#but there's still some daylight

[sniperct]

What do you say to a person who's biggest gripe with the Democrats is that they also continue to hold a foreign policy that prioritizes American Supremacy (even if its a slightly nicer version) and can't find value in a party that is unwilling to let go of that?

I find this to be a bigger issue with my family members that have a closer tie to the old global south countries our family came from.

To preface this, for my own sanity I always try to look at things from a larger top down perspective, and from a 'what can be done with the way things are now to fix it or at least mitigate the harm' perspective.

This is hard one, and its a totally understandable problem to have. It frustrates me too so I can't imagine how much more it hurts people closer to it.

I believe its a societal and structural problem. US society itself is...out of touch for lack of a better term. They don't notice, don't pay attention, and are fed by a media more than happy to keep them distracted and content.

In other words, a huge chunk of the electorate has no idea the level of what's going on with the US and the rest of the world and worse, a sizable chunk of the ones that do? Are okay with it. And these are the most reliable voters.

But I believe this is a minority overall and it can be combated with information and getting it into the hands of everyone we can.

But we are seeing more and more voices in congress willing to push back on it but a big problem is most of those voices are in super safe seats. There's no risk to them, electorally, and many of their constitutions agree with them, so they're able to go out on the limb.

Politics is as they say, local. A senator from Montana or a rep from Alabama are going to have a lot harder time keeping their seats because the people who live in their states and districts are more conservative and at the moment there's just not enough voices to make the risk worth it to most of them. Even if they were inclined to lean that way, they may reason its better to keep their seat out of the hands of a republican who would be much, much worse. (like as much as I loathe manchin, he's still much better than the Republican who's going to replace him. Which tells you the bar we're dealing with here.)

There's so much inertia to work against, 70+ years of the US being a super power, that its like trying to turn a massive ship with a weak rudder.

But if they got enough calls, enough emails, enough letters, from the people who vote for them, then they might be willing to take the risk. This year we might get them to vote against something or for something good. Next time maybe it's someone who introduces legislation to make a change. In a few years maybe that legislation passes.

Democrats will at least listen and with enough pressure they'll bow. That's why campaigns to write letters and make calls are so important, we have to participate in our democracy.

But republicans won't listen to this. This is probably the one huge area where the choice is 'slightly better than status quo if we're lucky' vs 'actively make everything worse' instead of 'much better' vs 'actively worse'

[nanstar200]

Hi gueys 🧍 (run away again)

[otaku553]

More doodles for the one piece spy x family crossover

[bionicboxes]

Give the comfort you never got (as seen on TV)

[hugs-and-stabbies]

woof woof woof🐶🐶♥♥

[wistfulpoltergeist]

🎶✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then tag others 🎶✨

Thank you @lilamausmaus for tagging me! I gathered some peculiar list, what do you think? :D

1 - Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You  2 - Barns Courtney - Boy Like Me 3 - Gin Wigmore - Man Like That  4 - mehro - "like you're god" 5 - Thomas LaRosa - Like a Dream

I tag: @vermutandherring, @tzuhu, @lupuspluvio, @ethelgodehel, @retrotrait, @bastardtrait, @goamazons, @thestartome, @simstrouble

[polillamielera]

another miscellaneous page!

[akkivee]

some peak moments from the mtc fan meeting lmao

god bless asanuma-san’s leather overcoat and leather pants 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

and him sitting on stage when backbone hit with that yakuza drinking cup (a sakazuki cup pls look it up lmao) and mtc brand champagne bottle like bruh?????? why’re mtc so cool 😭😭😭

the champagne bottle was actually just water tho lol

so iirc bb only answered like 2-3 questions on their q&a and that’s what i mean by they talk so much lmao, the mtc seiyuu actually ran out of questions to answer LOL

there was that one that pointed out the seiyuu’s individual hobbies and asked based on said hobbies, what hypmic character would they like to be???

