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Ask A Genius 995: A Sense of False Balance
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is there in the sense of false balance in the United States? Rosner: We just had a discussion where you said I went on a rant, which I believe to be accurate, about it being a Republican strategy to appeal to less informed voters because they are a capturable demographic. The GOP has been trying to capture them and has been largely successful since the 1970s. Where we…
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#50-year effort#Antifa false flag narrative#BBC News#Canada’s political sanity#conservative concerns#crime rates portrayal#Doug Ford and Rob Ford#extreme conservative arguments#Fox News exaggeration#Freedom Convoy protests#GOP capturing less informed demographic#ideological bias#journalistic neutrality issue#Marine Le Pen&039;s rise in France#MSNBC conservative points#presenting both sides#Republican strategy targeting uninformed voters#right-wing politics#Trump supporters storming Capitol#valid conservative arguments
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Justin Horowitz at MMFA:
Project 2025 advisory board members have attacked or outright called for the end of no-fault divorce, the option to dissolve a marriage without having to prove wrongdoing by a partner. Research highlighted by CNN found “no-fault divorce correlates with a reduction in female suicides and a reduction in intimate partner violence,” including “an 8 to 16% decrease in female suicides after states enacted no-fault divorce laws.” Project 2025 is backed by a nearly-900 page policy book called Mandate for Leadership, which extensively outlines potential approaches to governance for the next Republican administration, including replacing federal employees with extremists and Trump loyalists and attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion, and contraception. The Heritage Foundation’s proposals have a track record of success — the first Trump administration implemented 64% of Mandate’s policy recommendations. Project 2025 is also supported by a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations, many of which have spent years promoting critiques of no-fault divorce as “destructive” for society — or even blaming it for enabling a “culture of death.” According to a Media Matters review, at least 22 Project 2025 advisory board members have made similar comments targeting, restricting, or eliminating no-fault divorce. Additionally, MAGA and far-right media figures have pushed for the removal of no-fault divorce laws across the country, and several local Republican parties in Texas, Nebraska, and Louisiana have called for the dissolution of no-fault divorce in some capacity.
Project 2025 partner organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and The Heritage Foundation, have called for significant restrictions or an outright ban on no-fault divorce.
#Project 2025#Divorce#No Fault Divorce#American Family Association#AFA#American Legislative Exchange Council#American Principles Project#Center For Family and Human Rights#CFAM#Center For Renewing America#Concerned Women For America#Discovery Institute#Dr. James Dobson Family Institute#Eagle Forum#Family Research Council#First Liberty Institute#Independent Women’s Forum#The American Conservative#Claremont Institute#Turning Point USA#The Heritage Foundation
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you cannot convince me that these people don't just hate women
#they don't care about sports and therefore why should anyone care#just let women get hurt and outperformed by men because this person doesn't give a shit about sports anyway#this goes beyond your typical laissez-faire liberalism#this person is proud of being so wholly apathetic about women's concerns with petty things like ''safety'' and ''fairness''#i've become completely disgusted with the liberal mindset that refuses not only to consider whether harm is being done#but when confronted with claims that harm IS being done they can't wait to tell you how much they don't care#and that actually by pointing out that they should care you are really harshing the vibe#and really ruining it for all the people who were enjoying causing harm and not caring#i've always cared abt fairness so this mentality seems like. anti-social to me honestly#conservatives want to cause harm and liberals define harm as anything that is caused by conservatives#and only by conservatives
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when i see yt americans tell black and brown americans to vote for biden bc “trump will be worse” or “trump is extreme right”, i roll my eyes bc where on the political spectrum does joe biden, who is financing and supporting multiple genocides as well as restricting the human rights of MILLIONS of people, fall? yt ppl think that bc he tweets abt roe v wade (which he could’ve codified but didn’t btw) that that makes him left wing
#yt self proclaimed liberals piss me off so bad#yt ppl just generally be pissing me off but GOD#like i’ve made my peace with yt conservatives and right wingers#but it’s the damn liberals that throw me#bc for all the shit you spout#you are so damn useless#thinking abt how genocide joe’s speech at the church where 9 black ppl were killed#his speech was interrupted by pro palestine activists asking how many kids he has allowed to die in gaza#and these DUMB bitches were like 4 more years!!!#do you know how fucking sick you have to be#ym saying trump will be worse when him and biden have the same damn stance on palestine#and then trying to suppress the valid concerns of black and brown ppl#yeah fuck you guys
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☃️❄️ happy holidays from these two !! they are so so sillay ><
#severus snape#snape#young snape#yonal linx#im so crazy abt them its kinda concerning now#yonal wearing a skirt goes so hard#they made a conservative person have a heart attack in broad daylight once#dinxdraws#sninx
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I'm trying to redirect my political thoughts from my fandom escape blog again, but I found something interesting enough that I thought I'd talk a little about it.
