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verosvault · 2 months

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🚨SPOILERS FOR FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 6🚨

Dimension20 "Fantasy High Junior Year"

Episode 6 "Party Politics"

Timestamp: 1:46:15

Video Length: 45sec.

Jawbone is an angel! 😭✋

Jawbone has a giant cup of tea. He's in his cardigan with some workout shorts and fuzzy bunny slippers! 😭✋

Adaine: "Thank you. Thank you." *Takes his tea*

Jawbone: "Oh, Uh-oh! Uh-oh, what do we got going on here?"

Adaine: "There's so much sugar."

Jawbone: "Late night study party, huh?"

Kristen: "A real dark night of the soul."

Jawbone: "Hey now."

Kristen touches Jawbone's neck so hard! 😭✋

Adaine: "Kristen got re-dumped." 😭✋

Jawbone: "My niece can be a piece of work. Come here, kiddo."

Kristen: "She was actually kinda nice about it. I love her."

The awesome caption team: (Brennan cringing) 😭✋

Jawbone: "Maybe when the sun's not out, we go on a nice little ride, maybe get a little picnic, PB&J's out on the grass, sunset."

Kristen: "Who's this man? Who's this angel?" 😭✋

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lunarlover12 · 24 days

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Tracker after finding out Kristen can no longer cast spells due to her dead God: "What's gonna happen with you and Augefort?"

Kristen Applebees WITHOUT HESITATION: "I'm gonna be president, bitch."

#luna live blogs fh #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #tracker o'shaughnessey #kristen applebees #i love the chaos that is ally this season #they have gone fully off the rails #and has taken everyone else with them #party politics

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feelingtheaster99 · 23 days

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I fucking love all The Bad Kids teaming up with Gertie against Fabian because he insulted her honey

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titleknown · 5 months

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Hot take, but if you're sick of voting for the lesser evil in the US, you gotta look into the movement to push for ranked choice voting.

Like, legit, "first past the post" as a concept is one of the big reason most major elections in the US have no viable alternatives beyond "the fascist party" and "everyone else, but headed up by corrupt neoliberal weenies" in most main elections, and if that were to change in a major way, it would be so much better on all levels.

Like, legit, look up the efforts in your state and see what you can do, especially if they're trying to get this issue on the ballot in 2024 like this group in my state is, it's an underrated issue but one I think is vital.

#politics #american politics #voting #first past the post #party politics #democracy

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ms-boogie-man · 3 months

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Interactive poll time yo!!!

… and this is for posterity, so do be honest yo

#party politics #political parties #uniparty #Act of 1871 #yeah I'm starting trouble

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newyorkthegoldenage · 10 months

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The 1924 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden ran from June 24 to July 9, with a record 103 ballots. John W. Davis won the party's presidential nomination as a compromise candidate after supporters of Governor Al Smith and Robert McAdoo deadlocked. He went on to lose spectacularly to incumbent Calvin Coolidge.

Photo: Associated Press via the NY Times

#vintage New York #1920s #political convention #Democratic National Convention #1924 election #1924 presidential election #1924 U.S. election #July 9 #9 July #politics #party politics #John W. Davis #Al Smith #Robert McAdoo

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miochimochi · 16 days

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One thing that annoys me with the neo-left (as opposed to the old left and the new left) is how much they will label you for daring to have an opinion that people on the right might agree on.

Oh, you think Jan 6th was a fed job? You must be some Nazi Trump supporter! What's that? You think elections are fraudulent? That's just what a Trump supporter would say! You support gun rights? What are you, a racist Trump supporter who wants to gun down children and minorities??

It's so fucking annoying, especially their rabid puritanical fixation on Trump as some uniquely evil big bad guy that must be defeated at all costs. But that's party politics for ya. Makes people irrational as fuck. It's the dumb ass shit of "if you're not with me you're against me" in the worst possible ways. They're authoritarian partyarchists pretending to be "compassionate and sensible" leftists.

#anarchism #anarchy #market anarchism #agorism #agora #trump #donald trump #party #party politics #partyarchy #left #leftism #neoleft #politics #tds #trump derangement syndrome

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yessoupy · 1 month

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every county democratic party in Texas hosted their county/congressional district conventions today. thousands of individuals showed up across the state to help mold their local parties to better reflect their members. in june, we'll be in el paso to work together to make the state party better reflect us as a whole. then, in late august, national delegates will do the same for the national party. they'll also formally nominate Biden for president.

today, I spent 5 straight hours (okay we had 2 short bathroom breaks but I spent them networking) massaging resolutions and platform planks. one resolution was related to palestine, and that was my sole reason for being on this committee (shhh don't tell my cd chair). I used every bit of my political skill to pull that resolution over the finish line and in the end, despite the presence of individuals not at all sympathetic to Gazans on the committee, we passed the resolution unanimously.

