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By the way, even if you fully plan to vote for Biden in November (because Trump would be worse and has declared that if elected he would ban Palestinians from entering the US x, x, x, x)...

You can and I would argue should call or email Biden or whatever other Democrats represent you and just straight up lie about it. Tell them "I'm a constituent, and I've voted for you in x number of elections, and thanks to your support for the genocide of the Palestinian people, I will never, ever vote for you again."

Politicians, Democrats, and especially Biden need a fire lit under their asses, because the vast majority of them clearly aren't going to do shit without one. Or, worse, be like Biden and actively be the reason that Israel can continue its genocide on a political, monetary, and military level.

Tell Biden and other politicians that you will never vote for them again. It doesn't matter if it's true. It will help pressure US politicians to stop this genocide, and therefore it's the right thing to do.

Obviously this also applies to other countries where politicians are supporting Israel's genocide, especially countries that have cut funding to UNRWA (list here).

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"Trans mascs don't experience transphobia" Cool, then why did I just find out that kids at my work were calling me "that fucking tr*nny" dozens of times when I was off shift?

#cw transphobia #cw queerphobia #dafh not an action post #dafh potentially triggering #not an action #thankfully the kid who was the main instigator of this is gone #and allegedly it has stopped since then #but can say from experience that prob just means “until the right person is pissed off enough”

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A weird reason I'm optimistic about the future/humanity

I keep thinking about making a post about this on reasonsforhope, and then not making a post about it, for what will become obvious reasons, but anyway here's a thought:

I get asked fairly often (relatively often? I don't get a lot of asks these days because I'm terrible at answering them) how I maintain hope and optimism in the face of everything.

Good question! I wonder that sometimes too, honestly, because I try to stay very aware of the world and very self-aware about my optimism and how realistic it is. (Three cheers for evidence-based optimism.)

And honestly, a really, really significant part of the answer is that I think the past - in general and especially during specific eras - was Significantly worse than the vast majority of people realize.

Like, the past kind of sucked, imho! People died all the time of all sorts of things! And then we had a solid 500 years of Big Time Atrocities. (aka 1492 to like. roughly the 1980s.)

In comparison, the 2000s have mostly been a really big improvement in a lot of ways, imho!

Weird argument for optimism, I know, but it is the basis of a lot of my optimism.

Why do I think things will change in the future, given that?

Well, mostly, it turns out that photography/film/the internet/phone cameras/social media/the general democratization of communication/the modern concept of international law all it way harder to get away with doing atrocities! And also, we now have scientifically validated proof that yes, people really can change, and no, no one is innately or hereditarily evil, and no, not even members of that one group you really hate, which personally I think is very reassuring! And a useful thing for society to have proof of!

#me #not an action #dafh not an action post #life #the future #cw genocide #and by the way this is I think true #even in spite of the genocides going on right now #like it feels super fucked up to even say that but we really DID used to commit SO MANY atrocities #btw I'm in no way trying to deny or downplay the severity of genocide or what's going on in gaza right now #it's just. historically. humans really did do so many atrocities. #like idk living in the 2020s sucks in some very real ways #but we also don't live in the early 1940s or say the 1850s or or or #so yeah #that's my two cents hope it's worth something to some ppl or at least not too upsetting

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I'm really sorry I haven't been able to maintain this blog (posting in general and specifically posting petitions I've been sent) as much as I'd like (esp posting other people's submissions). Hoping to get that more under control in April/May, but March is busy busy busy for me (in a good way!), so it won't happen this month.

Thanks for your patience!

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Please ignore the Baldur's Gate 3 tarot cards. Wrong blog! I am glad that several of you liked them enough to reblog them, though

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