#and the leadership

[askshivanulegacy]

That tweet is on point. This is exactly why "Democrats don't do anything." Because they (the voters) don't. And despite the message that voting works, these people STILL don't bother to vote. The most affected populations not voting is why Trump won the first time, and here we are again.

We like to think Republicans are stupid, but honestly, Democrats are the same brand of stupid. You look at the Republican talking points and you think that no one with half a brain would believe that nonsense, that any basic Google search for information would give you reality.

But then you look at the Democrat despair points and it's the same thing. Who TF would believe that nonsense? Anyone with half a brain could do a Google search or simply vote just in case.

But that's all you hear from all the lefty sjws. "Oh no, America is so evil! It's so terrible!! Capitalism bad! I hate it here! I won't vote because Palestine exists! My non-engagement is totally a message! Whine whine cry cry sob."

The truth is so obvious: America is NOT bad or evil. It's a landmass with a government like any other country. If you want better living and working conditions, if you want it to be YOUR country the way you like it, you VOTE. Change the government. If you want a government that will help your special little blorbo country, then you VOTE. Change the government.

Capitalism is nothing more exciting or evil than any other economic system. It works. It's not going away! What's bad about it is unregulated capitalism. It's the absence of perfectly logical social programs that the people of any country deserve and government has an obligation to provide. And how do you change that? You vote for the government that wants to regulate it and provide protections for the people! You vote for the government that places people above billion-dollar corporations!

But nobody wants to hear that. They want to cry in a corner about how everything's evil, and anyone ever who "participates" in that "evil" (aka dares to run for office to make whatever positive change they can) gets kicked to the curb for not being a perfect little angel and immediately magically fixing everything perfectly, even though the nature of democracy is compromise. They want to attack each other for buying a chicken sandwich at a problematic restaurant or enjoying a children's book written by an author with bad opinions.

Democrats are just little purity babies with no grasp of reality. If "both sides are the same," they're the same because the voting populations are equally stupid, not because the policies are the same.

The Democrat party needs a real come-to-Jesus meeting about their propaganda. Clearly, the Republican style of messaging works. They need to adapt it. They need to stir up existential panic and selfishness. We know panic by itself won't work (see Harris' "I'm not Trump" campaign). They need to tap into the inherent sjw selfishness, because that's what the non-voters and the sjw platform truly runs on. It doesn't run on the sympathy or compassion for other people. Purity politics is all about being better than the next guy and looking good. It's not about intelligence or logic or science or reality.

And honestly, that's why Republicans and Democrats are the same - not the party platform, but the voters themselves. Same motivations, same selfish desires. The Democrat party just needs to figure out how to push the right buttons.

[yakichoufd]

i wanted to join that twitter meme

[lady-raziel]

you know what perhaps strange women lying in ponds distributing swords IS a pretty solid basis of government actually

[princesstarfire1234]

Drew this as I had the idea to order a custom shirt with an open matrix and this particular Rodimus quote from the end of Lost Light because I love it too much <33

Was planning to wear this to my viewing of TF One but I think it might not arrive in time lolz

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UPDATE: For all the people who've been asking me to share the shirt, it's finally up for grabs on my Redbubble (along with some other stuff I've slapped the design on like button pins, stickers, and prints aha)!!

🔗: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/165625289

Do not that I'm not too experienced with Redbubble (only put up some stickers there when I started and that was it lmao), so reach out to me if there's any errors in the designs and whatnot, I'll hope to help fix it or get through with RB customer service to help aha

ALSO ALSO, I do NOT recommend getting the design on any shirt other than plain black, it was hard enough to make as transparent as it is aha

[chez-cinnamon]

Some more AU design ideas, this time with Zooble and Queenie!!

Honestly loving them both even if they're first drafts-

And some bonus doodles!! Leaderboard for life.....

[erabu-san]

Rizz fail

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

imagine getting twenty four hours of a fraction of a taste of what marginalized bloggers on this fucking site have been told "doesn't break TOS" for the past 15 years and deciding to openly threaten to just nuke the entire website lmfao

[myrkulitescourge]

the way that one line from the new epilogue in an astarion romance is going to HAUNT me

just. what a profoundly intense thing to confess to someone.

like, just these six months of newfound happiness with you exerts a force on his heart equal and in direct opposition to two centuries of endless torment, the gnawing hunger and exploitation. this flashbulb-bright fraction of his long life holds the same gravity to him as years upon years of darkness and suffering.

in all likelihood, he hasn’t even known his lover for as long as his worst memory lasted, that year sealed away to go mad from starvation and sensory deprivation, yet he still tells them this brief time has been so fundamentally and powerfully important that the weight of even that unimaginable hell is vanishingly small compared to this present he has now and the future ahead of them both.

how am i supposed to act normal about this.

[amid-fandoms]

no phannie outside of tumblr will ever know the joy of the world shifting when dan and phil started tagging every single post on here with #phan

[saltpepperbeard]

Stede + Being a Wonderful Dad Captain for @stedebonnets

[whiteskin-alpha]

obedience is so important

[the-alpha-doodle-dome]

for the love of cob don't call saul

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[vitreouspositive]

that moment in tfone. but shattered glass. whoever sold the idea of canonising alternate universes??? actual genius.

[aprill-99]

Xaden: “Okay everyone, safety briefing for this weekend.”

Xaden *to Ridoc and Bodhi*: “Do not add to the population.”

Xaden *to Imogen*: “Do not subtract from the population.”

Xaden *to Rhiannon, Sawyer, and Garrick in order*: “Do not end up in the newspaper, the hospital, or in jail.”

Xaden *to Violet*: “If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.”