#you called this election for what

[archiephd]

So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.

[...]

Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.

Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective

#indigenous action #2024 elections #voting #on one hand i think if one opponent is a mask off fascist white people have an obligation to vote against them As The Least We Can Do #but if that's all we're doing? that and bullying other people who see a futility in participating in a colonial institution of 'democracy'? #sorry but um. shut the fuck up #if we spent half as much energy on direct action to support each other in ways that help people REGARDLESS of who wins what election #as we did on yelling at Other Leftists about voting i think we would get a hell of a lot more actual shit done #and sure as hell help more actual real life people who we claim to be helping by yelling at other people to vote #i'm talking to me here like #our current blue harm reduction candidate actively supporting a genocide should make you feel like maybe this shit doesn't fucking work #because it doesn't <3 #harm reduction as the least we can do needs to be a call to action via vote AND actual action or it's not a call to anything at all #the least we can do needs to be motivating AND convicting #it's the least we can do so fucking do it. it's the least we can do so if that's All you do sit the hell down or stand the fuck up #for people who the status quo serves it needs to be the ballot AND the bullet or our ballot means fuck all for real liberation

[decolonize-the-left]

Reminder that liberals aren't leftists and are in fact closer to being centrists and conservatives. Leftists are people like socialists.

Leftists want everyone's needs met. Healthcare, housing, food, etc and within the USA where the GDP is 23 trillion those things should be provided by the government. Workers should equally own the businesses they run and distribute profit equally as well.

Being a leftist can look like a lot of things- like calling for the straight up destruction of a government- but most can agree that until that happens then everyone's human rights and basic needs should be provided at the very least. Lots of leftists work towards this.

Remember that when leftists ask you to vote for 3rd parties with platforms that include universal healthcare, housing, and police reform.

Because liberals who stopped their political growth in 7th grade will try to make leftists out to be "Russian psyops" or white supremacists because we vote with principles and values and that don't allow us to vote for people who commit genocide, let single moms and their kids starve, and/or call environmental protests terrorists.

They'll reduce all this nuance to us "being immature and splitting the vote"

Quite frankly, I refuse to fall for this narrative in 2024.

We are ALL exercising our right to vote for the person who represents us. No, my beliefs don't line up with Democrats so I don't vote for Democrats ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not "splitting a vote" because I can't split my own fucking vote and I'm not a member of your party. I don't owe your shitty genocidal party any of my loyalty, quite frankly idk why You even vote for them since you say you care about human lives but I digress.

If your guy loses that means your views aren't the majority.

It does NOT mean I'm a Russian Psyop. And because I've already seen a post floating around about how The-Russian-Tumblr-Bots-Were-Real-And-Pretending-To-Be-Black I'm asking y'all to use your brains and critical thinking skills this election.

There's a REASON why they specifically wanted to undermine your trust in BIPOC. So let's think about this for a second.

Why would anyone want to undermine your trust in BIPOC? What kind of things do BIPOC say about the government and it's history? What are the political leanings of BIPOC? What would happen if everyone started to agree with those politics? Which party would those views harm most?

It's crazy to me y'all think those bots were there to help Trump when it's obvious as fuck to me that the Real concern is that BIPOC would make y'all more left which would only be trouble for Biden/Clinton. The only people that would lose votes if y'all voted more left like BIPOC bots told you to would be Democrats. We want Republicans to vote more left, remember? That would be a good thing.

They were on the site to keep liberals from going left and voting for someone like Sanders or Claudia de La Cruz instead of Clinton/Biden. They weren't helping Trump. They were helping Democrats. Republicans aren't the people listening to BIPOC Tumblr bloggers, are they?

And that psyop is STILL working cuz now liberal goons put in overtime to accuse anyone who criticizes the 2 party system of being a Russian bot 🥴🥴

Yeah. I'm sure the two parties who rely on that system definitely didn't expect or want that outcome at all. And I bet they really didn't want you to refuse to vote for anyone outside those 2 parties either. I'm sure they hate how this psyop ended with you having more trust in a corrupted 2 party system and less trust in 3rd parties that challenge the corruption of the system. How awful it must be for them, that the Russian Bots Ordeal ended with MORE trust in the current government and people being less willing to change it :(

#idk how to be anything but a bitch abt this tbfh #liberals #2 party system #russian psyops #or they call you a white supremacist because If You Loved Minorities You Would Vote Blue #literally fuckinh choke and die #anywya #rant #vent #electoral politics #voting #2024 elections #biden #Clinton #sanders #claudia de la cruz #jasmine sherman #trump #im so fucking over leftists being the scapegoat for what is obviously Democrats gaslighting voters

