#but i hope even if you do you still vote

[steelbluehome]

I just want you all to know, I didn't originally want this to be any kind of political blog. But I am queer, I live in a red state, I can't afford to move, I am disabled, I am on several prescription medications, and I am literally scared af that Trump will win.

I have nightmares about it.

If Trump wins, sometime during his 4 years, I will die.

I will lose my financial support, or my meds will be priced beyond my financial ability to purchase them. The air and water quality will no longer be under a department of the federal government. I believe that hate crimes will no longer be punished or prosecuted, and that their instances will skyrocket.

So you are seeing a lot of political posts here now. I just hope it encourages you to vote, and maybe make sure that like-minded people vote as well. Keep them from refusing to vote out of a defeatist attitude. Provide transportation if they need it. Convince them that it is important. Their one vote does count! At least argue that it won't take long at all, if they vote by absentee ballot they don't even have to leave the house, offer to mail it for them. Please do what you can. You will not want to live in this country under Trump.

Even if you think the things I have written are hysteria or hyperbole, still vote. PLEASE!

Project 2025

"The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective conservative Administration based on four pillars: a policy agenda, Presidential Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and playbook for the first 180 days of the next Administration."

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Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings

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Donald Trump has insisted on the campaign trail that life was better under his administration, and he has vowed to reverse many of the policies enacted since he left office. His successor's sweeping climate change agenda, new restrictions on guns and protections for transgender people would all be on the chopping block, he has said.

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Trump reveals how he would govern if reelected to another term in the White House

"he was asked, should states monitor pregnancies to determine if an abortion happened in a state where it is illegal? Trump responded: "I think they might do that."

Then, should states process women for abortions? He said: "The states are going to say. It's irrelevant whether I'm comfortable or not."

Now, again, this is a consistent "states will do what they should do" policy from the former president. It is a policy proposal. It is also political. But this idea that states monitoring pregnancy is something that he could accept is incredibly notable. Whether he's a president who vetoes legislation or not, he's the leader of the Republican Party making these statements."

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Trump may get another chance to be president. He's planning an aggressive second term

"If elected again, Trump would gut the federal bureaucracy and remake it in his ideological view, using something called Schedule F to fire career nonpartisan civil servants. A similar purge and rebuilding of the Republican National Committee and several key state Republican parties has taken place in recent years, with Trump's daughter-in-law Lara leading the RNC alongside former North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley.

Trump said in the interview he would not hire anyone who believed Biden won the 2020 election, continuing to repeat false claims that voter fraud cost him the presidency but saw Republicans elected up and down the ballot in key states."

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Time

". . . an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

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This is real. He is telling you exactly what will happen. Click on the links, read the entire articles, understand what is happening.

[dykedvonte]

I think the most baffling thing about the Tulpar as a vessel to me is the fact that the ship really did only have a one way communication system.

I know it was cheap but even the most basic of vessels regarding major transport would have some way, shape or form for outside communication. Not only that but there was absolutely no form of innate emergency signal to show they may have been offline or in trouble despite clearly having a system to dock credits if they went off course. It's another factor that really shows that bad situations are made to get worse by design. One person who is required to relay all information to the crew and make all the choices without feedback. No way to update or call for help in case of a dire situation. No way to inform of inner personal conflicts and acquire procedures accordingly.

It really is like they are all in some sort of fucked up solitary confinement. They have their own world with strict roles that are meaningless in the end, as long as the cargo makes it, it doesn't matter what happens on that ship to the company. They don't want to hear anything and will come to conclusions on what happened based on how much pay they can withhold from the workers. Even what they do send is short, sterile and corporate to the extent it was likely written and sent out with a command by some random unmanned computer in an office.

There's something to be said about how unfair it is to force absolute power and control onto one person when you as an entity could do so much more to offload it but I've said it many times before so I won't again.

[brick-van-dyke]

As the US election closes in and the final states take to the polls, I want to remind people to turn out and protest.

Yep, protest. Strike, disrupt, be out there on the street regardless of who you voted for or who wins. I expect to see you all out there demanding; access to abortion nation wide, protections against discrimination, free universal healthcare, a free Palestine, anti war, prison abolition, to increase the minimum wage, and for a US free of the electoral college and that counts votes as votes.

Yes, you can say "you should vote for Harris" and do so as much as you like, but do not forget the power you have through your own everyday actions away from the polls and that of protesting. Do not use the excuse that your right to vote means it's somehow more foundational or important than the right to protest. You have the ability to create direct action and that is so so important, please don't just expect a rich representative to stick to their promises every time you vote; you have power too, never forget that.