i haven’t slept so i’m like, blanking on asamuna-san’s hobby gomen (i think it was acting??) 🙇‍♀️ but his would be sasara, komada-san the photographer would like to be rei and asanuma-san suggested dice for kamio-san’s magician hobby, and he didn’t disagree but he also locked in jakurai for his answer LOL

there was a sports question i think asking what sports they would like to play. kamio-san is already a recreational boxer!!!!! idk which of the two brought it up, but it was decided asanuma-san should definitely do curling and to demonstrate this, kamio-san offered to be his curling stone. asanuma-san stared at him blankly for a full 30 seconds before agreeing and it sent me LOL

komada-san said he’d like to be a basketball player and they even threw in a slam dunk reference just for meeeee (and the thousands of fans the series has and bc kamio-san is part of the cast LOL)

instead of doing a ranking quiz like bb, mtc seiyuu got to do a shooting target booth!!!!! if they got enough points they’d get to hold a raffle for the audience!!!!

asanuma-san pulled up in his long leather overcoat with a glock and hit two of the five targets and it was so cool like neo keanu who goddamn 😭😭😭😭😭

komada-san got to use a revolver and also hit two of the five targets!!!! (his gun also got jammed lol)

there were only two guns on the table so assnuma-san asked which of the two kamio-san would like to use and kamio-san pulled out a rifle from dj uichi’s booth LOL he also hit all five of the targets never forget who’s the goat in mtc lmao

the seiyuu had all been sharing the mtc champagne water and sipping out of that yakuza cup throughout the live but at the end during final comments, asanuma-san got really thirsty and bc every move he makes causes the audience to scream lmao, his little water break was interrupting kamio-san’s closing message lmao

komada-san decided to follow asanuma-san, so after he got thru with his drink, asanuma poured him some and komada-san drank from the cup. i’m sure by the frenzy it caused, we have another samajuto indirect kiss for the books LOL

asanuma-san served kamio-san as well and the audience tried to get him to chug LOL. he told them to save that energy for shinjuku lmao 😭😭😭😭😭

asanuma-san didn’t forget to serve dj uichi 🤗🤗🤗 i’d like to take this moment now to say that sharing a sake cup like the sakazuki cup usually means a sworn, lifelong bond between drinkers 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[starboardharpy]

Art WIP that I may never finish :')

AKA that one time I was thinking of TBP being in DBD

[regnniar]

Desert Gang Week 2024

Day 6 - Modern Au, Cultural Festival, Holidays, Community

Desert gang visiting "Rocket Festival (ประเพณีบุญบั้งไฟ)" 🌦️

[cc-zerozero-ff]

Practicing drawing that thang because my first doodles made it way too pretty. I gotta go all in on the freaky shit here!

[mariocki]

Jacqueline Pearce guest stars as fashion model Leonie Peters, but it could be she's mixed up in bank robbery and murder in New Scotland Yard: The Banker (1.10, LWT, 1972)

[yes-asil]

Sorry but can i ask about the name of the fic you are writing of detective conan

Konvexspiegel?

Translated it's Convex Mirror, like this one!

It's used for corners in streets usually; when you look, it turns everything smaller and the image gets warped.

It fits Conan, since he is a smaller, warped copy in the AU and also the fic itself since I am writing it in a oneshot style, using the episodes I like/have ideas for, sticking to canon as much as I can.

Also used the German word, because the dialogue I refer to is from watching the dubbed version. It's funnier than it has any right to be.

[eveenstar]

I find it a bit concerning why there's people in the fandom that write Frank Morrison as a rapist just because he's a "bad boy" type of person

[gayvampyr]

really sucks that none of my siblings or their fiancées/spouses are putting any effort into today despite promising to be here at a decent time (the sun is setting) and knowing my parents and I put in a lot of effort to make it work for them. and i live out of town 5 days a week while they all live within 10 minutes driving distance

[alackofghosts]

unrestrained sumBEAR fun