“For all the white people looking at Canada’s immigration website. You DO NOT get to colonize an entire country, murder all of the indigenous people, enslave African people and force them to build your infrastructure, pass anti-immigration laws to keep out refugees from countries where the US has started wars and then LEAVE THE COUNTRY because you elected a president who ran on the same racist and xenophobic ideals that built this country.”
the u.s. election stuff is getting me down and i figured it’s getting a lot of you all down as well so here’s a master post
if you want some distractions:
questions with no right or wrong answer
paint some space!
draw with silk!
s p a c e
interactive exploring!
pointer
read or write new stories
learn about colors!
more interactive exploring!
old pc games
cute games
learn about space!
learn more about space!
weird art
explore the louvre
explore the ocean
60 second chocolate chip cookie
topic generator
learn weird stuff about your body!
stumble
the wikipedia game
snoop dogg narrating planet earth
control the weather
some compliments
the sound of wikipedia
other sounds
calm
relax for 90 seconds
the quiet place
type anything you want and they won’t ever know
pretty pictures 1
pretty pictures 2
pretty pictures 3
can’t explain how you feel?
people sounds
how to make ear plugs
do nothing for 2 minutes
make a comfort box!
unload your stress
rain sounds
anti-stress breathing tips
hugs from the internet
meditation for beginners
planet sounds
more other sounds
kittens livestream!
iceland livestream!
if you want to be educated:
5 need to know facts about trump’s win
donald trump’s positions
trump’s politifact file
pence’s politifact file
trump archive on snopes (ya he’s still awful but there’s no need to work yourself up over something that might not be true)
pence archive on snopes
25 things the u.s. president can’t actually do
how the executive branch works
2016 elected officials
2016 elected state officials
what a president can and cannot do
about the electoral college
things a president cannot do (in simpler details)
if you want to be proactive:
this is what we do next
petition the white house
planned anti trump protests & rallies
donate to charities
subway therapy
what to expect when you’re expecting to get arrested
what to do if you’re exposed to tear gas
contact your electors to try and get hillary voted in by the electoral college
#notmypresident t shirt fundraiser
suicide prevention hotline
how to get your passport fast
what to do if you’re stopped by police/immigration
know your rights
chins up!! this isn’t the end. we will get through this. i refuse to let this be how we go out. stay strong i love you
This morning I woke up and cried, scared for my rights and safety as a woman and a member of the LGBTQ community and scared for the rights and safety my fellow Americans who are minorities, LGBTQ, and women. I have been fired, harassed, disowned, threatened, and denied basic human rights for being a lesbian. People lost their lives in order for me and my wife to have the right to marry, and I fear that might be ripped out of my hands as will the livelihood of millions of other Americans. I feel this fear is completely justified.
Tonight when I posted my thoughts and fears on Facebook (very respectfully and eloquently I might add) my little brother, a 17 year old white male in rural America told me to grow up, called me a child, deleted me on Facebook, said that “I find any way to escape reality and that’s how I’ve always lived my life,” told me that I am “uninformed, lazy, and want everything my way.” He continuously used the phrase “you people” throughout his pro-Trump rant, including- “You people are so hypocritical it makes me sick.” He recited the typical Trump MAGA rhetoric.
Today, he got beat up for wearing a Trump shirt to school, and he had the gall to compare that single incident to my 22 years of being told by everyone around me that I am not a normal human being and and that I do not deserve the rights he was given at birth. If that doesn’t sum up the state of the American people right now, I don’t know what does.
THIS is why suicide hotlines are overflowing with calls.
THIS is why Muslim women didn’t wear their hijabs out of their homes today.
THIS is why Mexican American kids born in the US were told by their classmates they’d be deported.
I am so tired of seeing “trump is elected, get over it”, “protesting won’t do anything” like i’m sorry but protesting is a CHOICE, you don’t have to protest if you don’t want to but silencing someone who is negatively affected by this right now is really not an option. They need to show others who feel the same way that they are not alone. You and your privileged ass can stay home.