pink and politics

my edits | redbubble #1 mary’s song stan | she/her i will miss crazy ex-girlfriend till my dying breath. previously: hasbeenbiue, reginanotabrunch

[gawayne]

should I get a masters or jump into a river and swim away forever. vote now

[whoscallingwhoafraud]

[ashstfu]

x / raymond carver

[ashstfu]

GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CHANGE GOOD CH

[whoscallingwhoafraud]

Doing IDSB and not announcing rep tv would be the funniest thing possible

[guyonthechiefs]

[booksinmythorax]

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

[knottahooker]

Please, PLEASE use Libby. OverDrive. Hoopla. CloudLibrary. Kanopy. Flipster. Freegal. Transparent Language. Mango. Jstor. Your library would not offer it if they could not afford it, and we afford things by reporting the number of people who use that service, so if you don't use the service we can't afford it. It's a cycle. Keep it going, keep using it, and we'll keep providing because we'll be able to justify the cost to the bean counters in government.

[gregoryandjanine]

#the more gregory got to know janine and the more janine grew as a person #the more he believed in her and saw how much she's capable of 😭 ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (1x11 | 3x13)

[mayahart]

BRIDGERTON 3.02 — How Bright the Moon

[hetjoshiiii]

my bootleg games arrive today which do I start first

Pokemon Platinum

Pokemon HeartGold

Pokemon Black

Voting ended onJul 23, 2024

[hetjoshiiii]

Thanks guys

[landsccape]

[heystephen]

[khytal]

other drivers will see your safe distance from the vehicle in front of you and go "is for me? 🥺" and then proceed to not use their turn signal before swerving into your lane

[thebreakfastgenie]

It bugs me when people make fun of "vote blue no matter who" like we started saying that in 2016 because people were threatening to bust during the primary and we wanted to make it clear that we needed to unify against Trump in the general no matter which way it went. Tbh it was always kind of coddling because Sanders was never going to win but diehard Clinton supporters would have voted for him if he had. And this isn't the first time... people mostly got over it, no doubt in no small part because Clinton endorsed Obama, but people were threatening to defect in 2008 too because that primary was nasty. And the crazy thing is Republicans DON'T do this!! Their base includes liken eight different fundamentalist Christian factions who believe the other seven are heretics and they STILL don't pull this shit.

[thebreakfastgenie]

#anyway in light of the news and the nice heavy pit in my stomach I am reblogging this @the-truth-within-the-lie

We're all gonna vote for Kamala Harris. We're going to put aside whatever feelings we have and we're going to do it and we're going to win.

[waskitty]

btw i don’t really trust anyone immediately being like “wow trump just won the election” after this bc like. no he hasn’t. is propaganda going to get worse? sure. but the wording of “he’s already won, it’s over now” would also be said by someone who wants you to think it’s no longer important to go out and vote. we don’t need leftists doing his propaganda work for him. please know it is still important to vote! don’t accept defeat! we can still keep him out of office! you still need to vote! it’s not fucking over!!!!!!!!!

[fandomsandfeminism]

Remember: Catastophizing is paralyzing, not mobilizing.

[raptorific]

I just want everyone to remember that Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks mocking and berating everybody who suggested Biden step aside because the republicans really did not want to run against someone other than Joe Biden. They have no plan, no playbook, no protocol, for running against someone other than Joe.

If you're feeling defeatist right now, please just understand that the Trump Campaign Strategy People are having the worst, most stressful day of the campaign as they scramble to figure out how to beat somebody who isn't Biden in November. Their ace in the hole was a hunk of Kryptonite up their sleeve and now they find out they won't be fighting Superman. THAT is the mood of today.

[raptorific]

Like, the people who know me know that I'm rarely the guy with a positive outlook about anything. But it's really important to realize that

The Trumpist narrative around this election, the drum they've been banging for the entire election cycle, is "don't vote for the INCOHERENT OLD GUY." Trump is now the only person in the race who's incoherent or old. Their entire strategy needs to be binned because Trump is now running against someone decades younger and more vital, and exponentially more articulate than him. He put all his strategic eggs in that basket. The only change to the Biden-Harris campaign strategy that needs to take place is slightly different printing on the buttons and yard signs. The Trump-Vance campaign strategy now needs to be redrawn from square one. This move has put the Harris campaign miles ahead of Trump

Trump has already taken to TruthSocial to complain about the fact that he spend so much time, energy, and money campaigning on the assumption that Joe Biden would be the nominee, and now he has to "start over." Last week, he was so convinced he had the election in the bag that he picked a fringe figure, unpopular in his own party and unlikely to bring in any votes Trump hadn't already secured, because he thought he didn't need to worry about getting elected, only having a VP who would "play ball" with his dictatorial ambitions in the way his previous VP (who, remember, he tried to have murdered) refused to. Today, he's posting shit like this:

Nothing's a guarantee, there's no such thing as "safe," only "safer," and it isn't over until it's over. But, I really can't stress this enough: the events of today were a bowling ball dropped on a house of cards for Trump. It's possible he could rebuild it by November! But it's objectively good news that he has to.

[wells-hannah]

FRIENDS ( 1994 - 2004 ) ↳ season 6 episode 6

[ncutii-gatwa]

HOT FUZZ (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

[orcboxer]

if you would rather elect a fascist than a liberal you're not a leftist you're just edgy

[orcboxer]

"no one for president 2024" how are you gonna stop the electoral process? what's your game plan for eliminating every candidate? or is this just theater to you?

if you wanted to actually make any material difference, you'd evaluate the political power leftists have and then actually use it. there ain't enough of us to elect a leftist president, let alone stage some mythical Revolution. meaning that if the country collapsed right now, it wouldn't be leftists that take over.

if your goal is to lose with your hands clean then by all means just keep posting and nothing else, but if you want to fix anything on the systemic level then you need allies. you need to be able to work with people you don't agree with on everything. that means making momentary compromises when necessary. emphasis on momentary. if kamala gets elected, she isn't president forever, and if you vote for her, you aren't sworn to the democratic party.

low voter turnout has never made the US shift to the left before, so I don't know why so many tumblr users think it suddenly would now. decreasing voter turnout is a right wing goal, they pour obscene amounts of money into it. if leftists don't vote, that's less resistance for republicans, and it's frankly the only reason republicans ever get elected anymore.

I'm not gonna call anybody a psyop, and it doesn't really matter if they are or not, because it doesn't change the fact that y'all anti-voters are spreading conservative propaganda to own the libs. I've literally seen leftists arguing, at me, that "trump is actually less damaging for minorities" like are you fucking listening to yourself. you are so obsessed with owning the libs that you have stopped being critical of fascism. how do you not realize you're straight up parroting conservative propaganda?

someone is gonna get elected this year, and based on the polling data it's gonna be trump or harris. you can either increase the chances that it's trump, or increase the chances that it's harris. refusing to vote increases trump's chances, so that's probably not a particularly leftist move. if you think there is no difference between trump and harris, then either you aren't paying any attention at all, or you just don't care.

I listened to the anti-electoralists, I genuinely gave it consideration, and I'm sorry but it's contributing nothing to leftism, it's just conservative propaganda dressed up in woke language. they're the Useful Idiot for conservatives