#get out there and fucking vote or you are complicit

[butch-bakugo]

" kamala was a cop don't ya know? She also supports Israel! Why is genocide not a deal breaker for you??"

Kamala was a DA, a district attorney. The district attorney is the government's lawyer. Cops are the governments body guards and personally killing squad. The person who stands in a court room and makes you pay a fine for graffiting the subway tunnel so the government can keep upkeep and the class traitor gay cop kicking a homeless man to death and setting their tent on fire with them in it is not the same shit. If your shitting on her for working in favor of the government (not even federal, state government), then you should also be shitting on the janitors mopping the floors of town hall. Not all government workers are equal.

As for the second point, call me a selfish asshole, but I would like to continue to be alive. I know, crazy thought, but I'm not willing to throw myself on your pseudo-moralistic holy blade as another point in the trans or gay or disabled or native death percentage so I can maintain that I didn't vote for someone with a slightly favorable leaning generally neutral opinion towards Israel. I can't fight Israel if I'm dead. I can't protect Palestine as a fuckin meat bag. I can't afford to put my rights on the line. I can't live to fight another day when I'm sacrificing myself.

Naw we writing this in the biggest text: I feel like all of you "protesting" voting to slightly improve our chances because you can't stand the thought that a candidate isn't perfect don't understand that voting is not something any sane minority with rights on the line would protest. I'm starting to think you all see voting as a public statement about how moral and pure and progressive you are and not what it actually is, a small act of many you should actively be taking to improve our situation.

I don't think some of you realize that some of the most successful changes in our government were constant and grueling actions taken slowly and by the book to garentee said right. The revolution will not happen over night and your ego is showing if you seriously think 2 terms of a great president will just suddenly get all our rights back and turn America into the progressive and accepting and diverse place it needs to be.

You are too busy fantazing about cutting off Mitch mcturtleforeskin's head when your local community needs you. Your spending too much time and energy posting a million links to gofundmes and never actually donate.

You may dress like an activist, talk like an activist and have amazing ideas like activists but you will never be an activist if you can't even volunteer at your local soup kitchen without agonizing for three weeks cause you have to call to set up your interview for it.

The reason garenteed rights like unions had stayed for so long is because unions organized and fought on the ground at the same time. Your no good to the movement if all you have is fantasies about punching terfs and Nazis and running in streets at protests screaming we will rock you and your not willing to sign up and get to work.

You work for the movement or the movement can't work for you.

[clownboybeebop]

seeing anti voting sentiment in canada & it’s pissing me the fuck off because 99% of people who believe not voting removes their complicity have nothing to say come tax season

[wild-at-mind]

Sometimes just from someone's username you know they would reblog a post that's like omg Trump will do genocide and Harris will do genocide but with emojis and memes!!

And then you see that they did in fact reblog the post and you're like ohhh can we stop pretending this is any kind of leftism.

[administer-distractions]

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[lastoneout]

I try not to talk shit about boycotts even if they are the kind that historically don't do any good because I believe in harm reduction and every little bit helps, and also bcs I don't want to discourage people from taking action...but the people saying we just have to keep up the economic blackout for the rest of the foreseeable future and if you need anything just get it from "local/small businesses" clearly all live in cities and/or are not disabled.

Sometimes Walmart is legit your ONLY option for groceries in small towns, and that's because Walmart intentionally drove all the independent stores out of business. I spent a lot of my childhood in a village with a population of 200(and I've spent a lot of my life living in different small towns) and the only local restaurant was open like a handful of completely random days out of the year and when the owner died they closed. If you wanted to buy anything you're either driving to the nearest bigger town to shop at a Walmart or Food Lion or Win-Dixie or Safeway because those are your only options, or buying stuff online and hoping the shipping fees don't cost more than the product itself/that they deliver to your neck of the woods AT ALL.

And that's not even getting into how disability can complicate this. Try buying everything you need at small local businesses when you don't have a car, don't have good/any public transit, the nearest post office is in a different town, you likely aren't getting proper treatment because the only specialist who can help is a 2 hour drive away, your mobility is limited/you're in a wheelchair or use another mobility aid, and you get like less than $1k a month in gov benefits and like $200 in EBT. Most local businesses have to upcharge because they aren't Walmart and $1k a month is NOT enough to shop at them for all your needs. Barely enough to shop for one of your needs, tbh. And these people cannot just leave because that $1300 bucks goes a lot farther in the ass end of nowhere than it does in a city that could actually meet your needs. There's no winning.

