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my branches are heavy

@lanadelreyoflight / lanadelreyoflight.tumblr.com

petty but cute
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Power outages are homophobic

Elaborate…

I’m gay and they are inconveniencing me

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free him

free him

free him

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yourgoat

Fools….he is sealed for our protection

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Trying to scare or guilt me into voting for Hillary is not a reason to vote for Hillary. 

I am not motivated by fear. 

Anyone who uses fear to get you to vote for them is not worth voting for. 

I am motivated to vote for Jill Stein because our current political system is beholden to capitalism, racism, and imperialism and the elite few in power need to know that the people will not let them continue to abuse our rights and our lives, while trying to appease us with, “at least we’re not Trump.”

Saying you’re better than Trump isn’t saying much at all. 

We shouldn’t be setting the bar at “she’s better than Trump.” 

We should be fighting for what we actually want, which, for me, is fundamental, institutional change. That’s a long fight, but if we want a truly better and sustainable standard of living for everyone, we have to have this fight. 

Revolution is not convenient. Revolution is not easy. The people and systems in power, upholding the status quo, will use all the tools at their disposal to make us believe that what we want is too much; that what we’re asking for is impossible. But it’s not impossible. It just requires a break from the status quo. And that is something the status quo cannot abide. So they try to blame us for wanting what we want. They say we are the problem. They say we are destroying the balance. But the actual problem is the system itself. Not those who speak against it. 

So I will not let you scare me or guilt me into voting for someone who will not change that system. 

I’m not voting for Trump and I’m not voting for Hillary. 

I’m voting for Jill Stein because she represents systemic change to the capitalist, racist, imperialist status quo. 

I am motivated by fear. I don’t have the luxury to waste my vote on my conscience

I’m a part of the LGBT community, I have several chronic diseases, chronic pain, and I’m terrified. I would die without access to affordable medical care. If Trump is voted president because of a split vote, my family’s livelihood is going to fall apart.

I’m voting Democratic no matter what. I don’t care who it ends up being. The people who are going to vote for Trump are still going to vote for Trump. There’s no need to meaninglessly split the vote.

You have to think about the common good when you cast your vote, not what just benefits you.

Exactly. Most of the Bernie or Bust people are people who wouldn’t be disadvantaged by a Trump presidency. At the DNC, a majority of the people holding Bernie signs were white. They won’t get deported, they won’t get put in internment camps. I am a white, privileged person from a middle class family, but I understand the importance of putting a Democrat in office at all costs. Bullshit with your conscience, if you really had a conscience you would rally behind the one hope that POC, LGBT people, people in poverty have. That one hope is Hillary. Voting third party will do nothing for anyone except yourself who wants to feel good about “making a difference”. If you really want to make a difference, vote Democrat.

I’m voting my conscience.

And by that, I mean my conscience says that it’s better to vote for an imperfect person who can win than it is to let Donald Trump win because I can’t be fucked to debark from my high horse.

I’m not voting out of fear. It’s out of confidence. Confidence that a third party cannot win, confident in knowing That if Trump wins the country will be so much worse off than with Hilary as president. Confident that we don’t have the luxury of protest votes if we want to stay free.

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tygermama

I’m Canadian. We got stuck with Panther Herpes (aka Stephen Harper) for TEN FUCKING YEARS even though he never had a popular majority. why? The left split their votes between the Liberal and NDP parties. you do not have the luxury of voting with your conscience. if you do, you will end up with President Trump

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