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not voting for hillary clinton is a vote for donald trump
But also THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO CHOICES IN THIS ELECTION pls people, I know it seems unlikely, but if everyone who didn’t want either candidate wrote in a name, someone else would stand a chance [and we could live with ourselves, not having voted for one or the other]
no they wouldn’t, literally do not do this
please educate yourself about nader and the 2000 presidential election before encouraging this literally terrible idea
People on both sides say “Not voting for my candidate is a vote for the other guy” No, it’s just not a vote for your fucking candidate. Vote for who you actually believe in, otherwise you might as well not vote. If Hillary actually gave a damn she would try harder than just say “Vote for me cause I’m not Trump” No bitch, how about you show me something I can believe in. God damn, no wonder so many people don’t fucking vote.
*sigh*
Let me explain why they say a vote for a 3rd candidate or not voting for Hillary is voting for Trump:
The United States does not have a direct democratic voting system. We have an indirect system called the electoral college.The electoral college is a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
To win the Presidency you do not need a popular majority; you need the majority of votes of the electoral college.
The way the college works is that the two parties select the delegates that will serve as electors, and the electors pledge to vote for the candidates, depending on their party affiliation, of either the democratic or republican party. So, when people go vote, they are actually going to vote for electors that have pledged to vote for a specific party/candidate.
Each state is allocated a different number of electoral seats, and so not every state is truly worth the same given that every candidate is racing to secure 270 seats (minimum required to win the election).
What’s important to note is that the electoral college is a winner take all vote in 48 of the 50 states, meaning that the candidate with the higher number of votes in a given state will get ALL of the seats. This is one of the reasons why third party candidates are a wasted vote.
Based on our country’s history, most States around the country have already been defined as either red or blue, because the majority of the people that go and vote in said states tend to stick to either one or the other no matter who is on the ballot. It becomes a bit of loyalism to a party or, more accurately, just a strong distaste towards the ideals of the other party. However, there are a few swing states that really define the elections, for each election cycle they tend to change depending on who is on the ballot.
Now, third party candidates, which is often used as a protest vote, have never worked because a) they are not written into every state ballot, meaning that there are states that don’t offer these candidates given that they did not qualify b) have rarely gotten enough votes to even be up for electoral seats c) ALWAYS end up hurting one of the two candidates, for, in close runs, they can make one of the other two candidates lose a SWING STATE.
This is what happened with Ralph Nader in 2000. The votes that he received hurt Gore in certain states, particularly florida, which led to Bush winning as he had the majority of electoral seats even though he did not have the majority in popular vote.
Now, in the latest poll, it shows that the race between Hillary and trump is very close, and, when third party candidates are involved, it actually HURTS Hillary’s chances.
Now, if it hurts her enough, Trump can obtain the much needed swing states. If he gets over 270 seats (and thus more than hillary) he WILL win the goddamn election.
This is not a year to vote for a third party candidate. This is not a man you want in the oval office of the most powerful country in the world.
There is nothing NOTHING you can pull out that will make Trump the lesser of two evils.
We live in a country that has a two party system, so yes, a vote for a 3rd party candidate or a non-vote IS actually a vote for trump.
And if you still don’t get why voting third party will never make a difference in this country and in fact ensure the election of the candidate you don’t like, listen to this nice man explain it with animals so it’s easier to understand
I was a Bernie supporter too, but “Bernie or Bust”ers are fucking idiots. Yes the system is corrupt, but you certainly wont fix anything by letting Trump win. Put your personal ideals aside for the good of the country.
Here, I even made a graph
If Everyone Pulls Together And Votes Hillary
If Y’all “Bernie Or Bust” People Vote Third Party
See? Not that hard.
Seriously, guys, do not vote third party. The electoral college will not vote third party. I know it sucks and it’s unfair, but it’s pull your heads out of your asses or have President Trump.
And this is why America’s political system really, REALLY sucks at Democracy.
READ THIS PLEASE!!!!!
I don’t really want to reblog politics and whatever, but I just want to come out to my friends that I’m voting Hillary.
Not because God’s light is shining out of her ass. I’m voting for her because Donald Trump is a monster and she’s the most likely person to beat him. Sometimes you just have to pick between ‘Not Actively Destroying Everything’ or ‘FUCK IT ALLLLLLLL.’
Look, I try to keep this a Leverage blog. I do. But I have more reach here than I do with my personal blog, and you guys, I am actively scared that this election is going to end with Donald Trump in charge of the US because we split the vote. Like. Please, god, vote for Hillary, because last time we split the vote, we got Bush for eight years. Okay? We can’t do that again. People will literally die. It’s not going to happen all at once like an apocalypse, but all our social support systems will erode away as sure as the banks of a swollen river.
If you don’t believe me, here’s a post explaining the “people will die” thing in more detail. Here’s another one. As a disabled queer woman, I fully believe that if Trump wins, I’m going to die an early death, maybe through a war he starts, but more likely through suicide because I can’t afford meds when the insurance company jacks up prices, or stops accepting people with preexisting conditions. Because there won’t be anyone to even think about stopping that sort of thing left.
