Cautiously optimistic because Zohran, for all his faults (Jessica Tisch, etc) has been basically training on keeping on message and swerving bad-faith questions the entire campaign and Trump is totally incoherent and just says stuff.. like as far as the list of people most likely to come off looking good from talking to Trump, it's probably him and few others.

Edit: Non-zero chance they just talk musicals. Trump admin is about as cultured as the inside of an autoclave (he's probably just aching to talk about them) and Mamdani probably saw at least a few growing up in NYC.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if the meeting starts going sour, all he has to do is promise to bring Cats back to broadway

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The people will suffer, but worth it to pacify Mango Mussolini?

Before I saw stills from Cats, I thought it was impossible to make anthropomorphic cats not look adorable and hug shaped. The "Cats" costume department managed to do the impossible.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and swerving bad-faith questions the entire campaign

then why did he slide so much on isntrael and say that shit about Cuba and Venezuela?

[–] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about the Jorge Ramos stuff/him saying "Israel has a right to exist"?

I do count those as flaws, btw.

I think saying "Oh I don't really think about Diaz-Canel or Maduro, I'm focusing on New York and I recognize that the Cuban and Venezuelan states are repressive" is a pretty weak condemnation when you can call almost all states repressive, because all states (in the case of Cuba and Venezuela, justifiably) need to repress their internal enemies, many of whom leave that state (and many gusanos landed in New York,I'm sure) It doesn't really serve his point in the interview to acknowledge that but he's towing the line with his pinky at that point.

Sliding on Israel sucks but saying "I support the right of Israel to exist, with qualifications, and not as it exists now" is absolutely not what the Zionists want.

But ultimately the guy's running for mayor and he doesn't actually need totally good foreign policy positions because he's got constituents to win over and his power extends to the borders of NYC.

Basically I think it's good for the guy to have broad appeal and a socialist agenda in NYC. We'll see how he does but at the same time I think that he has a better chance to legitimize socialism as a political force because he can deliver on his policies, rather than getting subsumed into national politics by the nature of the system like AOC was.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

i would certainly be more mad about it if he was going to be on the house appropriations committee but i wouldn't call his evasions especially skillful