electoralism

liberals buried the bar in hell

Yeah he's had missteps but if every US politician was like Zohran we'd be in a much, much better place

" for the lesser evil"

More and more people are saying this

and some people want to take away taglines

you have the right to be shot in front of a home you can afford!

You know the answer

My biggest fear is that the DSA triumphs in 2026 midterms (IDK what that would be, but probably 10-30 DSA or DSA-aligned "progressives" in congress is a possibility in 2026) and parlays that into winning the presidency with AOC, which would just be another weak, feckless and compromised presidency. The bare minimum for a 2028 presidency in my book would be Abolishing ICE, Arm Embargo on Israel, and Medicare 4 All, but beyond that we need serious investment in education, and some sort of re-education even. If we don't thoroughly de-nazify and also build up the alternatives to fascism, then Carlson/Fuentes 2032 or 2036 becomes a real possibility. But I don't have any confidence AOC would dismantle the surveillance and police state, and we will be right back where we are now, with an even more radical fascist coalition.

As we said with Bernie…

Mamdani IS the compromise.

Mao’s policy notably only targeted “bad landlords”

that's not a protest, it's support

Yeah this is the liberal line he tows. There must be good landlords, good cops, good capitalists, it's the bad ones we need to go after. It's how he won and also he could drop it now and would be even more popular, but I think he really believes it

Chairmain Mao specifically accounted for good landlords. If you were a good landlord, your former tenants simply wouldn't shoot you in the head!

Nobody is saying you can’t go there and say exactly that 👁️👁️

What will happen as a result of community vent sessions on "bad landlords"?

you kinda gotta get people together in a room talking about how shitty their landlords are if you want to get them to realize 1) they can do something 2) they should do something 3) they can organize to do that thing

I don't think the landlords will be dealt with appropriately, but I think when you have the infrastructure to simply imprison them that's much better than having them tortured or killed. It's not really the best application of democratic principles to have what happens to a convicted person be decided by a group of their victims rather than have society broadly agree on standard procedures.

Obviously in Mao's case with the land reform, he did not have such luxuries and relied on the victims of the landlords and other locals not because of some sort of moralizing logic but because managing such an overwhelmingly large project with frequently no infrastructure to facilitate coordination beyond dirt roads is unwieldy unless you just leave it up to the peasants to basically do as they will.

If we imagined that Zohran was a Marxist and had control of the police, the thing to do certainly involves mass arrests of landlords. This action is useful regardless because it's not just about the landlords who get criticized (though them having their reputation publicly destroyed is a plus), but about using these stories as the basis for getting support for policies to prevent many common abuses and broadcasting quite loudly how past administrations allowed them to get away with such things and never bothered to ask people to publicly share their experiences like we see here, and how administrations in other cities are continuing to ignore such problems.

Ziohran Mossadani is bootlicking slime who does apologia for cops, but I think we should regard this campaign as potentially a good thing, though of course it depends on how Zohran and company actually administrates the campaign, since he certainly has shown himself as ready to squander potential for careerist reasons.

Luigi?