You can’t “Russia psyops” your way out of Holocaust Harris aiding and abetting a genocide
Okay. So, first off what I’m talking about in the video is a well documented, real thing we know that has happened. Your complete dismissal of it is, frankly, bizarre.
Secondly, what’s your goal here? The US is a two party system. Either Harris or Trump will be elected President. Now it’s true – neither candidate is willing to walk away from the Israeli government. but while Harris seems unwilling to do so for geopolitical reasons, Trump is a zealot who wants to “finish the job.”
Discouraging people from voting for Harris will not save a single Palestinian life. Trump is Netanyahu’s preferred candidate. And frankly, Trump wants to do so much worse here in the US. He’s coming after immigrant populations, queer rights, women’s rights, and so much more. Trump also wants to withdraw our support from Ukraine and abandon NATO.
There are people who will die here in the US and abroad under a second Trump administration.
Over the next four years it’s likely two more Supreme Court seats will come up, and who gets nominated will 100% depend on who holds the White House. The reason we’ve lost things like abortion access in the United States is because of a conservative majority court put in place by Trump. The makeup of the court for the next forty years depends on what happens now.
So, in short, how do you propose we stop this? How do you propose we save lives? “The Revolution” isn’t coming, and there are real human lives on the line right now.
If you don’t have real solutions to stop a second Trump presidency, you aren’t actually helping anyone.
(Also, this “Holocaust Harris” stuff is such bullshit. I get that her position on Israel isn’t that different than Biden’s, but she’s not actually in power right now? The US Vice President has zero say over foreign policy. The biggest power they have is breaking ties in the Senate, showing up as a mouthpiece for the President when they aren’t available, and having a heartbeat. Daniel Webster turned down the Vice Presidency saying “I do not propose to be buried until I am dead,” for a reason)
Guess who blocked me instead of actually defending their principles.
If every single person who says “my vote wouldn’t matter anyway” voted, then every single one of those votes would matter.
Gerrymandering is not insurmountable, it’s based on “likely voters”. The opposing party just keeps stoking the “it’s pointless” line alive because it keeps it true.
Actually, gerrymandering is especially vulnerable to sudden bursts of “unlikely” voters showing up to the polls. The whole point of gerrymandering is to spread your conservative voters thinly across the districts you let them exist in such that they juuuuuuuuuuust barely outcompete the liberal ones while packing all the other liberals into one or a couple of “dump” safe-Democrat districts.
So if you suddenly add more blue voters to the equation in a gerrymandered district, the odds become higher that the overall surge in voting swamps the amount of conservative votes “accounted” to win the district and it flips instead. The more voters you get overall, the more likely this is to happen.
Remember, gerrymandering is about distributing votes carefully to jigger the predicted distribution of votes such that the gerrymandering party (nearly always Republicans) wins a proportionately higher number of seats than would be expected if seats were apportioned based on overall voting choices within a larger geographic area.
By gerrymandering the districts, you inherently opt to trade many reasonably narrow wins for fewer practical, safer wins. Narrow wins are vulnerable to sudden unexpected surges of Democratic voters, but the GOP has historically been able to expect much more predictable turnout levels from their constituents of the vindictive and elderly, so their gamble has tended to pay off in gerrymandered regions.
Please don’t tune out when you get to the non-partisan section of your ballot this November. First off, where state Supreme Court justices are elected, Republicans are trying their darndest to elect candidates who will destroy reproductive freedom, gut voting rights, and do everything in their power to give “contested” elections to Republicans. Contrast Wisconsin electing a justice in 2023 who helped rule two partisan gerrymanders unconstitutional, versus North Carolina electing a conservative majority in 2022, who upheld a racist voter ID lawanda partisan gerrymander that liberal justices had previously struck down both of.
Second, local judicial offices will make infinitely more of an impact on your community than a divided state or federal legislature will. District and circuit courts, especially, are where criminalization of homelessness and poverty play out, and where electing a progressive judge with a commitment to criminal justice reform can make an immediate difference in people’s lives.
It’s a premier example of buying people time, and doing profound-short-term good, while we work to eventually change the system. You might not think there will be any such progressive justices running in your district, but you won’t know unless you do your research. (More on “research” in a moment.)
The candidates you elect to your non-partisan city council will determine whether those laws criminalizing homelessness get passed, how many blank checks the police get to surveil and oppress, and whether lifesaving harm reduction programs, like needle exchanges and even fentanyl test strips, are legal in your municipality. Your non-partisan school board might need your vote to fend off Moms for Liberty candidates and their ilk, who want to ban every book with a queer person or acknowledgement of racism in it.
Of course, this begs the question — if these candidates are non-partisan, and often hyper-local, then how do I research them? There’s so much less information and press about them, so how do I make an informed decision?
I’m not an expert, myself. But I do think/hope I have enough tips to consist of a useful conclusion to this post:
Plan ahead. If you vote in person, figure out what’s on your ballot before you show up and get jumpscared by names you don’t know. Find out what’s on your ballot beforehand, and bring notes with you when you vote. Your city website should have a sample ballot, and if they drop the ball, go to Ballotpedia.
Ballotpedia in general, speaking of which. Candidates often answer Ballotpedia’s interviews, and if you’re lucky, you’ll also get all the dirt on who’s donating to their campaign.
Check endorsements. Usually candidates are very vocal about these on their websites. If local/state progressive leaders and a couple unions (not counting police unions lol) are endorsing a candidate, then that’s not the end of my personal research process per se, but it usually speeds things up.
Check the back of the ballot. That’s where non-partisan races usually bleed over to. This is the other reason why notes are helpful, because they can confirm you’re not missing anything.
Also check in with the League of Women Voters, who send all the candidates questions that are theoretically non partisan (but which tend to reveal partisan affiliations in the response). They run Vote411, where they aggregate all the information they get into a nice little voting guide with all the candidates’ answers arranged neatly there for you so you can peruse and make up your mind.
Seriously, if you aren’t using Vote411 as part of your decision-making process for local elections, you should start! The candidates do sometimes also ignore them, but they’re really good at bothering everyone for information and getting results. And the LWV are very, very thorough.
was reading a romance/erotica novel a friend loaned me and in the middle of the book the main character is chopping vegetables to prep for a whole dinner party with her friends and the love interest shows up and they hook up & his hands go everywhere you’d expect them to and then afterward while she’s still catching her breath on the floor he’s like “I’ll finish this for you 😏” and he PICKS UP THE VEGGIES and knife with his UNWASHED HANDS and starts prepping. I was floored. I couldn’t finish the book. call me what you will. weak perhaps. but i say to you we need editors with a food handlers certificates. we need line cook beta readers that’s what I believe
i did read on to the next scene and they were serving their friends the salad and i felt like i was watching hannibal. i was like no!!!!! don’t eat it!!!!!!!!!!!
we need food safety basics to be part of basic education
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