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Zohran's victory is very much overhyped in my opinon (Kind of a rant) (hexbear.net)
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Mind you, I'm biased since I'm not from the US, I'm Balkan. So a quick heads up there. Plus I'm a hardline commie so yeah. Just did some research on this because It caught my eye.

I haven't really noticed this here or at Lemmygrad. But a lot of online "leftist" spaces, especially on Reddit, are over hyping this shit too much lmao.

Zohran so far:

This circlejerk about a social democrat getting elected is doing my head in, people are acting like the October revolution happened.

Just don't act surprised when magically not much actual change happens in New York. Also don't give me "Oh but the pipeline!!!1!". Yeah If the pipeline actually worked, Bernie and AOC supporters would have been actual marxists by now (Also as a Serb, fuck Bernie, Parenti was right about your dumbass).

I have a pet peeve with American "anti-capitalists" in general. Where they constantly just whine how everything is expensive, no public transport and no free healthcare. Yet they'd probably be fine with the world suffering as long as they got those three things + whatever treats they want.

Don't forget to join a good org nearby you, read and organize folks!

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[–] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

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!

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

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