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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please dont feed the creatures 🪱⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true. I had someone I was friends with IRL who I would talk about my online roleplay community with. I asked if she was interested in joining and she said sure. She was… insufferable. Did not get along with anyone else. I found her online presence incredibly grating. It was crazy, it was a completely different person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saving this image lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we let republicans set the bar, we will be buried in no time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it can be really difficult if you live in that sort of place because I feel like making change locally is going to be a lot easier than tackling the state level immediately but I totally get that it’s not always an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we let republicans set the bar, we will be buried in no time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly! Now bear in mind that this is going to look a bit different for everyone because not only is every state’s politics different, but every city and town is too.

  I was fortunate enough to have an already established RCV group in my state that I could reach out to–they’ve had practice getting it passed in various locales already and were able to set me up with a ton of resources.

  So, first step, look for anything like that in your state. If you’ve got a group doing that work, reach out to them and connect. They’ll know how to steer you better than someone who probably doesn’t live anywhere near you and is a stranger on the internet.

  If you can’t find/don’t have anyone like that already established, you’re going to be working from square one, and that will be difficult, but it’s not impossible. Again, my guidelines might not be applicable to you in this case, but they should at least get you started. Here’s the instructions I was given (in a rough overview) for how to get the ball rolling in my city:

  1. Learn your local government. Are you a city or a town? Do you have a mayor? City council? Town hall? How does voting currently work? What seats are available for election and how often, and are they single-seats or multi-seats (like a board or a committee would be.) How long are the terms? Do you have preliminary elections, and what’s the criteria to trigger one? Do you have a town/city charter? If so, give it a once over. Who is the person who primarily handles election duties (such as handling the ballots) and what is their title?

  2. Do your local voting machines handle ranked choice voting? There’s actually a website for this! verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode/navigate/map/pp… - If your machines are too old you might have to include (or start with) a motion to upgrade your machines.

  3. This is where things get hard for me to tell you what to say in any detail because it’ll be specific to your home. But the basics is–start reaching out to the people in your local government. See if you can find someone who’s knowledgeable on local legislature who’s willing to help you out, either in general by teaching you how to get things brought to the attention of the legislatures there or who is even willing to help you go the whole way. You might need to get a petition going, you might not. But forging connections with people, even if it’s just one person, is going to help a lot. I’m fortunate that my city has a committee dedicated just to liasoning between citizens and the council–I’ve got a meeting scheduled to talk to them and see if they’ll give me a boost on this. That’s the kind of thing you’ll want to do on this step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we let republicans set the bar, we will be buried in no time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If people are interested in trying to make a difference on this front, you can. I’m working with a group of people to enact ranked choice voting in our city. If you can get it passed at a local level, that’ll pave the way for familiarity with higher levels of government down the line.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yall guess who showed up in my dms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now you guys are just doing the work for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is deeply disturbed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like these have been rising in price too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stand Up!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was curious who voted, CNN says these are the ones:

  The 10 Democrats who voted with Republicans to censure Green were: Ami Bera of California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa of California, Laura Gillen of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Tom Suozzi of New York. Source

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did my best…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing a humorous exaggeration? I’ve accidentally cut bread off a loaf into weirdly thin/wedge slices but bagels I tend to nail pretty consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Erasure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you very much for the effort you put into this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No beans, only dogs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha was about to say the same thing, this image never fails to evoke anger wherever it goes.

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