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[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

We're in the wrong timeline.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

anakin-padme-1 The Chancellor has banned poverty in the Republic.

anakin-padme-2 So everyone gets a right to a home, healthcare, and a living wage right?

anakin-padme-3 Well.....

anakin-padme-4 Right?

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

I wish I was a high-level witch that could curse him with poverty.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

God DAMN Steinbeck could write some words.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I finally read this book a year or two ago after putting it off because it was recommended by the same teacher who made us read a bunch of old slop. Honestly one of the best books I’ve ever read in my entire life. 100% should be on everyone’s reading list.

[–] spudnik@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you liked it and want another Steinbeck banger set in the Great Depression you should check out In Dubious Battle. For some reason it gets left out when The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men are mentioned, but it is my favorite of the three. It's about an apple pickers strike in California, and follows the communist organizers trying to lead it.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Looks like the audiobook comes to my library in like a week, what serendipitous timing, thanks for the recommendation!

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For some reason it gets left out

follows the communist organizers trying to lead it.

Might be connected.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago

I remember really liking East of Eden too, but think I was like 12 when I read it.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a book that I personally learned to appreciate more over the years, and would also recommend to anyone

[–] xj9@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

This was basically the titular quote from Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", which largely is about the plight of tenant farmers during the dust bowl and great depression.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Grapes of Wrath

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 24 points 1 day ago

War on drugs? Nah, mask off:

War on poor people.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago

They'll say he's too left wing to be elected when he tries to get the dem nomination

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 55 points 1 day ago

Now here's a guy gearing up for a presidential run to the right of the open fascist

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

maybe bro is the antichrist after all

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I'm getting more Ebenezer Scrooge vibes. Are there no prisons? Are there no work-houses?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago
[–] Carl@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

California Uber Alles but it's Newsom

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Jerry Brown becoming governor again in 2011 was a real mindfuck.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am evil telegenic
My face smiles and never frowns
Soon, I will be president
Trump power will soon go away
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will go to charter school
Your kids will go to charter school

Gavin Newsom über alles
Gavin Newsom über alles
Über alles, Gavin Newsom
Über alles, Gavin Newsom

Song

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

San Jose's mayor is in lock-step with him. Fucking psychopaths

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i hope he loses everything and ends up in the hell of his own making

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

I simply hope he falls down a staircase that never ends stairs

[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That will never happen to a white man named Gavin.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago

Why didn't I know that?

carlin-pog

[–] Lavender@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

He knows exactly what suffering and death he's calling for when he does things like this. I believe the people here already know that, but it should always be clear that none of these politicians are acting out of ignorance when they advocate for shit like this.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

Worse than lackluster housing aid, no workers programs to get people back to work either so they can maybe become self sufficient. Horrible mental healthcare options, beyond the fully humanitarian reality that many homeless may need to be fully taken care for. If you fall down he just wants you to fuck off.

Can't even express how I feel about this asshole without fedposting, but the saddest thing is knowing just how mask off he is and how many other democrats really feel the exact same way.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gruesome Gavin has a genuine, deep seated hatred of the homeless

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldnt be suprised if Newsom is responsible for people going missing.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Like in a “Has his thugs kidnap homeless people” way or a “Personally kidnapping and murdering homeless people with his own two hands” because either way yes

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****."

— Gavin Newsom, probably, after

CW: Gavin Newsompublicly calling for genocide and again

[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Again?! No solution, just break em up. This guy…

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

The governor of "commiefornia" at his best.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago

he's an "ideas" guy, not a "solutions" guy and always has been.

i'm so glad he's not running for president.

[–] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

hes running

[–] xj9@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's put the commie back in commiefornia

Recall this ghoulish clown

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

from dust to dust

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

he's not president yet

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

What a gruesome dipshit.

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

I'm sick of this guy

Gavin Newscum