#me every time that biden.

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

don’t settle for neoliberalism, phil.

#i think of this everyday #me every time that biden. #when wdapteo2 came out a screenshot of dan saying that was my lockscreen for like 6 months lmao #i hate this country so fucking much i really do #fuck biden free palestine #dan and phil #dnp #phan #yeet my deet #dan howell #daniel howell #amazingphil #phil lester #danisnotonfire #yeet my deenp #danandphilgames #what dan and phil text each other 2

[cemeterything]

you don't understand the grip the phrase "my psionic warriors" has on me every time i remember it i start shaking so hard from giggling like an idiot that i have to lie down

#🐉 #that fucking. bernie and biden dog meme makes me nearly throw up laughing every time i remember it.

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

Are people just not seeing the photos I am?

I've seen two children with their legs blown off, countless dead babies, bleeding white shrouds held by sobbing parents and children, emaciated starving children, not even dead babies but fetuses doctors couldn't keep alive after their mothers died, men crying with guns held behind their heads, a mass grave that keeps getting bigger, and people still going out to feed stray cats

How could anyone see this and still support Israel?

#palestine #free palestine #every time someone tells me to suck it up and vote for biden i see the girl hanging from a fence with no legs

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

#thinking about the keystone pipeline shutdown and how fully 2/3 of the people he appointed to legislative systems were women and poc #thinking about student debt forgiveness and rejoining the paris climate accord and unfucking some of the extreme gerrymandering #and improving COVID protections (that were roundly thrown out by corporate america which is its own concern yes but like. he's not a king) #'biden didn't fix' blah blah blah he's not a fucking dictator he can't actually do whatever he wants. the only thing the GOP lets slide #is the aforementioned dogshit foreign policy bc fuck knows every last republican loves bombing the middle east and supporting israel #(remember that the evangelical xtian death cult requires israel for the apocalypse!! that is a very real fucking thing these ppl strive for #(and evangelicals support the GOP for this very fucking reason. you cannot forget this. we are all fighting for all our goddamn lives rn) #stirring up trouble #i hate biden i hate his foreign policy i hate how ok he is with fascism i hate most of his pre-presidential voting record BUT #i will not let that hate blind me to the reality that he is Objectively Miles Ahead Of Any Fucking Republican Alternative #i still want his ass primaried out of the presidential race so hard he physically blacks out upon seeing the polling results tho #and fuck. at least the dem side seems to have a lot of good progressive downballot candidates this time around already.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I'm going to continue my crusade of reverse vote shaming. It's your fault trump won in 2016 because you didn't primary for Bernie, it's your fault that the margins weren't higher against Trump in 2020 because you didn't primary for Bernie, and it's going to be your fault when turnout is low this year because you won't primary for Williamson because no one wants to vote for either of these racist husks and an unnamed Democrat does better than Biden in polling and I feel like Marianne Williamson is as close as we've got to an unnamed Democrat at this point

Anyway your fault, moderate vote blue no matter who simp, for always picking the worst blue to vote for. You're a bad person. Xoxo

#2024 elections #im going to post one of these every time someone forces me to see a dumb ass post about how you should vote for biden #when biden isnt even the nomenee yet #anyway if biden gets the nom im voting third party for the presidential race again and it will be your fault #biden takes my state anyway this thing is on rails and 4 people will vote this year #i dont actually believe that your voting habits make you bad unless you actively vote Republican btw #like being alienated by the voting process is super understandable we dont live in a democracy #its an insult to the concept of democracy to claim we do in my humble opinion #i just want to maybe have a president rhat wasnt in the Epstein flight logs once in my life maybe

[sybbi]

If anybody wants an update on the precariously-close-to-failed democracy of Ohio, the Republican supermajority is attempting to keep the sitting president off of the November ballot on a technicality they created (and have previously bypassed when convenient).

These are the same people that tried everything in their power to keep an abortion initiative off the ballot despite swearing up and down it wouldn't pass anyway because they totally represent the average Ohioan's opinion on this matter so they KNOW Ohioans are against abortion, and when the measure DID get put on the ballot and Ohioans DID vote to protect abortion, they immediately said "This isn't over," because fuck the people's will.

