fandomsandfeminism:

codenameanxiety:

fandomsandfeminism:

odds-in-ends-my-friends:

fandomsandfeminism:

10 Things America should do if we actually value democracy

1. Automatic voter registration for all citizens
2. Allow all citizens of voting age to vote, including felons and people currently incarcerated
3. Mandatory voting
4. Mail in voting available for all
5. Election day becoming several days, including a weekend
6. Abolish the electoral college and move to the popular vote in presidential elections
7. Institute ranked voting systems to encourage third parties.
8. Eliminate gerrymandered districts (moving, perhaps, to a proportional party vote) in state elections
9. Ban corporations from donating money to politicians
10. Restrict active campaigning AND political fundraising to only 8 weeks before election day.

Not sure about the mandatory voting? Like, what do you do if someone doesn’t vote? Everything else seems like a good idea, though.

Using Australia as a model, the purpose of making voting compulsory is that it obligates the government to make sure voting is ACCESSIBLE to every citizen, no matter what. Hence automatic registration, universal mail in ballots, etc.

I think the fine for not voting is like…$26 and its perfectly legal to go vote and write “abstain” on your ballot if thats a thing someone wants to do. Which I like, because it makes abstaining a deliberate political action and not a default “whoops forgot” deal.

I agree with this but what is the point of number ten?

Currently, many legislators spend more time actively fundraising than actively legislating.

livelyspaghetti:

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.

kamorth:

doctorsebastianthescientist:

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.

cryptiboy:

grim-reaping:

softdarthvader:

i respect and admire tumblr’s determination to make 2018 a good wholesome year with all the positive vibes being sent out, but i am but a humble man, and i have Both of my knives in Both of my hands. 2018, dont try shit bitch

2018 is Wholesome By Any Means Necessary

2018 is an overly friendly and optimistic hostage situation except this time 2018 is the hostage

autistictaramaclay:

stop calling racists, antisemites, misogynists, ableists, homopobes, transphobes, etc “trolls”. they’re not “trolling”, they’re being bigots. trolling is disliking a video for no reason or sending someone the bee movie script. being a literal nazi, lying about being assaulted by black people, telling immigrants to “go back to their country”, repeatedly misgendering trans women, those are all acts of violent bigotry. not trolling

sexbanglish:

sexbanglish:

so here’s a quick story

to help with decision making when going on a date, my bf and i created a list of 20 restaurants we like. 1 being ihop (as a joke, neither of us actually like ihop), 20 being our favorite steakhouse, with the rest in no particular order. we roll a d20 and go to the corresponding place

after i wrote the list down, he goes “roll it, let’s go to dinner tomorrow night!” i got excited, he got a die out, and i fucking CRIT FAILED and now we’re FORCED to go to ihop tomorrow because both of us are too stubborn to back out omg

im currently on the phone with him and im saying “what time you wanna go” and he’s all “to ihop? what time are we going to ihop?” omg he just keeps saying ihop to emphasize how dumb we are