall, and built like a brick house. One glance at the glowing white hair, deadly red eyes, and shard teeth was enough to know this being was not to be messed with.

But there was no giant show of armor or royal garbs. There is no large crown at the top of his head or jewelry from the infinite realms laced around his neck.

Instead, the man stood before them in combat boots, worn-in ripped jeans, a graphic t-shirt, and a spiked leather jacket. Despite his almost normal clothing choice, the man's jacket seemed to be a never-ending depth of the dark night sky. If one was to look closely enough, the cosmos could almost be made out in the sea of darkness.

None of that would have prepared them for when the man spoke. His tone sounded more bored than anything as he took a step forward.

"Oh, so now you need the help of the dead." The man had spoken, running a hand through his hair. When Batman took a step forward to speak, the man raised a hand. Immediately commanding silence in the single gesture. "I'm on babysitting duty and have yet to have a cup of coffee. I'll be right back."

Just like that, both the man and portal vanished into thin air. Leaving behind a group of stunned heroes. Not only was the man not Pariah Dark, but he was also supposedly babysitting.

"Did that just-"

The Flash had been the first voice to speak up, his eyes trained on where the man had once stood. Except he had barely made it through the first few words before the man was suddenly back.

The man that now had a child hanging off his shoulders and another teen being held up by his scruff. Unlike the man, these kids looked human.

Too human for Bruce's liking. The dark black hair and bright blue eyes had every heroes eyes flickering to Batman for just the briefest moment.

"This isn't fair! I'm not even the king. Why do I have to be here!" The teenager had been complaining the moment the man had reappeared. Arms crossed tight over his chest and seemingly used to being held dangling. "Besides, who brings kids to a show down! Wait til I tell mom about this."

"Aw, come on, Danny. This is gonna be fun!!" The younger girl seemed in much better spirits than the teen, Danny. She had climbed up the large man, sitting on his shoulders and resting her arms on the mess of glowing hair. "It's like take your kids to work day! Ooo, Dan! Can we fight too!?"

Unlike the two kids, the man looked purely exhausted and annoyed. The man, Dan, dropped Danny like a sack of potatoes as he took a long drink from the travel cup in his hand.

It didn't take a genius to recognize the look of an exhausted parent in Dan's expression. A look many of the league members were well acquainted to. A look that even had Batman grimacing with sympathy.

"Can it, little shits. You two were grounded, remember." Dan had growled at the kids before shifting his focus back on the team of heroes before them. His glowing eyes set in a deadly glare. "Pariah Dark isn't coming, and he never will. He's been dethroned and banished. We're the best you've got."

A summoning that started with a group of on edge and scared heroes looking for the ghost king, ended in a way no one expected.

No one was even sure if it made any sense. They weren't sure if they should feel hopeful or in despair.

Because truly, what was a ghostly man with two seemingly human children against a godlike foe with the control over the weather?

The unspoken question of power and ability seemed to vanish following Dan downing the metal travel cup of coffee, and crushing it in his fist.

He tossed it to the side, straighting up his posture as he looked over the heroes. Dan might not be a hero, but he's been playing family for too long.

An almost feral, bloodhungry grin spread across the man's face, sharp fangs on full display. The look made the man suddenly look even less human. He looked closer to a demon from the pits of hell rather than the exhausted parent he looked just a few seconds ago.

"Point me in the direction of this bastard. It's been too long since I let loose and had some fun."

[otrtbs]

UK / EUROPEAN MUTUALS WAKE UP AND BLOG AT THE SAME TIME AS ME ‼️ MY NIGHT IS NOT UR NIGHT ANYMORE AND I GET THAT BUT LIKE THE LEAST U COULD DO IS BE UP AT 5 OR 6 AM TO BLOG WITH ME 🙄💔

[cowboylikesel]

i can’t go back to eras shows being at 3am again after tomorrow

[dance-world-14]

well well well its 1am uk time and im too tired to put myself through the this so heres to another year of mindlessly searching through yt for dance off videos on a random friday morning in june 😍

[brewdairymore]

coworker who calls me at 7:30 am just to ask if i know where something is on the sharedrive

[sourcreammachine]

UTC+1 is not the enemy

it is 22:30 and fucking bright outside

petition to ban summer

[puppynametaken]

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[elcucurucho]

literally the only thing stopping phil (methodical overly cautious coordinator and cataloguer of information) from being best investigation buddies with cellbit (methodical paranoid coordinator and puzzle enthusiast) is the time zone difference. we need to abolish time zones

[badjokesbyjeff]

Russian prime minister Medvedev comes to Putin and nervously tells him to abolish time zones.

