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The real reason I logged back on here is apparently Donnie fans have decided to mischaracterize Mob and accuse him of being a stereotype?????

PLEASE I’m begging you, just watch the show, and no, the first 5 episodes alone are NOT enough for you to make a judgement on Mob’s character.

I get that the creators of ROTTMNT confirmed that Donatello is canonically autistic, I get that they based him off of Abed, congratulations, that’s really cool and awesome. But that does NOT mean you get to use that as some sort of brownie points for why Donatello is better? or to mischaracterize Mob?

Like honestly, this poll should be for fun, we should be celebrating ALL the austim swag characters for all the autism and swag, please stop trying to falsely antagonize an entire fandom for “supporting autism tropes” just because you love your fave more than ours.

Mob is NOT a walking stereotype, he’s far more nuanced than that, which is honestly kinda the point of the series.

Y’all keep judging him for the little you see, for his physical and outward appearance, y’all love to call him mediocre or average, honey have I got a show for you, it’s called Mob Psycho 100.

University of Guelph just posted their official Vote Mob video for the 2015 election! Vote Mobs were inspired in 2011 at Guelph and Quickly spread to campuses across Canada. The idea is to rally as many people as possible to get pumped up and inspired about voting. This is often coupled with direct action like getting everyone involved to an election Canada office or handing out voting information.

If you want to start a vote mob on your own campus or town, check out the resource tools available on the votesavvy.ca website. It’s  also home to their Vote Savvy Quiz - not unsimilar to vote compass.

GUELPH! I love you so much I can't even. I really wish I was a part of this but I found out about it after. :C  (I guess that's what happens when you're disconnected from facebook...)

For those who don't know: Canada is having an election on May 2. We have a notoriously low youth voter turnout rate (ages 18-25) and Rick Mercer challenged young Canadians to do the unexpected and VOTE. Some students at the University of Guelph took this seriously and organized a vote mob to surprise our conservative (i.e. republican) prime minister at a conference in Guelph to let him know that we ARE voting. Guess what he does? He says that it seems like a protest and tells the mob to go away. The conservatives know that if youth vote, they won't get elected.

Okay, so I'm sorry if I offend any of my followers with this post, but I need to air my grievances somewhere so if you don't like it, I'm sorry. It isn't personal, it isn't directed at anyone, it's just my opinion. Feel free to unfollow if that's what floats your boat.

For my non-Canadian followers, we are about to have a federal election on May 2nd, and following in the Obama campaign's footsteps, Canada's youth has decided to take it upon themselves to organize "vote mobs" at university campuses and government buildings around the country.

At first I thought this was a good idea.

Then, I saw a feature that CBC ran about these vote mobs. What really caught my attention about the feature was not the bright-eyed kids talking about how they were really "getting people's attention", or the flag-waving, drum-beating, sign-holding, red-wearing tenacity of these students...it was the fact that NOBODY WAS PAYING ATTENTION.

It didn't matter how loudly they chanted or how cheerful their signs were. When you run through a building beating a drum and wearing red, it doesn't really raise any kind of awareness for your cause. Yes, I understand that you'll be voting in the federal election. But do I know who you're voting for? Am I any better-informed about the platforms of any of the candidates? Do I even know when the election is, or how I go about voting? No. All I know is that you're going to vote. And frankly, even if I'm one of the few people paying attention to the mob of chanting strangers, that doesn't really help me all that much. 

Now, don't get me wrong, I know that Youth Vote Canada has a website and a Facebook page, and I read them, and granted they are quite informative. But I had to search that information up myself; the vote mob didn't provide me with the website or page on Facebook. Nowhere on any of these signs or in any of these chants did I hear any REAL information on why I should vote, or who I should be voting for, or how to make that decision.

I understand that it's important to encourage youth to exercise their democratic right to vote, especially since right now only about thirty percent actually do, but the point of democracy isn't simply to blindly scratch an X on a ballot. A misinformed vote for the sake of voting is worse than not voting at all, because that vote could be unknowingly putting power into dangerous hands. This is where the idea of encouraging youth to vote without giving them any real information becomes sketchy territory.

I think it's admirable that youth are making an effort to encourage Canada's young people to get involved and make their voices heard in our government, but when it comes to a shouting, red mob telling me simply and solely that they're voting...

GUELPH — They crept along walls, hid behind concrete planters and trees, tiptoed over university grounds, and merrily crossed one of Guelph’s busiest streets — all several hundred of them in their blazing Canadian red and white colours.

And when the crowd reached its destination overlooking the Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre, they sang O Canada and shouted a non-partisan message intended for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “Surprise! Youth are voting.” They waved at the prime minister’s bus below.

On the occasion of Harper’s campaign stop in Guelph Monday, a group of University of Guelph students used social media channels to get up a huge crowd — a crowd whose numbers were difficult to estimate, but which could have numbered well over 500.

It was not a protest, not a demonstration, but rather billed as a vote mob. Their message wasn’t delivered in anger, nor was it tied to any political party’s platform. The sight of them playfully singing, chanting and swaying, with much theatricality, caught the national media accompanying Harper off guard.

“What we have right here is a surprise party for Stephen Harper,” flash mob organizer Gracen Johnson told a number of reporters who wondered over in the rain to witness the mass spectacle. “We heard he was coming to Guelph and we wanted to throw him a surprise, because typically people don’t think that youth vote. We are definitely voting.”

The students gathered in the centre of campus at around 4 p.m., where they rehearsed their action and went over some ground rules. If any of them were to shout slogans or hurl verbal abuses, the entire mob was directed to sit down, stare at the offender and shout, Bronx-style, “Get outta here.”

“We are not fighting for anything, not protesting anything,” organizer Yvonne Su told the crowd, explaining that protestors generally want something that they don’t have. “We already have it — we have the vote.”

Su and Johnson said students have jobs, they pay taxes and they contribute fully to society. And while there may be a popular perception that they don’t care enough about politics to vote, this group of students was there to change that perception. Students do care about their country’s future and want to see positive change. They are well educated, active in their communities and ready and able to mobilize to bring about change.

Many said that thanks to online social networking, their message will go across the country and inspire other students to vote, and to show politicians they are voting.