Fascists calling eachother communists like this on Twitter while working class people cheer them on for being so funny is just not the future I envisioned or wanted.
I don’t have many nice things to say about Newsom but let’s not dilute the word fascist into a generic insult eh?
Ya. Honestly, I’m getting pretty close to being done with Lemmy at this point. The way to fight extremism is not with different extremism. Between the hyper purity test Leftists, and the AI=evil absolutists, it feels like there’s never any room for constructive discussion anymore. If I even ask a clarifying question about someone’s views, even one that I could potentially be swayed towards, the response always comes back as some variation of “You’re one of them aren’t you!”
There is no such thing as “leftist extremism” especially in the united states. It’s also not “purity testing” to want to not kill homeless and trans people.
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Or yes Newsom’s widespread destruction of homeless camps surely has no consequences on that community and his support of transphobic rhetoric surely doesn’t contribute to massive trans suicide and murder rates how could I think otherwise? /S
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No here’s evidence
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/02/homeless-mortality-report/
https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/03/homeless-people-dying/
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transpop-suicide-press-release/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11244576/
I could post thousands about high rates of homeless deaths in California are and how Newsom’s policies make that worse and how high trans suicide rates are and how that is cause largely by transphobia and how newsom contributes to that.
He made being unhoused illegal.
While I like him mocking trump I still don’t like him.
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Do you know what cleaning an encampment means? They are not sweeping up and and making it look nice.
Everyone is kicked out. Any belongings they are unable to carry out get tossed.
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Basically made it illegal to own anything or have any sort of living space when you’re homeless, and didn’t create more shelters.
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