I've said it before and I will continue to scream it until I'm red in the fucking face:

One party isn't perfect, but they have shown they value the most basic tenets of representative democracy.

The other party is pulling out all the stops to ensure we are a "democracy" in theory only.

#btw some of the worst republicans in the nation (tho not the most outrageous) are from ohio #before roe v wade was even being challenged every small town and conservative city #was starting to pass legislation banning it #'in the event' rvw was overturned #some of the shadiest most corrupt conservative politicians outside of texas are in ohio #and they are constantly overlooked bc 'it's ohio who cares' #despite being the 7th most populous state in the country it feels like almost no one ever acknowledges the fucked up shit that happens ther #it is extremely frustrating #i was crying on the phone to my bf once venting abt the shit i was seeing and hearing re:abortion #bc i genuinely believed (and still do) there was no way so many conservatives would start passing such bans #all at the SAME TIME #if they didnt have word that something was going on. that SOMEONE behind closes doors had hinted at something. #and i was told i was being paranoid. there's no way it wld be overturned. #that's what a bunch of blue state motherfuckers kept saying #and look what happened #and now these same blue state motherfuckers say they dont have/want to vote for biden #and it drives me insane #bc the kind of conservatives that have taken over ohio love that rhetoric. #and maybe this is bc im from a red state but i CANNOT STAND you stipid motherfuckers that take shit for granted #voting is the absolute bare minimum #when you dont do it and promote voter apathy #these are the peoppe you're letting win #and frankly giving in to voter apathy bc ur in a 'safe' blue state is despicable to me #bc ur potentially spreading that apathy to states that need voters that ARENT Christian fascists to get out and vote #and the onyl thing keeping some of the more despicable red governments in our country in check rn #WHETHER YOU WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT OR NOT #is Biden's administration #they are NOT equal and if you are genuonely making that argument im not being nice anymore u just have shit for brains #youve spent too much time engaging in rhetoric on the internet and have officially lost touch with reality #im.on mobile so I'm not fixing the typos in my tags fuck you

[gibbearish]

does every smug chucklefuck going "hey americans reminder that every country in the world hates you and if wwiii starts they might bomb and kill you:) bc civilian bombings are super in right now:))) just remember youre never safe:)))))" think they're like. accomplishing anything with that or what

#like dang lemme just ring up biden real quick and give him the news #surely this will have positive results and won't just lead to me having an anxiety spike every time i hear a plane #origibberish #like yes i get that there are definitely americans out there making jokes abt this stuff like it wouldn't effect them but idk i don't think #a post to tumblr dot com will reach those people frankly

[i-merani]

Is there literally no one exept Biden and Trump in those damn parties? I understand that US is a two party system but don't you have other guys in there?? At least someone who is not actively decomposing as they speak

#every time biden speaks it makes me mad #get out of there old man!! #usa #us politics #donald trump #joe biden #mine

[stardustfemme]

i feel like im going insane everyday there’s more horrific videos coming out of gaza and on the same platform the fucking democrats tweet a photo collage of LITERAL WAR CRIMINALS captioned “proudly in our protecting freedoms era 💙”

#hey 😃 STFU!!!!!!!! #we know their whole thing is not doing shit while in office so they can campaign on the same promises every time but give me a fucking break #and the whole 🥺but project 25🥺 IS FUCKING BULLSHIT #and i know u don’t actually care bc its already happening in texas and florida UNDER BIDENS ADMIN #but fuck the south right #are we seriously still pretending theres any difference between democrats and republicans #democrats will not save u!!!!! they’d let u die if it meant one more dollar for their campaign #mine

[oldfritz]

I think the thing I miss most about america is central ac. I think the thing europe needs most is central ac

#ponine keepin it real #I get it’s not environmentally the best but look the planets getting hotter than balls #youre on this island cooking right? atlantic is a primordial soup the sun is a deadly laser #look I gotta plan. I’ll save you all from being sweaty. Biden makes me secretary of state. ever think about the marshall fund? #I do all the time. we bring her back. we have her do useful things (that’s my selling point to Party Elites) #our true mission? Central AC in Every European Home #no I have NOT thought about it you can afford this economically or infrastructure-wise #but I’m onto something god bless the world and god bless these United States of - *i am shot by lee harvey oswald*

