#reblog to reach more voters

[yukipri]

For curiosity's sake...

[fairuzfan]

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

[thecolorblockcurator]

I have one more thing to say to US voters who chose not to vote in this election

And feel free to reblog this because if this was you- I want you to hear it

Fascism was pounding at the door & you stepped aside and let it walk right in.

Now, I’ve seen the ways you try to derail the conversation, or shift the blame. - If the democrats wanted us to vote they would have had a better campaign, they wouldn’t have pandered to the right.

Do you understand why they pandered to the right, because they were counting on you to understand the severity of this election- they unfortunately thought you wouldn’t be swayed by the major misinformation campaigns that plague social media designed to strip you of your voice

They were trying to do what I’ve seen people say countless times on this website - the from very same people who are rightfully angry and upset about the genocides that are happening all over the world

The democrats were trying to reach out to scared Americans, like your aunt, or grandpa who have their mind twisted by fear, misinformation, & straight up lies. They were trying to break through and tell them to choose humanity. They tried to open the conversation gently- as you do with people who have been brainwashed, and tell them they have a choice. That they can make a better choice this time to protect and save humanity

I won’t walk you through every single way you derail the conversation, from she was a cop - to our voices don’t matter. You will learn it as the years go by.

I understand why you’re trying to shift the blame. Because you did something wrong. You messed up big time- your choice to step aside and let fascism take control of this country doesn’t just affect you. It affects everyone on this planet & the planet itself. Those genocides that are so horrific will get so so much worse because of your choice to waste your vote.

You aren’t morally pure, you didn’t do the morally pure thing. You did the truly and deeply wrong thing. And it’s going to hurt when you realize it.

And please realize it.

Don’t push it away, don’t scapegoat, don’t double down. Don’t give into apathy & dissociation

You need to confront that you are responsible.

Because if you don’t, you’re lost. You’re just as lost as the 60 year old woman addicted to Fox News screaming slurs at her tv and pounding away insults on Facebook.

You need to confront that you chose wrong - and you need to figure out how to make up for that choice

[jplupineislost]

The last poll for this showed the overwhelming majority of voters use general tags, so now my curious ass is making this follow up poll and maybe I'll find some more fellow monster lovers (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

Reblogs for reach are appreciated!

[qqueenofhades]

While I generally agree with your writings, I find myself confused by the term "Online Leftist". As a 75-year-old who has had a Social Democratic bent (and because of that has seen more of his votes lose than he ever wished in these United States), I have voted in every county-through-federal level election in my life since age 21. I also use social media sparingly, but I feel I certainly could be considered to be a leftist who is online, but I don't share the viewpoint of those you call "Online Leftist". Please clarify the meaning of that phrase in your writings.

I have to add that I've voted third party only once. I voted for John Anderson in 1980 and instantly regretted that action when Ronald Reagan won. (At that time, Jimmy Carter wasn't perceived as the great humanitarian and climate visionary he truly was, and the economy and the hostage crisis ruled the election arguments.) It was a lesson that was hard-earned. Thus in 2016, even though I supported Bernie Sanders's ideas and philosophy, I voted for Hillary because 1) she had unimpeachable (no pun intended) qualifications, and 2) not to vote for her would ensure that a really nasty and incompetent clown would be leading our country.

Thank you for all of your Tumblr postings. I find myself reblogging them hoping to reach the idealistic voter who tends to want to vote "purist" rather than "pragmatist."

The term "Online Leftists," as myself and others use it, refers to the specific group of often-young, often-white, often-western terminally online social media users, usually on Twitter, who post frothing manifestos about how corrupt the world is (specifically, how corrupt and fascist the Democratic Party of America is) and how the only way to fix it is to have some mythical leftist Revolution that will destroy late-stage capitalism and the current world order and somehow have no bad effects whatever and then a magical "progressive" utopia will spring into existence and everything will be fixed. Even the ones who don't go that far are heavily influenced by the ideology that the establishment/country is corrupt beyond repair, voting (especially voting for Democrats) is morally evil and indefensible, that there is no difference between the political parties of America, and that America/the West is the cause of all evil in the world. It has become especially visible with the Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas wars, when they enthusiastically or at least tacitly support Russia and Hamas simply because those states/groups are "anti-western."

