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cottaegecore · 2 days ago
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― Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student
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muffinlevelchicanery · 1 day ago
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mournfulroses · 3 days ago
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Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021
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hope-for-the-planet · 2 days ago
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No, voting alone is not enough—I’m actually not convinced that there has ever been a time in history that voting alone was enough to adequately address society’s problems—but that does not mean that voting is not a Very Important vehicle for making progress.
No one would say “don’t take the bus, because it won’t get you 100% of the way to your destination, it would be better to walk the whole way”. You take the bus that will get you the closest to your destination possible, and then you get off and start walking.
But it is important and strategic to use every tool you have to make that walk easier for yourself and for other people like you trying to make things better.
If voting didn't matter, there wouldn't be so much effort invested in making it harder to vote.
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“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”
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girltirl · 1 day ago
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mournfulroses · 2 days ago
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Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"
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silvermoon424 · 18 hours ago
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Hope and despair, life and death. The light and the dark, war and peace. Happiness and sadness. They will always exist no matter what. [...] I swear, I won't give up. After all, there will be something to look forward to. [...] If we find strength within our hearts, our star of hope will never burn out. And as long as these stars keep shining, everything will be alright.
- Usagi Tsukino, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
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trying2b-a-conqueress · 2 days ago
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"JOY IS NOT MADE TO BE A CRUMB."
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Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate.”
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365filmsbyauroranocte · 1 day ago
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The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951)
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ilovemesomevincentprice · 16 hours ago
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mcelquotes · 24 hours ago
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I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.
Justin McElroy
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bnmxfld · 3 days ago
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I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.
J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye
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thearmyofgrunge · 2 days ago
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classycookiexo · 13 hours ago
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ars-theurgia · 3 hours ago
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«They’ll punch down if they think it’ll get them somewhere, even if in reality they’re punching sideways. I don’t know what else to say, really. Everybody is so incredibly hateful. We are a loveless, disrespectful nation. We are so spread thin by our government that we would sell each other out in a heartbeat for an ounce of relief. This is what we’ve come to.»
The problem is that America has beaten down its people for decades and gotten them weak and desperate and now promises a way out, a way to transcend and rise above, through selling out their fellow man. They encourage contempt and hatred as one way ticket to not being included with the masses being death marched to poverty or imprisonment or whatever other bitter end surely awaits the people they’re told are beneath them. An embarrassingly large chunk of white men are just straight up nazis these days as a way to dissociate from the rest of the carnage around them, even if they’re broke and uneducated and from an impoverished background themselves. They’ll vote for and align themselves with anything for a taste of power and control that makes them feel a little less helpless. The same goes for minorities. They’ll punch down if they think it’ll get them somewhere, even if in reality they’re punching sideways. I don’t know what else to say, really. Everybody is so incredibly hateful. We are a loveless, disrespectful nation. We are so spread thin by our government that we would sell each other out in a heartbeat for an ounce of relief. This is what we’ve come to.
It’s not even about Trump at this point. He’s gonna get in office and do whatever he does and it’s gonna be a mess but whatever. This is indicative of deeper problem. This is just the ugly consequence of the already present reality in this country that we all just despise each other. There is no solidarity and there is no love. Trump being in office or not doesn’t change the fact that America is a breeding ground for violent hatred. Trump has given people a shining example of how to give in to the worst parts of your human nature and make it the problem of everyone around them. I don’t even know what we’re supposed to do about that. I don’t know if that’s something we can come back from. And if anything COULD be done about it, Trump certainly wouldn’t do it. Honestly, Kamala probably wouldn’t have either. We are so deeply fucked.
However, I must say, if you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you. Instead, I hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you’ve done and who you are as a person.
Love yall. Shit is so bleak but the world keeps spinning until it doesn’t, I guess. We can’t count on the government for literally even a shred of progress or hope so just keep up the good fight in your own personal lives. That’s literally the only thing to be done at this point. Stay safe out there. Maybe buy a gun.
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