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“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive’. The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes.” - Sophie Scholl  

Sophie Scholl was a German activist who spoke out against the Nazi regime and was a member of a protest group called The White Rose. The group mainly consisted of students in their early twenties who were fed up with the totalitarian rule of the government and distributed leaflets urging their fellow Germans to oppose the regime through non-violent resistance. On 22nd February 1943, after the release of the sixth White Rose leaflet, Sophie was arrested by the Gestapo, convicted of treason and executed that same day by guillotine. She was 21 years old. 

“A nativity scene without Jews, Arabs, Africans or refugees.”

It’s the man on the bus touching me, thinking he had a right to my body.

It’s the man who called me a fat cow for telling him to watch where he was going because he almost ran me over.

It’s the saleswoman yelling “WHY DONT YOU SPEAK MY LANGUAGE” to a Muslim man.

It’s my mom telling my sister being gay is a phase.

It’s my classmates saying women wearing revealing clothes are “asking for it”.

things to do now:

-push disillusioned liberals to the left. propagandize the shit outta that. make sure people know not just how the DNC sabotaged itself by cleansing itself of anything even superficially leftist, but also how this is just one example of liberalism’s complete inability to fight against white supremacy and fascism.

-organize. connect with your local BLM groups, unions, community groups, leftist political orgs, student activists - and especially any group aimed at protecting and aiding immigrants. do not bother with any petty sectarian leftist squabble for the near future just build off what needs to be done now to protect people and combat this threat.

-have zero tolerance for white supremacists. fellow white people, do not harbour racists in your friend groups, families, communities. unless you are totally unable or unsafe to do so, tear into those people in whatever way is most effective. do not let that slide ever. and set an example. liberals have been building up the idea that trump’s white supremacy is a threat (never planning for it to actually manifest). you can spend less time explaining why it’s a threat and more time showing how to combat it by weeding it out of your communities and lending your energy to its victims.

good lord. point #1 is some of the worst fucking “analysis” I’ve ever seen on this hellsite and that’s truly saying something. 

the DNC fucked itself over trying to court leftists. rest assured: nobody is looking at this nightmare and thinking “gee golly whiz, the whole country just warmly embraced the KKK and white nationalism! I suppose we didn’t go far enough to the left.“ 

it is incredibly funny that point #2 says  ”do not bother with any petty sectarian leftist squabble for the near future just build off what needs to be done now to protect people and combat this threat“ when WE’RE FACING THIS THREAT PRECISELY BECAUSE OF YOUR PETTY LEFTIST SQUABBLES. PEOPLE ARE IN DANGER BECAUSE YOU PUT THEM IN HARM’S WAY, ON PURPOSE.

We are going to lose the Supreme Court for the next thirty to forty years because of you fuckers. We failed to repudiate the goddamned KKK in the year 2016 because of you fuckers.

I don’t know what’s wrong with y’all that you can’t recognize that the 2016 Democratic platform was a major political victory; it meant they actually took us seriously. Was it perfect? No, dude, but it was such an important start. THEY SWUNG LEFT FOR US, it was incredibly important, long overdue, and absolutely correct for them to do…and they took a catastrophic loss. Because you didn’t fucking show up.

Loyal, hardcore Democrats showed up; party centrists showed up. The hardcore Hillary fans whom you hate? They showed up to fight. Liberalism did its absolute fucking best to fight white supremacy and fascism; liberalism managed to win the popular vote in spite of y’all. For once, this ain’t on liberals. It’s on YOU.

The lesson learned here is, ”how can the DNC stay sort of true to our mission and appeal to moderates?“ not ”court short-sighted white progressives who will inevitably dump you for whatever third-party moron satisfies their egotistical need to be ideologically pure.“ 

Because you don’t understand coalition-building. Everything’s gotta be 100% your way or you’ll burn the whole house down with everybody in it.

Politically moderate people of color who went Republican are more interesting to the DNC than the bitchy radical left.

Politically moderate educated white voters who went Republican are more interesting to the DNC than the bitchy radical left.

You don’t get a seat at the table by never showing up. You don’t get a seat at the table by demanding that someone prioritize your interests above all others and then hanging them out to dry. You are political poison, do you understand that? You’re about to find out what happens when you’re not worth “pandering” to. I only wish you’d had the decency to fuck yourselves over & leave the rest of us out of it.

You sit here and you have the gall to complain about third-parties and “changing the system” but you never fucking do the work that gives you the tools to change the system. Can we get rid of the Electoral College? Can we try a ranked voting system? Can we talk about HOW to make third parties viable for everyone? Given the way the EC works, you will always and inevitably betray your own interests by voting third party. You can’t make third parties viable without first seizing the power to change shit around. You can’t make third parties viable by demonstrating, again, that they only ever fuck over you & your closest potential allies.

I don’t think there’s a future for liberalism / leftism in this country. I’ve never respected the American left because you never value the folks of color who take the brunt of the beating when you fuck up. You always put ideology before people. You always put empty words over real outcomes. This is at least the 3rd time in modern history you’ve pulled this type of stunt. You always get people killed when you try this shit, you briefly get real embarrassed and sheepish….and then you don’t learn, you repeat all of the same shit.

Currently some very scary people are slated to take over two of the three branches of government. 

We can’t do much about the executive for four years, which sucks, but we can do something about the legislature.

In 2018 there are 33 SENATE SEATS UP FOR GRABS, ALONG WITH ALL 435 HOUSE SEATS.

36 of 50  Governors will be up for re-election. 

You need to vote in the midterm elections!  

One of the most productive things you can do right now is register to vote and sign up for an absentee ballot. 

Tumblr is a very young population, and very mobile. We move around a LOT–for school, for jobs, for relationships, etc. So an absentee ballot is great way of ensuring that you stay ready to vote even if you have to move for school. 

Just make sure that you either have the ballot sent to a family member you can trust to forward it to you in the mail, or that you keep your current mailing address updated in the system. 

Go HERE to register

Go HERE to register for a mail-in ballot

After all the supposed progress we’ve made, painstakingly trying to change a white feminist movement into an intersectional one (and for that we have only the hard work of women of color to thank), white women didn’t show up to fight back against a man whose rhetoric and policies directly attack women of color, immigrant women, Muslim women, LGBTQ women and more.

Bronx, NY: Woodlawn Cemetery: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.  They ask you put your stickers on the posters, not the graves.  Posters will stay up through Sunday.

Rochester, NY: Mount Hope Cemetery: Susan B. Anthony.  Open until 9pm.

Fayetteville, NY: Fayetteville Cemetery: Matilda Gage

Cinnaminson, NJ: Westfield Friends Burial Ground: Alice Paul

Philadelphia, PA: Fairhill Burial Ground: Lucretia Mott

Chicago, IL: Oakwoods Cemetery: Ida B. Wells

Battle Creek, MI: Oak Hills Cemetery Crematorium: Sojourner Truth

Buffalo, NY: Forest Lawn Cemetery: Shirley Chisholm.  (Not a suffragette, but worth visiting today for her historic run for the presidency) 

Washington, DC: Congressional Cemetery: Belva Lockwood

Brooklyn, NY: Holy Cross Cemetery: Lucy Burns

Lewis, NY: Lewis Cemetery: Inez Milholland

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