Kluwe on the federal gov't: "I believe we are currently in authoritarianism. Trump has publicly proclaimed that he wants to be a dictator. And call me silly, but when Trump says he wants to do something I listen, because whenever he says he wants to do something he always tries to do that thing."
Appreciate your work to profile a strong voice for all peoples.
yes. he does, in fact, always try. I have an acquaintance who posts all the time sth like "today Trump said some hyperbole you shouldn't waste time thinking about" and that is just some garbage. he always tries! sometimes it even happens! you ignore what he spouts at your peril!
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Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
I applaud his standing up against donny dictraitor. I think he is just doing it because he wants to be president. I would oppose his candidacy. In addition to his negative stand on trans folk, he is anti homeless and anti immigrant.
I saw a subway takes video where someone said we should have a lottery for all political positions and everyone has to randomly serve and it's always changing bc our politicians are such garbage and the people who want it the most are the worst. Maybe he's right.
Wanda Sykes has a great bit about that. You get a notice in the mail and are like “shit I gotta be Secretary of State next month”
I'm here for it. At this point a drunk cat in a duck suit would be better than what we've got.
Trust me, Republican voters don't stay home just because they didn't like something about the R candidate. He is the only leader of the Dems now and kick started gay marriage. Forgive a mistake or two. You aren't getting better
Supporting the restrictions of existing in public life is not a "mistake." Supporting denying medical care until 25 is not a "mistake"
What's your options? We have a bad system, only 2 choices. Not voting is voting for the Republican
If cis liberals think my life and the life of my family is expendable, why should I be invested in that system at all?
I'm not a cis liberal, thanks
In 50 years I've never gotten the option to vote for the candidate that I wanted, it's always the least worst option. If you don't understand why least worst option is the best choice then no reason to continue this conversation
Sounds like bourgeois democracy is a big pile of shit then, doesn't it
Not sure how old you are, but good you finally figured this out. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or something like that. Things are so much better now that 40 years ago for LGBT, trust me. If more had voted for Harris, then we would be in better shape, even if she wasn't perfect
The 2028 primaries are years away. We have many more than two choices. At this point we don't even know who the many choices will be, we only have guesses.
that dude has been cool for a very long time (Kluwe, obviously, not Newsom)
He's a good human, and exactly the type of person we NEED in office.
"He's flawed so let's throw him under the bus so the Republicans win again"
Why are you assuming Newsom is the only possible nominee?
I'm not but it's typical Democrat mentality to not support someone who's imperfect
I disagree that it's `typical Democrat' but there's far too much purity testing, for sure. Newsom's opportunistic transphobia is an extreme case, though. I don't know whether I can hold my nose hard enough to vote for him. The focus for now should be on finding a better choice.
Supporting the slow genocide of trans Americans isn’t merely imperfection
imperfect is drinking warm milk. unacceptable is "violent towards homeless people"
Standard Kluwe ‘W’
Stupendously based
Such a smart insightful guy.
So, in two words, he's a slime ball.
This is stupid. Newsom is not anti trans. He just doesnt believe that trans should be in some women’s sports that they could have a physical advantage. Most the population has this view. As they work through what is fair for all, quit throwing newsom under the bus.
that is by definition anti trans
Lmfao
Whose rights do you choose to toss next? Because once you've decided tossing rights is okay, the inevitable result is doing more of it, either for the same group (like, say, Newsom trying to stop legal adults 18-25 front getting trans medical care) or another group (Newsom trashing homeless camps).
Throwing the wealthy, connected governor under the bus by refusing to support his presidential run. The minds on you all
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Sorry to tell you but even those who aren’t fascist or anti trans agree there should be some nuance with womens sports. They are ok with mens sports and really have no other opinion sbout the trans population except let them live their lives in peace. Dont alienate them.
They *could* have a physical advantage? They *could* have bat wings and devil horns. They don't! That's why it's bigotry to separate trans athletes and cis athletes.
That's transphobic and anti science. Hope this helps, transphobe.
The only time you post about trans people is to say you don't think we should be allowed in women's sports.
He is, in fact, anti-trans.
