the thing that is SO WILD to me watching usamericans on the internet talk about their upcoming elections is that this is one of those incredibly rare occasions where you are choosing between two guys who have ALREADY DONE THE JOB.
look, i’m canadian. we have a first past the post parliamentary system and i don’t even get to vote directly for the person who will lead the country because i don’t live in any of the leaders’ ridings. i don’t live in any of the big important cities or even the big important provinces. i know ALL ABOUT “it feels like my vote doesn’t matter.” and all the same, i’m incredibly worried that a lot of people will vote conservative because they don’t like trudeau (fair! he sucks!) and hey, who knows, poilievre might be better. let’s give him a chance. time for a change etc. etc. (and of course there are a bunch of people who want what he’s selling and that’s depressing as hell too but they’re not the swing voters who will make a difference here.) never mind that the dude seems very happy to cozy up to our own local fascists. we don’t know for a fact what he’ll be like as pm, because he hasn’t been pm yet, and we DO know what trudeau is like, and we don’t like him.
the argument for change because it might be good is very compelling to our little animal brains when the status quo is BAD. poilievre is even banking on this! he’s been keeping his promises and stances deliberately vague so people can fill in the blanks with whatever they hope will happen.
and what’s so absolutely mind-breakingly incomprehensible to me is that THIS IS NOT THE CASE IN THE US but so many americans KEEP TALKING LIKE IT IS. each of these dudes has already done the job. they are known quantities. and you (realistically) only get to choose between the two of them. the political machine is going to go through with all of the usual debates and campaigning and thinkpieces and op-eds and rallies and whatever else pageantry, but biden and trump have told you who they are. they’ve SHOWN you who they are. it’s not often you get such a clear-cut choice with so much solid information behind it. you either vote for one of them and live with your choice or you hide your head in the sand and pretend that if you don’t vote one of them won’t win. and then you live with your cowardice because when the time came to choose you couldn’t bear to look.
(which is guess is also why so much effort is going into convincing people to just fucking vote oh my god i get it if you can’t because so many people have been deliberately disenfranchised in the us but if you can and you just don’t so help me…)
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Line art for a story I have been working on in which folds elegantly into the Book of Bill… more coming soooon about the cosmic silly straws xoxoxoxoxo
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not to out myself as a bridgerton enjoyer but when cressida’s father said she shan’t be seen with ‘that bridgerton girl’ again my brain immediately screamed LESBIAN ALLEGORY 🗣️🗣️
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Canary's Call
As my life cuts short and curtains fall
The heralding of your death be the canary’s call
for the birds last breath mean death to all
may only the best live on in the victor’s hall
finally posted it, this poem has been sitting in my note book for like 6 months and it is finally seeing the light of day. It is about Jimmy die-ing first in the life series / traffic life games and how ppl dubbed it the canary curse.
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random vince scribble . still trying to figure out how I wanna draw him
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spaghetti bolognese for breakfast. sichuan noodles for lunch. dinner? who knows.
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Some kinda old Exo doodles, but I’m rather proud of them still
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