This isnt accelerationism - the fascist boot is here already. The only silver lining to being where we are is that the problem and the dividing lines have never been more clear, and that makes organizing marginally more possible

There may be some liberals who still believe that compromise is still the only way forward when it was compromise with capital that got us here, and they're the ones that must be brought into the resistance by force or be treated as collaborators.

When the fascist boot is coming down on people's necks is possibly the best time to be building popular resistance

The people who turned up were the 20-somethings who are politically-minded

When voting turnout exceeds expected numbers, we call those additional voters 'low-propensity'. It doesn't matter if it's a national election or a local one - when turnout blows out expectations, that's a high-enthusiasm election. Trying to describe those low-propensity voters as 'politically-minded' seems intentionally misleading, since I can only assume that's based on the fact that they turned out when they were expected not to (i.e. they turned out because they responded to a typically low-turnout election, thus they must be 'politically-minded').

Setting aside the circular definition - any time a candidate is able to turn out more voters than expected, that's a definitionally good candidate by any electoral standard. The question isn't really 'who would non-voters have voted for if it were a national election?', but, 'does this election translate to a national voter base?'. And while that's not something you can easily generalize, Mamdani did run on policies that are resoundingly popular in all 50 states. There's very little reason he wouldn't have performed better-than-average on a national stage given what we know for certain.

All this to say: anyone trying to downplay the significance of an Indian-American, Muslim, Democratic Socialist sweeping an election against one of the most famous political dynasty names in the US, where corporate media across the entire political spectrum were united against him, and where opposition spent tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollar more than him - and in of all places the financial capital of the world and in a city that was the sight of the most famous terrorist attack conducted by Arab Muslims in the western world - is absolutely coping. That kind of candidate winning in a place like New York would have been inconceivable since at least 2001.

You can deny it as a significant moment of socialist achievement if you want, but you'd be fooling only yourself.

I dont think anyone invested in this actually cares about the specifics of training collars, they're just excited to have a reason to be angry with this person.

We need rate limiting for user comments, Jesus christ

Whoever drew this went to great lengths to keep Israel on the map

rendered stateless and subject to brutal persecution

Well if they were subject to a differen't ethnonationalist state who had a monopoly on the use of force against them, that would be really bad.

Thankfully, that has never happened before.

Just want to repeat the comment you hid there in case it's relevant to the point being made.

They can also remain in Palestine and live alongside native Palestinians or return to their home countries under the right of return.

The point is that ethnic jews would no longer have the exclusive right of self-determination in Palestine.

Lmao, I love how 8 months ago, liberals were swearing up and down that if they proposed any big policies or changes they'd lose moderate voters, and now 6 months later they're saying progressives fucked them for telling them they'd lose if they didn't

Enjoy the camps.

If I collaborate with the fascists like the liberals are i don't have to

It's a tool that helps 'trace' a raster image into vector shapes and paths

it's useful for creating vector artwork from raster images - sometimes a logo or icon is only available in a poor resolution raster image, and so having an easy way to convert it into vector saves a ton of time.

I used it yesterday to create an SVG file for CNC plotting of a company logo. It would have taken me a few hours to hand-trace it myself

I know surefire improvements we can make to the way things are now better

Yea, me too.

I don’t trust anyone with ~~the~~ authority

Yea, me too.

it’s designed to only function as advertised if there’s full participation

Uh, what? Are you forgetting that suffrage was originally limited to land-owning men?

It was never designed for full participation - universal suffrage has been repeatedly rejected in favor of 'compromised' exclusions since our founding.

Our system has been quite literally designed to prevent full participation, idk where this idea comes from that full participation is somehow the true spirit of american democracy.

Either way, it’s much easier to convince people to go out and vote than it is to convince them to take up arms in a revolution, kill their opponents, and risk being killed or imprisoned as a consequence

It's not an exaggeration to say that basically every bit of progress for labor and democratic rights in the US has been won by violent struggle, and it's never been by a 'majority' of voters.