I am most proud when my students step up and use something I've taught them to improve the world around them. today, I was using what my students taught me to advance the possibility for a brighter future for them... as small of an action as this was in the grand scheme of things.

I'll be running to represent my congressional district on the platform committee at the state convention. I'm also going to help with writing the curriculum for a teach-in being planned for the convention. during the rather boring speech by colin allred (who told me today he supports a ceasefire, which is an about-face frol our conversation in October), I texted my kids from Gaza. Kareem, who has been safe in London but whose family is still in Gaza, sent this:

"but what can we do" he says.

just a little bit more every day, I say to myself. one more conversation (I had so many today), one more politician on the right side of a ceasefire (who now has 2 versions of my business card, this one provided by the county party and more professional), one more person with a larger SM reach asking for gofundme campaign links to share... just a little bit more. each day. until they're safe.

#us politics #tx politics #palestine #gaza #activism #party politics #the fucking boring shit that needs to be done #incremental change and constant pushing left

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 month

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By: John Burn-Murdoch

Published: Mar 11, 2024

NEW 🧵:

American politics is in the midst of a racial realignment.

I think this is simultaneously one of the most important social trends in the US today, and one of the most poorly understood.

Last week, an NYT poll showed Biden leading Trump by less than 10 points among non-white Americans, a group he won by almost 50 points in 2020.

Averaging all recent polls (thnx @admcrlsn), the Democrats are losing more ground with non-white voters than any other demographic.

People often respond to these figures with accusations of polling error, but this isn’t just one rogue result.

High quality, long-running surveys like this from Gallup have been showing a steepening decline in Black and Latino voters identifying as Democrats for several years.

And America’s gold-standard national election surveys show a similarly sharp decline, with non-white proximity to Democrats now at its lowest since the 1960s, before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election which aligned Black voters with the Dems and against the GOP

So the non-white shift away from Dems seems very real. But what’s driving it?

One factor is fading memories. The civil rights movement and 1964 realignment formed very strong political bonds for the people who lived through it, but this is less true for more recent generations.

The bond between young Black Americans and Democrats is far weaker than among older cohorts.

I don’t think everyone appreciates that the familiar "young favour Dems, old favour Republicans" gradient we see in the US population overall is *inverted* among the Black population.

The oldest Black Americans, whose political allegiances were formed in the 1960s and ’70s, identify as Dems over Reps by a margin of 82%.

Among the youngest Black voters, who have grown up in a very different socio-political environment, the Democrat advantage is just 33%

The changing image of the parties regarding class and income is also a factor.

In 2020 the richest third of voters favoured the Dems for the first time, and the Republicans improved with the poorest. The GOP now appeals to working- and middle-class voters of all ethnicities

But fading memories and increased competition for working class votes are fixable problems.

As long as these voters’ values remain fundamentally aligned with those of the Democratic party, the right person, policy, or rhetoric can win them back.

However…

Much more ominous for the Democrats is a less widely understood dynamic:

Large numbers of non-white Americans have long held much more conservative views than their voting patterns would suggest.

Their values are very much *not* aligned with the party.

To show you what I mean by that, I will refer to the brilliant work of @IsmailWhitePhD and @ChrylLaird, whose 2020 book Steadfast Democrats explores why Black Americans historically voted Democrat in such large numbers *despite* often holding very conservative views.

Take deeply conservative positions like support for gun rights, opposition to abortion or the belief that government should stay out of people’s lives.

Very few white voters with these views identify as Dems, but much larger shares of Black, Latino and Asian conservatives do.

This anomaly has historically given Dems a huge boost, but it has begun to unwind.

In 2012, the vast majority of Black conservatives still identified as Democrats, but that has since fallen to less than half. Latino and Asian conservatives show similar but less sudden trends

Once you realise this, the Dem -> Rep migration among non-white voters that we’ve seen in recent years becomes not so much a case of natural Democrats drifting away because they’ve become disillusioned, but natural Republicans realising they’ve been voting for the wrong party.

We can also use this chart, which I adapted from White & Laird and @PatrickRuffini’s excellent book Party of the People.

It shows people’s self-reported political views from left to right, and their Rep-Dem margin top to bottom

Liberals vote Dem, conservatives vote Rep. Simple.

