I’m posting hard against liking Mamdani so when the moment is ripe I can have receipts to prove that I’ve always been team “I told you so” (hexbear.net)

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Gotta be right about everything 100% of the time

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[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is no benefit to cynical predictions.

Not cynical, but the benefit to correctly predicting that a strategy will not work is that it enables you to pick different strategies. One day I'm hopeful that a large number of Americans will pursue a strategy other than voting for a social democrat running in the right-wing donkey party.

I think many of the people who criticize Mamdani are not happy to be right. Personally, I'd be glad to be wrong. But this is a socialist website. People have seen Bernie, and AOC, etc. Recognizing a pattern and recognizing the underlying reasons for that pattern doesn't make them cynics.