(Also sorry if someone has autism or ARFID and all they can stomach is McDonalds or idk Hot Pockets and Uncrustables then I think they deserve to be left the fuck alone to eat whatever food they can. Disabled people get a pass on this, because disabled people suffering and dying is bad and society already treats us like subhuman freaks. Fun tip! If you see your disabled friend who has food texture issues eating chicken nuggets from McDonalds you can try leaving them the fuck alone about it! Hope that helps!! (Like dude I hate shopping at Whole Foods but that is the store with the biggest gluten free section. And I need to eat.)

And like the most annoying thing is that NONE of the people posting about this are suggesting like, any form of mutual aid to support people who can't currently take part for one reason or another? Which is why it doesn't fucking work. Capitalism makes you complicit, it destroys all your other options so that you have to buy from big corporations, and lobbies to ensure this is legal and also all of your non-private options for transportation and necessities are shit and get replaced by slightly better private options BUT only until they reveal they were only being "good" to destroy their competition and now are going to be even worse than the places they ran out of business.

(Also like, I love local businesses too and try to shop at them as much as I can...but they aren't always more ethical than the alternative and acting like they are is profoundly disconnected from reality. In 2016 when I lived in Flagstaff, AZ we voted to raise the state minimum wage to $10 an hour, and Flagstaff specifically voted for $15. This was needed, rent on a studio apartment in 2016 was like $1k and that was BEFORE utilities and internet. And it almost worked, only a coalition of small business owners threw such a massive fit about having to possibly pay their employees enough to survive in an insanely expensive city to live in that the city council REVERSED THE DECISION. Flagstaff is honestly a ridiculously classist city, beat only by the evil rich people paradise that is fucking Sedona(which is almost entirely local businesses, who are owned by people who voted against setting aside one parking lot at a charity for PEOPLE TO SLEEP IN THEIR CARS because you cannot live in Sedona unless you're rich, and the rich people there don't really care if the person working at the crystal shop can't afford to eat or is living out of their car.) Anyway, the poor people in Flagstaff had their say, but our say was not considered good enough, and was fucking overruled to protect the interests of rich assholes who would absolutely love to continue to be able to treat us all like shit and pay us nothing. So yeah. Small/local does NOT mean ethical. I've seen franchised fast food restaurants treat their employees better and pay them more than some small local ones do. And that's not even getting in to how a lot of local businesses are NOT accessible for people with mobility aids. Half the stores on 4th Ave are so small my wheelchair can't fit comfortably inside or have stairs at the entrance. It's always more complicated than just "buy local".)

The people who can afford to avoid stores like Walmart are probably already doing it(you couldn't pay me to go into a Walmart unless it was absolutely necessary, I fucking hate that place SO goddamn much that it legit gives me panic attacks if I'm in there for too long) and the ones who can't afford it can't afford it, and you are offering absolutely no support to help fix that. It's just "shop local! don't go to Walmart or use Amazon!! don't use your debit card!!" with no acknowledgement of those intentionally being the only options a lot of people can fucking afford or that exist at all. That's how capitalism works!! You can't fight it by refusing to accept how it controls people's lives, and pushing people to take part in a broad, directionless boycott with no consideration for the reality of living in America right now or help offered to vulnerable people who legit cannot just shop local is doomed to fail.

If you can shop local(and know the local shops aren't run by power-mad capitalists playing pretend as feudal lords and are not at all better in terms of ethical business than Walmart) and avoid Target and Walmart and McDonalds, by all means, do. If you can help your friends, family, or community members do the same then DO IT. But if your only suggestion is just "stop shopping at anywhere owned by a capitalist" then I'm sorry you have no idea how boycotts work, shouldn't be organizing one, and absolutely should not be pressuring people who cannot reasonably take part without mutual aid offering to support them for however long it goes on for to just, idk fucking starve themselves and die for the greater good.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott worked because the community came together to make sure everyone who took part had a way to get to work and school and the grocery store and the doctor's office. It's just like a strike, you need mutual aid and money to make it possible for people to do it at all, and it does need to be targeted if it's going to register as anything more than a blip on the radar. Pooling money to split a Costco membership with your roommates or neighbors or family and giving them rides there when they need it so you can all spend at a company that has stood up to Trump instead of caving, or idk vandalizing all the Teslas in uh, Minecraft, does more to take money out of the pockets of companies like Walmart and Target and Tesla than shouting at marginalized people on BlueSky about how if they don't figure out how to shop local they're complicit in the evils of capitalism and clearly don't care about building a better world.

