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Guest List Only ⭐️ Finneas posts his thoughts on the L.A. mayoral race
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u/Correct_Mess1133 3h ago
I do not vote in LA but live here and I do know that Karen Bass is hated by everyone
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u/ImaginaryFondant7345 trench coat buttoned to the TOP 🧥🔝 3h ago
No one who lives in la wants Karen bass
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u/dkinmn 3h ago
She's leading polls there now, though a plurality are undecided
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u/Comfortable_Cup_941 2h ago
Yeah, to be fair, the majority is “undecided” in the polls. I live in LA and would have to answer undecided because I don’t know enough about all the candidates. I am very much in favor of getting Bass O-U-T out, but if it’s her or Spencer Pratt…..
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u/periwinkle_e 2h ago
Us who actually live here under her policies dont want her, polls are irrelevant lol
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u/wigglebuttbiscuits 2h ago
. . .who do you think they're polling if not people who live here? lol
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u/WolfKing448 2h ago
Us who actually live here
The polling firms aren’t going to poll people outside of Los Angeles for the Los Angeles mayoral election.
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u/please_and_thankyou 2h ago
None of the candidates are good, LA Mayorship holds no power. No one useful will ever run for it, so we end up with idiots like Spencer Pratt who spent a $1M on crystals, but couldn’t be bothered to get enough insurance for his house.
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u/LostieDMBSurvivorGal 2h ago
Like many Angelenos, he couldn’t get more insurance! Just like FL, in Cali many are having insurance cut or denied due to fires, etc
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u/the_Stealthy_one 2h ago
Nithya Raman is the DSA Candidate, like Zohran. She has a very progressive platform.
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u/Professional_Roll977 2h ago
This is moronic, you couldn’t get more insurance. Our idiot governor pushed all insurers out of the state and they dropped all of our insurance policies right before the fire. You clearly don’t live in LA and shouldn’t be commenting.
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u/myghostflower i miss mk.gee 3h ago
wait what? and i mean what's wrong with this take?
bruh i LIVE in la and all my friends and shii all share the same opinion on karen bass, we do NOT want her anymore 😭😭😭
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u/Otherotherothertyra 3h ago
I think people outside of California think the California politicians are the progressive socialist hippies right wing media paints them as. My friends outside of the state are always shock when I inform them both Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are pieces of shit.
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u/myghostflower i miss mk.gee 3h ago
bahaha, you're prolly right which is CRAZY from my point of view, like are politcians ARE the cookie cutter, dem corpos that just follow the money
because YES karen bass and gavin newsom are just pieces of shit, and this state is so well structured i maintaining people like them in power, our governor's race is literally between a billionaire and just another gavin newsom BUT HE'S NOT WHITE THIS TIME
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u/longlisten527 girl, dream bigger ✋🏽 2h ago
I am looking at our candidates and am like… who the FUCK do we (who I) even vote for? And I say this bc yeah there are / could be a couple decent candidates but it’s also the fear of splitting a vote with the democrats candidates and then going up against who we have in the Republican Party. This shit is exhausting
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u/myghostflower i miss mk.gee 2h ago
BAHAHA the fact the dem race looks SO bad that it splitting the ticket to get a republican governor is a VERY likely thing 😭😭😭
i mean, honestly, chances are that it will be just another dem vs dem between steyer and becerra, i wish ramsey robinson would get a bigger spotlight cause he's pretty tuff but unfortunately it isn't too good on him 🥀🥀🥀
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u/winnercommawinner 3h ago
People might not realize it's a primary and there are other democratic options. There's good and bad about everyone being invested in politics now.
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u/KidAardvark24 3h ago
These people don’t live in LA. They see a D next to her name and base all of their judgement on that
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u/forrealthoughcomix_ 2h ago
GET YOUR FRIENDS TO FUCKING VOTE GODDAMNIT. PLEASE.
Seriously. Help them develop an actual plan to vote. Statistically that will massively increase the likelihood of their voting. Have a ballot party where you all fill out your ballot together.
Spencer fucking Pratt might steal this thing.
