Before y’all say, “I hate Texas for not electing Beto O’Rourke” please know these things:
1. Record numbers of Texan voters came out to the polls to vote because of Beto.
2. Because more Texan voters went to vote, more democratic votes were cast in other important areas.
3. Beto lost by the slimmest margin seen in Texas in 25 years meaning CHANGE IS COMING.
4. If you lived in Texas, you would know Beto was not expected to win and the fact that he got the large number of votes that he did is incredible.
Thank you Beto for all you’ve done to unite the people of Texas and across the country. Maybe this will get y’all to change y’alls minds about hating Texas.
Progress is not all or nothing. Sometimes it’s just a step or two (in this case, more than a few) in the right direction.
Like also, voters managed to make it that close despite wide scale voter disenfranchisement that of course, disproportionately affected citizens likely to vote blue.
It really can’t be said enough that this is an uphill battle for dem (usually minority) voters. They will resort to almost anything to stop those votes from coming in. Often it’s not about ‘just go out and vote’. There are active efforts to prevent that from happening.
The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.
I had no idea who he was, thank you.
This is one example of the Mandela Effect phenomena, where an iconic moment is reenacted with a hippy woman so many times that people think that’s the story and thus another gay man is written out of history. Thanks for the photo.
I had no idea. Wow.
This photo was taken by Bernie Boston, a black/native man who willingly stood up to a chapter of the KKK and earned their respect among other things
I get the subject is important, but please dont erase Bernie. I knew him personally and he deserves to be remembered and by only remembering the subject, a white man, you erase a black man.
@vaspider could you reblog this version too, please? I am deeply upset by Bernie’s erasure from his own work.
They… They’re not hideous anymore.. I could actually use these in survival builds to show my power,,, my resoursfulness,,, my lustre 7/10
I’m so mad! none of my builds will have windows anymore if this stays. Where’s the sheen, the glimmer, the realism I will not build with this glorified barrier block. 0/10
It’s not a bad texture but it looks like…. Like *coughs* sorry I meant to say it looks like a.. oh my uhhhh… it looks *clears my throat" wow so sorry this never happens 1/10
I can finally use bricks.. there is finally an appeal to using bricks because now they look like bricks 8/10
I think I have the legal grounds to sue for having to look at her like this. You’ve stripped her of her prowess… her power… her dignity -4/10
NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!! It’s so shiny and so good I will frame every ingot I have on a wall instead of storing them in a chest 10/10
Where’s the end aesthetic gone, you took a perfectly fine rod and gave it depression 0/10
Wow Queen… 100/10
I haven’t played Minecraft in so so long and as a result, I have absolutely no idea what the fuck any of this is
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