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Where’s the lie, though?
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I’m dead.
Of all the posts on this forsaken site, this is the one that killed me.
Where’s the lie, though?
Time for another political essay. If you’re not an American citizen or able to vote in this upcoming election, my apologies.
I make no secret that I fucking despise Donald Trump. I actually like Hillary Clinton, which seems to be a weird rarity considering the amount of good work she’s done and the fact that all of the bad press about her is the result of the Republicans trying (and failing) to tear her and her husband down for thirty years.
Trump is now trailing far behind Clinton, which I consider a cause for celebration. But it is NOT a cause for complacency.
The biggest landslide election in US history was the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, when Harding won with about 60% of the vote to his opponent’s 34.2%.
Some polls are reporting Trump with as little as 35% of the popular vote right now.
If turnout is large enough and loud enough, we can make Donald Trump the least supported major candidate in US history. Since the recording of him bragging about sexual assault came out, he has turned to dragging the whole election into the mud by striking back at Bill Clinton’s affairs; the usual goal of that kind of tactic is to drive down voter turnout. Trump’s band of Redcaps is pretty much guaranteed to vote, so they figure if they reduce turnout enough, they’ll win.
I want their plan to fail. I want their plan to fail so fucking spectacularly that NO ONE will dare to run for President on a platform of thinly-veiled fascism again.
The Republicans thought the House of Representatives was safe this year. In 2010, they gerrymandered the shit out of district lines to keep the House safe for them for at least ten years. But there’s a problem with gerrymandering: if the demographics shift unexpectedly between censuses, then suddenly a lot of districts wind up flipping against the party that the gerrymandering was meant to support. And Donald Trump is driving away the Republicans’ most secure core of voters, the evangelicals. And as I’ve said before: Congress is MORE important than the presidency.
If turnout is strong enough, and if people vote down ballot, the possibility exists for a massive upset. A Democratic presidency, a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate. They’re within our grasp. All you need to do, voters, is show up.
Motherfuckers don’t want you to vote. Young people, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ folks–they want you to be scared away, or to be convinced that voting doesn’t matter. They want your voice silenced. Don’t give the fuckers the satisfaction of letting it happen.
GO VOTE. VOTE DOWN-BALLOT. MAKE TRUMP THE BIGGEST LOSER IN US HISTORY.
IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO VOTE OUT OF CONVICTION, THEN DO IT OUT OF SPITE.
Vote!
the true story of how my job is going to decide my family planning
i just found out last night that my job, the job i have worked at tirelessly for over 4 years, offers me ZERO maternity leave of any kind. zero. as in none. zilch. nada.
this is because here in japan, foreigners who are english teachers are usually kept on cleverly disguised “part-time” salaries: we work full-time hours, but by claiming we only work “the exact number taught” rather than “all the planning hours, grading hours, extra saturdays and camps” that we work in addition to these “teaching hours”, they can claim we are part-time. by claiming that we are part-time, they are not required to pay into the shakai hoken scheme, which is the social insurance scheme for employees.
so basically, because i am the woman, and i am the one who would be leaving to give birth - unlike the male colleagues i work with who could obviously keep working during and after their child’s birth - i would have to simply quit.
and my salary pays rent. and bills. and residence taxes. and national insurance (that i have to pay fully because my employer doesn’t have me in the company scheme).
which means we cannot afford to have a child without my salary.
which means we cannot afford to have a child.
my job just decided my future, changed my plans for the next year, and devastated me. i’m getting married in less than two months.
i’m so furious right now i’m not even sure that i can go to work on monday.
Holy fucking shit that’s not fair.
I can’t wait for this movie
THAT’S JUST SCIENCE
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This looks SO GOOD. I can’t wait!
This looks amazing
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Welp. Yup. On the Stranger Things bandwagon now. How did that happen?
you didn’t think she’d come back swinging?
“I didn’t like the part where she made a historically accurate statement”
Yup. Even the White House tells you that.
To the Sanders fans pissed about Bernie endorsing Hillary
You do realize why he is doing this right?
He’s consistently said again and again after the primaries that his #1 goal is to: STOP DONALD TRUMP FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT.
So, with that goal in mind, it would be an absolute fuckton of a disaster if Bernie were to run third-party or begged his supporters to vote for him write-in, you know why? Because it would split the Democratic vote up in half. And because of that this would give them way less votes in order to beat Trump, and because of that Trump would lead in national votes in most states, and thus lead in the electoral vote, making him president.
Don’t believe me? Look at the 1912, 1968 and 2000 elections and tell me I’m wrong.
Bernie knows this too, that’s why he’s urging his supporters to vote for Hillary. He wants the Democrats united so Trump will be defeated.
He’s not “selling out”, he’s doing this so no supporter of his will either vote Trump or abstain from voting, and to make sure America continues progress. Progress that, unfortunately will be thwarted or reversed with Trump as president.
The political revolution fails if Trump is elected.
from corrective rape? from mothers who are open and accepting of gay, bi, pan, etc people and still unknowingly tell their asexual children that people who don’t want sex are sick need help? from their closest friends at birthday parties starting conversations about how weird and fake asexuality is? from the fear of being alone forever because no one could want to be with someone like them? from going against sexual and relationship norms in a society that tells them they’re broken and wrong?? from people like you who delegitimize their struggles in the eyes of much of lgbt+ community, some of the only people who you’d think might understand
I had to reblog this twice bc you just got 100% fucking destroyed my dude
will: shit! four guards. sun: is that all?
