#democracy is on the line

[melishade]

People forget or refuse to accept that politics is about strategy and numbers, not morals. It’s unfortunate, but it’s the truth.

kamala harris is electable. more so than joe biden. yes this country is racist and sexist. and kamala harris IS still very fucking electable. "she's a cop" yeah! everyone who serves as president of the united states fucking sucks lmao. but yk what?? she can beat trump. she doesnt wholly embrace fascist policy. she generally aligns with a lot of important issues-- abortion, the green new deal, lgbtq+ rights, fact-based public education-- and that buys us time to organize our communities, to improve safeguards and community care and uproot the fascism taking hold without a fully fascist president breathing down our necks. "the democrats suck too" yup they really do!! and yet i still prefer that to the gop's wholehearted embrace of true fascism, of overturning free and fair elections and shifting power to unelected federal judges. so!! enough of the hand wringing please!! we need to buy some fucking time so yes kamala harris will need to win and yes she is very capable of winning there is strategy there, there is money there, and the american people above all rn want someone who isnt decaying into the literal ground thank you that is all.

[scottguy]

Two hour shifts are available practically every hour of working day and early evening.

Try it once. If you really don't enjoy it no one will force you to keep calling. It's all from your own computer. They train you. There are scripts to follow. You don't HAVE to call the entire two hours if you don't want to. Also, you can stop and take breaks at any moment.

[1solone]

Trump’s niece just nailed it!

[jesncin]

It appears that DC has officially changed Superman's motto to "Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow". I've seen fan posts circulating a while for the motto "Truth, Justice, and Liberty". I personally think the latter is a touch snappier, and when you break liberty down to its definition, it is a global desire. Do you have a preference?

I think both are good, but I actually prefer "a Better Tomorrow"! It nods to Superman being the Man of Tomorrow and also reminds me of my all time favorite line from Smashes the Klan:

I personally like to imagine Superman as someone who started out saying "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" in his early days where he really wants to assimilate into becoming a trustable icon for the American people, but as he grows with Lois Liando and further down characters like Conner and Jon Yun Kent don't identify with "the American way", he expands to "A Better Tomorrow". Because I'd love that growth for him!! He doesn't have to start out with the perfect motto, because he realizes his approach to Justice wasn't perfect.

[konzenkoryuu]

Are you for free school lunch? (Project 2025 wants to get rid of that)

Are you for support for single parents, or low income families? (Things like foodstamps and wic could count here)

Are you for child education? (Project 2025 wants to ban pbs…and they’re already banning books)

Are you for safe spaces for children to exist and play?

Are you for adoption?

Are you for programs that help teens and adults with living situations and rehabilitations?

If you can answer no to any of those, you are not pro-life. You are pro-birth.

[daydreamoftheendless]

no context spoilers from d20 live london night one

[scottguy]

If we lose democracy, it will long, very painful for EVERYONE (not just liberals - right-wingers are consumers too!) and it will be very difficult, maybe impossible, to get back.

[howdoyousleep3]

never in my life have i wanted a Daddy more than i do rn 😭

[biscuitlover23]

KEEP VOTING BLUE!

Keep spreading the word like wildfire! No matter what anyone says! Keep spreading the word out everywhere and anywhere! On every social media platform! To be SILENCED is complicity when lives are on the line!

To be SILENCED is complicity when lives are on the line!

[iamnmbr3]

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[tinystarshiningbright]

Trump as dictator for life affects the whole world. If you live in the US, please vote. Biden is not great but he's not a dictator.

“Donald Trump threatens the entire existence of the American republic. He is able to do this because the Supreme Court he created is assisting him in doing so. It is a corrupt Court – on which more later. It overturned a central right for half of our population. It routinely mixes and matches rationales, jurisprudences, logics to arrive at the end point of transforming America into their extremist vision. We’ve heard that yesterday’s decision was a terrible decision, an extremist decision, that it changes the American experiment fundamentally. No disagreement with any of those points. Most importantly, in my mind, it’s a fake decision. Yes, it will now be controlling within the federal courts. But it doesn’t change the constitution any more than a foreign army occupying New England would make Massachusetts no longer part of the United States. That may seem like a jarring analogy. But it’s the only kind that allows us to properly view and react to this Supreme Court.”

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The rationale for the decision yesterday has literally no basis whatsoever in the US constitution.

Josh Marshall is correct, but I don’t think it matters. This corrupt, activist, fascist SCOTUS does not care. The majority has decided that the Constitution, 250 years of precedent, popular opinion, and the foundational ideas that have made America what it is since 1787 are what they say they are.

I live in a country of three hundred and forty million people.

In this country, six unelected christian nationalists, five of whom were placed on the court by presidents who lost the popular vote, who are opposed by SEVENTY PERCENT of the population, are making up laws out of whole cloth because their power is unchecked. A country that allows this to impose their regressive authoritarianism on that entire population is not a free country. It is not a Democracy.

America has not been attacked like this since 9/11. Six unelected people forcing their christian nationalist agenda on a population of three hundred and forty million is not a Democracy. It is tyranny.

Everyone is missing the central message of yesterday’s ruling: SCOTUS is going to install Trump as dictator for life, by any means necessary. Somehow, after he loses the popular vote again, and after he’s even lost the Electoral College again, these six Fascists will invent a reason to overturn the will of the electorate, again. Every single one of their rulings this term have been part of their coup. Now, just line them all up and connect the dots.

We are four months away from the likely end of what passes for freedom in America, and once it’s gone, it’s not coming back in my lifetime.

[tilbageidanmark]

[aniseandspearmint]

Just got a both candidates are the same anon screed in my inbox. Its getting deleted, I don't feel obligated to answer rude assholes that can't even own up to their cracked beliefs with their own user name.

Anyway, both candidates are NOT the same, one is a literal fascist dictator who is a threat to democracy and going to happy murder countless queer and disabled people!

The other is a democratic candidate that, while not PERFECT, is actual THOUSANDS of miles better than the opposition!

I personally am HAPPILY voting blue, because i don't want me or anyone else to be lined up against a pit and shot or sent to a gas chamber, which is a very likely end game for anyone who is anti-fascist/queer/disabled if donald trump wins, given historical examples!

Vote blue, or it very might well be the LAST chance you ever get to vote according to donald trump! He's actually SAID that. He means it.

[fwmdks2]

[1solone]

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

tg//chks that despise bk//dk are so funny like why do you hate your mirror reflection?