#election rant

[necrolockv]

Life right now is wild and there are so many conflicting views about what's good, what's bad and what's going on.

I feel like one of the most basic things we should be able to agree on is that; people are people no matter where you live and all life holds some value.

We shouldn't be making others lives more miserable, we should be trying to make them better.

But if that person is toxic, manipulate, angry, and dragging your life down and cutting it into pieces? Fuck em

At the end of the day the only person you truly have to live with is yourself and you should be happy with who you are.

Fuck politics, fuck all this 'we can control you' rhetoric, fuck the people who agree with it

Be who you are and don't stop fighting like the cornered animal you are

I wont

[stupidlovepurplepeace]

I just found out that they didn't count my vote

My family moved in October and we were told by our parents to not bother changing our registered address for voting and then to say we still lived in the old place when we went to vote. My mom went and said she still lived at the old place but then my brother went and said he moved so I also told them I moved. I said "we lived in A county but we just moved to L city (city across the river, not in the same voting county)". Mind you my brother said the same thing and got a chance of address form super easy, but the lady who was signing me in immediately went and some higher up and I struggled with the second lady because she kept thinking I said I moved from A county to L city even when I told her "no we lived here on WS road, we just moved into City and I need to change my address" she said "well I just called the voting office and you have to vote in City because you're not registered to vote here". Then my brother and the lady he was with come up and he says "no me and her live together, were siblings, and we just moved INTO CITY, she is registered to vote HERE and needs to update her address" and the lady I'm with is immediately like "well why didn't you say that" so I went with the lady that was with my brother and she gives me what they say is a change of address form and I filled it out and voted (Kamala, blue down the ticket).

Then today I got mail that says my vote didn't count because I'm not a resident of A county and my registration didn't go through, along with a voter registration application.

My registration. Which I filled out in May as soon as I turned 18. Just now didn't go through? And my brother didn't get any kind of letter that his vote (Trump) didn't go through even though we did the exact same thing?

It says on the back of the application "if you are currently registered to vote, you do not have to use this form unless you have moved or changed your name" so it seems like someone didn't put it in the change of address pile and put it in the registration pile or something but I don't know. It's just really annoying that my first vote didn't even count.

EDIT: just found out they didn't count my brother vote either but not because of a location thing, he just didn't check the "I am not a felon" or "I am a felon but I can vote" boxes or whatever. My parents votes still counted because they lied but whatever.

[burrowkit]

Provincial Election Rant

So, where I'm at, there's a bit of an election running.

Throughout covid, I've picked up a habit of following (and turning on notifications) of the person in charge of my province. You know, because sometimes the government accounts don't post urgent stuff before the guy at the top. (Same with the various police forces because the only way to know if an escaped shooter is in my area is by having other places not in my province with notifications on. Having those accounts having notifications on amuses people).

Anyways. It worked fine for the last election and the last guy, because he shared important information. Also blamed everyone in age of 18-39 for being the super spreads (because they spread more covid than the 40-49 age group, or the 10-17 group, or any other 'decade group'. Which bugs me because 18-39 is obviously going to get double! They have 20-29, 30-39 + 2 years! That's 22 years in 1 category vs all the other 10 year age groupings!)

But this time around, my gosh, he's posting daily about campaigning everywhere.

I don't think he's posted a single thing of him being at his home district. Only everywhere else in this place.

And, he tries to seem cool but like, is totally missing the mark?

There was a national day recently (keeping it vague-like cause y'all could google all this). All this opponents posted about it. Some of their stances / how to protect others. Etc. Still campaigning but less so.

This dude does like one post early for generic stuff. Then, like 8 hours later does another super campaign-y post.

Less than an hour later, he swiftly posts about said day.

Almost like someone said "Hey uh, you forgot to post about this today".

I also can't tell if the peeps in charge of the overall campaign hate the party or not. They're posting their slogans all over... covering their own party member's candidate sign and sticking it next to the competition.

The extra problem? Random slogan for extra hiding...

"Want to save more money?" and then beside the sign is their rival.

And in tiny letters under the text? Their party.

It really reads (to me) as if the other parties are pushing this thing that their own party is equally pushing. Like??? grr

Anyways, in this election, apparently my wanting people to have better labour laws/rights means which way I vote in our 3 available options, is pretty well known.

[nawilla]

I'm trying to figure out how to deal with knowing half my fellow country feels I should die before getting an abortion, should not have health care, should have no rights or say whatsoever, and will sacrifice their own rights, services and money because they don't want a woman in charge and their grocery bills are high.

You are all delusional if you think those bills are going down. You are delusional if you think overtime isn't going to eliminated versus being untaxed. You are delusional if you think any tax breaks you might get won't be lost to paying for all of your own health care, school tuition, unfettered capitalism and the costs of deregulation. (Anyone get Listeria lately? Hope you aren't pregnant and planning to eat.)

