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Do you know how often bourgeois democracies elect "socialists"? Hell, many of them even elect "communists" on the regular. It's normal. Get over it. Please.

EDIT - there are basically two main genres of Mamdani poster, both of which keep scrawling MAMDANI on the wall in their own excrement for different reasons, and they all seem to be assuming I am from the other side lol

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[–] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It is not possible for a democrat to be better than Zohran. Zohran is a democrat. He is doing things which are expected of him.

I think the people here who are being accused of liking him only like him slightly more than other democrats

nobody here is a giant zohran stan

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, did you see the same thread when he was elected about how important a watershed it was? We have paid employees who knew the man personally on this site, some people have certainly elevated him above the imperialist warmonger we understand all democrats to be

[–] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think its proof Americans, espically younger Americans are no longer scared of red scare propaganda. Which is good

But IDK if many people think he's gonna do a communism

I also did not see that thread

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

I also did not see that thread

I think the disconnect in perception here might be because you didn't see a lot of the really early Zohran arguments on here. People definitely defended him a lot.

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://hexbear.net/post/5899168

267 upvotes and was pinned to the front page. The average democrat doesn’t get that treatment here. I see that it’s older than your account but that may be the disconnect

Again with the communism strawman. It’s people claiming the label socialist before warping it to mean nice progressive democrat. We push back on people like the American communist party who appropriate leftist language for nationalist goals, why would we permit Bernie, AOC, Mamdani to do the same with actual power and offices?

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is not possible for a democrat to be better than Zohran. Zohran is a democrat. He is doing things which are expected of him.

This is true. Based on past conversations I've seen here, I think you're underestimating how much some people here like him. I could make this exact same post about AOC or Bernie and it would be completely uncontroversial.

[–] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have literally only seen this post go "ERM I WANT IT ON THE RECORD THAT ZOHRAN WILL BETRAY EVERYONE!" and then nobody in the comments disagree

And its posted like once a week

its fucking annoying. I don't care about him I live in Ireland.

What if I posted about random Irish politicians I disliked? I think the people living in America would find it just as fucking annoying

michael healy are IS THE WORST EVER I FUCKING HATE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

And its posted like once a week

its fucking annoying. I don't care about him I live in Ireland.

Agreed. I understand vent posts, but I'm tired of hearing about it. It wouldn't bother me if it didn't make people argue about it though, because then the posts would have like 5 comments and fall right of the front page.

What if I posted about random Irish politicians I disliked? I think the people living in America would find it just as fucking annoying

michael healy are IS THE WORST EVER I FUCKING HATE GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Please do, actually. Vent posts are fine IMO (as I said above) and can actually be interesting and inform people of the internal politics of other countries, which is good. That's not equivalent to the constant American media circus everyone is forced to listen to.