Remember when he decided to go personally help destroy all those homeless people's few meagre possessions? Remember when he dated that teenager when he was 39? It's not just his transphobia Kristi; he's a deeply shitty guy. There are far better people than him in the party.
ah, so he is
ah yes, “nuance”
"You shouldn't be arrested, but you shouldn't be legal." This was the Biden position on cannabis users. Why was that okay? Cannabis saved my life over 40 years ago, but I've been expected to compromise on this issue until 2024, and finally a Democratic nominee on the record favoring legalization.
Then, it's okay to screw us, because she took the same stand on Israel as every D or R nominee since WW2. And it's still okay to dismiss cannabis users with "You just want to smoke pot." And it's still legal for landlords and businesses to discriminate against cannabis users even in legal states.
And cannabis is still shunned by the "mental health" industry. Even though it's probably saved more lives, including trans and I bet even Palestinian lives, than fucking sports. Smoking or vaping cannabis is the quickest and most effective treatment for acute suicidal ideation I have ever used.
Just something to chew on that I had to vent about for some reason.
I think Mr Kluwe needs to take a step back. There have been a few instances of Vetoing measures that were counterproductive. However, I think he’s done a lot more for the LGBTQ community than he has to harm them.
View his record in San Francisco and California as a whole.
I wish he was running in my area, but he ain't (it's staunchly red, like many rural counties). But I wish him the best of luck.
What did newsom do that’s anti trans? I keep hearing this but have no idea what it is
www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
Newsom being chummy with the far right and putting out extremely right wing positions on trans rights makes him explicitly not on our side. Suggesting that he is ultimately is helping him build up his platform to continue to push the narrative.
Newsom's son being a fan of Charlie Kirk, and Newsom himself inviting far right white supremacists and neonazis on his podcast takes a different tone when you find out his own father palled around with an ex-SS member who was brought over by Operation Paperclip. spitfirelist.com/news/ex-nazi...
Calling it “our side” by including someone virulently anti-trans clearly paints us as not a part of who Kluwe thinks is on the team.
This is literally how you end up with Starmer.
This is an EXCELLENT statement about Newsom, from where I'm sitting.
Protect Chris Kluwe at all costs.
Kluwe nails it. Fascists are about creating divisions, targeting those they deem “less than,” and fostering a sense of grievance against them. The only democratic path is one of solidarity, aiming to lift up those whose equal humanity is most threatened by the fascists.
"Kluwe nails it" and then you go on to describe exactly what Kluwe is doing. Excellent work.
But everyone should vote for the referendum on redistricting.
So “throwing trans people under the bus” is now the new panic phrase to attack Gavin. Another fucking circular firing squad. Outstanding work, guys.
It's called a primary race. We've had many of them before and they can be brutal. You might want to look up the 2008 Dem primary if you weren't around then. And then put on a helmet. it's barely gotten started.
Yeah we should just praise newsom no matter what, everyone fall in line now just on the off chance he's actually the next presidential nominee! Don't criticize him for some of his abhorrent views or for his palling around with literal Nazis
Funny how belittlement can be used to dismiss critics just as easily as when Gavin does it to marginalize trans people. Good little object lesson illustrating how fascism is within all of us.
You sound like a cultist, not a liberal
Idk, the center of this particular Venn diagram seems to be widening.
Questioning a potential candidate years before primary season even starts = sitting out on Election Day. Got it.
Make sure to vote
Sacrificing a vulnerable population to fascists as either meaningless appeasement or due to outright moral agreement is not how you actually beat fascism, and we are year out from the 2028 primary so this is literally the ideal time to hit potential candidates for doing that, hope this helps!
Agree.
Here's the specifics. bsky.app/profile/lady...
"Tom Nichols follower"
Easy block. Labelers rule
This isn’t MAGA. We actually criticize the behavior of people who want to lead us. Newsom has consistently shared dangerous rhetoric about trans people and trans healthcare, and has done so while on right wing podcasts. He is not acting trustworthy.
It's not a circle. You're the enemy and you've made that clear. We don't want or need you.
It's what he did. It's not what an opposition party against transphobic fascists should be doing. If he wants to dehumanize trans people there's already a party for that he can join. We can do better than Gavin Newsom. Look I can post a gif of someone pointing too.
