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@thefaceofbowties
bernie: so whatās probably going to happen is that trump will prematurely declare himself the victor, and once more votes are counted that may show biden as in the lead he will demand that the votes stop being counted and say that this is voter fraudĀ trump: *does exactly those things back-to-back*
Nothing is funnier to me than all of Donald's immediate neighbors unanimously going "you're fucking intolerable, goodbye"
AbolishĀ theĀ ElectoralĀ CollegeĀ
LOOK AT FUCKING TEXAS. ITāS FUCKING PURPLE. TEXAS IS NOT AS CONSERVATIVE AS PEOPLE THINK. Those blue spots in Texas? Thatās over 60% of the state population in those like 10 or so counties. Texas aināt red. The electoral college is skewed right because it gives equal weight to counties with vastly different populations. 40% of the population decides every electoral vote in the state. Electoral College is bullshit.
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Every other democracy I know of had understood this basic concept what the fuck
I want to mourn her death. I want to honor her. I want to pay tribute to who she was as a woman, as a mother, as a lawyer, as a fighter, as a wife, as a justice, as a patriot.Ā
I want to mourn her and celebrate her and thank her for everything that she did, all the decisions that she made that helped me grow up in an America where I was safe to pursue all the things I wanted.Ā
Instead the first emotion I felt wasnāt sadness, or humility, or solemnity. It was fear. Chill down the spine, tears in the eyes, heart racing, muscle clenching fear. Ā
And I will never forgive them for that.Ā
People need to fully understand what RGBās death means. Itās not just a vacancy on the supreme court that could be potentially filled by a conservative Justice - thatās an awful thought, but thatās not the main problem.Ā
The problem, is that this is EXACTLY the opportunity Republicans have been looking for for decades. If a conservative nominee is pushed through before the election, and Iām hoping it wonāt but if it does, that will lead to a Republican majority in the Supreme Court. And you can bet your life, literally, that they will work to roll back every progressive law they can.Ā
The concept of a separation of church and state is already a joke in this country, but it will get so much worse.Ā
But more than that? Even if a nominee isnāt pushed throughā¦Ā
The vacancy RGB left behind will motivate Republicans to come out to vote in droves.Ā
THAT is what everyone needs to understand. This is a once in a life time opportunity for the Republicans. You think you donāt want to vote for Biden because heās not exactly who you want? Because heās not progressive enough or liberal enough?Ā
What about all the Republicans who may not support Trump, but want a Republican majority on the Supreme Court? The ones who may not like him, but would be willing to deal with him for four more years if it means controlling the Supreme Court for the next 40?
Itās awful and unfortunate that RGB died so close to the election. Throughout her life she worked tirelessly to fight for equality. Donāt let her life be in vain.Ā
Now more than ever, itās important to vote. Everyone. Down the entire ballot.Ā
Iām lucky enough to live in California, a historically Blue state. But those of my followers who live in Red states, you especially need to call your representatives in the Senate and tell them to postpone any nomination. Cite Mitch McConnellās own actions in 2016. Anything you can do to add pressure. Remind them who they really work for: you, their constituents.Ā
We cannot give up the fight. We canāt. Your vote matters. If it didnāt, why would the GOP be trying so hard to take it away? Make sure youāre registered. If you want to mail in your ballot then drop it off at designated polling stations instead of the post office to ensure itās counted in time.Ā
I donāt have many followers so I donāt know who will see this, but please, reblog this. Spread the information. RBGās death will galvanize Republicans out to vote en masse. We canāt afford to be apathetic or disenfranchised. We can make a difference, but not if we donāt bother to try.Ā
@one-time-i-dreamt @thebibliosphere
All of this delights me to no end.
ā¦Iām actually speechless.
I wasnāt looking for any information about railroads and now Iām left with that + knowledge about spaceships, Roman chariots and one (1) unexpected but welcome joke.
I am now trying to figure out how to share this (the age-appropriate parts) with my middle school history students. What a great chain of facts!
if you ever thought seriously for two minutes about the type of person likely to seek employment at a concentration camp, this would not surprise you
here's another two minute brain puzzler: why would ICE, which doesn't even give out toothbrushes, be so eager to send female prisoners to a doctor - and pay out surgery money - to make it so that they can never get pregnant? what would a pregnancy imply, under these circumstances?
we saw what happened at Abu Ghraib and what those kind of ppl are capable of
To be perfectly explicitly clear to anyone who doesnāt immediately get it, itās indicative that the male wardens and jailers of unlawfully and inhumanely detained women of color have been raping them en masse
This conclusion is being drawn here for multiple reasons, but these are the points I connected mentally while reading about this:
The majority of these women have been incarcerated long enough that they wouldnāt be able to be pregnant at this point if it hadnāt been at the hands of their captors
A nurse at a Georgia camp recently blew the whistle that a doctor is performing hysterectomies on nearly every female inmate he sees, she even called him āthe uterus collectorā and said it was like he was experimenting
Sterile women canāt get pregnant, ICE agents can therefore rape them without fear of evidence proving their actions, thus preying on this pool of women they have power and authority over with almost tota impunity
Obviously racism is also an issue here, white supremecists are highly motivated to commit acts of genocide like this even without the incentive of sexual access to vulnerable women that they can abuse, brutalize, and degrade.
