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I'm so glad I left California 6 years ago. They are going to regulate and tax their startups and innovators away to other states. This is supremely stupid.

nradov 5mo ago
This is the inevitable result of having a single-party government which is no longer accountable to regular citizens.
- dlev_pika 5mo ago
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  - ginkgotree 5mo ago
    yep - an armed Florida man paying low taxes
    - dlev_pika 5mo ago
      I’m sorry you feel the need to be armed in the streets - that sucks :(
      - SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
        Need? Get to. I get to carry and make sure that I’m not a useless decoration if I or my family is ever in trouble because of someone that shouldn’t be in general population. Need :) Ya, I see how you sell it to yourself as a negative.
        dlev_pika 5mo ago
        I prefer a working police force, fewer rEsPoNsIbLe gUn oWnErs, and not to increase my, or my family’s, chances of dying by firearm, but I guess we all need to feel we are worth it, in one way or another - damned be the costs.
        SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
        >I prefer a working police force I prefer a utopia too. Until we get there that’s nice to have outsourced your safety to people that have no obligation to help you. I chose otherwise.
- jimbob45 5mo ago
  No it’s not. Xi has power as absolute as Newsom and manages just fine. When your country has large, but solvable problems, absolute power works great for quelling unrest by fixing problems quickly and efficiently. Newsom is just generationally incompetent.
  - ginkgotree 5mo ago
    With all do respect, I do not want to live in anything remotely close to the Chinese CCP. (laughs in Free Floridian)
    - ActorNightly 5mo ago
      The issue is that you don't know what free actually means. You rely on a lot of government support for your perceived notion of freedom, its just invisible to you because its never been taken away. And if you ever get to experience a life where its been taken away, you sure as shit will be in favor of more authoritarian government.
  - WillPostForFood 5mo ago
    The argument isn't that authoritarians can't solve problems.. It more about how they do it. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-no-accountability-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-three-years-after-major-un-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-n...
    - jlarocco 5mo ago
      Unfortunately, America is just as bad, without the benefit of solving problems. https://truthout.org/articles/ice-agents-are-using-family-separation-tactics-central-to-us-state-violence/ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-agents-are-using-family-se... https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166816 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166816
      - fasterik 5mo ago
- fasterik 5mo ago
  What you describe as "single-party government" is in fact a democracy where one party is more popular than the others. Or are you trying to imply that California's elections are not free and fair? If voters want to hold politicians accountable, they can vote out the incumbent. I see it as a problem primarily with education and public opinion. Regular citizens routinely support bad policies across the ideological spectrum. Often we have to live with the fact that bad policies are popular; that's democracy in action. It's also a problem of having no good alternatives. There are historical reasons, going back to the 1960s, why the Democratic party is perceived as the lesser of two evils when it comes to civil liberties.
  - nradov 5mo ago
    I never claimed that the elections were fraudulent.
  - hunterpayne 5mo ago
    You don't follow politics in CA very closely if you think that. The way it works in CA is that the party makes sure that only 1 candidate runs in the Dem primary. Then they gerrymander the districts to make sure that they know which party will win in which district. The result of this is that the party insiders choose the politicians, not the voters. PS Nobody in their right mind thinks the Dems support civil liberties. You just wish that was true and/or live in a bubble.
    - fasterik 5mo ago
      According to the Princeton Gerrymandering project, California's districts are better than average, with some bias. You can see a map of the entire U.S. on their front page. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ Before the recent wave of gerrymandering started by Texas, California had an independent, non-partisan redistricting committee. Could you provide a source for the claim that before 2025, there was significant gerrymandering in California? As I said about civil liberties, there is a perception that Democrats are the lesser of two evils, given the realignment of the parties around segregation and civil rights in the 1960s. The Dixiecrats who were in favor of segregation left the Democratic party, while Republicans who favored racial integration joined the Democratic party. Then the Republican presidential campaigns of Goldwater, Nixon, and Regan shifted the party line to appeal more to the former Dixiecrats in the South. I'm agnostic about which party is better on civil liberties in 2025; I'd be interested in any research on the topic.
fgfarben 5mo ago
Oh, you don't miss paying $800/year for the privilege of having an LLC that does literally nothing?

