#fate of democracy

[boymanmaletheshequel]

So a video went viral this week of a Neo Nazi at a five guys in Vermont who came in and harassed and attacked a Hispanic worker. He called him “b*aner” (a slur against Hispanic and Latino people) 10+ times, and on top of this, did the sig heil (nazi salute) multiple times. The Hispanic man who was being victimized, a single father, posted the video to social media, where he was promptly fired from five guys for quote “instigating and attacking the beliefs of a customer”. Yes, you heard this correctly, he was FIRED FOR RESISTING A RACIST ATTACK FROM A NAZI. Make no mistake, this will become more and more common as hate crime protection laws are repelled by the trump admin, and queer, Latino, black, female, ect employees will be forced to bare attacks agaisnt them and their humanity by racists and nazis because if they don’t, they can be fired for retaliating. This is trumps America, this is fascism. I’m sorry for the political posts today, but this is important for queer, POC, and other minorities like me to know as we are reaching the ages in which we are going to have to start entering the workforce sooner or later. We will not be allowed to defend ourselves anymore, because the racist and homophobic nazis are now in control of our rights and voices. They have won. We have lost. But don’t stand down, boycott five guys, boycott ANY corpo shitstain that runs with fascism and hatred to protect profit margins. EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL FIGHTS, PUNCH A NAZI TODAY!

[thebreakfastgenie]

I think I would be less concerned about tumblr users recasting a canonically bigoted early 2000s television character as a sassy gay queen if they were not simultaneously doing the same thing to a real presidential candidate.

[nando161mando]

"The is the most important election ever. The fate of democracy hangs in the balance." Biden:

[actualbird]

n/s//f///w text ahead but guys.....help me out here would you

context: im working on the outline of a smutfic right now and it's a Fantasy Smut Fic, it's mariluke and marius is a Dragon and he fucks luke who is a knight. and it's Fantasy. i give marius in his half human form a bunch of epic cool dragon features and also a killer monster cock. it's fantasy. this is not like real life. there is (regrettably) no dragonfucking in real life

that being said, im now slightly panicking because in my outline for this smut, i didnt give marius and luke any lube for the anal sexcapades. theyre rawdogging it using marius' dragon saliva all the way, basically. and now im worried that thats TOO UNREALISTIC

too unrealistic in this story that HAS A DRAGON IN IT ALREADY, SO EVERYTHING IS TECHNICALLY ALREADY UNREALISTIC AND I SHOULD CALM DOWN

but i cant calm down because im RIGHTFULLY worried about the suspension of disbelief being broken or it being too jarring so

im crowdsourcing the solution to this problem. pls vote

[mashamorevvna]

underrated old man i think gets underrepresented in the id love to turn his hipbones to dust community is mr house. admittedly, it wouldnt be too difficult to accomplish the job but i think we need to try anyway

[save-the-villainous-cat]

i was called a pick me at school today by this guy who ive never spoken to

[da-birb-writes-sometimes]

Match-Up Poll

Been thinking about opening up match-ups but I first want to see what the feedback is before I finalize any decisions. If there's enough interest I'll create a Match-Up Rules post for people to follow, but until the poll is finished my ask box will be closed, so keep an eye for "Match-Ups" in the title. And they will be open for romantic and platonic matches if they get the go-ahead.

[forcebookish]

damn i've been watching friends AND burn notice? i'm really going through it right now lol

[monstermoviedean]

if you don't have homemade panic dread and fear over the state of the planet storebought is fine

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Friendly reminder that if Kamala wins Tuesday, the Republican Party WILL do everything in their power to overturn the results via Supreme Court supermajority verdict of fraud. If this happens, trump will assume power and immediatley begin dismantling the American democratic system, including the courts of justice, the judiciary system, and the rights to free speech and expression. He will end the 250+ year system of American democracy and turn the country into a fascist dictatorship from which he can not be removed from power. I am not even remotely kidding either, and there is a REAL chance that this is exactly what happens. Get out and vote, be as vocal and active about preserving democracy as possible, and don’t EVER stop fighting if he wins. It doesn’t have to end like this.

[pegafin]

Sometimes a poll only has one right answer...😎

[charlesoberonn]

Please read the last two paragraphs of Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent to the recent 6-3 decision granting presidents absolute immunity:

Looking beyond the fate of this particular prosecution, the long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark. The Court effectively creates a law-free zone around the President, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the Founding. This new official-acts immunity now “lies about like a loaded weapon” for any President that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the Nation. The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. The majority’s single-minded fixation on the President’s need for boldness and dispatch ignores the countervailing need for accountability and restraint. The Framers were not so single-minded. In the Federalist Papers, after “endeavor[ing] to show” that the Executive designed by the Constitution “combines . . . all the requisites to energy," Alexander Hamilton asked a separate, equally important question: “Does it also combine the requisites to safety, in a republican sense, a due dependence on the people, a due responsibility?”. The answer then was yes, based in part upon the President’s vulnerability to “prosecution in the common course of law.” The answer after today is no. Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.

