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WHY AM I EVEN AWARE OF ONE OF YOUR (NOT EVEN) MAYORS?? WAS RATBOY NOT ENOUGH??
Hey, a 100+ comment thread. I always wanted to do this.
rips out wet fart
There, another item crossed off the bucket list.
Why is Hexbear so weird about Mamdani?
Can’t you all just take the W for once?
Honestly it's mostly non Americans tired of hearing about it while also being mostly MLs and (correctly) thinking electoralism in general is hack. The Americans here seem to be more pro mamdani
Twitter brain says it's necessary to go in for the dunk and put down a bad take (even if it's your own comrades)
I mean this is just how discussion around things in the U.S. goes, no? Seems pretty business as usual
This is at least your second time complaining about Mamdani a propos of nothing in less than 24 hours.
WHY AM I EVEN AWARE OF ONE OF YOUR (NOT EVEN) MAYORS?? WAS RATBOY NOT ENOUGH??
Yeah because NYC and middle amerikkka nowhere town used to prop up a CIA cardboard cutout of a man are totally the same thing and you've definitely never heard of any other NYC mayor before this
Giuliani? Who's that? Bloomberg? Never heard of him
Get the fuck out of here with this bullshit, I'm not over here throwing a shit fit because I know who the mayor of London is
and London, that despicable, miserable town, has two for some reason
I'm not an expert but it seems like City of London is a tiny fortress of finance capitalism to administratively insulate the financiers from any messy interventions from fixed capital or (gasp) the masses of greater London
I mean that's how it functions but the why is dumb medieval commune shit, if the city of london didn't have civic rights from the charter the big money would just technically be registered in castletown or something
Anything done offline is either liberalism or adventurism. Posting online is the only true way of doing things.
It's true, Mamdani's tenure as mayor has been a massive disappointment!
(NOT EVEN) MAYORS??
Yeah, he’s not mayor yet. Which means there’s no mayoral policies (or lack thereof) to critique right now. This is all handwringing over horse race stuff and reading way too much into “Zohran had a chat with this person.”
Well, actually, there are policies you could evaluate him on. He was, still is, a state assembly member. Yet these critiques never seem to get into that.
Socialism is when you disengage from institutions and public figures, and the less you do it, the more socialister it is.
The act of appearing on stage besode Elizabeth Warren, heck, even the act of receiving a phone call from Barack Obama, functionally precludes someone from having any socialist policies. Everyone knows that.
The most pro-Palestinian candidate in American history on the cover of Time magazine
Oh gosh, what a tragedy, I can't stand the taste of victory and the explosive normalization of our politics, give me back my delicious bitter cup of defeat 
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"The meaning" is that economic populist messages are really popular with most Americans, and really scary for American elites. That's it. That's the entire meaning.
I think the real meaning is that he is a CIA plant designed to cause Hexbear struggle sessions.
Whether or not a bunch of online people who don't live in NYC should verbally support a NYC mayoral candidate is possibly the weirdest 
yet.
Mamdani will be an entertaining test of the DSA, at minimum. The right wing of DSA is ascendant with his win in the primary and their very silly convention votes align with it. The right wing of the DSA's approach to electoralism is to run anyone willing snd endorse and campaign for anyone that asks, with zero discipline. So if Mamdani is not, as a single person, very disciplined himself and building up a private security force, he will disappoint and there will be internal struggle.
such a stupid looking magazine cover lmao
Mamdani rivals or surpasses Sidney Sweeney in terms of how effective bait posts about them are.
if someone posts Mamdani with huge boobs the site may explode
tagline: He's got good tagines
Uh oh, did popular ideas turn from quantitative into qualitative and produce a platform and a candidate that aims to embody those popular ideas? In the largest city in the country? Now spilling out into Minneapolis? Better get big fucking mad about it!
You'd think they'd save their "I told you so"s until after he gets elected and ends up being another do nothing politician, but they seem really determined to make sure that people who are trying to do something are Doing Things The Wrong Way, while not actively working towards the One True Correct Way to Do Things.
This is a positive for the left, if he is actually left wing and actively helps build a leftist base in the US, that is fantastic, if not (which I think is more likely) then leftists have a great point of agitation, and can point out the problems with trying to work within the system vs challenging it directly. This is a win/win situation for people, as long as they go outside and actually talk to people, even for those of us in other countries who hear about him, it's still useful for agitprop, because like it or not, US news is constantly being broadcast everywhere else.
One of the net results of the failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign was the radicalization of his base. It radicalized his base in both directions, and you can trace the history of some people's right-wing and left-wing growth to the collapse of his campaign. His campaign brought a critique to the masses that really hadn't existed for more than a generation. You can see the sentiment growing with the frequency of crises. 9/11 and the War in Iraq, the 2008 housing crisis, the rise and fall of Sanders, the Trump presidency, COVID, the fully botched and bungled Democratic Party presidential campaign coupled with Palestine, on top of another Trump presidency. Each crisis is like breaking a pinata full of minds looking for answers and ideologues scrambling to scoop them up and provide those answers. People who were not "political" before Mamdani will become "political" because of Mamdani. The people working in his campaign (nearly 30,000 canvassers alone) will be exposed to organizing, become political agents, and will likely adopt some of his perspective or maybe join the DSA. From my reading, the campaign made the bar extremely low for people who wanted to participate, allowing for people to give as much or as little time as they could, on their own schedule. These are valuable lessons to be learned from his early success. Most of his canvassers are young, early to mid-20s, and Sanders failure was 9 years ago. The people energized by Mamdani (who was 26 when the Sanders campaign fell apart) could develop similarly to Mamdani but at a more accelerated pace, given the existing development already; these are objectively good things; this is the result of these qualitative changes.
This is still quantitative change within the Democratic Party and has yet to become qualitative change of a workers' party.
But, that's not a reason to oppose quantitative change, so I'll still take his success as a good sign. We're not there yet, we're getting there!
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bad take but okay
he's fine. He's not starting the revolution, but he's fine.
Idek what "falling for it" is supposed to entail
"Leftists" are giddy with glee at the thought of "i told you so"ing each other to the point that they leap to post actual right wing takes about the guy, really makes you think hnnmm
again OP the real morons are the people who watched this guy win a primary, watched the bourgeoisie shit themselves, and fall for the most obvious propaganda imaginable. Oh no he stood next to Elizabeth warren, that means he's literally her! 🙄
how hard is it to wait until this guy beats cuomo and the Republican and actually does Literally Anything in office before you go OHHH WELP I GUESS HE WAS A LIBERAL
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He's not even corbyn but he wants to do good things and it's pissing off libs and chuds. Libs and chuds are the ones who made it a global phenomenon to the point that Israeli organisations went out and denounced him in multiple ways.
Just don't engage with it if you don't want to. 
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