#cw current events

[theyshapedlikefriends]

No crab plushie party today... 😔

[theflyinghydreigon]

I see so many people saying not to blame people who voted third party — saying be angry at the Trump supporters. I am upset at the amount of people who voted for Trump.

But how can I not be mad at people abstaining or voting third party, not just people who voted for Trump? In Michigan and Wisconsin the margins were close enough that (according to the current data on USA Today’s live count) if less people voted 3rd party they would’ve gone to Harris. I did the math with the available data. This is subject to change as not all votes are counted (98-99% are in the states I’m mentioning I believe)

Pennsylvania’s was also extremely close. Genuinely if you live in Pennsylvania and abstained from voting or voted third party that may have cost that state. It’s not quite as close as the other two mentioned, but it’s CLOSE

That’s 44 electoral votes. If I am doing my math correctly (and I may not be), that is 270. That means that if everyone in the electoral college voted within party lines she would’ve won. Even if my math isn’t correct: if only one of those states had been hers or it doesn’t add up to 270 that would’ve been less electors to try and get to vote across party lines for her win.

I’m upset the election was so close, that so many people voted for Trump. It shouldn’t be so close. It’s despicable. Of course I blame those people. BUT IT COULD’VE BEEN DIFFERENT EVEN IF THE SAME AMOUNT OF PEOPLE VOTED FOR TRUMP

I genuinely loathe you. Perhaps almost as much as I loathe Trump supporters. Maybe the same amount.

[the-kestrels-feather]

Hey.

I know you're scared right now.

Believe me I am too.

But this world is a better place with you in it.

Be brave, be strong, and know that even though I don't know you I love you and want to see you succeed 💕💕

[kindest-little-fella-in-town]

Are you concerned about what’s going on with Meta now that Trump💩 will soon be POTUS? (on my birthday of all things)

in what sense?

my biggest issue with the company thus far (beyond the obvious corrupt execs, shitty algorithm, and Capitalism) has been its push for AI-generated content over the support of people in the arts, but i think that’s unfortunately a worldwide issue that people have been embracing.

i live in england, so obviously he’s not my president. but i have no doubt that manipulation of social media and especially of AI databases have already been the top strategies of all politicians/corporations with half a brain. this especially sucks ass because the embracing of AI/tabloid culture over manmade creation and factual evidenced information is basically a direct line to 1984, where whoever controls the main databases controls the majority of human belief.

sorry for the pessimistic response, hope it wasn’t too draining. (also, happy early birthday! 🥳)

[turnandface]

just a little psa, there has been some legislation passed in the US and in my state (and in other states that will likely happen in my /red/ state sooner than later) that uuhh. I'm still gonna be writing, but I'll probably be slower (who knows I might write more as a form of escape lol but) I have a lot of medical and personal things that I need to secure and take care of before things might really go to shit. I'm angry and a little scared. I know irl is always the priority, but I just wanted to let you all know what's going on. Stay safe, all of you, and my mutuals in the US. Buckle in, it's going to be hard, but if we look out for and help our local communities, we can get through this. Now is the time to pay attention, now is the time to organize, now is the time to have hope. We can't afford to be passive in the face of adversity.

[buggest]

currently looking at college in canada i’m so fucking done with this shit

[flock-of-cassowaries]

So I saw this tweet reposted by one of those automated meme-aggregator accounts…

…and it reminded me of an acquaintance of mine, who was recently overheard telling a relative that she hoped the rapture would happen soon, because she and her husband didn’t want to have to declutter their large house.

Which would be one thing as a flippant joke, but she seemed totally serious, and she’s one of those super-devoted Christian Evangelical QAnon true believers. So…

Like, very cool, Sharon.

Just go ahead and invite the end of the world so you won’t have to declutter, or face the reality of your own mortality.

Fuck your grandchildren, right? And anyone who hasn’t been ‘saved’. Let’s ✨accelerate✨ those end-times!

It really makes me wonder how much of the current absolute political shitshow is attributable to a temper tantrum by people who, as boomers, have been the central focus of western society for their entire lives, and would rather flip the table and scatter the pieces on the floor than face the reality that the game might go on without them.

I do think that, to some degree, this explanation is just wishful thinking on my part. It implies that all of the current bullshit may be, in some measure, at least, a self-limiting problem, and that’s super-comforting to me right now.

But, on the other hand, if I’m being critical of my own hypothesis… fascism always requires an out-group, and there does seem to be a long history of people being seduced by fascism when things are going badly. I do not dispute that late-stage capitalism is going badly.

