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  • Since no one seems to be taking OP’s question seriously, I’ll take a stab at this. There are a variety of reasons.

    Some people feel that voting is offering material support to a specific candidate or system, and they simply cannot bring themselves to do so given the horrors that that person or system is either supporting or failing to condemn.

    Others may feel that strategically withholding their vote as a punishment may motivate democrats to take these types of issues more seriously in the future.

    Or they may feel that their vote is more impactful in magnifying the voice and power of third parties who offer more meaningful solutions to end the killing, even if they won’t win.

    Others still may believe that Trump’s incompetence will accelerate the end of America imperialism and lead to a better global political situation sometime in the future.

    Finally, some people feel that voting won’t matter at all and is a distraction from efforts to directly slow or stop the war machine.

    I don’t personally endorse any of these viewpoints, but some are relatively serious positions and others are not, in my opinion.


  • The answer will depend on what orgs are in your local area. If you’re willing to share a general location and any specific interests I could do some digging.

    I don’t know anything about this site but I just found it by searching: https://www.mutualaidhub.org/

    Or if you’d rather search on your own, I’d look for things like [your city/region] mutual aid, resist, antifa (the last one going to be about more confrontational action so consider whether that’s your specific niche).

    Another approach is to just ask friends who seem politically connected if they’ve heard of any local orgs.

    Personally I would be wary of any highly top-down orgs that enforce a particular narrow ideology. Some of these can be a bit cult-like. Also get a feel for how people interact and leadership operates. Are people supportive and kind to one another or is there a lot of tension and fear? Personally I haven’t had any bad experiences yet but it’s something to be aware of if you don’t have the lay of the land in your local area.

    In most cities there will be a variety of groups with different approaches and focuses, so shop around a bit and find the one that is a good fit for you.










  • I think it’s a bit different. Female at least refers to a real biological trait (or at least collection of traits). As a scientist I use the word female in my work all of the time, and frankly I’m not sure what alternatives to it even exist.

    Bloodline is like… weird racist antiquated European ideas about ancestry that are more or less completely unscientific and wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever once heard it used in a scientific context.

    Maybe it’s used in animal breeding but that’s because animal breeding has uncomfortable connections with outdated race “science”. It doesn’t come from the real scientific community.









  • They added a line to the bot that includes Wikipedia’s stance on a source. And Wikipedia doesn’t consider MBFC to be reliable, so the bot reports that.

    If you scroll below that, MBFC rates themselves as maximally reliable, which I’m sure is based off of a rigorous and completely neutral assessment.

    Edit: although, reading the links in question they don’t seem to correspond to what the bot is saying. Perhaps this is some sort of mistake in how it was coded.