[phoenixwrites]

Okay Bernie stans.

I need you all to prepare yourselves to vote for Biden in November.  

I’m not happy about it either.  I wanted Elizabeth Warren to destroy Trump on the debate floor.  I wanted to watch her shatter the glass ceiling.  I wanted student loan forgiveness, Medicare for All, and refugee and immigrant protections.

But I’m not going to get that.  So I am going all in for Biden.

This can no longer be a matter of “well if I don’t get my way THEN I’M NOT VOTING”.  I’d hoped you all learned your lessons four years ago, but from what I’ve seen on social media, that’s not been the case.  Biden is not ideal but he is better than the alternative.  He is a Democrat who will continue Obama’s legacy.  And you have a shot in hell of getting progressive movements like Medicare for All under a blue majority Congress; we do not have that under Trump.  

Biden is more willing to listen to the progressive factions of the Democrat party than Trump is.  We will get shit done under him.    

We cannot survive a second term of Trump.  I need you all to hold your noses, put on your big girl pants, and deal with it.  Prepare to vote for Biden.

[phoenixwrites]

Also, I’ve reviewed most of his plans and they are good.  No, they are not as good as Warren’s plans.  But he commits to LGBTQ+ protections, repealing the transgender in the military ban, and his refugee/immigration protections are way better than I expected (he actually has some culpability to the deportations under the Obama administration).

He is a good choice, guys.  Maybe not the best.  But he will get us to where we need to be and is a fucking return to SANITY in the government, which we badly fucking need.

[flange5]

Two, TWO Supreme Court justices are on the table for the next president, plus all the other federal judges McConnell has been stacking benches with the past three years. That’s Roe v. Wade, and a whole lot else, for the foreseeable future. 

The reality is that we live in a two party system and while I do not want Biden, I am capable of recognizing nuance and shades of gray. If it comes down to Biden, as it very likely may he will not do as much damage as four more years of Trump, and that is an ethical imperative. 

This is also why we all MUST vote down-ticket as well. 

[ellidfics]

Biden’s win allows RBG and Stephen Breyer to retire.

Think about that. 

[darthlordcommie]

Not voting isn’t a protest. It’s a surrender. If we want change, real change, then we have to drag our country to the left. One. Election. At. A time. It’s not an all-or-nothing scenario. So if it comes down to it, vote for Biden. Get on the bus headed away from fascism and the alt-right. If that bus isn’t heading directly to where we want to go, then we ride it until we have a chance to get on a different bus. Not voting is NOT an option.

[omgdidyouseethato-o]

I think this is all the more important to emphasize in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Here’s Biden attending a protest in Wilmington, DE over the weekend and meeting with black church leaders to discuss responses to the protests

And here’s the White House going dark after protests breakout in front

register to vote, educate yourself, then turn in your fucking ballots like your life depends on it

[therosielord]

NOT VOTING IS NOT A PROTEST. IT IS A SURRENDER.

for the love of god PLEASE vote for Biden even if you think he sucks because you know what sucks way worse? LITERAL FASCISM 

[jesin00]

Voting cannot be the bulk of our efforts, but it sure as hell should be part of them. It’s especially important to flip the Senate. Mitch is pocket-vetoing every half-decent thing in the Senate.

[teenagerposts]

[aproblemlikebrianna-deactivated]

I’ll need a bigger mug for that, please and thanks.

[concerningwolves]

Can I just–

[autodiscothings]

Oh it got better

[veryfunnymemes]

[mjalti]

look if you decide to have a problem after midnight, that’s between you & God tbh

[roycunt]

[yekkes]

It’s so funny how everyone is doing LITERALLY every extra unnecessary and unhelpful thing for essential workers except advocate for us to be better paid or paying us directly. Like it’s hilarious to me in the most depressing way how out of touch middle class/non-essential workers are about what people actually need.

[yekkes]

But we sang you a song, we made you a comic calling you heroes, we posted a “thank you!” graphic on FB! And when the news story broke that you died from Covid-19 we sad reacted and commented something like: “True patriots of America! Deserve to be more appreciated.”

[yekkes]

If you appreciate us so much why not just straight up give us money? Raise money to pay for the medical bills of sick workers? Raise money for immuno-compromised workers so they don’t have to die on the job? Like! What’s not clicking, what’s not clicking!

[yekkes]

I do not know how to break it to people who claim to care about essential workers but “thank you,” is the most useless thing you can do for us, aside from actively making our lives more difficult or idk purposefully trying to get us sick. You actually and really, truly care? Again, advocate for us, or pay us money. It’s really that simple! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[autisticshatterstar]

honestly! im a grocery store worker and it's now in month 3, i dont want to be congradulated. i dont want to be sang to. i dont want to be thanked for my service. i want money, i want guarenteed health care, i want my "thank you" pay to be more than two dollars an hour because $2s? will not pay for a hospital visit or the two weeks ill be out. i also want all yall to fucking stay home every second you can. literally if you see a friend in the store? keep walking. if you have a question? stay 6 feet from me and sure as hell dont touch me then thank me. most people aren't doing jack for essential workers.

also dont say companies cant afford to pay us more, grocery stores especially are making hand over fist rn and probably less than 10% of what they make after paying for the goods wholesale and rent and what have it goes to pay employees so stfu

[jaubaius]

The dog getting into the movie, and his dad is there to reassure him.

[girlslikegirls-vk]

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[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[swagintherain]

[divinefestival]

Okay but lets illustrate how much white privileged is involved with this story. The weapons this little demon used to kill Grant Nelson were stolen from Walmart. She walked into Walmart, grabbed a machete and a knife, and then just casually walked out the door without anyone attempting to stop her. You get a box of tampons from Walmart and you don’t have it in a bag, they wanna check your receipt. Becky the Sociopath walked out unchecked with literal weapons.

Then she had time to wait outside for the uber this poor man drove to come pick her up. Then she got in his back seat and stabbed him multiple times, pushed him out onto the street, and stole the car. He was able to tell the police who stabbed him before he died. She then crashes the car and is found by the police hiding behind a tree covered in blood. The police try to gently coerce her into dropping her fucking blood covered knives and when she refuses do they shoot her eight times? Oh noooo Lizzy Borden gets tazed and brought in unharmed.

Like just think about the stories that have come out these past two weeks alone. The unarmed black teenager who were literally murdered based on vague suspicion and this girl actually kills someone and is still standing.

[themiscyra1983]

The white girl who stole weapons from Walmart and killed an Uber driver was taken alive.

The white guy who took weapons to a convention and planned to kill Jason David Frank and multiple police officers was taken alive.

The white guy who murdered two men who had tried to defend the Muslim women he was harassing was taken alive.

Don’t tell me police had to kill Tamir Rice or Michael Brown or ANYONE else out of caution or fear for their safety. Not when white people who are legitimate threats, even direct threats to police, are routinely taken alive.

[valtsv]

“you only like it because it has gay characters!” yeah it’s called having good taste

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Don’t think too much - you’ll create a problem that wasn’t there in the first place.”

— Unknown

[isuoiocchidentroilmare]

[katimcgrath]

[awwdorables]

[pomeranian2]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[buttwyatt]

me

[leupagus]

I’m retroactively furious at everyone who’s used this video as a meme because nothing they’ve ever used for the format is as funny as what she actually says and does here

[fuck-yeah-dylan]

OK but watch the dog. The dog is SO USED TO THIS BEHAVIOR. lmao