In Prince Caspian Susan literally throws an arrow fast and hard enough to pierce through a man’s armor and kill him. Savage.
What’s even more savage is the way she stabs the first guy in the crotch before using the same arrow to kill the second guy. Susan’s not messing around.
Most of us didn’t expect this to be anything but stopping the slide into the abyss.
Don’t kid yourself.
I don’t think any of us are naive, or so idealistic that they can’t see what’s happening around them. Today was simply about giving us time to have a Plan B.
And we’ve achieved that. Control of the House by the Dems is a big deal, or COULD be a big deal. Some of the people who have been elected today – Halland, Davids, Omar and Ocasio-Cortez, for example, though there are many examples – are canaries in the coal mine for some of the fossils in Congress, or they should be, if Pelosi wants to fucking listen to what people are telling her and the other Dems.
So now we have time. What next?
You don’t have to know right this second, but tomorrow, when you wake up and shit still stinks, what’s our Plan B? What do we do tomorrow?
Congratulations. We’ve hit a mile marker on the marathon.
Tomorrow, we wake up, and we keep going.
We said the exact same thing in 2016. What did we get in return?
– Muslim Immigration and Travel Ban
– War on Immigrants
– War on Sexual Abuse Survivors, Women’s Health, and Reproductive Health Rights
– War on LGBTQ+
– War on Healthcare
– A massive infidelity scandal
– The degradation of American values (just look at how conveniently lawmakers threw basic human decency out of the window in the Kavanaugh confirmation!)
– Mass shooting on a synagogue
– Mass shooting in Parkland
– Mass shooting in a yoga studio
– Vehicular murder in Charlottesville
– Fire bombing of mosques and synagogues
– Vandalism in many religious and societal institutions
– Bombs being sent in the mail
– A strengthened NRA
– Fox News still going strong
– A WORSENING racist cops crisis
– Permit Patty, Cornerstone Candice, BBQ Becky, and an increasing number of open racists
When will it stop? When we become desensitized? When all of this becomes normal? Because we’ve basically made that choice this time the same way we did last year…
Cool, so, what’s your plan? Is your plan to just say ‘look at everything we’ve lost’? Because a) that’s not a plan and b) you think any of us have forgotten any of the above and c) that’s not a plan?
If you want to make a post saying ‘all is lost,’ or whatever the point of this was, you’re always free to make your own post. Sometimes it’s really okay to let someone say ‘this is a marathon, get up tomorrow and get to work’.
Because here’s the thing: we did get to work, and it mattered. Voter turnout was historic. We saw the House shift control, which gives subpoena power to Democrats, and takes vital House leadership positions away from Trump’s yes-men. That matters. What else did we see? The first two NA women, the first two Muslim women, the first Palestinian-American, the first Somali-American, the first, the first, the first: we, as leftists, got to work, and it made a fucking difference. A rank-and-file Democrat was unseated during the primaries, and then the challenger was elected in the general election, and if the calcified creatures of perpetual compromise in charge of the vaguely left-leaning part of this two-party mess are paying any attention, they’re on notice. (I do not expect them to be paying attention.)
I mean if you just want to wring you hands and despair, there’s room for that, but for fuck’s sake, don’t come in here and suck the air out of a me saying ‘it’s okay, we made a difference, we can keep going, don’t give up, we got what we really expected out of this, and that’s okay.’
Anyway, for everyone else: the work you put in made a difference. Thanks for helping stave off the apocalypse for people like my family.
(Also, idk about y’all, but this was NOT my message after 2016. That was the most emotionally crushing election I ever lived through, and I voted in 2000.)
ALSO:
Imagine you are halfway up a cliff.
Below you is a spiky pit full of poisonous snakes.
You’re slipping.
Someone throws you a rope. (They do not swear on the grave of your father to not kill you until you’ve reached the top.)
This is great, except that the rope is strong enough to support your weight–not to climb.
Would you rather fall, or hang on the rope in one spot until you’ve gotten enough strength back to keep climbing???
I don’t know about you, but this should be a pretty obvious fucking metaphor, and I would rather take the fucking rope, thank you.
Staying where we are is still better than where we could have gone.
Fucking thank you.
… Also we HAVEN’T stayed where we were, Dems won control of the fucking House and ousted a bunch of rep governors. What kind of cracked walnut doesn’t understand how big of a victory that is?? How fucking DARE anyone compare this to 2016??? That rhetoric smells as bad as Russian troll shit.
And things like Governor’s races MATTER. Remember that time the Governor of Michigan overthrew the elected government of Flint specifically so he could POISON everyone at great expense, then blocked all attempts to help them for over a year and they still don’t have safe water because the Republicans refuse to pay to fix things they break?
