“Lock him up,” Tuberville told the news website about Newsom. ”LA looks like a third world country — anarchists are in charge, law enforcement is being attacked, and the rule of law is nonexistent."

An hour later, Newsom took to X to reply to the Alabama politician.

“Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California,” Newsom wrote. “Its murder rate is ranked third in the entire country. Stick to football, bro.”

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[–] 124 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I’ve been to both states, and California comes waaaaaaaay out on top. Alabama is a rural shithole.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    My cousin lives in Alabama and she's the best lay I've ever had.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Don't be coy, admit that she's your sister.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No she lives in Mississippi and she's third place.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They need California to suck so they can feel better about Alabama.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    California is the 4th largest economy in the world independently.

    Without California participating in the US, China is the leader of the world economy.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    At this point I dont think anyone could fault California for taking their ball and going home. God knows the western half of the country would probably go with them, solving any potential water issues.

    It feels like were headed for civil war 2.0

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  • [–] 220 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    anarchists are in charge

    Anarchists.

    In charge.

    Roll that around in your mind a bit.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Anarchist: steals the throne and adds it as just another seat around the table where everyone's voices matter

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    That's not anarchist? Burn the chair and the table. There you go.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean not exactly, anarchism is about no hierarchy meaning its actually very involved with hearing all the voices. Destruction is not inherently anarchistic

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Your definition of anarchy is what they try to sell on Fox News. That's not what it actually is. Anarchism is actually a very structured system that opposes a ruling class controlling people and grants more freedom to the individuals to govern.

    Fox News just takes the most extreme way in which anarchism can go wrong and promotes that as the default state.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    I want to extend on this.

    Anarchist thought is the awareness that true control/authority is an illusion and entities have an inherent freedom to disobey and choose according to their own will but also that they have to live the consequences of any actions.

    To create order in anarchy is to realise that your own interests co-align with those of others and that working together to build a better world where we navigate anarchy rather then dismiss it is key to create a condition where people can flourish and mutual freedom and respect can emerge naturally.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    grants more freedom to the individuals to govern

    I like how

    hillbilly + self-govern = doctors quitting
    

    during COVID. We're gonna be decades getting back to 10 years ago, but it's good to know what label to assign to hayseed epidemiology.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    Why are we trying to get back to anything from a decade ago? Shit sucked back then too. Let's try something new

    E: just wanted to add, im an anarchist that's literally working towards medical school so that I have the knowledge and autonomy to provide free, real healtcare as part of my praxis. We aren't all hillbillies, and even if we were that's still a bullshit take

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I know that anarchism revolves around dismembering institutions, but that's a perfectly good chair!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Anarchism in practice is mostly finding perfectly good chairs in the dumpster then asking around if any one needs it.

    Replace chair with bike, banana, computer, etc. and you have described probably what 90% + of anarachist movements actually spend their time doing. Oh and gardening. Anarchists often spend quite a bit of time gardening too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I so badly want to get into gardening and grafting fruit onto trees around town, but I have a brown thumb. When I ignore my yard, I grow the most gorgeous fields of flowers, trees, and other plants mildly toxic to my dogs. But anytime I actually try... I've killed succulents...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you really want to, hit me up. I've got about 40 trees and several very large garden beds.

    Maybe start small with a tomato in a pot in a sunny spot.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sounds like something an idiot would say, hopefully people with that intellect level never have real authority....oh... I kinda said that oh in my head like a Plinket review does

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Alabama talking shit about Cali is hilarious, ranked the 5th worse state here for good reasons https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings?region=AL%2CCA

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to dissuade anyone from thinking that California is a much better state than Alabama; but those rankings are terrible. Florida ranked #2 best state in education, #1 in economy, and #13th in crime? Yeah, that's not biased at all USNews.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Alabama calling another state a third world country is highly amusing

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    One of the handful of US states who’s unofficial motto is, unironically, “Thank God for Mississippi” really has no room to pass judgement on any state not named Mississippi.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    currently the 4 states vying for #1 worst state, florida, alabama, texas, missouri.

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    I thought it was Mississippi and Arkansas at the bottom. Although not for everything, growing up my home state of SD was consistently 51st in the nation for teacher pay (after Puerto Rico). Also one county over had the highest suicide rate in the world 🙃

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Fucking Silicon Valley is in California. Alabama has ...? Extreme poverty? Did the Alabama senator die of dramatic irony?

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Alabama has …?

    A little thing called the Marshall Space Flight Center. Perhaps you've heard of it?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Stick to football, bro.

    Having seen Tuberville as a college football coach, that’s a hard no. Tommy is an idiot and an asshole.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    HAA Alabama, the state that's below the us average for every good metric.

    The Alabama Senator is just projecting

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can't be sure if they're genuinely stupid or if they're just cultivating that image.

    Tuberville isn't one of them though.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At least Californians family tress have branches

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    North and South reloaded. Clash of cultures and mindsets within one country. Well… 🤷🏼‍♂️

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    The US as a whole is a third world country. Low average income, nearly non-existent health insurance, incredibly bad education (system), high wealth gap, fascism, insanely bad labor laws, the list goes on and on...

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Low median* income. The income distribution is skewed since a handful of people have all the money.

    Also don’t forget this:

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you're going to be pedantic, please be correct.

    Median is a type of average, as are mean and mode.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I’m not being pedantic, you’re just wrong. The average income in the US is deceptively high, whereas the median is quite low. This difference (or skew) is a sign of inequality.

    The arithmetic mean, also called the average, or the expected value, is not the same type of calculation as the median.

    There are many types of means or averages (harmonic, geometric, etc), but they all require a summation, an integral for continuous random variables and sigma notation for discrete. The median is the middle value. Totally different.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you want me to link you to a dictionary definition that explicitly says what I'm telling you, I will. But I hope you know just repeating yourself is not rather convincing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*
    • If someone checks “US average income” they’ll come away with the impression that Americans are rich.

    • If someone checks “US median income” they’ll come away with the impression that Americans are poor.

    Median is not the same as average. Also, we don’t check math definitions in a dictionary, since we are not in middle school.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Politicians keyboard warrioring over Twitter was not on my bingo card

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    when i read

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom clapped back...

    i imagined newsom twerking. i hate this.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    People in ramshackle hovels shouldn't throw stones.

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    I mean of course, it’s Tuberville. He only spews bile, always.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Its depressing that this is considered newsworthy, and not utterly embarrassing for both parties involved to resort to middle school one-upping.

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  • [–] [S] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    You know, like two months ago everyone was crying that Democrats don’t do enough fighting back against Republicans and your comment has me thinking “well this is why they didn’t.”

    Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Making headlines by having the equivalent of a twitter fight does nothing to prevent harm. You know what would? Newsom ordering the national guard to return to base and reminding them that they will be prosecuted under state law for following unlawful orders.

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  • Don’t you fucking dare try to “both sides” this shit.

    One side is eagerly throating fascisms cock, the other isn’t - regardless of any other flaws, there’s a clear difference.

    Your ignorant, no critical thinking applied parroting of a stupid inaccurate phrase hurts all of us. Be better or don’t speak at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sick burn, but it'll take more than a few clever quips to make me forget that Gavin Newsom hangs out with the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk and spews right-wing anti-trans talking points.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This happened days ago, why are you posting about this now? Honestly the newsom ass-kissing is getting worse by the day

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