I haven’t booted my windows partition in months now. Probably just gonna wipe it and try out AntiX soon

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I like the sound of the name alone, please do elaborate.

Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.

Very true, the millions of shallow algorithmic listicle blogs regurgitating top google results, marketing nonsense, and other listicles, predated the availability of genAI. GenAI has just massively accelerated the internet down this path.

Can we not do body shaming?

You’re right if that’s what harm reduction means. I was thinking about it in the context of the situation nationally getting so much worse that Mamdani’s otherwise helpful policies will mostly be working at shielding NYC from some or hopefully most of that harm.

I agree with queermunist and her comment, and I also agree with Carl’s reply to her. I’d much rather talk about it in real time on a faster medium than hb comments since this is a lot, but I’ll do my best responding:

Getting in bed with AIPAC and being an open zionist leads to a loss in popularity given how many people understandably hate pissrael and open zionism now. Especially among what I am going to assume are his voting base (younger people).

Fair point, I don’t get the impression that that’s necessarily what happened but that’s my own read.

If someone is willing to have genocidal fascist ethnonationalists in his administration, who are currently aiding and abetting a genocide, they are basically signalling to everyone that they don’t give a damn about the marginalized, the oppressed, the working class, or just human life in general really lets be honest.

It’s a big mistep imo but I doubt that he thinks allowing Zionists to work in sanitation per this example will put the oppressed or human life in danger. His campaign is really focused on local issues and local politics and pretty much just that, so while this is a big blind spot, it would be a false equivalence to assume he doesn’t care about the marginalized when the marginalized are the people his campaign is most focused on protecting. Just locally. Which again, I don’t agree with.

My point is, that if this person can’t for whatever insufficient reason take a hardline stance against a genocide that their country is basically committing and its supporters, then what makes you think they can take a principled stand for anything else?

Similar to my point before, I think he can take a principled stance on other issues and particularly those where he has power because that seems to be he’s been doing. The big exception to this is softening his stance on the NYPD which I think is a tactical one but also disappoints me to see.

I think AOC cares a lot about the working class too

Her numerous betrayals say otherwise.

Again similar, which I think it kinda hinting at the source of our misunderstanding. I said I think she cares, I also said that caring isn’t enough. You can care about someone and still not do right by them. Humans are flawed. We fuck up, we we betray those we care for, we lose hope and revolutionary optimism, and in many cases just have a flawed understanding.

If you as a leftist candidate can’t take a firm stand against genocide then you are not going to “make things a bit less desperate for the working class” anywhere. Its bare minimum stuff. Its like saying a computer that can’t even turn on for more than 5 seconds is capable of running Cyberpunk 2077.

Keeping Libraries well funded, increasing healthcare availability and affordability, protecting gender affirming care, expanding childcare, funding education, etc. All of these would help a lot. If you want an actual revolution, you’re gonna need literate and reasonably healthy comrades.

The role of people like him, social democrats, is to weaken left-populist movements so they won’t be as much of a danger to the bourgeois. History has shown this time and time again. Watch how any left-populist momentum just fades into liberalism and fascism when he either fails to gain office or gains office but fails to deliver on his promises.

I agree with Carl in the comment above here, this is just accelerationism. I do believe the US left would be in a much better place today if Bernie had been elected despite all his flaws. And I’ll happily drop every vote for a socdem the second that PSL has alternatives in these races. Until them, I know what I need to do, and 99.99% of the year that involves organizing, and the other 0.01% I’d vote for Mamdani if I had the option.

Well he’s basically just given a big middle finger to any Pro-Palestine organization in NYC because now he will have violent genocidal ethnonationalists in his administration who are going to be hellbent at using whatever means necessary to suppress any and all dissent against the zionist entity. A few bad apples spoil the bunch. They will also probably try their best to use their positions of power to make life hell for Muslims and Palestinians too.

And this is especially bad because america, as the imperialist world superpower, is the number 1 blood vessel to its cancerous zionist military base. Therefore, any action to disrupt and prevent this in america will be even more effective than anywhere else. And now mamdani has gone ahead and said he will put exactly the type of fascist crooks who don’t want the genocide to end into positions of power.

This one hurts because it’s true. But the alternatives are far from better and if anything worse as they will probably have zionists in much higher positions of power than Mamdani and are actually zionists themselves.

Also don’t you think its a bit fucked up to say you’d vote for a guy who said he will have genocidal maniacs in his administration, in a country currently committing the genocide they support, just because he promises to support the working class? Wasn’t that kinda like the nazi party’s whole thing?