But thereās a very clear picture painted here, and the sexual violence these detained women are facing is undeniably inextricably tied to the fact that they are now being forcibly sterilized
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-54160638
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I SMASHED REBLOG SO HARD
THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING
A lot of people are genuinely terrified about what will happen if Donald Trump wins reelection and it's really weird how some of y'all are acting like everyone begging you to vote for Biden is some privileged, rich, out of touch, neo-liberal when a lot of them are just vulnerable people who don't want to like...die in a brutal civil war or watch all their remaining rights get stripped away by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.
I do not know how to express to you how much worse it can get.
Okay. That was the one. That did it. Here come the tears.
This is the one that did me in:
āShe was ours, she did her best, she stayed as long as she could.ā
Register now to vote Trump out of office. Itās the least she deserves from us.
Trevor Noah interviewing Judith āBadassā Heumann
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Oh, gee, I wonder why making people put their lives at risk for the economy might make them consider ideologies other than capitalism?
We were socialists the entire time!
Hereās my advice to everyone who thinks that the election will be so fraudulent that it wonāt matter, who thinks 45 will not cede power, etc, etc:
Vote so that the history books know it was fraudulent. -
Vote so the contemporary world knows itās fraudulent. -
Vote so that he is actually committing the crime, and not just attempting it but winding up not needing to. -
Vote not because you like Joe Biden (ew), but because the establishment as it stands will take low votes against 45 as approval. Vote to communicate the crime that is happening in the most severe degree. Vote so that if he pulls some bullshit, it has to be the most obviously illegal bullshit possible.
These are not just talking points. These are steps to make action against a fraudulent government, if it happens, easier. To make it possible. To make the public understand.
If anti-maskers existed during WWII
Okay, hereās the thing though. It isnāt a question of if. They existed and this is exactly what they did.
After the United States entered World War II at the end of 1941 and Germany subsequently declared war upon it, Great Britain recommended several steps the United States should take in order to safeguard their ships from Nazi u-boats. Recommendations included sailing ships in convoy (preferably with escort, but records proved ships in convoy without escort were still safer than ships sailing alone), if a ship had to sail on its own, it should avoid known navigation routes and markers, and towns and cities along the East Coast should adhere to strict blackouts at night. These recommendations came from the previous two years of experience in which u-boats absolutely ran wild in the North Atlantic and North Sea, obliterating British shipping. This period of time was referred to by Nazi u-boat captains asĀ āThe First Happy Timeā.Ā
Despite British warnings, the United States was slow to follow them and impose restrictions. Ships continued to sail along marked navigation routes and run standard navigation lights at night. Boardwalk communities along the coast were only requested they turn off their lights at night and the cities werenāt even asked that because they didnāt want to offend the tourism, recreation, and business sectors.Ā
Blacking out coastal communities would have made it infinitely harder for Nazi submarines to find and sink targets. A ship running with no lights is still visible against the backdrop of a lit city.
Conversely, a dark ship running against a dark coast is virtually invisible.
But because citizens living on the coast refused to adhere to wartime suggestions for amenity reasons, merchant ships sailing up and down the East Coast became sitting ducks of u-boats. The US government did not begin strictly enforcing blackouts until roughly August 1942. By then, the Nazis had been given 8 months to run rampant along American shores. This time period was referred to by u-boat captains asĀ āThe Second Happy Timeā orĀ āAmerican Shooting Seasonā.Ā
By August, Nazi u-boats had sunk 609 merchant vessels, totaling 3.1 million tons and costing thousands of lives, mostly of merchant mariners performing their essential jobs.Ā
By comparison, only 22 u-boats were sunk.
While the failure of coastal blackouts were not the sole reason the Nazis had such success during this time period (the Navy was slow to implement convoys and remove notable aids to navigation along the coast), I do not think it can be argued they did not contribute significantly to such great loss of American lives.
If you can, please read the reply above or save it for whenever you have time. We need to break the habits of our history and that starts with applying our past to our present.
USA! USA! USA!
