#ew politics

[audible-smiles]

Really what gets me is the amount of time, resources, effort, collaboration and skill that has gone into every single public health or environmental conservation measure that the far right is determined to destroy in the USA. Vaccination programs, pasteurization, fluoridated water, vehicle emissions standards, food production facility inspections, systems for evaluating the safety of new drugs, setting aside areas of high quality wildlife habitat to avoid total ecosystem collapse, identifying and banning harmful pesticides...thousands of entire human lifetimes have been poured into that work. If we keep working for another century the work still won't be finished and the system still won't be good enough, but people just want to throw it all in the bin and start from scratch???

[talking-2-the-wall]

what a day...happy mlk day but like....the cheeto puff's gonna be president.....ughhhhhh we're fuuuucccckkkkeedddddddddd if anything happens in these next few years we know who to blame

[dragkingandreweldritch]

just keep reminding myself the third reich only lasted twelve years

[audible-smiles]

I actually do think Trump’s going to get his ass kicked again, but I’m concerned that he’ll succeed on blaming the loss on someone (he’s already throwing around “the Jews” as an idea) and that we’ll see some kind of post-election violence (again). It has been an exhausting decade of this fucking guy and I can’t imagine he’ll leave the public eye quietly.

[geminisee]

this is a renaissance painting to me x

[dragkingandreweldritch]

and the Treehouse Foods frozen waffles recall (llisteria yet again) on Oct. 18

Headlines across eight years. Who you vote for really does matter. None of these headlines delve into the Boar's Head listeria outbreak because I can only post ten photos in one post. But the slaughter house self regulate headline? Yup, that's why.

[marvelsmostwanted]

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that JD Vance blatantly and repeatedly lied in last night’s debate but we should still find it profoundly concerning.

…This is from one debate. It lasted like 2 hours. Imagine what Vance would try to do and cover up and gaslight us about over 4 years with unfettered access to power. Yikes.

Just one of many good reasons to vote Harris.

[lunaeclipse1057-ao3]

Alright, guys. With Biden dropping out of the race, and Kamala Harris most likely taking his place, this SHOULD make this election a whole lot easier.

It isn't two old white guys on death's door anymore. It's one old white guy on death's door who wants to turn this country into a place where only rich white males can thrive and a middle-aged black woman who could genuinely do us some good.

It's no longer "bad" versus worse. It's possibly good versus bad. Of course, we'll have to wait and see what Harris' goals as president are, but this could be a breaking point in this election.

Vote Blue.

*After reading some reblogs and doing my own research, I added quotation marks because yes, he is a good president and has done a lot of good for this country. People make him out to be bad. This is my mistake; I just lack(ed) knowledge about his campaign.

[carebearcody]

now this is real journalism

[deepfriedaphobes]

Agreed. 

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We deserve to live in a society where companies like Intuit cease to exist

[mehtoohardtofindasuitablename]

LE PEN BOUFFE ENFIN LES PÂQUERETTES PAR LA RACINE !!! 🎉🎉🎉

[artbyblastweave]

How do you think Worm (+ Ward) would change if Wildbow wrote it in the present day? Both in the sense of him having more writing experience and of him xeconstructing a different superhero landscape. (Also, him having even more planning/drafting time.)

Well, one answer is, "I don't think it would have been written-" Worm really got released in an incredible sweet spot where superhero stuff was ascendant in the mainstream but not yet culturally dominant, and written in reaction to a bunch of specific stylistic dysfunctions of early-2000s big-two comics that aren't necessarily gone but have certainly shifted their manifestations a bit. I don't think Worm would have taken off the way it did if he was trying to write it today, when we're like three layers deep into comic book movie ascendancy, backlash and re-ascendency.

But to engage in slightly better faith, my suspicion is that if written today the book would be, in every sense of the word, more online.

Movement-building by The Very Online is already of visible interest to Wildbow from, like, Twig onward (probably a consequence of the ways in which he, himself is Very Online). You see this to an extent in Ward as written, which in the Capricorn flashbacks in particular had interesting worldbuilding ideas about superheroic social media marketing that Worm didn't go into in the same way because it wasn't as big then. (This, incidentally, was one of several beats, in both the story and in the extraneous materials, where Wildbow backdated elements of the 2020s internet zeitgeist into a setting where the world ended in 2013, which is a very funny way to end up with an alternate history.) This would dovetail with the genre in the sense that whenever I stick my head back into what's going on with Big Two comics these days, I perceive the space to have gotten way, way more online in quite a few ways. Comics that feel written for people on twitter, by people on twitter, with an eye for incorporating whatever the hot-button activist issue is that week and the kind of panels and dialogue that blow up when cropped and reposted without context. Ecoterrorist Thor, inherently-thematically-confused ACAB street-levelers, Miles Morales trashing a landlord's car. You know what I'm gesturing at with this one if you follow Why-I-love-comics or any of the other excerpt aggregators.

This is more of a value-neutral judgement than I'm making it sound- When Al Ewing does this kind of thing, it's usually great, when Tom Taylor does it...I have less charitable thoughts on when Tom Taylor does it. But either way I often feel that there's a building tension between a need for these things to be socially conscious, progressive, left-leaning and so forth, and the inherent limits of how much a mass-market status-quo-bound serial publication can commit to being any of those things-the mealy-mouthedness of framing superheroes as change agents in a setting where nothing ever changes.

Given the extensive write-ups of activism-issue aligned capes in the Weaverdice docs, and given the direction his writing took with Pale and Claw in particular, I find it hard to imagine that Worm as written in 2025 wouldn't want to poke at those tensions. Very-online young-gun superheroes firebombing Walmarts and sticking their dicks in police actions, except there's no editorial reset button and that actually goes somewhere politically. Probably somewhere bad.

[assorted-fandom-shitposts]

“I voted for Trump so he’d get all the people committing crimes out of the country!”

…got some news for you buddy

I think it’s ridiculous that people actively support someone who considers himself above the law and is guilty of many crimes he’d be willing to deport a migrant for.

but what do i know, i’m from a floating island of trash.

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Current state of American Political System: Colorized (2023)

[shiftythrifting]

margaret thatcher mug. especially strange as this was found in austin, tx.

[audible-smiles]

Honestly, having thought about it, I agree with the argument that Dems should have jumped the sinking Biden ship over to Harris back when they still had a reasonable amount of time to work on her name recognition and media image. She has the legitimacy of having already been on an elected ticket, but she’s been kept out of the spotlight enough to still have that new candidate smell. As smarter people than me have pointed out, she’d be a prosecutor running against a felon (disregard how you might personally feel about prosecutors, you know how that would look to centrists) and she’d be a woman running against a man who 1. is certainly a rapist, and 2. killed Roe vs. Wade. She’d have gotten all of that “is this lady our first female president???” attention. She’s 59, so she would have immediately flipped the “your candidate is too old” dynamic on its head. She seems like she’s willing to be (a little) more directly critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian civilians than Biden has been. A lot of the people who would sit this election out rather than vote for Biden might like her better, and if my priority is to beat Trump, that outweighs how I feel. None of this matters much, since Biden keeps refusing to step down. He’s a real genius.