[anglerflsh]

my favourite passtime is making up incredibly unaccurate armour designs. That's a lie my passtime is researching but this comes at a close second

#[.art] #is it even armour at this point? it's a chestplate with a mantella over it. It's armour to me. In spirit. #oh I dread to maintag this but my blog has to be organised or I get hives so I am in fact putting this in at least his tag #This was mostly an excuse for me to shade metal and draw armour but he's there as a character base because I wanted to put constellations i #Javert #les miserables #les mis #<- the- what was it. The mortifying ordeal of being known? me when I post art I did for fun in my free time #also this file is called knightvert. You should know this #also I got an answer about the constitution in place in 1820 and I regret to inform you that mister Valjean was probably elected lawfully #mostly because he'd been there for the minimum required year in order to be a citisen and be appointed by the prefect as mayor #or by the double decimal process if we go by 1799 law and not the 1814 charter. #not counting the fake identity but alas I do not believe proof of identity was required by law for that so. Dreadfully not added to the lis #which doesn't exclude entirely document forgery because I believe property law comes into the needing proof of identity? #But I've been looking at french law for three days and I need to not read for a week now So I'll check that later

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

#out of queue #ani rambles #ani rant #now hang on its time to acknowledge my Privilege(TM) #the first few times I ever voted for anything I was in college and the student center was a voting center #so asides from waiting in a long (~30 minute tops bc early vote) line to get in I didn't have to do a big drive or anything #and at my house there's a voting center thats a like 5 minute drive from my place or a 10 minute drive depending on what election it is #and im ablebodied and have a open (read: jobless) schedule so I can Just Go for the most part #i live in a City so there's probs lots of voting centers at churches and libraries and all across town too #but like. some people act like people saying Hey Go Vote Plz are screaming like #'if you don't donate 200 dollars and 4+ weeks of your time to canvassing and calling and volunteering you are RUINING AMERICA' #when at least from what I've seen its just like. 'can you maybe go fill in a bubble on a Scantron so people like me don't Die Faster.' #also there's early voting and mail-in voting and all that jazz like yeah the current system makes it harder to vote but theres still W AYS #you don't gotta pull up at 6am on Election Day Tuesday yknow? #if i get blasted for this remember as I was: happy and rambling at 3am about greenhouses and solarpunk stuff #plz be nice i beg k bye

[cuckweeds]

if you think you are morally responsible for Trump's actions if you do not vote against him then why do you not think you are morally responsible for Bidens actions if you do actually vote for him?

#it truly doesnt make sense to me how you guys can think this way #you are responsible for your inactions but not for your actions? #also why do you guys think that every vote that isnt for joe Biden is a vite for trump #do you know theres people who voted third party instead of trump? #thats right i know multiple people who voted for jill stein last election instead of trump! #not everyone voting third party is someone who wouldve otherwise voted blue and its silly to assume so #sometimes voting third party takes votes away from republicans too! and you could encourage more republicans to vite third party too! #i stg the democratic party is so sad #all of you “blue is ALWAYS better than red no matter what” sound so ridiculous like #so if trump switched parties right now hed be the good guy? #bc thats essentially what yall are saying when all you care about is whether they call themselves a democrat or not

[mishapen-dear]

genuine question but is there any fandom where a character is well written by the majority. im thinking about fandom culture and the spread of frustration when people dont write characters well but. honestly in all the fandoms ive been in there's only like, a Select number of authors who i trust to write Well, let alone write Well AND In Character. character analysis and writing and getting inside characters' heads are all separate skills (all of which are trained by roleplaying fyi can CONFIRM playing pretend with your friends is good for you). there's been more than once where I've disagreed with an interpretation that others agreed with, and then I turned out wrong. or i turned out right. like it doesnt matter WHO is right it just matters that differences in character analysis exist, so even if you DO write well AND write in character, your in character is still going to be someone else's out of character