[qqueenofhades]

re your tags on that last post, you could say he was...biden his time

BA DUMP TSHH.

I think that everyone, having gotten through the initial 24 hours of rage, fear, terror, confusion, anger, and frustration, is coming around to the idea that this was possibly a good thing and has undoubtedly given the Democratic ticket a much-needed jolt of energy. There are still all the very valid conversations to be had about the sway of a tiny group of billionaire donors, the media and Anonymous Democratic Sources bullying, the decision to torch Biden when they could so easily (so! easily!!!) have done it to Trump at any time and have clearly decided to go FULLY into the tank for him instead. This has many worrisome implications for democracy, and it's not something to be celebrated. All of that is still very much true.

However, now that we have had concrete evidence of the party immediately cohering around Kamala and the grassroots donors busting down the door to give her money, it may also turn out that this was a very wise political jiu-jitsu move by a very crafty political veteran like Biden. As the post I just reblogged pointed out, he did it AFTER the GOP convention, when the Republicans had already locked in (by any reasonable metric) a terrible, terrible ticket. It makes the Democrats look like the ones responsive to the American people demanding a younger and more mentally "with it" candidate (no matter how obvious the slurs about ageism were in regard to Biden when Trump is literally THREE YEARS YOUNGER and far more obviously scrambled). It opens all the excitement and historic firsts of Obama in 2008, it gives the perfect "Prosecutor vs. Felon" tagline that's really easy to run with and stick in people's minds, it is beautiful revenge for all Trump's horrible sexist behavior in 2016 (and really, his whole life) and it gives the Democrats the narrative, if they can FUCKING STICK TOGETHER AND STOP STABBING EACH OTHER IN THE BACK. Now we get to hear about Kamala's running mate, Kamala's plans, feel-good pieces about how she appeals to youth, women/people of color, etc. etc. ALL THAT IS GOOD.

I think/hope the DNC will now be a massive celebration of Biden, who after all came out of retirement when he was already old to take on Trump, beat him, deliver an incredibly successful presidency, and pass the torch on to Kamala. I saw some criticism of Obama yesterday for not endorsing her immediately, but what I read is that he/the other Democratic big beasts (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) want to be a uniting figure with an endorsement of the final candidate, if there was a contested primary beforehand. Thank fuck, it doesn't look like there will be, but it also means that they might wait until the DNC before openly endorsing her. Now, I am still angry at the Biden knifing that all these three were complicit in to some degree, BUT I also have no doubt that if/when Kamala is confirmed as the nominee, they will line up behind her to endorse her and her VP pick. I have seen Mark Kelly, Roy Cooper, etc as possible picks (since alas, she will probably have to pick a straight white man; Kelly would be replaced in the Senate by Democratic AZ governor Katie Hobbs; Cooper is term-limited as governor in NC and might help us target that state for a flip). But what is number one most important is that we support her and whoever she DOES choose. I have also heard that she is already in the process of vetting picks and this is exciting news.

I am thrilled to vote for a woman for POTUS the second time in a few years, I think she has a real shot at winning, and I am heartened by how the base has rallied to Kamala in 24 hours. Let's fucking go. As my new office decoration says:

[traegorn]

seeing people who i otherwise respect and think of as intelligent and astute saying they won't vote for Harris because of Gaza is making me feel like i'm going crazy. like i'm actually going to lose my mind. i just don't get how well-educated people can be so shortsighted and not see that it's a selfish decision based in their own self-concept and their guilt-driven need to feel less implicated in fucking devastating world events! i keep waiting for one convincing logical argument from my fellow leftists that abstaining from voting is the best course of action re: the genocide and i haven't seen a single one. like i've sat here wondering if there's something i'm not well-informed enough about or don't understand about the argument for not voting but no matter how much i search i can't find it. it's like people just parrot whatever they hear that sounds the most righteous/will get approval from other "leftists" and don't think it through. there's no strategy, no mention of what the plan is after not voting, no explanation of what step abstaining from voting is in the chain of steps towards lasting change, no acknowledgment of how long Palestinians have been brutalized and how long the US has been complicit, no historical perspective. just literal performances of indignance and outrage and nothing else. i feel like screaming from the rooftops "IF YOU THINK A TRUMP PRESIDENCY WILL BENEFIT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OR ANYONE ELSE SUFFERING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AROUND THE GLOBE YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND" but i won't do that because i can't access a rooftop. sorry, had to get it out somewhere and your posts are like the only thing making me feel sane rn

It's frustrating, for sure. Especially when the very people they're claiming to speaking for don't want them withholding their vote.