[coyoxxtl]

im not very knowledgeable about politics and i been wrong about a Lot in my life in regards to it but i don’t think it’s right to label criticism and anger towards the united states’ absolute joke of a left wing party as “fascist propaganda” like, i think that’s really fucking stupid

#we have had record voter turn out like. for every election since trump made people wake up a little #and we are Still in a full fascist swing like #im so sick of the Vote Choir at this point because CLEARLY we need MORE #yall are wasting Time Energy and Resources on the Voting Choir #and no im not some russian psyop or secret fascist because i dont forget the usa has been fascist since day one #and you Cannot vote fascism out of the united states #because its the foundation of this country. i promise that our centrist party isnt going to change that #anyway im just mad dont argue w me. i voted for biden and other dems ok that should satiate vote blue no matter who nerds. #i mean thats all we needed right? #txt

[horce-divorce]

I don't know how to explain to you chucklefucks that for the most disenfranchised among us, NOTHING HAS FUCKING CHANGED since Trump left office. We know how bad it was, we were fucking here. And we are TELLING YOU, not speculating about the future, we are TELLING 👏YOU 👏NOW that nothing fucking got better for us and some of us ALREADY have nothing left to lose THANKS TO BIDEN AS WELL. NOT JUST TRUMP. WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS SHIT ALL ALONG. Not JUST once Trump got to office!!! And NO IT HAS NOT BEEN FUCKING EASIER. WTF. Incoming tranmission from Planet Neoliberal Voter Privilege.

You stupid pricks don't even seem to realize that Trump leaving office DIDNT MEAN HIS APPOINTEES ALL WENT WITH HIM. THEYVE STILL BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME. Alive and WELL AT WORK helping to push some of the worst antiqueer legislation we've seen in DECADES while Biden, who barely has 2 brain cells left to rub together, decomposes before our very eyes.

If you think TRUMP was the thing that brought neo-nazi fascism to the mainstream, you are so comfortably privileged to have gotten to ignore it, to have never fucking heard it until then. And you are way too out of touch to be addressing the people you think you're talking to rn!

The "sign off on your glorious revolution" bit really gets me. Lmao. What a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue. What a hilarious way to misconstrue entire swaths of political ideology. You think Policial Jesus is going to come and save your ass, so we must think that too, huh?

Shits gonna hit the fan this year regardless of who "wins" the election, and it's not merely because of The Orange Man. It's also because of everyday lay people like this OP who have merely been privileged enough to ignore the suffering of your neighbors until now. Your privilege is running out, not because the revolution is coming, but because the hegemony that affords you that privilege cannot continue indefinitely. That machine runs on a profit-growth-extraction paradigm and we are running out of resources to extract from.

I don't know how to explain to these fucking people that you are the tone deaf motherfuckers we're talking to when we say you need to stop talking and learn. You have reblogged support of BLM and UBI and Palestine but at the end of the day you *don't fucking listen* to what we're saying in those posts. At the end of the day you are not hearing our cries of pain. And its pretty fucking ridiculous to turn around and point at people EVEN LESS PRIVILEGED THAN YOU and say "don't you realize that YOU'RE going to threaten MY safety and stability with your uncouth actions?" Well, bully for fucking you, because we already lost that! It's been gone! It never came back for some of us after Trump left!!!! You got to plug your ears and pretend the pandemic was over while millions of us became disabled and homeless for the first time as a result!!! While BIDEN admitted HE DOESNT THINK ABOUT IT ANYMORE!!!!! You got to go back to your life while protestors railing against our tax dollars being used for GENOCIDE are being injected with KETAMINE by the COPS!!!! If you thought TRUMP was that fucking scary! At least he outright said what he was doing!! Biden is continuing his work with ICE, continuing to increase surveillance and crack down on any kind of protestor, cop cities are expanding UNDER BIDEN, DEMOCRATS ARE ALSO VOTING FOR MASK BANS!!!!!!!

