#race in the US

[isaacsapphire]

This is what I am talking about when I say that both teams seem similarly shitty.

More than half of country IS women and minorities, and rather a lot of both voted for the Republicans in this election.

We’re going to hear a lot of stupid bullshit over the next few days/months/years about how Harris/the Democrats failed to win over men, or young people, or uneducated voters, or those worried about the economy, or whatever….but the truth is this: this country hates women and minorities; its citizens understand fuck all about the economy; and the people are incredibly susceptible to outright lies, scams and fascist values

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

[bump-inthe-night]

Trump isn't guaranteed to win this year's presidential election because he's been shot at. In 2020, Trump supporters voted in heavy numbers, but guess what? They still lost because we outvoted them. 

Do I want to vote for Biden? No, but I will since no third-party candidate has a winning chance, and I don't want Trump to be president again. Unless y'all are gonna overthrow the American political system and government, we need to vote.

It's normal to be terrified about this presidential election, but don't allow it to stop you from voting and trying to stop that orange fucker from returning to office.

[isaacsapphire]

Yesterday, I was talking with an old coworker, a guy who has worked hard his entire life, a guy at an age to be looking at retirement, a man who I know exactly how little money he makes and what a shithole he and his sick wife have to live in.

He and his wife have tried to get government assistance, but the social workers very explicitly don’t have anything for a White native born elderly couple. Or rather, there’s waiting lists longer than she is probably going to survive, but functionally that’s nothing. Meanwhile, refugees and people who aren’t White get ushered to the front of the line. It’s not subtle, it’s not secret, and it’s a very intentional thumb on the scale at the bottom of the labor market to subsidize the housing, healthcare, and food for different races/immigration status people differently. It’s a thing that nobody is supposed to talk about, very much so, and I fully expect to get pushback and denials and accusations from saying this, but every White person who has needed to seek government assistance I have ever encountered is quietly aware of this. Every social worker is aware of this (and frequently intentionally engages in this).

One team wants no welfare. The other team wants functionally no welfare for Whites. You can see how a lower class native born White American might see both sides as pretty similar.

Dems hand out jobs based on bloodlines too, and neither party’s favored bloodlines include me, so again, no difference from my perspective. The Dems seem functional to you? Really?

On some level, who gives a shit what kind of offensive nonsense a politician spews? Again, both sides’ politicians have very explicitly said they dislike certain groups. Trump is honest enough to say things like “shithole” and we pretend that “garbage” and “deplorable” are perfectly fine and polite terms. Does the name-calling actually do anything? Does it help me pay rent? If no, I have rent to pay, who cares what the news cycle is cycling today.

Chicken Little pearl clutching about how the Republicans said a naughty word is a big part of the Dem/left of center strategy these days, but as I already said, just claiming Trump is an existential threat and then trying to jam the nearest body that is owed a win down the voters throats doesn’t have a perfect record at this point.

I honestly think they didn’t want to win in 2020 and Biden was supposed to be a midterm throwaway candidate who was old enough and stupid enough to take the nomination itself as his victory lap because he wasn’t going to last to 2024 anyway.

Feeling generally demoralized and lowkey hopeless about the election; we’ve been doing this since 2016 and it’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day.

Donald Trump probably ran for president as a PR stunt. His whole thing feels like a joke that stopped being funny before the 2016 primaries were over.

The Democrats appear to have been phoning it in, flopping between halfhearted attempts to get the Obama energy back with a woman this time, and flinging whoever is closest at hand up and declaring that Trump is an existential threat so you gotta shut up and vote for whatever reheated leftovers they dragged out, and then the combination of both.

Both have coalitions of both perfectly cromulent normies and batfuck wannabe genocidaires who want to violently repress some portion of the population. Who knows how that’s gonna pan out; might be nothing, might be horrifying, I honestly don’t know if either coalition is more tilted towards horrifying in numbers or inclination.

Whether either ticket is capable of leading the world hegemon through a war or other major crisis is also unclear; Trump’s old and clearly not what he once was, and that’s assuming he was ever up to the task. He didn’t perform well during the Covid crisis imo, which leaves me doubtful that the Trump of 2025 will be able to navigate some new crisis well. Kamala is a social climber lawyer who has transparently gotten this far in large part because of her gender and ethnic heritage but at least she probably has a few good years left in her. Neither of them are stupid but neither of them really seem like the right person to lead the country through the crises that are inevitably coming up in the next four years.

The VPs both seem potentially more capable but also kinda wildcards, especially Vance who appears to have been revealed as a consummate suck-up, but his relationship with Thiel is promising to me rather than threatening and his mixed race marriage and children mean that he personally is bought in to a multiracial society. Walz seems fine and fairly competent, his background in education is nice. Neither are silver spoons, both have real life experience and some kind of military experience, which is good. I would actually be engaged and having to make a real decision if this was a legit Vance vs Walz race.

I don’t live in a swing state so my opinion is irrelevant though.

[isaacsapphire]

I assume that JChoe is alluding to the fact that Rockwell also did works like this (titled “The Problem We All Live With”) a bit later.

