• Reygle@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    OK Newsom, you’ve lost me. I enjoyed your chaotic responses to the drumpf but you’ve officially lost me.

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      16 hours ago

      He’s not even making most of those responses to Trump. His social media manager is doing it. He’s still just another Howard Schultz. “I like the idea of equality as long as rich people don’t have to reduce the rate at which they become richer.”

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      20 hours ago

      Realize, this has always been him. He is NOT a liberal. He is a conservative who calls himself a democrat.

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        1 hour ago

        Yup.

        Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

        Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

        Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

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          11 hours ago

          Government-mandated age verification stuff on private hardware is basically the opposite of liberal though

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            6 hours ago

            Those who call themselves liberal have been doing shit like this for so long that this rank hypocrisy is part of what it means to be liberal.

            If liberals don’t like it, they should have had some integrity instead of ridiculing the concept as a “purity test.”

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        18 hours ago

        He is still overwhelmingly liberal and progressive. Calling him conservative is insane.

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          1 hour ago

          If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

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          18 hours ago

          He is basically as conservative as you can be here in California while holding a state wide elected position and even that may not be true anymore with how things have shifted since the last governor election. Point is he is generally on the more conservative end of Californian politics, hell I know some Schwarzenegger style conservatives who are more progressive than him.