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I was going to be done with this post, but just came across something I want to add because it's a lens anyone who primarily interacts with politics online is completely missing:
This is the heart of what I was trying to get across. People are not black-or-white, they're messy and diverse and a lot more malleable than you might think. If you gauge party politics by what you see online and in the media you do not understand the average American at all.
If you see right-wing voters as a distinct class of people it just shows that you exist in a bubble. Only people with a certain level of education and access to information talk about politics the way it's discussed on the internet, and if you refuse to exit that bubble out of fear, hatred, and classism you will not be able to successfully organize resistance to the coming administration.
ETA: I recommend reading this post of a conversation with a transphobic mom for a perfect example of how targeted compassion can almost immediately change a nonviolent person's mind about an issue. I am linking the version with information about the VERA framework since it explains the methodology really well.
Also want to mention that a political historian I follow just posted a whole piece about how the past few years there has been a level of censorship and misinformation in the South that we haven't seen since the 1850's during the abolitionist movement. The fascists got very scared and right now they think they've won. We can show them they're wrong.
Young people have GOT to stop talking about conservatives like they're scary menacing monsters. Yes the policies they back are horrifically destructive but that's entirely because of how individually stupid, fearful, emotionally stunted, weak willed and catastrophically gullible they are. That all is what made them become right wing to begin with. Just the most easily manipulated zombie sheep on earth.
#just as another example one of the main reasons I remember people saying they voted for bush's 2nd term#was bevause they thought the iraq war was a mess and wanted him to 'take responsibility for what he started'#like they were scolding a child who broke a toy. so many people see the president as Just A Guy#most americans genuinely vote based on one or two issues and/or just vibes#they are not organized. they are not cohesive. if you can find one stance you have in common with them you have a foothold for change#my posts
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If your democrat friends start muttering about stolen election conspiracy theories, the time to have a sit down with them and express your concerns is NOW, while you still have a chance to reach them, not 6 months from now when they're fully conspiracy-pilled.
Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:
'10 million votes don't just disappear!' -> Joe Biden's 81 million votes were a statistical outlier, sparked by the recent experience of the Trump presidency. The democrats failed to maintain that sense of urgency, but Harris still got more votes than Hillary Clinton, more than Obama and more than any previous democratic candidate. These numbers are not weird at all.
'The Republicans tried to infiltrate election- and vote counting organizations!' -> yeah, they did, and yet hundreds of independent legal observers didn't see anything go wrong enough to raise any alarms. Independent exit polls are also very consistently similar to the counted votes. Tons of international organizations specialized in this stuff observed the election and didn't see a reason to raise the alarm.
'But I know a dozen democrats whose mail-in votes were not counted!' -> In any election a certain number of votes are registered as invalid because something was wrong with the ballot. In a country the size of the US, that translates to many thousands of votes. The internet allows these people to find each other, creating the false impression that a suspiciously large group of votes was not valid.
'Musk used Star Link to mess with electronic voting!' -> Electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet and dozens of independent media have already debunked this myth. It is absolutely impossible to use Star Link to fake election results.
'There is voter disenfranchisement!' -> This is true. This has always been true, for every election. It's an issue worth talking about but it's not a special secret conspiracy that's unique to this election.
But just as importantly as the facts: sit down with your friend and talk about the anxiety that's behind their conspiracy leanings. Acknowledge their pain and fear. Help them find ways to feel less powerless and regain their sense of agency. Take them to a mutual aid event, involve them in a fundraising event for a marginalized group, invite them to a local community effort. If they spend more time feeling connection and empowerment and less time doom scrolling online, they're far more likely to stay in reality.
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Radblr hot take here but I believe that men are capable of changing to be better. To say that they are incapable of being good is saying that they aren’t fully responsible for what they do because they aren’t capable of being better.
No. They can be better. And they are morally worse and more corrupt for it. Men can choose to fight the patriarchy and treat their female counterparts with respect and dignity. But they choose not to, because they can reap the same or more societal benefits by being misogynistic.
Baby boys aren’t born misogynistic. Sure, they may be born with whatever male hormonal differences do, but that isn’t even 1% of the reason why they grow up to be misogynists.