It also has to do with the whopping western leftist levels of virulent antisemitism and eagerness to call Israel a "white western colonialist settler state," as discussed in previous posts. Even while they decry Israel's genocide of Gaza, they will twist themselves into knots to excuse Russia's genocide of Ukraine or any legitimacy to a Jewish state or need for Israel to defend its own civilians, because you see, those genocides are committed by people they like in support of something something, Advancing the Great Revolution Cause. This is partly influenced by the belief that modern far-right fascist Russia is somehow a standard-bearer for old-school USSR socialism (which itself was horrifying enough) and should be defended and cheerled as a principled enemy of the West. This is the same group of people who unironically spend all their time posting fulminations that Biden is a genocidal fascist and America is a dictatorship, because they know that literally nothing will happen to them and they will face no real-world consequences, because none of those things are actually true. But as long as they can claim it for the rhetorical martyrdom, that does not matter.

By political beliefs and presence on Tumblr, I too am definable as a leftist who is online, but the Online Leftists (used together and with capital letters) are a distinct group whose ideology is marked by righteous nihilism, rejection of voting, support for a mythical "Revolution" in place of ever trying to work within the flawed political system, support for violent genocidal states or groups as long as they are "anti-western" or "anti-Israeli" (witness how they flocked to quiveringly defend the Houthis) while simultaneously yelling at everyone else for supporting genocide, making no attempt to incorporate actual politics, history, or reality into their all-consuming ideology, and shaming everyone else who doesn't agree with them. As you say, they are focused on some "pure" level of political engagement, which is of course impossible and therefore means the only thing they do is spend their time on Twitter rampantly spreading misinformation as long as it fits their beliefs. Pragmatism, harm reduction, nuance, or making a flawed choice that puts any kind of "moral burden" on them does not exist to them and is a dirty word, because it might conflict with bringing about La Revolution. So yeah.

[morogwen]

What gets my goat about the whole anti trans conspiracy, that pharmaceutical companies are creating life long lab rats or life long consumers for monetary reasons, is that you have to believe that the people responsible are both infinitely intelligent to pull it off and yet infinitely stupid to do it to a marginalized group of people that has proven a very easy target to galvanize conservative politicians and voters against. If the evidence is being manufactured, why choose trans people? If the multitude of studies showed a particular form of care working for cancer patients, and every major medical organization supported it, it would be political suicide for any politician to go near it. That and you'd actually be able to reach more than the 1% of the population (people who are trans) that are living in places where gender affirming care is even legal.

But I'm sure such things are "what (((they))) want you to think", huh?

Edit: someone in reblogs really trying to blame trans people for roe v wade going down. But again, it doesn't make any sense. The overlap between people who oppose trans people and abortion is a nearly perfect circle. Why choose a very small and vulnerable group of people that it's insanely easy to galvanize support against?

Edit 2: no seriously you're telling me wpath had the foresight to know trump was coming, that Trump would be elected, that he would put 3 justices on the bench in 4 years, and that roe v wade would be struck down. It would be silly if people didn't actually believe it. But here we are, terfs arguing that the entire point of trans people is to harm "females" rights.

[fangdokja]

I'll be basically using whatever THEME wins as the base for a standalone (probably standalone) story. And, yes, it's NSFW. I see you smut voters.

So, I never planned on doing any of these "Follower Milestone specials". Thought it was just clout stuff usually, so not really my thing. But. I'm doing this (aside from general writing training and the like) because I want to THANK YOU all for the support that you all have done so far. Whether it's reading, liking, commenting, reblogging, etc.

