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  • Who are these statements even for? The right will see it as a bold faced lie, people on the far left will hate these statements and see it as a betrayal of core values, and I guess people on the centre left get to use it as a token statement to try shut down right wing critique. Yay.

  • Reading his Wikipedia article and comparing it with other people like Corbyn and Maduro makes him look so bad in comparison. But I'm not taking about the obvious like comparing what they are now or what they have done because Mamdani obviously hasn't done much by virtue of not having a real political career. Even comparing their very early forays into politics make Mamdani look like a fraud.

    Maduro:

    • Formed an illegal union and slowly climbed up the ranks within unions.
    • Went to Cuba where he was ideologically trained by Cuban communists.

    Morales:

    • Started out being just some dude who's really interested in football, which was his foot into a coca grower union.
    • Slowly climbed the ranks of the union until he became general secretary of the union.

    Corbyn:

    • Joined the Labour Party and various student activist groups at an early age.
    • Attended a May Day parade in Allende's Chile which radicalized him.

    Mamdani:

    • Ran a bunch of fake elections (student president and so on)
    • Worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counselor
    • Got involved in NYC politics

    Overall, Mamdani's backstory paints him as some dude who just wants to be an elected politician and have always wanted to be an elected politician since he was little. He was never involved in any labor organizing or political activism. Given his backstory, it will isn't that surprising he would completely capitulate because none of his history thus far show him as someone who cares about anything but the trajectory of his own political career. He's just young enough that he doesn't have much of a political career yet, so there's less opportunity for him to go mask off in being a careerist.

    Edit: I thought about it some more, and my impression of him is even worse now. Let's look at Sanders. Sanders started out as a participant of the civil rights movement. Mamdani is a millennial, and the millennial equivalent of civil rights activism is stuff like anti-Iraq war protests and BLM. But was he even a participant in those activism or any activism at all? Was he protesting against the Iraq war? Was he protesting against police brutality? Was he even involved in Occupy, the millennial movement that first started in the same exact city he's running for mayor?

    Damn, I didn't care for him at all, and even I feel bamboozled after reading his Wikipedia article. Shoulda done the bare amount of investigation by reading a Wikipedia article and going off on him when a lot of his stans are still around lmao

  • Fuck. There's no pragmatic reason to fold on this, gusanos in NYC aren't going to tank his race. This is just naked ideology and opportunism.

    I issue a formal apology to whomever it was I argued with some months ago in defense of Zohran. I didn't expect a ton from him but I expected better than this. I was wrong. I'm sorry I was wrong. I tried to go back in my comment history to find you and give you the gloating rights you deserve, but it crapped out after 10 pages of looking.

  • Socdems going to socdem I suppose. I always saw his campaign as a good way to actually push socialist ideas onto people, when he is constantly capitulating to the ruling class, despite his campaign promises, that's when our comrades in New York need to make sure the people around them understand why he isn't actually helping them and that you can't fix the system from within.

    Just because well read socialists know that electoralism is a dead end doesn't mean that your average person does, so having an actual direct example of it not working is important for agitprop and education. How many people here are leftists because they were inspired by Bernie Sanders, or someone similar in their own countries/cities?

  • This basically confirms he's winning the election and then being the AOC stopgap to any further socialist reforms.

    If random gusanos gets him to think this way who knows what the dems have done.

  • What a moron, just have no opinion and pivot the topic back to the office you're running for. Losing count of the unforced errors

    • do you see my point yet?

      • haha, I have seen it all along. Luckily the mayor of a US city has no impact on the government of Cuba and Venezuela, it's baffling where he perceives this pressure from when he's the frontrunner, unless this is just the mask slipping off. If you wanna do a touchdown dance on NYers not having free childcare or their rent frozen, feel free

  • ofc

    but people saying him not saying this wouldn't hurt his chances are wrong

    Like lol he would definitely lose if he said the opposite (if he wasn't shot)

    I was just watching a clip of jane goodall saying she would put "musk,trump ,putin ,president xi jinping and Netanyahu and his far right government on a spaceship and send them away forever"

    it disgusts me that anyone would compare Putin to Netanyahu but I understand that in the eyes of dumb-ass westerners that putin is a dictator (not true) and that Russia invaded Ukraine

    BUT saying Xi and then Saying Netenyahu and his far right government implies that a Chinese president is not ok but a "non far-right" israeli president is and it fucking pisses me off

    here's the thing this person is not running for office ,she passed away just 6 days ago yet she still said this lib bs ,I am not stupid ,this shit is worse in the USA so yeah rant over

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