Third world prejudices like “Genocide Bad”
such antisemitism to not want to let israel remain as an apartheid
Third world prejudices like “Maybe the US has done some bad stuff”
Mr. Mamdani represents the left’s failure to learn the lessons of the Cold War.
The story of communism ended with the USSR. Please don’t ask us about our largest trading partner.
The one response I’ve been using recently with good results IRL when they say the USSR failed:
“GDP per capita in Russia and most of the republics of the USSR didn’t recover until well into the 21st century. If the USSR had just limped along with low growth instead of collapse, GDP per capita today would be higher. And that’s before accounting for the fact that due to methodological tricks GDP favors capitalist nations, and especially the fact that GDP per capita doesn’t account for distribution; so more equal societies have been material conditions for more people than more unequal societies. Essentially, your typical worker in Russia or other former SSRs would be in better material circumstances today if the USSR never collapsed.
I typically run into this exchange
People in the former Communist bloc were generally better off before the collapse, only a handful of formerly communist nations have managed to recover in the thirty years since.
Actually that’s not true under communism everyone was poor and starving and all of the government numbers were fake I know because I was born in 1981 and I remember realizing how bad things were when I was in middle and high school
Yea if you look at wid.world data GDP per capita for bottom half of Russians is still below USSR level.
seems to me that he is bringing in the era of mask-off islamophobia back tbh
Why would someone who emigrated to the U.S. from a poor country champion ideas that keep poor countries poor?
oh god
i cantHahahahaha no way, it’s the browns that are the true bigots, thank you for enlightening me wermacht street journal
E: oh its not just that they’re bigots either, they’re also too stupid to make their countries rich and govern themselves! The ubermensch in the US got it figured out and all these stupid poors keep ruining everything, got it WSJ (Wermacht SStreet JeffBezos)
Government-built housing units? Their boxy contours mar urban India.
Meanwhile in NY:
Also what Government built housing in India? Most of the Government apartments are now only for the public sector workers. Not even general public.
There are many Government built staff apartments which are completely abandoned after the state eneterprises were privatized.
They destroy slums in central areas, the capitalists buy it for cheap for luxury apartments and move all the people living to the periphery where they don’t have access to jobs because transportation is too expensive.
In many ways not that different from the US. Gentrification and all. Except less use of market and more brute force of the state, primitive accumulation kind of.
Edit: and Government owned stores for distribution of food grains and essentials at a subsidized price is the only reason why India isn’t facing a worse hunger and malnutrition crisis than it already is.
His argument against a policy successfully implemented in the largest city in the USA for decades: “what are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!”
You know someone is a good person when the WSJ publishes an article attacking them.
my brain while reading this article: we need to
this journalist to with hammersYet somehow the comments section found a way to be even worse
Most politically literate WSJ commenters
you madman, what would possess you to willingly look at the comments of a WSJ article
Yap, yap, yap, these anti-communist Islamophobes really don’t see how much of the veil Zohran pierced with his campaign
He dogwalked them while facing down accusations of terrorism and anti-Semitism, this isn’t 1985 where being called a socialist or communist turns people’s brains off
“Third World Prejudices” lmao who do these dipshits think they’re talking to, redditors? Zohran has the white male vote in New York City and he overcame the DNC party machine that organized Black Churches and Black community voting groups, IT’S OVER and the more racist the media gets, the more blatantly unfair and lecturing and hectoring their tone becomes the more the average Joe becomes curious about Zohran
The dumb fucks are polarizing people toward him not away from him, because they forgot their power lies in state coercion and billionaire money, not popular appeal
100%. I hope all these hit pieces backfire. It reminds me of when people said Bernie Sanders was going to execute people in Central Park lol. And every interview they berated him for saying the word socialism or praising Castro’s literacy program. It made me wonder what was so bad about socialism because the essence of his policy proposals and what he said all seemed good to me, they just insulted his vibe basically. It made me look into Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR, and socialism in general.
Now look at me, I’m a full blown commie.
One might ask, then, why he looked perfectly comfortable this March speaking at an event celebrating the creation of Pakistan, a country that privileges Islam and has ethnically cleansed most of its Sikhs, Christians and Hindus.
The would-be mayor’s views on India are also strident. He has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “war criminal” for the 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots that took place on his watch as chief minister of Gujarat. In 2023 Mr. Mamdani signed a statement condemning Mr. Modi’s visit to New York.
On India, Mr. Mamdani has staked out partisan positions on everything from proposed agricultural reforms to the election of a communist mayor in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Mr. Modi and his party aren’t above criticism, but Mr. Mamdani’s understanding of his ancestral homeland is cartoonishly lacking in nuance.
Hindutva detected
Every accusation a conservative makes is a confession. This genocidal maniac praised the partition of India and wants Palestinians ethnically cleansed https://archive.ph/FCcNX
Holy fuck I was NOT prepared for that byline.
(possibly annoying and pedantic) question
I didn’t recognize the name, which makes me wonder if you meant the byline (author’s identity) or were you commenting on that absolutely dire subhead
Subhead sorry
Why would someone who emigrated to the U.S. from a poor country champion ideas that keep poor countries poor?
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Mr. Mamdani’s ideas on economics and international relations mirror the failed policies of socialist-era [sic] India
So true bestie. I suggest Democrats champion ideas that turn poor countries rich, such as socialist revolution, decades of communist-party rule, five-year plans, a dominant state industry sector, and becoming the largest producer of steel and concrete in order to build hundreds of millions of homes.
What an excellent piece of rhetoric from the high school republicans club! Why did WSJ publish it though?
I wouldn’t expect any different from Bezo’s post
What are we?
