Obama’s comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms

Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November’s special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to “rig the next election” in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map.

“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”

  • Mangoguana@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    You better start finding a better candidate bro before the lesser evil is nominated then.

    You can’t complain about what is happening around you unless you give a solution.

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      3 hours ago

      You can’t complain about what is happening around you unless you give a solution.

      This is the stupidest take, give me one reason why? Am I also not allowed to complain about the rising cancer rates without giving a solution for those? I sure as shit better not hear you complain about AI ever again unless you can tell me how to fix it too. And global warming? Better just shut the fuck up about it until you personally have a plan on how to fix that.

      All this phrase is is a cudgel to shut up people you don’t want to have to address.

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      11 hours ago

      Yes you can complain and should complain, probably louder. Have fun licking boot, people like you are why we got Trump.

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        8 hours ago

        Be the change you want to see, complain all you want but all you are doing is setting yourself and the world around you for more complaining.

        (Spoilers for disco elysium) You remind me of that disco elysium communist ending, where all the comrades end up wasting their lives complaining about the bourgeoisie without actually doing anything about it, getting drunk every night each taking turns judging which sickly misery inducing rant was the most powerful.

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          4 hours ago

          Real world is the levellers and the diggers and good ol’ Oliver Cromwell.

          Everyone complaining. Everyone calling for change. King killed. No one had a plan for after.

          Systems will only change if there is an environment conducive of that change.

          I would argue Obama knows this. Change is incremental.