[circusgoth-dotcom]

i'm sniffing around for a new name to use outside of the internet and i'm thinking. maybe it'd be fun to do a "names i'm considering" tournament, just for shits and giggles

[wilwheaton]

The violent attack on Congress on 6 January 2021, and all the ancillary attempts to steal the 2020 election, were a coup attempt led from the executive branch of the federal government with support from Republicans in the legislative branch. 1 July 2024 – this Thursday – was a more successful coup attempt orchestrated by six judges of the judicial branch. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in an opinion joined by justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, after the US supreme court’s conservative majority ruled that Donald Trump holds “absolute immunity” for “official acts” done while president. Part of what’s shocking about the state of the union right now is that an entire party and the US supreme court’s conservative majority have abandoned almost everything – the truth, the rule of law, their own legitimacy, their place in history and the fate of the nation – to serve one man. They could not have picked a more outrageous man to throw their weight and reputations behind – a psychotic clown who’s also an indicted felon found liable in civil court for sexual assault, barred from doing business in New York, a stealer of state secrets, a would-be thief of an election and the instigator of a violent attack on the legislative branch of government and the constitutionally mandated transition of power after an election. A grifter who in 2016 won a minority victory in a corrupted election – his conviction earlier this year was on charges for one small part of that corruption. A man who has gloated about seizing dictatorial powers and never letting go and a worshiper of tyrants denounced by dozens of his former cabinet members and senior staffers. January 6 was an attack on the constitution and so was 1 July. That no one is above the law has been a pillar of this nation and a cherished value since the 18th century; to knock it down in the 21st destabilizes structures and values that have stood these two centuries and more. A president with total immunity poses obvious threats to the rule of law, the balance of powers and democracy itself, and if that president is the vindictive criminal on the Republican ticket the dangers are immediate and obvious.

The US supreme court just completed Trump’s January 6 coup attempt

[communist-ojou-sama]

I love when I say "If you seriously believe all the words you're saying about Trump and Project 2025, then why don't you illegalize the republican party and admit the farce of liberal democracy has failed?" and the response is "we can't do that, it'd cause a civil war." Because wait, now think about this for a second.

If the """"left"""" puts an end to liberal sham democracy to prevent the imminent establishment of the 1000-year trump reich, or whatever, then That will naturally cause a civil war. But Trump sweeping into power and institution his 1000-year Reich and putting an end to liberal sham democracy won't cause a civil war? Why?

Because you'll immediately leave behind all the ethnic and racial minorities you pretend to care about, abandon them to their fate, and go to Canada or Europe or wherever the fuck you misguidedly think is less fascist?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

November 9, the fateful day of the Germans in history

Nov 9, 1313: Battle of Gammelsdorf - Louis IV defeats his cousin Frederick the Fair marking the beginning of a series of disputes over supremacy between the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Habsburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Nov 9, 1848: Execution of Robert Blum (a german politician) - this event is said to mark the beginning of the end of the March Revolution in 1848/49, the first attempt of establishing a democracy in Germany

Nov 9, 1914: Sinking of the SMS Emden, the most successful German ship in world war I in the indo-pacific, its name is still used as a word in Tamil and Sinhala for a cheeky troublemaker

Nov 9, 1918: German Revolution of 1918/19 in Berlin. Chancellor Max von Baden unilaterally announces the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and entrusts Friedrich Ebert with the official duties. At around 2 p.m., the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the "German Republic" from the Reichstag building. Two hours later, the Spartacist Karl Liebknecht proclaims the "German Soviet Republic" from the Berlin City Palace.

Nov. 9, 1923: The Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch (Munich Beer Hall Putsch) is bloodily suppressed by the Bavarian State Police in front of the Feldherrnhalle in Munich after the Bavarian Prime Minister Gustav Ritter von Kahr announces on the radio that he has withdrawn his support for the putsch and that the NSDAP is being dissolved.

Nov 9, 1925: Hitler imposes the formation of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Nov 9, 1936: National Socialists remove the memorial of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in front of the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig.

Nov 9, 1938: November Pogrom / Pogrom Night ("Night of Broken Glass") organized by the Nazi state against the Jewish population of Germany.

Nov 9, 1939: The abduction of two british officiers from the Secret Intelligence Service by the SS in Venlo, Netherlands, renders the British spy network in continental Europe useless and provides Hitler with the pretext to invade the Netherlands in 1940.

Nov 9, 1948: Berlin Blockade Speech - West Berlin mayor Ernst Reuter delivers a speech with the famous words "Peoples of the world, look at this city and recognize that you cannot, that you must not abandon this city".

Nov 9, 1955: Federal Constitutional Court decision: all Austrians who have acquired german citizenship through annexation in 1938, automatically lost it after Austria became sovereign again.

Nov 9, 1967: Students protest against former Nazi professors still teaching at German universities, showing the banner ”Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren” ("Under the gowns – mustiness of 1000 years", referring to the self-designation of Nazi Germany as the 'Empire of 1000 Years') and it becomes one of the main symbols of the Movement of 1968 (the German Student  Movement).

Nov 9, 1969: Anti-Semitic bomb attack - the radical left-winged pro-palestinian organization “Tupamaros West-Berlin” hides a bomb in the jewish community house in Berlin. It never exploded though.

Nov 9, 1974: death of Holger Meins - the member of the left-radical terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) financed in part by the GDR that eventually killed 30 people, dies after 58 days of hunger strike, triggering a second wave of terrorism.

Nov 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall - After months of unrest, demonstrations and tens of thousands escaping to West Germany, poorly briefed spokesman of the newly formed GDR government Günter Schabowski announces that private trips to non-socialist foreign countries are allowed from now on. Tens of thousands of East Berliners flock to the border crossings and overwhelm the border guards who had not received any instructions yet because the hastily implemented new travel regulations were supposed to be effective only the following day and involved the application for exit visas at a police office. Subsequently, crossing the border between both German states became possible vitrually everywhere.