It is SOOOOO BLATSNTLY SELF CENTERED to think that you losing the privilege of a comfy life is the biggest threat to ""our democracy"" rn. YOU got to ignore how bad shit was until now. Some of us NEVER HAD THAT LUXURY. Our democracy fucking died decades ago and YOU got to keep playing Weekend at Bernies with it's corpse while the rest of us dug our own graves. And now you're scared because you stand to end up like us.

Lol. Lmao. Get fucked. This type of attitude is only furthering the class/social divides that already exist between voters and WILL. NOT. get anyone to vote harder for Biden. In fact, it just makes me wanna fist fight a Democrat even more than I already did.

First they came for the indigenous, and you didn't say anything bc you got yours. They came for the immigrants, and you didn't say anything bc you've always been a citizen. They came for the prisoners and their voting rights and you said if they didn't want to lose their rights they should follow the law, even while they made it illegal to mask, to protest, to be gay and trans in public- its so easy to just follow the rules! They came for the trans kids and you said, but we already have gay marriage, I thought it was safe to be queer now, and I dont have trans kids so I don't see how this affects me... they came for palestine and you said Oof. Well. That's the price of freedom for me, I guess!

And now they're coming for you and none of the other targets are left to feel worried for you, because we have already been living through your worst nightmare, UNDER BIDEN.

You look fucking stupid.

if you could EVER find a dem as outspoken and angry for the people as trump is for the white 1% then maybe we wouldnt be having this discussion.

#me #happy out of touch thursday every fucking day #to a homeless queer ass disabled ass mfer like me? #the Horror of Fascist America that you FINALLY woke up to for 5 mins when trump was in officr #thats just how America has always looked to me. #always. #you sound like MAGATS. vote for a dem and make america great again. just like how it was before trump. yk. perfect #literally all that changed w trump in office was that the gov was being honest for once #hell yea we're gonna build a wall. fuck them kids. #dems lie and waffle and pussyfoot and they go ooohhhhhh we wanna help :((( we want to sooo bad its just :(( ugh its so hard :((( #im tired of propriety #if dems gave a fuck they would also be angry #but theyre not! bc they are neoliberal shills who DONT FUCKING WORK FOR YOU!!!!! #america is NOT a functioning democracy and it hasnt been for a WHILE #privilege is the carrot that allows some of you to believe theres no stick. #the fact that youre losing it for the first time sucks #but id be a LOT more sympathetic to you rn if youd been to me all along #esp wrt 'the government hurting me' lmfao #biden has also done his damndest to KILL ME. #neoliberals will continue to also create a means testing resource hoarding wildly unequal society bc they *HAVE THE SAME INTERESTS* #ie CORPORATE AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS #not real people. we are not of interest #the sooner you realize that the better #the new panthers would never eat my face party realizing ur face is about to get eaten #preaching to a choir of people whose faces have long since been digested

[eowyntheavenger]

Americans, these are things we are NOT saying in 2024:

"Voting blue won't solve anything." Yes it will: if enough of us do it, it will solve a problem called Trump's second term in the White House. We unfortunately live in a two-party system. If you refuse to vote, you're effectively voting for Trump. I shouldn't need to explain this to people, yet here we are.

"It doesn't matter who's president. Both candidates are the same anyway." No, they are REALLY not. Biden was never my first choice, and his shipments of arms to Israel are despicable, but don't try to tell me even for a second that a second Trump term would be the same for the world as a second Biden term.

"But voting blue won't fix [fundamental underlying problem in America]." Voting for Democrats cannot fix every issue, this is true. But by saying this and ONLY this you are discouraging people from voting by making them feel hopeless. Voting is one of many tools in our arsenal, not the only tool, but an important one, and it does matter.

"You shouldn't vote blue, you should do [other thing] instead." See above: you can vote and protest and organize at the same time. It's not either/or. You can do it all. Stop discouraging voters from exercising their rights under the guise of leftism.

"Voting is just legitimizing government power. It makes you part of the system." Literally just shut up. Women and people of color didn't fight for their voting rights to have you say things like this. If you live in America and you can legally vote, then you should fucking vote, and vote blue. There is no neutral option.