As they grow up they learn that misogyny is rewarded. As they grow up they are exposed to porn which they choose to use as a sexual role model. As they grow up they watch their parents model a hierarchal power dynamic. They see all of this, and they like it. They choose it for themselves.
I think that men can change for the better. People here hear this and say “you can’t teach them” or “coddling them won’t do shit” and I agree. What women need to do is stop rewarding and enabling their behavior.
We need to free women from human trafficking and exploitation, and we also need to convince women who make porn of their own free will to stop. We need to punish the men who make it. We need to help women out of their abusive marriages, and we also need to convince women who are in relationships with even slightly misogynistic men to end them. We need to have zero tolerance for casual misogyny. We need to start shunning men who are misogynists. We need to hold accountable women who are enabling the men in their lives to hurt other women. Shun men who watch porn. Shun men who say slurs. Stop having their children.
And for the men sympathetic to our cause, we need to convince them to use their privilege as men to further feminist goals. We need them to vote for women’s rights. We need them to intervene during “locker room” misogynistic talk when women aren’t around. We need them to break up the male solidarity around misogyny in a way only they can do.
But we can’t do this as individuals. Strength comes in numbers. Women do face societal consequences for standing up to misogyny. Other women need to defend her and provide for her needs. And in order to do this we need to educate ourselves. Make money. Be independent of men. Become doctors, lawyers, teachers. We need to do everything we can to support women in places where they cannot do these things.
If we can do all of this, men will change. Maybe not the men who are already set in their ways. But those growing up will see that misogyny does not reward them in life. They will not see porn. They will not see their mothers submitting to their fathers and they will not see women submitting to men. And they will choose to treat women as human beings. Because they can.
Radical feminism is not a doomerist movement. I have a future in mind. I hope you do too.
#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminist safe#terfsafe#radical feminists do interact#terfblr#feminism#women’s rights#nuancefem
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you probably see a lot of fundraisers on your dash. highlighting these individual campaigns is not a great system; it means necessarily that many people are left behind. however, this criticism is not a reason to tune out the cries for help that you come across. i made a commitment to my friend @save-mohamed-family and it is my responsibility to him to keep generating interest in his fundraiser. while his gofundme campaign is temporarily stalled due to a technicality, it is more meaningful than ever that people send money via these app options. mohamed lost all of his sisters and his father. all he has left are his three young children and his wife, manal, who has been in and out of a coma for months. please give them hope that they can survive this genocide as bombing continues overhead. they are battling weather and sickness and starvation. your donations do more good than you can possibly imagine. cashapp link (for americans)
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thank you thank you thank you. please vote & circulate.
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On Christmas Day of 2018, I received a paperback copy of George Orwell's 1984. I was 12 years old.
I remember the adults - aunts and uncles, parents, grandparents, looking at me cautiously, as if they had handed me a live bomb rather than a book. "That's a very intense book, okay?" my father told me. "If you want, we can talk about it after you read it." 12-year-old me, with only a dim idea of what fascism actually was and an insatiable appetite for books, only nodded.
While my younger cousins and sister played with their new toys, I sat on the couch and read the book in one sitting. When I finished, I looked up to see the adults staring at me with a strange sort of fascination. "Do you want to talk about it?" my father asked.
"No." I shrugged and turned away.
The truth was, I had been expecting a happy ending. Winston Smith was the good guy, wasn't he? Why didn't he win? Evil governments always lost in the end, didn't they? How could Winston have been brainwashed into believing such an evil, awful dictatorship was truly great? After all, when my middle school history teachers talked about dictatorships, those of Hitler and Stalin, it was obvious that they were the worst of the worst. No one actually agreed with them, did they?
Then I remembered my fourth grade class talking about the upcoming election, laughing about how obviously stupid Trump's wall idea was, and how strange it felt to hear someone say Clinton was worse. I don't remember his reasoning, but I distinctly remember thinking it was dumb because what could be dumber than a giant wall around Mexico? I remembered my grandmother arguing against vaccinating children, and I remembered flat Earthers I had seen online. That day was the first time it clicked for me: people believe what they want to believe.
