dailyarturia:

all jokes aside everyone in america please stay safe and also vote literally whenever you can vote however small scale. protest whenever you can. make the fucker’s presidency a bureaucratic hell stall whatever he tries to do as long as possible and then vote democrats into every other level of government so he can’t do shit

and above all that take care of each other. not to sound cheesy but now more than ever is the time to be kind to each other and look out for each other because if you don’t nobody else will

karadin:

scullyseviltwin:

Go out tomorrow, find a cause. NARAL, ASPCA, Planned Parenthood, A New Way Forward, The Innocence Project, Oxfam, Greenpeace… find out about programs and groups that deal with human trafficking, with racism, with sexism, with women’s health, LGBTQA rights, with what you want to fucking change! Sign up, and fucking fight.

Intern at your local congressional office! Stuff envelops! Listen to citizen complaints! Help dig us out of this shitstorm!

Donate money! Donate time! Be a Big Brother or a Big Sister. Reach out and find what your community needs! Join a litter collecting squad or write cards for people at an elderly community or buy a family in need groceries.

There is. So. Much. You. Can. Still. Do.

Online activism is all well and good, but these groups need feet on the fucking pavement. Don’t confuse shouting at people online as activism! So put up, and let’s shut this racist, classist, misogynistic, rape apologist down.

wynonasrider:

I’m sorry for my fellow American friends. There are no words, really. Here in Brazil we recently suffered a coup that took away a legitimate presidency and that hurt so much. We were really afraid of what would happen.

But then again, we are fighting back. We are taking a stand. We are occupying public buildings, claiming for our so hard-earned rights they’re trying to take away from us.

I can only hope you will do the same. I’m here for you.

All the strength in the world for these dark times ahead.

But we should never give up. 

deathstiel:

don’t give up because of this election. don’t let that happen

thearially:

Remember everyone!

The electoral college does not vote until Dec 19th. AND the electoral college does not HAVE to vote for the candidate their area votes for.

Even if this comes out in Trump’s favor tonight, the next few weeks of social commentary and financial fall out could sway votes away from Trump.

DO NOT lose hope. DO NOT do anything drastic. Even if you feel terrible right now, things can get better.

officialcasnovak:

“I’m terrified right along with you. So much is on the line, and America is showing itself to be the trailer park of the free world. Remember this… Trump is one man, not the entire three branch system of checks and balances of the US government. He cannot single-handedly change any law at all. Only Congress can do that. His job is only to sign their legislation. Any ruling by the Supreme Court in only be overturned by a constitutional amendment. Meanwhile, a Trump presidency would be a freaking disaster of epic proportions. The backlash during midterm elections in two years which would determine control of Congress, and obviously the next presidential election would hang in the balance. A win by Trump could be the best thing to ever happen to progressives in the long run. And aside from all that, we have your back, come hell or high water. There is no fight we wouldn’t fight shoulder to shoulder with you. Remember, to take the long view. This isn’t “the war.” This is only one of many battles along the way. A lot can happen in two or four years.”

Focus on what’s in bold. We have each other’s backs. It is our responsibility to be here for each other through all of this. We won’t go down without a fight.

numinousnimon:

We are called to be our best selves in this moment.

We stand on the precipice of an unknown future, in fear of what it may portend and in grief at what it reveals. Let us not lose sight of either.

The fear is real, and it calls us to be more than we have been. How many times have we looked back at history’s horrors and wondered what we would have done if it were us, living next door to a Jewish family in Nazi Germany the night before the SS arrived, or whether we would have been courageous enough to stand up to our neighbors and speak out for Civil Rights when Dr. King moved the nation, or whether we would have the strength to defend the victims of McCarthyism at the risk of joining their number. We may face a world in which we will find out. I hope and pray that it does not come to that, but if it does I hope and pray that we may rise to the challenge. We may have joked in the lead up to the election about moving to Canada, but we know that we must stay and fight, for those who cannot flee. We are called to be our best selves in this moment.

And at the same time, I hope and pray that we do not turn a blind eye to the hurt and pain which this moment reveals. The grief and pain is real, and deserves our attention and compassion. However ugly and frightening the xenophobic rhetoric sweeping the nation may be, and however painful it may be to be present to it, it would not resonate were it not for the very real pain, both economic and personal, that sits behind it. Embracing that suffering with compassion even in the face of the terror it threatens to unleash, may take even more strength than risking our own safety and security to defend the victims of that rage. But we will never move beyond this rift unless it is through genuine healing. And that healing can only come through love and understanding being offered to the sinner even as we deplore the sin. That is a hard ask right now. But we are called to be our best selves in this moment.

And ultimately, that only sharpens and the duality we faced yesterday and the day before that. We live in a world of tremendous suffering in which power is wielded to gratify the ego of the powerful and crush the dignity of the powerless. Responding to that reality takes courage and struggle, it takes organizing and rallying and pressure. It takes the creativity and the discipline to challenge injustice in ways that leverage collective power productively.

And yet, this struggle must be paired with an engagement with the root causes of those messed up power structures, of the deep woundedness that leads to mistaking of aggression and posturing for genuine internal strength and agency, and of the alienation that leads us to interact with one another as objects of use rather than subjects of transcendent moral worth.

Balancing those two is hard, it requires a “creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony” as Dr. King called it, being both tough-minded and tender-hearted, cultivating the will to fight and the strength to embrace simultaneously. It isn’t easy, but it is what the moment calls us towards.

We are called to be our best selves in this moment. I hope and pray that we rise to the challenge.

fyeahlilbit3point0:

On NPR they were talking to this guy who specializes in created languages, who does all the languages for like Game of Thrones, Penny Dreadful, and a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy movies.

I applauded when the interviewer asked the guy if he ever considered using obscure native languages because “It’s not like anybody would notice,” and he scoffed like “Are you asking me if I’m gonna take someone’s cultural heritage and ascribe it to aliens or demons or elves? Because the answer is no.”