• DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      While IDK if Mamdani is a true leftist. Remember that historically many of leftism’s figures are nepo babies that reject their privilege and betray their class.

      Lenin is a perfect example. His whole point of a vanguard is for mutual education, while he organizes and educates the masses on socialism, him and others like him are then educated on the struggles of the proletariat and their conditions.

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        Yeah I thought of Lenin, Castro too. I hadn’t really looked anything up about the guy so I was under the assumption he might be an AOC character where she billed herself as a working class waitress but seemed to have some fishy CIA-adjacent background or something, but that seems to not be the case

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      Mahmood Mamdani is a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator of Indian ancestry, based in New York City.

      Putting his race in the first sentence of the page is pretty wild even for Wikipedia

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      Ah, of course that’s the case. But it’s not like you can’t have correct politics because of that but it’s not very convincing to me when he was endorsed by Bernie and AOC. I have heard that he has some real lib takes on Palestine as well but he might need to bend his real feelings on it to court more voters.

      In any case I think he will win the general election. All of the other candidates including the one Republican eho was uncontested, want to increase police budgets which seems to be broadly unpopular, and Zohran also has cross endorsements from two other candidates. If he gets the large majority of those votes, that will push him over 50%. I will be so curious to see how this shakes out