What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

Do you have a picture of the clay mug? It sounds lovely!

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I'm enjoying learning about blood so thanks! Did you figure out if squids can bruise?

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KAGIURA AND HIS QUEERNESS HAVE SUCH AN ADORABLE RELATIONSHIP, it's not as grandiose as his love for hirano but it is subtle, it's something he casually mentions, it's just a little comment, "hirano-san your shoulder is so bony," that is followed by hirano admitting it how it's not something surprising after all he is a boy, and kagiura just smiles because he knows, he knows that the person he is smitten with is a man with bony shoulders and that's what he has found comfort in, he treasures his queerness just as much he treasures hirano, AH I WILL TEAR UP

actually maybe i DO understand this fucking phenomenon cause i just remembered how often tumblr loves to take a piece of media, be it a tv show or movie or book, and make headcanons and AUs and fanfiction SO far removed from it that it becomes its own thing. the threads tying them to their original work is thin, it's just names and character design-- everything else can be different. and i see this happen in both a (Derogatory) way, when people headcanon and interpret a character in a way that is just NOT them and make someone else entirely, someone that is more fan content than original work, and an (Affectionate) way where people make such intricate AU's and redesigns and fanfiction, it's so detached from the original work, again it's more fan content than canon, but the fan contents fucking good and better than the original. it's genuine creativity

so of course everyone's nuts over goncharov. because all we have is a setting, a synopsis, faces and names. everything else is for us to play with.

hiiiii i have returned from the depths of the underworld (self imposed hiatus) (3 week break that felt like 3 years)

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I have theories about what has gone "wrong" so Germany came last (or at least contributed to this). Still i dont understand it. But here it goes. Not backed up by looking at the numbers again tho. Iam still in bed.

1. As there were no Jurys in the semis, only fan favourites were in the final. This means it was harder to get many Televoting Points, especially against songs like Finland or Sweden that were massivly more popular.

2. It also means there were less jury favourites in the final, thus the Jury Points are rather concentrated on only a handful of songs. But on the other hand we knew we couldn't count on the Jurys. But at least more than 3 Points would have been nice. (Looking at you Finnland)

3. Australia got an surprising amount of jury Points, i think because while also some kind of metal for diversity in the voting of a jury, its far more "mainstream" and softer than Lotl. Don't get me wrong, i like the song. But when the Jurys wanted to honor "metal" at Eurovison, they chose Australia and not Germany.

I mean that does not really explain last place to me, i like the song, i like the band, i liked the performance. It was something out of the ordinary. I didnt expect them to win, but come on... last place? Ok maybe the people were to distracted by Chris bulge... idk...

Also the poor Austrians. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. It was a certified BOP! You deserved better!

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Fear is def not the only thing the Powers would feed on. Do u think the Eye doesn't go fucking WILD when somebody makes a lost media deepdive video? Of course it would. Check urself.

watching bmc London and having the opposite experience of when you hear musical songs out of context and interpret stuff that's not actually in the text not only it is THERE but there's even more in the dialogue

Did you see the new dev log? They added more personality to Mili! And more dialogue options with the town folk

YEAH!! If what ur talking about is the new video! I am going insane!! I've been talking to a friend on instagram about it basically all day. Shoutout to Mili very fun and cool guy and not sad at all

OUUUGH too many fic ideas. where did u all come from. [creates a new google doc] [creates a new google doc] [creates a n

Woher weiß ich, ob ich wach bin oder schlafe? Ob ich träume oder der Traum schon Wirklichkeit ist? Was wenn ich längst nicht mehr bin ? Nur noch eine Erinnerung. Woher weiß ich, dass ich wirklich ich bin? Und vor allem, wer bist du ?

ok fuck this. i have to say

THIS DID THINGS TO ME.