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watching the 2024 America election results is brutal
damn it
#alexandenight#my art#2024 election#happy birthday to me I guess#country should do better!#damn#this is really bad
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im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.
biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)
the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.
democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.
#i think i already said this and frankly idc#uspol#📁.zip#to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you#still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish#frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into#blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss#instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle#and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD#settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because#it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power#any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism#because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump#and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and#will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not#about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden'#like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely#challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil'#is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.
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homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.
#-> myra text#political critique#that is why hindutva should have not been popularised. hindutva is not decolonisation or reclamation.#it is homogenising and exclusionist. it takes away the diverse history of this country.#but this statement will reach deaf ears. rather than critiquing nobility they will go and bark casteist and islamphobic bs.#did invaders did what invaders do? yes. but this whole property destruction and lives being at risk has been going on for years.#biggest example who are quite popular: ajatshatru (son of bimbisara) & ashoka the great (the massacre at kaling)#i'm all in for criticising nobility i have no respect for any kings despite their religion and community and whatever.#they're all shits who benefited and left the common people to rot.#these people will say that tipu sultan is the devil reborn but will go on praising the marathas#as if the marathas did not cause a bloodshed in bengal karnataka and the punjab regions. not saying tipu is good but i rather#wanted to point out the hypocrisy of people in certain spaces. its a good thing to appreciate history and even better thing to learn from#the mistakes made in past but some of you guys did not understand the whole point.#absolute shit head cunts some of you guys are. come at me brand me whatever slurs you fuckers use i don't give a shit#calling people sex slaves just because they don't subscribe to your viewpoint is not the big own you think it is.#sanghi bs#india#hindutva
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I officially start as an apprentice at a tattoo shop today!! Yippee!!
i've been drawin on myself and others since I was a kid so i guess this was only natural! I'm very excited and also Very terrified!
I can't help but think about the election coming up and how drastically different my future looks depending on who wins. Nobody's gonna want to get tattoos when they can't afford to live in the even Worse hypercapitalist hellscape trump would turn this country into should he get reelected.
How could i escape a potentially dictatorial country when I've been apprenticing and all my savings are gone? What would happen if he succeeds in banning my existence as a trans man and i'm forced to detransition in the eyes of the law? I really don't see anything being sacred when it comes to human rights for this monster and until we know once and for all that he's out, I will not be able to relax.
Alls I can do right now is make sure i VOTE. That's the one thing that will save us. Vote blue. Vote for the future and our potential to improve things under an imperfect but not outright fascist government. Overwhelm the numbers to where there can be no argument as to who won.
please. make sure to vote.
#nat chats#sorry i didn't mean to turn this into a psa#but i'm seriously considering moving if trump wins#i keep thinking about all the people gettin the hell out of germany when they saw hilter rising to power#trump is turning into more of a fucking nazi by the day#and i'm caught between wanting to believe it won't be that bad even if he does win#and fearing the state our country will be reduced to should he declare himself dictator#he said something about his base not having to vote anymore should he come into power once again#and it was super fucking ominous#i'm supposed to be looking forward to a lifetime of making cool art but how can i focus when i'm trying to ignore#all the giant flashing signs saying#WARNING fascism incoming!!#i'm just going to do what I can and try to do my best to make whats in my reach a better place
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Don't fucking blame Palestinians and the people who support them for this. Don't blame people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a genocide-loving centrist for this. Even if all of them voted for Harris it wouldn't have changed the outcome.
The blame you put on the people belongs on HARRIS for refusing to explicitly promise an end to weapons and money to Israel, and end to America's enthusiastic support of the genocide. She refused to listen to the bipartisan majority of Americans who want an end to the genocide! This is not democracy, there is no choice and the people don't have enough leverage over our president if every single election is a choice between the rapid end of the world and a slightly slower end of the world.
#election#im mad#neoliberals stop yelling at your community and start yelling at the people in charge!#blame the people who ACTUALLY have power!#i love you and i want you to see that WE ALL DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS BULLSHIT#and also! vise versa! leftists dont blame ppl who voted for harris for not pushing enough#ppl are just trying to do what we think is safest and its difficult to know what the right thing to do is in this age#personally i voted for harris even though i really didn't want to bc trump is scarier#this countrys too fucking big#no 1 person should have so much power#anyway its hard to know whats real and what's an op these days so i dont blame ppl getting scared and voting for harris
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i really like how looking at kefkas design (in both the game and in the concept art) at first glance it's like oh! what a cool fun guy! and then you play the game and you're like oh okay so he's genuinely the worst
#and you know what honestly it's evil that a 35 year old man is somehow serving face better than i am#NO BUT REALLY when my mom introduced me to the game when I was younger i was like oh wow how cool!#and then he was decidedly less cool#6 year old me: he seems fun!!!#(he proceeds to poison an entire country's water supply)#6 year old me: what#final fantasy 6#final fantasy vi#final fantasy#kefka ff6#kefka palazzo#ffvi#petition to start calling kefka freakazoid 3000 (because i already do so everyone should start doing it)#ALSO LATELY NONE OF MY POSTS ARE SHOWING UP IN THE TAGS#FF6 NATION CAN YOU HEAR ME#banging on the walls LET ME OUT#/silly#/chattin abt ff6
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People saying "Don't boycott Eurovision or Israel will win!!" - they already won the second they got past the semifinals. Israel is going to be the winner of this year, especially with the way things are going down at the moment.
You wanted Israel to not win? You guys should've made sure they didn't get to the finals to begin with- though I wouldn't doubt EBU would've changed some votes or pulled some bullshit to add Israel in the finals regardless of making it or not.
#eurovision#Personally I think just voting for other countries and ignoring Israel would've been a better strategy#Just shut down the TV during their performance and not stream their song. Show no support for Israel#Now? Now is tooooooo fucking late to complain about things. The jury will make sure Israel is the winner (:#If there's even any Eurovision with what's going on right now#Sorry i'm just so annoyed over the people being like 'stop boycotting Eurovision and vote for any country so Israel won't win!!!!' like girl#that should've been done during the semifinals not NOW#Also this is not how it works??? We should at least agree to one specific country to win and vote for them just just to have a slight chance#At this point I would be fine even with a Switzerland win just so Israel doesn't. But I doubt it#eurovision 2024#esc 2024#Also funny how it took Netherlands to be disqualified for people to actually lose their shit over things lol#It tells a lot#Lowkey glad it happened. Maybe that will actually make the boycott be worth it and do something#It may be the push that this whole thing needed yk?
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i hate having four fucking ads on a 20-minute podcast episode.
(it's a rant, enjoy.)
no, i don't want to get your shitting plus subscription, i don't even pay for 95% of the films and shows i watch online. stop fucking begging for patrons, it's not our problem you want to do this full-time. good for you if you do it but it's not somehow our duty to get you there just because you're a creator. not everyone can afford 60 fucking subscriptions. instead of people getting the minimum to at least get by as a basic human right, i bet like 85% of creatives online are making elite clubs on patreon and shit for those who have spare money. i get that you need it, but so many people (especially PDA neurodivergents) are extremely put off by being asked to pay and won't do it (like me) just because of that. i've encountered art that had the option to pay without requiring it, and I did. because they deserved it anyway, and they understood the classism and capitalism ingrained in the internet creative culture and that a lot of people don't have the means to become members of the club. i'm planning on starting a podcast, been wanting to publish fiction in paper since i was a kid, and i still want to make all that 100% free with the option of payment, because i believe that knowledge, stories and art should be accessible to anyone, regardless of financial situation (what do you think libraries are for, hm?????). when it's not, that's when elitism starts to rise and i'm just too tired for that shit. the empty snobbery culture around modern art alone is driving me insane.
