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Art nouveau, appartement à Barcelone

Las Vegas, 1983. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

I just want everyone to eat well and get old

every single one of us should have the chance to get old and bald and wrinkly and fat. I mean that sincerely

Americans, these are things we are NOT saying in 2024:

“Voting blue won’t solve anything.” Yes it will: if enough of us do it, it will solve a problem called Trump’s second term in the White House. We unfortunately live in a two-party system. If you refuse to vote, you’re effectively voting for Trump. I shouldn’t need to explain this to people, yet here we are.

“It doesn’t matter who’s president. Both candidates are the same anyway.” No, they are REALLY not. Biden was never my first choice, and his shipments of arms to Israel are despicable, but don’t try to tell me even for a second that a second Trump term would be the same for the world as a second Biden term.

“But voting blue won’t fix [fundamental underlying problem in America].” Voting for Democrats cannot fix every issue, this is true. But by saying this and ONLY this you are discouraging people from voting by making them feel hopeless. Voting is one of many tools in our arsenal, not the only tool, but an important one, and it does matter.

“You shouldn’t vote blue, you should do [other thing] instead.” See above: you can vote and protest and organize at the same time. It’s not either/or. You can do it all. Stop discouraging voters from exercising their rights under the guise of leftism.

“Voting is just legitimizing government power. It makes you part of the system.” Literally just shut up. Women and people of color didn’t fight for their voting rights to have you say things like this. If you live in America and you can legally vote, then you should fucking vote, and vote blue. There is no neutral option.

“Voting blue just makes you complicit in [this bad policy].” Inaction, and allowing Trump to have a second term, is worse for the entire world than any Democrat policy. Yes, even that one. Voting is not about finding a perfect unproblematic candidate. It is about choosing the lesser of two evils.

“Voting doesn’t work because—” STOP IT. STOP DISCOURAGING PEOPLE FROM VOTING.

You know who wants you NOT to vote? Trump supporters, that’s who. You should be suspicious of ANYONE who is suggesting that your vote doesn’t matter, or that both candidates are the same, or that Biden’s policy on XYZ means you shouldn’t vote for him. Trump supporters aren’t trying to get your vote by saying, “Vote for Trump!” They’re trying to get your vote by DISCOURAGING YOU FROM VOTING AT ALL.

I don’t like Biden either, but Trump is unequivocally worse. Voting doesn’t fix everything, but it is the minimum fucking requirement of living in a democracy. Voting for president has real, tangible, immediate impacts on people’s lives, and choosing not to vote is not the rebellion you think it is, it is just relinquishing your voice. So fucking vote. THIS IS A GROUP PROJECT AND DAMN IT WE ARE NOT FAILING BECAUSE OF YOU.

Reblogging this again in honor of the dipshit in my notes crying and screaming about things I did not say. “Why do you like Biden why are you saying he’s good” I don’t. Says it right there in the post. “But voting won’t fix everything” I know. Says it right there in the post. “Voting is the bare minimum” Amazing! Says that in the post too. “Why aren’t you telling people to do things beside vote” I literally did. Read the fucking post.

If you don’t like Biden’s support for Israel, you should know that it is nothing compared to Trump’s support for Israel, and the Republican Party in general. And they are using American influence in entirely different ways.

Biden: “Israel is our ally, and we support our allies. However, let’s talk behind the scenes and use our material support to put pressure on them to stop their part of the violence and come to a viable peace agreement.”

Trump: “Fuck yeah, genocide is awesome! Let’s kill all the brown people! Let’s kill all the Muslims! I’m going to give you everything you could ever want with no strings!” Trump is supported by Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians, who believe in the Rapture, which is a completely whacked interpretation of Revelation in which, for Jesus to come back, Israel has to be destroyed and all Jews killed, except that God will kill all the people who destroy Israel. Therefore, Rapture believers want someone else (preferably Muslims) to destroy Israel and commit genocide against Jews, so that both Jews and Muslims will be wiped out.

Those are your two choices.

On the one hand, a guy who stands by Israel politically and militarily but is also advocating for justice and peace behind the scenes, or a guy who is 100% ride-or-die for the worst of Netanyahu’s violence and backed by people who are hoping to use this to create more genocide in the future.

And if you say “well, I just won’t vote,” you are contributing to the victory of the guy who is vocally pro-genocide.

I recently saw a post trying to discourage votes for Biden by revealing things that have happened under Biden. However I’ve noticed people doing that never seem to want to discuss the problem or policy under Republicans.

The post revealed the large number of immigrants deported under Biden. What the poster was careful not to point out is that Republicans consider only deporting several hundred thousand people to be an “Open Door” policy they need to fix by sending everyone back and slamming the door shut.

Biden hasn’t fixed abortion rights. Oh, you mean those rights Trump succeeded in destroying by stacking the Supreme Court with conservative judges who lied about not revoking Rowe vs Wade. Do you think conservatives are happy with States being able to decide to protect abortion? Do you think they aren’t working to change that?

Israel. See the post above on the rapture. Understand how deeply help that belief is. I had an elderly neighbor who used to donate $25 a week to her church so they would have enough money to send Jewish people back to Israel for the end times.

Look, if the Republicans take the House, Senate and Presidency, you will learn far too quickly and sadly how badly you’ve been decieived.

You are voting for every Democrat on that ballot purely as a matter of survival.

The inclination toward not voting, or voting for unelectable third party candidates because Biden, the Democrats or government generally isn’t doing exactly what you want, the way you want and when is an indulgence you need to have put behind you because it doesn’t meet the moment.

You aren’t voting to craft your ideal government. You’re voting to craft the government that will move us closer to where you want us to be — and even if it isn’t much closer, no one can afford to be moved further away.

And if you need more motivation:

…Y'all do remember that America has nukes, right? Like, a lot of them. And the standard global policy in the event of a nuclear war is still Mutually Assured Destruction.

Do I like Biden? No. But I do think he’s reasonable enough not to set off nuclear armageddon over a dick measuring contest.

Meanwhile let’s all go ahead and remember when North Korea had made a major advancement in their nuclear program, Trump decided it was a great time to start taunting their notoriously thin-skinned dictator with schoolyard insults over twitter. Trump has always lived in a world devoid of any real consequences. He would absolutely push the button just for the hell of it.

Like, again, just a reminder. The President of the United States has the power to end the world. Anytime he wants. Why the FUCK do you think it’s a good idea to let Donald Trump have that kind of power???

It’s absolutely terrifying being America’s neighbour, dear god. During the Trump presidency, I was laying awake at night sometimes wondering if the latest international incident was going to be what finally did it. I don’t care about your moral purity. I care about not getting fucking nuked. I can’t vote in your goddamn elections, but I know you idiots have the power to kill us all at any given moment, so trust me: Biden is better than Trump.

Vote for Biden, and for the love of god apply some pressure towards nuclear disarmarment, because American activists really don’t give a shit about that anymore, which is pretty concerning given that the nukes haven’t gone anywhere. They’re still all sitting there. Your entire Cold War stash is still armed and ready to launch at a moments notice. For fucks sake, PLEASE. Remember that your country is a nuclear superpower.

North Sea Storm, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky 1865

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Stars I made for the farmers market 🥹⭐️

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Coats of some British and Icelandic sheep breeds:

Greyface Dartmoor; Cheviot; Icelandic; Beulah; Cotswold; Welsh Mountain; Suffolk; Southdown; and British Milksheep.

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yes but also pls consider this

they’re going through reddit and killing everyone on there with their minds