Vote or Else

Here's the deal - You get to vote on the future of your country and complain when things are wrong. OR. You get to shut the fuck up. There is no middle ground.

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Achilles dragging Hector’s corpse around Troy

[fractiousrvt]

#oh this is a Baby sound #this is a sound mother cats make when they’re calling to their kittens #it’s not an alarm call #it’s more like ‘hey kids it’s time to travel follow me’ sort of call

Exactly what @followthebluebell wrote! This cat is trying to carry their ‘kitten’ to a new nest. I’ve never seen this behaviour before with a human and it’s hilarious to watch in action.

[cbssurfer]

High line

[amnhnyc]

Meet the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis). This mighty mammal can weigh as much as 6,000 lbs (2,721 kg)! It’s distinguished by its single horn, which can reach lengths of 25 in (63 cm). Despite its size, this herbivore can move quickly, charging at speeds of up to 25 mph (40 km/h). This semi-aquatic animal prefers to live near water and tends to inhabit swamps, riversides, and forests in parts of Asia, including Nepal and India.

Photo: rejoicegassah, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

[cpahlow]

[linseedling]

A highly scientific diagram

[ampervadasz]

Wow !

[progressivepower]

Thoughts? http://dlvr.it/Sq1qBJ

[comeonamericawakeup]

PERIOD.

[bringiton]

"Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker." IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (1966), dir. Bill Melendez.

[verymarykate]

611: a number for women to call to pretend to be on the phone with someone ☎️

[joshpeck]

Ain't it scary being 24?

Like 25 is such a strong number on the horizon.

actually aging is a gift so jot that down

[muddyviolets]

I see it is time to bring back the wisdom toad

[joshpeck]

[saywhat-politics]

Republicans Fall Apart At CNBC Debate And Scream Media Bias When Asked Hard Questions

There is a troubling pattern emerging at the CNBC debate. When any Republican candidate is asked a serious question that they can't answer, they scream media bias and crumble into a puddle of tears.

[bartfargo]

This pattern has been “emerging” for over 35 years.

Reagan did it. That’s how old it is.

[liberalsarecool]

Let’s face it, conservatives are not ‘big thinkers’. They don’t rise to any challenge. GOP politicians have made their careers off under-thinking and under-working at every level of government.

Think of the ‘fork in toaster’ dumbass-itude™ it takes to peddle ‘trickle down for 30 years, or to call climate science a ‘hoax’.

[ahnsael]

The Republican candidates met once again, and we found several claims worthy of fact-checking.

Full analysis at the link, but here are the highlights:

Former CEO Carly Fiorina claimed that 92 percent of the job losses in President Obama’s first term belonged to women, but women — and men — gained jobs by the end of Obama’s first term.

Businessman Donald Trump disputed the idea that he had criticized Sen. Marco Rubio and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for supporting H-1B visas. In fact, Trump’s immigration plan, posted on his website, is critical of both of them.

Trump also claimed his campaign was 100 percent self-funded, but more than half of the money his campaign has raised came from supporters’ contributions.

Fiorina blamed the Affordable Care Act for a large disparity in firm closings versus openings every year. But closings outnumbered firm births by the widest margin in 2009, a year before the law was enacted.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said it was “total propaganda” to say he was involved with a controversial nutritional supplement company, but he appeared in promotional videos for the company, touting its products.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Social Security would be insolvent in seven to eight years. But even after the trust funds are exhausted — estimated to be in 14 to 19 years — the program can still pay out 73 percent of benefits for several decades.

Sen. Ted Cruz said women’s wages have declined under Obama, when in fact the latest figures show their wages have increased.

Rubio claimed CNBC’s John Harwood was wrong that a Tax Foundation analysis of his tax plan found those in the top 1 percent of earners would get nearly twice the gain as those in the middle. Harwood was right, and that’s on a percentage basis.

In the undercard debate, former New York Gov. George Pataki claimed the Iranians, Russians and Chinese “hacked” the private server Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state and obtained “state secrets.” There’s no evidence of that.

My favorite parts are Ben Carson denying involvement with a company that he appears in videos for, and Donald Trump denying criticizing people who he actually criticizes on his own website. Just more evidence that facts are completely optional when it comes to the right wing.

[politishaun-deactivated20230409]

Rubio’s been using the whole “I’m running for president!” excuse for a while, but a Washington Post examination of his attendance record found that, as of early October, over 29% of Rubio’s missed votes predated his campaign announcement.

But now we’re getting the whole story: Marco Rubio just doesn’t like his job. “He hates it,” according to a friend who spoke to the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity.

Perhaps blinded by his hate, Rubio had the audacity to use last week’s floor remarks — his first floor speech in over 40 days, remember — to criticize government employees who don’t show up for work and don’t do their job: “If you’re not doing your job, you should be fired,” he said, apparently oblivious to the irony of it all.

Rubio doesn’t have much credibility left to spin voters on this one. What happens if he somehow ends up being the GOP nominee, but hates that, too? Will he just stop trying, and suspend his campaign midway through September?

[ahnsael]

He’s on the record as saying “That’s why I’m missing votes. Because I am leaving the Senate. I am not running for reelection.”

So because he’s not running for reelection in the Senate, he doesn’t feel like it’s worth doing his job. He doesn’t have the basic integrity to serve the term that he asked the people to hire him for, but he’s also not stepping down to let someone take his place who actually does want to represent the state of Florida in Congress.

So what does that say about him as a person, and as a potential president? If he decides not to run for a second term after deciding he doesn’t like being President, is he just going to stop president-ing? If he, against all reason, gets elected twice, he would probably eclipse George W. Bush’s record of 1,020 days on vacation during his eight-year term (or, put another way, about 2.8 years of his 8 years in office).

[jessicacapshaw]

working in retail

[whywerevotingbernie]

Powerful testimonials from veterans why they’re voting for Bernie Sanders.

More at vetsforBernie.org

[rzse-deactivated20210225]

Is fat really the worst thing a human being can be? Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring, evil, or cruel? Not to me.

J. K. Rowling (via sandflies)

My friend and I were JUST talking about this. I love me some Criminal Minds but this week’s episode featured a female unsub and I am really pissed off about it. She was, yet again, “plus size” (really, she was average sized) and her thinner, more traditionally attractive sister was to be her last victim. The unsub was jaded because the guy she liked was in a relationship with her pretty sister.

Why do these shows portray average or larger sized women as unstable and incapable of healthy relationships? I’m 6'3" and couldn’t be considered small when compared to an offensive lineman, let alone the general population. Maybe I am just as jaded as the character in the episode but I feel like Hollywood doesn’t think I’m worthy of love or a good, pleasurable, healthy relationship.

[spritzeal]

its weird how everyone, really, has multiple names that are used in different contexts and that many (most women, for one) people will change their names throughout their lives. like a guy might be called bobby by his friends robert by his boss mr burton by his co-worker he might become burton-smith after he gets married, rob at school, he might be robby to his mum, he might have the pen name of burton ellis, and he might be analdestroyer94 on one forum and forallthatsgood344 one another and that is all perfectly acceptable. people have different names and identities in different contexts and these change as they grow throughout their lives.

but then when trans people want to change their names, or young trans people have multiple names for different contexts everyone starts to get a bit weird about it.

[alexander]

boom