politics
It's not really possible to avoid it right now. Even in Australia.
I haven't looked on Tumblr in a while, but last election cycle, there were a lot of disenchanted Bernie stans declaring they'd never vote for HRC. Most went third-party, IIRC, or non-voter with a great deal of huffing and puffing.
I kind of wonder how many of them regret it - if any of them do. I mean, most had challenges to their health, economics, education, and so forth. Do they regret not holding their nose and voting for the only person who could have defeated Trump? (Is that how Americans even think?)
Anyway, I wonder how many of them are still huffing and puffing this year, because Biden isn't progressive enough for them.
I can't count how many places I keep repeatingVoting is not marraige; you are not looking for The One. Voting is public transport; take the route that will get you nearest your destination, then do it all over again.
But it's amazing how many people will get themselves in a tizzy on the fiction that they can keep themselves pure by not voting, or not voting for a so-called 'lesser evil'.
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Can't remember how many times I've posted the following in the last few days:Voting isn't marriage: you are not looking for The One. Instead, voting is like public transport: you pick the option that will take you closest to where you want to go.
Like many, feeling anxious about the coming election. But there was a really lovely thread on Twitter today, full of people who's considered themselves R in previous electoral cycles, who'd be voting for the Biden/Harris ticket this year.
That's pretty much what's hoped for; more middle of the road moderates and non-voters getting in to vote for Biden/Harris.
I know, that will make it more difficult to get progressive bills through; it makes it harder to achieve the change and acceptance that people want to see enshrined in law to protect them and validate them. And in a country that "doesn't negotiate with terrorists", there is no middle ground, no negotiation point.
*sigh* There are no easy answers.
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Have not watched the DNC. Will not watch the RNC.
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Vaccine woes in Australia.
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney (Anglicans in Australia are probably pretty close to the Evangelical church in America) has stated that he won't take the Oxford vaccine (which the Australian government claimed to have an 'agreement' to supply 25million shots that would be developed in Australia from the vaccine being developed at Oxford Uni) because it was developed using cloned cells of fetal tissue from abortions.
It has, of course, spawned a huge anti-abortion push, including the use of emotive words like "harvest" or "fuelled by", both suggesting the need for a push for 'moar abortion' when, in fact, the tissue being used are clones grown from the cells of two abortions done some fifty years ago and a lot of the vaccines that we use today were developed from this material.
*sigh*
On the plus side, the Uni of Brisbane say their vaccine trials look promising.
I haven't looked on Tumblr in a while, but last election cycle, there were a lot of disenchanted Bernie stans declaring they'd never vote for HRC. Most went third-party, IIRC, or non-voter with a great deal of huffing and puffing.
I kind of wonder how many of them regret it - if any of them do. I mean, most had challenges to their health, economics, education, and so forth. Do they regret not holding their nose and voting for the only person who could have defeated Trump? (Is that how Americans even think?)
Anyway, I wonder how many of them are still huffing and puffing this year, because Biden isn't progressive enough for them.
I can't count how many places I keep repeatingVoting is not marraige; you are not looking for The One. Voting is public transport; take the route that will get you nearest your destination, then do it all over again.
But it's amazing how many people will get themselves in a tizzy on the fiction that they can keep themselves pure by not voting, or not voting for a so-called 'lesser evil'.
--
Can't remember how many times I've posted the following in the last few days:Voting isn't marriage: you are not looking for The One. Instead, voting is like public transport: you pick the option that will take you closest to where you want to go.
Like many, feeling anxious about the coming election. But there was a really lovely thread on Twitter today, full of people who's considered themselves R in previous electoral cycles, who'd be voting for the Biden/Harris ticket this year.
That's pretty much what's hoped for; more middle of the road moderates and non-voters getting in to vote for Biden/Harris.
I know, that will make it more difficult to get progressive bills through; it makes it harder to achieve the change and acceptance that people want to see enshrined in law to protect them and validate them. And in a country that "doesn't negotiate with terrorists", there is no middle ground, no negotiation point.
*sigh* There are no easy answers.
--
Have not watched the DNC. Will not watch the RNC.
--
Vaccine woes in Australia.
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney (Anglicans in Australia are probably pretty close to the Evangelical church in America) has stated that he won't take the Oxford vaccine (which the Australian government claimed to have an 'agreement' to supply 25million shots that would be developed in Australia from the vaccine being developed at Oxford Uni) because it was developed using cloned cells of fetal tissue from abortions.
It has, of course, spawned a huge anti-abortion push, including the use of emotive words like "harvest" or "fuelled by", both suggesting the need for a push for 'moar abortion' when, in fact, the tissue being used are clones grown from the cells of two abortions done some fifty years ago and a lot of the vaccines that we use today were developed from this material.
*sigh*
On the plus side, the Uni of Brisbane say their vaccine trials look promising.