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Barack Obama endorses Gavin Newsome for President in 2028 (basically). He also supports Cal-Exit and American balkanization (effectively). (hexbear.net)
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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.

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[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

somebody should make some sort of New California Republic

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

Is this a Vietnam reference? If so: magnificent work

[-] Scarry@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, a great Hanoi Hannah reference

[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 59 points 3 months ago

C'mon, balkanize

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

This image has legs

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

:putin-shout:

[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago

uh let me do A24 Civil War

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago

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

[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it'll happen after the nation of CA manufactures a color revolution and installs Beto as the Rightful President of Texas

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 3 months ago

It's #His turn.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

I don't think a movie made me angrier

At least not in recent memory

[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

it's exquisite

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

Alex Garland:

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

I was just kind of jesse-wtf by the choices made during most of the movie, but thought the last 20 minutes were funny.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Alex Garland:

[-] meatballs12345@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

look upon my mighty brain full of sludge

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Portland Maoists are having their day in the sun!

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

That film is the perfect encapsulation of AmeriKKKa. It's all vibes and has zero thought put into the setting.

[-] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago

He also supports Cal-Exit and American balkanization (effectively).

comrade obamna,,,,

[-] himeneko@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

i hope newsom fails on the local stage, fuckin transphobic asshole

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

I lowkey want 2028 to be Obama vs trump, would be a pretty funny grudge match

[-] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Can't believe we're gonna get Escape from L.A. before we get Escape from New York

This sucks

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Hey now, let Zohran cook

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

where did he endorse Calexit?

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

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...

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

bummer, Obama actually posting "maybe california should secede" would put a lot of gas on the fire for the libs

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago

Critical support for Newsom.

May the People’s Republic of California prosper.

[-] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

still a bit of a jump to say he supports calexit

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Kind of like saying Gavrilo Princip supported starting WW1.

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

My childhood prepared me for this moment

[-] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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?

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