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    3 months ago

    “Attack on democracy”, “authoritarian”, “MAGA Republicans”, “division”, “distraction”

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        3 months ago

        Mamdani has nothing to gain by using stronger language than he already has. He just needs to apply China’s “do nothing, win” strategy because all of the opposition is doing the work for him.

        I don’t mean he should compromise on principles but I think you are greatly exaggerating the significance of this statement. No one on HB is expecting this guy to be Lenin 2.0, that gets repeated every day. Mamdani appears to be a clear win for the left, not a total victory, but damn y’all are so used to losing that you forgot how to win

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            3 months ago

            “HB is libbing out” isn’t critique directed at Zohran. It’s wrecker behavior whether you intended that or not (I truly don’t think you did). Vague insults that no one can meaningfully engage with (you don’t seem to want to further discuss the specific points of the post beyond it feeling lib) isn’t adding anything, it’s harmful actually.

            I don’t feel negatively toward you individually and don’t want this to draw out into a back and forth, so I’ll leave it alone

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        radlibs love their DNC madlibs. surely this time a socdem winning a primary will be the thing that beats fascism and lets them go back to brunch. to be charitable, maybe they’re literal teenagers who don’t remember when Obama, Sanders, Warren, AOC, etc. was the One True Progressive whose election would reform the party and redeem the genocidal settler empire.

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      yep. as soon as someone uses the word “authoritarian” you know they’re either full of shit or have not done the reading

      each of these quoted phrases is a denial of the class antagonism between workers and owners, except “MAGA Republicans” which is essentially Nancy Pelosi’s “we need a sane Republican party” garbage