#fuck this stupid fucking country

[blasvemous]

$500 to fill my medication... Guess I didn't need it much anyways?

[akiizayoi4869]

They need to remove the "convicted felon" option from job applications, and anything else that requires you to say whether or not you have a criminal history. Because CLEARLY if we can have a convicted felon in the white house, then convicted felons everywhere should be allowed to get jobs, should be allowed to vote, etc.

[drgaes]

I think it needs to be said in light of VERY recent events that violence on the MAGA front is about to increase tenfold. They will see this as permission to carry out the violence they've been promising since day one. Don't fearmonger, just keep yourselves and your families wary. Please stay safe out there, americans.

[inkskinned]

one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.

the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.

like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.

but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.

so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.

i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?

but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?

sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?

and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.

nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.

the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!

and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.

[fittlebottom]

i live in America so this is how I cope

[soup-mother]

"don't panic buy firearms, learn how to homestead instead"

[godbirdart]

watching america's election year unfold from a country whose politicians are constantly trying to copy america's homework in every worst possible way:

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

[Yes this is a reference to that one superman pic]

Transcript:

*sniff sniff* Is-is that a boy I smell?

*sniff sniff* Mmh yes, I smell it! Boy Smell!

I smell a boy!

Ah! what is a boy doing here?!

Oh my gosh. What am I gonna do? There's a boy here!

I'm freaking out so much!

Calm down, calm down! Calm down and take a nice deep breath.

*sniff sniff* Mmph it smells so good. I love boy smell so much!

It makes me feel so amazing~

I'm getting tingles all over from the delicious boy scent!

IT'S DRIVING ME BOY CRAZY.

Audio source

[nando161mando]

What a sick and stupid country

[heynhay]

let's drive out

[blasvemous]

Retail work on Black Friday... If y'all don't hear from me in 8 hours, I've been trampled by old ladies and over zealous teenagers

This is the vibe I will be providing to my capitalist overlord today:

@bewilderedbunny in case I don't make it: I love you bitch never forget it shiiiiiyaaaah

[maddisandy]

For my American mutuals, results are not official yet. Nothing is official yet. They have not won. And even if they do take the election, they only win the minute that we give up. If you lay down and act defeatist about this that's when they fucking win. It's hard not to feel hopeless in this situation I agree, but complacency is the only way they'll get away with fascist bullshit without opposition. As it stands right now, in America we still have the constitutional right to protest. So fucking do it. Use your voice: especially if you are in any majority group, especially if you know those who can't for whatever reason. You will not lay down and accept this; none of us will. They will not win as long as we can still breathe, as long as we can still speak up. Hold your fucking ground, stand for who you are, and don't let them take away your will

[thebusylilbee]

like literally if you don't care about boycotting then fine you don't care, no one can force you and you're still a free human being live your life, just don't fucking act like a whiny baby when you see people actively trying to organize to put pressure on specific targets bc hum... IT'S NOT FUCKING ABOUT YOU THERE'S A WHOLE GENOCIDE HAPPENING YOU FREAK

[ghoopyghoo]

please i'm begging. give me the headcanons of the little gay army men. please distract me from all this bad just wanna read about the big masked one kissing the little mohawk one

[robin-the-blind-sniper-rifle]

All I can say at this point is that I’ve never been more disappointed and ashamed to be an American. I’m not particularly patriotic, never have been, but I had more faith in us than this. At this point, we failed ourselves, and I’ll let the other countries laugh because it’s all we deserve. The government put the gun in our hands and instead of unloading it, we put it to our heads and shot.

My mother told me that the good people in this country would do what they could in the wake of this disaster. I want to ascribe to that, but I don’t think I believe in good people anymore. Not in America

[mallgothchloe97]

Hold the fuck on.

So a whole bunch of Trump voters with preexisting conditions are now realizing that they voted to take their healthcare away, and a whole bunch of contractors are now realizing that they voted to take their construction workers away, and a whole bunch of farmers are now realizing they voted to take their farm workers away?

Shit we ALL told them would happen but they voted for anyway. And NOW that they have ELECTED him, they're freaking out because they finally understand??

Are you fucking kidding me?!?

Credit: JojofromJerz(queen)