Starkid has been recording their performances for years and guess what - they're massive, they sell out, people attend their live plays for the experience, but those who can't are still able to be a part of the fandom (as opposed to broadway musicals that get shared through bootlegs, hm) and they don't expect their fans to be responsible for their means of living. people who want to see a live performance, to buy your book in a bookshop professionally bound and keep it, to thank you for making your day by buying you a coffee will do so of their own free will. don't beg them to pay for your groceries if you made the choice to put your art out there. it's the system that is responsible for taking care of your basic needs, not your fans.
#shoutout to#the amelia project#because the ads in there drove me to this rant.#dear philip thorne. please do kindly shut up#can you leave all your begging to the end so i can skip it#i know i'm gonna offend someone by this post and to be clear: i'm not sorry.#the far-right is built on the mindset of individualism which means everyone is on their own and weak if they need help#while still requiring everyone to keep up with the insane standards.#far-left IS NOT GOOD EITHER TO BE CLEAR#WE NEED A BALANCE#but making us pay for each other's living costs is a distraction from#those who barely notice the difference of losing 2000 bucks#we should be able to go to work and make art without stressing over barely paying for rent and how much the month's food costs#not because we need to fight to survive but because we love being alive.#AND I'M CZECH. it's so much better here in comparison to so many countries.#so that's it i'm tired bye
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the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon
#her opinions and amicus' in many cases were iconic! not denying that certainly. she is absolutely AMONG the better justices in us history#HOWEVER her record on policing/the carceral system is very bad! genuinely bad!#and she just would not hold the conservative justices accountable. her and kagan are way too placating#and then she refused to retire in 2009 when there was a sitting democratic president and a fucking DEMOCRATIC SUPER MAJORITY#saying basically that no one else could do the job as well as her which is insane because sotomayor and KBJ literally are better :/#its also unbelievably conceited and just incredibly fucking selfish to knowingly doom the country because you think youre hot shit#started ranting abt this at work bc literally any talk even adjacent to the supreme court will set me off abt all of us court history#and my coworker was like 'well i dont think its very fair that she had to have that much riding on her decision to retire'#it literally is fair because that is the fucking job that she signed up for. this has literally always been how it fucking works#its a lifetime appointment. you either die unexpectedly or retire strategically#she accepted a position in which the entire country would depend on her but its not fair for the entire country to depend on her???#bullshit#im not fucking buying it. she did this knowing roe would likely be struck down as a result#she should absolutely be held accountable for that lmfao. you can know that she had a hand in a lot of great decisions for this country#while also knowing that she did a fucked up and extremely selfish thing
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I'm on episode 5 of the Fallout show; NO WHAT THE HELL I LITERALLY THOUGHT TO MYSELF "MAN I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS SHOW" AND THEN THEY JUST REMOVE THE NCR FROM CANNON. WHY. THAT'S SUCH A FRUSTRATING CHOICE
also STOP PLAYING ON THE NOSE MUSIC I CAN UNDERSTAND THE PLOT WE DON'T NEED CONSTANT 50S MUSIC
#fallout 1#fallout#fallout 2#fallout new vegas#fallout meta#fallout show#fallout tv show#fallout prime#fallout tv series#fallout tv spoilers#fallout amazon#fallout series#THEY FUCKED IT. “PEOPLE DIDN'T AGREE ON HOW THE WORLD SHOULD BE IMPROVED IS NOT ENOUGH”#I feel like I know this is completely irrational to be upset over. It's literally fiction. DOES not matter#the Tv-show can do what it likes#BUT IT FUCKING SMARTS to do a twist like that. Hope they at least expand more on it??#I'm not even against an “NCR falls apart” or whatever#I think you could do that interestingly#but it was like a whole country#I was thinking this was maybe some different continuity then the games. Honestly would've preferred that.#they could've just had it in California without bringing up the NCR. That's fine. But this such a boring end to that continuity.#especially when you compare it to New Vegas. The line “people don't agree when trying to make the world better” is such a nothing line#ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED to New Vegas#which actually engages with the ideas and theme of history repeating beyond that surface level#I hate being upset with media#it's a pretty good character beat for Lucy#and I think this is the first time Maximus becomes likable as a character for me#but maaaaan that's a dumb twist
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I do not understand how this can happen once. But now it's happened twice.
