The only people who should be executed are government officials who verifiably used their position for personal gain.

The thing they're looking for is revenge, not justice. That's fine, but it's not what the justice system is for and it's not like it will serve them in any way that isn't purely emotional.

There were some reports that the text of Prop 45 would have allowed datacenter construction to bypass environmental review, so I'm super glad it has failed.

A good reform would accelerate democratically planned affordable housing, transit, and green infrastructure, while preserving workers' and affected communities' power over pollution and development. Prop 45 instead applies broad deregulation across many kinds of private and public projects, concentrating this power in the hands of developers themselves. There’s a reason for this. This reform was written by and for some of the most rapacious capitalists in the state.

This legislation — like 41 and 42 — was a billionaire-backed Trojan horse.

Seriously, it's like nobody researched that one at all. It passed by a huge margin as well if I recall

"Streamlined" = loopholing laws designed to protect our world from these commercial developers. This was not a housing initiative, it was a corporate profit initiative, and that is why it failed.

Now, let's talk about the proposition that pays billions of dollars to 1 man and his 2 employees for "disease research" that passed......

Seventeen stories of retail, one story of luxury condos, one million dollar subsidized unit. Boo-fuckin-hoo 😌

Hey guise, OUR preferred government surveillance cameras are TOTALLY different than those other cameras. The corporations pinky swore it. And they'll totally hold to their promises unlike those other corporations.

The optimal level of service would involve more than keeping what we have, which is what this bill got us

Their comparison table conflates legal requirements for speed cameras (AB645 for speed cams) with vendor offering for ALPRs (Flock).

ALPRs in California are also moderately regulated (SB 34), although the regulations could be stronger (eg by explicitly requiring operating agencies to maintain control of their own data, and disallowing systems that collect data into massive cross-customer, inter-state databases). There are ALPR systems and deployment configurations in use in some instances in California that don’t sync to the cloud.

Flock has allegedly violated their own contracts and California law. Nothing says a speed camera vendor or the configuration or operation of a particular deployment won’t be found committing similar violations.

In all, I don’t mind either when properly regulated and independently audited, but the regulations do have some gaps that need to be addressed, and vendors who break the law should probably just be blacklisted for some time from the state, and put under some very stringent scrutiny before they can return.

I mean, the voters voted to create a sales tax that benefits public transit systems, but I assume the agencies will still ask for more funds and say it's not enough.

It's weird to me how many Californians are pro-death penalty, and also those that believe it deters people from murder. I hope it's a generational thing, and the next generations will be more civilized.

Copaganda

Are you saying he didn't actually pardon them?

One might also suggest that Canadians politics, even conservative ones, are not a threat to very survival of the human species, that the country has had free health care, gun laws and abortion rights for decades now, and that the Canadian liberal Prime Minister never threatened to annex other countries or launch a trade war, all while not being an elected pedophile. One might agree that Canada is real farnfrom being a perfect country, but any comparison to the USA is laughable.

One might suggest, given Canadian elections in the last few years, that you exhibit a little more humility, because one can easily point out that Canadians are very stupid too, for staying home and not voting, allowing conservative parties to sweep their provinces.

Yeah, that seems like a strange argument yo me when you look at wages over time adjusted for ibflation among the wealth classes. There really shouldn't be much of an argument.

It is the Frankenstein of lakes.

I think I understand your argument completely. I just think you’re wrong.

You claimed that states have had success with voting tests too, but that doesn’t appear to be true from my own research. It’s not even supported by the link you gave.

And apparently you are misunderstanding my argument in that I said a specific set of very easy questions a fifth grader could answer.

What have I said that leads you to believe I do t understand this?

I would've been happy to continue this discussion, but your attitude is argumentative and off-putting so I'll spend my time elsewhere.

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Fuck this guy, I still will never vote for him in any primary.

That's great, but just because you happen to be informed & engaged doesn't mean the people that aren't are stupid.

I'm in favor of a wealth tax as a corrective measure, which is how this prop was structured, but on as a broader recurring tax I am against it. If I was less informed on this prop or otherwise held a stronger "If it's wrong to do it recurring then it's wrong always" position, then I would have voted against it. It doesn't take much effort to empathize with why people would be against new tax structures.

That sounds like a line out of Frankenstein.

I guess to me, passing this seemed like a no-brainer and there isn't any amount of propaganda that could sway me on that. How people are so confused about voting in their interests is surprising to me. But I think you have an interesting point.

…no. It was never supposed to be, and is so fucking disgusting that we should do what we can to fix the damage we’ve done.

So is the Salton Sea due to make a comeback?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea