#and they all already voted for me :(

[shwarmii]

i just heard one of my favorite youtubers say this meme out loud in a video and the pronounciation FLOORED ME so now i gotta know:

poll is just "which way do you say it"; tags is "which way is right", assuming your answer to "which way is right" is different to "which way do you say it". or i guess tags are also for uhhhhhh if your answer is complicated and if you wanna explain, if you have a diff way of pronouncing (pls tell meeeee), or whatever else you want, im not your parents, idk

#i just.. diDNT THINK THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY TO PRONOUNCE IT??? #but i heard [redacted pronounciation] and i just went ''pÁŔƊÓŃ???'' so i tried to think of all possible ones? #forgive me if theres already been a poll on this; i didnt see it and thus didnt know #edit: fuck!!! i just realizied you could combine the last two like i couldve made ''be o bo'' and ''bo be o'' each an option #if oNE OF THOSE TWO ARE THE MAJORITY (not that i expect many votes at all. but still!!) IMMA BE (1) SHOOK AND (2) McFUCKING BAFFLED #edit: wow. i thought id be lucky to get 20 in a week with my follower count. okay. damn. youre sweet ♡ also ''Boo boo''s you are so valid #im sorry i did not think to add you as an option. you are so right

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

#i think i already said this and frankly idc #uspol #📁.zip #to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you #still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish #frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into #blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss #instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle #and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD #settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because #it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power #any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism #because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump #and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and #will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not #about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden' #like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely #challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil' #is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.

[leupagus]

Me before writing this GOT fic: this will mostly be about Sansa, my main squeeze, my best girl and beloved

Me while writing this GOT fic: so instead of the whole dumb shit that happens to Daenerys in seasons 5 & 6 what if instead she’s presiding over Meereen while it invents democracy so it can vote her out of the city. Along the way Meereen invents journalism and soccer.

#they will vote her out with love #but like… Daenerys’s whole relationship with ‘consent of the governed’ is SO WEIRD #and I would love for a story to actually have her walking her talk in re: ‘Meereen (and Yunkai and Astapor) should choose their own leaders #also lbr we all deserve some Game Of Thrones 1776 nonsense in our lives #starring Daenerys as BOTH John Hancock and King George #maybe a little of G Washington too #anyway this outline is already 130 pages #pray 4 me #game of thrones motherfuckers

[arsenicflame]

i think the reason izzy can be so blasé about his relationship with ed is not because hes taken to blaming a shark instead, but because hes actually already done a lot of the processing in the previous episode.

hes mourned his leg, hes had his drunk crying rants. hes gone through the five stages of grief. and then? the crew reaches out to him, offers him their support. they make him a new leg, they nominate him their new figurehead. when he stands there on the prow of the ship, leg on, letter in hand, thats his acceptance, thats his moving on.

#sure maybe then deciding to erase ed from the situation isnt healthy- but it is conducive to his continued healing #it helps him not carry the weight #maybe he needs that to be able to live on a boat with ed #its obvious to me that he has blamed ed for this- he voted him off the boat. #but now? now he needs to move on. #the crew has him. they proved that they have him. #he looks so fucking happy stood there as their new figurehead and maybe thats all that matters #that he finds a new way to be happy #nyxtalks #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands #is this obvious to everyone else and im just slow on the uptake orrrrr #idk i felt like. yeah hes actually already done a lot of what lucius is doing now. hes processed! hes over it #or. not over it but found a way to fit it into his reality. to be able to keep going about his day #idk!!!!! #slight clarification- i definitely think. he should keeo working on it! he needs to like. actually speak to ed; for a start #but i just don't think hes completely ignoring the whole situation i think he has properly processed the trauma he just is avoiding #specifically the 'ed' part of it

[feluka]

of course they're already blaming arabs and muslims for "the death of democracy" and the elections aren't even here. can you people even try to be less predictable?

#heart goes out to all of you in the us. i'm not even american and i get asks telling me i'm an agent seeking to divide the vote #(first sentence is genuine not backhanded i truly feel for you in the US because i already see people giving you grief over the uncommited #the uncommited vote)

[agapemoon]

funny because americans/europeans are still very much idealistic and are leaning more towards the concept of anarchy meanwhile latinos have enough reasons to believe that with unrealistic ideals things will remain the same and could get even worse because for us utopias are only just that and will not bring change, people to move on or to progress

#es latam core y estamos juntos en esto <3 #los quiero hermanos de brazil mwah #qsmp #the differences in cultures are showing sksndkd #bro weve gone through dictatorships in modern times skdnsjsnsjsbsjs #Ppl already did all that unrealistic shit and it doesnt work #trust me 😭😭😭😭 #anyway vote insaneduo voteforevin <3333333333 #politics #cellbit #quackity

[mishapen-dear]

thinking about the elections tonight... bad, cellbit, baghera, and forever are four candidates who are devoted to the island- more specifically, to the residents of the island. They care for the eggs, and they care for each other, and the way they exhibit that care through their primary presidential strategies is fucking fascinating.

Bad is who I watch the most, so I know him best. He's a classic mother hen. He doesn't like to take risks with the eggs, and he likes to prepare. If there's any sort of variable that could hurt an egg then he wants to control it. They have a stable relationship with the federation right now- it's not great, but they know the parameters. Don't trust cucurucho. don't follow cucurucho. send the eggs to NINHO every time there's a threat. the time of day changing means you need to run. Other than that they're p okay and roughly safe. But adding a president could potentially change everything. What if the president makes a rule that makes it easier to kill the eggs? And what about the way a president could cause tensions between the players to rise even higher? The dynamics of the island could change drastically. It's safer to neutralize that threat before it ever becomes a threat. It's easier to stop a war before it can start.

Baghera's primary concern is the way the election is designed to pit the residents against each other. All of them know that the Federation is a threat and she, like Bad, is focused on not letting them hurt more people. But, unlike Bad, she's less resistant to change. If the power is spread to multiple players rather than just one, it will be harder for the Federation to corrupt any one of them. Each time before the Federation has gotten to someone it's done so by isolating them. Felps, Cellbit, Jaiden- they've all spent a lot of alone time with Cucurucho. A council isn't just to consolidate the ideals of the island; a council would protect the players themselves. Sure, there might be disagreements and arguments, but they've had those before (and they're having them now!) and there's no reason to think they wouldn't be able to get through them again.

I hit a bit of a wall with Forever and Cellbit's pov here. Everything I know about their plans are from the debates and paraphrased discussions that have been translated here on tumblr, I'm going to talk less about their explicit plan and more about what the result will entail- a single president who takes responsibility for the island. It seems to me like they've recognized the presidential seat as the powerful opportunity that it is, and they want to take advantage of it. Here's some extra personal speculation but, adding rules, adding or removing mods, proposing public works, enforcing laws- those are just the abilities that are listed. Those are incredible opportunities to make the Federation take action, which is more than they've had before. We've seen before that the Federation isn't perfect; the Federation makes mistakes.

By working with the Federation, by making them take action (in a semi-controlled, semi-predictable way) you open them up to more opportunities for them to fuck up (while benefiting you). And, maybe, one of those fuck ups will be the key to taking them down. Maybe they could reopen ender chests. Maybe they could open the nether. Maybe they could learn why the Federation is holding an election in the first place. It's possible to do all these things with Baghera's plan, sure, but that's not a guarantee and, if someone like Bad is on the council, there's absolutely no way to be sure it would get done. And, if there's a council, then that opens up everyone on the council to the Federation's wiles. If there's just one president, then that's where the Federation's focus will be. By using a single person to build a relationship with the Federation, they only risk that single person. By electing ministers instead of a council, they can ensure that the island residents' needs are being heard while placing the federation's focus on that one person. A point can be made that they've done that before- with varying results. like kidnapping. selling your soul. etc. But! overall, I think they've gained more than they've lost by singling out one person. Because of them, we know that Cucurucho can't be trusted. We know that the Federation has a series of tunnels underneath the island. We know that the Federation not only has some sort of cryo technology, but had some unknown reason to use it. We know that there was another person working with Cellbit to take care of Felps (theorized to be ElQuackity), so we know there's at least one more Fed that isn't Cucurucho + blank-faced workers. There's been risk, but there's absolutely been rewards. This is just a very long meandering way to say that their plan to sacrifice Forever to the presidential seat reminds me very much of Cellbit's plan to sacrifice himself to the federation. They're saving their friends by potentially damning themselves and I, for one, think that is cool as hell.

