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I’m fine with trying both Prop 40 and pressuring our government to permanently raise taxes on the obscenely (and not so obscenely) wealthy.

You have the correct mindset to deal with any information from my country.

I agree that this is the big issue. I need to see a majority of GOP against him as well as a supermajority if not a consensus of independents to feel like we’ve broken this Trump fever. I also need a supermajority of GOP to be against authoritarianism to believe we broke through the underlying problem with fascism in our system.

We don’t want our next military leaders to know about potential threats while maintaining and mobilizing our forces, apparently.

Due to all the disaster videos shown during reporting, I stayed away from news reports about this catastrophe. I was confused about the related earthquake I heard about. I was looking for confirmation that the avalanche caused the seismic event instead of the other way around. In short a good, if semi-paywalled, report about the facts and hypotheses.

Neither of them would have won either, especially at that moment in time. If we were to have an election today or even last year, Newsom totally could have won, but that summer the GOP candidate was already ascendant in an environment that organically (gullible and cynical voters/media ) and artificially (money & EC) made it so he would win.

You don’t know me, so don’t do this “sheep” thing with me. There was only one week that summer I thought a Democrat could win that election. I hoped I was wrong, but I wasn’t. 2016 definitely taught most of us that electability was not a science. We’re all in politics, just some of us are unwilling participants.

I thought (and still do) Kamala was the best chance at the time and circumstance, but I could tell that it would be a heavy lift for her to succeed. Enough Indies and Republicans bought into the obvious lies from the GOP campaign and nearly every incumbent party was being voted out all over the world so I also saw it coming. Especially so, when my feed filled up with tons of hope-ium from progressive pundits and influencers. Outside of perhaps the late great Dolly Parton, I don’t think anyone would have beaten the GOP candidate in 2024.

Everytime the issue of surveillance comes up on my local news stations there is some official from the police or Flock. If they interview someone with concerns, it’s never someone from EFF or a privacy advocate, but a random person on the street who has concerns but thinks the cameras have been integral to solving crimes.