The years passed. I read 1984 again, and again, and again. I watched as Trump shut down the government for sake of a temper tantrum, as he was impeached, as he told Americans to object bleach, as he politicized a pandemic and let thousands die. I didn't know about his SA scandals. I didn't know he had called Mexicans "thieves and rapists." I just knew he could not be allowed to be president again.
Yet, when 2020 rolled around, I was only 14 years old and could not vote. I settled for watching anxiously as the votes came in - I didn't know much about Joe Biden, but he was clearly a better alternative. He actually believed the COVID-19 pandemic was real, for one. So I sighed in relief as the results came through four days later: Joe Biden had been elected president of the United States.
I kept watching. I watched as Trump incited insurrection, as terrorists stormed the Capitol. I stared in horror at the TV. How could this have happened? How were so many people so delusional?
In December 2021, for my sophomore year English class, I read 1984 again. I thought of January 6th.
My classmates thought it boring, confusing, stupid. It didn't make sense. What did it matter? Who cared whether or not we knew the significance of the character of O'Brien?
I kept watching. The summer before my junior year of high school, just before I entered a relationship with my now-partner, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and I felt a sinking pit in my stomach. Six months later, a friend of mine read 1984 for that same English class, and he loved it - we had a few intense study hall discussions about the nature of doublespeak, of totalitarianism, of a surveillance state. My partner agreed, reading it with a terrified fascination.
I kept watching. I realized I was nonbinary, and I watched in horror as the Republican Party made their creeping advances to eradicate trans rights. Idly, I reread 1984. What the right wanted did seem a lot like Oceania's government, didn't it? I wondered if I'd ever be able to marry my partner, who, despite also being trans, was still the same sex as me. If Trump ran again, he'd probably win, and then what would we do?
Then, 2024. Trump won the primaries in a landslide. I turned 18 and registered to vote. In the meantime, I skimmed Project 2025's bits about banning pornography and thought of 1984 and its carefully curated sexless society, created to achieve perfect complacency. I went off to college and voted absentee, carefully bubbling in the circle next to Vice President Kamala Harris's name. I woke up on Wednesday, November 6th to see Trump had won the presidency.
It has been one week. Again, I watch as Trump proposes a Department of Government Efficiency, which sounds euphemistically horrific. I watch as he suggests Musk to head it, a man known for being as inefficient as possible. I think of the Ministry of Truth and how its entire purpose was to disseminate lies. I watch as people celebrate, mocking me and many others who had desperately voted against a fascist, a rapist, a convicted criminal, a man who would kill us and spit on our graves if he was elected to office. I think of Parsons and duckspeak, the practice of simply spitting out the "correct" propaganda the same way a duck quacked. People really did believe what they wanted to believe, didn't they? I realize Trump won because, deep down, people hated minorities more than they loved democracy.
I hope my loved ones and I will survive another Trump presidency. I hope those in Gaza and Ukraine will survive it too, along with so many others - Jews, POC, immigrants, students, disabled, Muslims. At the very least, I hope to live long enough to watch as the bigots are forced to eat their own words and come to terms with the fact they gleefully voted in their own downfall.
At the end of the day, 1984 taught me something I could not have comprehended at age 12, 14, 15, or 16, but can understand now: democracy dies not with a bang, but with a whimper.
#fascisim#election 2024#fuck trump#orwell 1984#politics#arc rambles#elon musk#fuck musk#fuck maga#donald trump
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⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️
Before you vote: This poll is about the content creators, NOT the characters. If you don’t ship them because you don’t ship rpf, hit the “non-rpf shipper button” option. If you ship the characters but not the real people, don’t bother saying that as that’s not the point of the poll.
Do you ship it?
