#Political Event

[therealcodfather]

Garfield for president like to charge reblog to cast

[diary-of-a-recovering-party-girl]

Never has a political event affected me that much and I don't even know why [17.10.2023]

Today was the second day of uni. I was tired all day because of last night's insomnia and maybe also because of the Melatonin I took. Yesterday evening I took an (warm so expensive) bath and started watching "A Quiet Place". I love having the flat for myself once in a while.

Today at uni there were none of the people in my courses that I really like. I think people there think I'm rude because I don't really interact with them. I'm only really friends with M who is in Belgium right now and luckily I'm not so lonely anymore that I spent a lot of my time with people I don't really like anymore. But I kind of have the feeling that it makes me appear cold.

I liked the math lesson and I was happily surprised at how much I still remembered and understood. Originally, I was going to meet with Y in the evening to have a big wine-fuelled debrief about my Portugal debouchery but she canceled. Usually, I would feel sad and disappointed but I was honestly fine because I a) feel like I might need some space from them like I said the other day and b) felt kind of excited to go home, organize my study material and then go on reddit and watch porn.

Just before though, I picked up a new bike I bought from ebay. I finally have a bike again, my new baby! I felt so happy driving home in the cool Berlin autumn, finally on a bike sattle again!

After sorting my university papers, I went on social media and of course ended up watching something about the recent news about Gaza there. As much as I try to withstand it, political events, especially of this scope, seem to have an irresistible pull.

Then, I read numbers again. Saw pictures. Got sad. Got angry. Saw pictures again and started crying.

Never ever has any political event affected me this much, not the 2016 election in the USA, not any other shooting or terrorist attack, nothing that ever happened in Germany shook me to my core like these recent events in Gaza. I don't know if it's because of the sheer number of people or because it involves a music festival or because my friends hold such a different opinion than me or because I haven't watched any news in years and am not desensitized to terrible news anymore, but I feel like each time I read about it, my heart breaks again.

I started downloading pictures, because I want to print them and put them up in the city. First maybe in my university, because I'm scared of confrontation and conflict from it. But this dull powerlessness is unbearable, I feel horrible sitting at home and doing nothing, I feel like I will explode. I want to do something, do my part, represent the people that think and feel and grieve like me.

I'm already scared of it.

[bikerlovertexas]

[politijohn]

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[moonlayl]

[mutopians]

before we get an official announcement on who is replacing biden as the nominee, im just going to put this out there: do not mess this up. i don't care how little you like politics. i don't care if this new nominee isn't your first choice.

our alternative is trump. third party splits the votes, and abstaining is just going to fuck the entire united states over. your vote (AND support) matters, and i better see anyone who doesn't want trump to be elected and the United States to become a fascist, authoritarian regime throwing their full support behind this new nominee.

we have three months to go. we're in crunch time. if you don't want to lose your rights, support this new nominee with everything you've got.

edit: just in case this somehow wasn't obvious, this is NOT the post to be a pessimist on. don't say we're fucked. say TRUMP is fucked. we can't go back and change the nomination timeline, but we can absolutely support our new nominee and ensure they get elected.

[troythecatfish]

This measure, if passed in Senate, would make it illegal for the US State Department to cite genocide statistics.

In other words, illegal to do its job.

[decolonize-the-everything]

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On Friday, a group of protestors walked on Highway 89 in Cameron, Ariz., protesting Pinyon Plain Mine owner Energy Fuels trucking uranium ore through the Navajo Nation to Utah. Uranium has a long history of impacts on the Navajo Nation and its people since the 1940s. "We've seen the effects of these things in the past on our land, the spills into our rivers, into our communities, the residual effects on our on our health, of our children, our elders," Cameron resident Adair Klopfenstein said. "It's awful, and we don't want it to happen again." The Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly known as Canyon Mine, began mining uranium ore in December and is expected to be actively mining for at least five years. The company had told 12News at the end of June it would start transporting the uranium ore to a mill in southeast Utah in July or August. That hauling appears to have started before the pause was put in place. "I call it illegal smuggling across our border and then through the Navajo Nation," Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said.

And from June:

[uchidachi]

Trump is found guilty on 34 out of 34 counts!

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

I'm not here to tell Zionists that they're on the wrong side of history, they're well aware of that and they don't care.

It's been seven months and all they've done since then is double down on their horrid fucking behavior.

These folks will go out of their way to brag about being pro genocidal lunatics because they don't view Palestinians or Arabs as people. And if they see other westerners call them out on their shit, they'll just play the antisemitism card.

[rederiswrites]

I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.

He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.

[angleofmusings]

(only superficial damage)

[politijohn]

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[agendermetalbender]

You cannot vote your way out of fascism.

But you can sit and allow fascists to vote you into fascism.

Which is a problem, since you cannot vote your way back out.

Fascists would love nothing more than for you to abstain from voting.

[drunkmusichistorian]

[troythecatfish]