@whitmerule / whitmerule.tumblr.com
you’ve got to flatten out the book before you scan the tweet
well, for a start people can change and honestly bernie would have been better but guys just vote hillary since you don't have preferential voting, look - get out and vote for her. Don't vote for a tiny party and don't just stay at home out of apathy. She is far and away better than the alternative.
(Screenshot rather than reblog because tumblr won’t let me reblog?)
... okay, i know that 'we' on this website is basically 70%+ american, so can 'we' fix donald trump?
Come on. Most of the people who are affected by this shit aren’t actually living in America (YES YOU IGNORE US but you affect us), so most people are unable to actually affect anything. So let’s just... write an alternate reality. And write him out of existence. What say ye?
Voting is tomorrow, April 19.
- DO NOT wear anything showing who you’re voting for (t-shirts, buttons, etc) - DO NOT accept a provisional ballot - DO NOT photograph your ballot
DO: - wait in line as long as it takes - photograph/record any shenanigans - report them (contact info below)
These are the phone numbers to report suspicious activity: Public Info (518) 474-1953 Enforcement Counsel (518) 486-7858
Your vote counts!
today
For my New Yorkers.
Your voting system is terrifying, I hope you realise that.
if you dont vote in the primaries you aint helping the change happen!! GO REGISTER AND VOTE NOW!!!
the corruption aint gonna fix itself so you need to FIGHT!!! REGISTER AND VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS NOW AND SPEAK UP!!!
NO VOTE NO CHANGE!!!
You know what’s a terrible idea?
The Electoral College.
The founding fathers put it in because the majority of them believed that the “common masses” were too stupid and immoral to be trusted with deciding on the president. They believed in a natural born elite whose duty it was to lead the masses to virtue.
A lot of election issues, I think, could be solved by letting it be a direct vote of the people. Too often, the popular vote ends up not being the one elected because of the electoral college.
I, for one, am tired of being told that my vote counts and then having it end up that really, only the vote of 538 people count. Yes, my vote counts toward the whole of the state’s leaning, which then influences the elector’s votes; but let’s say the numbers are close in California. 48% of the population votes Blue, 52% votes Red. California has 55 electors. They all vote Red now because clearly the whole state is Red. See the problem here? We have had many multiple elections where, were the votes of the people used rather than the votes of the College, the other guy would have won.
It’s not 1788 anymore, the idea of natural aristocracy has been debunked and smashed for centuries now, and the people of this nation want to be heard. Not heard through a filter held by someone who is only looking at aggregate data. There’s NO reason why we shouldn’t or can’t do the presidential election by popular vote.
so we’ve been an oligarchy from the start?
wtf america
Identification info has been removed because the original poster was being called names for not understanding the voting process. This person is NOT idiotic or dumb. They are just one more person out of many out there who don’t understand that the voting process doesn’t work like it should, that you can’t just go up and vote for whoever you want on the fly.
TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS! Make sure they understand how voting works. And if they are confused, make sure they visit VoteForBernie.org/
This is why it’s important to educate people on the voting process
wtf. this is why you need to have a TRANSPARENT and OBVIOUS and SENSIBLE and fucking LEGAL AND FAIR voting system. Which involves - necessarily, apparently - it being compulsory and therefore having the infrastructure in place to make it work independent of political parties. America, we hate to admit it, but you have an effect on the rest of the world, so get your act together, please. Also, tag your election posts, because it's stressful and anxiety-inducing to have to watch this clusterfuck when we can't do anything to change the outcome. Which will probably be Hunger Games and nuclear bombardment sooner or later, let's be real.
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could I please ask mutual followers to tag the US elections? ANYTHING, please, I’ll add the tags to the blacklist as they come up
but there’s sooooo many fucking posts about a fucking election months into the future neither I, nor half my followers can vote in. and I’m sick and tired of it
YES THIS and it's really actually very depressing and anxiety-inducing because, guys, we can't do anything about it but IT AFFECTS US TOO