"Voting blue just makes you complicit in [this bad policy]." Inaction, and allowing Trump to have a second term, is worse for the entire world than any Democrat policy. Yes, even that one. Voting is not about finding a perfect unproblematic candidate. It is about choosing the lesser of two evils.

"Voting doesn't work because—" STOP IT. STOP DISCOURAGING PEOPLE FROM VOTING.

You know who wants you NOT to vote? Trump supporters, that's who. You should be suspicious of ANYONE who is suggesting that your vote doesn't matter, or that both candidates are the same, or that Biden's policy on XYZ means you shouldn't vote for him. Trump supporters aren't trying to get your vote by saying, "Vote for Trump!" They're trying to get your vote by DISCOURAGING YOU FROM VOTING AT ALL.

I don't like Biden either, but Trump is unequivocally worse. Voting doesn't fix everything, but it is the minimum fucking requirement of living in a democracy. Voting for president has real, tangible, immediate impacts on people's lives, and choosing not to vote is not the rebellion you think it is, it is just relinquishing your voice. So fucking vote. THIS IS A GROUP PROJECT AND DAMN IT WE ARE NOT FAILING BECAUSE OF YOU.

#vote #US politics #my post

[majoringinsarcasm]

Crying. About. Politics.

I try not to think too hard about anything otherwise I’ll lose my mind. And this is not a hopeless post. This is just me saying. I feel like. A lot of people are gonna vote for Trump. From your hardcore republicans to truly normal people who are like well Biden was bad we can survive Trump again. And I think about the policies and laws and regulations that have been Good that aren’t in the big news. And I think about how RIGHT NOW states are banning books and sex ed and queer people just living period. And I think about how if the state of things is this bad Now? What’s it gonna be like under a presidenr who Actively agrees with or will go along with this shit for votes.

“We survived Trump” says the people who are still here. “We can survive another four years” says the people who won’t be pushed to maybe not stick around for that long.

#big sigh #also idk how to tell ppl that ONE the genocide on Gaza should not LAST ANOTHER FUCKING YEAR #that is not what this is talking about #but the man who wanted Mexico to pay for a wall to keep them out of the US AND MEANT IT #I don’t think he would be rallying to save Gaza yall like #am I happy about our system no am I angry at ALL branches that have hindered a ceasefire yes #but you can’t tell me that Trump would care #this is not a ‘pass’ for Biden but a reminder that ppl in congress NOW were brought in back then #and that checks and balances can help and also hinder #there are many red states right now bc ppl either don’t care or they genuinely think it’ll help them #I don’t think I could come out to my coworkers in a way that would be meaningful despite them liking me already #I cannot explain to them why I don’t bind or don’t LOOK TRANS #or worse id be seen as the Acceptable trans bc I Keep It To Myself and go by she her and ma’am #even tho my team lead who I love referred to me as a woman and it upset me more than I thought it would #I’ve been so resigned to cosplaying as cis in public that she her was just a thing I lived with and thought I was ok with #but it turns out not so much #which is great for affirming that I’m not faking it after a decade of self reflection but bad for every other reason #idk it’s not good times so many people are dead when they shouldn’t be and too many people #are FINE with it under the name of stopping terror #but talk to them about domestic terror and they’ll have no idea what you’re talking about #it’s fucking awful awful awful

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[mielicy]

the US government is militarizing residential and public/community areas as we speak bro wth are we doing

#i keep thinking back to that time in 8th grade right after trump was elected #and we were seeing kkk rallys pop up more often #my parents were about to split up #and my mom was trying to protect me #as the only black person in my family #and my dad picked me up from school and asked me AND I QUOTE #'sascha are you afraid for your life in this country? #after a moment of consideration i said yes #and he decided to gaslight me telling me im beimg ridiculous and my mom had brain washed me #and every day since then this country has become more and more dangerous to be a person of color let alone a fat black queer 'woman' #now he talks shit about oakland and chicago every chance he gets and calls biden brandon #i dont talk to him anymore #its sad that even at 13/14 i felt that fear of being black in america even tho i didnt really know what it meant at that point in my life