I don't even understand what there is to argue about at this point

Neither do I, yet posts like this continue to be made.

It's like people never learn.

he's just another AOC.

no he's in a different branch of government, at a more local level. He's more similar to obama but even that comparison isn't that great as he has a much more limited ability to murder foreign civilians.

I get banned for every post I make

But since i'm sleeping with all the admins, I come back every time

I’m still here and I’ve only ever been wrong about stuff. I think it’s more “as long as you have a perfect record one way or the other you’re fine” but I’m probably wrong about that.

Americans try not to assume your local news in a small part of your country is of dire relevance to all 8 billion people on Earth challenge (trivial, yet repeatedly failed).

Osama was an Arsenal fan

trump: i could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and get away with it

mamdani: hold my cheap halal cart

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.

If you cannot change the world, then being correct means nothing. Being correct is immaterial; it exists only in your headspace.

I wanted to address this specifically. Being correct is step zero in changing anything. You can't change the world effectively without interpreting it first. Marx interpreted the world constantly. The point isn't that there's no value in understanding the world, it's that understanding the world should be a basis for changing it.

How is it cynicism when people are only basing their negative opinions on objectively true, factual things that he has done/said that completely contradict the more radical platform he won his primary on?

How is it cynicism to understand how the government works and/or how the economy is run in NY and point out that based on not only class interests, but actual power structures and laws that exist that he cannot do the majority of what he promised anyway? People's criticisms are valid because they are based in reality.

There is no benefit to cynical predictions. Nobody is impressed by cynicism. There is no reward. If anything, people will remember your cynicism and resent you for making them feel bad.

here's how Bernie can still win

He might improve life in New York City by a matter of degrees, but his reach is surely limited to the borders

He starts aiming for a higher position and he's gonna end up dead or ghoulified