#it was condescending

[stalinqrad]

Every day I wake up and am confronted by mind-numbing displays of stupidity

[what-eats-owls]

So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.

I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.

If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.

They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.

Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.

I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.

A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.

All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."

[sinsydia]

Am i the only one who imagined the first meet like this?? *swooon*

[subterra-rose]

Honestly pokemon is the ideal universe not just because there’s cute animals that are your life companions, but because they have walkable cities and adequate biking infrastructure

[2facehusband]

oh, look, you're finally awake. i was wondering how long you'd be out, 'cause i can't say i measured the dosage real exactly. sorry about that.

hey, do you know where we are? c'mon, open those pretty eyes of yours and look. uh-huh, exactly. we're just at the edge of this very pretty forest, and it looks a little dark in there, doesn't it? there's probably bears in it.

no no no, hey, don't cry yet. i haven't even told you what we're doing here. see, i wanna play a game, alright? it's like hide and seek. i'm gonna untie you in just a second and let you go in there, and then i'll come looking for you! doesn't that sound fun? and because i'm feeling nice, i'll even give you a five minute head start.

(ah ah- don't be rude. what do you say when someone does something nice for you? there we go, that's a good little lamb.)

now, in the interest of being open and truthful with each other: i'm going to find you. i mean, honey, you don't even know where we are. i've been in and out of this forest my whole life. it's really a non-starter. so when i find you, i'm going to spread those pretty legs open and fuck your tight little hole until you're just screaming and crying and god, it's going to feel good. for me, mostly. but who knows? maybe you're a little more sick in the head than i thought you were. wouldn't that be interesting?

let's get you out of this rope now, hm? ready? alright, poppet. run.

[kittykatninja321]

If canon verse Dick tried the 5 senses thing on Jason to get him out of a panic spiral it would work but only because it would irritate Jason so much he would immediately snap out of it

[honkytonkulus]

I’m sorry I dehumanized you and talked to you in that baby voice that owners use on their dogs. that wasn’t nice for you, was it? no? nooo, you didn’t like that did you? oh bubby I’m sorry I didn’t mean to belittle you and put you beneath me like you’re a dog. I’ll do better, okay?

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[victusinveritas]

[yeyinde]

there's something about being called "darlin'" or "sweetheart" by a big, gruff man that makes me instantly melt.

[moredancesmyraptheart]

last week i was wearing a beatles shirt at the function and this old man came up to me and in a slightly shocked tone was like “are you a beatles fan??” and i was like “yeah!” and he was like “how did you become a beatles fan???” presumably due to the fact that i am but a youth, and i truly had no idea how to answer because the only two truthful answers were:

a) they are literally the fucking beatles, i know zero people who do not know/have not listened to any of their music

b) i saw one too many tumblr posts of people talking about wanting to impregnate paul mccartney and decided i finally had to listen to their whole discography

[nyancrimew]

i'm a us liberal and i think you're cool

i highly doubt you're a liberal then and just think liberal = leftist which it very much does not

[bigfatbreak]

I just started following you for your Viceroy AU! My question is, why is Adrien disillusioned with his mom? Dad I can understand, but what happened with his mom?

no big arguments or anything, but Adrien got to go through the slow, dreadful realization that your kinder parent thinks you're uselessly dependent on them. (and she likes it that way.)

[idolomantises]

I… don’t really see myself continuing with the Amazing Digital Circus anymore.

[blushedfemmes]

concept that gets me weaker than i care to admit: a straight popular girl getting “turned” by the weird quiet butch. it hits so many buttons for me… like. she’s all mouthy and condescending and rude until the butch has had enough and calls her bluff and ends up fingering her until she’s crying in a supply closet. the butch chuckles as she drips all over their hand. hisses in her ear, bet your boyfriend doesn’t make you this wet, huh. little dyke slut. i fucking knew it.

[honkytonkulus]

jerking off a guy until he starts getting all whiny and then cooing at him about how cute he sounds. like aweee buddy listen to yourself, you’re being so adorable with how much you wanna cum in my hand