1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

Finally, here’s the most fundamental truth of all the gun advocates would admit if you forced them to:

All this death and misery? The thousands of gun homicides and gun suicides and mass shootings? We don’t like it, sure. But it’s a price we’re willing to pay. We love our guns so much that we think all that horror is something the rest of you should just have to put up with. Maybe there’s some amount of gun deaths that would make us say “I’m willing to accept some inconvenience and limits on my gun rights to do something about this.” Would 100,000 dead Americans a year be enough? Five hundred thousand? We don’t really know. But whatever that number might be, nearly 40,000 per year, what we currently experience, isn’t enough. One mass shooting after another after another isn’t enough.

That’s what the gun advocates would say if you gave them truth serum.

CP: That's what I like about astrology now, is because I was, like, oh, like

TH: It justifies all her spending.

CP: Yeah. Exactly. And, like, oh, I'm a little, like, loud and bossy. But then it was, like, but that was my destiny.

Kamala Harris made ‘The Man’ by Taylor Swift her exit song at her post-debate speech tonight!

Kamala Harris has been accused of violence against POC, women, and the poor, because she works within a system that is insanely and systematically racist, misogynist, and dehumanizing.

If you simply go on Wikipedia and read through her career summary (which I’ve been doing all day) you’ll see that she has STRONG principles and that occasionally her professionalism has demanded she advocate for things she herself doesn’t necessarily support or believe in. But when she has held positions where she had POWER to make policy, she has consistently worked to refine and tweak the system, making changes where she can to make the system LESS cruel, LESS unbalanced, MORE fair, MORE just.

The past few weeks I have seen an explosion in doomerism and defeatism about Trump. Some people seem to have just decided to call the election for him for reasons that don't even make much sense

(He was almost shot and that always helps! Look at Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt! Reagan was already president and incredibly popular, and the shooting happened 2 months into his first term; Roosevelt was shot when he was campaigning in 1912....in an election he lost)

Trump has never been popular, he has never won the popular vote, and he has never had popular support. For the past 3 years, especially post Roe V. Wade, Democrats have increasingly overperformed especially in special elections. There were so many polls predicting 2022 would be a Red Wave, that turned out to be false due to faulty and biased polling. I'm not saying a Dem loss is impossible, but it is a lot less of a sure thing than the doomsayers are making it out to be

How does Trump win? Apathy. Despair. Low Turn Out. While many of the "Trump is guaranteed to win" posters I'm sure are real people who are justifiably scared, I think we underestimate just how many are people at home and abroad, who want a lower turnout, who want Trump to win.

I used to hear a joke growing up that "If voting did anything, they would make it illegal" Well considering how hard Republicans are trying to discourage voting and making it hard to do, it must do something.

Don't despair. Don't panic. Don't retreat. ACT

So what can you do?

Are you registered to vote? 🗳

You can register to vote here! ☑️

Do you know what/ who will be on your ballot? 📄

Do you know your state voting requirements? 📥

Do you know your polling location? 📍

Can you vote early? 🖊

Can you vote by mail? 📬

Do you need disability services for voting? ♿️

Do you need to know your voter’s rights? 🧑🏽‍⚖️

Do you need a ride to register/ vote?

Spread this far and wide. Tell your friends and your family. Make clear to them what is at stake if Trump wins.

Additionally, here are two volunteer organizations that I help out with

Vote Forward - write letters to encourage turnout

Working Family's Party - an organization working to help progressives win in primaries and general elections. I particularly like working in their text bank program. Want to help in a phone bank but don't like talking on the phone? this is perfect as you send texts to encourage support and voting

dude.

But Democrats got an initiative to codify abortion rights constitutionally (rendering the ban moot) on the ballot in Ohio last November, and it won by 13 percentage points. The magnitude of that cannot be overstated.

It was not a simple thing. It was the work of thousands of dedicated people, first to simply get the measure on the ballot, and then campaigning, going door-to-door, making phone calls, sending postcards, having community meetings, telling deeply personal stories, to convince people of the importance of a yes vote. It cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars and incalculable human hours of work.

And here we are less than four months later, and Nina Turner is pretending that it never happened and doesn’t matter.

This is yet another example of the American leftist movement’s bullshit purity politics serving as a black hole of ignorance and self-serving dishonesty. If it doesn’t happen exactly the way they want, it doesn’t count.