Reason:
“Lizzie and Joel are married and Joel and Jimmy are. abnormal about eachother. I just think they should all kiss. it would be good for them. enrichment yknow”
#do you ship this rpf ship#rpf#real person fiction#rps#real person shipping#shipping#shipping poll#jimmy solidarity#solidaritygaming#joel smallishbeans#smallishbeans#lizzie ldshadowlady#ldshadowlady#mcyt#hermitcraft#youtubers#streamers
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I can see doing this for safety reasons what with concerns about abortion or pregnant people's care getting tossed around but I feel like it's also a bad idea because invariably hate affects both kinds of people, good and bad. I'm all for abstaining for any reason, safety being a perfectly reasonable choice, and I guess spite is too, but am I wrong for thinking that these are two separate issues? Men shouldn't be forced to be lonely, women shouldn't have to even consider nation-wide sex strikes to make themselves feel heard or to strike back, I don't get it at all how it was allowed to get like this.
A clear observation anyone could make is "wait, this might affect guys who voted for kamala" which, who you vote for =/ your character, sure, but as a first question you might ask a guy you're considering dating, you could do worse.
I feel like good men would understand the struggle, and so justifying it to them isn't necessary, but they might also just go look elsewhere.
Just some thoughts.
american women your objective for the next four years is to make men miserable. exacerbate that male lonliness epidemic as much as you possibly can.
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Since Black People share zero blame about what happened in the election and why Trump won again; let’s do a master post on who’s to blame as to why Trump won again:
1. White people. They are never to be trusted to actually pay attention to shit so they will believe anything anyone tells them to. If someone is promising to get rid of anyone who’s not white; white people will vote for that candidate. White men vote for violence and white women vote in hopes to be like white men. I mean, Roe V Wade SHOULDVE been important …until I remember those stories from nurses at Planned Parenthood mentioning how obnoxious white women are about the service. White people who are actual allies are very rare and they know if they admitted to being hateful; they’d be all alone watching Fox News.
2. The mainstream media. MSNBC, CNN, Bill Maher, John Oliver, Jon Stewart ( the biggest douchefuck), Chris Hayes, Anderson Cooper, Joy Reid, among others (who I can’t name because I refuse to hate-watch their media). They spent all their fucking time bashing Biden and the Democrats. They let the lunatic leftists have a platform and they treated Trump like he’s no threat until it was way too late. They figured it’s better for their audiences to not take what Trump did in 2016-2020 seriously and just be mean towards Biden, Harris and the Democrats who actually work towards better.
Any one of these jokers could’ve taken an actual stand and report actual news about Biden but once Covid got calmer thanks to Biden and the White House became boring again because the Biden Administration was busy ACTUALLY WORKING; it just wasn’t enough for them. Once they knew leftists also found another cause they could hijack for themselves to “ stick it to the Dems” they also let these fuckers on their show to help spread more lies about the Democrats. But nope! They latched onto the “ Free Palestine” movement and sold that shit, knowing full fuckin well that it’s not America’s problem about the conflict and Biden and Harris were making sure to get a two state solution.
Their buyers remorse media is not cute and they are only doing this because they know they are a major reason why Trump won again. They’re also scared of retaliation so they’re going to act like they “ regretted it” and that Biden “ wasn’t so bad” while not ever really apologetic but their audiences will eat it up.
3. Nonblack PoC. Latino, Asian/ Pacific Islander community ( I’m not even shocked. I’m apart of this group and they love antiblackness), Arab Americans ( Rashida Tlaib is antiblack but because leftists are stupid; they couldn’t see something so obvious). The desperation to be accepted by white people and also the xenophobia in all these communities had them voting for Trump. They have the “ I’m one of the good ones” mentality and well they’re about to see that antiblackness and xenophobia has screwed themselves .
4. Social media websites letting misinformation spread, and I include tumblr since yet again this happened. I appreciate that X has a community note and people tried to fight it but it was just way too great. Too many bots were getting through. Facebook, tumblr, Twitter, TikTok, likely Instagram as well. And once the elections are over; it’s like they treat the election interference shit like it didn’t happen.
5. Leftists. As usual, since they’re bored and rich, they do this protesting “ the establishment” every four years because they don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes. They went right along with the Free Palestine bullshit because it has worked for them before. Susan Sarandon , remember her? She helped fuck over 2000 as well as 2016 and let the GOP into the White House. Since leftist includes being racist/antiblack and antisemitic; it’s a great way to get more stupid white people to not vote or “ protest vote” and help the GOP win. Now that they have; we won’t see the likes of Jill Stein or any third party candidates. They are only around to help fuck over the Democrats and yet this lesson seems to have to keep being repeated and holy fuck it’s fucking annoying.
