#simultaneous elections

[todayworldnews2k21]

Former president Ram Nath Kovind bats for ONOE, says country's GDP will rise by 1 to 1.5% after its implementation | India News - Times of India

NEW DELHI: Making a strong pitch for ‘one nation, one election,’ former President and chairman of the committee Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday said that the central government “will have to build consensus” for the implementation of ONOE.While voicing support for holding simultaneous elections to the state assemblies and the Lok Sabha in the country, Kovind asserted that this issue is “not in the…

[lookninjas]

I'm starting to see the "Don't feel despair, don't give in to the misery, get up and go to work right now" stuff going around again, and --

Yeah, no. I want you to fucking feel that shit.

Not forever. But for like a day. At least an hour. I want you to engrave that shit on your memory. I want you to preserve the private crying jags in amber. I want that four a.m., staring at the ceiling, panic attack carved into you forever. I want you to pay close personal attention to the rage. To the fear. To the disillusionment and the betrayal. To every nagging doubt that maybe you could've done more. Maybe you could've fought harder. Maybe you could've screamed louder.

I want you to memorize it.

Because if we ever get a chance to get this country back. And it's an incredibly accomplished human being against a sack of babbling garbage. And people start saying, "Well, the garbage wasn't that bad last time. I mean, we got to work and we got on with it and only a few million people died and it wasn't that bad."

I want you to bury them under the weight of this moment, of these next few days, of every sleepless night. I want the tears you shed right now to wash those bastards away. I don't ever want you, or me, or anyone, to let them tell you that this isn't that bad.

Yes it fucking is. It fucking is that bad. We'll keep fighting anyway, because that's how we do, but it's that fucking bad.

Never let anyone tell you it wasn't.

Never let them make you forget.

[pocketramblr]

I always found it slightly awkward how media makes siblings or people who see each other as siblings call each other brother/sister all the time as in real life you almost never see people do that with their own siblings (maybe someone out there like that)

In the case of Arkham Shadows I see why they did though because Bruce quite literally tells Harvey he loves him and Harvey says it back. Can't have the audience think Batman is in love with the DA.

They had Bruce pay for his college, pay for his campaign, pay for his surgery, pay for his therapy and had Harvey have him as his best man at his wedding. Wow..... Sugar baby Harvey is real.....

The calling sibling title thing is less common in English than in some other languages for sure- me and a couple of my siblings do it on occasion, but it's for a bit then. More common is when I call one of my close family friends "my sister" or "my nephew" when talking about them to someone else because it's faster and easier to say that than to say "my friend who I've known since she was born and lived with for a few years and consider a little sister" or "child of a close family friend who considers me an aunt" to someone who doesn't know them. Which is a lot of words to say that if they wanted to fully sell me on the brothers thing they should have either had a different bit or should have referred to the other as "my brother" when talking to an unrelated character instead.

But "oh no we have to make Bruce not look gay" has been a problem DC has struggled with more than once for many decades and it basically never works so I guess at least they didn't try to solve it this time by having Bruce pick a lady love over Harvey or cutting the holding hands thing

Because I saw that scrapbook! I know Harvey has been Bruce's sugar baby since he was ten years old! But we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him the love of his life because ok technically that's Gotham but also because gay. And we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him his best friend because they're not ten anymore and somehow that seems gay also. So brothers it is, I guess. Even if I think my brothers would bite my finger if I ever tried to pay for everything for them on that scale, guess it's different at billionaire levels

[testosterone--girl]

realizing that a big reason why i like house md so much is because in order to watch it it demands that you engage with it critically... everyone in the show sucks by design, they've all got numerous biases, you have to contend with all of that. you get to see messy opinions and feelings, you get to watch characters as their opinions develop and change (or don't), and you get to compare it all against what YOU think.

[cosmogyros]

In my opinion, Chris Smither wrote one of the greatest, pithiest, most brutally critical songs about the American empire of all time:

Diplomacy

We're getting edgy, we'd better find a war There must be something worth fighting for Peace is so peaceful, it ain't no way to survive When nobody hates you, nobody knows you're alive

We got the guns, we got the oilmen too They're like a choir, they wanna sing for you Wham! Bam! Slip slidin' away You know, the less you got, the more you gonna pay

You want it, you'll get it We got what you need You ain't got to sweat it We gonna make you bleed

We got some freedom, we got the iPod store We got the savior, you couldn't ask for more Take it or leave it, that's the deal of the day But if you leave it, you'll get it anyway

You want it, you'll get it We got what you need You ain't got to sweat it We gonna make you bleed

Get your coat on, you ain't supposed to laugh This ain't a joke, it's an epitaph It's the rise and the fall, that's the name of the game It's the land of the free, the blind leading the lame It's the land of the free, the blind leading the lame

[timeisacephalopod]

US politicians acting like "The Left" is taking over everything makes no sense to me, get some fucking eyes you don't even HAVE a political left- you have the right wing and The Right Wing- the left isn't taking over shit when even 90% of the politicians considered left wing would be running in conservative parties in the rest of the world, Canada included. The fuck y'all MEAN the left is taking over, taking over WHAT there are only like 2 actually left wing politicians in the whole fuckin country, half of modern American politicians are to the right of Ronald Reagan's policies.

