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Government drones gone rogue

Us semi-sane folk have to stick together in these trying times! You aren’t alone, comrade!

Considering it was a three-way race, I feel like this is a bit of a doomer take.

I agree that a Mamdani victory in New York City does not translate to socialist enthusiasm everywhere else in the country. But I do think it accurately shows two things:

1. Moving the Dem party is possible through the democratic process, if you actually fucking show up and vote in primaries.

2. Democratic socialism, as a term, is no longer the poison pill it once was in general elections. (Thank you Bernie, for walking for forty long years so my generation can hopefully run 🙏😭)

In addition, I suspect that Mamdani’s victory can be replicated in many cities.

There’s not going to be a demsoc victory in fucking rural West Virginia anytime soon, no matter how loudly some Very Serious Commenters talk about how the only thing needed to appeal to the proletariat is going further left. Nor is it likely that purple states will be voting in demsoc candidates anytime soon - though, if a demsoc runs in the primary, one should vote for them, and if they manage to actually win the primary, that is a very, exceptionally hopeful sign for an appetite of the state’s electorate for a demsoc victory in the general.

But Mamdani’s victory also genuinely shows that the only reason that neoliberals and moderates have such a stranglehold on the party is because we let them. If we stop simply letting them, as we have in NYC, we can make a broader left-coalition Dem Party, wrested from their ghoulish gerontocratic hands.

We can’t make the Dems demsoc overnight. But we can demand a much larger voice at the table.

This the same Dem base that consistently votes in neoliberal and ‘moderate’ fucks every fucking presidential primary, and most congressional primaries?

The DNC is filled with shitheads and morons, make no mistake. Our most recent - and devastating - loss to fascism is overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) on their fucking heads. But this is a situation that has been set up by decades of the majority of American voters either refusing to fully engage with the civic process, or engaging in support of milquetoast middle-of-the-road shitheads who fit their suburban anxieties.

“Oh, but it’s just because billionaires push propaganda!” Yeah, you can say the same thing about why Republican voters believe the dogshit they do, and it doesn’t excuse them either.

Maybe the country is just not that fucking left.

And that failure of the electorate to embrace an even slightly-left position may have killed the country at this point.

Yes, it should be. I was trying to shitpost in peace

LMAO

You commented on one of my conversations in this thread, not the other way around.

Are you a pathological liar, or just a habitual one?

Or are you so detached from reality that you can’t tell the difference?

Schumer is still opposed to ending the shutdown to my knowledge.

Yeah, I suspect as much. Hence the “the Republic may already be dead anyway.”

Still, I like to cover all the possibilities. M-maybe the Republic is just pinin’ for the fjords?

They’re much less common than they used to be back in 2023, at least on the ‘decent’ instances. Hopefully genocide denial will be completely dead on the non-tankie instances given a little more time!

I hate seeing shit like this passed around, and the “Milk Before Meat” approach is how they soften their image, so I try to call it out when I see it.

Bro you come into this thread, guns blazing, attacking me and trying to get me into a debate,

I never tried to get you into a debate, lmao. I just pointed out the humor of a pro-imperialist genocide denier who advocates for appeasement pretending to be opposed to appeasement of imperialism and genocide. :)

If it works and papers over Trump’s approval, the Republic is dead.

If it doesn’t work, Trump’s approval is still far higher than it should be, and the Republic may already be dead anyway.

What a time to be alive.

(That video is literally what you’re doing in this thread lol)

Damn, so it’s not just your literacy that’s bad, but your media comprehension in general.

Sorry that you think that explicitly refusing to debate you is asking you to debate me, lmao.

Sorry that you think you’re entitled to debate the well-recorded genocide of minorities with anyone who isn’t a genocide denying piece of shit, a bizarre entitlement shared with the Holocaust deniers you ape.

I’m sorry that you think you’re entitled to a debate, genocide denier, like the Holocaust deniers you mimic

How many posts is that with you providing zero evidence?

I’m sorry, do you want me to provide evidence that I’ve been engaged on here the past several hours? Is your memory that short? Fucking lmao.

Sorry that you have a persecution complex in addition to your pro-Nazi leanings.

Dumbass really thought “sealioning” meant, “asking for evidence, in any context” 😭😭😭

Me: “You’re a genocide denier.”

You: “It’s not a genocide!”

Me: “Yeah, that’s exactly what I accused you of, thanks.”

You: “WHERE’S THE PROOF?!”

lmao

Just like Holocaust deniers. You hate being called out, but crave arguing about it, I suppose because the thought of murdered minorities gets your genocide-boner going.

“I can’t believe PugJesus saw a post I made on a Shitposting comm that he’s been a part of for years and that’s he been actively engaged in for the past several hours! He MUST be stalking me! 😭”

Every bit as much the braindead pro-genocide whinger you were when you crawled into my inbox the first time.

If you like talking to me so much, finish our other conversation by providing the evidence I asked.

I never pretended to ‘engage’ with you about your continuing denial of the Uyghur Genocide, I only pointed out that you are, in fact, a genocide denier. :)