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in any case, the main pita of ca elections is that there are usually a ton of confusing props, which isn't as much the case in primary elections there are absolutely anti-cop candidates in local races, they just lose or, on the offchance they win, are promptly subject to billionaire real estate interest recall campaigns, alongside rank and file cop silent strikes
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:in any case, the main pita of ca elections is that there are usually a ton of confusing props, which isn't as much the case in primary elections Gascon ran on reform. Now there are bits on the news of masked sweatpants hoodlums running into a Ross and just walking out with bags of merch. Your neighbor laments how they walked to their car and some homeless was just shooting up meth cocaine in front of a crying cop who could only politely suggest they go to a local Drug Exchange to do so safely. So now people will be swinging wildly to criminalize everything because we took a baby-step towards something but hosed up and forgot to include literally any social safety nets or supports to ensure it would be successful.
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Who was the other one? Chesa Boudin as San Francisco DA? He got hit hard iirc for trying to do justice reform.
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big black turnout posted:Hello fellow Florida transplant Hell yeah! Someone else who moved ~3000 miles from their home. I miss pub subs
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BeAuMaN posted:Who was the other one? Chesa Boudin as San Francisco DA? He got hit hard iirc for trying to do justice reform. yeah the new alameda county DA and, to a lesser degree, the oakland mayor are currently going through similar nonsense
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PseudoFaux posted:Hell yeah! Someone else who moved ~3000 miles from their home. Con: no pub sub Pro: never seen publicly displayed Nazi tattoos in a Safeway unlike Publix Qtotonibudinibudet posted:yeah And speaking of Safeway, there was a table setup outside mine that was I guess collecting recall signatures because it had a handwritten "Recall Pamela Price" sign taped to it, but nobody was there so I didn't get a chance to laugh in their face
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PseudoFaux posted:Having moved from florida and now voting in california, I'm noticing your elections are a different flavor of political hell than the poo poo we had back home. But y'all still have the same problem of "most/all of your candidates are cozy with the cops" They have guns, room temperature IQ, an extreme sense of entitlement, consider themselves above the law, and are known for harassing and even assassinating people? LAPD was (and probably still is) one of the most brutal police forces in the world and the sheriff department is rife with deputy gangs. Why is it so difficult to say no to armed thugs?
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rkd_ posted:Franchisors being civilly liable for whatever franchisees are doing sounds wild to me. why? manipulating the profit motive is the only tool government has for changing the behavior of corporations and business owners. the franchisor profits from the franchisee's fuckery, make em bear the costs of enforcement
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Well my ballot is in. Finding any info on some of these people running at the city/county level was overly difficult or impossible. It seems like the only people without any shame to stop them from running are small business shitheads, cops, cop lovers, and lately techbros. Voted yes on 1, though I'm still unsure about it. Silicon Valley DSA didn't bother putting out a voter guide so I used the South Bay Labor Council's
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Bald Stalin posted:I didn't think it was possible but the quality at subway about to go even higher! Subway is already selling pretzel bread as a standalone
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I'm glad to see the guy who wrote the crazy unhinged rant in his candidate statement for senator is in dead last place. He's currently on track to win like 10,000 votes though, which you really have to wonder who these voters are. Seems too early to call the Senate race (14% reporting right now), but so far it looks like Schiff and Garvey will go to the general, with Porter and Lee both trailing pretty far back. No big surprise there. edit: actually AP has newer numbers than the SOS page, and is calling Schiff one of the two winners drk fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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drk posted:I'm glad to see the guy who wrote the crazy unhinged rant in his candidate statement for senator is in dead last place. He's currently on track to win like 10,000 votes though, which you really have to wonder who these voters are. I don't understand who all these people are that want Schiff. I haven't met any of them, but I guess I'm just in a bubble. Like I knew he was gonna win by a lot, but I don't really understand it.