[biblicalhorror]

Here's my thing. If you have lost all faith in the democratic party and do not want to vote for their candidate, I get it. I really do. But you have to have some kind of plan. Not voting at all isn't going to make any kind of statement to the people in power. It's not an effective boycott because it's not disrupting anything. It's not making your voice heard, like voting uncommitted was in the primary.

Do you live in a blue state? Great! Which 3rd party candidate are you organizing for? Jill Stein? Cornell West? Claudia De La Cruz? Pick one and start organizing for them. If you can get at least 5% of the country (which means about 807,000 of your fellow like-minded leftists in blue areas) on board with one specific candidate, that candidate receives a boost in federal campaign funding in the next election cycle. Choose someone who is willing to use their platform in the next 10 years to promote ranked-choice voting on the federal level so that we don't keep having this same discussion every fucking election cycle.

Speaking of which, voting in your local and state elections is key to getting those initiatives on the ballot in the first place! Do your research on local candidates. Go to town hall meetings. Volunteer at a phone bank. Start getting people into positions of power who are willing to fight to get your long-term goals met.

I truly do empathize with people who cannot bring themselves to vote for someone who has been complicit in genocide and feel as though their vote does nothing for democrats anyway. But guys, we have to stop being so short-sighted and defeatist about this. Abstaining completely from the electoral system does nothing to bring attention to the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. If you can't vote for Kamala, figure out who you WILL vote for, and start getting other people on board. Because voting third-party also does nothing if they get 0.3% of the vote nationally. We need to start being smart about using the momentum that leftist politics have gained in the younger population in recent years.

[queenwille]

Israel just bombed more camps in khan yonis killing 50+ kids. Unlike your “fOrTy BeHeAdEd bAbiEs” this is real and is being live streamed. I mean what if the hostages u keep crying for are in there ?Bombing camps and burning kids? If idf gave any fucks to the hostages they wouldnt bomb the entire place without any kind of precision. Are the hostages made up of steel or something that they wont die in bombings?

Bring them home but let’s also make sure they are killed in bombings before that- i mean what?

Anyways the karma has started from biden and it will get you all genociders. Its not 20 or 40 kids its THOUSANDS of kids suffering from burns amputations starvation and death but am 100% sure you monsters do not see them as humans and that is why you are just not capable of any empathy whatsoever.

Palestine’s flag has reached the entire globe.Thousands have held it in their hands who didn’t even know a place called Palestine existed. And israel never imagined this would happen. Anyone with basically an ounce of humanity and intelligence is able to recognize the relentless hunger of Zionists for land and power.

So yea this is the beginning of israel’s end.

And the suffering of these thousands of innocent people and kids thats been happening BEFORE oct 7 will one day end and everyone complicit will pay.

Thanks to all the jews who came forward spoke the truth and are standing in support of Palestine and its freedom from the occupiers. And thats how we know how fake the AnTiSEMiTe screams of Zionists are.

what a great ask to cover a few topics i’ve been wishing to cover. this is like the holy grail of #basicziostereotype. let’s go:

1. if you actually bothered to read the stuff i write, or like engage with them bLoOd tHirSTy ZiOs, you’d find out that we don’t all think the same, or support the same things. we definitely don’t have a beehive mind. one of the main reasons why hamas even managed to pull oct7 in the first place, was how split israelis were politically and ideologically. one of the main issues were, and remains, how to approach palestinians btw. so yeah, being zionist or even living in Israel doesn’t automatically mean you drink pal blood for tea time, yanno.

