So I got tired of not seeing any news on HRC’s actual positions because every single media outlet is busy fact-checking Trump’s latest Twitter tantrum, and decided to look some up.
Also, tired of stories about 26-year-olds complaining that they can’t get behind Clinton because they don’t know what she stands for, and also have no idea who Ralph Nader is, even though these frickin’ kids are only two years younger than me and also Wikipedia exists
But anyway. Hillary Clinton! Actual positions!
Guys, there’s so much to love.
- We already knew she wants harder regulation on the megabanks, right?
- Not as hardcore as Bernie wants, but in the same direction?
- Turns out she bundles that with a bunch of provisions to support and protect credit unions!
- Seriously, I love my credit union. And they’re tiny and responsible and don’t secretly open millions of accounts in the names of unaware users.
- Universal quality pre-K for every kid!
- Paid medical leave and new-parent leave. Not just for new moms, either. Regardless of gender.
- Funding childcare centers on college campuses for student parents!
- omg you guys, her plans for addressing autism. Note the total absence of the word “curing.” It’s all about “providing support” and “early diagnosis” and “improving access” and “increasing opportunities.”
- She’s full of specific plans for Alzheimer’s research and treatment
- Including supporting stem-cell research
- You know how otherwise work-ready people sometimes get stuck as unpaid caregivers when a family member becomes sick or disabled? Well, Hillary wants to give those people credit where credit is due.
- By which I mean, tax credit
- And Social Security benefits
- and you know the horrific unnecessary price hikes we’ve seen on EpiPens and various livesaving drugs? Think that oughta be a crime? So does HRC.
- Plus she supports emergency imports of similar treatments from other countries (the ones with quality safety standards, obv) if that’s what it takes to save lives
- Hillary stands with Planned Parenthood
- Supports more funding for VA mental health treatments
- And better training for police on how to de-escalate when they’re called in on a crisis situation
- Seriously, she’s coming at mental health from all sides, it’s fantastic
- Her rhetoric about the police also hits better training to deal with implicit bias
- Comprehensive background checks for gun buying!
- Close the Charleston loophole
- End the special legal protections that gun manufacturers get when the rest of the manufacturing industry doesn’t
- eyyyy, btw, guess where Sanders fell on that issue?
- that’s right: this time Clinton was the one dragging Bernie to the left
- Solar panels!
- I mean, clean energy in general, but “solar panels” is the shiniest part
- Automatic voter registration
- AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION
- No more harried every-four-year drives pleading for everyone to register, even if it’s inconvenient, even if there are serious barriers in your way
- No more “welcome to the polling center, whoops, looks like you were registered but it got thrown out on a technicality and nobody told you”
- Automatic voter registration!!
- Raise the minimum wage to $12/hr
- Still not the $16/hr we’d have if it had kept up with inflation since the ‘70s, but a big improvement
- I’m not even in a minimum-wage job and this would still give me a raise of at least $320/month
- and obviously the tipped minimum wage is a national shame, well guess what, HRC wants to do away with that
- Fewer loopholes and more taxes for the super-rich, including the Buffett Rule and a millionaire tax
- Hella infrastructure investment plans: covering our roads, bridges, airports, dams, public transit, and Internet access
- She’s planning to upgrade our 25 most costly freight bottlenecks
- Did you know our country had a cost issue with freight bottlenecks?
- Because I had no idea
- and this happens over and over with her policies
- things you didn’t even know were things
- but Hermione Rodham Clinton has already looked up the statistics, talked to the experts, and written the ten-page memo
- and listen, voting for HRC for no other reason than to keep Trump and his tax-evading business-bankrupting employee-stiffing racist sexist across-the-board-hateful loose-cannon general inanity out of office is completely legitimate –
- but if I never see another “why don’t we know more about her plans?? it is a hopeless unsolvable mystery for the ages!” post again it will be too soon.
This is the conscience I’m voting.
Do not come at me with any lesser of two evils bullshit or “well, at least she’s not Trump.”
Bitch has her shit together and it’s time people start respecting that!
