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What’s particularly frustrating about this is that there’s no real reason to engage with this question at all. No state or colony has an inherent right to exist, and by cowardly playing into this rhetoric all you do is reinforce Zionist claims of ownership to land they stole.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

NO guys we can push the democrats left!!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Why is Israel relevant to the role of mayor of New York? Are we building a subway line there?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

feeling really vindicated in skipping the CTH episode that Will Menaker dedicated to interviewing this guy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

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I beg socialists from new york to read theory for 5 minutes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

how are yankee politicians so uniformly bad at ignoring and evading bad faith questions?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I remember a few months ago tuning into his interview with Hasan and turning it off after five minutes, I clocked him immediately as a weakling and people pleaser and had me thinking "seriously, THIS nerd is supposed to tangle with reactionaries in New York City?"

No steel, no spine, no conviction whatsoever, always trust your gut people

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

how hard it is to say: "they have the same right to exist as nazi germany, thank you for attention" (substitute for yugoslavia, if you want lib-brained, but with similar thrust, argument)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A social democrat supports the zionist regime? surprised-pika

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

stalin-shining "I fucking told you."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

This is the electoral guy that DSAers have been most excited about for like 4 years

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

coward. how hard is it to say "no state has an inherent right to exist"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Which isn't even a radical position, as apparently "states right to exist" is not a concept in international law.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

oh for fuck's sake

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

DSA done it again