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Given the extreme stakes of Project 2025 I need everyone to vote Democrat downballot. Everyone. Bring your friends to the ballot box, make a day of it. Have voting parties. Anything to get people energized.
I am dead serious though. If you know or love an lgbtq+ person, or if you care about continuing to have a choice or ability to push for change in this country, you need to vote Democrat downballot. The leftmost candidates must win as many races as possible. We have to completely smash the Republicans at the ballot box to get a chance at establishing ranked choice, to get abortion rights back, to keep Trump from getting more Justices, to secure the right to protest, and to protect and improve democracy.
The only way to move the overton window left where we want it is to keep voting left, persistently, consistently, doggedly.
Please vote. I know you’re depressed about it. I am too, but we have to vote.
Make sure you’re registered, and vote on Nov 5th. If you are disabled or don’t have reliable transportation, see what the absentee ballot laws are in your state.
Vote against Trump and Project 2025.
Fuck neo realism. Like idk what you guys are on but that shit doesn't work
Just as a reminder as I've just noticed myself - arab.org has more pages to support on
In case you're unfamiliar with how this site works, it confirms ad revenue via your clicks, which allows them to donate money to various funds
These go to:
Children -> UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
Fight Poverty -> UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
Environment -> Greenpeace MENA (Middle East and North Africa)
Palestine -> UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency [for Palestine Refugees in the Near East])
Refugees -> UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
Women -> UN Women
Do more with your daily clicks! You can help each one once per individual (perhaps per IP address?) per day, letting you help out with six things at once?
US-specific advice for helping Palestine below cut.
Side note I'm keeping beneath the cut since it's relevant to US folks only: if you're really determined to help Palestine, vote for Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. for President of the United States.
He's the most openly vocal about a free Palestine and is the only candidate who has demonstrably shown he is the most committed and prepared to immediately cease US support to Israel.
Joe Biden isn't going to cave if he gets re-elected. We all know that. Voting third party is a lot less risky than you've been taught - the two party system can replace one or both parties with new parties if they lose public favour.
We have both the people and the ability to unseat the Democratic party and install Socialism, and between Socialism and Republicans, Socialism is going to lock in place immediately and become the dominant political force in America.
Cornel West's Platform
Cornel West's Volunteer Events
Cornel West's Ballot Access Tracker and Ballot Access Plans
Tumblr thread I have of Primary/Caucus polling dates in the US (includes US territories)
Not on your Primary/Caucus ballot? Write-in, "Cornel West," on your ballot, or urge your Caucus representatives to do the same.
In a state where it's difficult for Independent candidates to get ballot access? Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. thought ahead and has created a new party for those states called the Justice for All Party.
(Addendum: Claudia de la Cruz is not a viable alternative. The Party for Socialism and Liberation has a Conservative 5th Column and has frequent issues with discrimination.)
Free Palestine. Vote for Cornel West.
“Honestly there’s no point in voting”
Buddy, Pal, Amigo-
Like it or not we are all on a bus headed to go right off a cliff, and voting is the only way to avoid careening off the edge, by either stopping the bus, or slowing it down long enough to find a solution.
Some people will knowingly vote to drive off the cliff. :/
If you, and every other person with your mindset, think it’s ok to abstain from voting it’s the same as voting to go off the cliff and die , because like it or not, the people wanting to drive off the cliff will vote to do so.
Don’t let other people tell you voting doesn’t work or change things, it. does.
We have been so conditioned by false media and propaganda to normalize cynicism in politics that we have come to believe that our choices don’t matter, that our voices shouldn’t be heard, that we should be ok with all the wrong things in our society, and anything or anyone saying otherwise is villainized and stigmatized
And maybe you might have a point in your cynicism, it might really all just be that bad….
but the fact is- would you rather at least TRY and stop the bad things from happening by voting, for your future, for the future of your family and friends, for the sake of being able to say “I Tried.”
Or would you rather just sit back and let the bad things happen because “there’s no point?”
(Don’t forget the big election isn’t the only one that counts, the small elections matter too)
Mwalimu.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922-14 Octiber 1999).
Often referred to by the hypocorism "Mwalimu," Julius Kamabarage Nyerere was Tanzania's founding father, major force behind modern Pan-Africanism, premier anti-apartheid exponent, opposer of white supremacist governments in Southern Africa, patron of African freedom movements, graduate of history and economics, peace mediator, elder statesman, thinker, philosopher, diplomat.
Samples of Nyerere's life's work.
In this 1996 interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a then 74 year old Nyerere was still as sharp as ever. Mwalimu discussed amongst other issues, the problem of absolute power as vested in the hands of minorities and his mediation efforts in the Great Lakes region following Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
So America's conservatives care about veterans now? Meantime, a former White House chief of staff and retired military man himself, recently confirmed that a certain Mr Trump privately disparaged America's fallen soldiers as "suckers” and "losers" during his presidency.
Meme Worthy.
Strangely reminiscent of goings-on in Banana Republics where political dissent is anathema and considered to be a personal attack on the great leader, this attempted abduction of a political activist is said to have happened in broad daylight along Nairobi's Moi Avenue in full view of local and international press.