there's this sort of. vibe. that to play in the sandbox you Need to be able to make a castle, and if you can't make a castle then you shouldn't bother, and it completely dismisses the idea that youre in that sandbox to PLAY in the first place. there's this Weight of disappointing someone if you can't build something that they like, but that forgets that you aren't there to build them a castle. like, be KIND. if you disagree with someone then please make an effort to do so kindly. i dont give a shit about fandom discourse but there is a reason kids get removed from sandboxes if they keep throwing sand in people's eyes. but if they don't like your misshapen sand pile, then youre not obligated to change it. even if you yourself end up hating that same sand pile later- youre not building a legacy. youre playing. and sometimes the result of that play is out of character drivel. theres a reason there are so many authors and so few who i like to consistently read and thats because everyone is Fucking Around in their hobby space. hash tag brag or whatever but i can build castles. ive built several that im v proud of. ive also dug holes in the sand for fun and then tripped on them when trying to get up. I often dug a hole and then got up and fucking- whoops, its a castle now, and i didn't realize i'd made something to be proud of until after the fact. the whole time while creating shit i was Convinced it was bullshit that didn't make sense. and then other times i was Convinced it was bullshit and then i was Right and i can look back and go. huh. ew. but it doesn't matter what the end result was, because i had fun playing in the sandbox

this wasn't meant to turn into a ramble but i have Feelings about bad art and art that's badly perceived and how public perception can screw with your head and how making art youre proud of is fucking. it's so difficult!!! it's hard!! it's really fun, which is why i try to make it, but i promise you it is Okay to not tryhard creativity. even if you CAN, it's okay not to do it all the time. or ever, even. fuck around find out have fun etc

#NOT a discourse post i am musing out loud #there's discourse goign around the dash rn or i wouldnt mention it #but the past few weeks ive seen a lot of “DONT fucking mischaracterize my guy my fuckign god” #which is one of the most frustrating pet peeve there is #but i think a lot too about little baby me #fresh on her writing journey #and how discouraged i would be if someone pointed out the mistakes id made #i made a Lot of fuckups #and i also think about this one fic where one of the characters was INCREDIBLY out of character #me today would not be able to stomach reading it #but baby me was so ENCHANTED #and it introduced to me the concept that you dont always know the reason someone does something #and it made me read even more #and because of that i eventually found Expert Skill level fics #which introduced me to MANY little tricks and fidgets ive tried to implement #there were so so many reviews on that fic that called it shit or complained about the bad characterization #but a decade later i still think about it #there were several very corny mine/craft horror fics i read #which back in the day would be called cringe #and those were what inspired me to write my first horror fic and now im Enchanted by the whole genre #theres a lot of stuff i dont like to read but i like that other people are enjoying themselves #i dont know how to be succinct i hope my point is coming across well #this ties into my thing where fiction is for you first others later #here are my credentials: bb/h fan since before the elections (hi i was the guy who noticed his lack of armour post elections) #and a cross-fandom comment trend of people going 'woa i can see this happening in canon' #im not talking out my ass i genuinely think its more important to have fun than to write accurate characterization #which. is a more 'duh' and clarifying thing than everything else ive written #but ah well c'est la vie #also also just realized this could be interpreted like that- NOT an attack on people who complain about mischaracterization either lmao #i do that too w friends. this is to reassure people who put pressure on themselves to create things Well all the time

[penwrythe]

Learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is important. I'm genuinely not okay when I hear, see, and research more about the genocide happening in Gaza, the history of Israel's founding, and its terroristic actions. It is important for me to know.

Taking short breaks (usually a couple of hours or so) does help when things get too much. Then, I return and continue engaging with reblogs on Palestine.

I really don't know what else to say, but this genocide must end. All genocides must end and must never happen again. Keep talking about Palestine, Armenia, Congo, and Sudan! Keep protesting! Keep fighting!

What is important now is to be as loud as you can be! Raise ruckus! Make your voice unavoidable! Be as annoying as possible! Do not let your representatives ignore this!

#// vent #// vent in tags #also eat butt biden you piece of shit I hope you don't get elected #no possibility of a ceasefire my ass WHAT THE HELL IS FUCKING STOPPING YOU FROM CALLING A CEASEFIRE #HOSPITALS SCHOOLS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP WERE BOMBED #YOU HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AROUND THE WORLD AND FROM THIS COUNTRY DO YOU NOT FUCKING HEAR THEM #Jewish protesters were arrested too; how does their protesting against Israel warrant arrest?? #Some of them were also doxxed and harassed but they protesting is bad somehow okay I have serious questions about this #they do not want this at all; why are we arresting them?? #what are we fucking doing? Denying someone's right to freedom of protest. Freedom of speech. For saying stop killing people. #god forbid the marginalized rise up and raise our voices once we understand what happened to us and what will happen to others #we all stand together we will see a better world; a world we finally be free #but that means the US needs to really take a bit of time to really realize it's own history and learn from it for once #how the hell I got here? What happened to my people? I read the stories of slaves who barely survived the boats on the way here #....annnd I remember that some history books in the South omit that part. What's up with that? #And the Native Genocide here too? The broken promises the US made to steal more land and kill more people #Why this keeps repeating??? #palestine #tw colonialism #genocide

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Maximus: How would you describe your relationship with Cellbit?