[eight-freakin-gids]

In light of the Universes Beyond controversies, I started to ruminate on my feelings. Certain UB settings have excited me a lot, whereas others invite my disdain.

I know Wizards has set their guidelines for what is and isn't a good fit for UB, but I feel they're too broad. Additionally, iirc, those guidelines mostly concern set design rather than creative design.

So, here are my super thought out guidelines for what makes a good Universe Beyond:

Does the world have magic / sci-fi / fantasy in abundance?

Is the setting somewhere other than a variant of modern day Earth?

Is it tonally diverse?

If yes to all, than I'm fine with it as a UB setting.

At least, these were my original thoughts. I still like these criteria, but something still was still bugging me. And I think I finally figured out what it is.

I don't know if I can describe it better than "Universes Beyond is bad when it's normie shit"

This still isn't perfect criteria. Lord of the Rings is one of the biggest film trilogies ever, and D&D is more mainstream than ever, but idk. They've at least got history and street cred.

But The Walking Dead? Stranger Things? Fornite? Things that I've seen or feel like I would see YouTube ads for because they're so mainstream.

And as much as I love Spongebob, and it's a cultural touchstone for so many z-llenials, I don't think I'm rocking the boat by saying UB Spongebob is stupid.

The other side of this feeling, I don't have any attachment to Warhammer 40,000, but I feel it worked well for Magic.

If Magic is going to be filled with crossovers, I'd rather it be a hall of fame. Make it the Smash Bros of nerdery. Show us the worlds and stories that helped shape modern day fantasy. Pick established series with staying power.

Magic always has been derivative, and it always will be. I just hope we can get back to the lovingly crafted homages and away from the cash grabs.

[obituarybug]

One of my biggest life mottos is that I will never say, think or feel anything nice/positive towards a politician. They could save my fucking cat and they'd still be one of life's greatest evils

[lovefromsamwinchester]

me when my red state that has been blue like once in all of history is once again red:

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

a lot of folks who were perfectly content to ignore politics for 4 years suddenly think election season is just the perfect time to start slamming their own side

[desvoeux]

primo ülkücü era?

can a laik yeditepeli chp'li girl and giresun'lu ülkücü kurt boy make it work? GOD LET THEM MAKE IT WORK.....

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Beginning to really wonder how much of my financial concern is manufactured and handed to me as opposed to something I'm genuinely concerned by

[moraygrotto]

1,500 followers event!!

Thanks to everyone for being here with me!! To celebrate, I'd like to write a short fanfiction based on your preferences!! So, I will be holding polls on my blog to decide the main character & main kinks of this piece!

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[toloveviceforitself]

Y'know, it might be more interesting to get you to articulate the inverse (the converse? It's been a while since formal logic): let's say the Democrat strategy of berating and extorting their base while actively betraying that base's principles and ethics actually works, and Biden manages to somehow squeak out a victory without budging on a single thing the left is angry at him for.

What do *you* do next? You have a president and a democratic party apparatus who still believes that the way to govern the country is to just do the diet version of whatever the Republicans say they want to do, and they've just been confirmed in the belief that their electorate will never punish or abandon them for it. They believe, justifiably, that they should stay the course and keep doing what they're doing because you have just unequivocally told them so.

Your country is still drifting ever further into fascism in every dimension (border policy, foreign genocides, police power, covid eugenics, queer rights), just *slightly* slower than it would otherwise be. And if you object or push back against that in any way, then you're an agitator psyop who's trying to demobilize democratic voters in order to hurt Kamala Harris's chances against the Marjorie Taylor-Green 2028 campaign that spun up the moment the election was decided.

All the same people who are dying now are still dying, and you've made it a core feature of your philosophy of political engagement that you're not allowed to do anything to make anyone in power listen to you about it or care what you think. So it's February 2025. What's your move?

i kind of wish the anti voting people wouldn’t dance around the idea of what happens after the election. Like okay, the democrats lose, you taught them a lesson (and fwiw, I do think its a legitimate message to send- the people are not happy with the actions and status quo of the DNC). Now What. Trump, the multiply indicted crime president who incited a violent mob upon the capitol, is now President. He has all the qualities you hate about Biden, AND more, except he and his administration have even less reason to be sensitive to the wishes of their democratic constituents. He is a puppet for the far right and white supremacists and christian nationalists. I really shouldn’t even have to go over this- we LIVED it already. Genuinely asking, is this what you want? Because frankly I do not think 4 more years of Trump is worth it over Biden. Your hands are not clean, this is the future you want to choose. I just don’t understand why.

[todayworldnews2k21]

Hemant Soren's JMM slams One Nation, One Election bill: Undemocratic, detrimental

Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Saturday strongly opposed the ‘One Nation One Election’ Bill, which was listed by the BJP for introduction in the Lok Sabha next week. The contentious bill has sparked a political slugfest, with JMM leaders labelling it as “undemocratic and detrimental” to the federal structure of India. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will…

[genuflecting]

I hope those who voted third party or didn't vote watch the next four years and realize the two candidates were not, in fact, "the same," but I won't be there to hold their hands through it