you know how i bug you to register to vote and then vote and it’s really super-annoying? well the republican party platform is rolling out and it includes a 100% ban on abortions and revocation of same-sex marriage and no background check for guns and oh yes also conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people so yeah me bugging you is not going to change sorry not sorry please register to vote and then vote?
They’re also trying to bar women from combat positions (again), ban pornography, stop cohabitation of unmarried couples, and give federal parks back to the states because that obviously won’t result in 80% of them being completely destroyed for profit.
Oh, and then there’s this (from the Times article):
The
platform demands that lawmakers use religion as a guide when
legislating, stipulating “that man-made law must be consistent with
God-given, natural rights.”It
also encourages the teaching of the Bible in public schools because,
the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is
“indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.”Bear in mind, this isn’t Trump’s platform. It’s the WHOLE FUCKING PARTY. So remember: It still is not enough to vote for President and wash your hands of everything else. Know what’s going to be on your ballot, and vote in EVERY race. Get these fuckers out of office before they make their shitty platform federal law.
Oh, how charming. I always know they’re feeling particularly excitable when they charge all the way back to regarding straight cohabitation as a sin.
This is the flailing charge over the cliff, guys. Stop them for everybody’s good.
Oh, and read the first amendment. For some reason pepole really love that one when it comes to inappropriately using it to defend their assholery under free speech, but handily forget the ‘no establishment of religion’ part.
Day: July 14, 2016
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US Politics Post
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As Secretary Clinton said the other day, this election will be about who actually counts as American in this country. Does everyone count, or just straight, cis, Christian white people? By picking virulent homophobe/transphobe Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump is signaling that people like me don’t count as Americans.
He will see how absolutely wrong he is when people like me turn out this November to deny him the Presidency.
I really hope you’re right… But having just watched #brexit play out in my ex country, I’m terrified.
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Owls are flying derp-cats.
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He shut it down.
Yes he did
This is going to be an automatic reblog.
he done did it
As it should be!
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Blame the algorithm
By @nathanwpyle for @buzzfeedcomics.
@ramonajp and I living life on the Internet. ????
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tj:
“The Roomy Dodge”
— “yesterday we discovered the Victorian word for ‘manspreading’”
OMG.
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Watch: Black family stands up to racist couple at San Antonio restaurant
From the article: “The teen has a point. Her courage to confront the ugliness of racism, with a camera in hand, reveals just how rampant bigotry and anti-blackness is in America society. Within the five minutes of vulgar obscenities and racist remarks shouted at the black family, no one intervened. No one got up from the seats. No one told the white family to refrain from using the word n*gger. No one defended the black family. No one said it was enough.
It’s 2016, and a black family in one of the many diverse cities in Texas can’t even sit down and enjoy a meal in peace without being called anti-black slurs.”
This was a 15-year-old girl, and she’s right. This is NOT rare. This irrational hate permeates far too much of society and police forces around America. The only difference between Facebook racists and these white “people” is they were so full of hatred that they didn’t feel the need to hide their racism behind a keyboard.
Also, yes: “All lives matter” is exactly what racists say.
Does anyone know their names?
This country is everything it tells every other country it hates.
And that’s the textbook definition of transference. A staple ingredient of racism. Racial projection is often used to justify imperialism & neoliberalism.
tf.. like we said “yes, white man take me and my people to a far land I’ve never seen.” I’m sure life in some parts are Africa are far better foe our hated ass than here with these pricks.
