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Mamdani won in NYC in a fucking landslide. By over 200,000 more votes than Cuomo
Democrats held onto the Governors seat in NJ
Virginia just elected its first female Governor, flipping the seat from Republican to Democrat. And it doesnt stop there. The Lt. Governor AND Attorney General also flipped from Republican to Democrat.
Pennsylvania voted to retain all 3 Supreme Court judges in its state preserving the Democrats 5-2 Majority
Maine elected to NOT pass a law that would force people to “prove citizenship” before voting. Which is good because only citizens can vote anyway and passing a law like that would only serve to allow discrimination of POC.
Colorado voted to tax the wealthy higher to fund free school meals AND use the excess from that to fund SNAP
AND Prop 40 is looking like its going to pass with flying colours.
It wasnt all wins. Texas passed a draconian Parents rights law that allows them even more control over their children’s lives - likely in an anti-trans bid and they passed their own version of the whole “prove citizenship” thing.
BUT LOOK!! LOOK AT ALL THESE WINS!!!
THE RESISTANCE IS THERE AND ITS LOUD!!! THIS COULD BE JUST A TASTE OF WHAT WE CAN DO COME MID-TERMS. If we all collectively keep up the energy and VOTE LIKE HELL we can make a Blue Wave happen and SERIOUSLY kneecap this attempt at an Authoritarian Regime!
I know that we get a lot of bad news and we get it every day. But the good is there! The regime is failing left right and centre and this can be the first glimpse at what we can do!
Dont let them win in your head! Dont let them silence you into complacency!! We have the momentum! Let’s ride it!
So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.
Hmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Actual answer: the sheep know the dogs are not sheep, and they also know the dog is protecting them and take their cues from the dog about whether they need to run for the barn or can just ignore anything scary that approaches.
However, a friend once had an extremely premature orphan lamb born in December who had to live in the house for a couple of months with leg braces and all that, who due to spending her lambhood with dogs instead of sheep came out of the whole experience convinced she was a livestock guardian dog! She would patrol the perimeter of the fields every evening with the actual dog, stand watch in the barn door at night like the dog, and was more than willing to throw down if she saw something scary coming towards the flock the way the guard dog did. Tragically orphaned lamb did a convincing job at being a guard dog without actually having any of the biological advantages a dog has over a sheep.
