Unfortunately I have to change my pinned post because this keeps happening and I'm sick of it.
This is a Pro-Palestine blog, but if I reblog your "I'm Pro-Palestine but screw voting" post telling OTHER PEOPLE seeing the post why voting is important for Palestine and that there are other issues that will impact how we help Palestine if the wrong side (Republicans) wins and that a lot of us will be in similar situations to them if the Trump/Vance ticket wins and if you reply why I'm wrong and if you jump to a wild conclusion about the point of my post, you're blocked. I don't like waking up to that when the party that has called my friends and relatives pedophiles for being teachers/LGBTQIA+ has a chance of winning because enough people voted third party to split the vote for Clinton in swing states in 2016. I'm done with you people. I live in a state that will vote for Trump/Vance no matter what and I want other states to cancel out my stupid state's vote. I also live in a state that banned abortion, did not protect the right to contraception, repeatedly attacks LGBTQIA+ identifying people (especially the State Superintendent), and is making a quality public education harder to access (we rank last on a lot of those state education lists). There are more issues than Palestine that I care about that will be impacted if Trump/Vance wins and I seriously need people to know that you need to vote if you can because fascism is at the front door. You may not care about these issues, but I do. Congratulations on living in a blue state or in a country that is not regressing to the 1950s. Follow the local news of one of these states for a month and you'll see what I'm talking about or get off my blog.
I'm not a Zionist. Israel had the right to defend themselves when they were initially attacked, but now they don't. They lost that right when they continued fighting for absolutely no reason. If you are a Zionist, go away. You aren't solving anything. Nobody is solving anything. You are the problem.
To my regular followers who have had to endure that, I apologize deeply. I try to not be toxic but when my beliefs are challenged (which tend to just be "hey you should vote if you can and here's why") and I'm a mad and scared political science student who just wants to finish their degree in peace. Information is important, and I feel like these people aren't using it correctly. That isn't an excuse, however. I will try to be better. From now on, I'll explain why their position on the election is incorrect and then block them so I don't have to deal with their response that thinks I told them to not care about Palestine when really all I tried to tell them that 1. There are more issues than Palestine and 2. Some of those issues will impact the way we fight for Palestine and 3. One party wants to blow everything up and the other wants to negotiate.
Sorry for the rant. I just keep opening Tumblr to this and I don't want to see it anymore because it's toxic and extremely dangerous.
Update 10/31/24: Bernie Sanders tells you why you should vote. Do it. Seriously.