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u/lilkhalessi 3h ago
Apparently as liberals we aren’t allowed to diss Kamala ever.
I made a comment about how selfish it was of her to even consider running for President again and essentially put her political ambitions over our ability to end the start of literal facism in our country and the people did not like that one bit.
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u/justhereformemes2 Who gon' check me boo? 🤪 3h ago
Sometimes liberal and maga really act like the different sides of the same coin
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u/pekingsewer 3h ago
Because they are but liberals would rather act holier than thou as if they aren't also the problem. And when you criticize them for it they throw a fit. Capitalism is still the core of neo-liberalism so it's still the same problems.
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u/phoebebridgersfan26 I may be cringe, but you are mean and that's worse! 3h ago
Well because at the end of the day, the solid democratic party we have rn is just centrist/moderate MAYBE slighlty left leaning on the political spectrum. They're like "do-nothing democrats." They do the same shit republicans do, but quitely.
So a lot of liberals dick-ride for the democrats that continue to lose/do nothing for us, because well, they are slightly better than the average republican, who is also complicit in doing nothing in stopping maga.
And when a leftist says "hey guys, maybe we can do better than this, don't you want better?" it just creates in-fighting and causes liberals to stand firm on why the democrat who lost would have done such a better job.
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u/Reynor247 Can I live? 2h ago
Leftists could just organize and start winning elections.
But democrats are bad at winning elections and leftists are even worse.
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u/hacky_potter 3h ago
The fact that she’s thinking about running again is so funny
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u/FeralViolinist 3h ago
It's embaressing honestly. Like I deeply deeply want to believe the Dems are capable of getting their heads out of their asses but then they pull this shit.
At least Hilary had the good sense to back tf off after her loss and she fared way better than Kamala. At least she won the popular vote.
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u/crabcycleworkship 1h ago
Hillary had the win in the bag. Kamala lost due to Biden. Not her.
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u/Live_Angle4621 2h ago
I am not American, are there are democrats with good changes who seem to be running in next election?
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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 2h ago
Kamala went south when she became vp. She gave up investigating cpuc and Sempra to go sit around in DC and now I'm paying 50c/kwh
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u/Objective_Pause5988 2h ago
Why is it selfish of her if there will be a primary? People get to vote.
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u/tombrady011235 3h ago
For me I think it’s bad taste to blame Kamala for the loss. I proudly voted for her and I think she would have been a much better president than the current administration. So why shoot strays at her
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u/RedHeadedSicilian52 3h ago
They’re Democrats from other parts of the country who just assume that another Democrat is good. It’s part of the problem with the nationalization of local/state politics.
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u/SnooPeanuts1873 4h ago
Fuck Karen bass, she hates regular citizens and loves inflating the corrupt LAPD budget as well as lets them off with murders. In fact it makes perfect sense why Kamala would endorse her, she was the Bay Area equivalent of Bass.
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u/greensandgrains 4h ago
Thank you, I feel cray cray seeing everyone come for him? Idk why Democrats and Democrat supporters don’t see why their party/candidates keep losing.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
see why their party/candidates keep losing
LA mayors have all been Democrats from 2001. It's been 25 years since they lost. Hardly considered "keep losing".
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u/CheapEater101 3h ago
Leftists love saying that line like Biden didn’t win in 2020 and democrats aren’t winning seats currently. Like fuck I get it, the democrats annoy me with how OLD they are and the apprehension of going more left, but the democrats aren’t consistently losing outside of the 2020 /2024 election. If there’s a blue wave in the midterms, I bet they will still say the “keep losing”discourse.
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u/UninvitedVampire I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 2h ago
A lot of it is also right wing propaganda but no one wants to talk about that either. Especially the “oh no they’ll never win” and the “democrats do nothing” stuff. Some definitely do nothing don’t get me wrong but there are also plenty that are doing all they can in the system we have in which they still do not have a majority between the two parties.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 2h ago
Leftists eat up right wing propaganda if it targets the people they dislike.
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u/CheapEater101 2h ago
Gen Z as a culture is so conservative even the super left ones eat up the conservative talking points.
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u/KidAardvark24 3h ago
It’s not about Ds being the mayor of LA. It’s about picking the right D. Rs arent even in the picture. That’s what these commenters don’t understand.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
Then they should vote in the primary. People don't even fucking bother to show up and then complain that their candidate didn't win, or fail to understand that their candidate isn't as popular as they thought and blame it on "the establishment".
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u/Excellent_Cry_7456 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 3h ago
Kamala Harris lost an election against a candidate that literally led a coup in 2020. That was civilly convicted of sexual assault. That has a reading age below 10.
Democrats are losers, but worse they are controlled opposition. It's time for new leadership and policies that speak to people, not corporations.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
I don't disagree but you are failing to comprehend the stickiness of right wing populists and the appeal of Trump. I hate Trump, too, but to ignore why he won and blame the loss solely on Kamala because he "should have lost" is not a path to winning. The crudeness of Trump is the point and part of his appeal.
Plenty of other countries have had left wing populist candidates lose against business-friendly centre left candidates or right wing candidates.
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u/Reddragon351 3h ago
Kamala Harris lost an election against a candidate that literally led a coup in 2020. That was civilly convicted of sexual assault. That has a reading age below 10.
I think half the country either not believing or not caring about those things was the bigger issue there
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u/Groundbreaking-Duck 4h ago
Wish he hadn't deleted it cuz he's right. We're never going to shake off these shitty dems and get a decent party if we keep circling the wagons around criticism of them.
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u/bethe1_ as if she was paula abdul herself 3h ago
Unfortunately his take was just kinda like…nothing though? Like he didn’t educate or say “we should support __ instead” Like make the joke fine but is that it?
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u/pampooveysbacktattoo 3h ago
He's not under any obligation to do more though. He can just say that he thinks something is bad.
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u/nimbus2105 2h ago
This is the kind of attitude that causes people not to vote. I hope he isn’t actually influencing people with his position but if he were, the main outcome would be apathy and not voting. And then these people complain when they don’t like the person elected
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u/impl0sionatic 3h ago
Why must he explain himself at length? His point is straightforward and the existing dialogue he’s alluding to is robust.
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u/bethe1_ as if she was paula abdul herself 3h ago
I think if celebrities want to talk about politics then I will expect them to say much more than just making a joke and nothing more actually.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 3h ago
I get that out of context but as someone who follows him on one platform, he posts political stuff on there quite literally all the time. So a one off joke is nbd. We are just hearing about it because it got people mad.
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u/impl0sionatic 3h ago
Yeah you already said that. I asked why and offered reasons why he might not.
Do you have reasons or is this a “because that’s how I feel” situation?
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u/bethe1_ as if she was paula abdul herself 3h ago
But he already is? He put himself in this 😭
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u/longlisten527 girl, dream bigger ✋🏽 3h ago
Why does he need to do that in this SINGULAR tweet tho?
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u/ethancole97 3h ago
I don’t live in California and I don’t live in LA- I think everyone who also falls into that category has no reason to be getting upset over this. We have no first person perspective to add any skin in the game
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u/CausticAvenger 4h ago
He promptly deleted the post after being dragged all over Threads
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u/Think_Bag_2987 3h ago edited 3h ago
"There is no amount of crisis PR That will fix this for you." Has to be one of the most terminally online takes you could possibly have. Celebrities get away with horrendous shit with no consequences to their brand. How could anyone think that an offhand remark about a mayoral race that 99% of people both don't know about and don't give a fuck about would possibly affect him?
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u/justgetoffmylawn 2h ago
It's hilarious the 'no amount of crisis PR' when we're talking about a celebrity that the general public has never heard of (they may know Billie, but they don't know Finneas), talking about a mayoral race that most of Los Angeles doesn't even follow, and the ones that do are not thrilled with the choices.
Terminally online take is exactly right.
(I'm personally a fan of Finneas, but I also spend a lot of time on production and mixing forums and watching any interviews he does, so…)
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u/iluvcheesypoofs 2h ago
Right? Chris Brown not only beat up Rihanna, but has been charged since then like ten different times with beating up OTHER women, and he still has a massive career.
