beef_curds [she/her]

blob-on-fire blob-on-fire

  • 30 Posts
  • 165 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle

  • Not sure where you live, but if you don’t live in a swing state, you’re wasting your vote if you DON’T vote third party.

    Matching public campaign funds are calculated nationally. If you’re in a solid red/blue state then you’re 100% wasting your vote on a major party, because they opt out of public funds, an your vote isn’t going to change a built-in 10% difference in the tally. But if you vote 3rd party, you’re voting into a national pool that could potentially get that 3rd party automatic ballot access and matching federal funds for campaigning.

    So if you’re like the majority of us, in a state that doesn’t matter, then you can just levy the accusation right back at them and ask why they’re wasting their vote.









  • Milei aside, watching these forest fires grow…

    spoiler

    across my lifetime has doomed me out. There was some tipping point when I realized every summer of my life is now covered in smoke, and it never really was when I was a kid.

    I moved away from the worst of it, only to have it blow in eventually even here. The locals were like “this is the first we’ve ever seen anything like this,” and I’m just thinking “prepare yourself.”

    I’m surprised this doesn’t cause more of a eco panic reaction in more people, because it’s really unsettling when the air smells like fire.

    Spoilered for bad vibes.





  • Someone woke me up to tell me a plane hit the tower, and I thought they meant a little prop plane and went back to bed. Then I woke up just in time to see the first tower fall.

    My first reaction was the sinking feeling that this would be the ammunition to steer us into fascism.

    I remember people not being able to contextualize the targets at all. People would be afraid whatever pissant thing they cared about was going to be attacked, the mall, the methadone clinic, the stadium.

    The bloodlust was crazy. You couldn’t get through to anyone. I know this is about 9/11 but, like the whole Iraq thing in the aftermath felt so much like Gaza today where you’re just trying to scream and no one cares.