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oh this is fantastic! thank you! adding some stuff i've posted before about voting (these sites and links are only for the US, unfortunately)

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note to future self about how i fairly efficiently handled researching candidates. this probably isn’t the ideal way to do it, but live and learn. (what i’m thinking when i say that is “hopefully/maybe i’ll actually, y’know, pay attention to the news to SOME level.”) 

it’ll be good to see this in the future if i eventually handle it differently, even tho the main reason i’m making note is so i’m not, again, making my process from scratch in a few years.

one thing i’d especially like to do differently is start reading and marking in the voter guide right when it gets delivered, instead of only in the last day or two. it’s easy enough: just read while eating breakfast and dinner, and maybe set aside an extra 15-20 minutes every couple nights too. it’s really not too long a process

anywho:

(.01) read their blurbs in the voter guide and mark as “checkmark” (for okay), “X” (for no), “?” (for “idk what this bit means” / look up more on the candidate), “O” (for okay; this is my choice and fill in on practice ballot)

(.02) look them up using duckduckgo if that feels needed, NOT Google or a search engine that has search results biased toward what i’ve searched in the past. or look up questions using duckduckgo. like one judge of the superior court candidate said he’d never lost a case and i was like “uh, idk if that’s possible / responsible / misleading.” i also sometimes looked up “(name) scandals” because some of the wording or described experience sounded sketchy

• find your polling place

the order of resources i look at when learning about candidates:

(1) look at politicians' positions on votesmart.org

(2) (California only) see if they answered questions on ballotpedia.org

(3) (California only) see if there’s additional information on votersedge.org, which i haven’t fully figured out how to navigate, so i get to the relevant page by using duckduckgo to look up  “(name) votersedge.org”. and often candidates running for the same position will be listed in a list on the right too (as of summer 2022)

Ways to Live in Direct Opposition to Capitalism

I am by no means an expert in any of these things I’m gonna talk about, so keep that in mind! I am just making a compilation of things I know of that we can do to lessen the stranglehold the capitalist lifestyle has on us while enriching our lives, our surroundings, and the lives of others. Please add anything I miss or correct anything I may be getting wrong! Anyway here goes!

Use what you have, fix what’s you can, make what you can, accept from others, thrift what you can, and finally purchase as a last resort.

This is advice I have seen float around here a couple of times that can apply to a lot of things including clothing, furniture, food, and more besides. It’s meant to be done roughly in that order as it applies to what you’re wanting/needing/doing. It’s about preventing waste, promoting self-capability, having a heightened reliance on your community, and consciously rejecting the ingrained habit many of us have to just purchase things or services.

Here’s where you can read about growing an indoor garden!

Here’s where you can read about sewing things yourself!

Here’s an online site for giving and receiving items for free!

Here is where you can find a local Mutual Aid to get things from, learn skills from, give do, volunteer for, etc. (in the U.S.)

Be politically active! (from a U.S. perspective)

Vote for every election. Know your representatives and those who will be competing in the next election. Vote without ignorance and without falling for unfounded claims. While operating within the system that actively oppresses us will not bring about the future we want, it can serve as damage control (preventing worse candidates from taking office) and it can potentially create a national atmosphere more open to change.

Here’s a good article about getting more involved in the U.S. political process.

Here’s a site that will show you how to register to vote, when and where elections are held, and more!

Here’s good advice on finding protests in your city!

Here’s some readings on unionizing! It’s your legal right to unionize!

Here’s a more user friendly site for learning about unions!

Be active within your community!

Developing strong, motivated, capable, knowledgeable, and inclusive communities is the ultimate way to combat the relentless and bleak present and future. When you’ve worked on the things above and have gotten good at it (or even if you haven’t gotten good at it yet), start spreading what you know and what you can do with others!

Give your neighbors, coworkers, and friends some of the vegetables you’ve grown.

Invite your community members to volunteer events.

Talk to folks about how to vote, when you’re doing it, etc.

Take part in Mutual Aids to teach what you’ve learned or whatever you may be an expert in! Invite neighbors, friends, and coworkers when you take part in the Mutual Aid!

Accept your community. Take them for who and what they are. Discrimination is the enemy of cooperation. You have much more in common with everyone in your community than a single billionaire or corporation. We’re all passengers on this spaceship earth.

Do it one step at a time!

Obviously we can’t do all of these things at once. Do what you can when you can, and you’ll start to notice real change in your life!

Our online communities where we talk about our visions and hopes are fantastic, but they have little impact if we don’t actually get up and do the real work that change requires.

Want to be better, and keep hope for the future!

Harbor and nourish that desire to be a better person and to be the change you want to see in the world. You need to be hungry for a better future if you plan to make it through the rough times when everything feels pointless and without hope. Reach out to others when you’re down, and be someone others can lean on when their lives get hard.

That’s it! Please interact with this, spread it to others, and add your own thoughts and ideas! It’s important that we do the real work to get the change we crave!

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Thanks @flashyapples, that's pretty much the gist, but I feel there are some other important things to touch up on

@solarpunkwarlock, Welcome to the hellsite #3 according to the entirety of the internet. It's only #3 because apparently #1 and #2 flee here when things go bad, and 4chan is something far worse than hell.

Here's some major points about tagging

people use it to whisper and comment, instead of usually commenting themselves, this is the most popular form of commenting. You can put entire whole paragraphs in the tags, and the original posters will not mind at it. It is even encouraged. There's nothing wrong with commenting either, but this is just the local culture.

Just make sure when doing it to your own original post that you don't tag sentences too short and accidentally get your post to pop up under groups it doesn't belong in

You don't even have to tag, if you have enough faith in a post, but it advised that if there's a potential topic that someone may want to avoid to tag it.

Tag it uncensored too. This isn't your corporate no bad words oopsies tiktok or younger audience driven social media. We don't care if said words offends you, type it! It is much easier for those groups trying to avoid that topic to avoid it, adding cw or tw in front of it works too as content warnings. I usually tag variations of all three.

Be sure to tag anything that people avoid too, food, sensitive topics, bigotry, flashing images, whatever. Even if the post isn't about them but it's brought up, you can always tag food mention, death mention, etc.

Don't spam tag, which is tagging things the post has nothing to do about. People will get mad, and we are all reasonable to report you for spam or block people.

Tag as much as you want! Just don't get off the topic of what your post is actually about. People following certain tags will find your post promptly via the tag, or through the reblogs of your posts.

When someone comes to your blog they can also search tags which brings up the organization flashyapples was talking about.

You can block tags, which means when it pops up in your algorithm if someone you follow posts something under that tag, it will have a nice blockade set for you. Then you can decide whether or not you want to see what's under that barrier. This makes it so you don't have to unfollow users for a particular thing that may bother you. We encourage blocking tags.

Reblog tags don't rearrange the algorithm and magically add that post under those tags in search, but it does so for that particular blog's search that's reblogging. So don't worry about tagging OCs, show characters, or whatever a post reminds you of when reblogging only.

And.... I think that's everything. So sorry that you got infodumped on @solarpunkwarlock but welcome, and anyone new to this site at this time who happens to find this

Welcome redditors now too I guess.

(Don't know how I feel about tumblr being the migratory social media to flee to when shit hits the fan, but welcome none the less, learn the tag system, don't be a brat, make yourself not look like a bot, the normal)

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