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[bubosquared]

If you need to feel a bit better about people in general, you may want to have a look at this. As long as there's people like that in the world, I hink we're doing something right at least.

ETA: Adding more links, because as long as I'm collecting links, I'm not biting my nails or throttling my coworkers into a bloody pulp:

• beizy rants about being gay under the Bush administration, and about slashers who vote Republican, here.
• rhoddlet relates something her roommate witnessed at the polls here.
• Related to that: voter_stories.
• People like dafstar need to be loved and cherished and encouraged.
• Election Night Pr0n! Because more pr0n is always the answer.
• A story of determination.
• Ahahahahahah!
• This sort of thing makes me want to petition the UN to send observers to US elections. I don't even know which side this is from, because apparently both parties were pulling some incredibly fucked-up stunts to keep the other side from voting.
• Ballot issues. Erg.
• "I'm tired of folding like a tent." jennyo calls for action, not running.
• brotherlawrence is angry. Very angry.
• Margaret Cho says: "Don't Despair, Act."
• elance offers an expat's perspective.
• A long, thoughtful essay on this whole thing.
• apetslife has an excellent point in the first paragraph here.
• Something to cheer us all up: Mr Obama's victory.
• deepsix explains why actually, the economic dip is not "natural".
• From zarah5: An outsider's perspective.

I'll keep adding to this as I find more interesting/funny links. Not all of them will necessarily be related to the election.

ETA 2 Also, I'm really fucking furious at Bush right now for already calling the election. It's 2000 all over again, and I can only hope that this time they'll actually properly investigate before they decide to give Bush a vicory which he may well have only gotten through fuck-ups. But I'm not counting on it, sadly.

Comments

[lightandashes.livejournal.com]

We're not all idiots, Mellie. *hugs* As long as we remember that, we'll be okay, I think.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*nods* That's part of what makes it so painful sometimes, knowing that so many of my friends live in a country where so many people see them as less than human. And now I'm just depressing myself further.

[lightandashes.livejournal.com]

Er, totally OT, but. http://zone.msn.com/ GO THERE. Election Jigsaw. Obama! omglovesomuch!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, terrific, let's give me even more things to distract me from work, why don't you. :p

Also known as the comment in which Tri abuses HTML codes

[lightandashes.livejournal.com]

But but but it's Obama!!!

Not that I like the man, or anything.

Re: Also known as the comment in which Tri abuses HTML codes

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Bwah! Hey, what I've heard about the man, he does rock all kinds of hard. :D

(Argh am about to log into phones again just to not have to deal with coworkers anymore. Shut up shut up shut up I don't want to deal with this!)

Re: Also known as the comment in which Tri abuses HTML codes

[lightandashes.livejournal.com]

He does! Oh, he rocks so very hard.