Just an fyi, it's not just america that's going to suffer for the next four years. I'm Australian and I never felt closer to WWIII than when trump was in last time.
Is it sexism? Is that what got him over the line?
Whatever.
Right now, this minute (unless it's bed time in america idk) I want those of you with morals to start working toward the presidency. Every one of you. I don't care about your age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity. If you think ppl should have bodily autonomy, if you think grabbing women Anywhere without their permission is bad, if you think every one of your citizens should be treated equally, if you think war is very bad and there's always a better solution, then start working toward the white house. Flood the options with good ppl. If the only politicians available in four years are those with ethics, then your incredibly weird way of voting won't matter anymore.
Basically, the next four years are what they are. Focus on what comes next.
#do americans know what a joke their country became the last time he was in?#it's astounding they want to do that again#i really truly hope some better ppl step up to the plate soon#don't get me wrong our pollies aren't a bed of roses#but they're currently bickering about how many of them got free flight upgrades#they're not going to be kicking off the nuclear holocaust anytime soon#us politics#us elections#how is this real#wtf is with your way of voting?#this state looks mostly red let's just say they all voted red??#why aren't all your votes counted?#this is why I'm glad australia isn't a republic#i know there are lots of reasons to get rid of the royals#but the one big reason to keep them is the governor general can kick out the PM if needed#like if we ever pulled an 'america' & lost all our collective braincells & voted in pauline hanson for eg#ok i should have been in bed two hours ago#night#I'll hope for a miracle & someone finds out team trump cheated somehow
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you know, i’ve never in my life been blackout drunk before. this may change sometime in the next couple of days
#obviously i’m angry and devastated and everything else. whatever. but i’m also just really pissed off at myself because i honestly wasn’t#expecting it to go this way and i should have been.#i feel so stupid and sixteen years old all over again. waking up in the morning genuinely convinced we’re finally going to have a female#president in office and having to go to bed feeling like half the country is laughing at my naïveté. and it’s even worse this time because#we’ve been here before and i feel like i should have known better.#i seriously don’t know what we’re going to do. like globally the entire world is fucked#whatever. i’m not going to tag rant about this. i’m not going to say anything new here anyway.#caseyposting
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"I'm emotionally stable enough for a second ISAT playthrough," I said, moments before vibrating and gesturing wildly and flapping my hands at nearly every little thing in Act 1 + early Act 2
#augh sifloop calling each other 'stranger' on their first meeting but it obviously means different things to them (bangs head against wall)#'why are you helping me' 'bcs i think you should be helped' ooouhhhh it hurts#sif joining the party bcs they had nothing better to do/nowhere else to go...........#dile asking if sif's gonna go back to their home country and sif dodging the fuckg out of that question (head in hands)#sighhhhh i love you isat
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sims 3 vs sims 4 articles are so funny they're all like:
sims 3 has this super cool feature! but sims 4 runs better. sims 3 has this other different super cool feature! but sims 4 runs better. sims 3 has another other super cool feature!! but sims 4 runs better. which is better? wow that's a really hard question haha they're both good you know? because sims 3 has all these super cool features. but sims 4. sims 4 runs better.