2. i’m going to be really controversial here, try to stay seated and not go off the rails- being israeli/zionist? it doesn’t mean you support the government’s actions. shocking, i know. for some reason everyone literally everywhere it makes sense for them to oppose to the government, but when israelis say it???? “lol ya lying you voted for them” (well let’s not really go there it’s for another post and the US voted for trump fucking again) “lol the protests don mean nothin theyre just for show” (sure bc people get arrested over them left and right just for funssies) “doesn’t mean you support the gov any less” (so what are protests for in your country for) “you still live in israel” (you still live in….[insert any country the colonized the land you’re currently standing on])

3. i say government and not IDF, like you did, because (and i’ve mentioned this before SO MANY FUCKING TIMES and hopefully some of yall will remember this part at some point)- the IDF makes no decisions on their own. this isn’t even about israel, it’s about basic civic knowledge that you should have acquired in high school. you people don’t understand how completely dumb you sound when you say about the military of a country not ruled by its military that “if the idf gave a fuck, they wouldn’t have”. it just literally doesn’t work that way. when a country is not ruled by the military- they. don’t. call. the. shots. they only follow rules. yeah, they (they, in israel, being the highest ranking person in the IDF, the commander in chief), constantly advise the government (in israel, mainly the PM and minister of defense directly) and sit at some cabinets. see how i said ~some~ and not all? if you’ll ever listen to the IDF spokesman, he always mentions on his PSAs that they’ll operate under state/government orders.

4. your glee regarding the israeli hostages being in danger, but also biden’s announcement regarding his health issues, sure is a very interesting way to support human rights, but go off.

5. lol bestie, just cause you found out now, doesn’t mean we didn’t have pro pals since like forever lol love how some of yall are sure this started with you.

6. lol okahhhy “this is the beginning of israel’s end” lol bc you remembered to join in on the festivities now after 77 years lol 🎵cause the party don’t start till i waaaaaalk innnn🎵

7. since you’re in the game of finding out about world wide atrocities, are you interested in some more, or are you just interested when jews are involved???

8. tHaNkS tO aLL tHe jEwS wHo aRe LiKaBLe<<that deserve my respect>> <<in a not antisemitic way of course>>

[tobiasdrake]

The Left needs to start strategizing for the 2026 primaries.

There is a world of dissatisfaction with American politics right now. The Right is tearing down our institutions and the Left is so unwilling to stop it that they frankly seem complicit.

The main problem with Democratic Congresspeople for a long time has been that, in many ways, they have common ground with the Right's Congresspeople. White Democrats in Congress still benefit from white supremacy. Male Democrats in Congress still benefit from male privilege. Pretty much everyone in Congress benefits from class disparity and the empowerment of the rich.

With Democrats now trying to draw lines like "Billionaires are bad, but OUR billionaires are good!" it's pretty clear what is happening. The Democrats in Congress aren't ineffectual; They are complicit. They are letting the Right be the bad guys so they too can benefit.

They need the votes of left-wing voting blocs, but they want the policies of the right. So they stand by going, "Oh no, Mr. President. What a shame it would be if you swept all these fucking immigrants out of my state. I would be so very cross with you if you ethnically cleansed my population UwU. I might even do a frowny."

The masks slipped off the day after the Trump election when many of these same people took the opportunity to start screaming about how we need to abandon trans people. It's all that wokeness and trans ideology that ruined Kamala's chances, you see!

This is exactly what I was afraid of. The Trump Election has given the moderates on the Left an opportunity to let out their own prejudices. They are watching their colleagues on the Right target their constituents and realizing they are in community with their colleagues more than they are with their constituents.

So what does that mean?

It means they need to be replaced. Remember, Congresspeople do not have the Divine Right of God to supreme lifelong authority over the people. House Representatives go up for re-election every two years. Senators, every six.

If the Democrats have abandoned the cause of their people, then they can be fired and replaced.

This isn't going to last. Right now, the new administration is in its grace period. Voters have a memory span of about 6 months to a year. They vote based on the vibes they're feeling about the country at the time of voting.

You can bet, come primary season, all of these fucksticks will start talking about the importance of resistance and how we must vanquish the Trump agenda. They can play paddy cake with Republicans to get hostile agenda items across right now because America will have forgotten by then.

It will be up to primary challengers to remind people.

The Left needs to be taking notes on how absolutely useless these people are being. And preparing primary challenges to take their seats away. Just like AOC did to Joseph Crowley in 2018.

