• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    Yeah… He’s very much a corpo neolib. He’s actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He’s also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.

    Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.

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      6 months ago

      So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you’d want in charge of anything, much less a country?

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        6 months ago

        I think it is a combination of:

        1. Governor of major state.
        2. Has nice hair. Real generic politician look.
        3. Polls showing “generic democrat” beating Trump.
        4. Not super old.
        5. Have I mentioned the hair?
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          5 months ago

          Ya really think his hair is nice?

          I’ve felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed – as if embedded in a thin layer of ice – while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.

          Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn’t real.