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Something about the idea that voting for president only matters if you live in a swing state, and that all the people in blue states or red states can indulge themselves in principled nonparticipation because the outcomes are preordained, strikes me as akin to playing with fire.

Is it really coherent to say "both sides are awful, write in Mickey Mouse or burn your ballot or just stay home and get drunk, unless you live in Pennsylvania, in which case maybe consider taking one for the team and compromising yourself by voting for the lesser evil?" Is that really the message that will lead to a preferable outcome?

What it sounds like to me is a sign that 1) you take your local electorate for granted, and 2) you see avoiding the worst case scenario as somebody else's problem.

I remember when Florida was a swing state. I also remember when Pennsylvania wasn't.

#i have lived through my state being reliably Red to now being a swing state #it happens quicker than you think

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the trouble is you never know which show is going to take over your life do you. you could just be innocently watching a show with no intention of being part of the fandom when suddenly boom you’re crying over fanmixes at 1am

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#happy lesbian visibility week

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#911 abc #oliver stark #i am incapable of being normal about this man

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i think a big reason that I get frustrated with the "liberals have never made anybody's lives better" is that in the US it used to be legal for insurance companies to charge you more if you were sick or even just straight up deny you the ability to sign up for them if you already had a "pre-existing condition", and this was only stopped by the passage of the ACA during Obama's term. but a lot of people who talk about politics on here are too young to really be affected by that since they would have been on their parents insurance (which the ACA required insurers extend until you're 26). and this was all done via politicking and not blowing up insurance CEOs mansions or whatever.

I'm not saying that the ACA fixed insurance forever, god no. but "you can't deny someone insurance for being sick" is a massive change and people don't realize it!

Most adults want the law’s prohibition on insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions to stay. Two thirds (67%) of the public say that it is “very important” that this provision remain in place, including most Republicans (54%) However, only about 4 in 10 people (39%) are aware that that provision is part of the ACA.

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one of the important cornerstones of fandom is understanding that your headcanon is not everyone else's headcanon, and i'm not sure when people stopped understanding this

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I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It's called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to

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honestly. for anyone involved with show to be like "I watch the same show, I don't think buddie fans are wrong" is sooo??? fucking??? validating.

#I've genuinely never felt this before #like for a cast member to be supportive #and not in a joking way at all #and acknowledge that there is something there to pick up on #and that they see it #it's mind blowing #911 abc #buddie

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trans lesbian = tresbian = très bien (very good)

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don’t worry about why i had to google this but this example sentence is killing me

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#another reason to hate Fox

#911 abc #oliver stark #we're not wrong? #sir #you are a gem

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My boyfriend prefers his mattresses firm, and I need a soft mattress. He prefers his food temperate while I like my food hot and spicy. This is another good reason to not have a kid, because even if the kid averages out and prefers everything in the middle, there's the risk of some blonde bitch breaking into our house to rummage through our stuff.

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COMMUNITY (2009-2015) but it's just the memes

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Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

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Americans like to say that socialized Healthcare has long wait times.

.... I waited 7 months in America for an opinion from a doctor that was literally two sentences.... And I paid 300$ for it.

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