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CompeAnansi posted:I don't understand who all these people are that want Schiff. I haven't met any of them, but I guess I'm just in a bubble. Like I knew he was gonna win by a lot, but I don't really understand it. I think Schiff being a leading "resistance" figure during the Trump Administration gave him a huge boost. I'm sure many of his fans are boomers.
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I mean, 6 million Californians voted for Trump in 2020. California may have a solid Democratic majority, but there are still a poo poo load of Republicans. So, no real surprise that a Republican clinched second place, especially when there were three prominent Democrats splitting the Democrat vote
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CompeAnansi posted:I don't understand who all these people are that want Schiff. I haven't met any of them, but I guess I'm just in a bubble. Like I knew he was gonna win by a lot, but I don't really understand it. he was endorsed by pelosi, so the same establishment centrist people that like her
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What would it take to get rid of the jungle primary? Would it need a constitutional amendment, or could the legislature do it?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:What would it take to get rid of the jungle primary? Would it need a constitutional amendment, or could the legislature do it?
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Bodhidharma posted:I think Schiff being a leading "resistance" figure during the Trump Administration gave him a huge boost. I'm sure many of his fans are boomers. Schiff voter here. His poise, persuasiveness, and intelligence during the impeachment trails won me over. I think he has the charisma and character to be a good leader for the party. His positions on the issues are quite reasonable. I guess I'm a stupid boomer with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells and... I like to kiss my own butt.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:What would it take to get rid of the jungle primary? Would it need a constitutional amendment, or could the legislature do it? It needed to be stopped before it happened. Florida almost went jungle primary but it got stopped because most conservatives realized "What happens if we stopped winning, some how?" They'd never get on the ballot ever again.
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aventari posted:Schiff voter here. His poise, persuasiveness, and intelligence during the impeachment trails won me over. I think he has the charisma and character to be a good leader for the party. His positions on the issues are quite reasonable. Schiff's horrendous record on criminal justice issues, support for the war in Iraq, and his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza as Israel is starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children demonstrates that he did not have the best decision-making out of the major candidates that were in the race. But hey, at least he put on a good show against the orange cheeto man.
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You're listing things OP likes and agrees with. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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aventari posted:Schiff voter here. His poise, persuasiveness, and intelligence during the impeachment trails won me over. I think he has the charisma and character to be a good leader for the party. His positions on the issues are quite reasonable. “His positions on the issues are quite reasonable.” I would say his stance on Israel is not reasonable in any way.
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I don't know why folks are blaming the jungle primary here - a traditional primary system would've resulted in the same two candidates.
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IRV could have spared us entirely
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CPColin posted:IRV could have spared us entirely
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The I-5, actually.
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DaveWoo posted:I don't know why folks are blaming the jungle primary here - a traditional primary system would've resulted in the same two candidates. yeah. at least with this style slot two doesn't always have to be a hail mary no-win republican it can potentially be a hail-mary no-win leftist!
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the pch
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MickeyFinn posted:The I-5, actually. 
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sb hermit posted:the pch i5 doesnt even have a cutesy country-highway name like this, or even a pre-IHS freeway name like the Santa Monica Freeway cause it was just farmland before they plowed a couple straight lines through it but building hsr is haaaaaard and how are we gonna paaaaaaaay for it
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sb hermit posted:the pch spoken like someone who has never been farther north than SLO
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DaveWoo posted:I don't know why folks are blaming the jungle primary here - a traditional primary system would've resulted in the same two candidates. theyre both poo poo op
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drk posted:spoken like someone who has never been farther north than SLO There is no reason to.
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drk posted:spoken like someone who has never been farther north than SLO no one calls it the pch
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norcal/socal jokes aside, that central california region between monterey and santa barbara is one of my favorite parts of the state they also have our currently only nuclear reactor which is cool and good
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drk posted:they also have our currently only nuclear reactor which Edit: nm they decommissioned the vallecitos reactor in November Hadlock fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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the central coast is good as long as you don't extend it to include ventura county
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drilldo squirt posted:There is no reason to.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:no one calls it the pch sb hermit posted:the pch
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