electoralism

Like a lot of people said in other threads, if nothing else, this is giving a platform to more radical folks to push their message on top of what Mamdani is already offering. I know a ton of people don't like Hasan Piker and he's not especially radical, but he was interviewed at the Mamdani party by like 15 news outlets including New York Crimes and Al Jazeera and got to talk about why the Democrats suck, Israel sucks, and everyone needs to be a Mamdani at the minimum if they want to win from now on.

you should at least be able to find it in yourself to be happy that that Cuomo is going to eat shit

cautiously optimistic to see how he handles the upcoming war of attrition and capital strike from the richest new yorkers. Fox news is also gonna go bonkers filming every homeless person in nyc.

I think the anti-electoralism hexbears were right, even though I pushed back on it. But they were too early. They were trying to strategize around a theoretical moment, based on history, rather than waiting for a current, practical moment like this. Here is the time to take all those happy people with renewed hope and build a party. It doesn't have to be a national party immediately. It can start with a neighborhood or town in NY. Get all these people into a party that is not the Democrats. This party should always be to the left of Mamdani on every issue but willing to offer critical support. They should work to replace him with someone who will push things further. By the next election you have a party and a candidate. You have a way to exert pressure on Mamdani if he turns heel.

The wrong move would be to treat this like the destination rather than part of the journey. Taking all this earned good will and just handing it over to Democrats or Mamdani himself will end badly. We need the Democrats to be weak and giving them all these hopeful voters would make them stronger. They were fine as a means to get to this point, but now is the moment you break. Now we can start doing real Lenin political calculus and talk about building a worker's party (or adapting one that already exists). Zohran being in office is no longer theoretical.

Before we were arguing over how the things he said would affect the election while also trying to say he should run for this or that party. All that's over now. We can just focus on getting a worker's party going on the momentum. There is no pressing election to worry about appealing to suburban racists or unwoke union workers. If you lose moderates right now it's not as dire and you can replace them with true believers by the next election.

The Dems are going to run nothing but NatSec ghouls for the next 8 years. They think they “cracked the code”

A couple months ago, my (racist, Facebook brainworm) mom sent me an unflattering picture of Omar Fateh and said "Don't vote for this idiot" (I don't live in Minneapolis, lol). Out of curiosity, I looked up his name on youtube, and could find literally no video in which he was speaking for himself about anything, or even anyone was speaking positively about him. All I saw was a news story about him getting an endorsement, the comments full of racist shit, and then a Matt Walsh video crying about him.

Anyway I wish I was in Minneapolis because that alone made me want to vote for him.

i love how he didn't even throw in mao or stalin like libs usually do and just went entirely with fascists

It's so funny that he was texting this to a right-winger instead of someone agreeable to it

I'll add it when we get clearer results!

the Cuomintang won't be able to retreat to Staten Island this time

One million New Yorkers threatened to leave.

Please do it and free up space for poor people to move in. Hexbears take Manhattan when?

9/11 2.0 but this time the only target is his house

+1 votes for

I just rode up past the cars and put my already filled in mail ballot directly in the ballot drop box, took like 1 min.

Almost 1.9 million New Yorkers voted in the 1993 race, when the Republican Rudy Giuliani defeated the Democratic mayor David Dinkins

#SLIWASWEEP CONFIRMED #TRVSTTHVPLVN

really hoping Harrell gets blown the fuck out tonight

Saw this. As always, AP is the North Star for calling elections.