6. Nancy Pelosi. I know I haven’t said much but she wanted Biden to step down. She wanted an open Democratic primary to get a new candidate and to go right past Kamala Harris. Her bullshit has been known for awhile, especially if you live in the Bay Area. People forgot because of Covid and because of the whack job who attacked her husband. But remember; she’s also Gavin Newsom’s aunt and well…do with that what you will. If Democrats have any chance at getting their base back; Pelosi needs to step aside and let Hakeem Jeffries be Speaker. Pelosi knew damn well if it was not Kamala Harris; Black People would not show up but she is a white woman first so of course she did what she did. And for her to act like Biden was too old when she’s in the same age group was even more moronic since he won against Trump the first fuckin time
7. antisemitism also played a huge part. Remember Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is Jewish so if it wasn’t antiblackness; antisemitism was also at play here. Even though people won’t say it just like they won’t say their true reasons why they didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. Jewish People were the only allies along with the lgbt community who overwhelmingly voted for Kamala Harris. Every group has knuckleheads but the knuckleheads were extremely smaller than everyone else.
8. The Squad members. AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Jayapal, Cori Bush, Summer Lee and Jamaal Bowman. It’s time to get rid of these idiot DSA morons and the fact that Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman are out is awesome. They always wanted to fuck over the Democrats because they want to appear like they’re activists while they really just sell “ someday it’ll be better” while making $176K a year. They need the GOP in charge so they can coast in the House. Too bad leftists don’t get that.
So now that we all know who’s to blame; maybe now take some fuckin responsibility and hope to fucking heaven that Trump won’t have SCOTUS overturn shit but who are we kidding? With Elon Musk around; a lot of things will be rolled back but let’s see if people learn anything from it. Oh who am I kidding ?
Oh and thinking of moving to Canada? Lmao Justin Trudeau already went “ AHT AHT”. Best believe other countries are already following suit so y’all are going to be owning up to who you voted for lol.
But ya know, Biden was “ too old” and Harris was “ too joyful”
#us politics#us elections#kamala harris#mainstream media#cnn news#the daily show#joy reid#last week tonight#john oliver#jon stewart#anderson cooper#Donald Trump#y’all got the man ya wanted#it’s above me and Black People now#doug emhoff
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Act to save Indiana's forests
I don't know how many people will see this but I got a flyer from Indiana Forest Alliance in my mail and I want to pass the information along here as well.
The bill: The Benjamin Harrison Act (HR 8535)
Purpose: To permanently preserve 15,300 acres of public forest. It "will double the size of Indiana's protected wilderness and ensure clean water for generations." (quoted text from the Indiana Forest Alliance flyer)
It has bipartisan support in the Senate.
It needs help for the House vote. The vote will take place mid-December 2024.
Personally, I would really like more forests to be protected. If you agree, please contact your US Representative (Find Your Representative) and tell them to support The Benjamin Harrison Act (HR 8535).
Tip: you don't need to have a lot to say for a phone call. One sentence is fine, just make it clear what you want your representative to support and one short reason why.
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Hey. I hate to be political on main, but I gotta ask as someone from a state that at least had a plausible reason for voting against an anti-servitude law... WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN CALIFORNIA?
Oh my God, okay...
Anytime something absolutely buck-wild comes out of California's ballots, you have to understand that what ended up happening is that it was bundled into a proposition that had enough good in it that the average voter didn't read the fine-print.
When it came to Proposition 6, which was to eliminate the provision in the Constitution that allows involuntary servitude as a punishment for prisoners... I... Honestly can't tell you what happened.
I have read this thing top, bottom, and sideways, and I can't see any immediate positive to voting no on it.
So what I think ended up happening is that people keyed in on the itty-bitty portion of the Fiscal Impact section, noted the, quote, "Potential increase or decrease in state and local costs, depending on how work for people in state prison and county jail changes. Any effect likely would not exceed the tens of millions of dollars annually."
Thought the potential increase was too much of a risk and said 'yeah, I'm fine with the status-quo'.
