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I guess the thing that bothers me about some of the posts on here berating people about voting for Biden is that some of the people they are berating are people who have literally lost dozens of family members to this genocide and they still don't seem to understand why telling those people "yeah, Biden is aiding a genocide but you better still vote for him because Trump would be worse!" is hurtful and patronizing, or why those people then get angry.
I'm not going to tell you not to vote for Biden, I do understand the reasons why it feels like the only option, but please for god's sake think about what the words you are saying look like to someone who has watched this man enthusiastically fund the murder and starvation of their people for the last five months.
#us politics#palestine#biden#i have like five different posts about this in my drafts but these are the gist of my thoughts right now#i understand that a lot of the attitudes coming out of those 'vote for biden please god' posts are due to fear#and i get it#the fear of what will happen if trump wins is real and justified#i am terrified too#but also i think if phrases like 'yeah he's aiding a genocide but' begin to fall from our lips so casually#we maybe need to take a step back and think about the words we're actually saying#and whether they are fucking helpful#also i need the 'vote blue no matter who' people to stop treating anyone who has decided they can't vote for biden like a fucking toddler#with no understanding of politics#i know we're all scared and angry#but talking down to someone is a really shitty way to get them on your side.
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I will say I get the vibe that a lot of peoples interest and support for strikers is a bit too much for a vicarious ‘burn it down’ thrill, rather than for the actual goals of a strike.
Like UPS has agreed to come back to the table and it is very possible they will concede to Union demands and avert a strike. And if that happens (so long as the union does not make concessions on its key demands) it’s a good thing. It’s a victory for the laborers. It is the same ultimate conclusion that a strike would intend to produce except without the workers having to go on (not so great) strike pay for a week or two.
#I understand to an extent bc I think such a major strike would be very politically significant for the labor movement#But UPS submitting to union demands to avert a strike also accomplishes this. Maybe in a less visible way but all the same#Also on a personal note I would love to see UPS get absolutely fucked but again: strike goals are more important here
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hey international followers
just in case you want a taste of precisely HOW fractured the US is we also just elected our first openly trans person to Congress (Sarah McBride, from Delaware) and five states enshrined abortion rights into their state constitutions, with Missouri overturning its previous ban
in the same election that gave us Cheeto Hitler II: Electric Boogaloo
#us politics#current events#make it make sense#honestly I feel like more people were swayed to him by economic concerns and not understanding that he's bad for EVERYTHING#not just social issues#but honestly we really are like several countries in a trenchcoat
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kras mazov lookin ass
#unironically started understanding disco elysium when i started reading more leftist literature. would recommend#i still think the gameplay is kind of a hard sell for most people but ykw. joyce messier as a concept has been immeasurably valuable to me#everytime i talk to my boss and im confused by her politics i think wow....its just like joyce messier#i don't know how you can claim to have all these socialist values and still uphold the capitalist system for your own comfort...WAIT.....#it's just like joyce messier.........#disco elysium#my art
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#all of these cops are on their way to brutalize university students protesting genocide btw.#ACAB#all of this just to keep investing in israel.#I’ll never fucking understand it#but yknow. vote blue no matter who right.#palestine#free palestine#free gaza#free west bank#us politics#columbia university
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Nazi Germany lasted for ~10 years. the US' genocide of indigenous people inspired the Nazis, and we've been at it for ~500 years. 55 MILLION indigenous turtle Islanders were killed by American colonialists. Tell me again why we're arguing over whether or not these bourgeois politicians are 99% Hitler? This country is far worse than the Nazis were even remotely capable of. There are nearly 1.8 MILLION people in Slavery in the United States right now. This country is cartoon levels of evil, and beyond that! it's beyond parody! it's worse than you can possibly imagine. and that's just two examples over the 500 years they've been at this, and they only domestically! Do you have any idea what the ruling class has done in other countries? the war and famine they've intentionally induced from profits? The millions they've bombed? The only country to ever use nuclear bombs! and it was on civilians!
