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A little more control ceded to the fascists, and we'll have a REAL Revolutionary Crisis(tm) which we can use to Right This Country! (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Still digging, not seeing your comments on Mamdani.

But the way you run defense for Biden and Cuomo without actually committing to them? Doesn't leave me hopeful that I can call you a "comrade" in any sense.

Critiquing the Soviet Union? With Nuance? Actually Based. I wanna see what happens when you read William Hinton's (admitted racist) firsthand account of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in his book "FanShen" and his secondhand account of the reversal in "ShenFan".

I use the first as evidence that we can do better when we talk to each other - that "ground game" you maligned in this thread. I use the second to describe the Strong-State's problem of accountability for leadership's incompetence, and the incentive for workers to outright Lie as a survival measure.

There is hope for you yet. But I would love to hear you explain what soaking in a rightwing geography has pushed you to.

And yes, I still want to hear your thoughts on Zohran Mamdani. They're buried. Either I need a new interface that makes this search easier, or a restatement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Still digging, not seeing your comments on Mamdani.

Simply searching 'Mamdani' by user 'PugJesus' comes up with:

In any case, a major congratulations and good luck to Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who won the Dem Party primaries for NYC mayor!

I wouldn’t count on it. Party elites are notoriously resistant to any kind of positive change. The only way we can change the Dem Party is by forcing it to change - by ensuring progressive candidates like Mr. Mamdani continue to win going forward.

Hopefully, the strained democracy of the US will hold up long enough for that to matter.

Damn, my hopes for Mamdani just got even higher. Low turnout under ordinary circumstances give high-enthusiasm candidates an advantage, by that enthusiastic base’s relative size to the ordinarily voting electorate.

Fucking fascist ghouls. Good on Mamdani for not putting up with it, though it’s horrifying that this is already a fucking concern.

(someone else) If we fill them with Zohran Mamdanis, on the other hand…

Me:

But the way you run defense for Biden and Cuomo without actually committing to them? Doesn’t leave me hopeful that I can call you a “comrade” in any sense.

I 'ran defense' for Biden when he was the only fucking candidate with a realistic shot at beating the fascist. Sorry for not wanting more Palestinians to die, for not wanting Ukrainians to be murdered by genocidal Russian imperialists, for not wanting literal millions abroad to starve and waste from sickness for lack of US aid, for not wanting US LGBT folk and marginalized groups to be murdered en masse, and, selfishly, for not wanting to have my health insurance as a Filthy Poor(tm) with a chronic disease stripped so I die vomiting blood on my bathroom floor?

I've literally never ran defense for Cuomo, in any way shape or form.

There is hope for you yet. But I would love to hear you explain what soaking in a rightwing geography has pushed you to.

Cynicism. The idea that these people are ready to be our comrades with just the right phrasing is, unfortunately, insanity. The core issue is not misinformation, or the wrong policies - otherwise you would be right, there is hope. The core issue has been the development and cultivation of sickened values over the past 70 years that are directly contrary to functional politics.

Values are much harder to change than political allegiances, and political allegiances are already notoriously hard to change. Whatever the solution is to our problem, it doesn't include turning rural fascists into comrades any more than the Dem attempts to turn rural fascists into conservatives has worked.