Anecdotal, but I've also noticed multiple layoffs the literal day after the election. Obviously this could be a total bad luck coincidence, but is it related at all to the election? Trying to cut costs ahead of perceived financial hardship? Idk.

Oh ok calling it now. Mass layoffs coming to a workplace near you.

Lol. Lmao, even.

Adding to this if Dems get a House majority at any point they should adopt the Newt Gingrich playbook and investigate Trump for anything and everything constantly. They should absolutely go for a third impeachment even though he'll never be convicted.

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

you know, the thing that leaves me completely out of fucks for "don't vote" arguments, more than anything else?

the 2000 election

Bush won by Supreme Court decision. If they'd counted all the ballots in Florida he would've lost, but he successfully sued to stop the count.

We all learned what a "hanging chad" was. It was awful.

Less than a year later, airplanes flew into a bunch of big important buildings.

Nader got near record green party votes. Al Gore was the famously boring VP for Clinton, the guy who decided the way to win was to be a Democrat who acted like a Republican. Clinton and UK PM Tony Blair were the champions of neoliberalism.

why in the fuck would you want to vote for that guy? the dumb kid of the old president didn't seem too bad, anyway. he was a Compassionate Conservative! is that really so much worse than neoliberals?

it's hard to play alternate history with this stuff, but imagine if Al Gore had been president on 9/11. We probably still get a war in Afghanistan, everybody wanted that one except Congresswoman Barbara Boxer, D-CA. I think it's a pretty good bet the US doesn't invade Iraq.

Can you imagine how much better off we'd be if instead of 8 years of a climate denier president we'd gotten the guy who wrote "An Inconvenient Truth"? If we'd managed even to do the wimpy version of cap and trade?

You can't KNOW these things. That was one Trouser of Time and we're down a different one.

But 537 votes in Florida made a hell of a lot of difference. I don't want to be one of the 600 or so people who were running late after work and didn't want to wait in another goddamn line.

Because you just never know what's going to happen

MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE!

He just quit.

I mean honestly I don’t hate Harris. or Biden, who has actually done a lot of good in the last four years especially considering the mess he had to clean up. but whatever gets the “my imaginary moral high ground is more important than peoples’ lives” fucks to vote.

like she will probably be on the whole a legitimately good president and I think at a certain point the “ugh I know every option SUCKS but just hold your nose and vote” thing is just feeding the doomerism. things won’t just not get worse under a democratic president, they will improve. just because Harris does not hold the exact same views as a 20 year old tumblr socialist doesn’t mean she won’t make life tangibly better as long as we can get the house and senate squared away.

also Trump losing to a nonwhite woman might piss him off enough that he dies of rage like a sim so I think we should try it just in case.

Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,

and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself

These things can coexist

Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate

Been seeing some absolutely insane i mean neurodivergent discourse occasionally cross my dash lately and I gotta say that. Even as a certified Chappel Roan idgaf-er I think it's fucked up the extent to which people are playing internet telephone with her statement about not wanting to endorse Kamala Harris.

Like what she said boiled down to the most milquetoast "Yeah I'm voting for her but the Democratic party has problems and has done a lot of bad shit that shouldn't get swept under the rug". People are saying she's trying to convince people not to vote but like she literally said she's voting for Harris???

And then I saw someone post about how they're so disappointed to learn that Roan "said she's voting for Donald Trump because there are problems on both sides" and that's why the both sides are bad rhetoric is so dangerous. and like. WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GET THAT FROM????

I've seen at least two separate people straight up make up conspiracy theories about how she's actually a republican industry plant and her sudden explosion in fame this year was part of an election interference plan to convince young queers to sit this election out and let the republicans win like people are doing some straight up blue QAnon shit.

Just the perfect intersection of the way people are weirdly parasocial about her and the way liberals claim to hate the democratic party too but lesser evil etc etc etc but then jump straight into fanatic devotion mode the moment anyone actually voices any criticism of them.

Liberals: Yeah the Democrats obviously deserve criticism but you can criticize them and hold them accountable while voting for them.

Random Celebrity: Okay, I'm voting for them but I have some criticism

Liberals: whatg tje fuck,,, why areyou LITERALLY tellign people to go vote for Donalg Trunp... can't beliebe your'e litrally goimg to,, vote for Dongo Trongo... tjat's fucked up... I tjougt u were better then this,,,

Conservatives finally say the quiet part out loud:

They would rather have a dead child than a trans child.

Family values, right?

People like this are abusers are and the ones who should be investigated and have their children taken away, not LGBTQ parents. This is neglect, this is open contempt for the life of your child.

If you can't handle the idea that your child will be LGBTQ, you will openly abuse them if they are, if you would not accept and love them for who they are no matter what, and you allow them to die through neglect then you should never have children. Period.

Loving "The Child" but hating your actual children

I've never understood the tampon hysteria. The way conservatives talk about them, you'd think that they were sex toys with the magical power to also turn you gay. It's weird and creepy.

Like, if your 4th grade son does not have a vagina, then wtf are you so worried about him doing with a tampon, Megyn? You think he's going to grow one just to use them, or something? Truly why do you care?