We just went through an election where the Democratic party gleefully ignored the Genocide in Palestine because that wasn't convenient for the narrative. Newsome is like many liberals, willing to say "Fuck you, got mine." to the trans-community because that issue is inconvenient to him.
As ugly as these statements may seem, they are factually true: The Hamas war on Israel being fought in Gaza wasn’t at genocide levels last autumn. The trans community doesn’t win or lose elections. They are fellow human beings worthy of respect AND there aren’t that many out there.
It’s silly to alienate 5 million good-hearted voters who haven’t grasped the trans thing yet but don’t wish them any harm for the sake of 30 loudmouth purity testers with megaphones. It’s possible to think something is weird and also not want to kill it. Baby steps for some folks.
This is actually an excellent example. Pro Palestinian people didn't think Biden was doing enough with Israel and Gaza. They endorsed and voted for MAGA.
How is Gaza doing these days? Did they understand that choice would have starvation and children dying in mass? That Trump would encourage genocide? Is Gaza in a better or worse position currently?
My argument isn't that Harris wouldn't have been different on Gaza. Based on the reporting we got recently about the Biden admin lying about cease fire attempts I don't know that it would have been any better. The people who sat out 2024 for ethical reasons didn't lose Harris the election.
I’ll agree on your last point. Forgive the douchy language: Voting is a positive action. One must take action to vote. In America we count votes not percentage of possible voters who voted for candidate K vs T So, “irregardless” of any action NOT a #trumpepstein vote, ….
Without MAGAt voters, Тяцмр is not POTUS, Kamala is. Don’t ever forget that. The vote FOR #krasnov is the “crime”. 250M people Staying home doesn’t give us Doofy if nobody votes for the bastard.
I do agree and hope we can do better. But if each fraction of non maga voters insist they get a perfect candidate, it's lose lose.
Harris never advocated for genocide of Palestinians or to make Gaza a Riviera. And Netanyahu wouldn't have had support to kill as many. There was room for a 2 state compromise. That's gone now.
30% of Americans didn't vote. Do you think that didn't matter? Then there's the % that voted for tRump based on endorsements, especially in Dearborn, MI, from Pro Palestine voters. Per the polls it made a huge difference.
If it was a nailbiter I can understand getting mad at those people. But shouting them down accomplished nothing except making more people jaded about the DNC. If it's Trump V. Newsome then by all means go Newsome. I just think we can do better between now and Election Day.
Dearborn, MI has serious voting regret.
This is before you take into consideration his treatment of the homeless, hosting people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on his podcast and his latest with his meme crypto coin. We can do better.
there are maybe a half dozen dem politicians in the whole country who would actually pass a purity test (aoc, bernie, warren, pritzker, waltz). we need to accept the messy reality of politics and vote blue even if our candidate isnt perfect or will keep getting our ass kicked.
No one passes a "purity test".
Kamala was bad on Gaza, I agree. But you know what sitting out on voting day got us? Donald fuckin Trump. EMPHATICALLY WORSE ON EVERYTHING. choosing the lesser of two evils has been american politics since there was america. we need to grow up and stop wishing for a magical perfect candidate
has there been one good person who ran for president? maybe carter? lincoln, arguably, but his whole thing was a cabinet of enemies, which according to many nowadays, would disqualify him for speaking with the enemy. purity tests only hurt dems. it HELPS the right
Harris lost by far more than the people who sat out. I voted for her. But watching people throw people under the bus for their ethical beliefs only for her to get decimated really highlighted how unnecessary it was for people to talk down to a minority group.
It would not surprise me if Newsome is our next President. But I just think we can get to that point if it is inevitable without telling trans people they don't matter. If Newsome gets the nom, Pritzker will endorse him without talking down to the trans community.
"Obviously I hope to get lots of small money donors because that shows there is interest from a broad segment of the population. That being said, I'm more than happy to take corporations' money with the caveat that they know up front I'm going to use that money to overturn Citizens United."
thank you both for doing this and making it clear to everyone! :)
I like him!
I love this answer. Love it.
