my issue is I saw the dude win the primary, saw the bourgeoisie poop their pants over it in a very genuine seeming way, saw them try and fail to smear the guy for months, so, idk, with that as the backdrop it seems to me like this is a very obvious and apparently quite successful attempt to bleed his actual leftist support by making him out to be a sell-out

the election isn't even over, I don't think it helps anything remotely resembling left wing politics to help our enemies by leaping to be critical of him when, again, the election isn't even fucking over. Let's say everyone suddenly agrees with OP and sees him as a sellout, whatever support he has collapses, and the idfk Cuomo or Silwa or Adams wins. good job, that's all this criticism really helped do!

some people might take this as me being 100% defending him or whatever but my position is "idk maybe shut up about him until the election is over, see what he actually does as mayor instead of what he does to get elected, since it doesn't really fucking matter until then"

like christ do you honestly think it's a good thing for people to literally, literally in the case of OP, say that he's 100% sold out "because he's seen standing next to elizabeth warren?" that's fucking absurd and what really gets me is it's coming from a crowd whose opinion towards electoral politics is "it's all fucking useless anyway." I don't need the "electoralism is useless" crowd to tell me out of one side of their mouth that voting is pointless, then out of the other that this guy is a sleeper agent here to steal our votes for the Democrats