Tag: california

wodneswynn:

wodneswynn:

So a lot of American xenophobia is informed by the fact that our news over-reports crimes committed by immigrants in Europe to such an extent that if you watch a lot of cable news you’ll deadass get the impression that every major European city is full of gangs of immigrants who just run around killing people all day and the European cops just watch it happen like “Alas, because of political correctness I can do nothing, if we try and stop and bloodbath we’ll be executed for racism.”

Which is of course, like, not true even a little bit, but it’s such a strongly-held belief that I’m not sure how to combat it.

I got into it the other day with a dude who was all like, “Yeah, it’s horrible that ICE is putting babies in baby jail and selling them for money, but isn’t it a necessary step to prevent the streets running red with blood like what’s happening in Europe??”

And you can’t just be all simplistic high-school-debate-team about it and just tell the poor fool that, no, that isn’t happening, because real-world political work is more complicated than that, but I ain’t yet got the hang of it.

California too for non-Californians. News reports California like it’s an apocalyptic wasteland. California also is “minority-majority” and conservatives link the two even if they’re not explicitly linked in the reporting.

queerqueerspawn:

gahdamnpunk:

Tbh we should get rid of the electoral college

That’s a good point! California is one of the states signed on to the agreement to assign electoral votes in line with the national popular vote (once a majority of electoral votes are so bound by all states in total), so dismantling the largest chunk of the electoral college currently (which is so bound) without other serious reforms actually makes the electoral college harder to reform or quickly abolish without, like, a full scale revolution.

Anyway, the real drivers behind this proposition are actually more

a) to destroy the progressive tax model the current state of California has created which shows that low/regressive tax models like Kansas’ for instance aren’t flukes, that taxing wealthy people under the right circumstances isn’t the end of the world – we can be here all day talking about the better solution of communist revolution and the like, but the point isn’t arguing for that, it’s arguing against libertarian hellscape capitalism

b) to create high tax / low wage confluences in especially Silicon Valley and Orange County (both of which are border regions on the proposed map) – the ostensible system is to easily allow businesses and lower employees to be located on one side of the boundary and managers’/owners’ incomes on the other, so that profits can be safely sequestered into “income” for the “right” people and as much of that as possible distributed by local and even state taxes “within the community” (of wealthy people). To be clear, this sort of shit is *already* a problem in California, this exacerbates it by drawing even more stark lines through two of the major metropolitan areas in the state.

c) to provide White people in what would become New South California more political leeway to deport undocumented people, which just the threat of has been continually used since Trump was elected to shut down strikes and labor organizing, because White people are fucking demons.

To sum up, it’s a cash grab meets “end sanctuary cities” status post by your racist aunt. Throw it in the fucking trash and get on board with a real revolution.