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California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.

First heard of him existing when some Very Serious People were floating him as a replacement for Biden like two months ago
- Infer from that that he's progressive maybe?
Like right after that a big story how he forcefully cleared homeless encampments like a fucking cartoon villain
- So he's actually a weird little conservative in disguise?
Now this fucking nonsense.

How do you keep producing people like this, America?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... He's very much a corpo neolib. He's actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He's also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.

Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think it is a combination of:

Governor of major state.
Has nice hair. Real generic politician look.
Polls showing "generic democrat" beating Trump.
Not super old.
Have I mentioned the hair?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

It's the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ya really think his hair is nice?

I've felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed -- as if embedded in a thin layer of ice -- while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.

Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn't real.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

because the US sociopolitical system, just like many other of its social systems, is disastrously sick and dysfunctional

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gavin was Pelosi's pick to replace Biden, they're both backed by the same regional California billionaires from SF to Sac. Harris is from Cali as well but her big backers are in LA.

My head canon is Biden chose Harris as a parting FU to Pelosi.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

I think a lot of those seriously floating him were neolibs thinking that he'd make their stock prices go up.

[–] corbin@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

It may help to know about Californian neoliberalism. Newsom is running on a faulty ontology; the world is built out of different building blocks for him than for us. We often contrast it with the more dominant flavor of neoliberalism on the other coast:

"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft." ~ Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems he resembles RFK Jr. more than a Democrat.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least RFKJ has brainworms he can blame.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

unironically one of the most glorious developments in modern insanity

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Newsom is absolutely A Type Of Guy