All merriment and unseriousness aside I know this is hitting some people way harder than it has any right to and I really do hope every single one of you here today stays here with us for the next 4 years, and beyond.

Your life is more important than the election and presidency of some cunt who won’t even live long enough to see you shine your brightest.

“Trannies, dykes, fags, queers” you are stronger than you know, and the world is an awful lot more beautiful with you in it, even when you don’t realise it.

I know I’m not alone when I say the news I’m hearing isn’t the news I wanted to hear today. I basically unwillingly pulled an all-nighter because of how keyed up I was with anxiety. I hate these results. I’m stunned by the them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse campaign than the one Donald Trump ran. And he won. He fucking won. Didn’t even lose the popular vote. Election Nostradamus was wrong. The thing I’ve been afraid of for the last year actually happened.

I’m gonna be honest. It scares the hell out of me. But I’ve got two thoughts that I think I need to get out. Might as well do so here.

First thing: put down your phone. Don’t read the news. The temptation to read analyses and breakdowns and what happens next type news is real. I know that. I feel it too. But marinating in this isn’t gonna be good for us. It is what it is. I hate it too. Spending every waking moment thinking about Project 2025 and Trump’s threats and all that garbage is just going to make you feel bad. If you already feel bad, you don’t want to feel worse. The first thing you need to do is take care of yourself.

Second thing: Live. Be kind. Be compassionate. Support your community. Be loving to the people you love. Be loving towards strangers. And keep fighting. This is a pretty fucking bad setback. But it’s not defeat unless we allow it to be. You know what is defeat? Despair and fatalism. Defeatism. The greatest loss is surrendering to despair.

I know it’s hard right now. The best thing you can do is be compassionate to yourself and be compassionate to others. There’s gonna be a lot of vile hatred spit towards the most vulnerable among us in the coming days. We must demonstrate to those people that we love them more than others hate them.

Today, we are alive. Today we exist. Perhaps in some way that is its own act of rebellion. I hate that it must be, but so be it. Keep existing. And keep doing what you can do to leave the world better for your presence in it. Make art. Speak out. Love. Do not let this take those things away from you. For that is how they truly win.

A few good words from @gendersauce on Instagram

They were helpful to me and maybe they'll be helpful to you. We will get through this. This is not the end.

I’ve been around long enough to do this a few times at this point.

We’ll survive it’s just going to be awful.

But I hope the world knows now that by and large Americans are an uneducated, emotionally infantile people.

There are naturally many sane, reasonable people as well, but you can now see the majority we are trapped here with. The people that are burning the world.

It’s a different kind of hell to live as an aware, thinking person in America right now.

URGENT HELP 🚨

Hello, I'm Ola, a graduate student from the faculty of science - Al-Azhar University in Gaza Palestine. I truly appreciate you taking a moment to read my story. As you reading my message, myself and my family, “my mother, father, three sisters, and my little brother,” are fighting death in northern Gaza and trying to survive under all kinds of suffering including but not limited to fear, instability, and starvation, thirst, and poverty.

For 9 months until now, we have been struggling to get proper food after prices increased by 15 to 20 times, struggling to have clean water for use and drinking. We lacked security and stability as we were forced to evacuate our house and left everything behind.

I sincerely hope you can empathize with our dire situation and consider supporting us. You can follow me to make sure I am not a scammer and to inquire about any details. Your generosity has the power to make a significant difference.

Please reblog my post, follow me and boost my posts, and repost the link to our campaign across all your social media.

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You know what I cannot wait for? The day we have an election and we don’t have to say vote like your life depends on it because it does. This man has seeped into every facet of our lives for almost TEN years. Think about that. With one simple vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz he’s cooked-forever, and we won’t have to deal with that urgency again. We can have real policy debates and make actual progress again, once he is gone for good. So let’s do this thing one last time let’s vote like our lives depend on it and get back a better politic.

Kamala Harris has called for the end of the war in Gaza.

All y'all fuckers when you say you ain't gonna vote

Vote Harris.

November 5th, 2020 was also my grandma’s birthday. And the day my cat died.

i promise you, the two minutes of personal turmoil you will feel whilst voting for kamala harris will still be infinitely preferable to the four years of hell donald trump will inflict on everyone if he wins

via @quasi-normalcy

photo by @ChuckModi1 on twitter, link to the original

I'm writing a new post because old ones don't get reblogged as much - as if the need for donations goes away the moment post is 4 days old. And even if they do get reblogs, they don't translate to donations.

So. This is a new post for Falastin even though nothing changed. There's literally nothing new to tell, all the horrors are still the same as they were a week or a month ago and they still could die any moment. But saying everything once again:

There have been 9 donations in the last 24 hours, and 3 the 24 hours before. 125 and 17 usd raised respectively. THAT'S 3 USD PER PERSON FOR ONE DAY. The donations usually come up only when there's another martyr or another displacement so please make a pleasant surprise for Falastin's family (they haven't got one in more than a year) and donate if you can.

Preferred way - Gofundme (in SEK, 10 USD = 106 SEK):

PayPal (in USD):

Vetting info: #282 in El-Shab-Hussein and Nabulsi's spreadsheet [here], #957 in the Butterfly Project spreadsheet [here] Falastin's account: [link]

Thank you all for participating with donations and bosting. I know that this post has a lot of reblogs now, and people still reblog it, but there was just one donation in the last 10 hours. We are closer to the goal but they need continuous support because they rely on us for their survival. Please boost it again and donate if you can.

Here's my cat picture as a thank-you and as a bait ^-^

Tagging for reach, please help us out again, thank you. Dm for removal.

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In case any Americans are not aware of this: the rest of the world is FUCKING TERRIFIED of how this election is going to go. If trump wins, it affects more than just America. If trump wins, it will fuck so many other countries in so many ways.

So first of all, PLEASE VOTE. The rest of the world doesn't get to vote in your election, but we do get directly impacted by your election, so please do what we can't, and vote.

Secondly, remember that you're not just voting for America. You're voting on behalf of the all the countries that will be impacted by this election.

Please, for the love of God, vote blue, and save not just America from a second trump term, but the whole goddamn world.