• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    California is a garden of Eden,

    A paradise to live in or see

    but believe it or not

    you won’t find it so hot

    if you ain’t got the doe ray me.

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      2 months ago

      I came here to say this sounds like something Trump or DeSantis would do. Disappointing it is Newsome. We need leaders with solutions, not bigger prisons. (I’m not sure what I would do, but I’m also not the Gov of California hoping to be in the Dem shortlist in 2028).

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        2 months ago

        I’m trying wrap my head around the possibility of voting for Newsome just to keep whoever the Nazis nominate is really painful.

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        I mean, they’ve been trying other solutions and they obviously haven’t been working. Citizens don’t like living near these and this issue is rallying people to the right. I get that banning and sweeping sucks and is just moving people around, but if that ends up moving people from a highly visible area to a less visible area then it can go a long way for local businesses and tourism.

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    2 months ago

    He setup the conditions for San Francisco to actually do this. He just wants more cities to do it now.

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      2 months ago

      Efficiency and progress is ours once more Now that we have the neutron bomb It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done Away with excess enemy With no less value to property No sense in war but perfect sense at home…

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    2 months ago

    my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.

    I’m not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn’t afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one’s available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.

    but serious addiction isn’t new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.

    now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.

    I’m not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can’t afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.

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      I’m in Little Rock, Arkansas, which has plenty of vacant properties and plenty of homeless, they don’t cancel each other out anymore but it’s because homeowners are terrified of homeless people so they police neighborhoods and call that shit in. As well they should, we have fires all the time around me because of them.

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    Crazy how California is speed-running a transition from liberal to left to Authoritarian almost as fast as the Federal government is transitioning from conservative to right to Fascism.

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      2 months ago

      Newsom was always a slimy neolib. He was just the lesser evil. The same story plays out constantly all over the US thanks to our broken two-right-wing-parties system, in which both parties are owned and operated by self-serving billionaires.

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      Not going to happen. Not because the conservative Democrats won’t be able to hoodwink enough primary voters to believe the highest priority is accommodating what they think their shittiest neighbor could (but will not) tolerate, but because in doing so they’ll lose the voters they actually need to win and Don Jr. will ascend to the throne.

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        You are overlooking the most valuable thing that Newsom has, that makes him even more qualified to earn enough votes to win: a penis.

        Unfortunately, if you don’t have one, you can’t get elected right now.

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    Crazy how fast the internet turns. A few months ago? Everyone loved him for not letting trump do the ego handshakes. Now everyone calls him weird.

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      It’s just so weird that people of a certain mindset and philosophy would praise something they approved of in line with that mindset and condemn something they didn’t in line with that mindset.