Mediocrates

Gender-flux, disabled Posts are typically about mental health, black lives matter, orphan black, and Steven Universe

[bemusedlybespectacled]

why did i do this

[classicantics-deactivated201712]

Young man: feeling down

Self: picked off the ground

Status: new in town

[npr]

Even before any election happens, it’s pretty easy to predict where the demographic fault lines will be: whites tend to vote more Republican than non-whites. Women tend to vote more Democratic than men. This year, it became clear that there was a growing gap between white voters with college degrees, who tend to vote more Democratic, and those without degrees, who vote more Republican.

Here’s another divide that started to get more attention this election: the rural-urban gap. Rural voters vote more Republican, while urban voters vote more Democratic, and that divide grew this year from where it was in 2012 and 2008. It’s a nuanced divide, too; strikingly, as counties get progressively more rural, they more or less steadily grow more Republican. And it’s possible that living in a rural area caused people to vote more Republican this election.

Exit polls show that the rural-urban divide grew from 2008 to 2012, and again this election. What’s particularly interesting is that the rural vote seems to have moved more than the urban or suburban votes.

Rural Voters Played A Big Part In Helping Trump Defeat Clinton

Charts: Danielle Kurtzleben, Alyson Hurt and Tyler Fisher/NPR

[communismkills]

“There shouldn’t be a stigma against people who seek help for mental illness!”

“But we need to permanently ban them from ever owning guns because they’re not competent people.”

[theinfamousz-blog]

Those are seperate? There's a difference between someone with autism that has self control and someone who lacks empathy paired with a violent history? Mental health illness isn't the prerequisite for monitoring gun ownership rights. It's malicious intent or a violent history.

[just-shower-thoughts]

There has probably always been just as many ADHD, autistic and etc people. Back in the 14th century life was just simpler and if you were capable enough to manage to herd goats, nobody cared if you’re a bit weird

[triss19]

this has been my long standing theory

[ithelpstodream]

DEAD😂

[did-you-know]

A study of over 1 million people’s reactions to false Facebook posts during a 2013 Italian election suggests that many conspiracy theories might often begin as satirical social media posts that are then taken seriously and spread as fact. Source

[ithelpstodream]

Why did I became a super popular meme in US presidential campaign? 1) I live and work in Belgium. 2) I work in my own tattoo shop. 3) I don’t give a flying fuck about US politics. 4) In the case I’d had to express an opinion, I’d say that Donald Trump is a nazi

… so, I have a job, Trump is indeed a racist, and the media that support his campaign all lie.

AND if you’re a US citizen, are poor or middleclass, you need to be a fucking idiot to believe that a billionaire will solve your problems. Billionaires will never solve your problems, they ARE the problem.

Please share to reinform.

– Rouslan Toumaniantz

[littlekingcorona]

Random country: rich in oil and minding their own business 

America:

[purelintrash]

[reverseracism]

I’m screaming!!!

[trumpetsbyjasonderulo-deactivat]

no offense but i need everyone to stop saying that “we survived” bad presidents before. like, i get it, the country has weathered people like andrew jackson and ronald reagan and will probably weather trump. but when you say “we survived” andrew jackson? tell that to the 4000 (of 16000) cherokee who died on the trail of tears. “we survived” ronald reagan? tell that to the 650,000 americans who have died of aids– a national health crisis which reagan refused to even recognize? 

you know who “survived” presidents like trump? people who never had to be afraid of them in the first place. 

[thresholdofzero-deactivated2018]

There’s a difference between living and survival.

People deserve better than just survival.

[middle-eastt]

“Are you gonna let politics ruin a friendship?”

Yes tf I am

[litany-of-excuses-deactivated20]

People talk about politics as if it’s this isolated, abstract concept that only matters at election time. Somebody’s politics is their world view. It’s whether they think certain human beings deserve rights. It’s how they think the world should be. And if somebody thinks that the world should be colder, meaner, less accepting and downright hostile to people that are different to them, then sure as fuck is the friendship over.

[snorlaxatives]

god it’s so annoying how delusional ass conservatives act like millennials are “offended by everything” for standing up to things like blatant racism and sexism, meanwhile there’s a conservative outrage every time starbucks releases a cup without “merry christmas” on it

[heartbeatemoji]

any white at a protest who tries to go against police and deliberately provoke a response from them is not to be trusted and does not have the safety of black and brown people in mind.

[threedollarwine]

lookin at u white anarchists in black bandanas and keffiyehs

[mitchellmoffit]

white people this morning: good morning!

me: 

[ohbrae-deactivated20170317]

Y'all gotta realize that some of us are weary because of the direct violence that comes with this presidency. Sure he can’t do x,y,z, but that’s not going to stop his supporters from harassing, murdering and discriminating against minorities. His election has given them the thumbs up to be openly prejudiced at a greater amplitude. The direct threat comes from his supporters, and that’s what’s terrifying. These people are all around us in positions of power and education. Their confidence in their bigotry has been restored and multiplied and that is extremely worrisome.