We fucking told you.

SHE fucking told you.

May the very worst that happens to any Harris voter be the starting point for the pain and suffering of every non-voter.

FRANK HERBERT
Dune

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

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“Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.” Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: “If you want profits, you must rule.”

There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: “Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?”

ABHIJIT NASKAR

It's time we call Donald Trump what he really is, a terrorist, who publicly incites terrorism.

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™

A SPECIAL DAY
[UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE]
Ettore Scola
Italy, 1977

BENITO MUSSOLINI
My Autobiography*

Your enemy's life is the only thing standing in the way of your victory.

*See also Donald Trump's Project 2025

Daily Painting

Pablo Picasso
GUERNICA (1937)

First Amendment to The Constitution of the United States of America

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Anything short of utter condemnation of Karoline Leavitt and her tweet is complicity and compliance.

And to the dude who said in the comments that you "understand needing to delete a post" because you once got hate for saying you prefer Labradors over Goldens...

Are you okay now? Do I need to call the paramedics?

HANNAH ARENDT
The Origins of Totalitarianism

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

 

Every accusation ...

yogisanonymous

Let’s just be super clear at this point.

If you vote for Trump/Vance then you are okay with women bleeding out in parking lots and dying from sepsis, even if the only thing they were trying to do is have a baby.

And you are okay with rampant racism, which is where we’re at. It’s not just the danger and mayhem they’ve caused in Springfield, it’s Rich Lowry using the N-word and going unchecked, it’s the candidate himself flying around and cozying up to a white nationalist, it’s Senator Kennedy telling Maya Berry that she should hide her head in a bag at a hearing that was about domestic hate crimes.

You’re okay with all of that, and not just okay with it, you support it.

If you’re going to vote for these people who hate women and hate BIPOC and hate the LGBTQ community and make it clear every day, then those are your values.

Just fucking own it.

You’re also okay with constant school shootings, climate crisis denial, and infrastructure inequities.

You cannot have it both ways.

Go ahead and vote for this kind of world if that’s what you want to see, but don’t tell yourself you aren’t supporting all that. You are. That’s who you’re deciding to be and that’s what you’re perpetuating.

At the very least, you should be able to say out loud: yes, I support women not having equal access to lifesaving healthcare even when they’re dying, and a forced birth society is what I want. I support politicians taking money from gun manufacturers because my 2nd Amendment rights are more important to me than kids being safe at school. I support racism and bigotry in all its forms. And I am in favor of plundering every last resource from this planet while I’m here.

That’s the platform of Trump/Vance: Mayhem, destruction, arrogance, violence, misogyny, racism, constant lying and gaslighting.

Tell me again how you're voting third party or sitting this one out.

What people don't seem to understand is that Trump actually does speak for his cult on this topic, especially the white christians in his cult, want Nazi generals. I interact with these people every day. They, and (again) especially the white christians in his cult, are absolutely ravenous to see a "final solution" in the US.

BERTOLT BRECHT
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

STEFAN ZWEIG
The World of Yesterday

Against my will, I have witnessed the most terrible defeat of reason and the most savage triumph of brutality in the chronicles of time. Never—and I say so not with pride but with shame—has a generation fallen from such intellectual heights as ours to such moral depths.

ERICH FROMM
Escape From Freedom

Only if man masters society and subordinates the economic machine to the purposes of human happiness, and only if he actively participates in the social process, can he overcome what now drives him into despair — his aloneness and his feeling of powerlessness. Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning. The victory over all kinds of authoritarian systems will be possible only if democracy does not retreat but takes the offensive and proceeds to realize what has been its aim in the minds of those who fought for freedom during the past centuries.

 

A. R. MOXON

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi."

Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

HEATHER MARSH
The Creation of Me, Them, and Us

Beware of your contribution to the growing banality of evil lest you yourself become a cog in the machinery of terror.

ALBERT CAMUS
The Plague

And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

JEYHUN ALIYEV SILO
To Be Tried as a Jew

Pluralism, transparency, separation of powers, and the rule of law are obstacles that prevents autocracy's triumph. In return, autocracy deceives the masses with its spectacular lies to bypass democracy and builds its legitimacy on these promises. At the same time, it forbids even two people from talking each other in private, so as not to spoil its spells. That is why, in authoritarian regimes, at least one person is recruited as an agent from each household. But a naive child who may rat out everything that he/she hears at home is an irreplaceable agent.

TIMOTHY SNYDER

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.