#purity testing

[zmyaro]

The time to push for your favorite candidate is in the primary!! It isn't easy, and our voting system sucks, but there have been races where more progressive candidates defeated moderate incumbents! But in the general, even if neither is great, still vote for the least evil because the greater evil's supporters aren't going to sit it out!

Also, vote in local and state elections, which may happen for you before the next national election! The news doesn't make it seem that way, but the more local the election, the more it is probably going to impact your daily life. The President isn't going to directly do something about the Nazis harassing people at local drag events, but a progressive mayor might.

And remember when I said our voting system sucks. We aren't on track to get a system like ranked choice voting nationally soon, but a lot of places have voted to implement it at a local level!

Forever thinking about how, on election day in 2016, I wore a shirt with an American flag on it because it was what was clean. And the 20-ish year old bagging my groceries made a snide remark about it, followed by 'I didn't vote, they're all the same anyways.' And a fellow grocery worker chimed in agreement that he wasn't voting for the same reason.

And now I can't go to a local drag event without having to walk through a gauntlet of nazis.

I realize that the election is a year and a half away, but please don't fall for the 'they're the same' rhetoric this time around. Both candidates will suck, but they'll suck in different ways and one of them wants my community dead.

[ceilidhtransing]

If you hear Republicans speak to other Republicans, you'll hear a lot of them say that they really don't like Trump for whatever reason (many of them aren't fans of the felony convictions, his personal manner, his business dealings, his family life, or whatever else) but that they'll still be voting for him because he'll get them closer to what they ultimately want. They're pragmatic; they don't demand purity in their candidate. They recognise him as their strategic choice so they'll set aside the issues they have with him and vote as a bloc. That's what makes them effective at getting their way. That's how they win elections.

And boy I wish we had more of that attitude on the left. Imagine what we could get done.

[victusinveritas]

Comment on Facebook on a thread that is dumping on Corey Booker for being a Liberal rather than supporting Every Damn Cause the Farther Left Wants (most of which are good causes, but have trouble gaining traction politically). Can we not just ride the resistance train and not stop at every station to perform a purity test or we will NEVER prevail! Obviously he’s far from the best. But he did SOMETHING, which is better than most in power have done. It’s a start. We can praise these actions without putting him on a pedestal. When the opposition is destroying the country in record time, we cannot stop to make sure everyone that’s furthering the cause is a saint. As long as they’re contributing, they’re moving us forward.

-- This is the thing of it: Purity tests will always lead to more division. Yeah, Liberals suck, liberals suck, they're center right at best...but they're also who we have to work with until we can get effective Lefties in government. And we can't do that because we can't even agree on a candidate--not Bernie (great but just not listened to outside of Vermont--has basically achieved Old Man Yells at Cloud status), certainly not Jill Stein (a Russian asset clear as day who only pops up at election time as a Green/Libertarian spoiler supported by the Worst People you'll hang out with anyway because their beer is decent, they have a grill, and they hate Trump) and not AOC (inexperienced, yada yada). Once we get a Liberal/liberal majority, we can worry about slowly bending the arc of progress towards where we want it to point. In the meantime, if you're not out there doing things, all the talk online is just a fart in a windstorm--I'm sure you feel better having let it out, but it doesn't move shit. Every single fucking actually active in meatspace leftie I've talked to (and I've talked to a fuckload of them thanks to volunteering, showing up, doing what I can, really broadened the fuck out of my narrow, purity testing horizons) has said the same thing: we have to work with the Democrats and FUCKING vote. So many goddamn Instagram-Anarchists I saw before the election urging people not to vote for Kopmala have vanished post-election, and the ones that remain are going off the deep end (Nyx Erinyes on Facebook, for instance). Conclusion: either they were well-done Russian bots pushing folks to stay home or they were useful idiots. And a lot of the left fell for it hook, line, and sinker, and are still in that 'voting does nothing' mentality. Voting does nothing if you don't do it at all. Like, we might have to get behind a centrist candidate who can get something done, Gretchen Whitmer and Pete Buttigieg would do the numbers in a lot of places (probably not enough to win anything but at least they can fucking talk and get some of the people in the middle as well as the reasonably left, which was Kamala's problem aside from [all the other stuff, she should have been a non-starter, but she started, she failed, here we are with full fascism], etc. And don't get me started on Tankies (seriously, I've got a laundry list of issues with them, they're not as bad as Kissinger but they're not bloodless and most of them are under 25 so I kind of discount their opinions anyway: hell, I was a Trotskyist until 25, when I realized how awesome anarchism was, but small scale anarchy, communalism, that sorta shit, not big A Anarchy, which, again, has purity tests. But that's a different, longer, crazier rant. If you've read this far and haven't vomited from vertigo and jerkiness, I'm impressed. If you've read this far and want to argue, go ahead but I'll probably just shrug because (this includes my thoughts and opinions too) I honestly don't care what ya think, the internet is just wires, and unless you are in my community, your thoughts don't really carry that much water. Listening to: Toxicity by System of a Down