[destielmemenews]

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[isaacsapphire]

Article is Very worth reading, don’t let the long section at the beginning about a rug put you off.

[bet-on-me-13]

The weirdly competent Doctor

So! The Watchtower's Medical Bay is a hub of constant Activity. With the number of Heroes who work under the Justice League, there are always injuries, health check-Ups, and illnesses that need healing.

But with the amount of Variant Biologies that those Heroes have, it's always a guessing game as to how to help them best. Some Metahumans react positively to penicillin, but others react like it's their Kryptonite. Some Aliens have anatomy similar to Humans, others are so different you can't tell the Stomach from the Bladder.

So when they hired a New Doctor for the Medical Bay, they had to run him through an entire Course on Variant Biologies and how best to treat specific Heroes. It was long and difficult to remember fully, but it was necessary for him to know.

But then the new Doctor started correcting Them.

"Actually, Martian's react better to the Syrup of Eucalyptus Plants better than Penicillin, since Eucalyptus is very similar to a medicinal plant from Mars which they used in many of their antibiotics."

"I don't think just pumping double doses of sedative is the best way to calm down a Speedster, that could have adverse effects on their body. Perhaps try Psychic Intervention? Their minds move a Mile a Second, but if you can calm them down their bodies will follow suit."

"Of course you use Micro-Doses of Kryptonite to operate on Superman! What else would you do?! I don't know, maybe ask JLD to enchant your Equipment to make use of Kryptonian suseptiblity to Magic? The Kryptonite is just gonna give him Cancer!"

Of course the Doctors didn't take kindly to being rudely corrected by a newbie, and Fired him on his first day.

Then a few days later their usual Treatments don't work, and they decide to give those strategies the Quack Doctor gave them out of desperation.

And Lo and Behold, they work! Martian Manhunter is fully healed and feels much better than the previous times he has needed surgery. Apparently they used a different Antibiotic that worked better with his Biology. Which was incredible, how had they figured it out?

Another Doctor you say? One who was experienced on Martian Biology and Medicinal History? He would very much like to meet with the man!

...

What do you mean you fired him for talking back?!

[dietcokeadicction]

[kookiekult]

[isaacsapphire]

As a White/Asian person of transgenderism, I may well vote for some R soon because I am calculating what extremism I can survive. And the fact is, I can pass as my assigned gender, I can pass as a good little Protestant Christian, but I can't pass as BIPOC. And now we're letting Haitians in so me getting hate crimed is more on the table than ever, but at least the Rs let me stay strapped. And I don't mean the sexual kind of strapped. I would vote Dem if they'd swear off the woke-bigotry and the effectively-open borders, and at least do a sane shall-issue permitting regime for guns.

Obviously I don't say any of this IRL because I know who's really most likely to bash me.

Thanks for your perspective Nonny.

Um, have you actually met Haitians though? I have worked with a lot of Haitians, because they’ve been immigrating here for a while and they have seemed to be sober, hard working, family oriented people, and the most bothersome things about them by any metric were how devout they were (Seventh Day Adventist), which has some potential negative consequences from a LGBTQ perspective. But like, I was told all kinds of things about Haitians as a kid (that they were lazy devil-worshipers mostly) and it turned out that almost all of those things had nothing to do with the actual Haitians I have met. And like, I have been mostly meeting first and second gen Haitian immigrants at pretty low paid jobs so it’s not like I only encountered the absolute cream of Haitian immigrants either.

I don’t see Haitians specifically as a problem in my community, and I’m in an area where some of my work sites have been like 1/3 Haitians (because they were all smart enough to do a fairly complex computer based access control job, could pass a drug test and background check, and show up on time day after day and even do long hours, which is more than could be said for some groups).

[dunmeshistash]

Something that completely flew over my head (I am not very observant), I was rereading chapter 87: Winged Lion II to re-check some things about dungeons and I just now realized the ancient humans weren't from the current races we know.

They seem to have characteristics from several of the human races together, and some of them even seem to have fur (like demi-humans?)

It's even implied that the lifespan differences and physical differences (the two asking for muscles and using magic in the background) were due to the Demon granting wishes

I did notice this part but I didn't realize this was probably part of the source of the race differences rather than the races already being different and wishing for different things.

So at some point the human races might have been even more closely related, before a powerful being influenced their evolution.

[charlesoberonn]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

for those who are devastated about the election results right now, here’s your gently reminder to take some time offline, read your favorite book, write that fic you’ve been wanting to write, play with your pets, watch that film on your to-watch list, rewatch your comfort tv show, drink some water, get yourself something delicious, have a nice and relaxing bath, look at the pretty skies and take a deep breath. you’ve survived this far and you will continue to survive. this is not the end ♡

[beloved-johnny-depp]

the most disturbing thing isn’t dude bros voting for trump. the most disturbing thing is women, trans, queer, disabled people and people of color voting for trump. it’s disheartening seeing how many women, trans, queer, disabled people and people of color turn out to be trump supporters.

sorry but that man isn’t going to protect you when he’s president. you are betraying your own communities who are trying to protect you at best, voted your own rights away at worst. and for what?