Roier: Pretty. Beautiful. Exciting. [Bonita. Linda. Apasionante]

#i talk #qsmp talk #I'll make a clip of this later I'm just real emo about C&R rn #especially because right before this Maximus calls their relationship abusive #and then right after he says #''but he hit you'' #to which Roier replies ''it was an accident'' #''Is that what he told you?'' #''It was an accident. He didn't mean to'' #and like it WAS an accident #but :( you know #q!Roier be like ''it's fine I already have a massive scar on my chest where someone I loved killed me before so it's no biggie!'' #Cucurucho or Quackity or whoever the frick please get a licensed therapist on the server #can you frickin imagine if whoever got elected president invited an ACTUAL therapist onto the server as their +1 #that would be so funny #anyways don't take the hitting thing too seriously because Roier DOES go on to imply that he's into that kinda stuff #[sighs deeply] #mournfully resets my ''days without learning about what a character's into'' counter back to 0

[da-riya]

Highlights from my EU4 Austria game up to 1600s

#og post #eu4 #pdx games #not in order but still funny #Had the worst RNG I didn't get any Personal Unions peacefully and had to fight wars to get Milan & Hungary & Bohemia & Brandenburg as PUs #Burgundy fully evaded my grasp and all of this got me so hated I got excommunicated and lost the election to Fucking Pfalz #I'm calling them the German name cuz it's more cringe then The Palatenate #(3 of the 7 electors are literally Theocracies what do you expect. Excommunication and the religious league wars were the end of me) #I got so pissed I switched to the Protestant side of the 30 year war and curbstomped Pfalz but only to sign the Treaty of Westphalia #Allowing me to gitch out and become an Easter Orthodox Christian member of the HRE (since it's peace between ALL Christians after all) #I can't even begin to explain how funny this is. Everyone picked sides based on me being Catholic! #When I switched sides all my allies were my enemies and all my enemies were my allies now. #Everyone lined up to kick my ass and I joined the queue. Then we beat up on some kid instead of me #Anyhow I also married into England without an heir and just... Got a Tudor as heir. The game pesters me to bring back the Habsburgs but no #It's better this way cause then I can try to take control over all the other Tudors (they hate me so that'd be hard) #England rebelled during my orthodox rebellion and so became an independent state seperate from Britian. Those are now two distrinct entitie #There's a England and there's a UK but they're nowhere near each other #And England wants to colonize overseas despit being landlocked. Like... No. Go back to paying me taxes!

[ceasarslegion]

The leftism leaving peoples bodies when you tell them that literal terrorist organizations arent the good guys just because theyre against a bad guy

#im catching up on last week tonight while i pack to move tomorrow #and i got to the palestine episode that everyone was angry at him about #and i dont... fucking get why everyone was so angry at him #for what? he rightfully calls out how hamas tricked palestinians in their election and killed people #AND calls out the israeli government for committing war crimes and a genocide #like. those are just facts dude #his brief section on the internal politics of how hamas rose to power in palestine #and how palestinians feel about the matter i found very informative and interesting #and it shed a lot of light on the conflict thats been brewing between them and the nuances behind it #westerners whove never stepped foot in the middle east when you present them with middle eastern politics will be like #'okay who is the Good Guy and who is the Bad Guy' #and then apply their dumbass 2 party system to everybody else in the world #where if one person is the bad guy that must make the other the good guy automatically #innocent palestinians are fucking dying and youre wasting time arguing that hamas are Actually Good on a dying blogging site? #and getting mad at a cable tv late night host for telling the truth? #because it wasnt brain rotted enough for you? #get it together man. jesus #some thoughts

[jewishbarbies]

I’m truly sorry your humanity is so far gone that you genuinely believe genocide is not only justified but should be the moral response to any perceived oppression but literally no one asked you and we don’t fucking care.

#g talks #antisemitism #im so tired of twitter’s response to literally anything #y’all called hozier Irish jesus like a week ago #and now suddenly he’s stupid and deserves cancellation #because he…knows Israelis are citizens and not their government #like y’all are all so anti fascist yet don’t know how fascism works #it’s actually laughable #‘well they voted!!!’ #have you heard of the word corruption? #do you know what far right people do? #you know how they lie and cheat to get elected in the us and the. do whatever tf they want #yeah that’s not specific to the us #fucking morons #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[darkpastelpurple]

i have a confession to make

for the past several months i have been working in a lab to try and manufacture a tumblr post to ruin Tumblr culture and my notes page.

