Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Man I feel so whiplashed by Newsom
I think he’s starting to wake up to a few things about his own corruption and the rot in the system….at least I hope so…
He’s not…
I hope to fuck you don’t seriously think we are seeing a serious change of heart. Psychopaths don’t work that way.
Newsom is making a run at the presidency, and he is marginally more aware of the landscape than the average establishment hack. It was barely a month ago he was doing the right wing grift circuit, and now he is trying to grift the left. We should milk whatever real gains we can get out of it, then dump him. Hope isn’t a thing here.
I get what you’re saying and agree but what choice do we have? Nobody is organizing, nobody is coming to save us, democracy is falling, the us is quickly becoming an authoritarian police state. Thiel , Vance and the heritage foundation are going to be locking us into tyranny for the foreseeable future…so I understand how neoliberals got us here and I understand about Gavin being corrupt but seriously tell me what choice we have? I don’t see a lot of options do you? I don’t see protests or general strikes like in Europe. We have the Gestapo snatching people. This administration has said several times they are going to be jailing liberals as terrorists…when have they ever bluffed? You can literally watch a documentary about the Weimar Republic and see were there. We’re literally going quietly into the dark night.
All that is true, and yet the establishment Democrats in power are still playing games, refusing to endorse Mamdani, and parading around “abundance liberalism” like it’s not the same old song and dance. Electing another establishment Democrat in 3 years isn’t going to save us.
Right now, the concern is the midterms which may just still happen. A Democratic majority in both chambers actually will hinder this administration.
As for the Presidency, we have no idea who will be running. I’m not going to help the establishment build an early consensus for another sub-par candidate.
As for the threat to jail liberals, that’s a check the administration can’t cash - not at scale. They don’t have the prisons, the guards, the cops, or the balls. So far, it doesn’t even look like they will get Kimmel off the air. Their grand military parade turned into a display of malicious compliance, and their military deployments to US cities have not provided them what they were looking for. Only the ICE brown-shirts have displayed a real willingness to back the administration’s agenda. I’m not saying there is no danger, but it’s not as hopeless as you say.
good job. now do ice.
You want ice to have the right to unionize?
sure. imo every worker should have that right.
but i meant gavin fixed the lyft/uber unionization problem, now he should fix the ice problem. make mask wearing while on duty as LEO a felony and send state troopers to follow them around to enforce it.
This is part of a larger deal between lawmakers, unions, and ride-hailing companies, resulting in the passage of separate bills supporting lower insurance requirements for Uber and Lyft,
That doesn’t seem like a good thing
Yeah but he doesn’t support trans rights so clearly he’s just as bad as the people in the openly white supremacist pedophile party. /s
He doesn’t support trans rights so we need to keep working on him until he does. He’s obviously educable, and even willing to publicly change positions if he can be shown that the right thing will advance his ambitions. And at this point he’s the most likely opponent to Trump and the GOP, so it’s worth investing some effort in educating him. And/or work on making society in general more trans-friendly, because politicians do follow societal trends.
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Newsom is a trash politician who believes in nothing.
He will not win, I guarantee it.
You’re not the kind of person I was making fun of, I support you and your goals so keep at it.
Yeah he did the bare fucking minimum for a person with his power on this literal single issue so that makes up for the thousands of other times he’s been just as fucking monstrous as the Republicans /s
Everybody, I present to you the embodiment of the point I was making, user PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org who unironically would not endorse Newsom against a Republican opponent.
I wouldn’t endorse Newsom either. I made that mistake with Biden in 2020 and we would have been 1000% better off if Trump had won. At least then the Republicans wouldn’t have had four years to build project 2025 emboldened by Biden’s weak response to January 6.
I am almost 100% certain this county will be ended by another shitlib presidency.
Everybody, I present to you the embodiment of the point I was making,user PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org…
Fucking based
who unironically would not endorse Newsom against a Republican opponent.
No I will not be endorsing your shitty politician, triply so for fascist Republicans, but doubly so for controlled “opposition” fascists like Newsom. Electoralism is a waste of time for progressives. Liberalism is killing us. It is keeping good people preoccupied with the theater of liberal democracy, instead of destroying existing systems and building alternatives to state power and capitalism. The usefulness of even the “best” (i.e. least worst) liberal politician is limited by the fact that they work within and in service of a liberal democracy controlled by billionaires.
Our climate is in crisis, fascists control the government, migrants and non-white citizens are being harassed and imprisoned and killed, healthcare is impossible to afford, and the settler-colonialists are still in control of Amerikkkan society after over 400 years of slavery and terrorism, and your solution is more milquetoast liberalism? Are you fucking kidding me?!? Burning everything to the fucking ground is the bare fucking minimum, we should have burned it to the fucking ground a thousand times over, hundreds of fucking years ago. Fuck off with this liberal horseshit. Past 250 years of Amerikkkan government and post-WWII American domination showed us what happens when we let Enlightenment-pilled liberals control the world.
And Newsom is a particularly shit shitlib, and it is galling that liberals shove him of all people into the faces of more progressive people. Like you didn’t just pick a random dog turd to shove in our faces, you went down to the local sewage treatment plant and sifted through all the turds and found one of the stinkiest possible turds at the bottom of the tank just to show us and be like “see? Gaze upon this specimen of a turd! Smell how stinky this turd is! Why won’t you love my stinky turds?”. With liberals like him, who needs conservatives? Like he’s such fucking trash that even Democrats find him repulsive.
