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With Josie being pregnant again, and if she has a girl, there is a non-zero chance she names this baby the name of my second dog since my dog’s name does follow the Balka pattern.

What's your dog's human name?

Sorry, as he is wanted for questioning in multiple jurisdictions, I will be protecting his identity

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My friend who is getting married three months after me has a fully done wedding website including engagement pictures and meanwhile mine has a date and a place and nothing else.

She has a ceremony time! I literally have no idea what time my ceremony will be

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I really wish that Sister Wives, the show I am using to avoid wedding planning, would stop being about wedding planning.

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one thing I didn’t see coming with being a former very religious person is that secular Christmas carols just don’t slap like religious ones.

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“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

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Hello. I mean this really imploringly, and really genuinely. If you're a U.S. citizen still on the fence about what to do for the election, please vote Harris. There's this idea circulating that the person you vote for should be someone you like, love, idolize and that is so very not true. You're voting for the opponent you'll face for the next four years when you have issues to protest and matters to vocalize. You're voting for the person most likely to give an inch when you protest the things that matter. You're voting for the person most likely to not strip away your existing rights and scatter your focus across the things we already won, and which can be taken away. We lost Roe v Wade under the Trump-appointed judges. The current trans-panic is so disgustingly on fire, and it's absolutely the Republicans eager to rip away what little protection there is. Both candidates are also, disgustingly, pro-Israel. But Trump will never ever give a fuck to any protest on that matter.

You don't want to be complicit in genocide. I get it. But if you're a U.S. citizen, you're already benefiting from the U.S.'s foreign policy, and that's already complacency. Refusing to vote or voting third party isn't absolving you of that. It's just letting Trump walk in the door. And letting Trump in is complacency. And your ability to organize, and to make change, will go so less far against a Trump cabinet than a Harris one. The material harm under Trump is real.

Does voting for Harris make you feel guilty? I'm sorry, but you have to bear it. Your guilt isn't what's important. A white person's guilt isn't important. A citizen of a global terror's guilt isn't important. Actions that pacify your guilt aren't important. Focusing on absolving your guilt is in fact harmful, as opposed to actions that can actually materially reduce harm.

Please protest. Please donate to good causes. Please support Palestine. Please be vocal. Please fight for BIPOC and LGBTQA+ rights. Please view Harris as the opponent whose ears these things fall on. Your ability to organize safely, largely, loudly, and effectively will go so much further under a Harris presidency. Please.

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Labour Day is a good day to remember that hating your job isn’t actually normal. You can hate parts of it and have bad days, but if your main feeling is hating your job, you need to make a plan to get out.

I know sometimes online it’s easy to see other people posting about hating their own job and assuming that’s normal and just part of being an adult but it’s not. You should gain something from the work you do - a sense of accomplishment, a feeling that you’re important, something.

If you don’t? Make a plan. Get out.

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““These guys are just weird, that’s what they are. It isn’t much else. Don’t give them the power. Look, are they a threat to democracy? Yes. Are they going to take our rights away? Yes. Are they going to put people’s lives in danger? Yes. Are they going to endanger the planet by not dealing with climate change? Yes. They are going to do all that. But don’t lift these guys up as if they’re some kind of hero. A bully has no self-confidence, a bully has no strength. The fascists depend on fear. The fascists depend on us going back. But we’re not afraid of weird people. We’re a little bit creeped out but we’re not afraid.””

— Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz

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sorry everyone, bouta get political

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I think the world of Biden.

But I do think he did this because his party didn't come through for him. He was backstabbed by those he had stood by and helped for literal decades. Which meant that he knew that his legacy, which now is fairly secure, would be completely destroyed if he lost in 2024, because everyone would blame him and him exclusively, despite a lifetime of upstanding service. If Harris loses, some people will blame Biden, but it will always be a "what if".

I think he decided to let America be responsible for America, for once. He saved the nation in 2020, and now it's just down to whether the nation cares to save itself.

Vote in 2024, please.

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Ok, everyone, you got what you wanted, and Joe Biden stepped out of the race. So we're all going to vote for Kamala Harris because she's not Joe Biden, she's definitely not old, and we know she can carry this burden because she's smart and articulate and NOT OLD.

You're going to vote for Kamala Harris, right?

You're not going to find more excuses, right? You're not going to talk about how you think she's a cop or not accomplished enough, or not any one of a hundred other things you pull out of thin air because, what, some mythical perfect clean-handed socialist hasn't appeared?

YOU'VE BEEN HEARD. NOW DO YOUR BIT AND VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS.

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Voters in both England and France just used tactical voting, and voted for candidates they didn’t necessarily love to ensure that the unacceptable candidate would lose. And kept the unacceptable party from taking power.

Like. In the last four days, both of those elections happened.

The left wing alliance in France saw LaPen’s party winning in the first round of voting and hated that so hard that 138 of their candidates who were in third place — and could have split the vote — dropped out, and told their voters to vote for the one that would stop the RN from taking control.

It worked.

People in the UK went aggressively tactical. The Labour Party has turned to be much much more centrist in the last five years. Got voted for anyway, because it got the Tories out.

It worked.

I don’t know if Biden will stay in. I don’t know it’s the right choice for him to stay or go. As interested as I am in politics, this is an incredibly complex thing and one of the most important decisions of the decade.

But y’all. Don’t care how that goes. We’re voting to prevent the fascists from winning.

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Republicans commit crimes in broad daylight and their loyal base votes in every election to stack the courts in their favor to protect them from any consequences, while liberals have to beg on their knees for leftists to vote, and they still self-righteously refuse to. That is why the system is in favor of Republicans, because they always vote and are serious about gaining power. They want to change the country to suit their twisted vision of the world and know years of winning elections will do that, unlike the left, which just wants to be in permanent opposition to power.

The reason why I drag them when Republicans do terrible things is because it’s despicable, inexcusable, and shameful to look at Republicans only become more authoritarian and extremist, and refuse to do the bare minimum to stop them. All of this could have been avoided in 2016—or even 2000, with the Nader ratfucking.

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I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

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Voting in the United States is ALWAYS damage mitigation, except for primaries. There you can vote your ideals. But in a general election, the question is: who will cause the least harm to those at risk? We mitigate risk, we play the long game, we stay alive.

As much as no one likes it, on January 20, 2025, either Biden or Trump will be president. Anything other than a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump.

i ask this in 100% good faith as sometimes who's just read over Trump's 2025 manifesto: what the fuck are we supposed to do

like i know the big call is to not vote for Biden or Trump and trust me I do not want to vote for Joe, but the manifesto is going after the rights of women, pregnant people, every type of person under the LGBTQ umbrella, POC, and in a political climate where Roe v. Wade was overturned i feel like it's completely possible that he'd be able to achieve at least some of that so

is there a 3rd party candidate I don't know about?? or what is the plan here bc tbh as a queer person and someone who was planning to be pregnant in the next year I'm scared as hell like are we really just not voting? It's 7 months out and I feel like no one is agreeing on what to do