• MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    You keep stating that he doesn’t believe these answers. I think you need to make a strong reflection about what this means in a broader context. I think there are countless politicians who don’t believe their bullshit but say it anyways. You personally being involved with Mamdani does not change the character of his bullshit-spewing in any way. I’m sure huge amounts of democrats don’t believe that maduro is a dictator who deserves destruction, but they will rhetorically support it just like Mamdani. And that’s because of the systemic forces which Mamdani is also falling to instead of pushing back. It’s not just a reflection of his intelligence or something, it’s that he is failing to oppose anything meaningfully like every other democrat. His personal ‘beliefs’ matter as little as anyone’s

    • CoolerOpposide [she/her]@hexbear.netM
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      7 days ago

      Don’t worry, I fully recognize that. I said what I said because it doesn’t make it less disappointing that somebody you’ve known to be better than that in the past let you down. But that’s what electoralism can do. Entryism is well known to take those with principled beliefs and turncoat them when the time comes to actually challenge the entrenched power systems