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!

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    15 days ago

    I don’t think that’s accurate, is probably more like “30% of people in the pipeline move to the next step” or a number like that. I don’t think there’s a reason to expect Americans to be rushing to be as far left as they can go at the first opportunity.

      • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        15 days ago

        Oh you’re alright comrade, hate to see you disappointed if your expectations were so high.

        Settlers arent gonna be willing to give up too much, even if they want good things, not to mention the immense right wing propaganda machine. You’re still correct that 70% (or maybe more) of people are happy to just sit back and hope they can vote their way out of bad things. The pipeline is small and stuffed with garbage.

        • cerealkiller [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          11·
          15 days ago

          Nah It’s ok. I’m sorry on my part lol. My org also supported at one point this president of a left-leaninig union, who was kinda like Mamdani, but sold out to the liberal opposition here and he didn’t even win lol. I just don’t want you guys to get disappointed is all.

          Then again my org isn’t doing too hot either lol. Not to derail the convo but we too focused too much on electoralism in the past few years even though It claims to be “anti-revisionist marxist-leninist” (not maoist).