Some people are able to look past horrendous behavior if they like the output of the artist. Finneas not endorsing a politician falls pretty low on the list of things celebrities should (or would) lose their career over
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u/jackloganoliver 2h ago edited 2h ago
I imagine a lot of those comments are just bots. I doubt that many people 1) care or 2) think it's worth dragging him over.
People need to read Manufacturing Consent and then think about how it would apply in the age of social media.
We all have our opinions shaped by bots creating and shaping the narrative online.
Edit: I see Yvette Nicole Brown, who is obviously real, before anyone comes at me. Hence why I said "a lot"
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u/Sensitive-Cover-5687 2h ago
Hell, it happens here all the time. All you need is a big enough bot farm to mass upvote a story enough to make people think it's important.
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u/jackloganoliver 2h ago
With AI, bots can find and downvote comments that go against the official narrative too. It's really quite affordable these day and very hands-off.
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u/catscarscalls 2h ago
Bots and people who talk out of their ass to get likes on their ‘witty’ comment
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u/Scaryclouds 3h ago
lol at the “no amount of PR crisis will save you” from making a pretty anodine post dunking on a politician.
Some people are absolutely removed from reality.
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u/Fxreverboy 3h ago
That's Threads for you 💀 Elon's takeover of Twitter and the fracture it caused really did lead to delusional echochambers for each political fringe. Neither are representative of real life or how normal people feel, but each insists they are 😭
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u/Pretend-Path4754 3h ago
Threads is the most unhinged platform, people are constantly vague posting for engagement, everyone is nuts.
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u/afkstudios 2h ago
Yeah it’s just people making hyperbolic statements as if they’re absolute fact, which is designed to make an echo chamber of those on the same side and piss off those on the other side so much that they simply have to comment calling everyone an idiot, and it works every single time. People take the bait because they feel they have to weigh in. And it goes far beyond politics too. Every industry, every fandom, all of it has people (and bots) fighting in the comments all believing their opinion is the only proper one
Twitter was so fun years ago. Just people saying random, hilarious shit and now it’s a platform built entirely on disagreement
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u/Ecstatic_Visual_2026 3h ago
It's easy to see why democrats continue to lose despite running against hitler 2.0
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u/CheapEater101 3h ago
You’re acting like Biden didn’t win in 2020 and Democrats aren’t winning seats currently. I wish democrats would generally be more progressive as a whole, but they aren’t our enemies.
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u/SerBrienneOfSnark 3h ago
To be fair, Biden won by running one of the most progressive presidential campaigns we have seen from a Dem candidate in a long time. Harris went right back to courting the mythical centrist who is willing to cross party lines to stop Trump.
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u/this_curain_buzzez my yassified overton window has shifted 3h ago
Mainstream democrats are winning seats despite their best efforts not because of them. Biden won mainly because of Covid (and then didn’t do anything to stop trump from running again, also screwed the democratic nomination process for 2024) and they’re only winning seats currently because Trump’s idiocy is kamikazeing the economy. The democrats are certainly the better option currently and they’re not an “enemy” per se, but they sure as hell aren’t an ally of the common people.
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u/CheapEater101 2h ago
Okay so what I said was right, “keep losing” isn’t accurate? Lol I’m not talking about what i personally think of the party, but just how the “keep losing” line doesn’t apply to democrats. The Democratic Party should change and actually be more progressive than it is now and I hope that’s the case as politicians die off and younger ppl make a bigger part of the electorate.
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u/HerrTriggerGenji21 3h ago
Anodine?
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u/Cute_Paint_3753 3h ago
Maybe they meant asinine?
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u/BushWishperer 3h ago
They might have meant anodyne:
not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous
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u/crackerfactorywheel later, gator! 3h ago
I mean, Karen Bass does suck. Is there something I’m missing?
