Really looking forward to Newsome putting the homeless people in Los Angeles into concentration camps for the 2028 Olympics, and then beating J.D. Vance in a landslide a few months later.
Secede, California. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship. Isn’t it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits? California, your government has abandoned you. They have ordered you to die. Don’t trust them. They lied to you, California. You know you cannot win this election.
Is this a Vietnam reference? If so: magnificent work
Yeah, a great Hanoi Hannah reference
somebody should make some sort of New California Republic
C’mon, balkanizeThis image has legs
:putin-shout:
There’s something very funny about how on the one hand it needs to be a fair system, but on the other hand there must be exactly two parties and they must be the Republicans and the Democrats lol
uh let me do A24 Civil War
Civil War had the baffling decision to have California and Texas team up against Washington and when asked about it, Garland said something along the lines of one would hope a team of rivals could work together to defeat a dictator and that the movie wasn’t about politics anyway
it’ll happen after the nation of CA manufactures a color revolution and installs Beto as the Rightful President of Texas
It’s #His turn.
I don’t think a movie made me angrier
At least not in recent memory
I was just kind of
by the choices made during most of the movie, but thought the last 20 minutes were funny.Alex Garland:
it’s exquisite
Alex Garland:
I gotta recommend The Morbid Zoo’s excellent video essay on the movie: Journalism and the Passive Aggression of Civil War . I love Alex Garland movies, but Civil War’s themes are fairly simple (to the point of being reductive and incorrect) as addressed in the video.
I would give anything to be able to throw a cat without it snagging its claws on anticommunist drivel like when this lady feels the need to characterize “communist newsletters” as completely uninterested in truth and falsehood, only in subversion, and via diagram explains that they are completely outside of the frame of “legitimate disagreement” while the entire American “consensus” is inside of it. Before you say anything, she was using this model as a framework to explain how she thinks things really are, rather than to refute it.
I swear to god it’s so inescapable to hear any kind of political commentary from one of these fucking “video essayists” without it at some point devolving into lazy anticommunism.
Edit: The one thing I really appreciate is how she’s evidently a big fan of Manufacturing Consent (see the floor shots), which can tell you a whole lot about the reception of that book.
Edit 2: The idealist screed at the end is also annoying, but honestly I can gratefully say those are usually relegated to people such as video essayists who have forgotten what the material world is.
I swear to god it’s so inescapable to hear any kind of political commentary from one of these fucking “video essayists” without it at some point devolving into lazy anticommunism.
Cultural fascism strikes yet again. WeSSterners are cooked.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
look upon my mighty brain full of sludge
That film is the perfect encapsulation of AmeriKKKa. It’s all vibes and has zero thought put into the setting.
I can’t even remember it. I keep remembering, uh, the story arc in Battle Angel Alita where a voyeuristic photographer follows the Barjack rebellion as they lay siege to the Scrapyard, and his nearly erotic fascination with capturing the joy and suffering of it.
At least that character (and Barjack in general) had some personality!
Portland Maoists are having their day in the sun!
He also supports Cal-Exit and American balkanization (effectively).
comrade obamna,
I lowkey want 2028 to be Obama vs trump, would be a pretty funny grudge match
i hope newsom fails on the local stage, fuckin transphobic asshole
Obviously Dems don’t think trump and crew are the existential threat they claim or they’d have assassinated him during Biden’s term or at the end of Obama’s. A simple plane crash could’ve gotten rid of trump and at least some of his admin.
Libs would probably do this to anyone left of Bernie
Edit: also fuck Gavin I hate that fascist piece of shit so much and I’m not surprised Dems love him. They’ll fall for a handsome, well-spoken man every time. Bro platformed every piece of shit he could find and agreed with them over and over, but libs don’t even care! They’ll call us racist for not wanting to vote for Kamala, but Gavin is totally cool for uh…giving Steve fucking Bannon a platform?
My childhood prepared me for this moment
Can’t believe we’re gonna get Escape from L.A. before we get Escape from New York
This sucks
Hey now, let Zohran cook
where did he endorse Calexit?
Governor Newsome proposed gerrymandering all of California to make it so that every single district has a democratic majority. That means that after the 2026 mid-terms, the Democrats would take the House of Representatives back from the Republicans. This comes as a response to Texas doing a similar gerrymandering.
Who knows what the Republicans would do in response? Maybe every red-state does racist gerrymandering to counter California’s blue wave. I don’t think the Republicans have any intention of allowing themselves to lose power ever again, and they would definitely prefer rigging future elections, declaring martial law, or just arresting Democratic politicians to losing control of any branch of government.
Newsome and Trump both have egos so enormous that they might actually move towards Balkanization not on any ideological ground but because they hate each other so much and desire to be the most beloved and powerful people in America (which is to say, in the world). If we really are backsliding from capitalism into neo-feudalism or techno-feudalism, then this might be a Warring States Period for the USA…
bummer, Obama actually posting “maybe california should secede” would put a lot of gas on the fire for the libs
Critical support for Newsom.
May the People’s Republic of California prosper.
still a bit of a jump to say he supports calexit
Kind of like saying Gavrilo Princip supported starting WW1.
