Goddammit US politics

Usually I hate ~*~white people suck~*~ posts, but this is important to read.

In a nutshell: Among voters, 94 percent of Black women, 90 percent of Black men, 61 percent of Latinas, and 49 percent of Latinos in Texas voted for Wendy Davis.

Meanwhile, just 32 percent of white Texas women who voted did so for Wendy Davis.

You’ll hear that Greg Abbott “carried” women voters in Texas. Anyone who says that is also saying this: that Black women and Latinas are not “women,” and that carrying white women is enough to make the blanket statement that Abbott carried all women. That women generally failed to vote for Wendy Davis. As if women of color are some separate entity, some mysterious other, some bizarre demographic of not-women.

wtf. I voted for Wendy Davis; why couldn't more than 32% of my own race do the same?

What's the point of having a democracy if the majority of the people are too stupid to think about the well-being of their own country? That is, when they're not sticking their heads in the sand and thinking only about themselves?

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Stolen from Sara Jaye, nomnomnom

Ships as your social circle! Give me a fandom and I'll tell you:

* My BFF 4 lyfe
* My oldest and dearest regardless of how much we see each other
* I lost touch with them but now they're back in my life and I can't believe I ever let them go
* They're terrible for me but I keep going back for some reason
* They burned me so badly I never want to think about them again
* We had a bad experience and I still love them but it's not the same as it used to be
* The fuckbuddy I have no emotional attachment to and just find hot as hell
* We hang out sometimes, but we're not all that close
* I love them to pieces, but I can't stand being around their crowd
* We met once, I didn't think I'd like them but then we met again and it was like wow you're pretty cool
* I didn't think we meshed, but they won me over with gentle persistence
* I wanted to like them but they wouldn't stop badgering me and now I can't stand them
* They're toxic as hell and I wish more people would realize it instead of thinking they're so perfect
* The whirlwind romance you thought was the real thing but there were no sparks
* I met them through a mutual friend and they were every bit as wonderful as that friend said
* I want to like them, but the rest of their crowd intimidates me so I hide
* I'm ashamed of the way I used to act with them, now that we have a second chance I want to make ammends
* We used to be so close, but something about them changed for the worse
* I was always fascinated with them from afar, and I like them even more up close
* I admired them from afar until I got to know them
* I love them BECAUSE they're so horribly fucked up even if I'd never trust them with my life or secrets
* I want to get to know them more

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