This system will not change until we, the people, make it. There is NO representative that can ever change the system that allowed them in, and likewise; this system will never allow a candidate that would stop it from continuing and/or ensuring its designated purpose of oppression and subjugation. Resist, regardless of the results.

Long live the resistance.

[literateowl]

Hello my dear fandom! The US election approaches and early voting has opened in many states already

It is so very important that you vote and I thought we could have a little fun too 💜 So here's what I want to do

The Show and Tell

If you live in the US send me an Ask or DM of a pic of some proof that you voted in the election. This can be your "I voted" sticker, a picture outside of your polling place, a screenshot of your absentee ballot tracker with your address blocked out. Basically anything is fine

If you don't live in the US or can't vote here because you're not a citizen and still want to show/tell me something. You can do the above if you have proof of you voting in a recent election in your country. Or tell me how elections work in your country(do you get stickers too? Is it mandatory?) Or you can even just tell me a silly bonkers thing or fun fact about politics in your country, such as the time the prime minister of the UK left office before a cabbage went bad (I love that kind of stuff)

Then you get a reward!

When you send me your show and tell thing you request a Lone Star character or pairing and one of these three

(I will not do anything explicit for this these are staying on Tumblr)

A headcanon (you can get more specific with it)

A drabble or ficlet (I'm trying to find or make a good prompt list for this one)

A terrible doodle of something (I can't draw well but I will give it my best lol)

Election Day is gonna be stressful but we will have a new episode the day before and this game to get us through it together 💜

If you voted early you can start to send me proof now! I might wait until election day to post it though 🗳️ And if you read all this thank you very much and you can reblog to spread the word around the fandom and if you have questions about it you can send me a message too

Also disclaimer: I am 100% NOT interested in who you voted for or actually discussing politics on this page. This is just for fun and if you're not also here for fun you will just get blocked

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Words cannot describe how much I despise this man, they really can't. It was already beyond disgusting to make that jibe while Brianna Ghey's mother was literally in the seats, let alone now actually continue to refuse to apologize and actually SMILE while discussing the jibe and the fact that the mother of a child whose murder was motivated by transphobia heard him.

[angy-grrr]

There is gonna be more than that coming from the poll, but whatever it is vote Kacchan/Deku for best hero. Idc who wins i just need them to be together again

if they just announced it today without saying anything before, I would probably immediately do it.

Right now im just bitter because of the hype -I thought it would at least slightly relate to the actual story (adaptations of other stories, extra content for the volume which once again may I remind everyone is extremely short, almost half what a manga volume usually looks which is a huge problem).

This disappointed me extremely, as its not even related to any content from the manga beyond the characters it uses. I get that many ppl will work on this, and that artist will get excited over being able to get the spotlight, some will be able to ask specific questions, and a character will get a statue and a movie.

Still extremely disappointed because of the "special project will be announced on the 5th *wink wink*".

I can't feel excitement over it as, in my mind, I lost something that felt better -more content related to the story. So at best this would be "oh cool I can try it", a feeling pretty similar to the other announcements -not my favorite thing in the world, but I wont reject it and try to see what comes out of it.

This isnt at best to me right now

[protoindoeuropean]

i'm breaking my silence on the us elections to make two comments:

1) maybe when they replace biden, the us american political establishment will find out that they can in fact carry out an electoral campaign that lasts less than half a year, as is the case in most normal countries,* and take that as a lesson for the future (they won't, but still)

2) the whole voting pro:contra discourse is so baffling. in what world is "suck it up and vote" a good tactic to convince people to vote? like, someone addresses me like that and i will just automatically recoil. a lot of these posts are just very off-putting with the entitled attitude they're projecting. like, pushing the blame for electoral failures from politicians to the people who should've (??) voted for them just turns around completely the fact that politicians should customarily be accountable to the electorate. not the other way around. and wrt (??): why do you even think a certain group of people is supposed to vote for someone in the first place?

but also if you do want to steer politicians in a certain direction, publicly saying you will never vote for them is just throwing away your influence. even if you don't plan on voting! like, whether you do vote or not is your private matter and nobody will know what you do in the end, so whatever. but if you do have political goals you want to see realized, it only makes sense that your (appearance of) support is conditional. and always conditional, it goes both ways – blanket support is as toothless as blanket opposition. so yes, i find both cries that any and all criticisms of biden must be psyops as well as people convincing others that voting for democrats is always in vain quite baffling, at least as far as tactics go. you might prefer not to be strategic for whatever personal reasons and i have nothing to say to that**

and on this point as well, treating voting or not voting as some deeply moral act is misguided, i think. politics operates at a scale where one individual person has very little power, so to fault people for decisions on this level seems disproportionate if nothing else

[ftmcollective]

not american but wishing everyone luck for todays election :)

[dredshirtroberts]

huh... the way my parents showed me the world worked was really kind of fucked up, it's no fucking wonder i have an anxiety disorder frankly.