Whatever it may be, I thank you all. I didn't really expect anyone to like my writing style or my content, considering how niche it is. So, it came as a HUGE surprise that you guys actually like my content, like it's still bizarre to me on why. Yes. Until now. I came here fully expecting to just get backlash (which I got), but the wholesomeness or support of the community surprised me more.

So, I'm not doing this for clout or anything of the sort, but simply to thank you for everything. I'm sorry I don't know how to express myself more. But, sincerely, truly, I thank you, Readers. I know I keep repeating it.

And, I hope you all will continue to have fun and enjoy this blog, to relax and have a safe space to be yourself without fear of judgment (as much as possible). Life is hard enough as it is, so I don't want to add onto that.

I don't ask much from all of you. All I want is for you all to enjoy and have fun. I may write all this weird stuff, but I still emphasize to take care of yourselves. Whoever you may be, wherever you may be, or whatever you may be going through; I sincerely hope that you'll continue to enjoy life, whether in the ups or downs.

God bless, Readers.

P.S. Follower count hasn't reached the 1k mark yet. But since it spikes up a lot at certain times in the day; I decided to send this poll early, so I can get started on the work.

Kind of ironic it's a "follower special", but look at the themes whahahaha. But you know me, this is a dead dove blog. I'm super excited to write this, whatever the theme that will win be. Super EXCITED.

[dragonz-r-kewl]

I've seen people arguing about this and decided to throw some democracy at it, please reblog for more reach/larger voter pool if you aren't allergic to reblogging things!

[kyluxtrashpit]

Hiya! I hope you're doing well. I made the Hottest Star Wars Man Poll, so when your posts about it were brought to my attention, I felt I should probably reach out.

The polls are just for fun. I make them with no agenda, and I run them with no agenda. I've received messages talking about bots before, but I never wanted to get into the weeds about it.

However, as the discussion about bots is bigger than I realized, I guess now is as good a time as any to speak about it:

My opinion is that the spikes in Hux votes are a mere side-effect of the poll being passed around the internet and bringing in new voters in droves. As your Anon mentioned, @tomatette's edits might's also pulled in waves of people who voted for Hux out of fidelity to her.

I'm fine with the campaigning. As long as the vote is ultimately achieved by a human clicking on the vote themselves, it's alright by me. Hell, I always reblog 'propaganda' I particularly like, and I even requested some Anakin propaganda when he was in his elimination round. It's all fun and games to me.

However.

If anyone is using bots, I'm asking nicely for them to please stop. I'm going to pull the 'I'm not mad, I'm disappointed' card on anyone botting. The polls are all strictly unserious things, so I hope that nobody is taking them too seriously.

Hi there! Sorry the nonsense has reached you, honestly lmao. I just wanted to make a post cause I was upset about the possibility (and, as I've said, I don't have rock solid proof, just suspicions based on observations by myself and others, so like. If people don't agree with me, that's fine, it's all good - I just wanted to speak out in case it was happening like, as a kyluxer, I don't want people to think that if someone is botting, that's something we as a fandom are chill with). I honestly didn't expect it to get quite this much attention either but here we are. I also want to make it clear to both you and my followers that I don't put any blame of anything on you - you're just making fun polls and that's it, you're not responsible for what people do or what drama may arise

I do agree it's possible someone just got a bunch of people to vote within a small window of time, like anything is possible, always is. I just feel like some of the increases I saw, observations from others, and things I've heard are enough to warrant suspicion. If people do or do not agree that there's a reason to think it happened, that's their choice and I'm not going to insist that my word is law and they have to believe me. I don't have receipts, I was just expressing myself and I do appreciate amicable discussion even if my mind has not been changed as of yet