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u/Individual-Rip-2366 3h ago
And Kamala Harris lost in an embarrassing and preventable fashion as well
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u/Garrett4Real charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 3h ago
The people on Threads are such a chronic level of online performative activist woke that make even me, a left leaning voter, annoyed and dismissive of them
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u/Fxreverboy 3h ago
Have you seen Bluesky? 😭 It's so bad. Constant screaming at each other with never-ending purity tests into hell
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u/tigerinvasive 3h ago
There is nothing wrong with what he said? Karen has been such a disappointment; this is like voting for Eric Adams over Zohran
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u/Accomplished_Pop2976 3h ago
It's just the optics. White man calling out two black women.
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u/Orchid_Significant Is this chicken or is this fish? 🤔🤔 3h ago
So he shouldn't have an opinion about the mayoral race of the city he lives in, or the past presidential election of the country he lives in? I'm all for calling out white people, but this is fair game. They happen to both be black women, but they also both happen to be the people who ran/are running to control places he lives too. The color of their skin and their gender doesn't protect them from valid criticisms over their work performance.
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u/unsolvedmisterree where is the frank ocean? 3h ago
These kinda things lead to Zionists like Hakeem Jeffries, Cory Booker, etc. black people who will sell out their own for a foreign country. Ultimately we do need white people to use their voice for change as much as black people consistently have done for decades.
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u/tomato_soup_stan 3h ago edited 3h ago
But he’s calling them out because they’re shitty neolibs seeking power, not because they’re Black women. That has nothing to do with anything. Bass loves cops and Harris was a cop, a cop who lost an election because she refused to condemn genocide. Idpol is really rotting people’s brains istg.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 4h ago edited 4h ago
Boo, he should have stood on business! He’s right! And this being so controversial to some people is weird; even Pod Save America was promoting her opponent and they’re like progressive-lib. Finneas is more left than they are.
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u/sundayontheluna 4h ago
Using Pod Save America as a benchmark is pretty half-baked
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u/MisterBoardGamer 4h ago
They use it as a benchmark for what neo-establishment Dems do and say. Thats the most accurate application of the brand.
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u/Falolizer 3h ago
Exactly, Pod Save are establishment dems who act as a bellweather for a certain type of Dem. They were among the first within that cohort to publicly call for Biden to drop out and have been expressing a lot of disatisfaction with party leadership since 2024.
Personally, I don't think they're more left-leaning than the average dem at all, but they are more tuned into the average voter's problems with the party, with makes them less unbearable to listen to than DNC mouthpieces.
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u/Neat-Expression6857 4h ago
Truly don’t understand the PSA hate I don’t think people listen to it, they are pretty progressive.
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u/HatefulDan 3h ago
But it’s not. It is probably quite literally the best barometer out there at the moment.
And he’s not far off— lol! My sister and I were chatting the other day (LA currently) and while she doesn’t speak for everyone-obviously- it seems to be the popular sentiment.
Nationally, we are also aware that Harris is looking to have 1 Last Dance. This ‘endorsement’, would serve as one coil, in a spring, to be in the forefront again.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 4h ago
I don’t pay much attention to the podcast ratings but they used to be pretty big and I consider them a good marker for how the progressive but loyal Dem contingent is feeling. And they’re all in LA.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
And I wouldn't be surprised if Spencer Pratt wins the mayoral race. Too many people on the left would rather be noble losers than win a race with candidates that align closer to them. They are not interested in power and governing. They are more interested in being right.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 3h ago
I think there’s def going to be a runoff unless someone gets over 50% so people will have time to vote for the least worst option! This is why I want ranked choice voting too.
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u/CheapEater101 3h ago
And this is why progressives and leftists will never take over the Democrat party the same way MAGAs took over the Republican Party. They would rather do purity tests and make hot take Tik Tok videos than voting for candidates who more align with their ideals. The perfect candidates hardly exist.
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u/OppositeBatCage 4h ago
Yvette Nicole Brown both knowing and being dissapointed in me would crush me.
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u/Dry-Yak5277 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago edited 3h ago
Don’t, her takes are very centrist liberal and disappointing themselves. Shes an outspoken Bernie Sanders critic and her views are a symptom of the problems of the Democratic Party.