And also, hey! Hey...
I was born in Florida. So technically while I've lived in California all of my life, I'm technically from Miami.
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Unfortunately, this post and posts like it misunderstand what it means to say that the Democrats abandoned the working class.
Because they did.
And no, the working class didn't abandon the Democrats.
I'll explain.
First, the list of the accomplishments of the Biden administration is a long one and it's absolutely true they weren't getting the coverage they deserved. That's a true point, and a good one, but it's not not how the Democrats abandoned the working class.
Next, the working class didn't abandon the Democrats. The working class voters that always vote Republican voted Republican because voters don't switch sides and they weren't up for grabs, no matter what a Democrat strategist thought.
Of the working class voters that vote Democrat, they didn't abandon the Democrats, the Democrats took them for granted and didn't give them a reason to vote to support Harris. And it is very important to give people a reason to vote.
Some didn't vote because they wouldn't vote for a woman, because bigotry is everywhere.
Some people didn't vote because support for an incumbent party drops when the economy is doing poorly. Despite the Biden administration giving us a soft landing that avoided a recession, income inequality is up globally and for the average person, that means the economy sucks right now.
But that's not how the Democrats abandoned the working class either.
The Democrats abandoned the working class because they squandered the initial surge of enthusiasm for Harris's announcement by following it up with:
A campaign that focused on Trump's threat.
An emphasis on trying to court Republican voters.
Basically no real messaging about what the Democrats would do to try to help the working class voters survive right now.
They didn't talk about the minimum wage or support for unions. Even with the Biden administrations support of unions, which was surprisingly good for a US presidential administration.
It was great to finally hear someone say that Trump and JD Vance were weird, but that's just an appetizer. It's not the entire meal.
Do you see what's missing? Democrats can't win on the idea that the other guy is a threat. They need to run on the things they can do to make everything better. And they need to do so with specifics, not aspirational messaging.
Harris's speeches talked about the need to cut taxes for the middle class, but didn't get into specifics. She didn't talk about solid policy positions. The Democrats weren't giving any answers on what to do about the next Trump or the next Bezos or the oligarch that decides they want half of everyone's paycheck.
They didn't talk about how they were going to take the boot off our necks.
In hindsight, some of this should have been easy:
"Vote for me and I will eliminate student debt!" "Vote for me and I will make the minimum wage a livable wage!" "Vote for me and I will stop evictions and fix housing!"
Even if they weren't going to keep those promises, talking about them with specific plans is what people needed to hear and it's exactly what people didn't.
And while they weren't talking to the working class Democrats and their needs, they were going after wealthy donors and Republican voters, which made those working class voters feel like the Democrats were taking them for granted.
After all, why do you need to speak to someone's needs if you know that they're going to vote for you? You're their only option, right? Makes sense when you think like a Republican, but people who vote Democrat do so because they don't think like Republicans. The Republicans follow the leader while the Democrats build coalitions.
Finally, if anti-trans ads were a pivotal factor in Harris's loss, then you would have seen Trump's support increase. It didn't. He stayed flat, the Republican base supported him just like they were always going to. He was always going to be able to use fear and bigotry to motivate them.
Don't get me wrong, Trump is absolutely trying to stoke a full blown moral panic against trans people. And his hateful message galvanized his base. But if it hadn't been us it would have been immigrants. Or another kind of queer folk. Or socialists. They will never want for an enemy because they're afraid of literally everyone not like themselves.
The Harris campaign failed because the Democrats played bad politics when they needed to bring their A game.
They needed to give Democrat voters real answers about real help. They needed to give people a reason to vote. And they didn't.
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I'm not going to kick the beehive and respond on the large post, but honestly it is disheartening to see people comment in the ACA post's tags with "everyone but xyz group" sentiments :/
It's easy to want worse for people who you feel wronged you, and I am not immune to that either! But when talking about something meant for everyone, like affordable healthcare, you HAVE to mean everyone. This is for people you love, hate, or feel nothing towards. This system works best when everyone can access it. There should be NO disqualifier to healthcare w/ dignity, period! If you voted one way, if you didn't vote at all, if you disparage the ACA or not, I don't care when it comes to YOUR ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE.
