How many more "socialists" do you guys need to elect before it stops being a struggle session every damned time (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Andrzej3K@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Do you know how often bourgeois democracies elect "socialists"? Hell, many of them even elect "communists" on the regular. It's normal. Get over it. Please.

EDIT - there are basically two main genres of Mamdani poster, both of which keep scrawling MAMDANI on the wall in their own excrement for different reasons, and they all seem to be assuming I am from the other side lol

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[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Are you really trying to reignite the Mamdani struggle session again or are we talking about someone else?

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

you already know the answer lol

[-] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

We MUST REMAIN PURE!!!

YOU CANNOT EVEN SLIGHTLY LIKE THE DEM SOC!!!

HOW DARE YOU THINK HE MIGHT BE A GOOD MAYOR!!!

YOU MUST HATE ANYONE WHO ISNT LENIN OR MAO

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

YOU MUST HATE ANYONE WHO ISNT LENIN OR MAO

You should dislike any American who's a chauvinist and an imperialist.

[-] Hyper_red@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think people are allowed to be happy that they may be getting free busses and cheaper groceries.

expecting anything else from a mayor is fucking stupid

If he does the grocery and free bus thing he will make the lives of working class people better

Nobody is expecting him to do communism

You have to have reasonable expectations

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not from New York, and I'll dislike him for manufacturing consent for the slaughter of the third world even if he does good things for New Yorkers.

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

I read this as "free busses and cheaper genocides" at first...

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

That is something that you can expect from social democrats, to be fair.

[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And if electing democrats can bring positive domestic change, how does that help socialism other than the national variety?

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT I BE ON RECORD AS CORRECT

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

We'll see if he will be a good mayor. However, given what I have seen from him so far, and my experiences in the past, he will cave under even moderate pressure if it means that he can achieve a higher office or get into a lucrative speaking circuit gig. If they stone-wall him completely, even for his personal career, we may actually see some real attempts at completing his campaign promises, if only to attempt some form of self-preservation.

If he actually flips the script and uses his real-politik to accomplish his campaign promises, I will change my tune accordingly and happily admit I was wrong. But for now, it looks at though he has done his best to hack away at his roots so he can float along with the current, with nothing to show for it.