"Socialism" lol
It is a win though, it shows people are willing to vote for change ~~through alternative parties~~ and thats fucking huge
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He's a Democrat, not 3rd party.
Shit I will amend that. Forgot he won the democratic primary. He is still heavily associated with DSA though and this is well known.
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No idea about Mamdani but does the election not mostly show that people hate Andrew Cuomo? He seemed awful.
He has always been offal.
FTFY
No, this campaign was everything you could ask for
His core platform - free and faster buses, free childcare, rent freezes, and no one making less than $1M will be paying for any of it
It's simple, it's hard to fear monger against, and it's things the people want. The best they had was "but he's Muslim"
Thanks, interesting, but I wish him luck delivering on any of that.
You can just skip the “but”. Other policy makers either horribly fail with their much shittier policies all the time and when they do succeed that’s still a problem because those are bad policies.
And don’t worry, a lot of that stuff has already been successful in better places so it shoukd go fine.
Ok fine. His platform is interesting and I wish him luck delivering on it.
Shitty policies are usually successful in the sense that they achieve or at least advance their (shitty) goals, fwiw. Are Mamdani's proposals serious (e.g. does he have financial projections for them), or are they like platitudes like wishing for world peace? Tbh I don't think the mayor has the authority to do any of that stuff.
We'll see how it goes.
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Si, se puede.
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It's just a primary guys. Let's hope he wins the seat.
If Cuomo runs 3rd party and the Dem establishment supports him, I'm going to fling that back at anyone who tells me to not vote 3rd party in a presidential election, lol.
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It seems that every article from Jacobin is skewed ever so slightly, not enough to make most think there’s something wrong, but it seems to skew anti-progressive by tone and wording, while being assertive in part to some center (or right-leaning by European standards), and aggressive in language towards selective parts of the far-right while mellowing down the tone against conservatives in general.
It’s like eating candy and discovering that the sugar coating is actually aluminium.
Within the context of US politics, the center left/Democratic Party is the largest political obstacle for socialists. So antagonism towards the center left seems to be rational within that
aluminium
Nice touch. 🤣
Well, it's how it's spelled in pretty much all of the English-speaking world. Barring the USA and Canada.
Edit: my favourite ”whelp” is apparently not what I thought.
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Social Democracy is not the same as Socialism. But, I wasn’t following the race, maybe he does want the public to own the means of production.
Also Democratic Socialism (Mamdani's beliefs) are not the same as Social Democracy. They are slightly different.
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I'm OK with it because maybe when they realize he's just a guy making decisions to help his community, it will remove a smidge of the ZOMG SOCIALISM reaction to folks like not only him, but also Bernie, and maybe others who might like to call themselves social democrats instead of democrats.
If Bernie and AOC start the social democrat party tomorrow with Mamdani and others, I'm registering before the ink is dry.
I get the hesitation since in US politics they often get conflated and I can’t say I’ve followed him very closely but someone else shared this. I know he’s also advocating for city owned grocery stores.
Quite a lot of red states have state owned liquor stores,[0] so city owned grocery stores doesn't sound that radical. Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1] I hadn't heard of this idea before, but web search shows it is a thing. I'd consider it socialism if he also wants to close down the privately run grocery stores. He doesn't seem to be doing that
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state
Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1]
I'm an Atlantan and this is the first I'm hearing of it. Neat!
Reading the article, though, it's really just that the city is subsidizing a private business (and in one of the two cases, acting as its landlord) in order to create an incentive to open in a food desert, not actually getting into the business of operating a grocery store directly itself.
I mean, I got a loan from Invest Atlanta to help with the down payment on my house, but that doesn't mean the city owns my house or that it's some kind of 'government housing.'
I see. Question then is whether the store operator gets to set the prices. Donald Trump of course lives in government housing right now, so that's ok too.
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