as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
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But a new study projects that 40 million Americans who voted last year will likely not show up at the polls for the 2018 midterms.
And that two-thirds of those “drop-off” voters will be millennials, unmarried women and people of color.
The report, just out from the Voter Participation Center and Lake Research Partners, “Comparing the Voting Electorate in 2012-2016 and Predicting 2018 Drop-off,” notes that many of those expected not to cast a ballot next year live in key battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Ohio. Read more (7/21/17)
Young people in America, REGISTER TO VOTE AND GET TO THE POLLS NEXT YEAR
THIS MATTERS
YOUR VOTE MATTERS SO MUCH OKAY
Just look at the difference young people getting out and voting made in the UK general election this year…young voters CAN make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE by getting out and voting
And I know this isn’t a presidential election but it is in some ways EVEN MORE IMPORTANT
Because the president can’t do anything without congress and the senate on his side…but likewise, if the Republicans get a majority it means it will be easier for that disgusting sack of stinking dog-vomit Donald Trump and his party of traitors and criminals to push through the DISGUSTING things they want to try and inflict on the country and its people
Get out and vote democrat next year and keep the Republicans from getting a blank check to try and push through their bigoted, evil bullshit
I’m pretty sure the biggest barrier to young people voting isn’t not caring, it’s not knowing.
Am I registered? Shit, who knows? I’ve moved five times in the last four years. I think I registered, but that was a year ago, did I change districts since then? Where even are the polling places in this town? What are their hours? I know I submitted a registration, but did they get it? I didn’t get a confirmation. Did they lose my form? Am I even eligible? Who knows? Oh well, I’m sure I can always register in the days leading up to the – whoops, there’s a deadline and it’s already gone by.
This is one of those civic skills that you would really think would be taught in high school, and – surprise! – it isn’t.
Of course, all of this – in the way of Tumblr, and the internet more generally – will be lost to the vagaries of cyberspace by the time November rolls around. So hey: tag it with “voting reference” and you’ll always be able to find it again.
OP’s article link is also written in a way that’s meant to give you despair.
Vote. Every vote counts. Every single time: it matters. When we show up, Republicans lose: that’s why they’re desperate to find ways to keep us from being there, or thinking that it’s already too late.
I’m tagging this ‘voting reference’ so I can keep track of the information in this reblog.
See all my American fam at the polling booth in November.
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
rules:
there will be two winners
each winner will pick a prize pack.
tag your preferred prize pack (by number or name idc) when you reblog
if you wish to be considered for the misc prize, put ‘s9′ in your tags (these are already made, so i can’t change the model)
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
rules:
there will be two winners
each winner will pick a prize pack.
tag your preferred prize pack (by number or name idc) when you reblog
if you wish to be considered for the misc prize, put ‘s9′ in your tags (these are already made, so i can’t change the model)
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
rules:
there will be two winners
each winner will pick a prize pack.
tag your preferred prize pack (by number or name idc) when you reblog
if you wish to be considered for the misc prize, put ‘s9′ in your tags (these are already made, so i can’t change the model)
When you write the rules in violence, don’t be surprised when the gentle respond in kind.
What the fuck is this even supposed to mean
thank you for asking. it is a direct response to the right-wing movement’s “keep the peace” rhetoric that suffices every page of “minion memes are funny” facebook. it is a direct response to the incredibly, incredibly ignorant demand that those who are being oppressed simply deal with it.
black people are being shot for being black by a militant police. millions of dollars pour into arming individuals who report domestic violence rates of two to four times larger than the general population. when black children are arrested for attending pool parties, the police officers are given the benefit of the doubt because “blue lives matter.” black children are not given any benefit. they are told to sit down and shut up and be un-violent, with the promise that if they are a peaceful people, they’ll be slaughtered someplace less public. when a man kneels, this is seen as offensive and degenerate. but police officers committing felonies is “just how it is.”
school children are being killed because individuals love a tool more than they love the incoming generation. despite the fact we know, as an open fact, that the NRA buys politicians, we are told to sit on our hands and just buy a gun if we don’t feel safe around them. the american schooling system is entirely built to be classist and currently forces college grads who didn’t die into a system of debt that ensures little to no upwards mobility for many students, ensuring the creation of a lower class that is indebted to the higher class. students are assured that Miss betsy deVil has their best interests at heart while she absolutely annihilates every chance they’ve got.
women speaking out about sexual assault get silenced so much that it takes forty women saying “yes, he does this, it happened to me” before someone is actually charged with assault. we literally live in a world where “incel” is a real thing women have to watch out for; a community set around the idea that men are owed a woman as a reward. these men and other men kill women for rejecting them. women are assured if they stop dressing like sluts and started giving these good honest men a chance, we would be hurt so much more delicately, without the man feeling nearly so close to guilty.
two years ago was the pulse shooting, where a latinx gay community was targeted, yet nobody talked about it on tv. instead every news caster pretended to be reeling: “what could he have wanted possibly.” this world, this america, this land-of-the-free, has gay/trans “panic defense” as a legal precedent in which i can be murdered if a straight person perceives an “unwanted homosexual advance”. i will not be around to defend myself, because i will be dead. i am assured that if i want to be upset about these things, i can just take my cake to another bakery. that it’s someone’s right to discriminate against me, because apparently freedom of speech covers bigotry.
we have been told backwards and forwards and upside down that everything we do is violent. that our peaceful protests are riots. that our legal demands are taking away from real problems. that we are not being good, that the violence enacted upon us isn’t really violence, it’s just The Way It Is. They quote MLK to us while they step on our necks. the anger we have is always too much, too loud, too valid. it Upsets The Peace.
i’m saying: you made the game. you set it up and played. you made sure we were always, always, always losing.
you don’t get to be surprised when we return what you gave us. you don’t get to cry “hate begets hate” instead of stopping the original bigotry in the first place. you don’t get to say it’s not fair! when you’re the ones who made it unfair to begin with. you don’t get to turn the other cheek to nazis but call anti-nazis a disgrace while whining and keening you’re not actually a racist. you don’t get to ban abortion for the “sake of the children” and then turn your nose because people are protesting children in cages. you don’t get to wring your hands now that people are punching nazis rather than sitting them down and letting them have a say. i’m saying you made the fucking rules!!
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
rules:
there will be two winners
each winner will pick a prize pack.
tag your preferred prize pack (by number or name idc) when you reblog
if you wish to be considered for the misc prize, put ‘s9′ in your tags (these are already made, so i can’t change the model)
as promised, i’ve stayed above the magic number for a week so here we go!
i’m not gonna bore people with a lot of talking but i’m back baby!! it’s been a pretty rough 18months so to see y’all here is pretty special for me, thank you guys for sticking around!!
rules:
there will be two winners
each winner will pick a prize pack.
tag your preferred prize pack (by number or name idc) when you reblog
if you wish to be considered for the misc prize, put ‘s9′ in your tags (these are already made, so i can’t change the model)
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