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I know it's ~cringe~ and unacceptable, but a lot of voters are very much on board with "I love my country and want to make it better even though it's done some bad shit" moreso than any kind of active denigration and hatred of the country, and the former is more positive and effective. And I think that's what's helping Kamala a lot, in spite of the twitterati and punditariat. People want to not feel exhausted and drained and hopeless about the future.

heidi8

Remember this from 4 years ago?

We’ve been stuck at 99% uninstalled for the last four years.

If you want to uninstall him completely, so he can go through the sentencing phase and a couple of other criminal trials, vote today if you haven’t already, and vote for Kamala Harris.

And if you’re in Florida, please also vote. Yes, on three and four, and against Rick Scott.

#politics #election #voting #florida

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arahir

i will literally never forget the senior year of my american politics degree. our professor did a show of hands for who was going to vote in the election and i was one of 4 people in a 60 person class that raised mine. “both candidate were bad” and it didn’t matter because we were in a blue state anyway, right? the day after the election, the little brother of a friend got called a racial epithet and beat up at school. it was the first incident of that kind in that school in years–the first of many since. my friend didn’t vote in that election. both candidates were bad, after all.

i think what she didn’t get, what most people don’t get is that voting isn’t about you. it isn’t. it’s about the society we’re trying to have here, the society you are a part of no matter how nihilistic you think you are. you’re never too good for kindness. this is the most basic test of that.

so i’m begging you: vote for people that don’t have a vote because they got illegally purged from voter rolls. vote for the environment. vote for kids that are going to have to deal with this stuff for the next 80 years. vote for the lgbt community. vote because it’s better than nothing. vote because if you don’t and then you turn around and complain about anything wrong with this country, you’ve given up your best shot at doing a goddamn thing about it. if nothing else, vote for spite. vote to scare them. here’s a post that has every piece of information you need to vote tomorrow. please do it. it’s not about you or about your single vote making a difference. it’s about caring enough for the weak and underrepresented in this society enough to do your best by them.

you have to at least try.

heidi8

You have to at least try.

#voting #politics #election

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Take that, Akin.

When you go to vote, don’t just choose a president - make sure you choose candidates for House and statehouse and local elections (and Senate if your state has an election for that this year). All levels of government matter!

(Sorry, non-US-ians, for all the US political stuff this time of year, but…)

heidi8

From 2012 and now more than ever.

Source: feminspire.com

#us politics #us elections

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transfemininomenon

today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift?

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ladyimtolstoy

A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."

Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.

VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.

NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

heidi8

Thing Number Four

Plus, the Senate & House need to be blue no matter what.

#politics #us elections #november 5th #vote early

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Texts From Superheroes

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Source: textsfromsuperheroes.com

#comics #batman #taylor swift #superman #transformative works

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manicpixiedreamjew

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

rizaoftheowls

Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Let’s eat some fried food. Candles!

So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.

rizaoftheowls

Yup. Or as we say, “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.”

galaxy-of-great-possibilities

thank you for the desc’s bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated

above-d-clouds

A handy table for everyone:

Y’all have no idea how happy it makes me to see my goyim followers reblogging this. Really. It means the world to me.

augustdementhe

Oh SWEET, a table!

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madamejumel

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. When I meet Thomas Jefferson, Im a compel him to include women in the sequel!”

yeah good luck with that

“You see by the papers, and I suppose by your letters also, how much your native state has been agitated by the question on the new Constitution. But that need not agitate you. The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion; and the French ladies miscalculate much their own happiness when they wander from the true field of their influence into that of politicks.“ Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 September 1788

“You will preserve, from temper and inclination, the happy privilege of the ladies to leave to the rougher sex and to the newspapers their party squabbles and reproaches.” Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 24 May 1797

#angelica schuyler church #voting #vote early #women’s rights #election #politics #political

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visit-ba-sing-se

Hey so if you truly think that not voting is neutral or a good form of protest, please take one moment to think about why there are so many bot-written comments and whole misinformation campaigns dedicated to keep you from casting your vote. And why gerrymandering is a thing. Why the right to vote first was only given to the rich and wealthy, why the fight for woman’s suffrage took so long, and why some people are still barred from voting today. Why facists show up at the booth to threaten voters, and why they pass laws that serve no other purpose but voter suppression. Because your vote has power, however little. And if you decide to give that power up, someone else will gladly take it.

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timemachineyeah

the current electoral system is an unfairly weighted corrupt mess that will not save us, but

abstaining from voting does nothing to destabilize or replace it
participation can reduce harm and be strategically applied to your larger more revolutionary goals
(plus following electoral politics just keeps you aware of what specifically to expect from The Powers you oppose)

there is no materially revolutionary argument against voting if you are at all able.

dancinbutterfly

I live in Georgia.

I have SEEN what can happen if you SHOW THE FUCK UP! You can, in fact, turn the tide.

I'm originally from Florida. I was in Florida for the 2000 recount that cost this country Al Gore as our president.