Yes, obviously @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and I talked about Bluesky. I even asked him some of your questions. www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
![KABAS: Speaking of Bluesky, that's how we know each other. I posted that I was interviewing you and that I was open to suggestions for questions to ask, so here are a few. One, will you become a Kings fan if you get elected and need to spend time in Sacramento? KLUWE: So the funny thing is, I'm not actually a sports fan. I just really like playing sports. That's been the case my entire life. People are always like, who's your favorite team? I'm like, I don't really watch sports! I don’t have a favorite team. I am hoping, though, if I do get elected, I really hope they have an Adult Soccer League in Sacramento where I can go play soccer on the weekends. KABAS: So there's gonna be a top prospect in Sacramento if you get elected. KLUWE: If anyone needs a goalie or center back, yeah. KABAS: What are you currently reading, and what is next on your bookshelf? KLUWE: So I’m currently reading a bunch of stories on Royal Road. I am a huge nerd, sci-fi/fantasy fan. Royal Road is a website where people write their own self-published stories, and then occasionally they do get picked up and published. On a Pale Light is one story. The Tales of William O is another one. For what's next—actually, let me go grab that real quick. [Kluwe walks out of frame to grab a book and comes back with it.] So this one I'm actually looking forward to. It's called Legal Plunder. A guy who grew up in Huntington Beach and lives in Minnesota, Josh Page, he's one of the co-authors on this. He's a professor at University of Minnesota, and basically it's about the predatory aspects of the criminal justice system. KABAS: And then the last question—which I don't at all understand what it means—”Contrast or Speedpaint?” KLUWE: I actually don't know what that one is either. KABAS: Wow! KLUWE: I'm gonna have to ask that person. That's too much internet, even for me. KABAS: I didn't realize there was a level, but we found it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreibvulorb3fp4wkglsi3j7dzppcyhoucfqtq5mmgvdt6xfu7ggsrhi@jpeg)
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lol Contrast or Speedpaint, that's great, they're both fiiiine paints
illuminating to learn he is more the royalroad internet nerd and less the warhams internet nerd
the funny thing is it's a legitimate question too, those paint lines are different in a couple ways
I use both, but I prefer AP. Especially the first Gen, with reactivation that allows for better blending on the mini. Granted, I also seal Everett later, so later reactivation never was an issue for me.
I used Contrast myself when I had some time with my Battletech 'mechs, but I also probably used too much and the wrong brush, plus I took some... creative liberties with a drybrush color that probably negated any advantage those paints gave lol
I almost always do a final drybrush coat. That's how I did my Canopians. Made yellow super easy
I love my Speedpaints, they make some of the chore-like aspects of painting so much faster. And with a little color theory knowledge, you can do some really fun stuff.
This suddenly gave me the context I needed for the question to make sense.
We need more Chris Kluwes in this world.
But how far does @chriswarcraft.bsky.social think he can throw a sandwich???
More interested in which type of sandwich he thinks he could punt farther.
Contrast is a paint type from Games Workshop, Speedpaint is slightly similar from a company called Army Painter. Contrast is a kindof inky paint for miniatures that handles both shading and highlighting of a miniature at once by pooling in the crevices and receding from higher points.
Speedpaint is similar, both slightly more opaque with a different range of colours. Hope that helped. 🤗
it's about lines of miniature paint (generally for warhammer 40k)
Generally, all miniature lines use the same paints. To say any brand of paint is "generally" used more by the 40 k crowd than any other is weird.
Of course they do, I was just giving the likely context. Plus, 40k has to be the most commonly painted miniatures? And the context is def wargaming. It's a meme wargaming nerd (non prejorative) question.
And those 40K painters likely use contrast more just because a lot of 40K beginners will be advised onto the citadel “on ramp” (contrast paints) by GW staff
I would guess that GW's largest single customer base is 40k people, but I don't know that GW is 40K most used paint. But I'm not a 40k'er. Just a metric shit ton of Battletech and RPG minis decorate my shelves. Among NEW 40k'ers? I would definitely agree GW is probably the most prominent paint.
it would be curious to see the actual numbers
reading royalroad in a interview is certainly a moment, as a royalroad nerd.
That’s what all the neoliberals say until they’ve re hit with the facts. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congress-becoming-telemarketers/
Marisa I sure wish people could be specific about issues instead of saying vaguely "throwing under the bus" ✌
Oh, well Newsom suggests we should ban medical transition until age 26, and he thinks trans women are men.