" I fly to another city, call home and everyone is asleep. I woke you up at 4AM but I thought it was only evening. - I call Angela Merkel to congratulate her on her birthday and she tells me she had it yesterday. - I wish the Chinese President a happy New Year, and he says it will be tomorrow."

"Indeed" Putin replies "but that's only minor stuff. Remember when that Polish plane crashed with their president? I called them to express my condolences, but the plane hadn't taken off yet!!"

[centrally-unplanned]

If given unlimited power to dictate US domestic policy, what would be your top three projects?

(An ask from my long "things to respond to" list lol) Well this depends on what we mean by "unlimited". Like if you actually get handwave away the constraints of legitimacy and rivals to power, then in a certain sense politics is solved-by-cheat-code. If that applied I would simply become dictator for life with a democratic succession in place (since my predecessor won't have my magic) and rule amazingly, everyone would be better off, and they would not invent reasons to undermine my vision because I have "unlimited power", right?

So setting that aside, let us instead say I have a window of opportunity of a unified Congress & court system for my agenda, but within the normal constraints, will fade quickly, etc. I would primarily aim for structural changes - I would reform Congress & the Supreme Court, for one. Abolish the senate, implement voter reform (I think I keep candidate-voting over party voting, since I want to work "in the system" and I think it is fine, so stuff like rank-order ballots and multi-member districts). If I can swing it, I repeal the 10th Amendment - the default state should be the federal government has the authority to do things, times change, all state authority should derive from federal authority, not vice versa.

I pretty radically reform the Supreme Court - no more lifetime appointments ofc and all that, sure, but I also structure it to be more directly integrated into the government. If congress is debating a bill, the SC will directly consult on its legality, and when it is passed its constitutionality and major "points of debate" will already be decided. The "adversarial" legal system, while fine enough for criminal law, is awful for governance - I would do away with it for consultative approaches. But to go deeper than specific SC/Congress would, imo, but overly ambitious, and start breaking things.

Even though these are pretty radical if Congress & the governors all agreed to do it a la this magical premise, wider society wouldn't push back that. Most people either don't care about this stuff, or in fact actively don't like the current system. They would be more likely to stick, unlike "open borders" which would immediately face wide revolt.

That probably counts as three, but if not just for fun I abolish local zoning in its entirety and just copy-paste the Japanese zoning code system onto ours and have a central ministry control zoning for the entire country. Primarily for revenge.

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

You have closed all my paths, you have melted in you all my impulses and all my desires, you have erased for me the rest of the world that is not you; but the insatiable thirst still burns me and the race continues, more dizzy than ever. I want everything from you, and the more I am given, the more I demand with all my strength.

It is true that we still lack many things, but I wonder to what extent and if a few months or a few years ago I had been asked to make a wish which, if granted, would justify my life in my eyes, I would simply have wished to be one day closer to you than what I am today. You must not regret anything and you must not worry about me. I spoke to you in the letter that gave rise to the scruples that you are telling me today, about the children that I could have had. It is certain that sometimes I think of them, of our children, with a painful melancholy, but, believe me, I did not know enough about the happiness that they could bring me to really miss them and I desire them much less as my children than as yours, as ours.

The very impossibility of realizing this dream exalts and nourishes it, and if I had to give it up forever in order to live with you for a while, I would not hesitate. Yes, I wish that with all my soul, and no matter how hard I look, I can't find anything that can console me for our fate, that can reconcile me with the lack that our distance leaves in the happiness that was given to us. However, if I search well, if I really look, if I disguise myself from all these veils with which I want to wrap myself, then... I must confess that a common life which would neither bring nor take away anything, that once acquired, other deviations, other more serious gaps perhaps, would come to take the place it now occupies in my imagination, where it serves now a backdrop between far more irretrievable separations, ever impassable distances, and my inexhaustible need to abolish and bridge them.

So, you see, near or far, at this point, we can say that we have won, and whatever life has in store for us, it will have been very merciful. But if all these days spent preparing, thinking, creating those that will come and that would not be what they will be - if events had been different - had been offered to us in a way that we could have enjoyed them together and without torment, what would we have done with them? Are we sure that we would have taken them in such a way as not to lose a minute or even days or even months? Oh! I know! You're going to tell me that I'm doing the philosophy of a janitor or the psychology of a lamppost; but... it's necessary... it's necessary from time to time.

