Podcast Elections: ACAB Edition
The introduction to this poll has been moved to the Voter's Guide (under the cut) due to length. Please ensure you are registered to vote in your local elections, should you be eligible.
*There is no lesser evil when the institution itself exists to exploit, oppress, and enact violence. I refuse to vote in this race, but I will vote in other races on the ballot.
Elections are coming up in the USA. I'm used to voting about twice a year, and understand how few measures and candidates are truly exciting to vote for. There's a lot of maintenance (renewing bonds and levies, voting against limitations to abortions, etc). Most candidates have significant flaws and even the ones who seem promising will probably fail to meet their campaign promises. It's boring but important. To me it seems that the dramatic races and measures are usually more threatening (so we vote against it) then promising (so we vote for it). City Council, County Chair, School Board, Water District, Library Board, and so on are all highly important, but candidates' platforms can be opaque, or there can genuinely be no good options. But if we want clean water, good education, freedom to read, an attempt at affordable housing, etc., then we need to care about these positions.
But then there's the elections that never feel good. The elections for who gets to lead the people we allow to murder with little consequence. The people in charge of institutions that I would rather be destroyed. Obviously there's the big one, but frankly due to the electoral college, the state I live in, and partisan races usually coming down to Party over Policy, voting in that election feels incredibly ineffective (but I do it anyways).
Another institution I don't like voting for is the County Sheriff, but at least my vote feels more influential here. As this is a nonpartisan position, this will be a runoff election. That means if no candidate gets greater than 50% of the vote we will hold another race between the top two candidates the following week.
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Can you draw Boston?
A sloppy sketch of him yes!! Ik he looks very very similar to Mass but that’s on purpose, them Mass genes really got him in a grip 🙄 making Ol Boston seem like a carbon copy. It’s also because Mass is the baked bean state, meanwhile Boston is also called Beantown 🤷 so they gotta be very similar either way! But I just thought it’d be silly to make Boston’s personality quite different from Mass, little bit of a nervous boy really.
(I also like to imagine the other cities called him Bubba. Just cuz I think it’s cute and Boston is probably older than much other cities)
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let’s see if this gets the same attention as my nudes 🤗
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swaymans reign of terror continues
boston bruins @ florida panthers game 5 | 5.14.24
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Awhh Sitka beloved 🌲 big and beautiful!! Sometimes I wonder how Rhody would feel knowing Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell and Anchorage (the top 4 biggest cities by area) are all bigger than him 🤨 Sitka being four times bigger that Rhode Island. That also means she’s bigger than Delaware. But I’m sure they’d let it slide because Sitka so sweet and nice (ik this because she told me)
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Cities!
Left to right: Philly, Boston, Miami, NYC
Designs I already have for a few cities and I love them <3
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