“this is bad for your movement”
Man who hates you and your movement
I am tired of centering the most hysterical voices in the imperial core while children are being crushed to death at food distribution sites. Why are the feelings of rich white New Yorkers put above the lives of poor brown people?
but for how much money you have
Always double down.
Triple down!THEY’RE STARVING AND TORTURING PEOPLE. KIDS! FUCK YOU GLOBALIZE THE SHIT OUT OF FIGHTING THAT
reporter was very sad when he visited isntreal during intifada one time, you see
The Democratic Party must be destroyed root and stem. I will bang this drum for the rest of my fucking life.
We have to recognize that the call is coming from inside the house. They could have throttled the RNC into submission after bush 2. The Republicans weren’t that much less radical then! They deliberately chose not to because they would rather be the lesser evil than do any good with the privileged position they occupy. At a certain point negligence becomes indistinguishable from culpability, especially when your whole thing is you are the only game in town.
I don’t think Zohran really made any major tactical mistakes up to this point. It remains to be seen what the fallout from this will be. The reality is that in NYC you can’t even get close to any position of power without being a Democrat. There are aberrations to this but the historically privileged position of the Democrats in NY specifically makes participation in the party pretty unavoidable in that region. They were and are a necessary vehicle for him in this mayoral race.
But with all that said: does anyone see this shit happening with a party that actually has his back? A party that actually operates like a disciplined party with political goals and values? not just a coterie of consultants and opportunists. The way the Dems have handled arguably the greatest political talent to join their ranks in over a decade should tell you everything you need to know. The average Democratic politician would rather see him dead than actually have any meaningful effect on the status quo.
I truly believe he needs to take whatever political capital and good will he has and invest it into another party ASAP. Whether it’s something new or the PSL or whatever, anything less will be a slow and suffocating death filled with illusory near-victories and nothing ever truly happening.
I don’t think the backlash from the rest of the party could get any worse anyway. They already see him as disloyal and some kind of outside force trying to upset this revolting political consensus they have worked so hard to construct. He cannot afford to keep all his eggs in one basket.
I’m just some fucking random person on the Internet but I think a lot of us have staked an uncomfortable amount of hope on this guy. I’m just hoping and praying he doesn’t go down easy and he recognizes the totality of who his adversaries are before it’s too late. He cannot afford to give these people one inch and it looks like he’s starting too and that makes me very nervous. Hoping for the best but unfortunately expecting the worst.
Anyone with half a brain cell should’ve seen the writing on the wall after the Obama supermajority. Imagine having that kind of mandate and doing nothing lol.
-Wins primary in spite of the establishment’s effort to paint him as an antisemitic Muslim extremist.
-Still feels the need to backtrack and worry about optics.
#alllivesmatter
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Yeah this has precious little to do with actual policies. Which means the lesson is, if some liberal asshole asks your opinion on something that isn’t directly related to what you’re trying to accomplish, you’re not obligated to give them an answer.
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If he wants to win the election, he would do well to not let his political enemies badger him into going back on what he has said so many times in the past, because they are still going to call him a terrorist sympathizer and Jew-hater regardless. He’s not actually winning any favors by doing this, just encouraging his enemies to keep on with this cheap badgering, and showing his supporters that he is willing to bend to such a thing.
Is that “optics”? I guess so, but I think it’s deeply myopic to just categorically reject something because it can be described that way, as though something only matters to his campaign/administration/career if it’s a policy proposal.
sure everyone here would rather if he gives an answer at all it be “death to pissrael” or whatever but he’s still trying to win an election like come on people 😑
But thats the whole point of what I said. That he said “globalized the intifada” is already out there and used to paint him in a negative light and he still won his primary. Who’s vote is he going to try and win over by backtracking? The Republicans that already hate him for being Muslim? The Zionist that won’t forgive him for saying that in the first place?
What he should have done is flip the question and ask the reporter if its alright for Israel to continue murdering Palestinians. Its not that hard. He doesn’t need to make it about what should happen to the state of “Israel”, just point out the evil shit they’re doing and how his critics are wringing their hands about Zionist tears.
That he said “globalized the intifada” is already out there
It is out there, but he didn’t say it. All this bullshit is because an associate said it and he said he’s not interested in policing such statements.
I haven’t kept up with all the details of the election cycle, but this seems like even more of a reason to push back on the reporter, no?
Absolutely right.
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Again, he’s not winning additional votes by backtracking or playing nice with Zionists.
Also consider that this general election, as of right now, is going to feature two conservative Democrats running as independants, in addition to a Republican. Obviously things can change and Cuomo or Adam’s may drop out, but all this means is that “moderate” and conservative votes are going to be split three ways.
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Ooooo scary words! Globalize? Intifada? That sounds Arabic, probably means “do a 9/11” or something. Not going to look it up, I’m confident in my interpretation and I’m a voter.
I mean, it sounds close to the word infant, so I think it means to kill all Jewish infants
“Infinite 9/11s on the Great Satan”
And then all the accusations of antisemitism stopped, right? 🙃
I mean originally it did seem like he was doing like a very diplomatic timid response to israel’s right to exist or whatever. But yeah I guess he thinks capitulation makes inroads. Well look how that worked for people like corbyn.
I don’t wanna dog on people feeling high about the guy’s win or whatever. But you know what’s the point of taking any stance if you immediately tow the libbicrat demon line.
Bar is real low for burgerland.
And the Zionists are still calling for his head!
Never capitulate!
Give them an inch and they’ll think they’re a ruler!
This man is running for a municipal position with no foreign policy involvement whatsoever btw
de facto, un is in new york, so if he purged the police and installed young cadres of dsa ic, he could arrest bibi and half of wall street for drug trafficking
alas, he likely would be de blasio 2.0
Itamar Ben Gvir recently visited NYC and was allowed to walk the streets untouched, with his own security detail augmented by the NYPD
Online leftists when the American politician won’t say “death to Israel” on live TV:
Right yeah sure that’s whats up. Not the very cowardly affirmation that a calling invokes some terror for unrelated burgerland morons. “Online left” my ass. That is a real political person who banked on his supporters and went along with causes until its seemingly inconvenient. Lot of real people are feeling the brunt of terror laid by the american state.
People who did campus protests like khalil are being hounded and their lives are in disarray. But yeah I’m sure soothing dumbass zionists in new york is way more important than a principled stand.
come on, it’s just one incident but clearly the same self-defeating conciliatory attitude is on display here that got people like Corbyn destroyed. like who is this for?
That’s not what “globalize the intifada” means though
What does globalize the intifada mean and how does backing down to Zionist feelings help American leftism?
how hard is it to ask reporter to condemn genocide and apartheid? either he won’t and the nuance ™ is pointless or he will, and then you can talk
(i mean, all this says to me that probability of him fighting nypd/real estate have gone from 20 to 10% or whatever)
how hard is it to ask reporter to condemn genocide and apartheid?
I mean he’s already done it, several times, in front of cameras while this is for all intents and purposes a report of a report to a lib journalist
That’s not to say I am hopeful about him or anything
- …a lot of people are traumatized by that word [intifada]?
- for a lot of jewish people, they think of bus bombings…
where did he ask reporter to clarify his stance?
I said the same thing yesterday: The people calling him antisemitic don’t give a shit, no matter how much you explain to them that criticism of Israel is not antisemitic they’re going to keep calling it that anyway. Never, ever capitulate to these fuckers.
Now they’ll stop calling him a jihadist!
PATHETIC
dang, who could have predicted the democratic party would pull out all the stops to pressure a progressive making headway in their party?
Palestinians were disproportionately killed and maimed during both intifadas, which were almost entirely peaceful mass movements.
