I wonder how hard to the right he’s going to tack to get the DNC to not be like “oooh, brown man scary! 👻“
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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Aaaand...the inevitable pivot to the center, commences.
Eyes on the ball, it's the policies that matter. If we start seeing watering down of the policies, shoot away, but this on its own means little.
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Goddammit can't we have a true progressive for once in a position of real power. Why the fuck is he doing this? See this what happens when we feel hope.
I'm still holding onto hope but damn.
Let the guy govern for a month before giving up. New Yorkers should pressure him from the left, not just sit back and let the right do it's thing
New Yorkers should pressure him from the left,
Just get biden in office and you can pressure him from the left! look at what he's running on!
All the deliberately broken promises and the genocide support later and you're asking us to buy the same unmitigated bullshit again.
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President and NY Mayor are very different in terms of how much they can be pressured. The right & establishment are fighting, why won't you?
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Biden was always a shit, especially on Gaza, so the horizon was different from explicitly demsoc + antizionist Mamdani. Even still, there are pretty major differences between biden and trump on domestic policy.
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Right now there is a swell of hope and energy on the left bc of the Mamdani campaign -- lay the groundwork there to build a durable movement that won't be demobilized after the election. Get people into mutual aid, ice resistance, abolitionist, etc groups!
Look, no politician is going to embody real change, but we know Cuomo will be a much bigger obstacle. pressuring, as you point out, only goes so far, but you have to start from where you are and develop a movement inch by inch.
It's psychologically easier to be cynical, but it also helps your enemies win.
I don't have the energy to properly respond to this. I don't have any reason to be positive about anything anymore. After decades of betrayal, this is the last one. Fuck politics. Centrists and their republican besties have made positive change completely impossible and your positivity here sickens me.
You've mistaken despair for cynicism.
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Big fan of Kshama. I however don't know if this is Mamdani switching sides or Jeffrey Lerner. The DNC isn't both a supremely powerful corrupting influence and an incompetent pile of business yes men who lost to trump twice and are glorifying republicans as republican media are whipping up their audience to assassinate them in their homes.
Pick one, but only one of those descriptions aligns with reality. At this point if he is abandoning the public he's doing so at a time where its unlikely he'll live long enough to profit from it. I still think the better media narrative is "is the DNC caving to anti Israel sentiment?"
Feeling like that Star wars "you were the chosen one!!" meme
Well, it was nice having hope for a few weeks.
Don't fucking compromise.
Can Mamdani fire the establishment goon later? If so, it could be a smart strategic move to qwell the DNC and win his general election.
I should have known better than to believe something good could happen.
At least we’re starting negotiations on policy from the left instead of the center.
But we're still pre-negotiating, preparatory to rank capitulation like fucking always.
It is my sincere hope that Jeffrey Lerner and his DNC affiliates all get a swift kick in the balls after this election is over.
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