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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (14 children)

My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.

  • First heard of him existing when some Very Serious People were floating him as a replacement for Biden like two months ago
    • Infer from that that he's progressive maybe?
  • Like right after that a big story how he forcefully cleared homeless encampments like a fucking cartoon villain
    • So he's actually a weird little conservative in disguise?
  • Now this fucking nonsense.

How do you keep producing people like this, America?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Yeah... He's very much a corpo neolib. He's actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He's also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.

Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

because the US sociopolitical system, just like many other of its social systems, is disastrously sick and dysfunctional

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