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Something about the idea that voting for president only matters if you live in a swing state, and that all the people in blue states or red states can indulge themselves in principled nonparticipation because the outcomes are preordained, strikes me as akin to playing with fire.

Is it really coherent to say "both sides are awful, write in Mickey Mouse or burn your ballot or just stay home and get drunk, unless you live in Pennsylvania, in which case maybe consider taking one for the team and compromising yourself by voting for the lesser evil?" Is that really the message that will lead to a preferable outcome?

What it sounds like to me is a sign that 1) you take your local electorate for granted, and 2) you see avoiding the worst case scenario as somebody else's problem.

I remember when Florida was a swing state. I also remember when Pennsylvania wasn't.

For the love of fuck, vote in your local elections and don't fuck around with presidential ones either. States are in play now that I would never have dreamed of being 'swing' states. When I first started voting, PA absolutely was not a swing state. The district where I cast my first vote went blue for the first time I can remember last election.

Washington state, universally considered a safe blue state, has voted Democrat between 50.1% and 58.0% in presidential elections since 2000. Those are pretty healthy margins. But they are not insurmountable - Washington was reliably red up to 1984, by similar amounts - and they don't happen by magic. They happen because people fucking vote blue even though it's considered a safe state.

If enough people think, "eh, I don't have to vote, Washington is going to go blue no matter what," then guess what happens? The state goes red. And we don't want that.

Oregon is also considered by outside viewers to be super liberal. Then, when you zoom in on individual counties, it's like 90% red. A lower than average Democratic voter turnout in the larger cities could easily make the whole state as Republican as the bigoted Oregon town I currently live in. A higher turnout in rural areas could start making the state look like people think it does.

If you feel safe that your state is a "blue" state, look at the county maps and see just how few of them are actually as blue as you imagine.

As someone who has lived in rural Oregon and rural Kansas, I found rural Kansas less conservative. Do not trust in your state's reputation as one color or another. That reputation is often defined by a very small part of the map.

This machine kills AI

No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

Tech bros who think digital is forever and that uploading your consciousness to a computer is immortality crack me up. Like bro, you'd be "immortal" on the computer for like a year until your own company sends out some software update that makes you incompatible and whoops, there goes TechBro.soul into the great Recycling Bin in the sky

Medically recognized, but not formally diagnosed: a psychologist or other professional recognizes your autism, but you don't have a formal diagnosis

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

yes I absolutely had to use time on this, thanks for asking

Ireland is the only country in Europe

In light of @staff ‘s recent post, let me remind you of the absolute irony of this piece about censorship of trans identities and bodies getting hit with a mature label

Which I cannot seem to be able to appeal 🙃

He’s trying so hard and she’s just…not.

And now she won’t stop trying to ask him to play when he is clearly ready to drop 😂 go Nunu!

saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”

me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶

stupid fahrenheit temperatures screwing with my results...

Guys do u know that one meme where there's a girl and like a bodyguard (???) ordering drinks and the waiter give them the wrong drinks so they switch them on the last panel,???????? BECAUSE I C1NT FING IT^

I FUCKIBG GOT IT RAAAAAHHHHHHH 💥💥💥💥💥

Apparently that's dad! He's in a lot of the photos.

Trying my best to spread this

Sorry for not giving the link earlier 💔

I cant belive I've been living without the dad edition my whole life

The struggle is real.

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

i hope it's okay to add this because i think it hits the nail directly on the head

Honestly, it's like picking up a book and saying "I know all these words, I can type, I could have written this" like there's no middle step between the technical ability and the finished work.

hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app

iPhone user WISH they had this

everyone on android mobile stopped to do this after seeing the gif

posts that remind you to play with your balls(Android users only)

Bar raids should be a thing of the past but police are allowed to selectively enforce laws against queer and trans people. As long as policing continues to exist, so will the attacks on our spaces. https://www.them.us/story/two-seattle-gay-bars-received-lewd-conduct-citations-owners-demand-answers

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