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I roll my eyes at a lot of the complaints about him here, because my expectations for anyone chewed up and spit out of the American political machine are very very low. I’ve only seen improvements from the American default honestly. I’m from Lebanon, I can only see his rise to fame (and people’s positive reactions) as an indicator that the US isn’t as hopeless as it can look.

Do you understand how depressing it is to hear every single person with power in the US, the world’s biggest military, talk about you like you’re a gardening pest that needs to be Agent Oranged to make way for more kibbutzes. That any opposition to that idea is a perversion of human decency. Harm reduction isn’t the cure but more harm isn’t good either. Lighten up people. Electoralism can’t be revolutionary but neither is handing more and more power to the worst people on earth. I live in a horrific feudal society, over which is stretched a pungent, decaying skinsuit of democracy and liberalism, I’ll take a Mamdani figure (or the popular support around his campaign and subsequent cautious optimism) any day. I swear to god some of you guys would have taken one look at the Bolsheviks in 1916 and called them a bunch of feds. The guy doesn’t matter in the long run, but people getting over their internalized McCarthyism in the McAmazon Grumman kingdom absolutely does say something.

Anyway, my biggest gripe with him is that he’s an Arsenal fan. Irredeemable club literally born out of the British Empire’s arms manufacturing industry, got elected to the League instead of earning their way in, and fucking moving to North London on our turf (I have never stepped foot in England or Europe in my entire life). Fuck off back to Woolwich North London is ours COYS

(Sports tribalism is fun! Football is very entertaining!)