one thing some leftists near me were doing regarding the voting question that I thought was really rad was voluntarily “giving” their vote to someone who didn’t have the legal right to vote. For example, they’d chat with someone imprisoned or someone previously convicted of a felony who lost voting rights about who they supported or would vote for, and then on Election Day they’d fill out their ballot accordingly.
I thought it was a really useful/practical take on politically consciously choosing not to vote, while simultaneously helping to get voting rights for those who are systematically denied them.
anyway, midterms are coming up, and if you can’t in good conscience vote- that might be a strategy to consider
shoutout to 10th century norway for having the only medieval penal code (gulaþinglög) i’ve read that not only doesn’t suggest you torture people but explicitly says tortured confessions are made out of fear and you should specifically not listen to them. good job 10th century norway
also shoutout to tumblr mobile for letting me blog exclusively in hot pink
cats don’t know what words mean and i love that about them. i can say “you are a beautiful little angel child and i love you more than anything else in the entire world” but also “you wretched little clown bastard. you’ve created such a big mess and now i have to clean it because i have hands and you don’t. this is god’s cruelest joke.” and they don’t care they just say :3 and put their little paws on me
once on halloween in high school i decided that i would give myself a treat and “forget” my gym uniform and therefore lose participation credit for the day because you cant participate without the uniform. and the teacher was like, “if you’re in costume you don’t lose credit today because halloween,” and was listing off students who were visibly in costume who would get basically free credit, and she said my name much to my surprise and i realized that. she had never seen me in my regular clothes more than once or twice a couple months previously. she thought i was in costume. she had no idea i was just super fuckin goth.
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