[triglycercule]

i am severely upset at the sexyman polls for this year. yeah its absolutely because im biased and not a single one of the mtt won. but killer vs error is still going on you say!!! NO,,,,, killer's lost,,,,, its 70 error 30 killerISH so yeah,,,,, none of the mtt MADE!!!! IT!!!! and with the boom in killer content these past few months i wasSO FUCKING SURE that he'd like AT LEAST get higher up. nope. because of ERROR. listen i like him. he was my og bias when i first joined this fandom. i was an error fanatic. but bro,,,,, bro,,,,,,,,, killer,,,,, lost,,,,,, AND FUCKING HORROR AND DUST LOST TOO!!!! LIKE WHAY. WHAT. PUTTING HORROT AGAINST ERROR AND DUST AGAINST CROSS!!!! THEYRE LITERALLY BOTH THE TWO GUYS THAT (1/2 of them) WON LAAT YEAR!!!! OF COURSE THEYRE GONNA BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THE MTT!!!!! this is very upseting im really sad imMAD. but no point in being a sore loser.... mtt won in my HEART 🧡

dust laughing at both horror and killer for getting the shit beaten out of them by error and then they bring up the fact that he lost to CROSS. this is the second time someone in the mtt lost to cross (theyre all making out in the loser's room) (mtt poly real btw)

[theriverdalereviewer]

everyone jumping to team kamala we will never experience true freedom in this country

[exopelagic]

this election feels so hollow even though it’s likely ostensibly gonna be a good outcome. labour really just sucks fucking ass rn huh

[andromachos]

denying a trans man gender afirming surgeries and trying to legally make him incapable of having decision over his own body, is transphobic, undoubtly, but the legislation exists to control cis women. the societal expectation of fertility and searching all the posible means to have control over the womb and vagina of another person is both fundamentally racist and ableist in nature, as ranging from liberals to full on conservatives, will see people they oppress getting forcibly castrated and relish in the thought of them having "no legacy"

' irreversible damage ' was written about trans men, but we should not forget, from cover to the author's intention, that it's expressing the fear of losing women's fertility and societal indoctrination of baby makers. this is because, to the misogynistic mind, the idea of gender non-conformity presents the idea of questioning gender roles, which between many things not only proposes a woman that does not live for men, but also a woman that can find fulfilment without birthing kids through pregnancy. for these reasons self proclaimed "radicals" venerate the divine feminity and conservative groomers defend their right to refuse to teach girls about anything other than how to carry a pregnancy. it is the fear of losing the conditioned woman who is submissive to patriarchy, and the hipocrisy of considering race, class and disabilities despite claiming to be "pro-life"

trans liberation will come with women's liberation and viceversa, as they both encourage body autonomy and the concept of the woman happy with her existence without serving men. we should not think one cannot advance without the other, as transmisogyny shows us how deeply settled the standards of cis womanhood are, even within cis women themselves, when needed to shame women into conformity and submission and the shame of failing to be molded "correctly"

[here-there-were-dragons]

every time i think the "staff can do no wrong and any form of complaining or expressing literally anything other than "yaaay love it <3" with no further comments is bashing and literally evil we should never say anything that could even potentially be interpreted as mildly critical ever because ~some artist who worked hard on this is probably reading the forums and might feel bad if we ever express anything but praise~ also we must be constantly positive at all times unless we're passive-aggressively shaming someone for having an extremely polite and apologetically worded criticism and if you ask the staff for literally anything you had better be prepared to preface it with 3 paragraphs of apologizing for breathing air" attitude is bad on tumblr, i take one look at the forums, and holy fucking hell is it SO much worse on site

[biromantic-nerd]

I think representation in characters is so funny bc some people are like "I'm [rep] and that is the WORST rep I've ever seen" and some people are like "I'm [rep] and this rep is so important to me this is exactly my experience"

and by funny I mean no character is going to match every single person's experience simultaneously. Someone might criticize a character for being a stereotype and someone else might recognize themselves in that portrayal. And vice versa, etc, and so on and on forth.

[thetangibleghost]

i called out... like right before my shift too. i am truly a monster. like they're going to have to find someone to cover my trucks. i just can't. like yesterday wasn't even that bad and i've been having fun, i enjoy the job i enjoy working and i just.