Illinois has terrible politics but genuinely surprised by Pritzker.

  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    i'm completely surprised by him too. hes actually like, really good governor. maybe the best of all 50 states currently?

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The guy in Minnesota just made them a trans refuge state last week. Admittedly I don't know anything else about him.

      • RION [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        He's done some good work on the executive level—pardoned a bunch of people w/ marijuana convictions and expunged arrest records. Of course "good" is relative in :amerikkka:

        • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Maybe he's one of those libertarians who believe that "gay couple should be able to grow weed and own AR15s"

          • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            In America, saying "I want gay married couples to protect their marijuana plants with guns" would have made you a freedom-loving libertarian in 2014, and a totalitarian 1984 woke today.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I think its a mix. You can't really accumulate the political capital to get much positive stuff done if you can't get anything through the legislature.

        • plinky [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, is local thingy passing good laws due to electing not-evil local reps, or is he going around bullying them? So, where are the origins basically