they all care about each other so much. bad's plan means taking on no more risk. baghera's plan means spreading that risk evenly to stand strong together. and cellbit and forever's plan means taking the risk onto themselves so they can reap the rewards for others. am i reading too much into things? no this is tumblr and this smp is about LOVE and i really genuinely think that their election plans are a fantastic example of just how much they love each other

#qsmp elections #qsmp #qsmp analysis #again i haven't been following cellbit and forever's exact plan too closely but i've gotten the sense that their pushing of public works is #just to get people to vote for them and the true reason they want forever to be president is to infiltrate the federation #if that's not it tho feel free to let me know i'd love to know these cubitos reasonings #but with my interpretation i like the silly little extra headcanon of mr cell “sold his soul to the cops” bit #subconsciously sacrificing forever to the feds and pushing him into corruption #which ALSO makes the forever-killing-cellbit-to-kick-him-out-of-the-running plan Even More Tasty #'what if i let you kill me. what if destroying me destroyed yourself. what if i have already destroyed you on purpose and you forgave me #now what if i dont mean it when i do it again' #if anyone wants to examine the other candidates (or these same ones) and figure out how their election strategy is an example of their love #please do #i don't know enoguh about the others #but i know that gegg is love-turned-grief burn-the-world-down #and foolish is love for Item. love for cloud. love for being a silly #i don't know etoiles' plan for if he gets elected but i know he also deeply loves the island and the residents #him and his security <3 and the care packages for new players <3 and the way he Craves Violence but absolutely refuses to hurt anyone who #doesn't deserve it. most guy of all time #personally i want foolish to win because i think it would be really fun #but i think that any of them (even the candidates i don't know) would be a Fantastic president #we're going to get some good roleplay any way it goes so ill be happy :3 #the only mechanic thing i want is for them to open the nether but that feels like a given for anyone so im not worried about it tbh #ty for coming to my tedtalk #hello if you're reading this tag. i see youre just as un-normal about these characters as i am. or you just like to read. respect either wa

[occasionaltouhou]

this year's assortment of horrible old women for the touhou vote. please vote accordingly, and with your help, we can bring about the #shinkisweep

#touhou #occasional art #shinki #shinki (touhou) #yukari yakumo #yuyuko saigyouji #okina matara #kasen ibaraki #mizuchi miyadeguchi #zanmu nippaku #yes i'm tagging everyone. i need to maximise the number of people seeing this for the shinkisweep #all new kinds of horrible old women... #if you've already voted please go back and change it so that shinki is number one. because you love me #edit: i finished and queued this after the post with the five different ideas but before everything afterwards. in case you're curious.

[sarochafreen]

Gap the Series deleted scene from the trailer

#gap the series #gap yuri #freen sarocha #becky armstrong #unhinged vibes in that trailer but #it's funny to me that they deleted this because of the backlash of Becky being young #but then eps 8 and 9 have multiple love scenes lmao #what is the truth? #if she's old enough to vote and drive (tho she doesn't) and be a lawyer why cant she have sex scenes? #i guess idol culture is all about cuteness #idk #if someone had already uploaded this here and wants me to delete this just dm me #thai drama #thai series #gl series #gl drama #mp #lesbian

[averagemrfox]

I do not feel ashamed

#guess what I haaaaave #someone better fucking vote there’s 1200 of you that follow me I know not all of y’all are deactivated or bots #tumblr polls #rachel's ramblings #I had a poll idea the other day but already forgot it this was all I could come up with 🥲

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

#thinking about the keystone pipeline shutdown and how fully 2/3 of the people he appointed to legislative systems were women and poc #thinking about student debt forgiveness and rejoining the paris climate accord and unfucking some of the extreme gerrymandering #and improving COVID protections (that were roundly thrown out by corporate america which is its own concern yes but like. he's not a king) #'biden didn't fix' blah blah blah he's not a fucking dictator he can't actually do whatever he wants. the only thing the GOP lets slide #is the aforementioned dogshit foreign policy bc fuck knows every last republican loves bombing the middle east and supporting israel #(remember that the evangelical xtian death cult requires israel for the apocalypse!! that is a very real fucking thing these ppl strive for #(and evangelicals support the GOP for this very fucking reason. you cannot forget this. we are all fighting for all our goddamn lives rn) #stirring up trouble #i hate biden i hate his foreign policy i hate how ok he is with fascism i hate most of his pre-presidential voting record BUT #i will not let that hate blind me to the reality that he is Objectively Miles Ahead Of Any Fucking Republican Alternative #i still want his ass primaried out of the presidential race so hard he physically blacks out upon seeing the polling results tho #and fuck. at least the dem side seems to have a lot of good progressive downballot candidates this time around already.