And, in any case, if you don't think like a lamppost and if you don't dream too much about mosses while reading this letter, you will perhaps feel that I am giving you one of the greatest proofs of love that can be demanded of me, by confessing certain things that I hardly dare to reveal to myself. Now you can let me speak when it happens that I escape again towards horizons of quiet happiness and peaceful life.

Go! I can still talk. And now you know that I know that you know what is deep, deep inside me. This does not prevent the spring from blooming what it touches, and my heart, my body, my soul from crying out after you, from suffering after you, from dying, from screaming, from laughing. And there is something that cannot resign itself to your absence, it is my poor little body that stretches out in vain towards you, that writhes, that whimpers and cries after you, my sad little body that stunts from day to day and that asks unceasingly to blossom, to warm up, to beat, to quiver.

Oh my beautiful, my dear love! Oh burning! O my sweet pain! O my life! Here I am filled with shivers, mysterious undulations, delicate and secret sounds. You wanted my letter to bring you a little warmth! It has awakened in me again all that dark and intimate zone that I love so much to feel just in my center, in my middle, that vibrating zone that moves me as much as the presence of a child in my belly, or even more, knowing it better. She has touched that tiny point in me, but which you know and love, and I tremble all over. Happy, oh yes, happy. Happy and overflowing with love, desire and tenderness. I am waiting for you every day. I run too; I run unceasingly towards you. The coast is coming to an end, my darling. Soon the sight of the sea, and then the beach and the waves.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, February 10, 1950 [#182]

[loving-n0t-heyting]

In a recent post complaining about a certain type of person doing a certain type of take, you listed 'there is literally nothing to be said about housing than "build moar and abolish zoning"' as one such take, alongside other more disagreeable ones, etc.

Could you expand upon your disagreements with this? Is it that you think "homelessness will require active spending to fix", "Housing policy should include improved legal protections for renters(and just building more housing to provide alternatives isn't enough)", or something more fundamental in opposition?

I will say that housing is an area where a lot of my concrete stances are unsettled, i used to more or less imbibe standard yimby views from my social sphere and have grown more agnostic over time. But milquetoast fence sitting aside i will say this:

Building lots of high end housing can, in fact, cause problems for existing local residents that need to be considered when implementing construction. Short term rising rents and displacement, primarily

Idt any amount of market rate housing will fully solve the problem of housing affordability for poorer tenants. Some amount of govt intervention—best of all in the shape of vienna-style public housing projects, plus rent control and other forms of decommodification—is necessary to properly relieve the burden of housing costs for all sections of society. For at the very least the obvious reason that low income housing is just not that profitable

I am any amount sympathetic to preserving and fostering local urban community and culture. This talk gets abused but i think i take it more seriously than most "just build!!!" yimbies. Jane jacobs type stuff

Its petty but gawd the new luxury construction that i see built around here is so ugly. Theres no fucking law saying a high rise isnt allowed ornamentation or colour or anything besides the aesthetic of babbys first minecraft architecture. And the brutalism and hideous masses of steel and glass fandom has gotta stop whining about how persecuted they are. You guys have a monopoly on new devt and yr design preferences are massively unpopular, they should be represented in architecture in proportion to their meagre popularity among the public that has to live around it. Theres a reason the far right loves "retvrn to buildings that look nice" as a foot in the door for radicalisation, its bc most ppl are agreed the buildings yimbies drool over look like shit. Architects are an oppressor class

I am probably a "left yimby" with caveats when all is said/done. More housing and denser housing seem like urgent needs but these are not problems you can fully offload to the market without unfairly screwing a lot of ppl over

[rowayneau]

Hazbin Sugar Sugar Rune AU

The heart is yours to take, but you must not allow yours to be taken.

The concept of this AU is based on elements of the anime/manga Sugar Sugar Rune.

Sugar Sugar Rune is about two witches who are best friends, Chocolat and Vanilla, who compete to capture the most hearts in the human world. Whoever is victorious will become queen of the Magical World, but there's a catch. If their own hearts get stolen, then they can lose their lives.

In this AU, the two protagonists will be Charlie and Emily. Representatives of Heaven and Hell participate in a task to understand humanity proposed by God. God has returned to Heaven and seen Heaven's method for the overpopulation in Hell. 

While he can see that they believe there is no other way to curb the overpopulation problem, he could also see that they didn’t understand humanity enough to provide the alternative and just went for the extreme solution. There is also a superiority complex they have because since they are in Heaven and are angels, they would not make mistakes and when mistakes are made they just double down on it and never admit or correct it.

