🌴CALIFORNIA POLITICS 🥑
< The Cesspool of Late-Stage Narcissism Edition💸🧘Thread for hellish discussion of the Progressive Reich and the smug, solar-paneled hypocrisy of the California Bourgeoisie and its Proletarian Gimps.🌞🍷
<Things will continue to be a performative hellscape where every solution is a branded, venture-capitalist-backed app for a problem they created, where people who preach "sustainability" own three homes and charge their Tesla from a grid powered by fossil fuels. The homeless population will be both a moral crisis and an eyesore to be hidden behind decorative fencing, while the legislature passes another groundbreaking non-binding resolution. The state will burn, flood, and drought simultaneously, and everyone will blame climate change while refusing to address the water-guzzling almond farms or their own lawn. The collapse will be a slow, Instagrammable descent into a smug, self-congratulatory dystopia.
<Death to the land of the fake woke, the exporters of insipid culture, the enabler of NIMBYs, the patron saint of pilates, the captains of crony capitalism, the barons of brunch, the lord of the lease-to-own luxury car, the guarantor of gentrification, the sultan of the startup, the prince of the pinkwashed police state💧 Drought Tracker 🚰
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Not composting is a micro-aggression.
Violators will be forced to live in a multi-million dollar bungalow with no parking.
Are we doing this for other states too? I mean I don't care everyone knows California is the most important state but Texas and New York are also significant. Well at least NYC is the rest of the state seems forgettable. Anyways I'm a native Californian so I am biased
>>2569876>Are we doing this for other states too? Yeah, we should be doing ones for Texas, Chicago, Seattle, Florida, and NYC.
>>2569876>Anyways I'm a native Californian so I am biased> everyone knows California is the most important stateYour entire state is one fentanyl-laced, street-shitting glory hole. Stay there and rot.Shove that "native Californian" shit right back up the sun-bleached asshole it crawled out of.
>>2569876There should be a /burger/ board
Chekem. of. Truth.
>>2569798We should have a thread for every Canadian province too.
>>2569928Whatever state you live in would probably have the economy of Ethiopia without Californian welfare money
>>2569999I would critically support this if the chan had more traffic.
does anyone here actually like newsom
>>2570035That's like asking, does anyone in California actually like him? Ofc no, but he'll probably be our Democratic nominee for 2028
>>2570063not sure if a Californian democrat is electable in this political climate but anything can happen i guess
>>2570003California's "welfare" is just the leftover change from the tech monopolies that price-gouging feds. Your entire flyover paradise is a theme park of federal subsidies and migrant labor, built by the same brown hands you vilify. You'd be tonguing Ethiopian sand for a sip of the water we piss into the Pacific.
NYC >work for the state government
>seasonal
>union is trying to make us permanent
> dont want to be permanent
> state is too broke anyway
> kinda hate my job at this point so that's cool
>>2570035He’s a literal nazlib fascist. No lol
listen to The Drain
https://podscan.fm/podcasts/the-drain> The Drain is a podcast covering California news and culture. Hosted by Kempa (founding editor of VOICES: River City) and Max (a.k.a. Sweet Palma, producer of Seeking Derangements), we discuss the liberal California hegemony through a leftist lens, just steps from the state Capitol>>2570035Newsom sounds like RFK Jr and has the same disgusting rotten ideology but for neoliberal political economy
>>2570035I liked when he was hitting back on Trump but it was all for show tbh
california is losing population due to terrible housing cost and discrediting the """left""" with it?
Down with the Silicon Valley billionaires. California has the ultimate potential yet we are being sucked dry both figuratively and literally. Massive farming corporations drain our natural water reserves while techbros fuck over our state over and over again.
>another usapol
this is why I don't support secessionists.
>>2600984Like every other building here is abandoned or at best for lease. Why are all these people paying out the nose to be here? Even the ones that are still open are still crumbling. It's all a slum.
>>2600984>This entire place looks like a Mexican barrio. Maybe because like half the county is Mexican or Latino?
>>2587037WODigger bots in the comments, kill them all, death to America.
>>2601003>Maybe because like half the county is Mexican or Latino?There are a lot of Mexicans in other states yet they don't look like a third world shithole.
>>2601003Like what are you saying, "import the third world, become the third world?" Are you saying Mexican can't into first world construction and hygiene standards or something?
Can you people stop making stupid marvel capeshit movies?
T. Rest of the Planet
>>2601074Hollywood is dying. It's suprising it has maintained its monopoly this long really.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/concern-over-whether-hollywood-film-tv-industry-can-survive-in-california/==Concern grows over whether Hollywood's film and TV industry can survive in California
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Jesus fuck
As if a /usapol/ was not enough
Another thread for the libs
New laws going into effect in California in 2026
>Banning cat declawing
<Starting Jan. 1, cat owners will be prohibited from having their cats declawed, under Assembly Bill 867. After Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law, California became the largest state to ban the procedure, which involves amputating the first bone in each of a cat’s toes or severing tendons to prevent claw extension.Declawing is permitted only when medically necessary to treat a health condition, according to the legislation.
>Landlords will have to provide stoves and refrigerators in apartments
<Landlords will be required to provide working stoves and refrigerators in apartments starting Jan. 1 under AB 628 by Assembly Member Tina McKinnor, D-Hawthorne.
>Gender-neutral bathrooms in schools
<Starting July 1, 2026, all California public schools must have at least one gender-neutral restroom, under SB 760, introduced by former state Sen. Josh Newman, D-Fullerton.The bill was initially passed in 2023, but implementation was delayed after President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders impacting trans people at the beginning of his second term, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
>Updated plastic bag ban
<Starting next year, California grocery stores will be barred from providing customers with plastic shopping bags.A similar ban took effect in 2014, but a loophole allowed grocery stores to provide thicker plastic bags with the intention that they would be reused. However, as most shoppers can attest, they weren’t – and the loophole led to plastic bag waste reaching an all-time high, according to the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG).Under SB 1053, those thicker plastic bags will also be prohibited, effective Jan. 1.Grocery stores will provide recycled paper bags to customers who do not bring their own. The ban does not apply to plastic produce bags or other plastic bags used in stores to prevent contamination.
>Food Delivery Platforms
<Under AB 578, food delivery platforms such as Uber Eats and DoorDash will be required to provide a full refund to a customer if an order is not delivered or if the wrong order is delivered. A human customer service representative must be provided if automated systems cannot resolve a customer’s concern.The law also requires food delivery platforms to disclose an itemized breakdown of pay, tips and bonuses for delivery drivers.
>Volume for ads on streaming services
<Starting in July, streaming services would not be allowed to play ads louder than the current volume of the show or movie being watched. Current FCC regulations already prohibit this in television broadcasts, but those rules were enacted before streaming services became popular.
>Police and ICE mask ban
<SB 627 bans most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from wearing face coverings while conducting official business in the state.The new law is a direct response to federal agents wearing masks while making arrests during immigration enforcement operations, including those across Southern California and Los Angeles that prompted protests this summer.The Department of Homeland Security announced in September that it would not comply with the law. The DOJ later sued California over the law.
>>2569820Worst thing to come out of Santa Barbara
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