Affleck not Cumberbatch

If your visiting because you've read that Spinster post and wanna try to own my ass, I suggest you read this: http://attackfish.tumblr.com/post/173435269256/absentlyabbie-systlin before y'all send me Anon hate. Thanks Bye!

[afurioushawk]

[the-eye-of-providence-is-speepy]

Strongly disagree with this framing. It's a candidate's responsibility to offer a vision that makes people want to vote for them.

When a candidate declines to take a stand on genocide, stays strategically silent about protecting trans people, and runs on a slightly softer version of the Trump border policy it shouldn't be a surprise when leftists aren't enthusiastic.

Queer kids are not even close to a majority of the voters that stayed home. Queer kids are not a majority of the people driving online discussions. Queer kids didn't get out the vote for Trump. Blaming queer kids for this election is not just absurd, it's cruel.

But I don't think the person who tweeted this minds being cruel. https://twitter.com/mirann_darrow/status/1820694055434785108

[afurioushawk]

Palestinians wanted y'all to pick Harris. You chose not to. Everything that happens to women and minorities here and the rest of the world is your fault.

Meanwhile, everyone's waiting for Queers for Palestine to interrupt a single one of Trump's press conferences. What's the ETA on that?

[bibleofficial]

yall … shut up she ran for 3 months she wasn’t going to win bc establishment dems are fucking stupid and tried running a corpse as their priority for 2 years. none of this is the fault of an individual, it was 2 million votes she lost by - out of 13million gays in the us - this election had the 2nd most ballots placed & 2nd highest voter turnout since 2020 (which is no.1). get over it and realize that the republicans have done more for conservatives than democrats for liberals since 2016. literally ask yourself ‘what have dems done since 2020’ & girl it’s fuck all. @the-eye-of-providence-is-speepy was right on the money & ur just deluded, refusing to accept reality; kamala actively refused to listen to any of the her voter base & the left, dems refused to even allow palestinian speakers so what’s good ? we all saw yall covering ur ears. why aren’t U interrupting one of trumps conferences HUH ?

[afurioushawk]

"establishment dems" = Black people

[bibleofficial]

interesting … sooo true bestie

[afurioushawk]

You don't even know who Jim "Kingmaker" Clyburn and the Congressional Black Caucus are or how they elected Biden and then supported Harris, do you?

Of course not, you're another member of the overwhelmingly white left that's screeching because the Democrats are too Black and too Jewish for your tastes and would kill every woman and minority in America to get that white working class vote.

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

Tumblr activists really be like "oh you were talking about black people let me just bring up other POC as some sort of gotcha." Like there ain't a lot of non black poc who are antiblack black and colorism aint a thing.

But go off I guess, "bestie."

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

Replies be ignoring black electorate like they did during the primaries. LOL.

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[the-eye-of-providence-is-speepy]

Strongly disagree with this framing. It's a candidate's responsibility to offer a vision that makes people want to vote for them.

When a candidate declines to take a stand on genocide, stays strategically silent about protecting trans people, and runs on a slightly softer version of the Trump border policy it shouldn't be a surprise when leftists aren't enthusiastic.

Queer kids are not even close to a majority of the voters that stayed home. Queer kids are not a majority of the people driving online discussions. Queer kids didn't get out the vote for Trump. Blaming queer kids for this election is not just absurd, it's cruel.

But I don't think the person who tweeted this minds being cruel. https://twitter.com/mirann_darrow/status/1820694055434785108

[afurioushawk]

Palestinians wanted y'all to pick Harris. You chose not to. Everything that happens to women and minorities here and the rest of the world is your fault.

Meanwhile, everyone's waiting for Queers for Palestine to interrupt a single one of Trump's press conferences. What's the ETA on that?

[bibleofficial]

yall … shut up she ran for 3 months she wasn’t going to win bc establishment dems are fucking stupid and tried running a corpse as their priority for 2 years. none of this is the fault of an individual, it was 2 million votes she lost by - out of 13million gays in the us - this election had the 2nd most ballots placed & 2nd highest voter turnout since 2020 (which is no.1). get over it and realize that the republicans have done more for conservatives than democrats for liberals since 2016. literally ask yourself ‘what have dems done since 2020’ & girl it’s fuck all. @the-eye-of-providence-is-speepy was right on the money & ur just deluded, refusing to accept reality; kamala actively refused to listen to any of the her voter base & the left, dems refused to even allow palestinian speakers so what’s good ? we all saw yall covering ur ears. why aren’t U interrupting one of trumps conferences HUH ?

[afurioushawk]

"establishment dems" = Black people

[bibleofficial]

interesting … sooo true bestie

[afurioushawk]

You don't even know who Jim "Kingmaker" Clyburn and the Congressional Black Caucus are or how they elected Biden and then supported Harris, do you?

Of course not, you're another member of the overwhelmingly white left that's screeching because the Democrats are too Black and too Jewish for your tastes and would kill every woman and minority in America to get that white working class vote.

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

Tumblr activists really be like "oh you were talking about black people let me just bring up other POC as some sort of gotcha." Like there ain't a lot of non black poc who are antiblack black and colorism aint a thing.

But go off I guess, "bestie."

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

TIL Henry us doing a Voltton movie?