This isn’t a joke.
Here’s a post about why Hillary is not, in fact, “equally as bad” as Trump.
Okay? We’ve already had an example of what happens with protest votes this year. How many people actually wanted Brexit to happen vs people who said they didn’t but voted in protest of shit the government was doing?
I’m leaving you with this post. Please, go vote in this election if you’re of voting age and live in the US. Vote for the person who’s most likely to beat Trump. Vote for Hillary.
Uhhhh am I like, allowed to post links to my non-Leverage fic here? Like, is that a thing I can do? Someone should weigh in on this.
In any case, until I hear otherwise I’m going to assume it’s okay, so. I’m dipping my toes into Rise of the Guardians fandom, and writing a Jack Frost/Pitch Black fic. If you are into touch-starved people, loneliness, and abandonment issues, this fic is for you my friend.
The fic is “Always, They Come Back” on AO3 and my fandom-specific tumblr is guardian-of-idfic.tumblr.com. So. You know. That’s- That sure is a thing, isn’t it.
sometimes I just remember that Hardison and Parker quite literally chose Eliot to be their third piece, and bought him a brewpub to make sure he stayed with them
the brewpub had high ceilings for Parker and a kitchen for Eliot and Hardison knew exactly what he was doing when he bought the place because he wasn’t okay with losing either of them
Writing a new fic like
0 words: this idea is great! someone should write it! *I* will write it! it's going to be brilliant and everyone will adore it
0-500 words: omg writing is so hard i’ve been writing for hours and the numbers never change why am i doing this
500-2000 words: i know i just posted something else recently but clearly i've forgotten how to write in the meantime. this is all a disaster i should give up
2000-3000 words: hey waiiiit wait did my characters just do that? where did that scene come from?? THIS IS AMAZING i'm so talented
3000-4000 words: i just read a comment on someone else's fic and now i want to quit forever because my writing will never make anyone feel that way
4000-5000 words: nah man this is actually awesome i'm in the zoooone everything's flowing this is going to be beautiful
5000-6000 words: i'm still writing but i'm completely distracted by another idea i just had that would be wayyyy better
50,000 words: what the hell happened
#HARDISON IS THE BEST BOYFRIEND EVER #AND HE JUST LOVES HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HIS BOYFRIEND SO MUCH #AND HE’S SO GREAT AT READING INTENT AND LISTENING TO /INTENT/ #like eliot heard parker being a dorkface and is like COME ON DIDN’T YOU SEE THRU THAT HARDISON? #but the point is that hardison DID see thru it and what he saw was parker believing in him completely #and he does that with both of them a million times over during the series #so he doesn’t need it perfectly said (thank god for them) and he doesn’t need them to do things perfectly and never mess up #he just needs to know that they’re there and have his back and love him #and all of that he can read between the lines just fine (tags via muirmarie)
GET TO KNOW ME MEME: FAVORITE FRIENDSHIPS [1/5]
Eliot Spencer x Parker x Alec Hardison | Leverage | “We agreed we all change. For better or worse, we change together.”
I wouldn’t fit into a real family. You didn’t need any. You went out and made your home.
If you're still taking requests for the ot3 au thing, can you do #15 - meeting in the ER please? Please and thank you
MY FRIEND, my friend, I can not do this one my friend. Because let me tell you I have this one AU started, okay? Like I am 1500 words in started, okay? This one where instead of like getting out of Moreau’s and going into retrieval work, Eliot decides he wants to like. Do Some Good and Atone For His Life and things, and the obvious answer to “what do you do to atone for hurting people” is “by fixing people” so he becomes an ER doc.
AND THEN, and then in come these two dumbasses like, all the fucking time. (Because without Parker & Hardison are still doing what they do, and they’re trying to get at the head doctor, some malpractice thing he head doctored his way out of, so they need a reason to be in the hospital a bunch and the ER is the easiest in? idk, there are lots of holes, I don’t care, it’s fic, roll with it POINT IS, they are doing tiny jobs on the side while they do this big job, and I figure without Eliot they’d be getting injured a lot more).
And Eliot is kind of worried about them, because they’re in there so often and like, it’s even odds who will be the hurt one any given time, so he doubts it’s, you know. And so, you know, he looks them up! Checks out the address they’ve given as where they live, and it’s fucking- it’s not even a house it’s down at the fucking docks. And he’s kinda worried that they got themselves in trouble with the mob or something, because he’s started to like them. Which is all kinda of dumb, but there it is. As much as he tries to stop liking them, he can’t.
And so he offers to help, says that if they’re in trouble he can help, and he doesn’t want to get back into that life, doesn’t want to have to leave this city for another one (because if he blows his cover, if they find out Eliot Spencer is working at an ER in Boston, he’ll have to) but he can’t keep watching them coming in and lying about how they got hurt.