That guy just got voted the hell out.
Are you seriously arguing that having a Governor who won’t literally poison children for fun is better than having a Governor who WON’T do that and might actually fix things? Because those two things look wildly different to me!
Is the battle over? NO. We are going to have to keep fighting tooth and nail over the next couple of years, but IT IS PROGRESS.
Mitch McConnel promised out right to steal everybody’s health care if they won the election. Winning the House STOPS that. I literally become HOMELESS and die if the promised cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (Medicaid cpvers part of my Medicare premium) go through. A whole lot of people die if they repeal the ACA and the protections for pre-existing conditions go through. That won’t happen because we took the House.
If y’all came out in 2016, we wouldn’t be where we are now. Those of us who had the most to lose if basic civil rights were repealed begged you all to vote Democrat to stop this from happening.
Now we have to all pull together to fight our way back up to where we were two years ago.
Mourn if you have to, but Do Not Give the Fuck Up! That’s what they want you to do. They want you to lie down so they can rollover you! Fuck that!
We fight! We have each other’s backs! We leave no one behind this time! we keep the fuck going because they alternative is neo-feudal facist dystopia and people likee me rounded up into camps to die and I’m not going without a damned fight!
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
This made me nearly bite a pencil in half in enraged memory.
@ THE REST OF MY ANCIENT HISTORY CLASS; Y’ALL ARE WELCOME FOR THAT FUCKIN A THE REST OF YOU DID NO GODDAMN WORK FOR
Oh man, so I know everyone hates group projects with ample good reason, but lemme just tell you something that happened to me in my final year of uni. My dad got real sick and was in and out of hospital numerous times, one time with a suspected heart attack. Which meant my mum ended up caring for my dad, and I wound up caring for my disabled brother, on top of working a part time job and going to university full time.
My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.
It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.
And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”
And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.
And I honestly wish things like this were taught in team building exercises, cause that’s what group projects in school are. They’re supposed to be teaching you how to work well with others and achieve a common goal, while at the same time totally skipping over the fundamentals of human interaction and how to engage socially with others, and it’s fucking bullshit.
SCOTT WALKER IS OUT IN WISCONSIN WISCONSIN HAS A DEM GOVERNOR WOOOO
THIS. IS. JUST.
I’M SO HAPPY RN.
Not only THAT, he lost to the state superintendent of the SCHOOL SYSTEM
My dad, a teacher who was born and raised in WI, hates Scott Walker with a flaming intensity, and he has been following this one closely.
I got a text at like 11:50 PM last night that just said “THAT ASSHOLE IN WI LOST FINALLY”
Hilariously he lost by such a slim margin he could have demanded a recount had he not passed a law denying recountsbecause he didn’t like it when people demanded recounts against him.
DONT ASK ME THIS, THIS IS HOW THE TROJAN WAR STARTED, I DONT WANT THIS MAN
Right away, Aphrodite popped into my head.
And then I’m just like, “DAMMIT, DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM PARIS? YOU ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT, AND NOW ALL THE TROJANS ARE DEAD. I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY.”
If you are ever actually in this situation, pro-tip: name Persephone. Half the goddesses will be too surprised to smite you immediately and while Hades won’t do you any favors he may at least high-five you while your on your way down.
Another tip: name Mesperyian. Not only will you shock everyone, including her (since Aphrodite was a jealous ho who burnt half her face off), but you’ll win Hades’ favour. As his most beloved daughter, anything that praises her will make you a kind human to her, an okay human to him, and a genuinely good person to anyone else.
I heartily endorse this alternative answer.
I love how all of this advice leads to “please Hades at all costs.”
#because Hades really wasn’t that bad
No shit. The only real villain that caused so many problems was Zeus’ Thunder Cock and that thing has been in Olympus-knows-what.
ZUES’S THUNDER COCK
To be fair, Poseidon was like the greek mythology personification of the phrase ‘BITCH, FIGHT ME’
kinda funny when english teachers say stuff like “i can tell if you didnt read the book” or “i can tell when people bs their paper”
no you cant. you can tell when people are bad at bs-ing their paper. i didnt even read the sparknotes and i barely skimmed the wikipedia and you gave me an A. you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies
“YOU KNEEL BEFORE MY THRONE UNAWARE THAT IT WAS BORN OF LIES” IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SENTENCES I’VE EVER READ AND I CAN’T FUCKING BELIEVE IT’S ON A POST ABOUT BULLSHITTING ON ASSIGNMENTS.
wupacing 