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“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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

The Alabama Senator is just projecting

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Has Alabama Senator ever actually been to Alabama or LA?

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least Californians family tress have branches

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Lol Alabama family trees are more like telephone poles

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 218 points 1 day ago (6 children)

anarchists are in charge

Anarchists.

In charge.

Roll that around in your mind a bit.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago (15 children)

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

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[–] Triflingmagoo@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

As an anarchist, the only thing I want to be in charge of is my morning piss and my after coffee shit.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

People in ramshackle hovels shouldn't throw stones.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 124 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 121 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 65 points 1 day ago (4 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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The western half should join Canada.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Canamericanada

And the Republic of racism

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day 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.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 63 points 1 day ago (1 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

[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Lol, I appreciate you giving a more thoughtful eye than I did.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alabama calling another state a third world country is highly amusing

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[–] seanom@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I have even worse news. The money allotted to fix that sewage problem was considered DEI, and taken back.

[–] Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never thought they'd manage to make Gavin Newsom of all people look decent, but that's just what happens when you live in the Dumbest Timeline™️ I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago

He's an opportunist. I like what he's doing rn, but not the man or the reasons he's doing it.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago

It's Tubervillian, he's a complete moron and just an evil asshole in general.

Also, the protests were only on one block. Anything they say to try and make them seem city wide is bad faith from the start.

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[–] oliver@lemmy.lothians.social 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

People always say don't sink to their level but the problem is you need to communicate with people at their level in a way they understand.

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[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Don’t throw stones if you live in a garbage house 🤷🏻‍♀️ not a hard concept

[–] arin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Politicians keyboard warrioring over Twitter was not on my bingo card

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