nradov 5mo ago

This is the inevitable result of having a single-party government which is no longer accountable to regular citizens.

dlev_pika 5mo ago
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- ginkgotree 5mo ago
  yep - an armed Florida man paying low taxes
  - dlev_pika 5mo ago
    I’m sorry you feel the need to be armed in the streets - that sucks :(
    - SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
      Need? Get to. I get to carry and make sure that I’m not a useless decoration if I or my family is ever in trouble because of someone that shouldn’t be in general population. Need :) Ya, I see how you sell it to yourself as a negative.
      - dlev_pika 5mo ago
        I prefer a working police force, fewer rEsPoNsIbLe gUn oWnErs, and not to increase my, or my family’s, chances of dying by firearm, but I guess we all need to feel we are worth it, in one way or another - damned be the costs.
        SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
        >I prefer a working police force I prefer a utopia too. Until we get there that’s nice to have outsourced your safety to people that have no obligation to help you. I chose otherwise.
jimbob45 5mo ago
No it’s not. Xi has power as absolute as Newsom and manages just fine. When your country has large, but solvable problems, absolute power works great for quelling unrest by fixing problems quickly and efficiently. Newsom is just generationally incompetent.
- ginkgotree 5mo ago
  With all do respect, I do not want to live in anything remotely close to the Chinese CCP. (laughs in Free Floridian)
  - ActorNightly 5mo ago
    The issue is that you don't know what free actually means. You rely on a lot of government support for your perceived notion of freedom, its just invisible to you because its never been taken away. And if you ever get to experience a life where its been taken away, you sure as shit will be in favor of more authoritarian government.
- WillPostForFood 5mo ago
  The argument isn't that authoritarians can't solve problems.. It more about how they do it. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-no-accountability-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-three-years-after-major-un-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-n...
  - jlarocco 5mo ago
    Unfortunately, America is just as bad, without the benefit of solving problems. https://truthout.org/articles/ice-agents-are-using-family-separation-tactics-central-to-us-state-violence/ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-agents-are-using-family-se... https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166816 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166816
    - fasterik 5mo ago
fasterik 5mo ago
What you describe as "single-party government" is in fact a democracy where one party is more popular than the others. Or are you trying to imply that California's elections are not free and fair? If voters want to hold politicians accountable, they can vote out the incumbent. I see it as a problem primarily with education and public opinion. Regular citizens routinely support bad policies across the ideological spectrum. Often we have to live with the fact that bad policies are popular; that's democracy in action. It's also a problem of having no good alternatives. There are historical reasons, going back to the 1960s, why the Democratic party is perceived as the lesser of two evils when it comes to civil liberties.
- nradov 5mo ago
  I never claimed that the elections were fraudulent.
- hunterpayne 5mo ago
  You don't follow politics in CA very closely if you think that. The way it works in CA is that the party makes sure that only 1 candidate runs in the Dem primary. Then they gerrymander the districts to make sure that they know which party will win in which district. The result of this is that the party insiders choose the politicians, not the voters. PS Nobody in their right mind thinks the Dems support civil liberties. You just wish that was true and/or live in a bubble.
  - fasterik 5mo ago
    According to the Princeton Gerrymandering project, California's districts are better than average, with some bias. You can see a map of the entire U.S. on their front page. https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/ Before the recent wave of gerrymandering started by Texas, California had an independent, non-partisan redistricting committee. Could you provide a source for the claim that before 2025, there was significant gerrymandering in California? As I said about civil liberties, there is a perception that Democrats are the lesser of two evils, given the realignment of the parties around segregation and civil rights in the 1960s. The Dixiecrats who were in favor of segregation left the Democratic party, while Republicans who favored racial integration joined the Democratic party. Then the Republican presidential campaigns of Goldwater, Nixon, and Regan shifted the party line to appeal more to the former Dixiecrats in the South. I'm agnostic about which party is better on civil liberties in 2025; I'd be interested in any research on the topic.

fgfarben 5mo ago

Oh, you don't miss paying $800/year for the privilege of having an LLC that does literally nothing?