Occasionally I choose suffering (looking at the more granular 2024 exit poll breakdowns rather than the summaries that I mostly don't trust much at this point). Anyway, I did find something intriguing, if not particularly surprising, in the CNN exit polls, which were done in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin with a sample size of 22,914 voters.
(I mention the specific states forming the sample because this pretty notably excludes any blue states while including some reliably Republican ones.)
Anyway, most exit polls including CNN's let respondents identify their place on the US political spectrum: conservative, moderate, or liberal (reminder that "liberal" in US usage can be a pejorative for "less leftist than me" but also a shorthand for "radical leftist" but also for "anyone who doesn't seek a cishet white Christian ethnostate", but also can be a more neutral synonym for progressives and/or leftists and is often used that way, as here). So you can look at the election results for each of these ideological factions and what share of the overall sample size they represent.
The interesting thing: this "liberal" category accounted for very similar proportions to 2020 of the overall vote in the sample (24% in 2020, 23% in 2024—a difference well within the margin of error of exit polling). There is no need to explain liberals/leftists staying home in 2024: at least in terms of proportions of the overall electorate, they didn't. Just under 1/4 of voters in 2024 were liberals or leftists, just as in 2020.
Okay, if the most leftwards faction of the US political spectrum actually formed a similar proportion of the electorate, then who did they vote for?
Harris. In CNN's own exit polls from 2020, 89% of this faction voted for Biden, and (surprisingly!) a full 10% voted for Trump. God knows what motivated that 10% Trump share after four years of his hellscape of an administration at the height of COVID, but in any case, that support cratered in 2024. 91% of this group voted for Harris and only 4% for Trump. It's an estimate, but it looks like these very peculiar Trump voters had enough of him in 2024 and around half either voted third party this time or for Harris.
So which faction is Trump's victory coming from? Further consolidation of the far right?
In part, yes! 90% of conservatives voted for Trump in 2024, vs 85% in 2020—likely, some conservatives who voted third party or even for Biden in 2020 came "home" this year. However, conservative turnout was actually a little down in 2024, proportionally speaking: conservatives dropped from 38% of the sample in 2020 to 34% in 2024.
But there's one more major faction in all this: "moderates" or centrists. To be clear, we're talking about the US version of centrism, given that this is a US organization polling US voters about US politicians, not "Bernie would be center-right in Denmark" or whatever. This moderate faction jumped from 38% of the overall sample in 2020 to 42% in 2024, and they swung hard towards Trump, though Harris still won a plurality of them. In 2020, 64% of moderates voted for Biden vs 34% for Trump. In 2024, 57% of them voted for Harris vs 40% for Trump—that is, the Democratic lead among centrists dropped precipitously from +30 to +17.
Tl;dr—ideologically speaking, this data suggests that Trump owes his victory to gains among both right-wing and centrist voters rather than some faction of would-be leftists or progressives apathetically staying home or voting third-party or otherwise deserting Democrats (because they're insufficiently radical or for any other reason).
Oh, and if you're curious as to how this compares to CNN's 2016 exit polls, I also checked those! Harris's 84-point lead among the most leftwards faction is a significant improvement from HRC's 74-point lead in 2016. Trump also got 10% of that group in 2016, as in 2020, so it's this campaign—not Hillary's or Biden's—that managed to eat into whatever the hell is going on with that group.
Harris's +17 with moderates is actually a slight improvement on Hillary's +12 in 2016. Biden's jump to a +30 lead among centrists in 2020 represented either a backlash against Trump from centrists, or Biden's own rapport with that group, or some mysterious issue some of those voters had with both HRC and Harris (I wonder what it could be!!), or some combination thereof. Regardless, there are a lot of actual ideologically centrist voters in the USA and not just would-be leftists who haven't heard the good news of Marx yet. And Trump has an iron grip on the right wing at this point: he beat Hillary with conservatives by +65 in 2016, then beat Biden with an even larger margin of +71, then leapt to a 81-point lead over Harris with right-wing voters this year.