This is the same for Hell as well, Hell is built from sin and darkness of the world and humanity. They built a society based on selfishness and apathy, where every person for themselves. It’s a perpetual cycle, where one is hurt and the other is hurt back. Sinners forget their humanity as they try to survive the harshness of Hell, forgetting whatever good they had from their time of living. Where a single mistake will get you screwed for an eternity and a system where everything is rigged against you. It’s no wonder the idea of redemption is found ridiculous, as there is no hope for it to work when everything is against them.

Thus, God created a proposal. If both Heaven and Hell can understand the hearts of humanity, he will abolish the exterminations and allow the concept of redemption and reincarnation. Should they fail, the system will remain as it is.

The plan is one representative from each realm will travel to the human world and live among them. The two representatives will live as humans and need to keep their magic to the minimum. They must not reveal their true nature as an angel and a demon and if revealed they must either find a way to erase the humans memories or they will be dealt a penalty.

While in the human world, they are granted a power to “Pick-up Hearts”. “Hearts” are the crystallized emotions of humans and can be “Pick-up” using the magic that is granted. “Hearts” can come in a variety of colors and they can be different values based on their colors. “Hearts” also can come into two categories. Positive based “Hearts” and negative based “Hearts”. Both have their own value and color scheme for it.

Both representatives must collect “Hearts” to a certain quota to fulfill the goal of abolishing the exterminations. They will need to earn the humans love or trust by helping fulfilling a human wish or helping the human on what they need. If the human feels strong emotion towards either of the two, the strong emotions will be crystallized and can be collected.

But there is a twist in this assignment, in order for both representatives to truly understand humans, they must work outside their comfort zone. 

This means Charlie as Hell representative will have to “Pick-up” positive hearts such as joy, love, gratitude etc. She must “Pick-up” from humans who don't really remember to feel this anymore, such as people with depression, people down on their luck etc., similar to sinners in Hell. She must help these people to remember their life and joy, to keep on living and that sometimes with a little help or push they can change their life around. This will also teach her that things are not always easy and people can’t change easily. She will see that the life of a human is hard and will even realize she is quite sheltered from her people and not really knowing her subjects at all. She will need to take action instead of just positive reinforcement to incite change.

As for Emily, as Heaven representative will have to “Pick-up” negative hearts such as greed, lust, wrath etc. She must “Pick-up” from humans that are good but are pushed/abused, humans have no motivation to act because it’s “wrong” etc. The kind of people that are too nice and are taken advantage of and dying early because of it. Negative emotions are not evil, it just depends on the intention. For example, you can have righteous wrath and use it to stand up for yourself and for the people you care about or you have the greed to kick start your ambition and have the initiative to do it. It’s not a bad thing to have it, but be careful on how it’s used. After all “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”, the most prime example is Lucifer’s Pride and the Apple of Eden. Emily must learn how rough the human world is and how shades of gray people need to go to survive.

The heart is yours to take, but you must not allow yours to be taken. 

That is the absolute one rule that God reinforced. You can take the hearts of humans but you must not let your heart be taken. This is to ensure that both representatives won’t pull “A Lucifer” and cause who knows what chaos to the human world. They must not fall in love with a human and let their hearts be awry. Should that happen, the representative is immediately disqualified and will be considered a failure.

Let the games begin.. How will the story unfold…Stay tuned Folks…….

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Omake

Lucifer being his usual over protective self can’t stand sending Charlie to the human world by herself. She can’t bring Razzle and Dazzle along and has to leave them behind, so she’s going there with no protection. He can’t have that so he began searching his castle for a solution. There he came across a contract, a contract left behind by his wife after she disappeared.

 It’s still active and it’s contracted to a human still living in the human world. This is perfect!! With his magic, he can modify the contract to his favor and make this human watch over Charlie and also keep an eye on the angel too.

Now let’s see, it looks like the human is a radio host…….

Note: This is somewhat Human AU so a lot of characters will be living humans

[lboogie1906]

First Lieutenant Nancy Leftenant, known as “Lefty” (September 29, 1920) was to the late James and

Eunice Leftenant in Goose Creek, South Carolina. She graduated from Amityville High School, Amityville, New York.

She graduated from New York’s Lincoln School of Nursing. She tried to sign up for the Armed Forces but was informed that the military was not accepting Black nurses. She persevered and in January 1945, she volunteered and was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist. Nurses of Color were not permitted into the regular Army at that time. She was given the rank of Second Lieutenant and her first assignment was to Lowell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Massachusetts where she treated WWII wounded. She and other Black nurses impressed the doctors due to their superior performance so they were promoted to First Lieutenant after only 11 months.

