#ew politics

[audible-smiles]

really enjoy our new national policy of volatile, completely unpredictable belligerence towards 95% of the other countries on earth. I always thought that what we needed to fix this country was to confuse and antagonize most of the world's population seemingly at random over nothing.

[geminisee]

this is a renaissance painting to me x

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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???

[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. 

Source

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

[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.

[mehtoohardtofindasuitablename]

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

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Current state of American Political System: Colorized (2023)

[ohwaitihaveamemeforthat]

[the-derpy-duck]

He powered a significant portion of Plains, GA (his home town) with his own solar panels and he was very openly against segregation when he was governor of Georgia.

There is something really, uh, telling, about how Jimmy Carter’s presidency was widely considered to be a “failure,” and he also is INARGUABLY the U.S. president who has done the most to promote human rights around the world.

It’s extremely telling, about the U.S. nation-state as a political project and institution, about the federal government as a structure, about the nature of imperialism.

To reference a friend of mine, he was the only U.S. President alive in our lifetime who could avoid the International Criminal Court.

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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.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so I watched the most recent episode of succession (oops) and the thought vaguely occured to me "oh dear how are they going to recover from this one?"

and the answer is, of course, that they won't. this is the beginning of the end. this is how they destroy each other.

anyways that's my prediction for the fandom ciao kisses hope u all have a very chill season 4 💋

[audible-smiles]

Three things to consider:

1. Something like 80% of abortions in the US happen before it is even possible to run a genetic test on a fetus that includes sex chromosomes, and about 93% of abortions happen before you can reliably guess sex based on ultrasound, so this question is barely relevant to real life.

2. Something being shitty does not mean that thing should be illegal. Do you want every abortion where the individual knew the probable sex of the fetus to be a potential criminal investigation? If abortion is legal except in the case of sex discrimination, the cops are essentially investigating a thought crime. It would be a totally ridiculous, invasive, unecessary law.

3. Do you really want a committed misogynist experiencing “gender disappointment” and forced to give birth by the state to raise an AFAB child? That’s an infanticide or child abuse case waiting to happen!

This is a bad idea but: