Remember how Zohran helped manufacture consent by calling Maduro a dictator during an interview? Now he himself is accused of totalitarianism for wanting mild reforms. This further shows how fucking pointless it is to throw the Global South under the bus in order to advance your own socdem agenda.
Had a DSA lib defend that to me because “you don’t know what his strategy is”
DSA are all shit libs. They actively coordinate with the police and use it as a selling point in their recruitment
Bro its a fucking mayoral election
I have never before seen the nation this interested in a mayoral election. I think that the problem is that Yankees are so used to generic conservative politicians (regardless of said politicians’ party affiliations) that the mere concept of a politician having a modicum of charisma and a handful of reasonable policies astonishes them.
"Reasonable? Reasonable?! You call this communist reasonable?!! He’s going to kill us all!!! Everyone knows that first you have free bus fare and a higher minimum wage, next thing you know the Stasi will be spying on us in our rooms and reporting us to the State Security office who will be “purging” us, there will be French revolutionary style gangs guillotine executing us in the streets for not being gay enough.
We’ll all have to wear the same grey jumper, it will be illegal to be an individual or be free, to have your own thoughts and feelings, or to make your own decisions."
I think this is why people are freaking out lol. They actually think this will happen when they hear a politician is “socialist”. The people in New York hear his actual policies and stuff from his canvassers, while in other parts of the country they think there’s about to be a bloody civil war for the fate of freedom and democracy in NY lol.
Everyone knows that first you have free bus fare and a higher minimum wage, next thing you know the Stasi will be spying on us in our rooms and reporting us to the State Security office who will be “purging” us, there will be French revolutionary style gangs guillotine executing us in the streets for not being gay enough.
This take is written by an extremely influential French writer. Like imagine if Matt Yglesias had credentials and they admitted his role in inspiring policy.
Crazy that they’ve given Zohran so much more political influence than he would’ve ever had normally. He’s going to be one of the most popular American politicians now even if he loses.
Not for long, this time next year it’ll be the People’s Republic of New Jeddah.
That’s a bold take in the country that just started withholding food from 40 million people because of their determination to also withhold healthcare
The take is from Bernard-Henri Levy. A guy who has been on the wrong end of every issue since at least 1980. However he is French
He is very useful - if he is supporting someone, you should support their opponents.
I find it funny how everyone is shitting themselves over a pretty mild socdem.
Framing the entire world as “totalitarianism” vs. “Jews”… Arendt-heads (combined with zionism) and their consequences.
Arendt earned this particular historical irony
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her followers assimilating into Zionism
Anti-communists when the people who agree with them turn out to be fascists.
Fascists on a non-stop winning streak for well over a decade: “Suck it up, browns! Nick Fuentes is actually good! Who cares if there’s going to be a couple genocides? He isn’t against MY freedom!”
A socdem wins once: “IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FREEDOM?!?! stop voting for BAD authoritarians and why can’t you guys support GOOD authoritarians!?!?!”
I’ll go alert Jews for Zohran that the universe is about to explode because of them.
He doesn’t hide that he came to politics through the Palestinian cause and thanks to it. He adopts as his own, without qualms, the lies that Israel has engaged in organized famine and genocide. He has said he would order the prime minister of Israel arrested if he comes to the city for the United Nations General Assembly. He compares Palestinian terrorists to the insurgents of the Warsaw ghetto.
absolutely insane take. new york becoming a totalitarian dystopia overnight after a fucking mayoral election. what is this, gotham?
I’m CLOGGING my KHAKIS over here just remembering the HORRORS unleashed after the Pittsburgh comptroller said that he thought the Iraq invasion was “pretty messed up”. Do you all want to live through the hellish aftermath that sort of talk caused last time?! Absolute madness
Ok so we are doing “totalitarians” now as a word that supposedly exists. Amazing.
I think they might be over estimating how much power a mayor has
No one really cares what the Whacky Shitty Judas has to say. I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with that garbage.
Does nobody read policy intent anymore and link to actions? We’re (collectively, not individually) in danger of becoming the villagers with pitchforks on a witch hunt. At work, people have such strong views but cannot list more than 1 policy intent accurately. (This is more of a situational rant now, forgive my moment).
