La Petite Crature Prend Un Somme Aprs Avoir Fait Du Jardinage Sous La Pluie.

La petite créature prend un somme après avoir fait du jardinage sous la pluie.

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The little creature is eepy after a rough afternoon on a rainy dig site.

If you care about Palestine this election, your choices for President and VP are between the candidates who are unabashedly pro-Israel and don't give a shit about protestors, and the candidates who, while still being pro-Israel in many respects, have demonstrated a willingness to speak to pro-Palestinian organizations and protestors and have actively advocated for a ceasefire.

I don't need to say which set of candidates is which, because I think you already know. The point is, these two outcomes are not equivalent. Get out and protest, put in the work, put pressure on our leaders. Also, fucking vote. I don't care how distasteful you find the choices, I care about efficacy. Refusing to vote or voting third party will not help to achieve any real goal.

The creature has decided that i must cede my hand to her.

I decided that the creature would not. (Cutest shark I’ve ever met but she is not conducive to scarless hand)

You guys realize this means we ALL have to vote now. No "don't wanna vote biden" excuses now- if we don't vote our rights are going to be taken away.

"don't vote for Harris or you're supporting genocide" "voting blue is still voting for fascists" Then what else do you expect us to do?

Here are some options y'all seem to insist on and why they're fucking stupid:

Vote Third Party :: Until we have ranked-choice voting (and probably even if we did have ranked-choice voting), it is practically impossible to make a 3rd-party candidate viable. There's not enough of the population that's far enough from moderate to give up their "safe" blue vote for some "revolutionary."

Don't Vote At All :: I'd prefer to pick my enemy. If I'm going to be working in spite of the government, or even against it in some ways, I'd rather the people I'm working against not already be targeting me for being queer, for example. If my options are "bad" or "much, much worse" I'm gonna pick "bad" and try to improve things from there.

Violent Revolution :: It's a cosplay power fantasy in the same vein as the Right-wingers looking for a reason to shoot protesters. Assuming you even have enough people organized and enough firepower to pull that off in the first place…have you prepared a plan to keep the innocents alive and safe? Are you sure you can keep supply chains for food and medicines intact? Are you sure there will be resources available for the disabled, the scared, the young and old, those who won't be able to fight and still need to be taken care of? Turns out revolution is ugly and causes a lot of undue collateral damage. Are the lives "saved" really going to outweigh those whose lives will be upended and destroyed? It's not like a newly-toppled, unorganized country will be able to do anything about Israel/Gaza, so you're just hurting and killing far more people than you're saving.

As for the power you do have to better things (and make Leftism more viable as a political stance in the US)?

Work at the level of your local government. If you're in a small enough town or neighborhood and think you have what it takes, run for local office. Be a local face of the left wing; you're far more likely to sway a small town to your views than the whole country, and each small town with a socialist-leaning government is a dot on the map for larger-scale viability, and you can help keep your community safe while trying to build up in scale.

Build community so we can keep each other safe if worse does come to worst. Push mutual aid initiatives, help at food banks, grow produce to donate to those in need, apply to work at your local free clinic, empower local businesses whenever possible so that if there is a socioeconomic collapse, you and those you love aren't left completely without resources.

Protest, and make it disruptive. You can be disruptive without being violent: graffiti, blocking roads, encampments, sit-ins, to name a few examples. Create inconveniences so it gets people's attention whether they like it or not.

Above all, FUCKING VOTE BLUE. You're choosing your enemy. You get to help decide if the government we're working in spite of is run by milquetoast neoliberal war hawks who do, on some rare occasions, actually make things marginally better…or full-tilt Christo-fascists who want to kill some of us for kissing people with the same genitals as us. There aren't any other options that are going to be picked. It sucks, but at the bare minimum we can pick the option that isn't going to actively murder us while we try to build up viability for a candidate who won't sell out brown people to an ethnostate.

If you aren't doing at least one of the things above, then don't lecture me about how I keep myself and my community safe. I'd love to see a United States (or some future iteration of it) that acknowledges the sovereign rights of indigenous peoples, that doesn't fund genocide, that provides healthcare as a basic human right, that doesn't meddle in every other country's business. But if we are to see that, let alone help that happen, we need to survive this next presidential administration.

Ah, je suis blessé! Terriblement blessé par cette horrible créature. (Bon faut dire que je la gosse depuis 10 minutes.)

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Ah, i’m wounded, so terribly wounded by this bestial creature! (It must be said that i annoyed the little furball for a good 10 minutes before that)

Finalement, la créature a été domestiquée avec l’aide du gratouile sur le ventre et de friandises!

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Finally, the creature has been subdued trough belly scritches and treats!

Trahison!!!

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Betrayal!!!

Oh flut, la consequences de mes action!

-Rosie 09/10/24

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Oh no! My actions have consequences!

Rosie 09/10/24