[thebreakfastgenie]

I know it's kind of pointless to say this now but it just really clicked for me that the people responding to every Biden tweet with "do something about, you're the president!" who were often the same people whining about Biden "not using the bully pulpit" legitimately do not understand that an official statement from a president, or any elected official, in favor of a policy is an attempt to build support for that policy goal. I know these people don't understand how the government works and that the president cannot unilaterally do things (Trump is trying and if he succeeds it will be because the other two branches are filled with his supporters) but I don't think I quite realized that they do not understand that making official public statements is an early step in "doing something."

Obviously these people are too dumb to live and as a private citizen I'm not obligated to cater to them in any way but since elections tend to be decided by voters who are too dumb to live, politicians may need to start thinking about the fact that some of their voters can no longer comprehend basic political gestures.

[afurioushawk]

Watching the Fourth Estate crumble after they sold out our democracy for clicks and because they feared MAGA more than they feared their liberal audience

[pagecommando]

My kingdom for an ostensibly liberal media network that doesn't exist to constantly shiv the democrats anytime one of us breathes too loud while giving Trump sesame-street style softball questions. Fuckers.

[for-zionists]

These two images have the same energy.

[dorothylarouge]

[loveboatinsanity]

R.I.P. Jimmy Carter

[afurioushawk]

You could tell a lot of the leftist disdain for Ronald Reagan is performative because they didn't know the history of Reagan screwing over Jimmy Carter by undermining the Iran Hostage Crisis. Which made them so easily susceptible to falling for the exact same tactic Trump just pulled with Netanyahu and Hamas. Played them like a fucking fiddle. The modern Free Palestine movement would've elected Ronald Reagan.

[afurioushawk]

I'm actually going to give the people in the 70s/80s some slack because before the Internet there wasn't much of a way for people to know how Reagan undermined the hostage deal. Meanwhile Trump said multiple times he was telling Bibi to not reach a deal to end the war. And the Free Palestine movement supported Trump. Y'all are so fucking stupid, God bless.

[r2x2]

We've all seen Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro getting roasted by their own right-wing audiences for denouncing the United Healthcare shooting. It's always fun to watch leopards eat faces.

But make no mistake: there is no class solidarity in right-wing celebration of the United Healthcare shooting. They only hate the health insurance industry because it's hurt them personally. They might hate the rich, but that's never translated into solidarity with the non-white working class.

The right will never see the rich as their enemy. At worst, they see the rich as a misfiring weapon.

They hate it when the rich hurt them. They like it when the rich hurt YOU.

[jesuisnilunnilautre]

^^^^ all of these

for real dawg this is the biggest opportunity to teach people what solidarity means and you want to discourage that without giving anyone an opportunity to change? to learn? to grow?

like yeah, right wing assholes talk like they want me and mine dead. and that’s fucked up.

but the first thing you need to start changing people’s minds is common ground. and this is the biggest most stable piece of common ground we’ve got. revolutions dont start with ideology, they start because someone looked at their neighbor and saw they they were also hurting and decided that together they could do something about it.

[r2x2]

Liberal: I think that if we approach right-wingers with empathy and make some compromises, we can work together to create a better world.

Revolutionary leftist: Compromise with fascists?! What's wrong with you, you Nazi?!

Liberal: Okay, then what's your plan?

Revolutionary leftist: I think that if we approach right-wingers with empathy and make some compromises, we can work together to create a better world.

Liberal: *stares into the camera like he's on The Office*

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

something interesting is happening

[r2x2]

Nothing interesting is happening here.

The far right has resented rich people and big corporations for a long time but that hasn't translated into support for liberal/progressive/leftist policies or candidates.

The left has been trying to co-opt right wing resentment towards the wealthy for decades and it hasn't worked. The right dislikes rich people but they hate minorities. That will never change and, therefore, their votes will never change.

[r2x2]

This is the end of economic populism in the US.

Say goodbye to the possibility of any economically populist president ever again. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ran one of the most economically populist administrations in history. They forgave billions in student debt, invested in infrastructure to rural and Native American areas, marched with strikers, saved the Teamsters' pension, spent billions on climate-friendly industries, capped insulin prices, fought corporate price gouging, and more.

And the left, right, independents, and media all HATED it!

They mitigated inflation as much as possible with an economic soft-landing but inflation is an inherent part of progressive economic policy. If more people have more money, then businesses will charge more. The voters showed that they won't tolerate even a little inflation.

The left frequently complains that the Democrats are always moving right, but that's because when the Dems move left, they get attacked by the right while getting no support from the left.

Get ready for austerity. The next successful Democratic candidate will be the second coming of Bill Clinton (assuming we get any elections at all any more)

[aqlstar]

Do you condemn the Dec 24 grinch's attack on whoville?

Idk the story really. I know the grinch is green for some reason.

[biglawbear]

It's important to be able to say "I don't know" instead of being pressured to take a position on current events

[dhaaruni]

New research shows the massive hole Dems are in

Even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites.

When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.” [...] “I think that there needs to be some parameters on what’s accepted in society and what isn’t. Some of the societal norms, and I think that the Democrats have tried to open that up a little too much,” said a woman from Wisconsin who also didn’t vote in 2024. When asked by the moderator if she was referring to the “trans issue,” the woman said, “primarily that.”

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

“I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is,” said a Georgia man who voted for Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024. “The elites that run the Democratic Party — I think they’re way too obsessed with appealing to these very far-left social progressivism that’s very popular on college campuses.”

[louisegluckpdf]

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

[afurioushawk]