hey so the Democrats are in charge at this very moment. They could enshrine abortion rights in the constitution at this very moment. Why would they wait until after midterms to do something, and if they aren’t gonna wait until after midterms, wtf does this have to do with midterms?
The only way to “enshrine it in the constitution” would be to make it an amendment. This requires a 2/3 vote from both the House and the Senate.
Which… wouldn’t pass.
I know this is shocking. But “being in charge” doesn’t actually mean unlimited power.
This post mentions the midterms because it 1. Could give us a super majority needed for this kind of amendment and 2. Would affect STATE governments which could safeguard abortion on a state level.
Vote these midterms. It has never been more critical to stop this shit. Those playing the long con game have been waiting for this most of all. The more freedoms they remove from us the stronger they get. Stop the backwards slide to remove rights from everyone but the rich white male.
right. every single time this happens people tell us to vote. and then we do. and now this. and obama swore to codify it into law as his first act. and didn’t. biden did the same, and didn’t.
so.. what exactly is next?
vote harder?
honestly fuck voting. voting ain’t done shit for anybody. find abortion providers who are willing to do abortions even after laws pass. distribute abortion pills. feed people. house people. discriminalize drugs. abolish cops and prisons. ALL of those things will do more to actually fucking help people than just saying “go vote.”
Cool, so we just let them keep taking away our rights?
Fuck you. Biden is still trying to fix Trump’s mess while dealing with the Ukraine crisis.
Literally FUCK YOU. And with that attitude maybe you better learn how to say it in Russian, because if you get your way that’s what we’ll all be speaking in ten years.
Y'all do know that you can do both, right? Like you can vote, AND you can do mutual aid, protests, etc. You SHOULD do both if you can!
But fucking take the hour or whatever to vote in people who live on this plane of reality and at least aren’t trying to make shit way worse.
I just do not understand this resistance to voting in people who *might* help or might not, as opposed to allowing people who are guaranteed to push a fascist agenda to keep power and make things much worse.
People don’t understand how truly fucked up American politics is.
The fact that Biden can’t get shit done because McConnell and Trump colluded to stack the courts is not something they really comprehend. Some of them understand that Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema are bad people who won’t vote for stuff we need, despite being Democrats, without grasping that this means we can’t get stuff we need. We cannot expand the Court, we don’t have enough Democrats in the Senate to do it, because some of them suck. The solution to this is not to throw up your hands and say fuck voting, but to work to get enough of them in that it will actually help.
Let’s be clear: once upon a time, Republican vs Democrat was actually a choice reasonable people could make. But now there is the party of Governing and the party of Political Posturing And Pandering To The Worst Humans In The Country. The party that let a raging narcissist make matters worse while hundreds of thousands of people died, because he needed to feed his ego and make the pandemic look unimportant. Do you really think we’d be in that position if Hillary had been president instead? Donald Trump’s opinion would have been completely unimportant and the right wing noise machine didn’t have any inherently good reason for wanting Republicans to kill themselves, they were just pandering to Trump’s narcissism. Now Biden can’t get the monkeys back in the barrel and they’ve had a lot of baby monkeys because they had time to run around the country screeching and throwing poo, and you’re gonna blame him for not being able to control the situation when it was too late by the time he took power? 30% of the country think he’s not a legitimate president because Donald Trump just flat out lied about it so much that there’s now an entire voter suppression movement energized by that lie, plus an attempted coup.
Democrats cover a range of good and bad people, like normal politicians always have. But they are not locked into manic support for the Objectively Worst Ideas Ever. Jesus Christ, you think we’d have anything if Biden hadn’t won and McConnell was still Majority Leader in the Senate?
This situation is really really fucking serious. There is a group of people who hate everyone who’s not a wealthy cis het Christian white male or a cis het Christian white female who’s willing to be subservient to the first one. And they are trying to turn this into a fascist theocracy and destroy democracy in this country. Also, setting the world on fire because a lot of them think the destruction of the world is the will of God and necessary for them, the good people, to all go to heaven, and the rest are beholden to big energy companies. And right now, the only tool we have to stop them is voting for anyone who isn’t one of them. Including Joe Manchin, who I hate, but if he was replaced with a Republican then Mitch McConnell could continue to just prevent good bills from ever getting voted on.
