#Political post

[gray-wednesday]

ANYONE BUT TRUMP

In addition to Project 2025, Trump released another set of plans called Agenda 47 that he plans to execute in his next term as president. These include many disastrous policies including:

Reducing children's access to a decent education by dissolving the department of education so that public schools are only controlled by states and therefore doesn't need to meet a national standard

Endangering unarmed citizens by making it legal for anyone to have a concealed gun on their person without needing to go through background checks and psychology evaluations, which will force even more people to buy guns to feel safer

Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and preparation for war on the US-Mexico border

Demanding back money that was donated to Ukraine and using it to create "freedom cities" on federal land (he hopes to encourage a "baby boom" there by inviting young families to move in, which is ludicrous)

Eliminating gender affirming care entirely for both children and fully autonomous adults

Destroying our environmental progress by removing any regulation on fossil fuels and beginning to drill for oil on home soil

And other disastrous things that can be found by clicking the link embedded in Agenda 47 above. Agenda 47 is a ridiculous idea that 1) will not come fully to fruition, but 2) can and will have lasting consequences. The presidential election, like the previous one, will come down to Biden vs Trump. Although there are many reasons why Biden is not ideal, he is better than Trump: he can be reasoned with, and he actually cares about America and its citizens as well as America's place in the world.

Trumps policies will incite violence on american soil and on a European and Mexican front. We will lose allies, and become further divided at home. Even if you don't believe in global warming or trans people, there are still many important, real problems that will develop if Trump returns to office.

TLDR: The only thing Trump wants is to tear down America's progress. His plans will cause confusion, hatred, and violence and we can not protect ourselves on all the fronts his plans will create. Our job isn't to vote for Biden, it is to vote for Anyone But Trump.

[thecrazyalchemist]

(disclaimer: vent post)

I'm tired. I'm so f[ructose]ing tired. Tired of Hamas. Tired of the war. Tired of the death that's going on. Tired of the extremism on both sides. And I'm tired of how banal it is to me. Of how I'm always somewhat numb to it. Idk if it's because I don't want to think about it, or because it has become... Normal.

Of how sometimes when I go on a bus, I have a little thought in the corner of my mind: will the bus explode? Will I get to get off alive?

It's not out of the ordinary to hear in group chats with friends from the north and south of Israel that they're being bombed. Again. On the contrary - it's normal.

There's been another stabbing in...

Another shooting in...

Another terror attack in...

And it's normal.

It's normal to have *rocket barrage drill* in school every year. It's normal to have a *reinforced shelter room* in every building, and almost every apartment. It's normal that when you hear a high pitched alarm-likr sound, your first thought is 'oh, another rocket barrage alarm, time to go to the shelter again.'

It's normal.

And I just shove it in that little corner in my mind, that little cage, and lock it as tight as I can.

But sometimes there are cracks.

And they slip out again.

Especially now, after I learned that six hostages were murdered point blank just a few days before the IDF got to them. Hostages that were promised to be exchanged in a deal about two month prior.

And I'm so fucking tired. Of the death on both sides. Of the fear mongering on both sides. Of the fact that both sides' people in power want to destroy each other and stay in power, with no regard to their citizens. Of the fact that the world antisemitic and wants me dead because I'm an Israeli. And it's normal.

[averiix]

Voting resources!! 💙🇺🇸

Just wanted to make a quick post about the election. If u follow my blog and aren't from the US u can still reblog to help spread the resources! 💙

Government website for voter registration

List of state-specific sites for voter registration

US Vote foundation website for voter registration

Registration Requirements

VoteRiders (if you need help getting an ID for registration)

I'd also like to include some sources on Project 2025. Please do as much research into WHO and WHAT you are voting for ALL THE WAY DOWN THE BALLOT. Stay educated friends!! 💙🌊

full Project 2025 document (document cloud website)

Wikipedia page

Reuters Article

CBS Article

AFSCME union post

more resources from AFSCME

Please feel free to reblog this with any additional resources you have them, and encourage EVERYONE you know to go out and vote. Doesn't matter were you are, you can vote, it is your right, DO. NOT. let the doubts win you over, that's how we lost to this monster in 2016. And remember to take care of yourselves & check in on family/neighbors, we can do this, stay positive 💙💙🌴🥥

also Threads has been extremely positive recently, ik "Meta bad" and all but seriously if you want a pick me up I recommend scrolling through threads for a bit.

