I’m very surprised that people are so scared about a mayoral election. Yeah it’s NYC but like it’s not like he’s gonna have that much reach that the fucking PM of Israel needs to make a statement about it.
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He’s proving the point that the DNC has denied for well over a fucking decade: stop listening to money, start listening to people, and you will win. That’s it. That’s the whole argument.
And the DNC establishment is scared shitless, because they know it’s working, and they know more people are gonna run campaigns like he’s doing, and there’s gonna be a sea-change in terms of what the fuck the Democratic Party is (that, or a third party is going to spawn and absolutely fucking crush the DNC).
The neoliberals are looking down the barrel of a gun right now, and they know they put themselves there.
I just saw another candidate doing similar running for a Senate seat in Maine. He's already said he would vote out Schumer
Also Omar Fateh for mayor of Minneapolis, Abdul El-Sayed for senator of Michigan, Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois representative, and probably more I'm not aware of. It's encouraging to see candidates like these get traction.
It's telling when most of the Congress dnc votes with the GOP, or at least don't put up a fight when gop constantly walks over them
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They're worried he will succeed and serve as an example that the people rather than money are in charge, if they could only realize it.
If they truly believed Democratic socialist policies had no legs, they'd leave him alone and watch him fail as an example.
Realizing a class war instead of the culture war people have been fighting for decades
The real battle isn't left or right. It's up vs down.
Tax wealth not work!
I mean sort of but there are a lot of down folks on the side of the ups and that basically just brings us back to what left vs right always was
This is why more efforts should be spent on helping everyone see that billionaires are the real source of the problem. The rights handbook is just to say the leftist billionaires are the problem.
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sort of, except the right usually (fucking always) fights to protect the rich. while the left (no Democrats don't fucking count) fight for equality and improving everyone's lives.
so it is a left v right, you just renamed the categories.
While that truism might annoy lovers of !politicalcompassmemes@lemmy.world it isn’t invalid, historically-speaking.
Tell me more…
From their first use in 1789 (long-short: seating positions) the definitions for left and right were fluid, but generally referred to “change” versus “status quo.”
In Stalin’s era, left referred mostly to pro-worker policies, the economic change of the communist revolution. That convention was solidified in the US during the red scare, where left-wing came to mean “commie heresy.”
After that period, the definition was gradually blurred again, perhaps by conservatives carrying forth the McCarthyist tradition of lumping any non-conformist view into “commie heresy.” Regardless, the resulting confusion in public political discourse is the reason Wayne Brittenden made the Political Compass website in 2001.
By canonizing the economic-policy definition used by the Bolsheviks/McCarthyists as an actual X-axis spectrum, and the social-policy definitions of most other contexts as a Y-axis spectrum, one could easily map both dimensions as a cartesian coordinate. Quite handy.
Still, as elegant and illuminating as that solution is, it remains a convention.
tbf. those terms have evolved a lot since the French Revolution coined them.
and given how fluid they are, in some conversations they might mean pure culture war issues like "THERE'S A TRANS FLAG IN COMIC BOOK MOVIE!!!!".
but we can agree that in the bigger picture, left v right is about a top v bottom in power structures.
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They're worried he does well and more people like him show up on their home turf.
Also, Streisand Effect.
Individuals like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan have responded by wearing shirts that say “We should have more billionaires” in the color scheme and style of Mamdani’s campaign material.
That's fucked up. We need more Luigis.
No that's amazing, we should be all wearing those shirts. Just with an *explaining how they can help
I can't fully support that, but I'll just add that it would sound better to say "the whole character set of Super Smash Bros"
Well, with inflation this will inevitably become true. Be careful what you wish for.
...For dinner? ...In prison? ...Take a one-way trip to Mars?
If so, then I agree.
In those cute submarines made out of a spare water heater and an Xbox controller.
Is he promoting that we cap assets around $1 billion to allow the less fortunate to come up to that level?
This is the same guy who tweeted that the progressives on San feanciscos city council should die a slow painful death.
... for dinner? Where's the rest of the sentence?
🤢🤮🤮🤮
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Silicone valley can go fuck itself!
and gimmie back my data!
People really need to stop giving a fuck about what "businesses" think about political candidates, and anything in general.
yeah these articles (and tv news segments) are always like
you know these machines we designated to specifically crush the average person while enriching the very worst? yeah they might not be happy with this. you'd hate that wouldn't you?
uhh, no, I'd love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.
uhh, no, I'd love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.
Yeah because if they hate it, it's probably benefical for us!
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This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?
Because tech is waking up to the fact that they are labor, too.
c/technology is 3x bigger than c/politics
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Good.
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