#at some point the usa's left (which includes me! to be clear) is going to have engage with the basic reality#that centrists and conservatives really truly exist and vastly outnumber us and genuinely hold socioeconomic beliefs#that are largely antithetical to our own#voters who listed economic concerns as their top priority voted 80-19 for trump#some /are/ persuadable and others will swing against whoever the incumbent is regardless of policy#but fundamentally they don't agree with us. they really truly think republican policies are good for the economy#we need to stop pretending that we're dealing with different and more psychologically comforting problems than we actually have#maybe it's bc i have to endure a lot of centrist nonsense irl that the way a lot of other progressives talk about them frustrates me#but so many refuse to believe that we're not a silent majority. the flat refusal to leave that fantasyland is exhausting tbh#anghraine babbles#long post#cw politics#us american blogging#election night hell 2024#anghraine rants#mostly for the tags
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I need funding to make a rubella themed slasher block buster bc I Guarantee a fuck ton of vaccine hesitancy can be defeated the same way it was created: by bold faced lying for monetary gain
#like the virus in the movie will be called rubella and it will be explicitly stated that falling vaccination rates caused the mutation#from a virus that causes significant limb and organ deformities to a virus that cause chest burster meat humunculi#we can prevent the next generation of antivaxers by traumatizing them as children the same way Jaws made shark fears a major#conservation concern#we can even find a way to make it pg13 so it gets to them early when the brain is still squishy and deciding what they'll be scared of#for the rest of their lives
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funniest answer for "what happened during Jason's fight with Krios" is, rather than Jason having a physical one-on-one unarmed fight with Krios, Jason just tears Krios a new one re: legislation by chewing him out for unauthorized activity in a state park. Because one of Jupiter's big aspects is law!
Jason sends the entirety of the Titan Army forces in California marching out of Mt. Tam State Park with their tails between their legs with one strongly worded argument and some threats to inform San Francisco Fish & Wildlife. And he gets made praetor for it.
#pjo#riordanverse#jason grace#was joking about Jason both forgetting about but also being overly familiar with san fran's fish and wildlife legislation yesterday#what do you think are the chances that because of the Mist and him being raised by Lupa's pack that legally Jason's considered a wolf#a la Doofenshmirtz legally being an ocelot. cause the mortals are probably aware of Lupa's pack right?#they're a magic immortal wolf pack but they *are* just wolves. but Jason was a whole baby human.#the Mist would probably disguise him but not the pack as a whole. so it'd be funny if just as far as California is concerned#Jason is just a wolf pup from this random pack. and he pulls that out at random opportunities as a running joke#''Sorry. I'm protected under Wolf Conservation Law. Under the California and Federal Endangered Species Act it's illegal to harass me.''
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#white supremacy#racism#social justice#equality#end hate#anti-racism#racial equality#stop racism#no to hate#dismantle racism#DEI#diversity#equity#and inclusion#Republican lawmakers#anti-DEI bills#legislative push#George Floyd#protests#conservative media#constitutional concerns#Florida#Texas#Utah#bans#higher education#public offices#Board of Education#state-funded colleges#universities
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tomgreg is not "i could fix him" nor "i could make him worse" but "i could make him feel like a real person." from both ends.