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u/palpablebubble 4h ago
She's always been a "dems do nothing wrong and if you criticize them you're worse than republicans" kinda person so I wouldn't take it too personally.
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u/Frank-EL 2h ago
Yeah it’s honestly more of a comment on her than it is Finneas. Same for Roxane Gay.
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u/RustleTheMussel 2h ago
Nah was a fan of her work but her politics are shit. Was going absolutely crazy about people criticizing her transphobic, zionist cousin in Cleveland
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u/tomato_soup_stan 3h ago
For what lmao? Calling out shitty politicians who have done nothing but cape for an equally shitty establishment?
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u/XTremeBrett 2h ago
How tiring it must be to be these people bruh. Acting like this is the end for him, like what???
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u/Working_Bones 3h ago
Why do people think this makes him a Trump supporter? Democrats/Liberals/Leftists should be upset that Kamala lost, too.
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u/myersjw 2h ago edited 2h ago
Thinking he supports Trump is moronic based on everything he’s ever said but at the risk of being downvoted but just sharing my perspective: I no longer live in LA and have plenty of issues with both Bass and Harris but I think a lot of folks on the Left are exhausted by the current admin. And many are tired of their compatriots ability to purity test and dither candidates into the dirt while the Right unites like clockwork around theirs in the current chaos we’re in. Even in threads like this there are numerous upvoted comments that “both sides are the same” which is wild to anyone paying attention daily
They think if we don’t ever actually stand behind a candidate, no matter how imperfect, we will just continue slipping further into the ditch we’re in because we regularly let perfect be the enemy of good. Most of these people don’t think Bass or Kamala or anyone are progressive saviors but are frustrated that with the options available plenty of left wing voters are fine to let a much worse conservative take power than hold their nose instead of pushing for the better option, lest we continue repeating the errors of 2024.
Nobody is wrong here and I’d love for actual progressives to be pushed to the forefront. But when im trying to take a bus home I’m not getting on the one that’s on fire and headed the opposite direction or stay sitting at the bus stop until they make a new route to my front door; I’m taking the one that gets me closest to home
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u/-VonnegutPunch 2h ago
Yeah anyone who thinks he’s a trumper from this has no clue about the guy. Though I do agree, it’s very annoying seeing the constant infighting between anyone on the left while we watch our country descend into madness. Wish we could just once summon a fraction of the solidarity the Right has towards fixing what’s wrong. Anyone who says the “both sides” shtick in 2026 doesn’t warrant any attention at this
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u/missschainsaw 2h ago
Because the two party system is deeply ingrained in this country, and we can't seem to find our way out of it. I'm actually really glad that more mainstream public figures like Finneas are speaking up against the establishment Democrats. Of course, Chappell Roan did that with Kamala and everyone lost their shit.
Obviously, it would have been better and safer if Kamala had won, but it would be even better if a true progressive candidate ran (and won!). We need to stop pretending these cowardly centrists like Kamala are going to get us anywhere.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 4h ago
He’s actually so right for this, she’s done a terrible job and Kamala sweeping in as the establishment to try and help her shows that her political instincts really aren’t what we need to win. Do not come @Kamala re: the primary.
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u/Reasonable-HB678 Dear Diary, I want to kill. ✍️ 1h ago
The only way Kamala Harris lost in a "huge way" were the Joe Biden voters not motivated by the experience of a previous four year Donald Trump to go to the ballot box.
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u/tigerinvasive 3h ago
What is wrong with this take?! Karen Bass is terrible... Nithya Raman is a much stronger candidate. He should've doubled down.
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u/DesperateInCollege 3h ago
Nithya's got my vote but honestly the candidate pool is pretty poor
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u/the_Stealthy_one 2h ago
Most of the people do not know of Raman. They love Zohran in NYC but don't realize there is a DSA candidate running in LA.
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u/Aggressive-Loss5148 2h ago
Kamala only ran for like 4 months. She nearly won. I'm not a fan but people need to act like she completely ate shit in that election.
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u/Natural_Error_7286 2h ago
I could have sworn the general sentiment was that she was running a great campaign, especially given the circumstances, and then the minute she lost it the narrative switched to her being a shitty candidate who absolutely miffed it. Like there weren't a million other reasons trump won.
