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Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory." (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

It's much more difficult to go from being a socialist to a centist.

Mussolini was a socialist, and I don't mean in a fake "national socialist" way (although yes, later he became that), I mean he was an important figure of the "Italian socialist party", editor in chief of the official party newspaper

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Well he didn't turn into a tinkering-around-the-edges liberal. 😄

    I'm not arguing that people's views can't change. Rather I'm making this narrow point of the difficulty shifting towrds the centre from a liberal versus socialist position. I think one's much lower friction than the other. Both are possible.

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