[gen-z-superheroes]

(Source) Charitable Organization "Food not Bombs" getting ticketed for feeding the Homeless outside of a public library.

Good news is that so far (as of December 21st 2023) all of their cases have either been dismissed or won in court! (source)

The tickets are being written under the Feeding Ordinance passed in 2012 under Mayor Anise Parker (source) Residents of Houston feel free to write to the mayor's office and tell them to get rid of the Feeding Ordinance!

Help them pay the tickets

Donate to the Houston Peace & Justice Center

[amassofhumanity]

Blue no matter who!

If Kamala Harris were Presidential candidate and Pete Buttigieg were VP candidate MAGA heads would explode. Which is a good thing for less MAGA votes.

A black women and a gay man. I’m here for that.

[underleveledjosh]

"Psychological self harm" you selfish, selfish brat. "I don't want this content on my blog" you selfish brat. "I care about what directly affects me" YOU SELFISH BRAT. "Genocide is bad, but" You are complicit. You can throw all the buzzwords you want, it doesn't change you're a privileged american crying online that genocide makes you feel bad and it's fine because others are doing what you aren't anyway.

The fact that others are doing what I'm not is the reason why I don't feel the need to talk about it. And, yes. Emotional/psychological self harm is a real thing.

[harrylovesspaezle]

i saw this column in the newspaper today, it says a lot about our current global government and i need to translate it and show you

It starts with words. "I look at the opening of the Holocaustmuseum. A lot of correct words are said: The holocaust didn't start with Auschwitz, it started with words. People weren't being seen as humans. It was being executed by officials and civil servants. Never again. The room is filled with officials. Today they will continue to try and form an far-right government. They put forth their upward support to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They make another policy to dehumanize refugees more. My stomach hurts. None of it is right"

- Column by Neeldert van Laar in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 12/03/2024

[mask131]

A continuation of my previous post, about how in France today the two political extremes offer a sad mirror of racism, with the far-right only wishing to kick out all Black, Muslims and Arabs, and the far-left trying to make people believe Jews and Asians are not minorities, are not discriminated upon, cannot suffer prejudice, and are in fact secret oppressors of the masses...

Because there is a very blatant demonstration of this double-standard established by the extreme-left, which is fascinating in the light of the Israel-Palestine situation today. Two mass-deaths of Muslim people, one man of the far-left, and two very different reactions: today I want to briefly explain to you Jean-Luc Mélenchon's dual view about the Israel attacks on Gaza versus the Uyghurs systematic destruction by China.

I think I said before how France is currently caught between two devils - I'll still recap it briefly. Right now, after Macron, there are two likely candidates to be the next president, the two most popular political figures of the elections today... and they are the faces of the two extremes of the political spectrum. (That's why the current extremism in politics today is called "polarization", everybody goes to the most extreme, no "medium" or "middle" ground is possible anymore).

On one side, Marine Le Pen, who is the face of the extreme-right, and the heir (politically and literaly, since she is her daughter) of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the very living caricature of the extreme-right politician (he collects all the forms of racism, discrimination and -phobe adjectives), to the point his violent excesses caused his party's downfall... But a downfall that was negated due to A) Marine Le Pen's huge "de-diabolization" campaign during which she "de-fanged" her party to "kill the father" (again, metaphorically and literaly) and B) The Le Pen figure growing a second head in the shape of Jordan Bardella, who is also a politician of the extreme-right, but who is hugely popular due to being a young pretty boy who acts as a huge influencer on social media. (Don't even get me started on Eric Zemmour's whole mess)

On the other side, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the embodiment of France's extreme-left. Mélenchon is literaly France's equivalent of Trump - if Trump was on the far-left instead of the far-right. He is this elderly, rich, white guy (which is quite ironic since his ideology is all about defending and promoting young non-white people... and yet they all follow this old white guy who refuses to let anyone else handle his party) ; he is a very rude and vulgar man who keeps insulting everybody he meets ; he encourages a general distrust of the media (that he both regularly uses and regularly disdains in a very open way) ; he encourages his party to rise up and riot whenever there is something that doesn't please him (there were literaly attacks on universities by his voting base when he wasn't elected president last elections), he is a master demagogue AND has an ego the size of a monument (he keeps comparing himself to the Gracchi brothers for example, and keeps using in a very pedantic way the notions of the Roman Republic, from Antiquity you know).

