@evistre

Welcome to CoSo! We're so glad you're here!

It all comes down to one profound idea:

We're all humans with many levels of experience and complexity. Our political opinions, are only one aspect of who we are as people.

Start with kindness and respect see where it goes. Tolerance is a good thing.

You may also experience some withdrawal from the lack of a head-pounding dopamine rush caused by the hate, poison, dehumanization and cognitive dissonance of the bird site.

You'll live.

Confession:

I haven’t been able to stomach the web since, well fuck, since the asshole got kicked out of office.

Burnt out on the battle to remove him and the day to day struggle to remain sane while he was in office.

J’s creation here and the good people, people I adore actually and dammit you know who you are kept me sane and focussed. The antidote against asshole was caring about people and seeing them as multi-dimensional outside of out politics. A community who soldiered on.

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After spending 40+ years here in this country I finally took the oath and became a citizen last month. And some people were surprised in my circle and I had to tell them there was an America I still believed in, the one that liberated my country in WWII (I wasn’t around for that of course) and I knew could be and in my mind I was thinking of CoSo. CoSo is my America. The values and aspirations here. The seeing beyond politics (but never accepting fascism) and value of all.

Thank you CoSo.

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Why CoSo Pro??

Because Twitter is basically defacto ruled by a traitorous prick who got elected president thanks to the help of some nasty Russian mobsters and oligarchs and Russia's tyrannical murdering President who is obsessed with destabilizing the nation and the world.

We have a mission here. This place has progressed with the idea that if we respect each other's humanity and transcend the divisive politics, that's an incredibly powerful idea to build on.

Fuck the Bird Site. Go Pro.

@Keep_it_Real

Hey Ms. Real good to see you and umm.. everyone....., it took me a while, to realize it all went “POOF”!
😂😂😂🤣🙃🤣😂

It’s going to make for a great story in the future...

It’ll be like, hey guys , you remember that time J accidentally blew up the whole site?? LOLZ!

https://counter.social/media/EozvFLHdsME4ExRu1k4

HERO

John Ralston:

"On Election Day 2020, 109,000 Clark County voters went to the polls. Repubs won by 2,000 ballots.

Today: 84,000 have already voted with 5 and a half hours left and Dems have a 2,000-ballot lead."

If a God-being exists, said God-being must be very pleased (if it's not an indifferent God-being), to my acknowledgement of its existence, how many times I've already passionately implored it to ensure a certain thing happens.

Great feed on TPM giving the latest on voting around the country. Not sure if this is behind a paywall, can you guys see this?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/a-tremendously-consequential-election-day-is-finally-here

FBI Statement on Bomb Threats to Polling Locations

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far.

/Snip

As always, we urge the public to remain vigilant and report suspicious activity to state or local law enforcement, or submit tips to the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or online at tips.fbi.gov.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-bomb-threats-to-polling-locations

Trump to reporters earlier today, gives away his true feelings about being the man who stacked the court with Federalist Xtian nationalists who overturned Roe:

"Just stop talking about that,” Trump told reporters after being asked for a second time how he voted on Florida's abortion rights amendment.

Court Order Extends Polling Place Hours in Cambria County, Pennsylvania [Due to a software malfunction].

According to the Pennsylvania Department of State: “A court order has extended polling place hours in Cambria County until 10 p.m. tonight. Voters in line before 8 p.m. will be able to vote on the county’s regular voting system.”

Provisional PA ballot info:

https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/vote/voter-support/provisional-ballot.html

Tell everyone you possible can:

DO not pay attention to ANY media, just go VOTE!

Bring water and snacks.

Do not get off the line.

If ANYONE tries to question you, intimidate thank them and inform them you're good and all set. If they continue to badger you, call 911.

Report intimidation to the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).

Some more on that from the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/voting-rights#someone-is-interfering-with-my-right-to-vote

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

Current state:

Nauseously optimistic *

*Some brilliant person came out with this term online somewhere, but cannot give attribution at this time, but I would personally like thank said individual for providing such an excellent term for my current state. Thank you and bravo!)

Frick… can’t believe my employer expects me to work today….

Fuckers.

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