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“but what are Hillary’s POLICIES?”
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Trump is only two points ahead in Texas now. If you’re in Texas and vote third party or don’t vote this year, I will personally never forgive you for stealing the joy of watching the GOP freak out at Texas going blue from me.
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Watch: Full Frontal talks to Trump supporters who hypocritically think the election will be rigged
If you have to vote where these people are going to be crowding your polling place, I wanna preemptively congratulate you on your bravery.
While chances for voter suppression and fraud are not as high as you might think, I want to take a hot second and say this:
If you are required to attend a polling station where there are assholes trying to turn people away-record and document them. If you feel safe enough, get hard evidence that these people are knowingly attempting to prevent people from voting and contact the authorities. Only the people directly working the polls will ask for your ID so you can receive the correct ballot. If someone asks for your voter registration or drivers license outside of the building they are trying to keep you from voting. If someone touches you to prevent you from entering the polling station call the police or have someone do it for you.
Suppressing your right to vote is a federal offense.
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returnedfromthesunlesscountry:
WARNING ABOUT A REALLY NASTY NEW VIRUS.
Meet CryptoLocker. It’s your worst nightmare. A lot of antivirus software, including the big names, cannot yet detect or stop it. If your computer gets it, CryptoLocker takes all your files hostage by encrypting them and giving you a certain amount of time to send a certain amount of money to the man behind the virus.
The encryption is very tidy, and so far seems uncrackable (well, crackable, but it might take a couple centuries). If you tamper with the virus itself, it will pretty much self-destruct and take everything with it. And the way the money is transferred, the dick programmer behind it all for the moment is pretty much uncatchable.
YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THIS VIRUS WITHOUT COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS PREVENTION AND PREPARATION.
Back up your computer to something like an external hard-drive, or even an internal hard-drive that you just take out and stuff away somewhere for safe keeping. Make sure your antivirus is up to date, avoid skeevy sites, and don’t open random emails. DO NOT download email attachments unless you know exactly what it is, because that seems to be how this is primarily being transmitted.
You can learn more about it here.
We’ve actually run into this at work. It’s extremely aggressive and a major fucking pain to get rid of. One of our guys got infected with it and even paid the company whatever fee they charge to decrypt the files, and due to “an error processing the first payment”, ended up double-charging him (no refunds, of course) and is virtually untrackable.
Literally fuck this guy with a cactus. Like, if you see him, offer to introduce him to your little cactus friend in a quite personal and intimate manner. This shit is FUCKING INEXCUSABLE.
Also, bulk up on your virus protection, limit your porn and illegal cartoon-watching and torrents to safe sites, DO NOT OPEN EMAIL ATTACHMENTS UNLESS YOU’RE EXPECTING THEM, and just be careful in general, cause this one is one of the nastiest viruses around.
I wouldn’t reblog a virus alert unless I was dead serious about how bad it is.
I got an e-mail from my dad about this.
Mandatory reblog.
So the information in this is a little outdated. CryptoLocker CAN BE DEFEATED without just erasing everything on your hard drives or paying the ransom. CryptoLocker encrypts your files with a encryption that is unique to your computer, which sucks cause it made it hard to break. But long story short: A Dutch security firm now has a data base of keys and offers a free service HERE. You send them a encrypted file and your email and they’ll will then email you a decryption key along with a download link to our recovery program that can be used together with the decryption key to repair all encrypted files on your computer.
More Info on CryptoLocker here.
Other Ransomware & Fake Antivirus removal guides can be found on this blokes channel
Also take this as a good reminder to back up important files.Reblogging this good news!
This post has been all over my dash the past few days, it’s good to see someone found a way to help!
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My twitter feed did a thing.
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Full Frontal s01e25
Samantha Bee reminds us that a Trump-like politician has been elected twice before thanks to vote splitting
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People will tell you who they are. Horrifying? Yes, yes it is.
Gifs: PBS
he wants to “keep [us] in suspense” about whether he’s going to sabotage the peaceful transition of power which is absolutely vital to the survival of our democracy
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