#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 💕💕

[buggest]

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

[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

[flock-of-cassowaries]

The oddly-named Joseph Takagi:

“What kind of terrorists *are* you?”

The dastardly Hans Gruber:

“Whoever said we were terrorists?”

My bestie:

“Well, once he shoots the CEO, he’ll be a terrorist!”

[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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[theyshapedlikefriends]

Reminder

I'll still post/reblog more plush friends in these trying times to cheer up people

But never forget Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Today and every day...

[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.

[pixelkip]

Oh weird why is YouTube showing me stuff about the trump assassination attempt again that's weir-

Are you fucking serious

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

hi

you are not morally obligated to give platform to every voice that makes you feel guilty, ever

guilt does not make you a good person, that's not how anything works

thanks for reading I sincerely hope you can also comprehension

[magic5ball]

To those who Spoke Up about Gaza

(I would like to preface this by asking any reader of the following post to please reserve judgement on me or my beliefs until you have read it all the way to the end. Also content warning for current world events.)

So there's been a lot of talk about what's going on in Gaza lately, and unsurprisingly, a lot of Americans have lost faith in their country. The current administration has at best condoned and at worst actively aided Ben Netanyahu in what can be generously described as war crimes in the Gaza region of Palestine.

As an American, I by all means should have lost faith in my country as well.

And yet, I didn't. In fact, if anything my faith in this country has been galvanized. Because whenever I go online, I see people all across this country, protesting, boycotting, donating, just GIVING a crap about the horrors currently being inflicted upon Palestinian civilians. Tens, hundreds, thousands of Americans more than willing to hold their government's feet to the fire and demand a stop to the killing.

Granted, there have been some mistakes. As much as I would like to say otherwise, antisemites have taken advantage of this tragedy to air their bigoted views, at times entangling naive activists. Donations have not always reached their desired destination, and others have foolishly assumed that because the IDF is committing war crimes, Hamas must be the 'good guys', so to speak.

But just because these things are true does not change the fact that what is occurring in Gaza is inhumane, and something must be done.

I recently read a tweet bemoaning how what's currently happening shows we've learned nothing from the Holocaust, but when I look at those tens, those hundreds of thousands of Americans screaming ENOUGH is ENOUGH, as early as a week after the IDF's incursion into Gaza, I cannot help but see a country that has witnessed tragedy, and cried

NEVER AGAIN!

One day, we will have a final body count for this tragedy. But the greater tragedy is we may never know just how many Palestinian lives were saved because of donated goods, esims, or because a ceasefire agreement arrived just in time.

To those who spoke up about Gaza, to those who saw cruelty and demanded mercy, Ithank you for the service you have done for your world. What you have done is more incredible than you could ever imagine.

[rainbowsky]

I usually really appreciate your political takes because we share the same political ideologies. However, I'm extremely disappointed with your recent take on the Israel-Palestine conflict. "When will people learn that their own pain is not justification to inflict pain onto others?" is one of the worst and most privileged takes on this topic. You have completely overlooked years worth of oppression and human cost of Palestine in making this overly simplified statement. It actually hurts to see people talk this way

Anon...

There are so many troubling things to unpack here that I don't even know where to start. I guess all I really have to say in response (without ripping into you in a way that I do not currently have the heart for) is: you do not know my position on any of this. Don't pretend to. Everything that you are saying here is a reflection of yourself and your own assumptions, it is not a reflection of me.

I get that it is a lot easier to just do a drive-by snipe at somebody rather than actually engage in a conversation, but my DMs are always open. There is never any need - nor any excuse - for this kind of anonymous presumptuous BS. I have made that very clear in the past (and I hope you will read that post, Anon, because it is the best possible explanation of where I stand on anonymous messages).