[thottybrucewayne]

Liberals will be like "Leftism is a pipe dream" and then vote for the party whose explicit goal is to do nothing the next four years and hope we all get desperate, broke, and tired enough to vote them in again so they can go back to business as usual expecting them to switch gears and become staunchly devoted to the needs of their constituents once they get a majority again. Like, even dems who raise they voice about what's going on right now are getting censured with votes from their own damn party members. They are complicit. They will rewrite history and tell you that the reason Kamala lost is because she was "too left-wing." In 2028, they will pull back on any openly progressive stance and try to market themselves to Republican voters. They will be extremely pro-war, and they will pull back on restoring reproductive rights. They will do everything in their power to either not do shit for you or to pacify you then send you 600 thousand emails asking for donation funds and any dem left of fuckin Nancy Pelosi will be actively shut out for having "pipe dream ideas" like universal basic income or student loan forgiveness. Like these people aren't "weak" they are beholden to super PAC money and status quo and they are more than willing to roll over and play dead as their end-game strategy cause they know you won't do anything about it, in fact, they know you'll thank them for the privilege to be fucked over.

[statementlou]

i feel like i can talk to you about this because you have rational opinions. so louis bought a starbucks coffee at the airport and the fandom on twitter are eating him alive, calling him evil and wishing he goes to hell. i’m disappointed since starbucks is on the list of brands to boycott but i feel like this reaction is too much? someone even said jay would be disappointed in him, but people said that was taking it too far. i don’t know, i love louis and i’ll keep supporting him and his music but the fact he can be a careless millionaire is disappointing

1. thank you sweetie I would boop if I could 2. oh my god it's a fucking cup of coffee and if people think that's the worst thing Louis, a multi millionaire, has ever done financially they need a reality check! His money will be handled by bankers who are putting it into all kinds of evil fucking shit that he won't even know about, it's actually very hard to know or control that and there is no way trying is even on his radar. That's a passive thing and not on purpose; but the fact that people don't bother to know about that or care really speaks to how performative this kind of online approach to activism is, that they only care about image rather than effect (the effect of his investments would be easily thousands of times more than any number of coffees or even of the promotion Starbucks might get from him holding it.) But furthermore buckle in cause you hit a nerve: Starbucks isn't even an actual organized boycott target as concerns Palestine because THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT financially! The official BDS movement calls for boycott of very specific and pointed targets of which Starbucks IS NOT ONE it's literally just an online trend which is not the same as an actual boycott to materially impact a target! Losing them money is always great, they are a crappy union busting small business killing corporation, but it has zero direct effect to help Palestinians unlike supporting the meaningful boycotts called for by BDS. I don't think Louis has decided to buy starbucks because he has this analysis, but to me it's a pretty important point. Him crossing an actual picket line (playing Israel, playing Eurovision [lmaoooo that thought tho], waving an Israeli flag god forbid) would be a very different situation and something that would trouble me so the distinction matters to me. But I get that to people on twitter, that's what they feel like he has done. To which I would say...

There are so many fewer ways to help Palestine than we would wish, and it's SO hard to deal with feeling so powerless right now in the face of such horror, so I love that people feel so strongly about doing whatever they possibly can. But worrying about consumer spending, even on BDS targets, is perhaps the least effective of the things a person can do. Note that BDS boycotts do not mostly focus on asking people not to buy things; they list the products that are especially complicit, but the main work of the movement is to get large investors (corporations, public institutions, whole governments) to divest from the companies targeted because that actually hurts them enough that it becomes less profitable to continue to collude with Israel than to drop them as clients. Consumer spending is not enough to do this. It's easy and doesn't require doing actual work but it's basically virtue signaling, not organizing. Just NOT doing something (yes including voting) is not enough! I personally choose not to give my money to certain corporations because it feels bad to me and I can't stomach doing it, even if they never notice me doing it. But if I was running out of fuel and the only nearby station was a Chevron, I would spend a few bucks there and not beat myself up about it because it will have zero impact on their overall profit reports but a LOT of impact on my life. And if I was in the airport for the second time in mere days after circumnavigating the globe and playing a massive show and doing press and fan service before even having time to adjust time zones and about to get on another flight to another country I might buy a fucking coffee from whatever coffee shop was in there too! But Louis isn't me and I'm gonna be real honest I would be real surprised if he KNEW there was a boycott or gave a shit- he is not a political activist! It's reasonable to be disappointed if someone behaves not how you want them to, but just in general responding to being disappointed in people by lashing out at them is... not it. Not useful, not rational, and not actually an okay way to act to other people. Louis is an awesome sweet caring person who I believe tries hard not to have a negative impact on anyone directly and who cares very much about others; if that's not enough for someone to be a fan of him, okay then they should not be a fan of him! But warning: they're not going to be able to be a fan of anyone else either. No one is pure and perfect... maybe that energy would be better spent trying to make a meaningful difference in the world, and a great first step in that IMO is to recognize and challenge your inner cop. The better world I want to live in doesn't include policing other people, not on twitter and not anywhere.