Discworld characters and their Hogwarts houses; an incomplete list
Sam Vimes: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: he’s a Hufflepuff. He’s fiercely protective of his city, and he’s damned if anything is going to try and do it harm. And he puts so much work into policing the streets, and policing the Watch, and policing himself.
Sybil Ramkin: Either a Hufflepuff or a Ravenclaw. She’s the expert in dragons, has written books on them and knows pretty much everything about them, as well as knowing a fair amount on Koom Valley. But she’s also kind and gentle, can organise an army of ladies to support a cause.
Carrot Ironfounderson: I used to think he was a Griffindor. But then I remembered that quote from Guards! Guards!:
“It would never have occurred to him, if he was going to be an officer of the Watch, to be less than a good one.”
And that seems such a Hufflepuff thing to me; he can’t imagine not doing a job well. And plus there’s that fact that’s he’s so good with people; he knows knows the name of everyone in the city, cares about them, starts football teams with gangs. He cares, so much, and he’s so earnest.
Ponder Stibbons: “Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.” Definitely a Ravenclaw.
Nanny Ogg: Hufflepuff. Such a Hufflepuff. Like, this is the witch who is able to sit down with a complete stranger and become friends with them within minutes. Who is completely loyal to her friend Esme, no matter how much they bicker and fight.
Granny Weatherwax: I’m torn between Hufflepuff and Slytherin for her. On one hand, I think she’s very ambitious in terms of her power, and she’s definitely very cunning. (You don’t be a witch without cunning.) Plus Slytherin is considered the ‘evil’ house, and Granny wanted to be the evil sister, wants to be the stereotype of a witch (it’s mentioned in Wyrd Sisters she’s disappointed she never got any warts/bad teeth). But on the other hand, there’s that quote from A Hat Full of Sky on the nature of being a witch:
“It’s sittin’ up all night with some poor old man who’s leavin’ the world, taking away such pain as you can, comfortin’ their terror, seein’ ‘em safely on their way…and then cleanin’ ‘em up, layin’ ‘em out, making ‘em neat for the funeral, and helpin’ the weeping widow strip the bed and wash the sheets—which is, let me tell you, no errand for the fainthearted—and stayin’ up the next night to watch over the coffin before the funeral, and then going home and sitting down for five minutes before some shouting angry man comes bangin’ on your door ‘cuz his wife’s havin’ difficulty givin’ birth to their first child and the midwife’s at her wits’ end and then getting up and fetching your bag and going out again…We all do that, in our own way, and she does it better’n me, if I was to put my hand on my heart. That is the root and heart and soul and center of witchcraft, that is. The soul and center!”
Granny might not necessarily like the people of her village, but she’ll still go out of her way to help/defend them.
Rincewind: Gyriffindor. There’s two reasons for this. One: it’s just the kind of thing that would happen to him. Seriously, if Rincewind was at Hogwarts, he would be Harry; he would be the person who all the weird shit happens to. He would be the Chosen One, he would be the person destined to defeat Voldemort. That’s just the person he is.
Two: Rincewind can be brave. Yes, the majority of the time he runs, but when needed, he will get his brick-in-a-sock ready.
Nobby: He joined the Watch because John Keel gave him a spoon, and has stayed loyal to the watch and to Sam Vimes ever since. Yeah, Hufflepuff.
A few quibbles: I would put Vimes in Gryffindor, loathe as he’d be to be there. He’s loyal, certainly, but less to his city and more to the idea of justice in its purest sense. One of the biggest traits of Gryffindor is to do what’s right, no matter the price, and well… Vimes does just that on several occasions.
Carrot might well be Slytherin. A lot of characters make reference to Carrot knowing or seeming a lot more than his miner boy rube exterior. He makes a lot of deals and seems to know how to manipulate people at the right place at the right time to achieve his ends. While he isn’t the self-serving Slytherin stereotype, Carrot had ambitions and aspirations for Vimes, the Watch, and the City. Carrot is not mean or spiteful, but he knows exactly how to get people to behave, and Vimes comments on how eerie it is several times. He’s only a Hufflepuff on the surface.
Fred Colon’s a Slytherin. Colon will slit some throats to stay behind his comfy desk, dammit. Fred’s the dumb Slytherin like Crabbe or Goyle who’s self-serving and ambitious, but lacks actual tact or guile.
Reg Shoe’s a solid Gryffindor- for his part in the rebellion AND because he’s doing it all again in his unlife.
Also I wouldn’t discount Nanny Ogg for Slytherin. She can play her daughters in law like fiddles, has orchestrated just about ever marriage in Lancre (usually to her slight or massive benefit), can network like a fiend, and can manipulate even total strangers into giving her just what she wants (”got any mustard?”)
Plus loyalty is as much a slytherin trait as a Hufflepuff one. Slytherin just tend to be picky about who they owe their loyalty to
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American discworld fans
Do you exist? Am I the only one? I love being in a small fandom but it’s LONELY. Extra points if you are on the east coast. I’d road trip to get my fangirl on with likeminded folks!
No you aren’t! I’m not one of them but some have turned up in our chatbox!
*waves* Hi~!
On the East Coast, eh? I’ve run into folks from the middle Atlantic coast, folks from Florida and Georgia, and folks from New York and New Jersey that all liked Discworld.
crowtoed and so-i-did-this-thing even have cosplays, among many others I’m sure.
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Oh shit. I never realized this.
This is a depressing reality every 4th of July.
My aunt used to love fireworks, until she was caught in a firefight while on an international development job :(
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