I've watched what happens when progressives abandon voting. You can, in fact, lose the war by not voting. You can, in fact, lose EVERYTHING by not showing up to vote electorially by a few HUNDRED votes.

YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP. YOU JUST HAVE TO.

dreamerinsilico

I will treasure the number of times I overheard the phrase "Herschel fucking Walker" while standing in line to vote in the runoff election probably for the rest of my life, despite how much back pain I was in at the time because of having to stand in said line.

(I had previously been a SC resident. Less so with the hope there, though there was a very intense, albeit obviously unsuccessful, campaign to unseat Graham. Doesn't mean we should stop trying, put that fucker in the garbage where he belongs.)

Not incidentally, I stood in line for roughly 45 minutes in GA to vote in the general election, and nearly an hour to vote in the Senate runoff. When I was voting in SC, I was in a heavily white, heavily upper middle-class district, and... line? what line? except in 2020 early voting, when I stood in line for nearly two hours. Got a solid bit of sock knitted.

vaspider

Lauren Boebert won by ~330 votes.

Next time, she could lose.

Just saying.

#elections #vote early

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“I’m very conscious of how easy it is to let people down on a day like this, because I remember my own graduation from Wellesley very, very well, I am sorry to say. The speaker was Santha Rama Rau who was a woman writer, and I was going to be a woman writer.

And in fact, I had spent four years at Wellesley going to lectures by women writers hoping that I would be the beneficiary of some terrific secret — which I never was. And now here I was at graduation, under these very trees, absolutely terrified.

Something was over.

Something safe and protected.

And something else was about to begin.

I was heading off to New York and I was sure that I would live there forever and never meet anyone and end up dying one of those New York deaths where no one even notices you’re missing until the smell drifts into the hallway weeks later.

And I sat here thinking, “O.K., Santha, this is my last chance for a really terrific secret, lay it on me,” and she spoke about the need to place friendship over love of country, which I must tell you had never crossed my mind one way or the other. …

My class went to college in the era when you got a masters degrees in teaching because it was “something to fall back on” in the worst case scenario, the worst case scenario being that no one married you and you actually had to go to work. As this same classmate said at our reunion, “Our education was a dress rehearsal for a life we never led.” Isn’t that the saddest line? We weren’t meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them.

We weren’t’ meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them.

If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect. Non Ministrare sed Ministrari — you know the old joke, not to be ministers but to be ministers’ wives.

I’ve written about my years at Wellesley, and I don’t want to repeat myself any more than is necessary. But I do want to retell one anecdote from the piece I did about my 10th Wellesley reunion. I’ll tell it a little differently for those of you who read it.

Which was that, during my junior year, when I was engaged for a very short period of time, I thought I might transfer to Barnard my senior year. I went to see my class dean and she said to me, “Let me give you some advice. You’ve worked so hard at Wellesley, when you marry, take a year off. Devote yourself to your husband and your marriage.”

Of course it was stunning piece of advice to give me because I’d always intended to work after college. My mother was a career woman, and all of us, her four daughters, grew up understanding that the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was as valid for girls as for boys.

Take a year off being a wife. I always wondered what I was supposed to do in that year. Iron? I repeated the story for years, as proof that Wellesley wanted its graduates to be merely housewives.

But I turned out to be wrong, because years later I met another Wellesley graduate who had been as hell-bent on domesticity as I had been on a career. And she had gone to the same dean with the same problem, and the dean had said to her, “Don’t have children right away. Take a year to work.”

And so I saw that what Wellesley wanted was for us to avoid the extremes. To be instead, that thing in the middle.

A lady.

We were to take the fabulous education we had received here and use it to preside at dinner table or at a committee meeting, and when two people disagreed we would be intelligent enough to step in and point out the remarkable similarities between their two opposing positions. We were to spend our lives making nice. …

Why am I telling you this? It was a long time ago, right? Things have changed, haven’t they? Yes, they have. But I mention it because I want to remind you of the undertow, of the specific gravity. American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. Things are different for you than they were for us.

Just the fact that you chose to come to a single-sex college makes you smarter than we were — we came because it’s what you did in those days — and the college you are graduating from is a very different place. All sorts of things caused Wellesley to change, but it did change, and today it’s a place that understands its obligations to women in today’s world.

The women’s movement has made a huge difference, too, particularly for young women like you. There are women doctors and women lawyers. There are anchorwomen, although most of them are blonde.

But at the same time, the pay differential between men and women has barely changed. In my business, the movie business, there are many more women directors, but it’s just as hard to make a movie about women as it ever was, and look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

It’s 1996, and you are graduating from Wellesley in the Year of the Wonderbra. The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

What I’m saying is, don’t delude yourself that the powerful cultural values that wrecked the lives of so many of my classmates have vanished from the earth.

Don’t let the New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you — there’s still a glass ceiling. Don’t let the number of women in the work force trick you — there are still lots of magazines devoted almost exclusively to making perfect casseroles and turning various things into tents. Don’t underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back.