[tehjmastuh-rants-101]

Joe Biden resigns from race

So I turn on YouTube of all things, and the front page blows up with Joe Biden stepping down from race. But does that mean that he's gonna resign as president and let Kamala Harris run? She even said that she didn't want to do the Job. I don't blame her! I hope that someone well can run in the Democratic Party. But guess what? I AM STILL NOT VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP!! So when this election comes, my word is this. I will be voting against, Democrats, and Independence. Here's why! I don't give a rats ass about politics. Idc for the price of gas or inflation of infrastructure. And I am going to list all of my beliefs on this post. - Woman do have the right for an abortion! But also men needs to learn proper protection or Abstinence if no one can't agree with abortion. - Guns are our right! It's our second Amendment. I proudly do own one. - We should not have to ran by a government. But that doesn't mean our country to be ran with anarchy. - I believe in equal rights. Regardless of your age, sex, race, beliefs, orientation, or religion.

Black Lives only Matter when wrongfully murderd by police. Well police needs to stop treating black ppl as criminals. We are ALL HUMAN - Nurses, Firemen, Police, Doctors, and Teachers, should make more than your average working 9-5 rather it's food or retail

All FEMA Alerts received on our phone should allowed to be disabled at our own risk. - We The people have the right and should be able to work together to put an end to mass school shootings and protect our children. Fire drills are to be minimal. Active School Shootings/Lock Down drills should be practiced more than fire. Because more school shootings occur than school fires. These are just some of my beliefs I have. I don't care about drug laws, insurance laws, or health policies, Nor do I care for social security because I get fucked by health providers and SS anyhow. And if you feel that you have to shoot someone, riot, are fight with people because of their beliefs in politics or religious views. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM TO SUICDE!! RANT OVER!

[speedgeek]

Dear candidates, I realize you are only running for city council of a smallish and growing suburb, but a campaign website with your core beliefs and what you intend to do for the city really is the absolute minimum, not the yard signs. How else am I supposed to decide who to vote for? I've never heard of any of you, I don't know any of you. There are more hotly contested races in bigger cities in the metro that the news is focusing on, I need more than a name on a yard sign. If all but one of the school board candidates managed to do it, you could too.

By the way, if my rant is coming across your dash, this is your reminder to not forget about local elections. They are just as important as national elections and have more affect on your day-to-day life than who's at the top. Change starts at the bottom.

[the-golden-bird-in-the-cage]

Honestly I want to have more letters too but 365 votes per person is a lot. T_T

Yes, and not to mention they don’t give you the option to enter a specific amount of votes for each guy. Voting manually sucks. I have many votes from buying the wallpaper sets but they make it almost impossible to split the votes for other guys to get the letters!!!

[inbl0om]

The election's results did not fully sink in until I started crying when I explained to a white cis straight man why I'm upset about the election. When I told him that Donald Trump becoming the President-Elect made me feel as if my entire existence has become invalid, he asked, "Wow. Isn't that a little harsh?" I felt my heart harden and my blood run cold. "No," I responded, "it's not. I am a woman, I am a Latina--a Chicana, or a Mexican-American, in fact; I identify as part of the LGBT+ spectrum and community, and I am not religious. That is everything Trump's campaign went against. So yeah, I feel FUCKING invalid. The fact that I can "pass" as white to some people and because white people think that I "act" white enough doesn't mean shit." And just like that, I saw his face change from an arrogant white man who felt his vote for Trump would actually "Make America Great Again" start to already feel the weight of his actions. I AM his friend, his colleague, his classmate--and his fellow future lawyer. This affects me. This affects others like me. Just because my skin is on the lighter side doesn't mean that I am valued more or less than my fellow Latinxs. Just because I don't take birth control pills doesn't mean that I won't support and will not fight for women (and people with uteruses in general) to have a right to their bodies. Just because I have only dated/slept with cis men does not mean that I am not a member of the LGBT+ community and that I will not fight for our right to marry whoever the fuck we want. And just because I went to catholic school my whole life does not mean I am religious, and me not being religious does not mean that i do not respect others that are. My father successfully crossed the US-Mexico border three times, became an American citizen in the 1990s, and graduated from college in 2009. I, his oldest child and daughter, have been able to not only go to and graduate from a wonderful undergraduate university, but I am now a student in law school. Everything I do is for him because everything he has ever done has been for me--even when his third and final crossing of the border was 13 years before I was even born. THAT is the American dream. And I will fight for the undocumented community--especially my fellow Chicanxs here in Southern California. I am fortunate that I was born, raised, and currently live in California. I am even more fortunate that I graduated from a university in New York City. Living in both Los Angeles and New York has taught me the power and importance of diversity. And seeing all of the positive support that many of my "woke white" friends who are aware of their privilege and want to take a call to action is inspiring. I have hope for the future because more than half of the United States of FUCKING America is on the side that love trumps hate. There is a poem by Sarah Williams that I modified to fit how I feel: "Though my [country] may set in darkness; [the people] will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars [and stripes] too fondly to be fearful of the night." America isn't perfect. And we definitely have our flaws. But seeing protests and sorrow and kindness come from all these allies is making me feel not so alone after all. Remember friends: "Have courage and be kind."