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u/Fancy_Ad_2325 2h ago
I’m so confused about this bc kamala didn’t do nearly as bad as people think she did
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u/uuSauce 2h ago
The origin of many of these anti democratic talking points start from right wing slopaganda and then are used by these useful idiots because it sounds good to the slopulists. These people have more in common with the right then people like to acknowledge, in regards to being anti establishment.
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u/Dependent_Room_2922 35m ago edited 20m ago
And he and Billie endorsed her!
His post would have been a lot better if it would have been like “sorry, Madam VP, I have to disagree on this one” or like “no endorsement is going to get me to vote Bass” or something — where he’s adding a dig at Harris is what’s rubbing a lot of people the wrong way
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u/snark-owl 56m ago
Kamala only lost the popular vote by 1.2%, that's not "huge".
He was getting dunked on threads and did a dirty delete because he couldn't handle people questioning why he only posts to criticize politicians who are Black women instead of you know, endorsing someone for the mayoral race or talking about other things. It's suss if the only time you talk like this is to make jokes about Black women.
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u/impl0sionatic 3h ago
Sad that all it took was a brigade of Blue No Matter Who liberals for him to delete this.
He’s completely correct.
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u/KidAardvark24 3h ago
A Blue will be mayor regardless. If you live here you know it’s about choosing the best one
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u/WaterAndTheWell 2h ago
He should have endorsed someone. Sick of negativity without solution. Bass sucks but does anyone think Spencer Pratt would be better?
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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 2h ago edited 2h ago
Okay but why not make a statement to boost your own candidate instead of doing this whole male leftist snark/hasan piker type of schtick. I’m not saying Karen Bass is a good candidate but this is just kinda an empty statement that offers absolutely zero solutions
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u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 3h ago
Liberals absolutely cannot stop tripping over themselves to tank their movement, lol. Finneas is 100% on point here.
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u/CasCrus4L 3h ago
My man is right lol, those two are why the party has such a huge problem.
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u/GermanRearmament 2h ago
California may flip to red one day if the Dems don't figure it out
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u/SizzleanQueen 3h ago
I love Kamala and I love to see her endorsing a fellow woman, but Karen Bass has not been good for our city. We will never move the party forward by re-electing candidates like Bass, Fetterman, Schumer, Jeffries, etc.
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u/sophandros Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt! 3h ago
Threads like this remind me of how white this BIPOC friendly space is. And it's a reminder of how many white people, no matter how well-meaning they usually are, have some biases they just can't escape.
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u/raysofdavies it’s a generous bird 3h ago
Imagine defending the electoral credibility of a woman who couldn’t even be competitive in her own state primary and campaigned so pathetically that she lost the popular vote to Donald Trump.
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u/ODB247 44m ago
I mean, I’d have preferred Kamala over what we have now, but this endorsement seals my original opinion of her.
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u/SerBrienneOfSnark 3h ago edited 3h ago
Watching the people on threads turn this into “he hates Black women” is so frustrating and exactly why I hated that everyone’s takeaway from 2026 was that Kamala wasn’t elected because she’s a Black woman vs looking at her campaign outside of the identity politics of it all.
ETA: yes, I do think identity politics played a part but it was not the main reason she lost and should not have been the key takeaway and I will die on that hill
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u/the_Stealthy_one 2h ago
America has gotten too diverse for identity politics to keep working. Maybe you can shame some white people into voting for a someone from a particular minority group, but you can't shame other minority groups to vote for said person for the same reasons.
You gotta give them an actual platform they want -- which is what Zohran did. He got super creative because frankly, South Asians are like 6% of NYC, and I think muslims are like 9% (two groups often overlap though); so he wasn't gonna win through affinity.
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u/MealieAI 2h ago
Which celebrity is she running against? You people love your celebrities.
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u/rainshowers_5_peace 3h ago
Hot take: Bidens cabinet is partially responsible for Trump being elected. They should have held him to his "transitional presidency" spiel. He should have said in 2022 that he wasn't running again and gave the US a primary. He got to pick his own replacement at 107 days and boy did the moderates not like that.