So yes, of course we cry out death to [US]America. Do you seriously not understand how deeply deeply evil this country is? Again:
Death to the USA
#us politics#death to america#death to the USA#i know most people outside of the USA understand this (to varying extents) but by god people in the imperial core need to realize how bad#it is like i cannot express it#anyway block tagged as us politics bc again this is mostly smth imperial core-ers need to hear#also its likely far more indigenous people were killed let alone are being killed right now#but i dont think we have to get into numbers arguments to understand the order of magnitudes
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obsessed with @bambiilooloo (and @imheretocausechaos25)'s swap au because im a predictable eurylochus fan
#awnrii art#epic the musical#epic the musical fanart#eurylochus#perimedes#odysseus#polites#ctimene#ares#cant be assed to tag properly#i loooove this au so bad you dont understand..
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Kutner: being one of the best characters on House and being oh so silly and everyone loves him, nothing could and should go wrong, we love Kutner
Obama:
#house md#gregory house#house#dr house#drhouse#housemd#lawrence kutner#kal penn#Wilson#james wilson#hilson#please understand the joke#obama#politics#I loved kutner bro#kutner x Obama
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Here, I made an easy-to-understand infographic. Hopefully this helps people understand
UPDATED BECAUSE FUCK
#us politics#2024 presidential election#biden#trump#please vote#please understand#I know Biden is party to genocide#but Trump will kill so many more people#and any chance of a fair election after a Trump presidency is far from guaranteed.#we are this close to#fascisim
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"Treatment" for addiction that requires you to lock up, confine, coerce, or otherwise strip addicts of their autonomy, it isn't treatment. It is a revenge fantasy that prioritizes your desire for subjugation over the actual betterment of addicts.
#politics#addiction#addiction tw#addiction mention tw#and like i understand the desire for revenge when you feel wronged. but addiction isn't one of those circumstances#i hold a deep hatred for my abuser but i was celebrating when they weren't being criminalized for their addiction#because if that had happened that would have destroyed so many lives in such a brutal and unnecessary way#and yes they held responsibility for their actions. but that doesn't mean you can go from 0 to 1000 because of it
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Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms
#i am (lesbian) sipping him like a fine DESSERT WINE#my evidence by the way is very simple and very damning. joyce messier. there i said it.#if you guys can appreciate the fact that Joyce is a complex figure worthy of disgust yes but also worthy of empathy#despite being a venal coward facilitating acts of violence and slaughter of the organized working poor of martinaise in the name of capital#if you can understand that she is a dimensional figure while also being an embodiment of the moral apathy and cruelty if capital owners#but you cant look at evrart and see that he is (while deeply flawed and morally suspect) also a dimensional figure#on top of the fact that his motivations are eminently relatable and dare i say it baser#and his greatest failing imho is in failing to advocate for the interests of *all* the poor of martinaise#opting instead to marginalize the inhabitants of the fishing village in favor of a power grab in the interests of himself and his union#though this is imo a bit of a grey area morally. undeniably a wrong and bad thing to do but done in service of clairs political goals#to gather power to advocate for the working class against ultraliberal monoliths like wild pines and fascistic orgs like krenel#still super wrong but i can follow the moral arithmetic there tho i don't like it#but like my point is if u can see that joyce is evil and pathetic but still cool and sexy but you consider clair flatly distasteful#thats cus hes not conventionally attractive#cus he is *every bit* as dimensional and interesting as joyce and he is not nearly as politically shite even if hes interpersonally a jerk
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did you see te pati maori declared independence??
I DID NOT! Holy shit! Thanks for the news!
Okay, now reporting back from one research deep-dive, the recent context as I understand it is this:
Last November, a conservative right-wing Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, assumed office. He's got a lot of less than stellar right-wing policies, and that includes making cuts to the Ministry of Social Development and opposing co-governance with the Waitangi Tribunal and other Māori leadership organisations over the administering of public services such as education, health, and infrastructure. He's been openly critical of Māori seats in Parliament, though he hasn't (yet) opposed them. Over the course of his administration, there's been an initiative to omit or cut mentions of the Treaty of Waitangi, the foundational document of New Zealand that forms the basis of arguments for Māori protections, from official language.