[maningning]

when i dropped out of high school i couldnt talk to any of my actual high school friends who were still in school without feeling insurmountable shame. the only person i ended up talking to was this random girl who i was roommates with in 10th grade but never really got to know who also dropped out. she would call me every night and we would just do our own thing and not really talk. one time, she asked me what i was reading, and i said "oh, it's the price of salt. it's what the movie carol is based on." a week later she tells me that she's watched the movie, and read the book, and that she liked it. we talk. it's nice. her mom became friends with my mom in commiseration of the fact that they both have kids who dropped out of high school, and my mom tells me in passing once that it's nice that i at least have my books, because "your friend's mom told me that she doesn't know what to do with her kid because your friend doesn't have any hobbies". that night i call her, and i ask her if she likes to read. she says no, that she's not read a book in years before she read the price of salt. i say oh, i thought you liked to read and that's why you read it. why did you read it then? and she said i wanted to have something to talk with you about. one day she calls me and tells me that she has something to show me. she sat down in front of her piano and played easy living, just like therese did in the movie. she asked me if i liked it, and i said yeah. i should learn it. we have a keyboard at home that ive never touched. and she said okay. i'll teach you. she propped up her phone so i can see her hands, and taught me how to play. i couldn't really follow, but i was so happy to be so loved. and that is why you should vote carol in the best piece of queer media poll.

#to me this is like that post thats like. i cant write a poem about this. it's all already there just look at it #what a wonderful thing to be loved #vote carol

[faircatch]

Absolutely STUNNED by someone posting about pushing to make it so Democrats lose (pushing Biden to lose). Quoting that they may not be able to get someone elected, but can get someone to lose...

Threatening Democrats to get them to change policy or they will make them lose the election. This is an actual quote from the post:

"This could very well lose the election for Biden and more. The Democrats can't afford another four years of Trump, and they know it. The loss of Michigan can and will tank this election for them, especially since other states that helped Biden win, like Georgia, were also won on demographics that are growing increasingly upset by the situation in Gaza."

I appreciate you want the war to stop and it's important to you, but we live here! The Democrats can't afford another four years of Trump???? WE CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF TRUMP!!! YOU KNOW, IN THE PLACE WHERE WE LIVE!

Do you think you're accomplishing anything by tanking Biden? You think the Democrats are going to be the big losers if Trump wins? Biden losing will have real and dangerous consequences for the people in this country. And newsflash, if you tank Biden, Trump WILL win and guess what... He will not give aid to Gaza and probably will send American troops in to lay the place to waste.

This country can't afford another four years of Trump. Stop tanking Biden. You are literally shooting yourself in the foot and absolutely not helping you, Palestinians or anyone else.

#united states #primary voting #current events #voting #politics #2024 election #edited to sound less angry #We all lose if Trump wins #someone already called me a piece of shit and said they're tanking biden to specifically spite me - lovely

[skelebab]

I'm still having a hard time picking a name for my shellshocked au, but I have a few general ideas... but I'm indecisive... soooo

I'm putting a week on this cuz I'm not in a rush :)

#shellshocked #miles morales #rottmnt mikey #poll #ill add the name to all the posts I've made about it when i come up with it #im not gonna vote on this one and i can already tell it's gonna kill me

[alithographica]

#not sure if my body observes democracy though so good luck to all involved most of all me #K DNI I already know your vote

[lucky-clover-gazette]

no offense but if people split the vote and get trump elected again after the same fucking thing happened in 2016 it’s going to be my final straw

#i expect the evil people to do evil. #but when the people who want to be decent #who CARE about preventing harm #choose to abstain from performing a civic duty even if it is far from ideal #that’s what makes it hopeless for me #i see those goddamn posts going around and can already anticipate the way these sentiments could manifest and it makes me sick #it ALL makes me sick. and for the most part i don’t think this is an appropriate or productive platform on which to discuss it #but this is about choices we have to make. if you have a tumblr account and you’re american there’s a high chance you are eligible to vote. #fucking. grow up. and play the two party system game because it’s what we have and it isn’t goddamn changing before 2024