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The open islamophobia is why a lot of people have cooled on the right since the 2024 election despite them having a more palatable opinion on crime.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Does that make it clear?
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>Mamdani isn’t pitching widespread price controls, but rent control over a small section of New York housing twinned with abundance-style new development He's not actually pitching any new price controls. He's proposing a temporary rent freeze on rent stabilized (rent control is tiny in comparison and unaffected by this) apartments that are already subject to limits on rent increases. How do I know this? I live in a…
how many decades have you been in your stabilized apartment ?
Ask your wife. She spends a lot of time here.
By the way, When did you stop beating her?
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That's because they are kept milquetoast as a way to nullify any left-wing movement. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-sur... https://jacobin.com/2018/08/fbi-infiltration-new-left-aoki-s... https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012107432/how-a-former-spy-t... https://indypendent.org/2019/02/lessons-from-the-fbis-secret... https://theintercept.com/2023/02/10/deconstructed-fbi-inform...
Is your username a reference to the Ego Anarchists?
Nice to see someone young, charismatic, and highly energized breathing life into the decrepit democratic party. Hopefully he can accomplish a ton and repudiate the DNC.
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They shouldn’t exist
I lived in a world without billionaires - Eastern Europe pre-1990. It wasn't a world without powerful people though: party nomenklatura and their friends ruled us with an iron fist. Not billionaires in numbers but in lifestyle, power and ruthlessness. Together with actual billionaires, we also lost all the products and services their work created in process of making them billionaires, so we were all cold and hungry.…
I hope this win signals (to both parties) that voters are receptive and will get engaged when a clear message is presented about cost of living and quality of life issues. Some of which are taken for granted in most other western countries. I’m no political wonk, and I’m curious what others with more insight might say about his ability to fund and implement his polices. I’m reminided of Obama and his hopeful message…
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Only speaking for myself (also not a political wonk): I do not expect Mamdani to be able to enact all of his policies. Not because of money but because of political opposition from the powerful. I felt the same about Bernie and Medicare for all. We have the money to do it, but the powerful will not let it happen. However: that doesn’t mean we should elect politicians that won’t even try to make these things happen. I…
Absolutely, elect enough Mamdani’s and the powerful will not be able to stop the changes. It’s the expectation that a single Mamdani or Sanders can fix much that has lead to extreme apathy from much of the electorate.
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Only speaking for myself (also not a political wonk): I do not expect Mamdani to be able to enact all of his policies. Not because of money but because of political opposition from the powerful. I felt the same about Bernie and Medicare for all. We have the money to do it, but the powerful will not let it happen. However: that doesn’t mean we should elect politicians that won’t even try to make these things happen. I…
Absolutely, elect enough Mamdani’s and the powerful will not be able to stop the changes. It’s the expectation that a single Mamdani or Sanders can fix much that has lead to extreme apathy from much of the electorate.
That said, I'm sure there are lots of good things Mamdani can do that are not in conflict with reality.
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The biggest takeaway to me is how ridiculous it is that the US considers Mamdani somehow "experimental" or even radical. His campaign revolves around three policies: 1. Universal Child Care 2. Fast and Free Busses 3. Freezing Rent for certain Rent Controlled Units In any other context these would be policies that basically every citizen, except for a handful of people making buttloads of money off the privatization o…
> Politics in america is like entering an inverted world in which some weird internal drive actively makes people vote against their own personal interests. Nobody willingly does this. If you think they are, that should be a strong sign to you that those people and you disagree about what their best interests are, and you should seriously consider the possibility that they are right and you are wrong. You might not b…