“The Democrats are in power” – no, they’re not, because Trump stacked the courts, and the courts are one of the three co-equal branches of government, and because there are like 2 Democrats who are politically more aligned with the ideals of the old Republican party, which were still bad, just not as cosmically horrible as the new Republican party. To actually repair the damage Trump and McConnell have done, we need to take away all of McConnell’s power by having either 60 Democrats in the Senate, or three more who are enthusiastically in favor of getting rid of the filibuster entirely (or at least changing it to the Mr. Smith Goes To Washington kind where you can only filibuster as long as you’re on the floor talking and the moment you have to leave to go to the bathroom, if no one else takes your place you’re done.) We also need to keep all the power we have in the House. We also need to replace state governors and legislatures, because the federal government doesn’t have the power to stop the Don’t Say Gay bill; education is a power specifically given to the states. And because if there was a federal mask mandate or vaccination requirement, and enough judges who understand fucking science to make sure that doesn’t get thrown out for political reasons, the government still couldn’t enforce it in states that don’t support it because the entire apparatus of law enforcement mostly works for states, and the FBI has better things to worry about than Karen and her husband not wearing masks. Oh, and because the entire apparatus of law enforcement works for states, and if we want to defund the police, control of states is where it has to be done.
People who are like “but we voted in Democrats and nothing got better” a. don’t understand politics and b. don’t understand harm reduction. They’re like “vandals totally trashed my apartment so I hired a guy with a vacuum cleaner but the windows are all still broken, what was the point of hiring the guy with the vacuum cleaner?” Friend, you need to hire a lot more people than you have already if you want to fix things and not just slow the slide toward them getting worse.
And a huge chunk of the “well, we voted in Democrats and nothing got better” are the same people who were “Well, I’m not voting against Donald Trump because my candidate didn’t win the primary”.
the best thing that we can do right now to fight for abortion rights is donating to your local abortion fund, especially in states with “trigger laws” or laws that will immediately take harsh measures to shut down abortion rights as soon as roe is overturned. If you don’t know your local abortion fund or states with trigger laws, here’s one in Texas,one in Louisiana,one in Georgia,one in West Virginiaandone in Mississippi (all states with such “trigger laws”). There’s so many more beyond the handful i just listed here but times like these are the time to donate and support the incredible work that these organizations do for their communities.
anyway i said i would do this after the whole thing was said and done… when i was looking for advice i found like “paint your nails and listen to happy music” buzzfeed bullshit so
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gerard way at thought bubble today!! can’t believe i finally got the chance to meet him and managed to get front row for his panel, what an actual sweetheart
Yes, I blurted right after handshake: “I love you and everything you do.” Blessed, thankful and eyes in tears from all pride I feel for having this amazing man and artist as my greatest role model.
Because of you I fight today and will fight tomorrow.
This is what Americans are saying when they call their wars against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, or Vietnam (or less commonly Korea) “mistakes”.
It’s not as “progressive foreign policy” as they might want you to believe, it’s a very subtle form of genocide apologia.
America chose to drop those bombs, on those homes, where those people lived. It was planned and ordered, it cost a lot of money and required a lot of effort. It was no accident, no “blunder”.
…and the people who were massacred by this, they never got justice. Washington did not get shunned on the world’s stage for its atrocities. The perpetraitors got monuments and medal and discounts and holidays for their actions.
After a small decluttering, my current wardrobe contains:
Bottoms
2 pairs of basic black trousers
2 pairs of shalwars
2 pairs of yoga pants
2 pais of shorts
warm leggins
boiler pants
velvet sweatpants
jeans pedal pushers
Tops
13 T-shirts
1 crop top
3 blouses
6 shirts
2 overalls
2 sweaters
3 hoodies
Underwear
27 pairs of socks (yes, I know)
4 bras
1 sports bra
17 pants
tights
5 undervests
3 parts of pyjama
2 onesie
Outdoor clothing
fur coat
2 winter coats
jacket
raincoat
boiler suit
Accessories
1 pair of gloves
2 cups
beanie
winter hat
scarf
rucksack
laptop bag
bag
suitcase
4 tote bags
2 sackpacks
Footwear
2 pairs of winter boots
2 pais of wedges
sneackers
3 pairs of slippers
flip-flops
sandals
I’m still working on reducing my number of clothes. I’ve decluttered some worn out and torn pieces of clothing (turned it to rugs or threw away).