[walks-the-ages]

For those who have somehow forgotten:

Biden is still the current US President for the next 5 months.

He is still committing genocide as we speak.

Congress members were giving standing ovations to Netanyahu today while Rashida Tlaib was there decked out in Palestinian garb to protest, while other "progressives" simply didn't attend, instead of using their voice to actually speak up directly in the face of modern day hitler like Rashida Tlaib, but what fucking ever.

Biden is still in office.

Biden is still committing genocide.

Do not stop the pressure.

Ramp it up to 110%.

Make it clear to Democrats that we will not be voting for ANY OF THEM in November if they don't stop with the genocide, they can't just replace Biden and act like he's uniquely the problem, not when most of them are applauding modern day fucking Hitler as he stands there to plead his case for more and more billions of weapons!

Kamala Harris is just as complicit in the Genocide as Joe Biden!

If she cared about Palestinians, she could have spoken up at ANY point til now and right now, including moving forward!

Scream it from the rooftops and social media!

Tank their polling numbers!

Make them terrified enough of losing votes they don't just pressure Biden to step down as they did because of the above tactics, but they ALSO need to immediately cease all fucking aid and weapons shipments to Israel and comply with international law!

Palestine will be free!

Keep the pressure on! Call and email all of your reps and demand that they comply with international law and arrest Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes! Demand that they use their power to call for a ceasefire, or they will not get your vote!

If you are too cowardly and spineless that you cannot even pretend to withhold your vote as leverage against Democrats *to stop a Genocide*, if you try to leave some liberal bullshit on my post about "voting blue no matter what they do", "trump would be the same or worse", etc, you won't get a response, you'll just get blocked.

EDIT: August 21st, 2024: this goes double for Kamala Harris, btw. It doesn't matter how often she says "ceasefire" or "we care about civilians", if she's continuing to say that "we fully support Israel defending itself" and being part of the team that just this week, on August 13th 2024, signed yet another fucking 20 billion dollar arms deal to israel.

Killer Kamala Harris is just as complicit and enthusiastic about the genocide of Palestinians as Genocide Joe Biden. She is currently in office. She is currently in power. She is getting paid almost 200k dollars this year as VP and she's continuing to support Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

You can not be the Vice President, the second in command of the entire fucking nation, and not be complicit when your office agrees to send another 20 billion dollars in weapons to Israel.

If she cared, she would have spoken up long ago. She would be publicly against Biden.

Despite what "coconut-pilled" liberals would have you believe, the VP is not the slave of the POTUS and incapable of making any statements against their partner.

If Kamala Harris cared about Palestinians, she would actually be using her power as Vice President to get things done.

She is not some helpless woman left on the wayside with no power. She is the Vice President of the United States. She has plenty of political power, especially after Biden fully endorsed her.

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sorry i'm mad but like. moral purity and deontology piss me off so much lmao

by virtue of living and buying in america, you are contributing to the genocide. opting out of the voting process doesn't make you any less complicit. it does not reduce your moral fucking taint. you will never be clean. get over it and do everything in your power to make the world better

[eucatastrophicblues]

the thing is that women have been getting MORE ABORTIONS, not less, since Dobbs. States have codified the right to abortion in their constitutions as a direct response to Republican abortion restriction measures. More women are seeking out birth control and sterilization. More women are actively avoiding dating men and marrying them at all, out of the direct fear that they’ll be unable to survive a pregnancy because our approach to abortion bans has created a situation where doctors are afraid of doing anything risky to save a life regardless of their intent.