(Parker comes in with a broken arm, says she got hurt rock climbing. It’s a lie, an obvious one, like they’re not even trying anymore, the abrasions on her arm and cuts on her face tell a story involving a going through a window, or something glass, not-)
(It was a third floor window, and someone had tampered with her equipment. The rope had been find the last time she checked it, but in the scant few hours between then and when she'd found herself hurtling at the ground and saw the frayed end of the rope pass her, someone had messed with it.)
But Parker just says “We’re not the ones in trouble” and grins, her teeth all bloodstained from the split lip he’s trying to patch up.
ANYWAY, it’s gonna be a great fic when it’s done, so I can’t do the AU meme for you for this one. (I say, as if the last bazillion paragraphs of this reply didn’t happen.)
#i feel like this is very clearly two people checking out their boyfriend while he fights (via sextmen)
Tbh, I don't think the "effectionate drunk" tags you made work for Eliot? I mean, they're... cute, I guess, but they don't apply to canon. We've seen him drink plenty on the show - even if he doesn't get drunk. He's not AFRAID of alcohol or what it'll do to him. And about his dad... Why would Eliot take a six pack when trying to reconcile with his dad if his old man was apparently an alcoholic while he was growing up (as seen in The Low Low Price Job)?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does anyone else have a favorite bit or highlight from an old episode?
Eliot was just coming off of the drugs that Sterling laced his drinks with in this scene. Which makes me wonder if, when drugged (his inhibitions are down, etc) or possibly drunk (?), Eliot is super physically affectionate.
Like the first thing his slightly drug-addled brain thought to do when he saw Hardison was to give him a hug. But then he woke up/regained a bit more awareness mid-way, noticed he was in a hug (even though only one of Hardison’s arms were on him) and went ?????? because what was Hardison thinking?
Hardison is probably thinking, Okay. I’ll just let him think that for now, but note to self if something like that ever happens again.
What about 46, a nanny/single parent AU? :D Not sure how that would work with three but it could be GREAT.
Okay, this is from the AU meme here. 46. nanny/single parent au
Before I even get started, did I tell all y’all about the kidfic I’m sort of writing??? It involved Parker going to Hardison and Eliot and going something like, “I found a kid-” and both of them being like “No, uh uh, no way, you can’t just take a kid like you can a dog.” and Parker being like >:| and disappearing to do something almost every night, and one day they follow her and it turns out she’s chilling with this ten-year-old-ish homeless orphan kid and they’re like whelp guess we got a kid now. And there are shenanigans. It’s fucking great.
Okay, to the half-assed story, which got long, so it’s on AO3:
Ain’t No Fran Fine, by me.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The thing was, they had never expected to have kids. Kids weren't exactly conducive to the whole Robin Hood thing they had going on (most of the time; sometimes it was less Robin Hood and more Parker-Likes-Money, but whatever).
Alec had never really been able to say no to Parker, but when they took down an international crime ring using an orphanage as a front and Parker stared at the kids for a long time and said, "We should adopt one of them," he tried. He really did.
"Remember that time we thought we should get a dog?" he asked.
"This is different," she said with a scowl.
The nanny AU only one person asked for (hi @phoenixrei!). (Note: despite the title, this is a generic nanny AU, no one actually based on The Nanny.) Also I do not have children, I do not know how children act, please excuse my errors on that front.
the two rules of writing fanfic:
1) oops, my 200 word drabble turned into a 8 chapter disaster
2) oops, my planned 8 chapters is stuck at 200 words
SEND ME A SHIP AND A NUMBER AND I'LL WRITE A SHORT FIC
molliehooper:
soulmates au
childhood best friends au
teacher/student au
teacher/single parent au
one night stand and falling pregnant au
meeting at a coffee shop au
fake relationship au
roommates au
meeting online au
high school popular kid/nerd au
partners in crime au
writer and editor au
co-stars au
lab partners au
meeting in the E.R/A&E au
brand new neighbours au
meeting at a party whilst drunk au
waking up with amnesia au
parents meeting when they take their kids to class au
dysfunctional relationship au
best friends sibling au
two miserable people meeting at a wedding au
meeting on a train ride au
literally bumping into each other au
librarian/avid reader au
sitting on the same park bench au
meeting at a support group au
knocking on the wrong door au
going away to war au
tourist/knowledgeable local au
prostitute/client au
doctor/companion au
celebrity/fan au
meeting at a masquerade ball au
one of them trying to get the other one off of drugs au
living in a society where their love is taboo au
meeting in prison au
cop/person getting a speeding ticket au
long distance relationship au
exes meeting again after not speaking for years au
ghost/living person au
star-crossed lovers au
falling in love with their best friend’s partner au
one of them being diagnosed with a terminal illness au
pretending to hate each other au
nanny/single parent au
meeting at a festival au
meeting again at a high school reunion au
boss/intern au
going through a divorce au
I’m gonna be a dick and limit this to Parker/Hardison/Eliot because lbr that is all I’m willing to write. But I fucking love AUs so while I’m not gonna promise any fics out of this, I will do my best to do like. A chatfic or whatever. You know? Something that’s not just an outline but not quite fic.
Reblog this if I can vent to you? Like completely skip all the awkwardness and just start talking to you.