In 1946, she was assigned to the 332nd Station Medical Group, Lockbourne Army Air Base. She became the first Black woman integrated into the regular Army Nurse Corps.

She was assigned to Lockbourne Army Air Field when President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981, abolishing segregation in the military. In 1948 she applied for and received Regular Army Nurse Corps status.

The 332nd Fighter Group was deactivated at Lockbourne Air Force Base.

Once the Tuskegee Airmen were disbanded, she joined the Air Force. She served in Germany, Tokyo, Alaska, Ohio, Alabama, Maryland, New York and New Jersey. She was a Flight Nurse with the 6481st Medical Air Evacuation Group, Tachikawa, Japan. She set up hospital wards in Japan and active war zones. She was credited with saving many lives during the wars. She had to wait five years for her certification as a Flight Nurse. She returned to Amityville High School as the School Nurse.

She married Air Force Reserve Captain Bayard K. Colon after retirement. She and five of her twelve siblings served in the military. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[cazort]

Whenever I post about how I am voting for Kamala Harris and think it's important to vote for Democrats, and my post starts blowing up, I get a lot of negative comments from people who claim to be progressive, saying things like "Voting doesn't matter." or" Both parties are the same".

And here's the thing. I always check out these people's blogs.

And you want to know what? I never, not once, have found any of these people posting anything actionable to move beyond the two-party system. None of them mention or talk about ranked choice voting (RCV) or total vote runoff (TVR). None of them talk about the laws and structural factors that keep the two party system in power. None of them even have a candidate that they recommend voting for as a protest vote. None share and link to articles in high-quality media sources that break out of the right-left binary. And the ones that are calling for really radical solutions like revolution, none of them have a constitution, none of them have a proposed tax policy, none of them have a proposition of the way a radically different (such as growth-free) currency system could work.

And here's the thing. I do all of these things. I've been doing it for decades, since before I was even on Tumblr.

I'm not just voting blue. I'm voting blue AND advancing RCV and TVR. I have written pages and pages on tangible tax policy reform, on local zoning reform (I'm active locally pushing for such reform), transportation funding reform (pushing for it for 20+ years now). I've been involved in prison reform and abolition activism at the local and federal level. I even started a community currency 16 years ago.

Listen to me and listen to other people who are doing the work. We are all saying the same thing. Don't listen to these people who aren't doing the work. They claim to be radical but they're not doing anything at all. I don't know if they're real people or not, but they're butting into my posts and they're telling me and other people not to vote because it doesn't make a difference and doesn't do enough, but like...they're not doing anything at all to push society in a good direction, to solve problems, to build a better world. They're just posting negative stuff on some blog and they're not even posting information on their blog that might help tear down the systems they're supposedly opposed to.

I don't trust any of these people and I don't want you to either.

Seriously, if someone is telling you not to vote, telling you that your vote doesn't matter, scrutinize them. Who are they? What are they advocate? If they are telling you not to vote, what do they want you to do?

99% of the time they don't actually encourage you to do anything positive. And I have a sneaking suspicion that these people don't actually want to tear down the systems they are superficially criticizing, they are secretly trying to support them. I suspect that they actually want you to feel negative about voting and disengage. They want you to feel helpless, and to step back from the political system, to step out. They are serving the people who benefit when you don't vote. And that's the far-right authoritarians.

If you, like me, want a better society in a deeply flawed two-party system, you vote for the better of the two parties AND you take other measures too, supporting RCV (which had massive wins in both Maine and Alaska and could be implemented in more states if we work towards it) and TVR (far superior to the IRV used in Maine and Alaska), and researching and talking about issues and getting involved in issues that aren't being discussed. Join the Strong Towns movement and work to move beyond car dependence. Join the movement to expose the injustice of payroll tax and abolish all payroll taxation including FICA and all the smaller ones too and replace them with other taxes such as carbon tax or other, progressive consumption-based taxes. Start thinking critically about currency, maybe read Greco's book "Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender".

I am outside the two party system and have been so my whole life. I am doing the work and have been doing the work for decades now. So listen to me when I tell you to vote blue. Vote not just for Harris but research and look up your house and senate races and your state and local races as well and vote in all of them. It's a small but important step. And don't just stop there, do all of these other things I'm telling you about too. It's a "both...and" scenario.

Don't submit to these people trying to tell you not to vote. Scrutinize them. You will see what they are really about and once you see it you will not be manipulated by them.