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"materialists" and supporters of AES in every other instance, when the socialist mayor, of the greatest city in the world, doesn't say the magic words.
waiting gleefully for ya'll to start Sakai posting and calling Zohran a white settler lmao
The reason he stood out to begin with was his pro-Palestine stance in the beginning of his campaign only for him to distance himself as his campaign went on under the lib guise of "combating antisemitism". Also I'm pretty sure he could have stayed silent on Cuba at least since It's not really in the spotlight unlike Venezuela.
Yeah I think it's fair to criticize you for overemphasizing the words he's said on issues he has no material impact on, but also for the 99.999999% of us who don't live in NYC the fact that this young guy was saying the right things about Gaza and socialism was the whole reason we cared about him in the first place. I don't really care that much about New York, a ton of people from my country live there but that's about it. No one woke me up when a socialist won the mayoral race in any tier 1 city in China!
I don't think its fair to say he distanced himself from a pro palestine position. I have watched a lot of him speaking, and while I have certainly been disappointed in some things, notably him saying he will "have zionists in his government" but he still firmly stands in a pro palestine position when pressed. A minor concession on why he doesn't personally say "globalize the intifada" doesn't discredit that in my opinion.
I am also concerned about the Tisch situation, but I gotta give him the chance to realpolitik a bit...he needs to tread carefully to maintain the support of the rank and file NYPD and Tisch is a big name in NYC
the only reason i heard about Mamdani in the first place was his anti-zionism, and every appearance he’s had since then has been backtracking it. no magic words, just a very bad sign for his integrity and true feelings. the United States of America is directly threatening Venezuela with military intervention, and has been strangling Cuba for 50+ years. this is not having issues with a country in a vacuum, or an academic interview. this is the person claiming to represent the furthest left tent pole in the media laundering the current imperialist regime change project. are we seriously calling a succ dem mayor AES? while actively warmongering?
NYC vaut bien une messe.
we should take the W, as the Ls will be forthcoming. his high profile victory mainlines the language of socialism, and may produce at least some relief for his constituents. we won't dismantle imperialism in one day, not one mayor in New York, nor dozens of shut-ins online.
He is not socialist he is an establishment politician from the party of blue wearing conservatives.
This is a hilariously naive take. "Establishment politician" that has been in state assembly for 4 years, elected there also as an open socialist? His main opp Cuomo was literally the establishment.
Openly socialist while calling Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships and backtracking on all his rhetoric about Israel...
Also try whitewashing Obama while you are at it. This is where this path leads to.
he's DSA doing entryism. so, not socialist, but it's very silly to say he's the establishment when the establishment tried so fucking hard to keep him out.
If they tried keeping him out he wouldn't even be on the ballot paper.
he won a primary and built his whole thing during the primary campaign, there was no reason to prevent a bunch of nobodies and minor functionaries from getting on the ballot.
it's willfully ignorant to call him an establishment politician.
Are you for real lol
Owning the third worldists saying that westerners will throw the third world under the bus for better conditions by defending the mayor guy throwing the third world under the bus for better conditions.