But still… it does feel like there’s a frankly embarrassing level of rage towards their own children and grandchildren present in a lot of the right-wing adherents’ rhetoric.

[atalkingwolf]

I can't save you. I can't help you. I can't fucking do anything. I'm a ptsd riddled mess who wants to fucking help you but I can't. I'm stuck. Every word you say is a fucking trigger. I can't I can't I FUCKING CANT.

I HATE THIS. I HATE THE FUCKING WORLD WE LIVE IN. ITS NOT FUCKED. WE ARE GONNA BE OKAY. BUT NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN.

AND I CANT HELP THEM. I CANT ASSURE THEM. I CANT TELL ANYONE BECAUSE EITHER THEY DONT BELIEVE IT MATTERS ANYMORE OR THEYRE SO DAMN INGRAINED IN THIS SOCIETY THEY CANT HEAR ME.

[who-parties-on-a-tuesday]

I keep seeing pro is*eal shit on my dash.

If I see any more of that shit, I'm blocking you.

I'm not in the mood to debate human rights with you.

Demand a permanent ceasefire

[newtsoftheworldunite]

This is the holiday honoring the life and work of MLK, Jr. but the United States is so mixed up they're swearing in a man who acts like Amalek instead. May deliverance of all people come speedily in our days. May we have the courage to be part of it.

[theyshapedlikefriends]

URGENT HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

Dear humanity,

Please Help Me – My Son May Die at Any Moment.

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

Here’s my story, and I’m reaching out with a hopeful heart 💔✨, hoping someone will feel what my family and I are going through.

My son is suffering from a severe and life-threatening injury after being shot by Israeli drones. He urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

Time is running out, and we are facing a critical situation. I am asking for your generosity to help us save him either through a donation or by sharing this urgent plea with others

I beg you, i kiss your feet, to help my son. My son may die at any moment

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

Please Donate now:👇

https://gofund.me/2f20a398

Ddonate Via Paypal 👇

https://www.paypal.com/donate

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[mjrtaurus]

You know… seeing my mom waste away for most of the near three decades I’ve been on this godforsaken planet because she couldn’t get health insurance until she got disability- by then far too late to do anything to improve the sharp decline her quality of life was taking- has really taught me something.

I’m okay with a rich fucker playing with peoples lives getting shot to death.

[verratensduo]

((I hope you non-voters are happy with yourselves. We now having fucking WWE in charge of education come January from a woman who lied about having a teaching degree 😡))

[quwyou]

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[victorian-lad]

in light of recent events

Hey guys, silver lining. We can, with no room for doubt or misplaced blame, point every finger for every problem that happens to the economy in the next 4 years quite firmly at the Republican party. They're going to fuck everything, and their already kind of abysmal image will never recover. When everything is obscenely expensive because we deported our cheap labor force and enforced tariffs on the goods from the exportation of labor to the global south, and the climate and public health still go down the shitter, we know EXACTLY who is to blame. Not Biden, not the Democratic Party, but Trump and his ilk. And I, for one, cannot wait to vindictively shove the 'I told you so,' in the faces of everyone who voted for the leopards-eating-my-face Republican party when the leopards start really chowing down on everyone's face. It will not be a fun (hopefully only) 4 years, but I can take grim pleasure in this at least.

[mswyrr]

One of the most terrible things about this event is the sense of its inevitability. The violence of apartheid and colonialism begets more violence. Many people have struggled with the straightjacket of this inevitability, straining to articulate that its recognition does not mean its embrace. I am reminding myself that it was from Palestinians, many of them writing and speaking in these pages, that I learned to think of Palestine as a site of possibility—a place where the very idea of the nation-state, which has so harmed both peoples, could be remade or destroyed entirely. And it was Palestinians who opened my thinking to multiple visions of sharing the land. On the left, I hope we do not mistake the inevitability of the violence for an inescapable limit on our work or the quality of our thought. Even if our dreams for better have failed, they must accompany us through this moment to the other side. We need to imagine a movement for liberation better even than the Exodus—an exodus where neither people has to leave. Where people stay to pick up the pieces, rearranging themselves not just as Jews or Palestinians but as antifascists and workers and artists. I want what Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales describes in her poem “Red Sea”:

We cannot cross until we carry each other,

all of us refugees, all of us prophets.

No more taking turns on history’s wheel,

trying to collect old debts no-one can pay.

The sea will not open that way.

This time that country

is what we promise each other,

our rage pressed cheek to cheek

until tears flood the space between,

until there are no enemies left,

because this time no one will be left to drown

and all of us must be chosen.

This time it’s all of us or none.