Reading: The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton and Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen Book 8) by Steven Erikson. Just finished: Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and Victor Serge's later notebooks (NYRB edition).

[childeapologist]

It's so funny watching a whole bunch of virtue signaling pseudo intellectuals log onto the internet to call Chappell Roan a fake gay and a grifter despite the fact that her coming out album describes the most authentic experiences ever. Also grifting left just isn't a fucking thing you do not get anywhere grifting left. Especially with chucklefucks like all of you around who need everyone you support to be perfect all of the time and if they aren't you twist their words and intentions into something you can easily condemn them for even if it's something they never said or did.

None of you have never done anything significant for any causes you claim to stand for. Holy shit most of you don't even vote. Shut up. You've done nothing for anyone. You'll glaze Lady Gaga who's spoken out as pro Israel just because she is mommy monster and the Supreme Gay but then just arbitrarily decide that Chappell Roan is an evil incarnate who's faking being a lesbian for clout. meanwhile she has been openly pro Pro Palestine and holy shit have you heard her music and her coming out experience? She is NOT a "fake gay"

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Hold on a second, folks. Gonna just fire off some property value decreasing shots...

[thank you reddit]

[quinloki]

What's a little purity between friends?

Thanks to a friend, I find I'm curious

https://ricepuritytest.com/

It's a long list of 100 things to click - I'm willing to bet I've got the "high" score of my followers, but I'm curious to see if that's the case.

Feel free to send your score, your OC's score, or the score you head canon for your favorite character.

I'll post my score Friday ^_^

[and-its-with-one-l-bitch]

Hello Saints Row fandom

[thetepes]

I think after all the racism and ableism I should be able to mock Lily for bumblefucking her way through a simple sentence especially after she gleefully mocked Sai's pronunciation of Orchard when she has an actual speech impediment.

Just my hot take.

[yingren]

right good morning i got some uni stuff to do and then i'll fill up the queue a little more and probably spend some time fleshing out a few hcs i have cooking in my mind. since the sex values quiz is going around i took it just for fun but y'know, it's never 100% accurate so take it with a grain of salt.

also just because i imagined ren like the standing man emoji when coming across this question please enjoy imagining him staring at the screen when this pops up:

[prodigallson]

How many points did we lose on the Rice Purity Test when the security officer walked into the empty classroom while I was in his lap, sucking on his finger like it was his dick

[can-i-explode-now]

As is the beauty of being aroace ✨

(and a minor if that says anything)

[fjordfolk]

i don't even think one has to go as far as to unravel the whole idea of breed, registry and stud books, because i know for a fact that in other animals one has managed to have all of these things without going fckn batshit

[loopsisloops]

You vs What You Read

Link 💛

[butchfalin]

i don't want to be too mean in the tags of that post but i was SHOCKED to see that op is older than me it feels so .... teenaged. like being in high school and giggling over anything deemed "adult". because "reads fic with song lyric titles" and "reads exclusively omegaverse" are not really equivalent in terms of how "messed up"/perverse/horny your fic taste is. you can find gen fluff with lyric titles or you can find pwp with goofy joke titles. what does that have to do with anything

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[eretzyisrael]

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