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 won't affect global policy much at all. He's a threat to the mega wealthy because he's a symbol of change in the American people.
This is the same reason the elite went so hard on the communist scare late last century. Back then certain political views were almost a criminal offense. Hopefully history doesn't repeat itself here.
almost a criminal offense.
My knowledge of this topic is based pretty much on just Hollywood movies, but I was under the impression that it was a criminal offense.
The rise of fascism in the mid-1920s to late 1930s was a direct response by the ruling capitalists to the ascent of real, populist/socialist/communist changes that actually threatened their power and wealth for the first time in history. It happened all over the world (well at least Europe), and it totally makes sense what we're seeing now all over the world.
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Oh, he is a threat. He is a huge threat for the fascists.
He's a threat because he's not on their side. He's a (much needed) icon of disunity.
They're right to be afraid. They need to stop him and anyone like him at all costs. If there's just one county whose sheriff isn't wagging his tail to goons like ICE, that's unacceptable.
And this isn't about some sheriff election, it's the mayor of NYC. Y'know, the place where Rudy Giuliani became the greatest mayor in the entire history of the US (until he blew it by siding with Trump). Of course they're afraid.
If people can find shelter from ICE and the rest in just one county, that's bad for the fascists. Having it be a huge place like NYC would be a disaster in their eyes.
He won't affect global policy. But he will affect the populace of US places other than NYC. If he wins, some may look at NYC and think "Why can't we have this?". That's what's dangerous.
almost
[Citation Needed]
McCarthy hearings?
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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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that's how much they fear anything that even remotely resembles actual socialism.
I ... suspect it might be more that they are scared of the racial component. Not even "scared".
Silicon Valley is a burgerhole of Curtis Yarvin, dreams of technofascism with its inhabitants on top, impunity with wages not quite mirroring quality, and a bit - American academic culture. And American academic culture is the fucking opposite of the European one, or so I've read.
race is something the ruling class still takes advantage of to divide us. they fear we are getting too aware and.. unsatisfied, hence the recent stuff. they might even win, but they are clearly fearful atm.
A funny idea, but not always. Some of the "ruling class" are genuinely racist.
It's a logical continuation of them being on top. Some people are better than others, in their opinion. They are better than those not of their group and set of opinions, their country (sometimes of residence and not where they rule) is better than other countries, their ethnicity is better than other ethnicities, and their race is better than other races. The reason they want to impress these hierarchical divisions is they want to impress their worldview, not to create division.
So, again about USA. You guys have that crap in everything. That's why motivational letters by American students to European universities are a comedy genre. You don't even see it, but your official tone (and even much of the political discussions and social one) is half bullshit, half markers of identity (that kind of neighborhood, that kind of ancestry, that kind of some other tribal classification, all clear cut and exclusive). Well, there are also markers of connections thrown here and there. And your discussions are usually not discussions, they are like playing cards with those markers instead, where one marker beats another, there can be no discussion after that.
Sigh. I have relatives in the USA who moved there long enough ago to be carriers of that and other things too, so when my uncle was helping me with writing a CV, for the initial variant I just followed his advice and I'm not ever showing that pretentious crap to anyone. Despite him being a tremendous help with my executive dysfunction (and unfortunately impediment where he conditioned one project on me finishing uni, I still haven't finished uni, it's indefinitely paused).
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exactly. the ruling class needs to eliminate the virus before it spreads.
See also the entire American Indochina war, where they tried to bomb Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos into being friends with 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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