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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005, dir. George Lucas

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I was thinking about how I have grown to value mandatory voting over a system that allows allegedly more freedom. Because in country, mandatory voting means I just have to send in a ballot. It can be empty or filled with the write in ballot "pickle farts" if I want.

If I go to the voting station all I have to do is get my name checked off. I don't have to vote if I don't want to.

But it means it is much more difficult for the government to try and suppress voters. Because voters have a legal obligation to go to the polls, so you can't restrict them or try tactics to dissuade them.

Voting polls are open long hours with access to food and water being a fairly standard staple. You don't need any form of ID, you have to be given time to go vote in work hours without penalty if you cannot do it after work hours.

Every now and then a politician tries some small way of voter suppression but it isn't as easy. And so I have learned to appreciate it.

But when I googled, out of curiosity, if the USA had ever had anything like that I was met with a barrage of websites talking about freedom and justice and the absolute liberty of Americans. I thought an eagle was going to bust out of the screen.

Going through some of these I noticed they were think tanks connected to billionaires, one of them was funded and created by the Koch brothers.

Gotta love how often the American "freedom" is actually used as a way to further deny actual freedoms, both linguistically and politically.

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Sam Winchester Appreciation Week 2025: Day Three - the concept of “impurity” or “evil”

I needed to think that there was something else, watching too, you know? Some higher power. Some greater good. And that maybe...Maybe what? Maybe I could be saved. But, you know, that just clouded my judgment, and you're right. I mean, we've gotta go with what we know, with what we can see, with what's right there in front of our own two eyes.

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quote from the mom movie

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Best damn avocados.

DAREDEVIL 1.10: Nelson v. Murdock DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN 1.09: Straight to Hell

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Thanks for the tag!!

Tagging: anyone tbh. @darkwingdukat, @captainskyson, @guin-ramble,

what color is your writing?

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tagged by @scandistar, tysm :)

this feels like a good marriage between my distant fluff-writing days and my current paralysing need to be profound <3

tagging: @burgiethewriter @patchodraws @darksideofthemamon @fishing4stars @wirm-boy @unendingwanderlust

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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

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BEST OF BTVS: Rupert Giles — Season Two

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I know a steak joint that serves a filet that’s better than sex.

(for @c-pywrit)

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thinking about season 4 AU where dean has a ruby moment and it turns out he’s been loyal to alastair all along

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the listener

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no! healthy relationship will kill the character! he needs an unhealthy codependent romance with a side of power imbalance to live

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I just came to collect my dog. (▰˘◡˘▰)

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”they’re all dead?”

“Everyone dies sometime, kiddo. Some of them before you, some long after.”

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Frank Castle & Karen Page Daredevil | The Punisher | Daredevil: Born Again

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trying to watch things for an actor you find hot is like

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Okay, here’s an interesting question. What hobbies do you guys have that wouldn’t be apparent from your online presence? Like something you spend a lot of time doing or thinking about beyond whatever you post on your blog.