I think you should focus a lot more on Newsom's actual policy ACTIONS in office. I think that would be more fair. www.kqed.org/news/1192923...
Yeah, man. It's not like he's actively said out loud in public that he's changed his mind on our rights since then. That would be WILD.
Yeah, wow bro, people never change their policy choices after time passes, wow. Just, static opinion, forever Anyhow, time to see what Newsom says right no— oh no.
Which policy has changed? I'm aware of Newsom's various remarks. I'm not your "bro", btw. I raised the policy because that is what actually counts most. You don't appear to have a real answer to my point.
when will liberals stop compromising with fascists and start working with leftists/progressives?
Here is him vetoing a bill in 2023 after the one you linked. So like, he may have gotten bad in recent times. www.politico.com/news/2023/09...
With respect, you don't have the faintest notion what he "thinks", and you should avoid pretending that you do.
He said it out loud with his mouth on a recorded show.
Like that, thanks
Here:
Newsom is the McCain of the Democratic Party. Give him the Presidential nod and it won’t be long before the entire party is a steaming bobbing pile of crap
Except he's really not, and McCain deserves more respect than that, btw. This is a really weak, vague, childish argument.
You gotta stop waiting for Mr Right and start voting for Mr Right Now
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Calling him “political” is dead-on.
I'm looking for more Newsom/trans transgressions beyond the trans women sports thing. Are there any?
Newsom agreed with the position that people under 25 didn't have sufficiently-developed brains to be allowed to tradition. There's a podcast that's been going around on Bluesky for a week or two now.
25? kind nuts. If you're old enough to get drafted and sent to war...
Sure. This is from a fucking month ago, and he's still tacking right. There's more in this article: www.advocate.com/voices/opini...
advocate piece was well done. I was (pleasantly) surprised when he started marrying people in SF in the way back. I'm surprised again now (not pleasantly). IMHO the sports thing is not the hill to die on, but the other stuff is straight-up basic human rights. Thx.
The 'sports thing' fundamentally rejects reality, in order to dehumanize and other trans people. Very few people understand sports, nobody wants to look at the science, but it uses basic, accepted stereotypes of 'men strong' to deny participation to both trans and marginalized cis athletes.
It's a fascist talking point designed to sell information and discredit opposition at a glance, no different than the also-groundless claims that forced-birth faction made about doctors, contraceptives, and abortion care for 50 years. There's no truth inside. Just bigotry and renewed segregation.
Que the flawed assumption that only well know politicians could ever run for President. Case and point: President Trump.
Perfect candidates are the enemy of progress.
If a person needs to find the perfect politcal candidate in order to vote, that person is a large part of the problem. Perfection is the enemy of progress. We need to be able to come together. Infighting with the people that want to save democracy only helps fascist win.
Please stop tearing our own side apart.
I don't think Newsom is the right person for the big chair in 2028. He does seem to be the right person for right now.
rip his mentions
I'm so glad you got an interview with him. I feel like he's always been one of those really cool guys that's willing to stick out his neck for other people
The difference between Trump & Newsom on Trans people is that the bus Newsom seems willing to throw them under at least isn’t moving. Trump wants to obliterate them.+Bernie appears on right wing hosted podcasts & no one seems to dunk on him for it.
Sen Bernie Sanders has had the same message for 40 years, no matter where he tells it. He had a Fox News audience cheering for Medicare for all one time. Watch one of his new anti-oligarch rallies.
The people who give the "trans are political scapegoat" narrative so much airtime own the news [Zaslav/Iger/Bezos/etc], don't want trans around as yet another minority to deal with in workplace/society- & all have huge CA tax breaks [Which certain govs could revoke if they were actually serious]
If he can win and get Trump out of the white house? that's all I care for.
The price being paid by many minorities & immigrants is just too great... to worry about first world inconveniences.
newsom also campaigned on singlepayer and then broke his promise after being purchased by health insurance donors. he strong-armed every state legislator to pass laws that would effectuate his plan to institutionalize unhoused people against their will. there’s the maga pandering, so so much more.
He's a good guy. Skol!
Observant. Whether it's fucking his daughter or taking over Canada, he will try.
this was a terrific interview!!