Except here’s how it actually looked in 2012: white voters were very well sorted, matching ideology to voting patterns

But Asian, Latino and especially Black voters were misaligned, with large numbers of non-white ideological conservatives voting Democrat in that year’s election

But just look at the realignment since then:

Latino conservatives are now a very solidly Republican group, and Black conservatives favoured Republicans over Democrats for the first time in 2022.

All groups are increasingly matching vote choice to ideology.

So you can see the problem for the Dems.

The non-white voters they’re losing are conservatives.

They won’t be won back by a bold green policy or defunding the police. Their historical support for Democrats was an anomaly and a further rightward shift is as likely as a reversal.

So this explains the big shifts we’re seeing, but why is the racial realignment happening *now*?

@IsmailWhitePhD & @ChrylLaird find that social pressure is key.

When everyone around you votes a certain way, you feel pressure to do the same. Political norms are hard to overcome

In a brilliant piece of research they found that when Black voters with very conservative views have almost exclusively Black social groups, they still vote Dem.

But if they have a more mixed social group, the weaker norm for voting Dem lets them vote in line with their beliefs.

I’ve extended their analysis and I find the same thing, with a similar effect among Latinos.

When people have more diverse social groups, there’s less social pressure to vote for the dominant party in the community, so non-white conservatives feel they can vote Republican.

There are echoes of Britain’s Red Wall — the English communities identified by @JamesKanag which had conservative demographics and attitudes but had stopped short of voting Tory due to a long-held sense that the party was not for them. In 2019 that changed

Non-white Americans are in a similar position.

Strong community norms have kept them in the blue column for decades, but those forces are weakening.

The surprise is not so much that these voters are shifting their support to align with their beliefs, but that it took so long.

So you have: • Decline of church attendance (key source of political norm policing) • The US becoming more racially mixed, less segregated, fewer people with no friends/family of other races

The friction preventing non-white conservatives from voting Republican is diminishing.

And crucially, that weakening of political norms doesn’t only come from people of other races.

As the number of Black Republicans has risen from ~5% to 15% (the figure among young Black adults today), the Democrat-voting norm is eroded and the stigma of voting Republican reduced

This can happen very quickly in a “preference cascade”, where people who previously masked their true feelings to fit in, start discovering that other people actually share their beliefs, so suddenly lots of people shift their behaviour at once (screenshot from @PatrickRuffini)

And ‘a rapid shift in [voting] behaviour as people who were previously masking their [political] beliefs discover that others hold the same views as they do’ fits well with these charts.

Viewed in this light, the size of the shifts in current polling is entirely plausible.

To be clear, nothing in politics is guaranteed to last.

Some shifts are temporary, and many of those deserting the Democrats will become swing voters rather than solid Republicans.

These people can be won back and should absolutely not be written off.

But if you take one thing away from this thread:

The left’s challenge with non-white voters is much deeper than it first appears.

A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems.

And here’s my column in full:

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Prediction: Trump is elected, and the media blame white Americans, rather than the Dems or the arrogant assumption that non-white people would always vote for them.

#party politics #Democratic Party #Republican party #US elections #black voters #hispanic voters #asian voters #racial realignment #US politics #religion is a mental illness

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zedecksiew · 1 year

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Notes on working with Parti Sosialis Malaysia

For the 15th General Election, Sharon and I spent two days volunteering with Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), the Malaysian Socialist Party.

Rembau is the Parliamentary constituency bordering ours, and PSM was running a candidate: Tinagaran Subramaniam, better known as Cikgu Tina, a teacher and community organiser.

We handed out leaflets; waved flags; talked to folks over their front gates; drove in a convoy behind a SUV blaring Cikgu Tina's theme song---a popular Indian tune reworded into an urgent exhortation:

Negara maju rakyat masih miskin Harga barangan melambung tinggi Jaminan makanan tiada sini Tanah petani yang sudah milik kroni

Alam negara sudah semakin pupus Adanya polisi pro-kapitalis Sudah bangkit alam mula melawan Hujan angin ribut banjir rakyat matang

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Over the years, between us, Sharon and I have watched many election campaigns unfold: from PRM to PKR to PAS to DAP, from urban Kuala Lumpur to rural Kelantan, to seats in interior Sabah and Sarawak.

We found PSM's campaign in Rembau refreshing.

We had long conversations in the car ride home. Here are some notes / thoughts we formulated together:

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PSM are often seen as hopelessly naive. But the party is pretty clear-eyed?

They know that their focus on local and specific working-class issues hamstrings them. Cikgu Tina wore his "I'm not a politician!" badge proudly.

