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im not american but i consider myself a pragmatist and i am also somewhat familiar w fascism so here are my thoughts in the current electoral climate as far as i can cater them to my perception of the userbase of this website in particular:

if you live in a swing state, vote for whoever you want but do not sabotage or criticize campaigns to pressure kamala on israel (and these include campaigns such as uncommitted)

if u live in a blue or red state, vote jill stein so the green party can reach 5%

don't tell palestinians who to vote for

don't belittle genocide to convince people not to vote for trump

vote blue if you want to, but understand when you vote for the lesser evil (to you) it is still evil and you should be accountable for it. voting for the lesser evil is not harm reduction when the harm includes a genocide. this accountability includes understanding the anger against every biden admin policy, of which the foreign policy particularly has killed between ~40 to ~170 thousand people, and at least twenty thousand children.

you aren't making the correct moral choice when you vote blue, you are making a machiavellian one and you should view it as such. you have no guarantees your organizing or your conditions will survive another democrat administration either. nobody voted biden expecting him to embrace a genocide. like the current labour government, democrats are not reliable partners for even the smallest of their progressive campaign promises. it is not materialist or realist or whatever; it is base self-preservation.

i know thats not a catchy campaign slogan though, but if you're going to campaign (or as muhammed el-kurd put it, if you're going to laugh at the memes) you should do it with your eyes open

if your organizing cannot withstand the inherent and cruel contradiction of campaigning for and voting for people facilitating a genocide, if it cannot navigate this moment with humanity, thoughtfulness and understanding, and above all with the goal of preventing such an atrocity from happening again, and preventing americans from being forced to vote for genocidiares, then it is functionally no different to a trump rally. simply stating 'yes all american presidents are evil' is not sufficient, just as you know that saying 'thoughts and prayers' in response to a school shooting is not sufficient. see above for guidelines.

don't be callous or dismissive of any of this.

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Not someone catfishing as soap modern warfare's mocap actor on Grindr rn

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this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

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Still can’t get over how an anon complained to me they’re “tired” “no one gives a fuck anymore.” Do you not think we’re tired? Do you not think we are mourning and grieving and feeling so utterly devastated our families have to live under fear every day, holding their breath and waiting the next move by people who don’t give a single fuck for them? Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan have all shut down commercial flights. Jordan is shooting down Iranian drones as we speak. I have family in Jordan too. This isn’t about you.

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“it’s going to be WW3!!” no bitch it’s going to be vietnam, korea, afghanistan, it’s going to be another war wherein the US commits unspeakable and indefensible acts against a severely weakened people seeking self determination. it’s going to be another war where protesting is criminalized and “freedom of speech” is gutted in the interest of pushing propaganda. it’s going to be another nation of people added to the long list of victims of US imperialism and another demonstration of the strong undercurrent of fascism running through the foundation of america

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biker. 🏍️

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srry been busy with school and shit. ill update yall with my many mental illnesses at a later date my beloveds not a day goes by where i dont thinks of my lovely mutuals

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Fuck it *ponifies your military men✨*

This might be my new obsession-

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Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

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i NEED you to remember this: you are allowed to be angry at your doctors. you are allowed to be furious. you are allowed to be mad at your nurses and technicians and neurologists and psychiatrists and medical assistants. they are not god. they are human beings and they work in a system that wears them raw, and that is unfair, but it isn't an excuse to treat you badly. i'm not necessarily saying you should throw a brick through the window of their car, but you can, should, must be angry with them for ignoring you, demeaning you, dehumanizing you, dismissing you, acting like you're lying, talking only about your weight, failing to acknowledge you past your symptoms, etc etc etc. you are an equal to your doctor. you are a human being and so are they. do not treat them as beyond reproach. you are allowed to be angry at your doctors.

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Obviously the "Native Americans sell x thing for some worthless beads" thing is a reductive myth but even so stemming from that, I think people really misunderstand this as "1 plastic bead = money" type of thing because it's not so much the beads themselves that we'd place value on, but what someone who knows how to use them can do with them, and the labour associated with it. It's kind of like if you reduced the value of silk or muslin during the silk road era & just referred to it as "fabric".

Do you know how long it takes to even bead something small? A long ass time. Fully beaded clothing & works are expensive for a reason & still are. Having a fully beaded, fully matching pow wow set is considered bougie. It's part of a wider racist classification of Native art & labour as just silly "crafts" instead of fully appreciating the amount of work & talent required to do beadwork but still

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My friend insisted that I post these doodles. And here they are

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Southern Decadence, New Orleans (1996) photo by Jim Pilet

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Jacket & Beard

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florida man orders one thousand dollars worth of pizza, denied service ever again

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Johann Besse, Water reflection from the “Echoes” photography series, 2019