Aye, it definitely could be the case that that line is now outdated. I’m only arguing that the Mamdani campaign’s results can’t be used as evidence to support any conclusion regarding revolutionary socialist organizing.

Re- his analysis of Mamdani not getting much of the Black vote in the primary: is it not liberal to put the onus on voters to vote for the correct candidate, instead of the candidate to appeal to voters? As he pointed out, Mamdani didn’t get in with a lot of Black leaders. He also didn’t make a big deal out of how his policies would be especially helpful for Black New Yorkers, possibly a tactical move because Americans are so racist that knowing that any social program benefits Black people immediately makes them less likely to support it. Etc etc. So why would we expect any other outcome?

Moreso, it seems backwards to argue against the Black Panther Party’s line that Black people in the US, as one of the most exploited groups, had the most revolutionary potential and thus is the most valuable group to organize on the basis that Black New Yorkers didn’t vote for a Social Democrat as much as you wanted them to. If it had been a candidate with a more radical platform and a revolutionary organization tied at his hip then that is a conclusion that could have some more weight, but that’s just not the case here.

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Absolutely true that his connections to antizionist intellectuals was almost certainly part of the blackmail operation.

I can’t really understand why, in Iraq of all places, secularism comes before anti-imperialism for Communists. Though I guess it also begs for some serious analysis of how the secularists should adapt to being only a minor faction of the anti-imperialist resistance among religious allies, and how to achieve the strategic goal of healing sectarian divisions while being part of said coalition.

There’s some emails talking about Finkelstein apparently, but nothing that implicates him in anything concrete AFAIK.

He’s reappointing Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, I have a feeling he isn’t gonna do this.

We may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror.

Also note that when socialists express this kind of sentiment, one of the most common responses from liberals is that anti-electoral socialists are too much of a fringe ideology to get any kind of mass movement going, so they necessarily have to go through the Democratic party to do anything. But the only way that Democrats are staying relevant ATM is by coopting socialism with people like Mamdani and AOC!

Anyone who is serious about socialism should recognize that if the vast majority of workers who want social programs and a more equal society are being trapped in a bourgeois, capitalist, imperialist party, that party is their main enemy that must be defeated before anything else can even happen. If you can’t organize a fighting force for proletarians that recognizes who their enemies are, you’re not equipped for taking on the other fascists yet either.

Some statistically significant number of LOL players who upgraded to Linux probably decided to start playing DOTA 2 instead. I don’t know what could be done for those poor souls, maybe we should make an OS that can’t run any MOBA.

Switching to Linux allowed me to quit Valorant cold turkey. Best upside of the whole thing by far.

I will remember this and ask you if you switched to linux next time I see one of your comments. You have no excuse now

rent free lol

Only way to get Eric Adams to follow your instructions is to give them in Turkish.

Does that mean that there are 14.3% more seriously delinquent student loans than the previous quarter, that 14.3% of student loans are seriously delinquent (I think you just clarified this one isn’t it), that 14.3% of student loans that were delinquent transitioned to seriously delinquent, or something else?

Right, there’s not really a reason for it not to exist as an online community. Even if I think China’s anti-drug policies are not the right way to deal with the issues at hand I can at least recognize that there’s a practical and real reason to be extremely vigilant about narcotics; extending that approach to discussion of narcotics, however, is just silly.

I’ve been consuming Chinese propaganda recently instead lol.

Nice, I’m going to be allowed to start believing in dedollarization soon!

It does regularly receive posts. It’s just a nsfw community and you probably are filtering them out.

It’s also just not a community that promotes drug use? It’s mainly a containment comm for people to talk about things where drug use may come up, so that users who want to avoid that can block it.

I didn’t mean to say that it wasn’t worth trying, I’m just trying to explain why the comparison is inadequate and could lead to taking the wrong approach to organizing. But it’s still absolutely worth trying!