#tomgreg#there is genuine incompleteness on either end without each other#i'm thinking nrpi and the mutual obsession and being (successfully) singularly inclined toward monetary success#EXCEPT in regards to each other#greg having only the most naive aspirations until he meets tom#tom having an essentially directionless desire to be a caretaker until he meets greg#i'm thinking of that one rebvilla tg art with the caption#'doderick fell from the fantasy doggy land and became a real boy in the arms of a guy named tom'#i'm thinking of how the last time greg smokes weed onscreen has him throw it away when tom shows up#how he first does coke. an upper. onscreen directly as tom shows up#tom wakes him up and guides him#greg gives him someone to guide#they're both sponges that soak each other up bc they were sorely missing something#the ethics of their behavior are besides the point#the point is that they cease to be performative about it. tom gets less conservative greg gets less liberal#bc both were masks that weren't necessarily real#'don't be an asshole greg you don't have PRINCIPLES' <- tom accurately calling greg out for being fake#i'm thinking we don't change minds. maybe we do change minds.#once again whether it's in the direction of being 'good' or 'bad' could not be FURTHER from the point#bc the human condition does not condern those things. LOVE does not concern those things.#they just push each other in the direction of being complete people. of being fucking real#mine
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When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? – Psalm 56:3-4
#christian bible#christian faith#christian living#faithinchrist#faithinthefuture#faithingod#faithinjesus#faithinthelord#faithinmyself#holy bible#holy spirit#jesus christ#lord jesus christ#love of christ#love of god#love of jesus#love of the lord#love of my life#new beginnings#new blessings#2024 new blessings#2024 new beginnings#old testament#be better#be blessed#be christlike#be concerned#be confident#be considerate#be conservative
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Sorry guys, rant incoming. I considered deleting this but I put too much effort in.
"girlboss" "girl dinner" "girl math" "boy math" "gen z are making fun of us for wearing x" "here's how to dress like gen z:" "girlies" "girl's night" "boy's night" "me and the boys" "90s kid"
"I don't feel like an adult" "I'm 34 and I can tell you, I still don't feel like an adult either." "My parents seemed like real adults when they were my age." "I still feel like a teenager."
Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you started calling yourself one. Maybe you'd feel more like an adult if you stopped trying to dress like a teenager. Maybe you should move your bed out from the wall and get a wallet. Maybe find a calendar app that works for you.
You are an adult. Even if you live with your parents. Even if you do part-time shift work at minimum wage. Even if you haven't graduated college. Even if you are single. These are adult things to do. Because you are doing them. And you are an adult. Start treating yourself like an adult. Fake it 'till you make it if you have to.
In other, writing-related, news:
That trend on TikTok of 20-40 something women authors (and writers yet to be published) promoting their books like,
"Omg! I can't believe I've sold X number of copies!! I never thought I would!" "Ahhhh imagine publishing your book and all your dreams come true and now you get to meet famous authors and work with big names in the industry!!" "Would you read a book where [proceeds to list a bunch of oversaturated tropes that tell me nothing about the actual plot]?"
It reeks of infantilization. If you didn't believe anyone would want to read your book, why should I? You made it on the NYT bestseller list! Stop acting like a mega-fan who got to meet a celebrity. You are their peer! "Would you read a book--" What if I wouldn't? Why does it matter to you what I think of your book? And for the love of god stop hiding behind tropes you know are already popular. "Here is my book: This is what it is about." Have some goddamn confidence.
It is fine to mention in passing "this idea was really far-fetched so I didn't know if it would appeal" or "I was struggling with self-esteem when I wrote this". It's fine to fan a little bit. It's fine to discuss the tropes in your book. But why are you building your brand as an author off of your inferiority complex? You are using your poor self-esteem as a marketing tactic to seem "humble" and "relatable" but it's coming across as unprofessional and desperate for reassurance. You are an adult. You are competent. The more you act like it the more you will believe it.
And of course, I haven't seen a man promote his book this way...
On another note, do any of the 20-40 something women writers who do "write with me" videos on TikTok actually enjoy writing or are they just doing it for the aesthetic?
They all have gorgeous minimalism writing spaces full of white and pink and a macbook beneath a window. Their makeup is done and they are conventionally pretty to start with. But their entire video is just them talking about how little progress they made, how many pages they deleted, how often they got distracted, how frustrated they are. And like, yeah. We all have those days. But what about the good lines you can't wait to share? The days when the words just flow? The cool stuff you learned while researching? Why don't you ever make videos about that?
Is this some other attempt to seem "relatable" by only talking about the "bad" side of writing? Because again, it's coming across as lacking confidence at best and, at worst, that you don't actually know how to write. And that is not the brand you want as an author.
Again, its always women. Why must women market their self-esteem issues in order to sell their art? Why must we be perpetually awestruck children (girlies, book girls) in over our heads?
