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a jewish person on here could post "i like puppies :D" and there would be a handful of people in the notes screaming "SO YOU HATE KITTENS?? JEWS ACTUALLY SACRIFICE KITTENS GUYS IT'S IN THE TALMUD"

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My artwork for pride this year, different flags with different Jewish symbols.

(The symbols and the flags were just chosen because they look cool)

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You're very much welcome! I'm always happy to over-explain Californian political drama. It is unfortunately the case that many Democratic politicians do not have strong values in their hearts and are guided only by career advancement- with Gavin being a textbook case.

I'm on break from being his number 1 hater

I'm not fully read in on Mr Newsom, I mean yes, he's a politician, a Dem in a blue state (same here), what are some things I should know about him; or phrased differently, what's he done that deserves us dunking on him?

Well, I guess my break from being Newsom's #1 hater can end early. To begin broadly: Gavin Newsom holds nothing sacred beyond his own imagined future as president. He stakes his career on flashy stunts that grab headlines instead of pursuing meaningful progress because he thinks being a bold administrator in the context of California's unique issues won't help him win over Midwest voters in 2028. Democrats have massive supermajorities in the state legislature and do almost nothing of substance with it, but even when they try to, there's like a 50% chance it'll get a Newsom veto.

Now, to get into specifics:

He has spinelessly looked away from, and sometimes vetoed, things that would improve California like: ranked choice voting, properly funding the high speed rail, universal healthcare (which he ran on and then killed), CEQA reform (a law that NIMBYs use to kill housing), zoning reform, and much more.

He had a maskless dinner with megadonors at an elite restaurant at the height of the pandemic, in violation of his own COVID policies.

He betrayed the LGBT community by using his podcast to politely platform (and not at all challenge) Michael Savage, a hatemonger who says that gay men should die of AIDS.

He betrayed the LGBT community again by bending the knee to the Republican narrative on trans athletes in a chummy conversation with Charlie Kirk.

The context of the previous two points is that the LGBT community has been the backbone of his political career from the start. Once upon a time, he earned our trust by officiating illegal gay marriages as the Mayor of San Francisco long before gay rights were popular among Democrats. In return, stalwart support from our community rocketed him into statewide politics and helped put him in the governor's mansion. He's always been a silver-spoon slimeball with a gaze fixed on power, but it seemed like some things, like LGBT rights, were sacred to him. Now that he wants to be president and LGBT rights are losing popularity, he proved us wrong and stabbed us in the back.

To tie this all back to the post that prompted your ask: Newsom's current actions to protect immigrants and defend California are fantastic and truly admirable. But make no mistake, if standing up to Trump on this issue was detrimental to his career advancement, he'd be sitting on his hands in Sacramento issuing empty statements.

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I'm on break from being his number 1 hater

I'm not fully read in on Mr Newsom, I mean yes, he's a politician, a Dem in a blue state (same here), what are some things I should know about him; or phrased differently, what's he done that deserves us dunking on him?

Well, I guess my break from being Newsom's #1 hater can end early. To begin broadly: Gavin Newsom holds nothing sacred beyond his own imagined future as president. He stakes his career on flashy stunts that grab headlines instead of pursuing meaningful progress because he thinks being a bold administrator in the context of California's unique issues won't help him win over Midwest voters in 2028. Democrats have massive supermajorities in the state legislature and do almost nothing of substance with it, but even when they try to, there's like a 50% chance it'll get a Newsom veto.

Now, to get into specifics:

He has spinelessly looked away from, and sometimes vetoed, things that would improve California like: ranked choice voting, properly funding the high speed rail, universal healthcare (which he ran on and then killed), CEQA reform (a law that NIMBYs use to kill housing), zoning reform, and much more.

He had a maskless dinner with megadonors at an elite restaurant at the height of the pandemic, in violation of his own COVID policies.

He betrayed the LGBT community by using his podcast to politely platform (and not at all challenge) Michael Savage, a hatemonger who says that gay men should die of AIDS.

He betrayed the LGBT community again by bending the knee to the Republican narrative on trans athletes in a chummy conversation with Charlie Kirk.

The context of the previous two points is that the LGBT community has been the backbone of his political career from the start. Once upon a time, he earned our trust by officiating illegal gay marriages as the Mayor of San Francisco long before gay rights were popular among Democrats. In return, stalwart support from our community rocketed him into statewide politics and helped put him in the governor's mansion. He's always been a silver-spoon slimeball with a gaze fixed on power, but it seemed like some things, like LGBT rights, were sacred to him. Now that he wants to be president and LGBT rights are losing popularity, he proved us wrong and stabbed us in the back.