Yes this whole situation and country is fucked up. But that wasn’t the Nazi party’s whole thing. Their whole thing was being the genocidal maniacs. This would be more like voting for the SPD IF the KPD didn’t exist at all, though it’s far from a perfect analogy.

“oh you know I’m fine with genocide but vote for me because i will help the german worker”

I don’t believe he is fine with genocide, the Nazis didn’t actually care about the German worker (actually reading this again wtf??? I’m actually mad at this characterization), and there is no candidate who will keep all Zionists out of public positions but I do hope Mamdani will keep them out of positions where they have a chance to act on their deranged ideology.

Tbh we don’t even need to go back to the nazis because for fucks sake there is a genocide against the Palestinian people at the moment that needs to desperately be stopped. Lives are being cruelly destroyed en masse by the zionist entity and its western backers (primarily america) as you are reading this. Why would you ever want to vote for someone who says that he will have fascist scum in his administration who are currently aiding and abetting this fucking demonic act of genocide, just because he pinky promises to help the working class of NYC? I mean come the fuck on, really? Is this where we are at?

Sadly yes, this is where we’re at. Hopefully you understand why I said what I said better now.

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why do you think someone who will allow genocidal fascists in his administration, who are currently in the process of committing a genocide, would ever truly care about you?

Because why else would he be doing any of this instead of taking the easy route like Hakeem Jeffries and just getting in bed with AIPAC? I don’t think he would be saying this if he didn’t think he had to, which is sad and I think misguided but what do I know? And I don’t even understand the point of this question either? Ofc he cares but that shouldn’t be a good metric for a politician since that should be given, even though obviously it’s novel here. I think AOC cares a lot about the working class too but clearly that’s not enough.

Like the person has already shown he doesn’t give a shit about human life and is fine with people who want to destroy it being on his administration. Would you trust someone like this with your life?

No I wouldn’t and don’t. And like I said, electing a single harm reduction candidate to a single position in government isn’t going to fix things. I’d vote for him because I think he can make things a bit less desperate for the working class in NYC, and maybe even drum up broader support for left-populism. And given the position he is going for (Mayor of NYC and not Secretary of State), I understand the compromise he is making. even if I don’t like it.

Like I said, I think there is a case for harm reduction with Mamdani, especially when contrasted with his competitors. I don’t trust him with my life but I do have some trust and a bit of hope that we will not make it as difficult to exist and survive and organize for leftists and particularly those who are already marginalized by their identities.

Did we all collectively forget that Mamdani has defined his campaign by being laser focused on lowering cost of living and improving quality of life for working class New Yorkers? Ofc I’m bitterly disappointed by this, especially with how weak he has been in his antizionism after it was hyped up so much, but if I lived in NYC I’d still vote for him in a heartbeat. Actual change will not come from an elected politician, but from a proletarian revolution. If come November it seems like he is the candidate whose election will allow the working class the most breathing room to live and organize then please just fucking vote for the guy. Unlike Kamala there is actually a decent case for harm reduction with this one I think.

I really hope this is the case.

I really like this one myself. And it’s honestly kinda valid on its own? Not so much satellites but facial recognition and the surveillance state in general. “There’s cameras everywhere, I don’t want Bill Gates tracking me. Did you know he’s buying up all the farmland?” Maybe ditch the last part if you don’t wanna invite a conversation.

Where’s he going next? I wanna make sure I don’t end up anywhere close.

Deep cut, I like it.

Sammy Obeid is great, I think I managed to stumble upon his youtube page a year or so ago and I’ve been a fan ever since.

This particular heckler could not have come to a better show to have her ignorance shutdown.

and the official english name would be like “The Republic of Western Levant”

“From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” - which part of this was unclear?

Its incredibly disturbing to casually discuss this as westerners…

I don’t understand what the purpose of this is. “Free Palestine” is what we’ve been chanting, and trying to brainstorm another name feels like a disturbing exercise in chauvinism. Unless Palestinians tell us that want us to use a different word in English, its Palestine.

I assume you’re asking about what to call it in English. In which case the answer is clear: Palestine.

What would Jews and Muslims agree on?

Weiiiird framing tbh. But many others in this thread have explained this already and I don’t have anything to add to what they’re saying.

wolf cut wolf cut wolf cut!

I got the royal nepobabies confused for a second and thought this would be overall a good thing, but it’s Andrew that needs to be kept away from children.