I Like Being On The Site Where Being Called A Cop Is A Vile Bit Of Slander That Must Be Corrected.

I like being on the site where being called a cop is a vile bit of slander that must be corrected.

But for real, fuck cops.

They really will do anything but HOUSE the unhoused.

"Stop Arming Israel"

Stencil spotted in Carlton, Victoria

No, CARS are loud, produce smog, require expensive parking and upkeep and thus lead to increased crime to need to have this piece of machinery for your basic transportation. That’s why we want more accessible mass transit including buses and trains as well as safe bike and pedestrian infrastructure.

As for crowded all I hear is “this place is so cool that other cool people want to be here” which is why the burbs remain sparsely inhabited in comparison.

"Cities are loud, smog filled, crowded, expensive, crime filled hellholes" - girl who lives in a large house in the exurbs that depends on the city to maintain her standard of living

I think what people want, if I may be so bold, is real change. They want someone who:

- supports universal health care

- safe boarder crossings that are demilitarized

- universal basic income

- free higher education

- a 100% tax on all income that exceeds one million dollars annually (or some other thing that makes billionaires impossible)

- absolute support for prison abolition

- clear, loud opposition to genocide abroad and a stated plan to stop using US tax dollars to fund it

- massive reductions in military spending in general

These would be the kinds of stances that would make people unhappy about voting for Harris happy. They would make me happy. As it is, I too am merely doing my harm reduction duty.

Why do you need us to be HAPPY about voting for Harris? Because you hope it will signal that all is well in the world and you can go back to not being very engaged in the struggle?

I see posts going "Okay, I'll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO" and "omg if that's the best we can do I suppose I'll support it" and I'm like...

What do you people fucking WANT?

Let's run down how she's rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?

ACLU = 93% on civil liberties

AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions

Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights

League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism

NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights

NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)

NEA = 100% on education

Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights

In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we've got a very liberal, woman of color who's spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that's somehow...just barely tolerable.

So I ask again...what is that you're dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she's pretty constrained as to what's possible to do in this situation.

Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren't rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.

So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren't 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you...we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.

Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you're a straight white man and preferably rich. There's room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let's not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.

Also one of the social media companies is owned by a weird guy who also owns a car company so… there may be some competing interests there