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He’s not impeding anything, but Republicans love manufacturing an alternate reality that justifies their violent thugishness.

The American left is engaged in a slow and unconscious suicide. Meanwhile, conservatives are fucking evil as fuck.

He's thrown vulnerable people under the bus and has no principles other than what he thinks will help his career. Yeah, he's doing the right thing here, but let's not pretend he's good because he's doing the bare minimum

We can work with him while recognizing he's not a true ally

The illegal deportations were the fucking line that was crossed. Put those fuckers on the defensive and don't let them abuse language like this.

He did some great things during the peak but, since, he's frequently been nothing but a corpo ghoul. Sabotaging efforts to break up convicted killer and "power company"^*^ PG&E. Supporting rate increases so that the board of convicted killer and "power company", PG&E didn't have to face any actual penalties for killing people. Adamantly opposing any wealth tax. Putting significant support behind RTO/quiet layoffs.

EDIT: Forgot my own footnote.

^*^ "power company" here used in quotes because they seem more practiced in getting away with murdering people though negligence and avoiding consequences for knowingly contaminating water supplies with carcinogens.

I keep a message chain to myself for new words - here's my most recent:

architectonics, antimonies, deracinated, vituperative, idempotent, moither, uxorious, voussoir, integumented, exuviated, entelechy.

Last time we fought fascism we allied with lots of adversaries to take down the larger threat. I'm down for doing that again.

I'll take a Trotsky over a Stalin any day. Besides, this is Hollywood shit. The gov of California is a relatively blanched position. It's a showpony job by design. Newsom has power here because everyone that has power in Sacramento and in the county system supports him. Everybody fucking despises Trump except the neonazis at this point.

not nearly as bad but yeah, hea basicslly republicans from a decade ago cosplaying as a democrat, appeals to the california republicans, or like not appeals, calms them down enough or whatever

Honestly, short of some miracle undoing this whole mess, this was a flavor of outcome I was quietly hoping for. At some point, politicians are going to realize - much like the president's base - that they're going to lose power unless they mount some kind of opposition. For the very worst ones out there, power is kind of their whole bag. Take it away and they get very angry; they may even do something about it. It's kind of the tacit driving force behind any "checks and balances" scheme: power-hungry bastards trying to out-power-hungry-bastard each other. In a gross way, we kind of depend on it.

What is it about important blue states, like California and New York, that keep voting for corrupt pieces of shit(Eric Adams)‽ Again and again¿ Like I'm an out and loud proud social democrat in probably the reddest state, but it gets exhausting trying to juxtapose that with trying to tell people how corrupt every single repuglican is.

I mean this is exactly what i would call resisting, but i agree he is a shithead.

Are you?

Hi, actual leftist here.

Is Newsom a garbage person, a slimy politician with no real core beliefs, who just tight rope walks a balance between the desires of his constituents, and his wealthy donors?

Yes.

Can garbage people actually do the right thing from time to time, be on the right side of an issue?

Also yes.

Keep it up Newsom, this is the kind of 'fuck you, make me!' energy/vibe/whatever we need to actually have a shot at resisting Trump from within the system, instead of basically being completely on our own.

Maybe this will be a genuinely radicalizing experience for him.

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I would love for there to be an actual, formal, 'legitmate' body or group of people actually, effectively, resisting Trump, instead of wringing their hands and complaining about how powerless they are.

Politics is the game of acquiring and wielding power.

Sitting down and crying about how you don't know what to do is cucking yourself, and makes all your supporters into simps for a cuck.

Sorry to use the colorful language, no kink-shaming if thats your thing in the bedroom, but that is how I feel, and being a simp in the context of politics and governance is... not the place for such behavior.

If on the other hand we get some actually useful resistance from 'legitimate' officials, well then that means there might be a chance at 'legitimately' reaisting... but its going to mean a whole lot of libs are gonna have to learn how to actually play hardball the way Republicans have been the last 20 years... the way Gavin is here.

Hopefully these comments are the ones that will make it clear just how hard the "Democrats bad" narrative is being pushed on Lemmy.

They want us to focus more on the Dems than the people actually implementing fascism. They want to manipulate the next election, and they're starting early. It will get worse.

I missed the part where Newsome is actually impeding ICE.

True leftists beat Mussolini into an unrecognizable piece of meat and hung him from his ankles

Please go away.

Newsome will definitely run for president, and HitlerPig knows it, that's why he's going after him now.