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You fucking watched this video, and your takeaway was "Mamdani fucking loves cops now"? I don't get it. Are we just accepting the framing from a self-identified MAGA Twitter account now? Did you make this meme? I'm seriously confused here. This "Pivot to Police" is literally right-wing framing being used, right now, against Mamdani:
The question was: "You know, there's been a lot of talk here today about Andrew Como, and apparently, the person who wants to become the Mayor of New York, is now going to be calling on you and others to do something about increasing the number of police, not just accepting the number of police that are there now. But also to keep up the SRJ, which was responsible last week for going after the shooter last week on Park Avenue, and I wonder, you know obviously hes trying to go after a weak spot on you. I wonder if you would like to respond to that because that's going to be his campaign pitch."
His answer was:
These are the exact kinds of policies that grew out of the Defund the Police movement in 2020.
What's the deal here? The obvious way you fund this is by cutting police budgets and shifting that money into human services like the ones he's referring to. Did you actually think Mamdani was going to abolish the NYPD? He would be the fucking head of the NYPD, for Christ sake. Even still, the right-wing media is trying to skewer him for his answer here. Somehow, they've come all the way around to being pro-defunding the fucking police because he outlined changes to the NYPD that could only be achieved through taking some of their annual funding, which won't even be actual cuts, as we've seen before, but instead a pause in budget increases, or a 0% increase on the yearly budget.
no, i'm not an idiot
yeah that's basically the whole issue with this "just elect socialist candidates as Democrats" project that has so far resulted in nothing positive at all. based on Mamdani's climbdowns over other issues such as the intifada fiasco, this is just looking like another AOC situation and another bunch of wasted potential and energy that could have gone towards more useful organising efforts. Talking about jobs cops shouldn't do obviously suggests that there are jobs that they should be doing, which is a complete capitulation, unless you're some kind of liberal who believes in the legitimacy of settler-colonial police forces.
I don't see why he should moderate his rhetoric more given that he's already basically certain to win. He should be doing the opposite if he's a candidate worth supporting. But instead he's just going to keep moving right and legitimising the rightmost sections of the DSA, who are hell-bent on making sure the organisation never becomes anything more than another Democrat-aligned NGO.
calling this a "fiasco" or an "issue" is a huge stretch. no one gave a shit about this outside of bad actors in the press and he never even used the damn phrase himself AIUI.