Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world. Furthermore, it isn’t hard to bring politeness and evil into view at the same time.
20 min into the latest chapo and two great mispronunciations from felix: "finnit" for finite and "lat-ent" like latin for latent
yeah, this is kind of my thought. this is a group that has probably in the ballpark of 200 active members spread across the whole state. the people in it are at the very least friendly to the idea of socialism - they apparently have some overlap with the PSL or Peace and Freedom Party already, and those people are starting a group in their org that is based on CA independence. From what I heard from party leadership, they are basically berniecrats or to his left who feel deeply upset about how the national dems are handling trump and are aware of the fact that decades of dem rule at the state level hasn't really gotten us any of their goals (universal healthcare, etc) and hasn't protected us from trump.
but yeah they do seem undereducated, for example their manifesto/party charter repeatedly calls california a "nation state" which is an understandable mistake given how those words are used in the US and that even gavin has used such terms to refer to CA but it does show that they haven't really read much political theory at all, much less leftist theory.
they are focusing on organizing at the local level now and i would bet that even a half dozen or fewer comrades could make a local chapter, even for one of CA's big cities, much redder and more politically aware than the statewide org.
i guess the main holdup that i have with it is that i think independence should be for the whole west or west coast and we shouldn't focus just on california. i'd bet that there are a lot of comrades in the PNW that would be receptive to a left-wing independence movement but for obvious reasons someone in seattle or portland might not want to join an org that is just centered on CA.
that covered the car/boat/jetski dealership part of his base and this is for the MLM part of his base
Thoughts on or experiences with the California National Party?
The California National Party abbreviated as CNP, is a secessionist and civic nationalist political party in California. The CNP supports big tent, progressive policies and also campaigns for Californian independence, or at the very least, semi-autonomy, from the United States.
This party is definitely lib-brained, but they seem to at least be on the right track. They're a small party and I think it wouldn't be too tough to steer them further to the left. They say that they have some membership overlap with the Peace and Freedom Party. I think west coast secessionism is really gaining a lot of traction and i think it could be a good time to try and capitalize on it - I just don't know if these guys are the ones to do it.
Trump unveils $249 ‘Trump Fragrances’
putting aside the fact that there are few people of his strata in this world that i would bet smell worse than trump, having the President hock bullshit like this from the white house is one of those things that i would have considered kitschy and over the top in a satire 10 years ago but trump has done it countless times across his two terms. a competent opposition party might have something to say about this kind of stuff but i guess we'll never know
Bulletins and News Discussion from June 30th to July 6th, 2025 - Alas, Poor Boric - COTW: Chile
two firefighters killed and a third seriously wounded yesterday after a "lone gunman" in Idaho started a fire then shot at the firefighters. Northern Idaho has been crawling with neonazis for decades now and i can almost guarantee this guy was affiliated with a nazi org
hey don't count out the republicans yet! they haven't chosen who their disgraced corrupt sex pest will be yet. are there term limits to NYC mayor? could rudy come back? (edit: rudy is indeed term limited, what a shame) (edit 2: apparently rudy giuliani was given a knighthood by the queen after 9/11? i didn't even know non-brits could be knighted)
i think that by red here he means sunburned people lol, my guess is that he thought non-brit euros tan too easily to be considered Truly White?
that might have been beyond nixon's capabilities but i think i know who could be up to the task if you said his pecker wasn't based or whatever
nixon seems like the last president we've had who had the right mix of resentment and insecurity to be willing to do this and it's a shame no one ever tried to get him to show whoever the quaker pope is his cock, i am choosing to blame the american love of circumcision for this
some bizarre news:
Armenian PM Pashinyan offers to show his penis to head of Church
a priest accused Pashinyan of being circumcised and so this was Pashinyan's response.
the article also talks about some interesting tensions between Church and State in Armenia recently, with the PM accusing priests (including the head of the church) of breaking their vows of celibacy, and a ruling-party aligned paper published a document about coup plans from the opposition with the support of the church, some business tycoons, and Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.
however Trump has rescinded the Roadless Rule, which prevented logging, mining, and roadbuilding on 59 million acres of Forest Service land, so that FS land is still getting fucked even if it isn't getting sold (yet)
The Parliamentarian has decreed that Mike Lee's provision to sell off millions of acres of federal land out west should be struck from the Big Beautiful Bill. Lee wants to bring it back, but this time only selling BLM land, not Forest Service land, and only within 5 miles of cities, but i guess we'll see.