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[+] -82 points 3 months ago (33 children)

He might be a filthy half-measure loving democratic socialist, but he does occasionally do the right thing.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (23 children)

    Hahaha the leftists have purity tested MAMDANI out of their circle. You can't make this shit up, Lemmy

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (22 children)

    Mamdani would be like a center left politician in Europe. I guess for most Americans anything slightly to the left of a Hillary Clinton is the limit of the left spectrum.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Anything that isn't a total leninist commie is "center left". I love it! You guys are so funny it's sad. Once again, the left proving is exclusively good at one thing and one thing only: purity testing the left.

    Also, I live in Europe. Mamdani is a boiler plate leftist here. Nothing you said is true.

    The word "left" is extremely fluid on Lemmy, it seems. When Mamdani is campaigning, it's a big tent word and Mamdani is definitely on the team. After the campaign, when the purity testing begins, "left" has strict leninist parameters in must adhere to. It's fun, isn't it

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  • [+] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (18 children)

    Europe is in decline. It used to have people much to the left of Mamdani who implemented the socialist policies, but neoliberalism has been slowly eroding all of Europe and it is turning into the USA.

    That is why Mamdani is now center-left in Europe. In the past he would just be a centrist or even center-right with his current policies. Everything is relative.

    Compare Mamdani for example to Mechelon in France and Mamdani is clearly far to his right.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (15 children)

    Of course but the argument is that Mamdani is nowhere near the edge of leftism. Politicians with far more leftist policies than him have existed and succesfully implemented many. It is not a mythical pipe dream.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    Who was more far left than Mamdani in the last two decades? Can you give an example?

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  • [+] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Ok. That's a nice analysis to have for the history books. The US electorate can't remember what happened 6 mos ago. Can we take this win with Mamdani? Can we take this one win please? Can we not purge him yet? Is that ok? I understand he's not the perfect leftist. I get it. Can we just take this and work with it?

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  • [+] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry if my tone sounded harsh. It was mainly addressed for the rest of LEMMY that can't seem to understand how to build electoral power and move the goddamn overton window - LIKE AT ALL.

    THANK YOU

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  • [+] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's so exhausting. The revolutionary cosplay is dialed to a ten. Every day I open Lemmy you'd think the streets are about to run red with blood of landlords any minute... Then I remember these are the same neckbeard basement dwellers masturbating each other on leninist theory while Marx looks down in disgust... Ugh

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    In the last two decades in US politics? Like who? Name one

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Try thinking outside of the two party system.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yea? What have they "successfully implemented" in the US?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nothing because you keep yelling at them to vote for Hillary

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ah ok. Sounds like they didn't implement anything then. So we're just making stuff up now. Gotcha.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Do you think the US is the entire world?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This thread is about US politics. Go back to the first question I asked you. Also, Mamdani is in the US. I don't know why we need to constantly pivot. I guess, on a global scale "akshually mamdani is center-left gosh". Like, what an asinine useless take. Let me know when the rest of the world is ready to vote in us politics.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    He is moving the overton window back to the left tho

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The Overton window in the US has a long way to move towards the left before it even reaches center.

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