And he does carry with him the whole "Don't like Jews, don't like Asians" baggage of the extreme-left. Mind you, he is careful about it - as he never says anything too openly antisemite, for example, while making sure to not say anything too openly against antisemitism, you see the kind of trickery. But the real proof of the double-standard of the extreme-left, that strongly defends Islam and Arab people and yet considers Asian people (understand Chinese, Japanese, etc) to be "too white", "too rich" and "too powerful" to be a discriminated minority in any sort of way, is the case of the use of the word "genocide" when it comes to Palestine vs the Uyghurs.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been openly on the "pro-Palestine" side of the whole mediatic fight around the Israelo-Palestinian conflict. A bit too much in fact, which is all tied to the many accusations of antisemitism against him - and, as with many very virulent pro-Palestinian mediatic figures, he insists that currently Israel is purposefully causing a genocide in Palestine. Mélenchon being Mélenchon, he is not AT ALL subtle about this - in interviews, he openly says that international organizations and world-groups have recognized a genocide is taking place. When someone points out "Actually, they have opened an investigation for it / There are suspicions of it but no conclusion has been given yet / In truth no official word came out", he immediately slaps back that either the other person is misinformed, either that a suspicion or an investigation by international organization is enough of a proof. It is even more obvious when someone tells him that what is going on is Gaza seems to be more of a set of war crimes than an actual genocide - he insists that it is a genocide, and copiously insults and accuses of all things (from cowardice to racism passing by stupidity) those that refuse to use it in a blunt and non-nuanced way.

Okay... Now what about the Uyghurs?

OH BOY! Do you know what Mélenchon had to say when he was asked about qualifying the inhuman situation of the Uyghurs in China as a "genocide"? He said no. He said no, it is not a genocide, he refused to recognize it as such. We are talking about concentration camps, forced re-education, government-kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, culture-erasure, and suspicions of forced sterilization. Everybody agrees that the situation of the Uyghurs is basically a genocide - and there's none of the complex nuances and troubling factors there are in Gaza today. And yet... he refuses to call it a genocide. Even more hypocrisy on his part: he invoked the fact that international organizations had not called it at the time a "genocide" to defend the fact he himself will not call it a genocide. And even more nauseting... He said - and I quote, that's again a typical Mélenchon style: to call the situation of the Uyghurs a "genocide" would be "dévaloriser" the word "genocide". If I translated this verb, it means "devalue", or "lower the standard". Mélenchon literaly said that calling the situation of the Uyghurs a "genocide" would be "lowering the standard" of a genocide ; and yet he immediately called the situation of the Palestinians a "genocide" despite the international groups and authorities saying one had to be careful about the use of this word.

Why? What is the difference between the two situations? After all, you have the mass-death of a Muslim community in both cases... In both cases you have people confronted by a powerful goverment and crushing state... What is the difference between the Palestinians bombed by Israel and the Uyghurs imprisoned and mutilated by China? Simple! One situation is about Arabs - even better, it is Arab attacked by Jews! Of course the extreme-left would jump on this like a dog on a bone. But the Uyghurs? That's Chinese people, destroyed by the Chinese government. Aka, that's Asians versus Asians. And there, suddenly, oh what a miracle! Suddenly the fact they are Muslims (which is the big credo of Mélenchon, he presents himself as the great defendor of Muslims throughout the world) doesn't matter anymore! "It's Asians bickering with Asians - you can't call it a genocide". Despite the fact that it is a systematic discrimination and ethnic cleansing going on for a long time... But a Jewish nation declares war on an Arab state after a terrorist attacks - immediately it is a "genocide".

I am not here debating whether or not each situation is a genocide - that's not the topic here. Same way I do not want to see anyone in this post trying to pit one situation against the other - both the situations in Palestine and the one of the Uyghurs are awful and abominable in different ways, and trying to make them compete is useless. The point is simply to show how the spokesperson, how the embodiment of the extreme-left, reflects their "Pick and choose your favorite minority" mentality - by only giving all their care and concern to Arab Muslims, and literaly refusing to care for Chinese Muslims...

[nytehavyn-circle]

I got 10 minutes into the Presidential Debate and had to change the channel. Donald Trump is kooky dukes. And Kamala had all she could do to not laugh her ass off at him.

[codesquire]

How are there Democrats, seriously legitimate fucking Democrats, not understanding how their man for president has lost a lot of support from POC over his actions in supporting Israel?