To tie this all back to the post that prompted your ask: Newsom's current actions to protect immigrants and defend California are fantastic and truly admirable. But make no mistake, if standing up to Trump on this issue was detrimental to his career advancement, he'd be sitting on his hands in Sacramento issuing empty statements.

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The idea that protests are "burning down" or "trashing" Los Angeles is so insanely counterfactual that I don't even know how those claims can be addressed. The protests and tensions are literally concentrated in a single area that is less than 1 square mile in a city that is 498.3 square miles large. If no one checked the news, 99% of Angelinos would have no idea that anything was happening. Do people think that the entire city of LA is a 1-street-by-1-street block?

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This is going to sound so "oldie yells at cloud" of me but the radicalisation of the young into black and white, zero shades of grey thinking, both in the media they consume and in real life situations, is genuinely terrifying.

The world is complex. The world is grey. There is infinite nuance in everything. No amount of trying to shove it all into neatly labeled boxes is ever going to work.

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As a Californian, I know that everything Gavin Newsom does is a performative audition for the role of President. But I'll be damned if he isn't giving one hell of a performance for the people of California right now.

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The two most powerful men on earth are having a falling out so petty and so embarrassing that it puts even the nastiest middle school Minecraft server drama to shame.

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Anyone else feel like we're hurtling towards a full on pogrom in the states or is it just me

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There is no gay liberation without trans liberation

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chag pride sameach! 🌈✡️

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It's important to note that this really isn't unique to America. Europeans intertwined their Christianity with xenophobia and colonialism centuries before America existed. Christianity is a conquering religion, founded with the imperative that it be forced on the world so that it might be "saved."

I think people mean well when they insist that America isn't a Christian country but it just obfuscates the situation and makes it more difficult for minorities to frame their experiences. America is a fundamentally, structurally, ideologically Christian country from top to bottom. It's exhausting, it's suffocating, and it's the truth. Nearly all political forces, pop culture phenomena, and major life philosophies here are either built on Christianity or propped up as subverting Christianity in a way that is, of course, still entirely about Christianity. Leftwing movements here that are ostensibly hostile to Christianity still ultimately structure their worldviews around their own versions of salvation, rapture, original sin, eternal judgement, heaven, and hell. Most people here fail to see Christianity all around them, influencing every facet of American life, for the same reason that a fish can't see water.

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This post got reblogged by a card-carrying white supremacist who pretty much stood up to say "the great replacement is real and Jews are orchestrating white genocide in an evil plot to destroy the ✨Christian West✨" while making veiled threats about the "downfall" of the Jews. Tumblr has of course not done anything about it. Nope, can't bother checking out reports of a classic-edition nazi on the loose, too busy banning people who draw explicit art or whatever.

The alt right became the mainstream right in such a short period of time. The Great Replacement Theory used to be fringe 4chan shit and now "The (((globalists))) are using (((the banks))) to flood the West with immigrants to destroy the white race" is a casually accepted truth on the right.

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Lmao, this just about sums it up

There's this really frustrating goyish idea that Jews are always finding "loopholes" or "tricks" to violate the "spirit of the law" when it comes to observing Jewish law. No, they're following Jewish law. All ways in which one can follow the law are equally "in the spirit of the law" because the law's purpose is to be followed. The idea that finding easier ways to observe religious rules means "tricking" god or doing something otherwise shameful is reflective of Christian philosophy. Suffering is not virtuous in Judaism. Penance is not the purpose of Jewish law. Judaism is meant to enrich the current lives of its community, not ritualize hardship for some unknowable divine purpose.

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I couldn’t make it to any vigils, but I walked to the Capitol Jewish Museum today. There are stones there, and notes with “Am Yisrasl Chai” and “may their memories be a blessing.” But there’s also flowers, and notes from people identifying themselves as Christian and Muslim, expressing grief and solidarity.

It might not feel that way on the internet (and in many places irl), but people do grieve for us.

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The alt right became the mainstream right in such a short period of time. The Great Replacement Theory used to be fringe 4chan shit and now "The (((globalists))) are using (((the banks))) to flood the West with immigrants to destroy the white race" is a casually accepted truth on the right.