But yeah I agree, propaganda and making funny edits and posts - that's not at all what I was referring to in terms of 'cheating', but somewhere it seems that got mentioned in the discussion? (3 separate people have brought this up to me lmao, like thinking I'm accusing them but I am NOT and no one better be out there accusing them either without actual evidence beyond 'oh you posted about it' cause that's a shitty thing to do) and I also want to make it clear I am not against propaganda fun. That's all just part of it. If people are mad about that, that's their problem and they should use blacklist more liberally. And if people are saying I'm saying that, then those people are either lying or are at 'how dare you say we should piss on the poor' levels of reading comprehension lmao

But yeah, I'll post this publicly, but let me know if you want it taken down and I'll delete it - I appreciate you reaching out and I'm sorry you had to deal with this, that was definitely not my intent when I made the post. I just wanted the botting, if it is indeed happening (and if it's not, all the better, I am just not yet convinced it didn't happen), to stop

And lastly, because of some of the DMs I've received: if you, the person reading this (not you the asker), are sending hate or harassment to people based on my post, FUCKING STOP IT RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, you're no better than the bad actors I was initially referring to

[notchainedtotrauma]

My Tumblr is littered by the urgent calls to help from Sudanese and Palestinians, with the hope they'll find life and that my reblog will not only increase the reach but the donations, including mine, so you know my positions. But all of you that are begging people to vote blue...I've yet to see one of you talk about the huge sweep of voters'disenfranchiment, people taken off voting rolls in Texas and Georgia, Georgia county creating much more rigorous rules for voters to be able to have their vote eligible. An 87 years old Latine citizen in Texas has the audacity to complain about local seniors not getting their mail-in-ballots and got her house raided by the police basically a day after. Link below. Are you monitoring this ? At all ?

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

Don't you think it's unfair to refo the Lloyd - Antigone poll like that? I get you're concerned about possible fraud, but disabling reblogs etc means preventing it from reaching the huge number of people who would vote for Antigone (and hardly know about Ninjago). Because classics just *are* more popular.

I think I haven't worded it very clear, but anyway, redoing this poll in a way that's clearly rigged so as to reverse the results is unfair.

[asked and answered yesterday]

This is like, the third time an Antigone voter has said exactly this, and..……guys, has anyone considered the fact that it’s gonna make less ninjago fans see it too??? it’s a two-way street. And now you’re accusing me of only doing it to make Lloyd win?? Antigone is in the lead right now?? I do not care either way??

[unmellowyellowfellow]

okay guys i wanted to get an idea of the kind of stuff y'all would like to see from me!! i want to create more but i'm not sure what and what would interest y'all! i'll be reblogging this post through the week occasionally to reach some more voters hehe

[ysabelmystic]

I am sorry, I didn't mean to be patronizing, I was annoyed after scrolling on mobile and seeing the same poll every second post for a good chunk of my dashboard (and then refreshing, and it's there at the top AGAIN). I mean it when I say I support of reblogging for the morning crown (or afternoon crowd) but I have never seen someone reblog the same post every ten minutes before. At first I thought your tumblr had glitched and it was an accidental repeat reblog, but it was slightly too spread out for that.

Like I am glad yo are having fun over there. I really do not think you will reach more voters by reblogging it multiple multiple times per hour. Again sorry to be patronizing or rude, I just genuinely could not believe how many times I've seen this poll. Its' more prolific than the fucking pika man at this point by a long way. anyway, good luck on the next round and I will investigate other options for blocking the tag on mobile. |

Writing me not one but two essays from atop a moral high horse about how horrible this was to suffer through when you so arduously voted for my character is definitely a choice.

1) I was reblogging every other hour until the last 3 hours of the poll. Not every ten minutes. Hyperbolic language isn’t doing you any favors tone wise. You could just ask for a filter tag (I realize I should’ve done that). Not…this

2) if all you’re seeing is this poll, you really need to follow more active blogs to pad the content out.

3) given the sharp rise in kunikida votes in the last few hours of the poll, I think I did, in fact, do something.