#also why do I get the sense these women are selling a lifestyle more than they are actually promoting their own books?#I feel like someone more qualified than me could link this to modelling good christian gender roles#and cultural conformity or something#it isn't lost on me how much of this is about trying to seem humble#and how much validation is tied to protestant success and hard work ideas#is this where the indoctrination starts?#give us 'role models' as influencers#also Alex Aster of Lightlark fame is the WORST for this#her content makes me physically sick to watch#and again interesting that it is pretty widely agreed on at this point that she is an industry plant#interesting that the industry plant is leaning so heavy on the humility and infantilization of women tactics#as though appealing to protestant christians is a major concern of the industry#what's that about? is it just sales? or is it related to those evangelical groups trying get books banned?#how much influence does conservative christian america have within the trad pub industry?#maybe I am really reaching here idk#I don't have any sources#it's just speculation I am open to be proven wrong
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Hii! I was super bored last night so I did a quick drawing of the meditation scene in chapter 14. I was struggling at drawing Zuko cause of the way he sits. He’s described as sitting “lotus position” I looked that up and it looks so uncomfortable. That’s why I’m team #CrissCrossApplesause. Anyways I hope your doing well!! :)
AWWWWWE OMG I LOVVVEEEEE IT!!!! Haha Aang & Momo in the second picture are adorable, and Sokka’s little “I love you” face at Zuko is amazing. Thank you for this it seriously is made my day!!
#oh & ummmm hellloooooo everyone#sorry I have been so MIA the holidays tried to murder me#seriously I love the holidays I’m so cliche I love the songs and the lights and the activies#I look forward to it!#then it comes and I feel like it hits me like a fucking bus and then drags me through December#so yeah I had to take a step back and conserve energy#BUT HELLLLLOOOOOO IM BACK#& I will be coming with a new chapter asap#like this weekend asap#I pinky promise#& it’s like 30k!!#haha kill me#anywayyyyy thank you all those who sent me concerned asks or messages#or asks wishing me well and happy new year I love you all#you’re amazing but I’m not going to post any of them because hello hi I’m fine :)#im not quitting liab or anything pinky promise hehehe#OK SO LIZY MY LOVE THIS IS AMAZING#I SWEAR I PEEKED AT TUMBLR AND SAW THIS IN MY ASKS AND SQEALED#I also got lotus style from Aang in canon but shhhhhhhhhh he’s a cross cross applesauce truther#my neutral Aang haha#he’s funny next chapter#I think he’s funny at least#sokka doesn’t#but sokka doesn’t find anything funny so forget him#I love Sokka’s face in this#& the ‘I know what you are’#seriously though dolls would love to know what he is cause he’s CONFUSED#maybe some light reading will help him understand#im sure it’ll go great#:D
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Man. I am so goddamn tired.
#Seta Speaks#Can't wait for the US Supreme Court to be a 7-2 conservative majority for the rest of my goddamn fucking life.#Also anyone scapegoating third-party or Latinx voters for this; no offense but y'all are playing right into what Reps WANT you to do#--which is ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of white people still voted for Trump once again#and in doing so proving a variety of concerns still true. Worst of all that Democrats are unable to appeal to working-class communities#and the average American white man/woman will be drawn to the candidate they think best represents them on a physical level#Scapegoating Latinx voters for shifting rightward while ignoring that is dumb.#Anyway I'm gonna go fucking drink please don't talk to me please don't message me.#Stay safe and stay alive and remember: Trump will die in your lifetime and that's something worth witnessing.
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nothing like taking a break from writing for work to...also write.
i now have 4k of maybe the most niche fic i've ever written (julie the reagan-hating waitress and the unnamed fry cook from this fall in love and also hate reagan together).
does it even count as fanfic at this point if zero canon characters have even been hinted at thus far? i will leave that to the philosophers.
it will ultimately incorporate a tiny bit of canon characters, i'm just not there yet
pls drop me an ask or a chat if you're up for a beta read! it would be a big help
#my true fandom is just loathing conservative 1980s politicians#never ever gets old as far as i'm concerned
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Not me waking up in a cold sweat because I remembered that the USCJ is holding a listening webinar re: interfaith couples and families and wanting to register, only to see a follow up caveat that this is *just* about the welcomingness of Conservative communities rather than, y'know. Actual institutional, meaningful change.
#I have so much appreciation and respect for Rabbi Danya#but the exclusionary position of the Conservative movement is far more concerning to me than the people#who have overall been really nice and respectful#but it's during a time I can't make anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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