• footfaults [none/use name]
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    92 years ago

    The caste system thing, you can argue that it’s already covered by the existing protections and the inclusion of caste is duplicative. I can be convinced otherwise, it’s just be my dumb STEM brain thinking we don’t have to enumerate every type of discrimination, it should be obvious that it’s illegal and should be stopped.

    The other stuff, no excuses.

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      192 years ago

      If it’s already covered, then you pass the bill, because it doesn’t do anything. This is Newsome trying to cozy up to the brahmin money.

      • Vode An
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        62 years ago

        It also has the benefit of making it clear that it won’t be tolerated. Reiterating is worthwhile, and from the stories my tech friends have told it’s necessary.

  • sicklemode [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Gruesome Newsom on quite the streak. Still, one has to wonder if these bills only ever made it to his desk on the condition he would veto them, to tease people into vote harder football-lucy mentality.

    Maybe I’m wrong about that, but it does seem awfully convenient to legitimize a system that a passive observer would consider “working, but just one person ruined it” (if one person can fuck the whole thing, how is that viable?)

    • Wertheimer [any]OP
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      462 years ago

      I missed that one.

      Lawmakers can override a governor’s veto with a two-thirds vote, but they have not tried in decades.

      . . .the governor vetoed Wiener’s Senate Bill 90, which caps the cost of insulin at $35 per month. The bill had previously passed the Assembly 79-0 and passed the Senate on 39-0.

      This is perfect football-lucy Democrat behavior, where they get to be on record for supporting something but still make sure it never happens. A supermajority where nothing can happen because the governorship is inevitably a spot to put someone who wants to run for President. The most Blue MAGA state in the country.

  • captcha [any]
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    2 years ago

    On the other hand, what’s up with all the California dems sending all these cool bills across his desk? CA dems can’t be happy about.

    Edit: checked some CA subreddits and the general vibe ranges from “I guess the issue is more nuanced” to, “this asshole wants to be president”.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      112 years ago

      It’s easy to enthusiastically support good things when you know full well there’s zero chance of it actually happening

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      162 years ago

      “this asshole wants to be president”

      Someone has to be especially ghoulish if they aspire to be the central figurehead of the empire. hillary

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    202 years ago

    Oh and he also vetoed a bill that would make it mandatory for hearing aids to be included for children’s health insurance coverage, the fucking tool.