When you see someone you think can do the job, spare what time you can to offer help and get out there. And if you don't see who you want in that job? Look into what's required for you to run yourself.

If it can be reformed without a civil war, it won't come from the Democrats. Work with local food banks, form a network for tracking ICE locally when they appear, bring food over to a neighbor, and look for people who are running in your town, your county, and your state this year.

two-party system. The Democrats CANNOT bring us back to any sort of normal winning the midterms. That's long gone, and as many are waking up to finally seeing the violence, non-white and queer bodies have been dealing with this since before this country formed.

win over a second base of "Maga for Mamdami" voters and win the race. It's important to recognize that it was possible in such a big place, too. If NYC was it's own state, it'd be in the top 15 in the country. People came out to make that win possible, and you can do the same outside of this current

Voting them in doesn't detract from other Democrats in the house, Senate, or what have you either. It makes the race scarier, sure. But it's also important to recognize that just promising infrastructural reforms and improving social safety nets is all it took for Mamdami to

self-flagellation and self-hate being another root cause for our failure to work towards a better future, but I think that’s a topic for another time.

you learn take care of yourself, not the kind where you learn to treat yourself and it’s connection with the obsession of dying for a cause rather than living for one, being another root of issues with the american psyche at large, having been raised in a christian/catholic culture of

them. Talk about what you’ve done that’s worked, but don’t tell people not to act. The sooner we can do that, the less people are hurt and the faster we start to see change. Peace y'all. 15/15

An additional note– I have some thoughts on the lack of self love and care, that being the kind where

democratic party or do something illegal. When people work towards helping, they learn what’s successful and what’s not from hands-on experience. What ends up inspiring them to action is something they heard from somewhere. If you want to help, inspire them to action instead of dissuading 14/15

is worth something, and trying to dissuade them against action is usually not going to get them to do the same thing you’re doing, it’s going to get them to go back to being apathetic, and feel like there’s nothing they can do again.

I’m not saying you need to throw your weight behind the 13/15

it’s not worth it. It doesn’t mean you need to compromise on everything, but you have to work with what you have.

I’ve noticed a trend, in that so many people demand that people *don’t* put their effort into something because they believe it’s not going to work. Every option of fighting back 12/15

biggest issue we have as those that are the first to be sacrificed is biting down the bile and hatred we have for the formerly apathetic, for watching so many of us suffer until it hurts them too, and working together with them. The burden is always on us, and always has been. It doesn’t mean 11/15

government help we’ve fought for and relied on for years. That being said–

In a horribly macabre way, we’re getting there, and I don’t think it’s that far off. More people are standing up and asking for help, they’re moving together and following a way to move forward. I think the 10/15

unwell. It’s going to be everyone part of the LGBTQIA+ community, but especially trans people.

It’s everyone who’s been struggling and has for a long time, and under the greater public’s nose they’ve been doing everything they can (for a while now) to cut us off from any means of 9/15

them, especially for white people, to recognize these things are connected and do something about it. Until then, it’ll be down to those of us the least able to give and those targeted. It’s going to be black people. The neurodivergent. It’s going to be the physically disabled and the mentally 8/15

seized middle America for years. Others will watch their spouse or parents be deported, or die in a holding center and voted for it, and stick by their decision even after that loss.

I think the problem is that it’s going to take a lot of people a lot more time, and a lot more loss around 7/15

who has dumped money into Trump or others, be it merch or donations, hoping that this time, *this* time, they’ll be saved. Those people have had their lives destroyed too, and are stuck. In real time, people are being lost into unchecked gambling, or have been lost to the drug epidemic that’s 6/15

then it’s mostly people who have directly been in the crosshairs the last few years.

Even then! A lot of those same people have had close friends or family who get sucked into the cycle of incarceration for years, and they wouldn’t count those people. Or they have an uncle, parent, or sibling 5/15

taken or destroyed before they’ll act.

That sounds like a crazy high number, but the truth is, there’s a significant lack of empathy in the US. There are people who already understand, and it’s sizable. But for a lot of those people, they’re already on the left and have been observant, and 4/15