The list doesn’t include things I have decided to sell, so they are stored by me in different place. If I can’t sell them in 2 months - I’ll donate them. There are still clothes on the list that I almost don’t wear. I will decide what to do with them in the future. Now, I’m proud of myself that I let go to so many clothes.
I’m looking forward to making similar list in the future and comparing it ;)
If you want to share with me some tips feel free to do it! Brainstorms are the best!
So these past few days there have been two big issues that have been brought up in the news and have many people arguing, one being the issue with the Confederate Flag and the other being Gay Marriage being ruled legal by the Supreme Court. Now I do have a few things to say about both of these topics and I am sure there will be people on both sides who agree and disagree with me on this topics.
#1. The whole issue with the Confederate flag being taken down from stores, shops, towns, etc is honestly a load of shit, yes this will offend many people, but listen to this. This particular flag doesn’t represent people fighting for slavery. There are 13 stars on that flag and these stars represent the 13 colonies who want to secede from the Union to do as they please and follow their own rules. They didn’t want to be forced to do certain things. And yes this does imply slavery to some extent with them wanting to follow their own guidelines/rules. Yes there were people in that time that lived in the south and opposed the beliefs down there, just like there were people who lived in the north that had plantations with many slaves. Not everyone in the north was against slavery and some would capture the runaways for the money, just like some in the south would harbor runaways so they could live their lives free. Hatred towards people have been around forever and there have been many crimes or shootings that have happened over the course of this year and most of them have been whites against blacks.But one incident in what was a southern state during the Civil War, shouldn’t cause for one flag that represents someones beliefs and people who wanted to think for themselves, be taken down. It is a part of history, yes an ugly part but still history. You don’t see the World trying to make Germany change their flag after the Holocaust when one group attempted genocide on another, so why make this issue different.
#2. So today Gay Marriage was ruled legal by the Supreme Court for all states. I do not have an issue with this since one of my best friends is a <b>lesbian</b>. The one issue I do have is how the courts took a shit on the Constitution and the 10th Amendment, by imposing this ruling for every state. <u>Which under this Amendment the Federal Government can only possess the powers that it is delegated to it by the Constitution, and the remaining powers are reserved to the States to decide if they want to pass something or not.</u> To me this shows how the government is taking everything into its own hands when certain issues should be decided by the States individually. I am happy for this because there are people who have been fighting for this type of equality their entire lives, but it shouldn’t be decided by the government, it should be voted on individually within the states by the people.
Tuesday, June 7th: Hi everyone happy pride month. I’m Gemma, a bi, mentally ill and disabled woman who is in desperate need of help, asmy accountsare overdrawn and I’mreally struggling to get groceries.
As many of you are already aware from my previous posts, I have been struggling financially these past few months due to my welfare benefit (Universal Credit) being under a review, which is due to my worsening mental/physical health and the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. And at the moment, I’m currently struggling to get by, as my application for Disability (PIP) was declined despite recently being diagnosed with PCOS & MDD, and due to awaiting DWP assessments, my debt from overdue bills is piling up which is making it difficult for me to get by.
To be quite honest, these past few weeks have been absolute hell for me, and with no other income, I’ve been relying on the kindness of others to get by, but I absolutely cannot afford these fees by myself and I don’t receive my welfare until the end of the month. I’m currently overdrawn by £103, and my PayPal £89.It’s also my 31st on June 19th, so any help would be incredibly appreciated,I also have abirthday wishlist!!
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. And I must stress, please do not donate if it will put yourself into a difficult situation, I know we’re all struggling right now.
