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sordidamok · 28 days

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Better go to Cancun, Rafael. Democrats have sights set on everywhere.

#cancun cruz #vote blue #vote democrat #blue wave #vote biden #democrats #democracy #social democracy #democratic socialism #democrats now socialism later #vote blue to save democracy #vote blue 2024 #vote blue all the way down the ticket #vote biden/harris #biden/harris 2024 #vote blue to save america #both sides are not the same #vote democratic

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apatosaurus · 2 months

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“Democrats are not fascists. They’re just bureaucrats and idealists and cynics and saints and sinners like the rest of us. Sometimes they’re dumb and short-sighted, sometimes they’re terrifyingly clever and visionary, mostly they’re in the middle. They are not hellbent on twisting billions of lives to their will and enacting violence on those who do not comply. They are not like the side that rolls around in that blooddream like a dog in a carcass it found in the woods.

“You’d never know any of that from how entirely the media refuses to give a Dem credit for anything, yet how eager they are to break out the alliterative nicknames and serious business verbiage if there’s even a chance of blaming a Dem for something. Yet Republicans are just treated as forces of nature, something to be witnessed, worked around, survived, maybe, but never held to any kind of expectation or punished for rank fucking evil or even called liars when they lie. “

Read the whole thing.

#vote #both sides are not the same #Cat Valente

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short-wooloo · 2 months

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I had a thought about that line from the opening crawl of Revenge of the Sith

"There are heroes on both sides"

A lot of people took this to mean there are good and bad people on both sides, but the thing is, nothing really supports this

The Republic and those who fight for it are 9 times out of 10 the good guys, and the separatists are invariably horrible monsters (and the ones who aren't are next to useless)

So maybe "there are good and bad people on both sides" was not the meaning there

Perhaps it's more along the lines of "villains is the heroes of another story/heroes are the villains of another story"

From the out of universe perspective, the republic-despite it's issues-is good, and the separatists-despite their claims-are bad, worse than the republic

But in universe who is the hero and who is the villain depends on perspective

To the separatists, Dooku/Grievous/Trench/etc are the "heroes" and the Jedi/Republic heroes are the villains

Even if that's not how it really is

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elspethdixon · 3 hours

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Social Security Administration to remove food assistance as barrier to accessing certain benefits

Prior to Biden making this change, people’s disability payments could be reduced by 1/3 if the Social Security Administration found out that someone was feeding them dinner once or twice a week.

#ableism #both sides are not the same #everyone who won’t vote for biden is specifically and deliberately voting to stop improvements like this btw

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kaneseatheadrest · 4 days

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One thing I for sure agree with is that we need to wake up the centrists and show them that one side is SO MUCH more radical than the other. I don't know how we can approach that.

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post-it-free · 20 days

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US Presidential Appointments

Obviously a chance to not have a majority of monsters on the Supreme Court is reason enough, but: I encourage people to consider both a) how important it would be to just have a competent, (even if they are moderate) person in some of these positions, and b) how badly it could harm people to have someone actively malicious in these roles. I have tried to arrange these in a way that makes sense to me, but different departments sometimes have weird crossover. If you don't know about some of these, wikipedia can give a decent summation of "what does the Energy Secretary even DO?"

A (non-exhaustive) list of positions that are appointed by the US President. Some also require confirmation by the Senate, but some don't.

Director of Office on Violence Against Women; Director of the Women’s Bureau

All members of the National Council on Disability

All members of National Board for Education Sciences; director of the National Institute of Museum & Library Services, National Science Foundation, and National Institute for Literacy Advisory boards; Librarian of the Library of Congress

Administrator, Inspector General, and CFO of NASA; Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Secretary of Education; Secretary of Housing & Urban Development; Secretary of State

Administrator of Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Admin; Director of National Institutes of Health, Secretary of Department of Health & Human Services (oversees FDA, CDC, NIH, Indian Health Services, Administration for Children and Families, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, Director of the Census, Director of Social Security Administration

Department of the Interior (incl. Directors of the National Park service, Land Management, Surface Mining Reclamation/Enforcement)

Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, 5 Members of the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board

Secretary of Transportation (incl. Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Admin, Federal Railroad Admin, FAA), Secretary of Department of Energy, 7 Members of Amtrak reform board

Federal Communications Commission (FCC - remember net neutrality?), 9 Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Secretary of Labor (5 members + General Counsel of National Labor Relations board), Chair of National Endowment for the Arts, 5 Commissioners + General Counsel of EEOC)

Director of Indian Health Service, Commissioner of the Office of Navajo & Hopi Indian Relocation, Commissioner for Administration for Native Americans, All members of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian & Alaska Native Culture & Arts Development

Director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Commissioners of Consumer Product Safety Commission, Director of Securities and Exchange Commission

#voting #both sides are not the same #both sides are not 'just as bad'#biden #joe biden

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originalleftist · 3 months

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Biden Firsts

-First woman Vice President (and also first woman to temporarily hold presidential power).

-First Black woman on the Supreme Court.

-First public defender on the Supreme Court.

-First to appoint majority non-white men as judges.

-First sitting President to join striking workers on the picket line.

Trump Firsts:

-First President to be impeached twice.

-First President to have Senators of his own party vote to convict.

-First President to be raided by the FBI.

-First President to be indicted for felonies.

-First President to be a court-proven r*pist.

-First President to be disqualified from the ballot as an insurrectionist.

#US #Politics #Election #US Election #2024 #2024 Election #Firsts #Trump #Biden #Vote #Both Sides Are Not The Same #Both Sides Is Pro Fascist #Biden Wins #Riding With Biden #Four More Years

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 7 days

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#Ryan & Oliver Whenever They Say Something They Shouldn't About Buddie

#its the same picture #so many of you kept pointing out that its the same #so here is a side by side #i love them #they are both manaces #911 abc #buddie #buck x eddie #eddie x buck #evan buckley #eddie diaz #ryan guzman #oliver stark #its such a mood #i adore them #never change men #never change

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camembri · 3 months

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you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.

#need a fic where zoro genuinely does marry sanji on wci without planning it #type of thing to happen to goofy pre ts zoro #zoro in the same mindset in which he created the usopp sword: well i didn't mean to but i guess this solves the immediate problem #and ofc he just rolls with it #they look at each other after the dust settles like. hey wtf was that. and immediately blame each other #pre relationship AND feelings realisation on both sides #dont get me wrong i love fake relationship that becomes real but hear me out #legal accidental relationship thats extremely convenient and also funny until you pavlov yourself into being in love #vinsmoke sanji #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #zosan #one piece #sanzo #zoro

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wolvesandshine · 3 months

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The reason Regulus had to die was cause he would have definitely broken Sirius out of Azkaban no questions asked and then they would have murdered both voldemort and dumbledore