I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....
It absolutely has a lot to do with Right wing/Republican propaganda, California, Chicago, and New York represent everything they hate so they constantly use both states and that city as negative talking points.
One point they constantly make is that New York City is a crime riddled hellhole, meanwhile NYC has one of the lowest crime rates in the entire country, and one of the lowest murder rates, it’s just a massive city with a massive population and everyone there has cameras so when stuff happens it goes viral. Also the Red States tend to have much higher crime and murder rates.
All in all this is usual conservative/right wing tactics, they constantly want to isolate and segregate themselves from other ideas, and aren’t afraid to take over where other people live to exclude the people already living there. This is why Idaho, Texas, Florida, and Utah have similar campaigns about “don’t California my state” and by “California” they mean don’t bring your “liberal/socialist/Communist/woke/progressive/democratic” outlook to their states, because they don’t want to be responsible for cleaning up the racism and various other problems that the red states seem to have adopted as their identities.
Also I know quite a few conservative Californians and New Yorkers that recently moved to Texas and Florida, and as conservative as they thought they were they actually talk about moving back to where they came from because of how it is in their new states, except for the fact that they moved to the new states because they can afford so much more than what they could in California.
Overall my point is, if you consume right wing media then you are conditioned to hate blue states, and particularly those blue states are Cali, NY, and the city of Chicago as well as DC, I’m not saying these places are without flaws, but I am saying that the propaganda and disinformation about those places has amplified the hate towards those places and their residents.
Dems like Hochul and Mayor Adams are the worst, truly representatives of modern conservativism within the party.
This is why if MAGA loses in November and if a GOP collapse from being broke and lacking support happens we’ll probably see the Dems go back to being the Right/Conservatives while a new Left/Progressive party emerges, or at least that’s what should happen in a functional adversarial democracy.
Meanwhile there’s literally an f’n school named the Bronx High School of Science, or better known around the city as Bronx Science, this school has literally produced Nobel prize winners, Neil Degrasse Tyson is one of the many notable alumni of Bronx Science:
I’ve known quite a few people that went to Bronx Science, obviously not all of them are famous people, but it’s a highly regarded school within the borough.
The best thing about it is that it’s forcing Drake to defend some of the questionable things he’s been accused of, while doing a terrible job of doing that defending. So we’ve gotten a master class Rap beef out of these two, and hopefully we get a bit more, and a bit more of pedos and sex traffickers in and around the rap world being outed to hopefully face some accountability. This beef is becoming rap’s #MeToo movement.
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Kari Lake is already pulling the same schtick in Arizona, other repugnicans have tried as well all across the country, so no definitely not going away anytime soon.
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
Love how not just this cop but all black cops carry water for white supremacy. Sure law enforcement needs to be done, but they don’t need racists, homo/transphobes, antisemites/islamophobes, ideological nationalists, or any other extremist piece of shit in their ranks, shit just further erodes public trust, just like this cop’s statement and stance does.
If the US military gets rid of them the cops should too, and the US military now does, hence what Tommy Tuberville’s promotion block was all about, because that scumbag wanted to reverse the ban on white supremacists and Nazis in the military because he said they were “patriots” too, fuck that noise.
Cops need need accountability, oversight, and standards, immediately.
This fucking guy and his sycophants are causing a shit ton of damage to this state, and I hope this state wakes the fuck up and lets them know how unhappy we are on election Day. Fuck DeSantis, and the rest of the Republican party/right wingers in general.
Railgun tech isn’t there yet, the bottleneck is currently what’s bottlenecking a lot of higher tech, and that bottleneck is energy generation, storage, and consumption, so that’s why we don’t see more railgun and laser based tech.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly...
That was one of my immediate thoughts, but Handmaid’s Tale has similar, then there’s the whole Civil war overtones, grey = Confederacy, blue = Union, this guy is pretty much telling us how much he wants slaves.
“Hillary Clinton used a similar tactic against me when I ran for president in 2020, accusing me of being ‘groomed by the Russians’.”
I guess no need to be groomed by Russians when you’ve already been groomed by fanatical Christian Extremists so your values basically align with the current Russian regime’s:
Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate took hold in Hawaii.[3] Between 1991 and 1996, Gabbard founded the organizations Stop Promoting Homosexuality Hawaii (renamed Stop Promoting Homosexuality International), Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, and the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.[10] Gabbard became well-known for his advocacy for Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998). This amendment, approved by voters 69.2%–28.6%,[11] gave the state legislature “the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples” under the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996.[12][3][13]
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Why do people dislike California?
I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....
rule conditions (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don't know what a computer is (abcnews.go.com)
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Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results (www.nbcnews.com)
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group (chicago.suntimes.com)
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
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Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly...
Tulsi Gabbard repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book (www.theguardian.com)
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