#dnc 2024

[komsomolka]

Thousands of Pro-Palestine voters are rallying in protest over Israel’s war in Gaza near the United Center in Chicago where the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is currently underway.

(📸: AFP, MEE/@ azad.essa)

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

DNC attendees cover their ears as names of dead Palestinian children are read as they leave the convention.

Via left at London

[mythica-ithaca]

[dosesofcommonsense]

[ghostboycharm]

here’s this thing IT DOESN’T MATTER it doesn’t MATTER if you like kamala harris. it doesn’t matter if she’s not your ideal, perfect candidate.

the other side has the support of NAZIS. of the KKK. of white supremacists and pedophiles and every type of vile evil person you can imagine. and donald trump welcomes them. he makes them feel safe.

you will be dooming your bipoc friends, your disabled friends, your lgbtq+ friends. you’ll be dooming palestinians and at-risk kids and marginalized groups of all types.

it doesn’t matter who you like. what matters is that you vote blue anyway.

[cleolinda]

So last night at the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris pulled off, in my opinion, the most glorious flex in all of American politics. It was petty as fuck and I am here for it:

Harris, in a Show of Force, Holds a Large Rally 80 Miles From Her Convention

Choosing Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee [the smaller venue used for the Republican National Convention] as the venue for Ms. Harris’s rally also served as an intentional rejoinder to Mr. Trump, who has fumed over the size of her crowds since she replaced Mr. Biden on the Democratic ticket. The campaign said about 15,000 people attended the rally in Milwaukee, and the 23,500-person convention hall in Chicago was packed.

Someone on Reddit then linked to the Kamala HQ video of her brief Coming To You Live From My Rival’s Venue acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination. And Redditors pointed out that you could actually see the juxtaposition, and the sold-out crowds could see each other, and it was beautiful.

Posters on r/politics constantly say to any positive discussion, “None of this matters if you don’t vote.” While this is true, the constant doomer nihilism of “None of this matters” pisses me off. I know they’re afraid people will get complacent. They’re afraid people will see, for example, pictures of these massive crowds and think, I don’t have to leave the house. I don’t have to vote. Everyone else will get this. But that’s not what I think when I see news like this. It DOES matter. I was always going to drag my carcass out to my polling station in a blood-red state, whether I have to use a cane or not, whether the Electoral College even gives a shit about my vote or not, but this is exciting. Whenever I see Kamala’s packed, enthusiastic crowds, I think, This is a movement forward and I get to be part of it. We are gonna run up the popular vote as a statement that will make bad-faith actors think twice before meddling, and we are gonna flip some battleground states. We are gonna nail down the electoral votes, and I am going to sit there and watch on TV as they certify the electors in December, and then I am going to sit there and watch them officially count it out like they did on January 6, 2021, and I am going to know that I was part of that.

It’s not about getting complacent. It’s about feeling the agency and possibility that we can actually get this done. It’s about saying, I get to do this, even if it’s just one ballot, one I Voted sticker, one day. We’re gonna get our first female, first South Asian American, and second Black president into that office. The enthusiasm is our running rebuke to that fucking guy, and we’re gonna get the numbers as even Republican politicians turn on him and support Kamala Harris. And any time someone tells you that being hopeful is getting complacent, come back and look at those crowds. Or better yet, get hyped up by Michelle Obama:

Hope is energy, not complacency. We can do this.

[thenameisgul]

[atleastimnotaweeaboo]

On tumblr and elsewhere in my internetsphere, I see a ton of people who have been very critical of Kamala, and I’m wondering, how these people are planning to vote. I’d also love to hear how the war in Gaza is or isn’t impacting your choice!

[covid-safer-hotties]

[deadpresidents]

Governor Walz being the most hyped person in Chicago (and maybe America) as Kamala Harris walked on the stage to Beyoncé & Kendrick Lamar's "Freedom" has already made the Democratic National Convention a success.

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

"His obsession with crowd sizes..."

[qqueenofhades]

Massive props to all the DNC tech people who cut together entirely new hype videos of Kamala in less than a month, and everyone who totally rewrote their speeches in the same time. You'd honestly think this had been the plan all along. I am impressed.

[mythica-ithaca]

You can’t condemn gun violence while arming war criminals to use in crimes against humanity, you can’t condemn your opponent as a fascist while supporting a right-wing ethnonationalist state committing genocide, you can’t say every voice matters while silencing Palestinians.

[vaspider]

MSNBC came to interview Walz while he was sitting up in the stands at the DNC & his kids are sitting behind him and ...

... yes, those are his kids giving him bunny ears during an (unscheduled) MSNBC interview.

[nando161mando]

The hatred and disdain for Palestinians was on full display at the DNC

[daenerys-targaryen]