Also, tampons are frequently used to stop bloody noses in sports like, oh, wrestling, which is commonly male-dominated. so many boy athletes are very familiar with the blood absorbant powers of tampons for non vagina reasons. like. shes being real dumb and ignorant on many levels.

this is real! you can fax, mail, or dropoff in person, but there is no provision for online registration.

TL;DR: The Texas government is trying to trick you into thinking you've registered to vote online when that's not possible.

This has not been circulated widely enough.

If you know someone in TX, pleeeeease make sure they see this.

What's so worrying about this is that it's specifically targeted at younger people.

Younger people statistically vote more liberal than conservative. By tricking younger and "more online than not" people into using a fake registration service, the state of TX makes sure that fewer liberal votes are counted.

The burning question about "homesteading tradwive influencer vs. actual medieval farmwife" wouldn't be about who would win, but what would be the final straw that would make Kathrynn - who got married at 21, doesn't know what a chemical is, and who would have sent her children to school if she had had the chance - finally decide to beat the ever-loving shit out of Kathrynn, who got married at 21, doesn't understand what a chemical is and can't spell for shit, but still thinks she can homeschool her kids.

It wouldn't be over feminist issues. Medieval Kathrynn has no concept of "women's right to vote" - it's not like her husband has the right to vote in government matters either. It would probably be about religion. Medieval Kathrynn has no idea what "catholism" is, but she heard Modern Kathrynn talk shit about the saints and decides to toss aside the goat she was castrating and go "that's it, I'm beating your ass."

I'm pretty sure it would be vaccination, actually. Medieval Kathrynn would find out that there's an easy, safe way to keep the babies from dying of measles/mumps/smallpox and that Modern Kathrynn is CHOOSING TO NOT DO IT and would use the grave marker of her third child who passed from the pox as a bludgeon.

the most annoying takes right now are the people twitter theorizing about why calling conservatives & fascists "weird" is Bad Actually and listen i'm sorry you missed the memo but there is no greater moral or philosophical purpose to this besides cyberbullying them in a way that actually hurts their feelings and diminishes their sway. they love portraying themselves as normal and they love being portrayed as evil and powerful. they extraordinarily hate being seen as weird little freaks everyone laughs at. i believe in the human capacity to hold both weirdo, freak, pervert (highly affectionate) and weirdo, freak, pervert (extremely derogatory) and to know the difference between them

Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It's going to be vitally important.

Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn's creation.

Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won't. If it's made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.

Yes, the hard-right's ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn't their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.

Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.

Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they're financially desperate -- is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the "but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive," but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it's legal or not. But when it's legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it's illegal.

Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It's that simple.

"But it's demeaning!"

That's a you problem. No, really - it's your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I've had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and "proper". Just because a job involves sex doesn't mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.

To quote the great John Waters.

Every problem in the porn industry becomes 1000% worse if you outlaw porn as a whole -- because then workers have no recourse when bad things happen.

Because there will always be porn. Just like there will always be other kinds of sex work.

Please, please I am begging my American followers to vote blue because even if nothing changes some of us will have time to prepare to flee.

Keep in mind that Biden losing doesn’t mean an end to the genocide in Palestine. It just means more death.

once again, people like you don't actually care about Palestine if this is the shit you're saying. biden losing actually WOULD mean the end to the genocide in Falasteen if y'all could get off your asses and organize and mobilize ppl to vote third party. i don't want to live under trump OR biden. there simply is no lesser of two evils here when genocide is happening under either of them. you don't get to decide that genocide isn't a deal breaker because it should be for you and if you actually cared about Palestine, you wouldn't be voting for either of them.

I don't know how to break it to everyone that Trump is pro-Israel and that if he takes office, any US led efforts towards a ceasefire are not likely to continue.

The Democratic candidate losing means that the Republican candidate wins, there is no other probable outcome.

Who are you even planning on voting third party for? There are states where the deadline has already passed to get on the ballot, so any newcomers this late in the game (and a few of the already declared third party candidates) wouldn't even have a chance. Even if we did "get off our asses" right now, we can't vote for people who won't be on the fucking ballot.

But hey, if you are willing to bet lives on the US public organizing en masse within the next 122 days and successfully electing a third party candidate for the first time since the 1800s, that's on you.

I can throw my vote away in November or I can use it as the bare minimum in harm reduction that it is and own the eventual outcome of my choice. I know what I'll be doing.

....someone really doesn't get the system is literally set up to stop a 3rd party win. That's why the fucking electors are there.

This old anarchist is here to fucking tell you there is no way a 3rd party can presently do more than get the 3% needed to stay on the ballot. The system is purposely set up for that.

You guys need to vote blue. The genocide will get worse if you don't. Trump was fanning tbe glames his last term in major ways and will kill more Palestinians in more horrific ways. Do I need to remind you little shits that this man literally wanted to nuke a fucking hurricane?

Hope you queer non voting kids are ready for a flashback because if he wins we're going back to the pre stonewall days. You have no rights that can't be stripped away short notice.

Republicans will be like “censorship sucks why can’t I say every slur in the English language” and then say “let’s remove every book referencing racism and being gay from every public library”