One of the talking points that American anti-Zionists toss around is that Israel has a long history of oppressing Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews in addition to Palestinians and while that is def true they never actually seem to ask Mizrahi and Ethiopian Israelis what their feelings re: Israel are.

Remains true if you don't like voting for the lesser evil, you're *really* not going to like the compromises necessary to win an insurgency or shooting war against an authoritarian regime with nukes.

I know this is simplistic, but my recurring thought is that this election is about how we respond to Republicans taking away bodily autonomy for anyone who can get pregnant. Will the movement that did this, led by an adjudicated rapist, be rewarded for this atrocity?I know this is simplistic, but my recurring thought is that this election is about how we respond to Republicans taking away bodily autonomy for anyone who can get pregnant. Will the movement that did this, led by an adjudicated rapist, be rewarded for this atrocity?

Another preemptive reminder that being a complete asshole is in fact a choice.

Hey, as a person who is also worried about the election and has found a way to volunteer that takes up all my spare time, I’m going to post a thread of the opportunities I’ve been emailed about that I don’t have time for … but you might.

The main thing about some leftists is they can never explain how not voting will magically get what they want, so they just change the subject by pretending they’re the only ones who care and anyone who questions their stance is a racist.

If you're dreading this election because even a Harris win feels like it'll be a brief interregnum until the country eventually succumbs to the gravity of MAGA fascism... maybe read this?

With all respect and compassion: this is how libraries die. Not with a bang, but with a Moms For Liberty victory fueled by downballot apathy.

Yet again one of the key dynamics of the very online is a loss of an ability to understand that not everything is for us or is meant to speak to us

It is truly chilling to me to contrast how disasters used to look on Twitter and even Facebook a few years ago, to what the disaster information space looks like today. Sources pushing solid, accurate information have been almost totally pushed out in favor of violent, stupid death-cult lunatics.