Virtually every political party pays platitudes to this "vote the candidate, not the party" idea---but PSM is the only one I know who genuinely means it? To their detriment.

And they know it. Under current conditions--first-past-the-post; the absence of local council elections, a whole one-third of our democracy---they have little hope at winning. Voters aren't stupid. Without elections at the local level, everything is about Putrajaya, and voting over Putrajaya means voting big party flags over human candidates.

BUT: I think this grass-roots focus can make them pretty influential during state elections. (And they'd kill in local-council elections, obvs.)

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So why did PSM run a campaign? Got the sense that they were capacity building.

The local PSM chapter building muscle. Practicing machinery. Putting issues on national media---speaking up about climate change and land rights; flying the red-fist flag locally. People used the phrase "tak kenal maka tak cinta" often.

On election night, addressing his bilik gerakan, Cikgu Tina said:

"Menang atau kalah, jangan sesiapa di sini sedih. Kali ini first trial. Kalau kita buat banyak kerja, mungkin next election kita boleh."

The campaign's postmortem will be a general meeting open to everybody who volunteered. (A typical party's strategy meeting would be close-door, and party-leadership only.)

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PSM has a different relationship to time, compared to other political parties.

Felt like the Rembau campaign was part of their schedule. IE: "October, we have to organise some farmers; November, election campaign; December, got to pursue the hospital cleaners' union case; Jan, we have to ..." Etc.

In that sense, this general election is the continuation of a consistent long-term struggle, for the party? This felt pretty special.

Every other bilik gerakan I've volunteered for, in every other election campaign, you feel a palpable apocalyptic urgency---OMG how many friends can you call to come volunteer??? What are our strategies what are our strategies???

INI KALI LAH LAST CHANCE THINGS ARE ALL OR NOTHING OKAY!!!

PSM's Rembau campaign had a full schedule every day. They followed their schedule, worked steadily---and they rested during rest hours. Workers in for the long haul. Long-distance runners.

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Seeing how the General Election has panned out, with a hung Parliament; Perikatan Nasional's surge signalling mass support by young / new voters for religious and racialised conservatism?

I think PSM's core politics offer a lot that the progressive Pakatan Harapan coalition sorely lacks.

You are never gonna out-Islam the Islamic Party. (And you shouldn't want to???) But young people are struggling, and turning to religion and racial rights for a reason, and maybe if you address those reasons you can wrestle away some people PAS is currently hogging.

PSM does real work in economic justice areas: minimum wage, housing rights, workplace rights. Bread and butter stuff, done right.

Their focus on community organising is powerful for its social-cohesion potential, also? Folk need a sense of belonging, camaraderie. Unions offer a sense of community, much like mosques do?

(PH does economic issues in a way designed to appeal to the upwardly mobile / aspiring-towards-comfort brackets, and those people already vote PH.)

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More about radical, progressive community:

This was the only bilik gerakan I've been in where women were never pandered to, at any level. Just the vibe of dudes -- working class, older dudes -- listening to women team leaders in ways I've not seen anywhere else?

And I think queer folks would've been comfortable, too? (PSM has been vocal for its support of the LGBTIQ community; many younger members are openly queer.)

A lack of managerial class. There were party veterans present---old hands you've seen for decades in protests and in news reports; the closest PSM has to strongmen. In our days there, they functioned mainly as steady points of reference, reminding eager younger members that the Rembau folks where ultimately in charge:

"bincang dulu dgn lokal machinery pls"

It's a vibe---but it's strong.

A similar vibe thing: every general / working conversation was in BM by default, even if they spoke Tamil / English / Chinese to their own kakis on the side. Sharon felt like it was the only environment she's been in where she was comfortable speaking Bahasa, because the chances of being language-shamed was nil.

People were universally addressed as: "saudari" or "saudara".

And, more rarely, but very deliciously, as: "komrad".

#notes #politics #parti sosialis malaysia #rembau #pru15 #real life #party politics

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robotonthemoon · 3 months

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Washington

The older I get, the more prophetic this seems:

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." —George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17th, 1796

Disclaimer: this is not a way to say "both sides" or anything, as a queer former republican I will state flatly that the parties are very much not the same

#politics #george washington #party politics #political parties

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verosvault · 2 months

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🚨SPOILERS AHOY!🚨

Fantasy High Junior Year NPC Profiles! (Episode 6)

(I didn't add the NPC Profiles we've seen already from previous episodes!)

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antebellumite · 1 year

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imagine being william seward though and giving this presumably awesome heartfelt speech about ~~compromise~~ but when you turn around all of your colleagues are looking at you like this: