webuiltthepyramids:

If anyone asks why I voted the way I did, I am going to show them this gifset right here because this is exactly it.

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inothernews:

STEPHEN COLBERT IS CORRECT.

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If you are a US citizen who is voting on November 6th, please make sure you are well informed on the candidates and issues.

This is a good, simple, place to start.

Casting a misinformed vote is worse than not voting at all.

Please make sure to read up on your local/state candidates and issues as well!

eiyoko:

pulled up the song “The End Of The World As We Know It”

video is preceeded by a Mitt Romney ad

w h a t

theamericankid:

I have the weirdest election right now.

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afternoonsnoozebutton:

Oh lord.

Oh Mitt, saying that the best feeling I had about Obama was when I voted for him.

mykicks:

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he signed a law expanding health care coverage to millions of Americans.

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he helped make sure that everyone brave enough to serve in the military can do so openly.

The best feeling I had about Obama was when he said that everyone should be able to marry whomever they love.

I barely remember the act of voting for him now.

A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.

http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)

This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this guy chimed in and was all “It’s hard for guys too! I’m so awkward around girls! It’s embarrassing!” Yeah, not the same thing, exactly?

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This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them. 

I think that says a lot. 

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This is a pretty classic privilege dynamic I think, and one that we as a society tend to downplay in order to give the privileged even more volume.

Men are afraid women will laugh at them or won’t have sex with them, women are afraid men will kill them.

Rich people are upset that everyone else is calling them “greedy” instead of “job creators”, everyone else is upset that they can’t afford health care.

White people are afraid of being called racist by people of color, people of color are afraid of being killed by white people (especially white people in positions of authority, like police).

Straight people are afraid of having their “marriages ruined” by other people getting married, queer people are afraid of being beaten to death.

Cis people are afraid of having to share a bathroom with someone different than they are, trans people are afraid of being murdered.

This is really just a perfect X, Y statement to sum up the most basic tenet of privilege: if you are privileged, the majority of the time you don’t fear for your basic survival.

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So I drove past two Chick Fil A’s during my rounds this afternoon

teal-deer:

pandalot:

Guess what? Packed. Both of them. Completely packed. Cars around the building and out to the street. Line out the dining room door and out in the hot fucking sun.

And it reminded me: these people honestly truly believe that they are morally right. They believe it is their moral imperative to “protect traditional marriage”. And they are just as determined to keep everything exactly as it is as we are to see it change.

More so important: these fuckers vote. They vote like their lives depend on it. And you need to too.

If you are 18 and an American citizen, you need to fucking vote in November. Don’t give me that “voting doesn’t matter, what’s one vote in the grand scheme” blah blah bullshit excuses, if voting didn’t matter then why would there be an active movement to keep certain segments from voting?

And if you want to kick your feet and sigh over how both candidates are terrible evil people allow me to break this one thing down:

One candidate ended don’t ask don’t tell and came out in support of marriage equality.

The other candidate has signed a pledge to ban marriage equality.

Normally I don’t support single issue voting, but fuck that this issue is about human rights. If ever there was an issue you should base your vote on, it’s human rights.

Register to vote now, if you haven’t already. Find out where your local polling place is, and for the love of all that is sparkly and unicorns in this world, fucking vote.

Vote, motherfuckers. We did it in 2008. Despite how badly we’ve been beaten, how cruelly we’ve been kicked, we DO have the power. Vote. 

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