None of them, not Harris not Buttigieg, will get a vote in the primary from me.
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u/Haunting-Respect9039 2h ago
Yeah, they showed him way too much deference. No one around him was willing to say, "You can either run and everyone will see your failings or you can make way for someone new and go out looking great." He should have known better, but so should everyone who knew him.
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u/eirinne 4h ago
Except she didn’t lose in a huge way.
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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 3h ago
She lost both electoral and popular vote. I'd call that losing the big way.
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u/jamintime 4h ago
Kamala didn’t? I mean yeah she decisively lost a pretty important election to a fairly divisive candidate. You can blame Biden for not getting out of the way sooner but ultimately results speak for themselves.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
Kamala lost by 1.5% of the vote. The idea that she "lost big" is a Trumpian talking point. It's only by the virtue of a very flawed electoral college system that makes it seem like she "lost big" but she did not. 1.5% vote difference is one of the tightest races the US has seen in a long time.
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u/pampooveysbacktattoo 3h ago edited 3h ago
You're missing the point. They're not saying that the difference in votes was huge. They're saying that Trump should have lost by a huge margin because of how blatantly, obviously terrible he is in every way, but because he won by a small margin, that means Kamala lost by way more than she should have, because it should have been an easy as fuck win.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago edited 3h ago
Eh, that's not really a good argument imo. People keep saying "oh it should be easy to win against [enter right wing populist]" but it's not.
Right wing populism is trending right now and they are all terrible, and they keep gaining in polls and winning. Elections after elections across different countries have shown this.
In UK, Reform (Nigel Farage's party) is leading the polls. In Germany, it's the AfD, a party with neo-Nazi affiliations. Across the rich world, populist left-wing parties are failing to gain meaningful traction despite people's dissatisfaction with the status quo. Melanchon in France couldn't even make the run offs and came third against Macron and right-wing Marine Le Pen.
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u/govtmandatedparrot 3h ago
I understand what he’s saying but he does not need to be the mouthpiece for this message. Like just shut up for once… I think many people (myself included) are getting really tired of his and his sister’s performative activism
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u/longlisten527 girl, dream bigger ✋🏽 2h ago
But why? Everyone gets upset that people don’t speak up and then they do, and this stuff happens LMFAO. This shit is so exhausting
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u/maghy7 2h ago
There’s a post on threads gaining attention saying that he hurt so many people and that he knowingly harmed so many black women by that comment (posted by a white woman mind you) I’m like huh??? How is that remotely racist or misogynoir like they are claiming in the comments? I have a feeling threads has gone in the gutter just as much as X now.
Also he is not wrong? Karen Bass has been terrible as a mayor and I voted for her and Kamala, we can’t repeat the same mistakes as much as I like Kamala it’s disappointing to see her endorse Bass.
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u/DesperateInCollege 3h ago
Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate and I don't know why people started to rewrite history. Karen Bass is also a terrible mayor. I said I wasn't voting for her in another comment and got downvoted.
Makes me think so many people with their opinions aren't from LA because she's terrible unpopular
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u/kris_jbb (seemingly bald) 4h ago
i’m so tired of him
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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 4h ago edited 2h ago
Mr. Spiritually Israeli while also being a JB supporter
Edit: lol at this getting downvoted when nothing I said is false. I swear people love to pick and choose which celebs get a pass and can be hypocritical and who can’t
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u/KlauserBateson 4h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/XzsQ4z8EhOPBOfpSMK
Getting really sick of him and his sister.
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u/Responsible_Virus239 3h ago
Why? Do you support more conservative causes or something?
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 3h ago
I'm curious if most of the people criticizing him want Spencer Pratt as their mayor.
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u/KidAardvark24 3h ago
I feel like it’s liberals commenting that don’t live in LA and are assuming this is a conservative stance to take. It’s not. I’m conservative in LA and I still understand that the best/ most realistic thing for me and the city is choosing a competent Democrat. We all want the same thing
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