You will often find unifying footholds when it comes to wanting basic care for people around you, even those who don't give that respect to you. I frequently say I have had to learn how to professionally eat shit bc there is nothing you can say to me that makes me change my mind about your right to a life of health, support, and dignity as a foundational belief. And I have heard some SHIT! Honestly, it is more radical to continue to help as you can than cut people out.
How do you reach people? Put down the ego reflex for a moment and look for where they have been failed. Listen without judgment and often there is a thread of "Oh, we actually have a solution to that" you can offer to people. I cannot control if they change their minds or if they take up the offer to look through benefits, but I can make the process of changing their minds or accepting help non-judgmental with me.
You should not want anyone to be without access to medical care, I don't care the reason. The ACA is literally for everyone, even those you hate.
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Daily reminder that it's OKAY to make fun of your favorite villains. It's OKAY to tease them or call them a loser/pathetic babygirl/etc. It's OKAY to make fun of their stupid moments. They're antagonists for a reason. They're not ALWAYS going to win and that's fine. <3
It doesn't mean you HATE them. Villains can be badass while making silly choices. <33
#resident evil#albert wesker#devil may cry#vergil#vergil sparda#this is about my loser poll---- AGAIN#i had fun watching people vote on that poll#and seeing people's reasons for their vote#i didn't think someone was gonna get triggered by it but oh well#poking fun at your favorite villains is fun and it's OKAY
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At this point I’m convinced the majority of people promoting voting for a third party are Russian bots. Voting third party fixes NOTHING and only takes away votes from Harris. You want third party? Wait until 2028. Hopefully Trump will be dead by then and it’ll be actually safe to do so. But this election is the most important in American history. VOTE BLUE
#I will be able to vote in the 2028 election and yes I will be voting Democrat#I agree with Democratic policies and don’t see the need to vote third party#But I need y’all pro-third party people to see how IMPORTANT this is#Our democracy is at stake#Suck it up and vote Kamala#By the way she’s literally more progressive than Biden#You have no reason not to vote for her#Biden#joe biden#harris#kamala harris#2024 election#2024 elections#election 2024#us politics#politics#harris 2024
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At your side [End of Season 2]
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#wen ning#jin ling#wen qing#jiang yanli#a-yuan#It may have taken a year but we did it! The end of season 2!!!#(Granted: this season was nearly twice the length of season one.)#It's been a really fantastic season to draw for. So many iconic moments! It was a lot of work but I had a blast B*)#I also enjoyed experimenting more and more with my comic style. I'm growing as a comic artist bit by bit!#There is even a little bit of shadowing in this one for next season. As a treat. All the fun (and not heart breaking) scenes to come!#Comic talk time: Recently saw 12 angry men for first time and I love the coincidence of the themes aligning here.#They both touch upon the horror of judicial systems - in which the most persuasive argument wins and the truth is a nuisance.#All it takes is one person to stand against the crowd and say 'I do not know what is true. And that is reasonable doubt enough.'#When the majority is for condemning someone guilty - that in itself is persuasive enough.#One will set their mind to what the 'truth' is and refuse to see it any other way. That their perspective is the only correct one.#No one is born with a monopoly on the truth.#Everyone has biases and agendas. Some care not for the outcome - only that they can be on the convenient side.#Lan Wangji is putting everything on the line to say 'I'm not going to go with the majority vote.'#And that is a huge deal in a story that is so politically focused as MDZS is. Everything is a careful chess move to these sects -#and to not play the game is basically sacrificing everything you are and your families name. For some it is unthinkable.#And there is no doubt in LWJ's mind. He would stand there and lose everything if it means upholding justice.#More importantly - these two have each other's backs. The bond is unbreakable. This is the most ride or die I have seen two people be.
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#inspired by seeing someone in their 20s post on instagram about their first solo cinema trip#i will happily go alone all the time (the only reason i don't do it more at the moment is because i can't drive to get there)#but i guess some people prefer to only go with others#feel free to rb with your answer/explanation in the tags :) or also feel free to vote and scroll past lol#polls
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