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Voting will not fix everything. Voting is not the only tool we have. It may not even be the most effective tool.

But it’s free, widely available, and useful.

Saying “voting is not enough” makes sense. There are limits to the power of voting, especially in gerrymandered districts.

But the claim that “voting is useless” does nothing but provide the right wing with data that says people don’t care.

Condoms/safewords/unions/voting:

  1. Doesn’t fix everything
  2. Not always great for the stuff it can fix
  3. Not all that hard to circumvent
  4. Not all that hard to use against the party it’s supposed to serve
  5. If someone tells you that you don’t need it, especially your counterparty, you definitely do

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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it’s even good to be confronted with things you don’t understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it’s a surprise tool that will help you later.

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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)

And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.

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