Every other accomplishment, wiping student debt, legalizing abortion...

None of that fucking matters.

He willingly aided, and fucking supported, what Israel has done to Palestine.

We, who were taught to fight genocide, enabled genocide.

Fuck your rhetoric.

Fuck your party lines.

Fuck your performative altruism.

If you cared about human rights as much as you claim to, you'd force a more progressive voice to the fray, even in an electoral year.

What else has to happen, before you see your chicken-hawk president for who he is?

[atarahderek]

The left is redefining "genocide"

The definition of "genocide" used to be, "the act of eradicating all members of a particular ethnic group." This is what Hitler attempted to do to the Jews and Roma, and it is what Hamas has sworn to do to the Jews of today. They launched their attempted genocide on October 7, 2023, in a coordinated attack that can be rightfully compared to 9/11.

But now, according to the left, "genocide" must be redefined to mean, "the act of defending oneself from terrorists who wish to eradicate one for being a member of a particular ethnic group." So if you want to bring all those kidnapped by Hamas home, you're "supporting genocide." If you believe raping and beheading babies and grannies on livestream is never justified, you're "supporting genocide." If you think it's evil to use civilians as meat shields, you're "supporting genocide." If you believe a given ethnic group should be free from the fear of eradication and allowed to live peacefully in their ancestral homeland (which is literally the definition of Zionism), you are "supporting genocide."

Welp, since leftism is apparently a race now, I guess I'm also "supporting genocide," since I would love to see the mindset that spawned the world's deadliest ideology (Marxism--which is also an anti-Semitic ideology, btw) die out completely and be stomped into oblivion. I will always oppose eradicating the Jews. So add me to the list of people who are "literally Hitler" for standing opposed to literal acolytes of Hitler. Who, by the way, was a socialist who named his party the National Socialists, which made him a leftist. Until the left changes that definition too, of course.

[an-american-whore]

A human rights lawyer posting dehumanizing propaganda taken straight of the Nazi playbook in order to justify the eradication of the Palestinians is so fucking deranged like how have these people not just had a stroke from all the worms in their brains?

[keepthyfaithandthylight]

!!political post!!

It’s been two years, to the date.

Two horrible years.

Even though the war is across the sea from me, it was not for my friends. Instead, it was on their doorstep. It was not for the people I came from, far in my family tree where the roots begin to grow into the soil of time, instead it was on their gravesites and what they left behind as a legacy. It may be only a distant nightmare for me, but for too many people it is all too real. The bombings, the murder, the genocide, the barbarity is not simply a bad dream for them, it is their reality.

And yet, even still, the war continues.

And yet, even still, hope is not lost, and the fight will continue.

It should never have happened, but it will end, and those responsible will answer for their actions before almighty God.

Слава Україні, героям слава.

[gen-z-superheroes]

👨🏽‍🦲 "Break em in the right way"

👮🏻‍♂️ "Absolutely! 😌"

(Source) Rookie cop spends his first day on the job giving a ticket to a charitable organization for the crime of giving food to the homeless.

Help FNB pay the tickets

Donate to the Houston Peace & Justice Center

Residents of Houston feel free to write to the mayor's office and tell them to get rid of the Feeding Ordinance that criminalizes feeding people in need in a public space.

[anchored-trident]

Very rare political post:

Wait, so… what you’re telling me… is that republicans have a bipartisan bill in Congress that could give them what they want, but… they refuse to vote for it because… and I quote, “I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating.”

That’s… not… democracy? How is that representing the wants and desires of your people? Your people have abundantly made their stance clear, and your job is to represent them and their needs… and yet, out of nothing but sheer spite for a man on the opposing side of the political spectrum, you refuse to give your people what they want?

I’m having a hard time believing that America ISN’T living in the worst timeline…

[hawkzeyes]

Do you support the death penalty?

No. I find it inhumane and ultimately it does nothing. ESPECIALLY since our police force is incredibly corrupt. It’s just another tool in the system. I also don’t think we as humans should get to choose who lives and dies because of laws we ultimately made up.

Great example of how this “death penalty” concept can be manipulated. Down in Florida (USA) has officially passed a bill that will put child sex offenders to death. Everyone cheers yay no pedophiles right?

Who does Ron DeSantis (Florida Representative) call pedophiles non stop? The LGBTQIA community.

It’s entirely too cruel and manipulated easily.