Food for thought, in case you thought that a political candidate was the disease and not merely symptomatic of it.
Its profundity notwithstanding, a strange legacy indeed.
Blacks for Trump sounds a lot like chickens for McNuggets.
An American president actually thought about deploying paratroopers onto the streets of his own country- to shoot at protesters in the legs or whatever? That's some third world dictator drama right there.
In the debate, Trump claimed he fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper because he “did a bad job.”
Trump fired the Iraq war vet and lifelong Republican by tweet on Nov 9, 2020.
Here’s the real reason:
Meme Worthy.
October 1st 2024. Nairobi, Kenya.
The type of overzealous police who should be arresting the actual criminals who sit in parliament instead of harassing those who protest against impunity.
Pseudo-Machiavellian plotters; legends in their own minds.
Just a friendly reminder that the current histrionics surrounding the impeachment of Kenya's deputy president, aren't the first time that Kenya's so called political elite have joined forces to obliterate someone's political career or even to keep someone's name off the presidential ballot.
But like professor Wandia did in 2022, year on year there are some voters who take small acts of defiance against participating in the farce of a two horse race for the presidency.👇
And in 2022, I cancelled my presidential ballot and wrote Reuben Kigame's name in it. It is one of the best political decisions I've ever made. I don't have the regrets and blaming that I see Kenyans suffering with when it comes to elections.
ODM Party.
An ODM throng massed in their signature orange colours. Nairobi's Uhuru Park /Freedom Park.
It's common knowledge that Kenya's opposition parties are short term affairs, constructed mainly for the expediency of sponsoring electoral candidates for the presidency. Historically however, some opposition parties have beaten the odds of short-termism and lasted longer than others.
Take ODM for instance. ODM are a reconfiguration of an umbrella grouping called FORD or the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy. And FORD was an outfit that mid-wifed multipartyism in Kenya before splintering into several opposition parties such as FORD-Kenya, FORD-Asili, FORD-People, and of course eventually movements such as the ODM who styled themselves as agitators for constitutional reform.
But whatever their claims to reformist militantism, ODM's detractors often accuse the party of being a cult of personality that's built around one man. Party members are perceived not as ideologues, but as stone throwing protesters who engage riot police in running battles whenever their man Raila Odinga loses yet another contest for the presidency.
Some political analysts have even speculated that were ODM to ascend to power, they'd be every bit dictatorial as those whom they condemn. In fact, so far ODM haven't been above the opportunism of eating with government whenever it suits.
Nevertheless where Kenyans who aren't willing to fight for anything are liable to sponge off the political gains that others fight for, one cannot fault ODM for lacking in appetite for a fight when it comes to realizing their long held dream of acquiring Kenya's presidency.
Apparently what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.
Why do conservatives complain about the price of gas and groceries?
If you don't like the price of gas and groceries, just stop buying gas and groceries.
What's that? That's horrible advice?
Well, that's the exact advice you've been giving to other struggling people since the beginning of time. You've been nonchalantly defending the free market whenever it was harmful to others. You convinced yourself that those who are struggling deserve it until you became one. Then, you suddenly decided that it must be some deep state conspiracy instead of accepting that what's happening to you is exactly what you dismissed when it was happening to others.
Meme Worthy.
Kapinto has declared that Kenya's recently impeached deputy president, should simply make peace with the idea of becoming some kind of lightning rod that Kenyans (even the ones who've always voted for idiots) can blame for all their troubles including the historical, political, and economic.
Mind you, Rigathi Gachagua is not afraid to be hated, not even by his own Mrima or Mount Kenya area tribesmen whose lil' feelings Rigathi has injured by referring to Mrimans as Mūngiki.
In addition, Gachagua is not afraid to fall out with pretenders to his Mrima throne such as Ichungwah, Kiunjuri, or Kindiki. And Gachagua could care less for the opinions of 200 venal MPs who betrayed him for a tidy bribe to the tune of millions of Kenya shillings.
Fatboy animations on Facebook & Instagram.
Politics 101.
Wanted: Mtu Wetu politicians. Qualifications: Interested candidates should be experienced at graft and corruption, be proven purveyors of tribalism and division, show an extensive track record of non-performance in office, and above all posses a gargantuan sense of entitlement.
I know everything feels hopeless right now, but USamericans, Ive seen some weird thoughts on voting. I know you are forced to pick between two bad options. But for everyone on this EARTH you HAVE to vote. The USA election affects every other nation on Earth, and it is so frustrating and upsetting seeing USamericans opting not to vote when I, across the ocean, wish I could DO SOMETHING. Me begging you to vote is the only thing I can do. Voting is something YOU CAN DO to make a difference.
Voting is one of the few times you can actually use your power in a democracy (protesting and right to protest is another good one). And it DOES count. Every single vote counts. There's even an entire Wikipedia page about close elections.
I know you have two bad options. But it isn't a win to withhold voting entirely because of Biden, you need to vote so that Trump gets less votes. Withholding your vote won't hurt the Democrats, it'll help the Republican party.