There have been a couple minor successes, posts breaching 100 or 500 notes, and i only had to tell my friends to spam reblog them a little bit.

What I've come to understand is this, I am a girlfailure tumblypoo blogger

#shitpost #receipts #will provide evidence if necessary #give me a ukulele and I'll make an apology video #tumblr voter fraud #in all the dms with my friends what's what we've been calling it #it's getting to manufacture an election but the election is a tumblr post i was trying to cheat into popularity #maybe this is all another later #layer* #maybe this is another attempt at manufacturing it #i have plans upon plans #you will never know my full thoughts

[locrianking]

am yisrael fucking chai.

#at this point im just gonna be real: if you see what happened yesterday as anything but a tragedy #you are fucking larping as a ‘freedom fighter’ from the safety of your home without using the brain god gave you #hamas took control of palestine via COUP they have not had a democratic election since then. #hamas is liberating jack shit. they are ALSO OPPRESSING PALESTINIANS. palastinian civillians are fucking meat shields to them use your head #the bodies of israeli women are being paraded around naked with their goddamn heads blown off right now #israeli and palestinian civilians are being killed by hamas right now. if you see this as liberation and not a tragedy or injustice #i do not know what to tell you other than to stop using civillian deaths to justify your political beliefs #and i say this as an anarchist #it’s easy to call this liberation on tumblr.com when your home isnt being used to store weapons or as a launching pad for rockets #or when your neighbors arent currently hostages or your daughters dead naked body isnt being paraded in the streets #i will not apologize for being more concerned about palestine’s civilians than the safety of the hamas. #i will not apologize for being worried when there is a grand total of ONE jewish state on earth and people are chanting to kill all israelis #i care about jews. i care about palestinians. i care about the civilians who are living in fear. #if you think that is controversial feel free to block me ✌️ #rosie speaks

[tictoxic]

Ok is it just me or does Haruka have trans fem vibes or-

#wearing his mother's jewelry #wanting to be born differently #wanting to be normal and do what everyone else can do #insisting on wanting to be his mother's good boy which reads to me as trying to present as what she wants him to #killing his self (the girl) to keep doing that #'you never called me by my name' #tic posts #milgram #milgram haruka #haruka sakurai #meta #??? #its all in tags but w/e #edit as i realize i forgot a thought i had: yeah we dont actually know who the girl is so im electing to believe its haruka #considering that in the first vid haruka seems to be killing his younger self and he does that very thing to the girl...

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

wait. i just realized. i might have been asked on a date or something similar a few months ago. and i refused. oh no.

#i don't know if i've told you about this girl i went to school with (well kinda. she's 2 year youngers but we were aware of our existance) #(she was in the school band for starters. and she's in a band still!) #anyways. i don't know if i told you about how she was one of the candidates for the local psoe party for the municipal elections #and how she actually is now a concejala (councellor? what are town hall members called in english?) #well i was interacting with her a lot during the campaign and we talked and stuff #cause i was really proud of her and also. psoe is as left as my town is capable of going so i voted for them and was interested in their #proposals and stuff #anyways she asked me to come to a meeting or to have some drinks a couple of times #i said no to all of them. like a fool #and she sometimes likes my stories (i also like hers but cause i genuinelly like her stuff!!) #i thought she had a partner but. yesterday she showed up on bumbl #e #i panicked a lot and i swiped left (so a 'no') #and now i'm realising what might had happened #i wouldn't be against dating her she's super pretty but i just. never imagined i was like in her league lol #tbh this could all be me conflating things and she never had any romantic intention #we'll never know i guess <3

[gender-euphowrya]

there's this french tv host who's like. consistently propped up as like... an example of "a different person" and someone who struggled with growing up different and whose success is to be inspiring for how Different People can still make it big and like

his thing is he has a birthmark on his nose

#and like I GET IT I GET IT i'm not saying he never struggled with this especially as a kid #and like. as a tv guy y'know in the first years of his career he was pressured to cover it up with make-up #BUT LIKE #it's just. it's just kinda cute to my trans bi autistic ass is what i'm saying i guess #like if a straight cis white man is treated as the epitome of Difference because his nose is a bit red then damn wtf am i #he gets interviewed and he's like ''kids at school called me stain'' and that's terrible for a kid of course #but like. did you get beat up. are you scared when elections come along in case the People Who Want To Kill You party wins