4) just scroll past? If I had a dollar for every time I’d gotten on my phone around the same time as someone’s Star Wars hyperfixation or saw the same post 5 times in a day I’d be typing this from a yacht. That’s tumblr. Wouldn’t it have taken you less effort to do that instead of writing me TWO WHOLE ESSAYS? Good lord. Touch grass.

5) you create your tumblr experience, not me. This isn’t my problem.

Anyways, please enjoy these responses from my friends to this and the previous anon.

[burning-sol]

I will say that votes are a bit frustrating because regardless of how much effort you may put into a piece of propaganda, it won't matter unless people ACTUALLY reblog that post. There are so many silent voters and it stops any option from getting more votes. It is really tiring to put in so much effort into a post and then.. Nothing.

Your amount of reach is EVERYTHING guys.

[neuship-zone]

Okay I know I said I wasn't gonna respond but then they hit me with this stupid diagram so now I need to unpack this

YOU are arguing in bad faith.

From the moment you saw my reblog you immediately assumed a whole bunch of things about me and have refused to let any of those assumptions for this entire reblog chain. I just decided to glare over the obvious issues so that I could at figure out where you were coming from. I now have no more reason to do that, so there's no point in continuing the discussion.

"You are pretending to be a revolutionary"

No I'm not. Once again, my original post has NOTHING to do with my own political stance. Yes this is a political book written by someone who's...controversial, to put it lightly, but that does not stop me from having my own interpretation of the book. At no point have I ever said that my interpretation is correct. I have, however, said that I don't agree with the idea that the book is telling you not to stand up to your oppressors (though I would not refute the idea that it's the author's irl intentions). At no point has anyone given me a reason to believe in this interpretation. Instead, you in particular have immediately profiled me as a "liberal" (which may I add, is a word that is also used as an insult by CONSERVATIVES), called me a chimpanzee for having an opinion (mind you, I'm black, so I have a very good reason for finding that racist), and kept trying to spread the idea that I'm trying to be 'revolutional' and that I think George Orwell is peak revolutionary media. My brother in Christ I'm talking about a book. Yes it relates to the real world (read: me comparing the book to Stalin's reign, someone else comparing what I said to what's going on in America with Trump), yes the book is trying to be anti-communist, yes George Orwell is a bad person. None of that changes what I've said.

"While defending liberal capitalism and british imperialists"

How? How does anything about my interpretation of the book relate to this? I've already made it clear I don't support Orwell, and nothing in my original interpretation is even CLOSE to matching that description.

You wanna talk media literacy? Stop profiling people over their interpretation of fiction. That's literally the point of my blog, actually - for people to stop using taste in fiction to determine morals.

And besides we need to break down this diagram

Why are you insulting people who can't read? (Mega ironic considering the rest of the animals in Animal Farm)

Why do you hate Biden voters? Would you have preferred they vote for Trump?

The fact that you think "Hitler youth" (aka neo-Nazis) stem from Biden voters says A LOT MORE about you than any nonsense you've spouted about me

I'm actually kinda flattered you think my post questioning someone's interpretation of a fictional story whilst giving mine is gonna have this big of a reach <3

Also you really like chimpanzees, don't you? You think using animals as insults makes your point stronger?

Hands down, you're a reactionary mfer who needs to be called out. I wouldn't be surprised if you secretly supported MAGA. I'm glad I at least engaged long enough to be able to unpack that much.

Stop attacking "liberal punks" and work on yourself.

Unfortunately I don't think I can block people on sideblogs, but I encourage anyone else reading this to block them on my behalf.

By the way, in case anyone's curious, I have no opinion on capitalism or communism. All the people I've seen (especially on this site) with strong opinions either way turn out to be nasty people like this guy. I am also simply not interested in conversations about which one is better (because usually no-one speaking is doing so in good faith so I'd just rather not). Please do not send me asks about communism/capitalism (unless it's in the content of fiction obvi), because I will simply delete them.

very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them