#ts3#ts4#the sims 3#the sims 4#the sims#sims 4 should have been sims 3 but with the better stability and graphics i said what i said#ea you know what the sims 5 should now be? you guessed it! sims 3 but with better stability and graphics.#also i think they should have expansion packs that are based on different countries and time periods but that is a whole other ted talk#before anyone comes at me about create a sim i will grant you the body editing options and the body editing options ONLY.#what the fuck did they do to traits there's like 10#open world and cas are fucking magical and they just?? got rid??#cas literally one of the best sims features of all time just saying#i tried to build a house on my friend's sims 4 game and it was so difficult. it was SO DIFFICULT.#'build/buy is better in 4' no the fuck it isn't sit down#i didn't know this but i just read a think that said. they didn't put toddlers in the sims 4 base originally. THEY DIDN'T EVEN PUT TODDLERS.#this post post brought to you by me playing sims 3 again and actually looking to see if sims 4 is worth my time beyond it running better#(spoiler alert probably not lol)#games#mae posts
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every so often i will see a post from a leftist on this website that is so egregiously ableist that i remember that like. oh yeah the userbase of leftists on this website is violently anti-disabled people and will jump at any chance to demonize any of us for any reason. i just forget that fact because i'm extremely dedicated to curating my space
i'm paraphrasing here but i saw a post that said, "every time i see an American [disabled person] mention being scared about the election because they're afraid of losing their benefits i have to laugh. anybody who wants blood-soaked money from the US government deserves to starve" which. like. goodness that's a lot to unpack. i think we should burn the whole suitcase instead !
#i inserted [disabled person] because they used a fucking slur instead and i didn't want that in my post#like i feel like there should be room for disabled people like me whose lives literally entirely depend on accessing said >#> extremely limited benefits in conversations about whether voting in this election makes you complicit in genocide#which like! i do understand. i do. it's nauseating to think about what this shit ass country is doing. it's horrific. i do not blame anyone#> for not wanting to be a part of that. *and* i am also terrified for my own life because i remember the first time trump won it suddenly >#> became IMPOSSIBLE for ANYONE to get on benefits. EVER. and so many disabled ppl i know went to renew benefits theyd had for decades >#> just to be denied. one of whom was a below-the-neck paraplegic. he died because he lost those benefits!!! because trump won#i really do understand why people dont feel right voting for harris. or why they don't vote at all. i truly do. but holy shit i am so scare#and yes! i am aware that people in palestine and gaza are suffering so much worse. and i wish i could change that#but every single person in power in the US is pro-israel and eagerly drinking the anti-palestine kool-aid. no matter who wins >#> things will not change in that part of the world. and it is infuriating. when the revolution comes this will change. but it hasnt.#the revolution will not save me as a physically disabled person. it will not save any of us. we do not matter to leftists. i am sorry but >#> this is the one thing i have learned after being in leftist spaces for over 10 years. and posts like the one i mentioned prove it#so i am very sorry. i really am. for being physically disabled. but i cannot survive another 4 years relying on my parents for everything#if trump wins i will be killing myself. this is a promise. i cannot do that again#i know it makes me a bad person to be afraid that harris will lose. but people on the left already think i'm a bad person for being disable#i want the genocide to stop. i absolutely do. i also want to survive. i am terrified that the US leftists will sacrifice disabled people#like me so they can feel good about being put in a real life trolley situation#again. im sorry. im so fucking sorry. i wish i was a better person. i wish i was able to give more. i know that if i was just a good#person i would be able to have a job and give to every palestinian gofundme on my dash. i would be able to do more than my daily clicks >#> and reaching out and calling representatives that don't care. if i was a good person i would be able to convince my parents that z*onism>#is deeply fucking racist. and that israel is wildly racist and killing palestinians for fun. if i was a good person i would be able to make#>them leftists too. im sorry. im sorry. im sorry im not good enough. im sorry that im scared. im so scared and it's not right for me to be#when so much worse is going on because of this countrys bloodlust. im sorry that im benefiting from being born here i dont want to be#im sorry for not having any other options. if i was a good person i know i would have them. im sorry. god im sorry im so fucking sorry
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The fact people actually know and are friends with all their cousins is so unreal to me. Most of my cousins are not even on the same CONTINENT as me. I met a new cousin today and found out about three more. Who are these people. Where are they coming from
#the new cousin was great I like her a lot :]#I should also clarify the reason I joke so much about moving countries is coz half my family lives in the UK#I do wish I got to see my cousins more they all know each other + my sister way better than me so it’s always very awkward seeing them#and the Asian side are like. all full adults
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