One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don’t take it personally, but listen hard to what’s going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally.

Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: get back, get back to where you once belonged.

When Elizabeth Dole pretends that she isn’t serious about her career, that is an attack on you. The acquittal of O.J. Simpson is an attack on you.

Any move to limit abortion rights is an attack on you — whether or not you believe in abortion. The fact that Clarence Thomas is sitting on the Supreme Court today is an attack on you.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Because you don’t have the alibi my class had — this is one of the great achievements and mixed blessings you inherit: unlike us, you can’t say nobody told you there were other options.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Twenty-five years from now, you won’t have as easy a time making excuses as my class did. You won’t be able to blame the deans, or the culture, or anyone else: you will have no one to blame but yourselves. Whoa. …

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. Thank you. Good luck. The first act of your life is over. Welcome to the best years of your lives.”

—

From the late NORA EPHRON’s commencement address at Wellesley College, 1996 (via inothernews)

heidi8

28 years, and a minute.

#nora ephron #feminism

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sprinkledsalt

Well, I slept on it, and I feel the same way that I did yesterday. I like Harris. I fully support her. She can win if we all get behind her. She was actually my first choice in 2020.

But none of this would’ve happened if not for a relentless, coordinated campaign by the media that was birthed from bullshit. Biden does not have dementia, and as soon as he proved his mental fitness with several unscripted events, the media seamlessly dropped that narrative and picked up a new one, showing how phony their concerns were and that they wouldn’t rest until they delivered irreparable harm to the campaign. No one would’ve given a shit about that debate if the media hadn’t.

Meanwhile, this shows that they could’ve closed ranks and had weeks-long, dedicated, negative coverage of Trump at any fucking time. But no. They’ve done nothing but fawn over him, laugh at his genuinely incoherent babbling, and enable him since 2016, even after their bullshit contributed to Hillary’s loss. Just a couple days ago, there was some headline like, “People criticize Donald Trump’s views on women, but people in private say he’s a different person.”

This is not only the same man who helped kill Roe, and who bragged about sexual assault, it’s the same man who was literally found liable for sexual assault by a jury. Two dozen other women have accused him of sexual violence. That’s what he’s like in private. But the media treated Trump being a rapist as a non-story. Biden’s stutter, though? Media meltdown.

I don’t think anyone should forget or downplay how bad it is that the media can apparently decide they don’t like Democratic voters’ choices, and relentlessly ratfuck until they’re able to get big donors on their side and kill the campaign of a successful, scandal-free Democratic incumbent, effectively overriding voters. If they can ratfuck someone with as solid of a record as Biden, even when the stakes couldn’t be higher, why wouldn’t they try this again the next time they don’t like who Dem voters chose?

Tl;dr the media likes Republicans and wants them to win. I’m not dooming, I’m repulsed.

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aqueerkettleofish

Okay, having watched the coverage, I'm actually optimistic. I was of the opinion that Biden dropping out would be disaster, but now I think it might actually be a good thing.

The following things should be noted:

While the media keeps pointing out that it is possible someone will challenge Harris for the nomination,
The media desperately wants a Dems In Dissarray angle, and they're not giving it to them.
I don't know if they had time to compare notes, but EVERY Dem I heard was right on the "Prosecutor vs. Felon" angle.
The timing is BEAUTIFUL. Nobody's talking about the GOP Convention, nobody's talking about the assassination.
Donations are rolling in. (If you can, donate NOW.)
Trump put a lot of work making the campaign about Biden's age. He... might not be glad he did.
Black women are the most reliable voters in the party. So. Yeah.

butterflyslinky

Two big updates:

Harris had the single most successful fundraising day in history, raising over $60 million in 24 hours.

The Heritage Foundation (aka, the people behind Project 2025) are considering legal action against Biden in certain states where candidate filing dates are shorter and reasons for dropping out are more strict. This signals they're very mad and very scared and are doing everything they can to stop Harris from being the nominee.

cleolinda

I didn’t panic when the news dropped because I am unwillingly in the presence of so much Fox News that I knew how bad a tailspin “wait what do you mean we don’t have Biden to shit on anymore” would throw them into. Like, I’m still scared because [gestures at everything], but they’ve spent the last several months INTENSELY pushing “senile Joe Biden and his crime family are bringing down America.” And now ALL of that is utterly moot. Useless. Wasted. Conservative media will go in on Kamala and whoever her VP is, of course, but they haven’t had a year in advance to build it up. And Republicans didn’t get to use their convention for it. This is a sucker punch, tactically speaking, and I hope the new ticket can keep moving light on their feet like this.

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weaver-z

The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

rockshitty

The moon landing was fake: tired, passé, heard it before

The moon landing was an elaborate marriage proposal: fresh! sexy! I’m going to be thinking about this for months!

weaver-z

Romcom where two dudes in the 1960s fall in love and come up with an elaborate plan to become astronauts to get married in space because gay marriage is illegal everywhere but it can’t be illegal on the moon