If you voted Republican because of their stance on abortion, you are not voting for people who are actively trying to fix the problem of babies dying, and we can prove that by looking at the numbers. There are proven ways to reduce abortions and this party isn’t doing any of them. So I stand by what I said, which is that if you’re listening to a man talking about how he wants to destroy democracy in Project 2025, and how we won’t have to vote again if we vote for him, and you chose to vote for him anyway because of his lip service to a cause he doesn’t support that is actively making the problem worse from a pro-life perspective, you are fully responsible for the consequences of what happens when he comes into office.

None of you people want to admit that because none of you are comfortable admitting that being a single-issue voter means turning a blind eye to everything else, including how effectively your chosen party handles your single issue. You believe that Republican values are Catholic values. And yeah, our priests are complicit and throwing us under the bus by demanding we vote for Trump because they’re too busy hating everyone that isn’t a cishet white parishioner, but God gave you all brains. Fucking use them. Actually listen to what I’m saying instead of going “oh well God doesn’t care about elections” or “you don’t speak for God!”

I’m not claiming to speak for God. I’m just telling the fucking truth.

[silencedogood1969]

You stood beneath a stolen flag,

a coward’s grin behind your mask,

breaking glass like you broke your oath,

spilling blood, spilling truth, spilling both.

The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time,

until you tore it down, crime by fucking crime.

The floors ran red where history walked,

and democracy bled as your chants mocked.

You came as a mob, a tide of rage,

hands on riot shields, fists on the stage.

Tear gas kissed the marble halls,

while “patriots” desecrated sacred walls.

Tarrio, you fucking coward,

Rhodes, you spineless son of a bitch.

Barnett, who pissed on freedom

while democracy screamed in the ditch.

QAnon prophets in horned disguise,

Nazis and “militia” with vacant eyes.

You called it liberty, called it war,

but all you left were shattered doors.

Then the ink of the pen, the coward’s decree,

fifteen hundred pardons for your fucking heresy.

Trump stood tall on lies today,

“Unify!” he cried, while justice decayed.

The audacity of that son of a bitch,

to pardon the mob and their seditious itch.

“Merit-based justice,” he dared to say—

yet he handed treason a golden bouquet.

He spat in the face of every cop who stood,

every drop of blood spilled in those halls of wood.

He pardoned the wreckers, the rioters, the damned,

and gave democracy its final backhand.

Where were you, McConnell, when the blood dried?

Where were you, Thune, when democracy cried?

Greene, you cheered; your voice rang clear—

you gutless motherfuckers, complicit in fear.

Your silence, your nods, your partisan games,

have carved your legacy into the flames.

You are the ghosts of this dying nation,

mute accomplices to its damnation.

And to you who stayed silent, stayed home that day,

clutching your morals as the country frayed,

spare me your protests, your outrage, your blame—

this fire’s on you; you stoked the flame.

You fucking stood back, let them torch the house,

and now you want to cry about the ashes.

Don’t you dare whisper a single goddamn word—

you let others fight while the country burned.

The tear of glass, the battering ram,

the fists that struck, the shields that slammed.

The cries of fear, the clash of will,

the officers falling, the chambers still.

They stormed the gates with malice bright,

and made a coup of that January night.

Freedom fell with every cheer,

the sound of treason in the atmosphere.

And for those who fell defending the line,

we carry their memory through space and time.

But let me tell you something, loud and true:

You may pardon the guilty, but we’re coming for you.

Two years from now, we’ll clear the House;

we’ll take your seats and call you out.

We’ll vote, we’ll march, we’ll raise our fists,

we’ll break the chain of your accomplice list.

And four years from now, your reign will end,

this nightmare gone, this wound will mend.

You’ve made a coup the morning’s norm,

treason an acceptable form,

but you don’t get the final say—

we’ll take this country back one day.

Traitors, cowards, you hollowed the flag,

turned stars to scars, left stripes to sag.

You spat on the graves of those who fought,

and shredded the ideals they thought were taught.

Your pardons are nothing, your names will fade,

while the strength of the people sharpens its blade.

This isn’t your country—it never was.

It belongs to the dreamers, to the cause.

So hear this now, from sea to sea:

We are America, the land of the free.

You tore it down, but we’ll rebuild—

your names forgotten, your dreams killed.

This is the anthem of those betrayed,

a promise to history: you won’t evade.

For every flag, for every vote,

for every tear in the words we wrote.

True patriots rise, unbroken, free—

the soul of this nation will always be.

We are coming.

We are rising.

We are America.