I truly hope he doesn’t turn out the way I think he will turn out. I know we have a lot of people on here who love Mamdani, and I’m not trying to pick a fight. But goddamn, he’s not beating the allegations these days.

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    i-think-that while it’s understandable for him to seek to validate his image by associating with whatever “American left” exists, it’s obviously worth noting that the cost of pursuing an electoral strategy is that you have to constantly compromise on your principles for the sake of popularity, associating with ghouls like Alexandria “Defensive Weaponry for Israel” Ocasio Cortez and Bernie “I support Israel” Sanders. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

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        I know some MAGA folks in New York whose faces I’m laughing at when they panic about the rise of the Communist Ummah. Don’t know anyone from NYC who I could tell to vote or to bring up my criticisms to other people in, like, DSA circles or whatever. I think it would be nice if the people on the ground understood that this is a betrayal and not “hiding his power level” though.

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      we know better but the majority of people think the healthcare guy is about the extent of the left in american politics (and they’re not that wrong electorally speaking). we could shout in public about how he’s a liberal zionist who won’t say it’s a genocide and won’t commit to an arms embargo (and we should, fuck bernie and fuck most of “the squad”) but that’s going to be incomprehensible to almost everybody else and is probably not a good way to campaign for mayor.

      Zohran is not the revolution, nobody expects him to be the revolution. He literally campaigned in the primary on some of these “compromises” like the cop shit and previously said some weak ass shit about Israel when the racists kept pressing the muslim guy about it.

      Mao quote.