Now that you mention it I think I vaguely remember it. Yeah, he’s a fucking chauvinist and that bothers me and I condemn it. I still think it’s a very low-priority issue coming from a mayor.
I still think it’s a very low-priority issue coming from a mayor.
This I agree with, but it also means he shouldn’t have answered the question. He can just deflect, he’s running for mayor. He does it for a lot of other questions.
He usually does answer questions at all and when he doesn’t, people tend to grill him on it. I haven’t watched every interview, but I’ve watched a bunch of them (10?) and I’ve watched all the debates and I think it’s rare for him to simply not give an answer on the basis that the NYC mayor doesn’t interact with the issue.
I also think he probably couldn’t afford to not give an answer because that would be a much stronger vector of attack on him than what I described before of simply saying “Whatever valid grievances we might have with Maduro, this opioid stuff is blatant lies and lobbing missiles at fishermen is abominable and an invasion of this country would be absurd and demonstrably only make things worse.” As you said in the other comment, I guess we’ll see.
“Whatever valid grievances we might have with Maduro, this opioid stuff is blatant lies and lobbing missiles at fishermen is abominable and an invasion of this country would be absurd and demonstrably only make things worse.”
Agreed, this would have been better than what he did say (which IIRC put much more emphasis on criticism of Maduro). Still not good, but better.
In the chapo interview to didn’t ave an answer about which ballot initiatives he supports… That seemed weird to me. Given they are totally relevant to his job.
Two of his core materialist promises are to decrease food costs and housing costs. Both of them being expensive are actually due to the rentier class, the owner class that makes money through leveraged shenanigans and not production. That class depends almost entirely on imperialism to function and when that engine slows down, it facilitates greater and more explicit fascistic heights domestically. As a mayor, he similarly has little power over that class’s actions. He cannot do upstate land reform. He will have a very hard time directly fighting real estate interests to either expropriate property, controlling rents more than they already are, or building sufficient new low income housing. Not that he will automatically lose the latter fight, but it is very likely he will fall short because of the scale of his enemies. And all of this assumes he gives it a real go.
So, how well will he fare against those interests if he doesn’t understand how they function? When they do some capital striking will he be surprised? When there is a substantial influx of Venezuelan immigrants will he go, “well how did that happen!?” When gas prices jump, will he go on TV and say, “hold the course, Venezuela has our oil and we are liberating it as we speak”?
He specifically did bash Cuba alongside VZ as “dictatorship”
Now that you mention it I think I vaguely remember it. Yeah, he’s a fucking chauvinist and that bothers me and I condemn it. I still think it’s a very low-priority issue coming from a mayor.
This I agree with, but it also means he shouldn’t have answered the question. He can just deflect, he’s running for mayor. He does it for a lot of other questions.
He usually does answer questions at all and when he doesn’t, people tend to grill him on it. I haven’t watched every interview, but I’ve watched a bunch of them (10?) and I’ve watched all the debates and I think it’s rare for him to simply not give an answer on the basis that the NYC mayor doesn’t interact with the issue.
I also think he probably couldn’t afford to not give an answer because that would be a much stronger vector of attack on him than what I described before of simply saying “Whatever valid grievances we might have with Maduro, this opioid stuff is blatant lies and lobbing missiles at fishermen is abominable and an invasion of this country would be absurd and demonstrably only make things worse.” As you said in the other comment, I guess we’ll see.
Agreed, this would have been better than what he did say (which IIRC put much more emphasis on criticism of Maduro). Still not good, but better.
In the chapo interview to didn’t ave an answer about which ballot initiatives he supports… That seemed weird to me. Given they are totally relevant to his job.
That came up in the debates too, and I agree that it’s weird.
Two of his core materialist promises are to decrease food costs and housing costs. Both of them being expensive are actually due to the rentier class, the owner class that makes money through leveraged shenanigans and not production. That class depends almost entirely on imperialism to function and when that engine slows down, it facilitates greater and more explicit fascistic heights domestically. As a mayor, he similarly has little power over that class’s actions. He cannot do upstate land reform. He will have a very hard time directly fighting real estate interests to either expropriate property, controlling rents more than they already are, or building sufficient new low income housing. Not that he will automatically lose the latter fight, but it is very likely he will fall short because of the scale of his enemies. And all of this assumes he gives it a real go.
So, how well will he fare against those interests if he doesn’t understand how they function? When they do some capital striking will he be surprised? When there is a substantial influx of Venezuelan immigrants will he go, “well how did that happen!?” When gas prices jump, will he go on TV and say, “hold the course, Venezuela has our oil and we are liberating it as we speak”?