Which brings us to yesterday, May 30th. Budget Day. The day the new administration would announce their first budget and a day of mass action for supporters of te Pāti Māori protesting the treatment of Māori under the new government. I don't have any concrete numbers, but RNZ reports thousands of protestors, while the NZ Herald estimates "tens of thousands" turning out nation-wide, and a walking protest that delayed rush-hour traffic in Auckland for hours.
You may have already guessed that the budget was Bad. As I understand it, the budget effectively cut any kind of targeted funding for Māori health or education, and decreased funding for Māori cultural festivals and celebrations. And again, I cannot stress enough how much I am not an expert on this topic, so there's probably a lot more in there I don't know about.
In response to the new budget, Māori Party MP Rawiri Waititi issued a Declaration of Independence to the New Zealand Parliament, (video of his speech in link) with the support of his fellow te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.
There doesn't seem to be any concrete plan in place yet for the organisation of the new Māori parliament, but MPs Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer met with protestors to collect signatures for the Declaration, which they plan to bring to a hui taumata (meeting of congress) today, Friday, May 31st. The text of the Declaration can be found on te Pāti Māori website, in the form of a petition. You do not have to be Māori to sign, but I believe you do have to be kiwi.
#damn this is exciting!!#I'm sure I don't understand the full context of what's happening right now#maybe the party is determined to see this through#maybe it's a show of Māori political power intended to force the coalition government out of its conservative nose-dive#I don't fucking know!!#but I am very hopeful and excited to see what kind of future te Pāti Māori intends for Aotearoa#fucking power move#indigenous rights#politics#Māori
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i'm gonna go one step further and say it's actively good to engage with media you have fundamental ideological disagreements with, especially when you use that as a testing ground to conceptualize your own worldview and help you crystalize your perspective on things
#i read book of the new sun over the summer and it really helped me understand my politics better#also my favorite video game is cities skylines which is just horrifically anti-homeless
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so if you didn’t know, last week rishi sunak was due to meet the greek prime minister to discuss — amongst other things — the parthenon sculptures that we've been hoarding in the british museum for a couple of centuries. rishi cancelled last minute for no good reason and one greek newspaper came up with a great response:
#well when i say ‘for no good reason’ i mean that he (sunak) gave no good reason#to the greek pm#i like that they wrote it in english too so that rishi sunak could understand#rishi sunak#politics#greece#admin dominique
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“Oh I wasn’t going to vote” says the neighbor.
The neighbor who is in a relationship with a woman, uses government assistance, and has a physical disability. The neighbor who has two children who identify somewhere on the Rainbow and an ex-husband who is the only reason they have insurance.
“Who would I even vote for,” she says, exasperated, which I find very funny because her partner is a former cop teaching high schoolers how to be a cop. Before her disability Neighbor was a jail guard. They have a wooden American flag in the living room. Their daughter is not allowed out of the house alone because girls are victims in waiting. The guy who ought to be in prison for hurting girls and inciting an attack on the capitol vs the woman who’s actually helped the system seems like a no-brainer? Is the cop training really that hard to overcome?
“Not trump. Literally just not trump, since he has done nothing but try to kill people like you and me and our kids? That seems maybe bad to put back in power.”
“Oh,” says the woman who fits several profiles the republicans are loudly declaring an intent to eradicate. “I guess I hadn’t thought about that.”
What the fuck have you been thinking about then? How much you don’t want a black woman in the White House?
PLEASE. PLEASE vote. Every single ballot is important.
I’m gonna end up hibernating so hard for the next few days, my heart cannot take this again.
#american politics#how is the average American like this I genuinely don’t understand how she was like eh I just wasn’t gonna vote#girl they are literally coming for you? like you specifically? and you are ambivalent sbout this?????
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Why hasn't anyone ever before considered just making the red states blue?? By voting more
#sometimes ppl say that us liberals only understand us politics. but dont worry! they dont understand that either#why do the republicans not simply vote for the democrats?
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