Childish talk to impress his childish supporters.

Any world leader going to the UN is granted diplomatic immunity. In the height of the Cold War, Fidel Castro came to NYC many times. You know they would really want to arrest him, but everyone respected diplomatic norms and did not do this. The importance of the UN as a forum for diplomacy was respected.

The US is not a signatory to the ICC. There is exactly zero legal standing for Mamdani to do this.

Mamdani knows these things. He's just being a populist saying things he knows is stupid because his base will eat it up. Once again we have a populist who does not respect his supporters enough to understand when he's talking bullshit. He thinks you're stupid enough to believe that he can arrest someone with diplomatic immunity to enforce some order from an international group that the US isn't a party to.

Is he right? Is his base stupid enough to actually believe this?

Anti-zionistm morphed into antisemitism when anti-zionists started protesting at their local synagogues.

Mamdani being the mayor of a city with a large Jewish population is well aware of the rise in antisemitism and the connection to anti-zionism. It's just politically expedient for him to look the other way and not talk about the issue.

Here's Harrison Ford's first movie appearance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAEF5G-YXg

According to Ford, the director told him he wouldn't make it in the movie business because when a great actor is on the screen, you know it's a great actor. Ford replied, "I think when I'm on the screen you're not supposed to see a great actor, you're supposed to just see a bellhop."

Yeah J Edgar Hoover got up to all kinds of crazy shit. But that was a long time ago and was primarily about being against communists and black civil rights activists.

Most conspiracy theories fall apart when you just ask the question "why would they do this?"

So... why would the FBI be pushing the kind of content we see on lemmy? Why would the FBI be promoting socialism and anti-zionism? Why would the FBI be promoting trans rights? Is there some hidden agenda which would explain why the FBI would be promoting linux and other FOSS on lemmy?

I don't really see anything on lemmy that would be in the interests of the FBI to be pushing. They might be monitoring things going on here, but which content are you seeing that looks like it's coming from the FBI?

Foreign countries though? Yeah, they're interested in trying to push anyone "radicalized" to do anything which would destabilize their adversaries. And if you look at the content on lemmy, much of the geopolitical discussion is very unhinged and often is trying to push people towards violence.

If Marx were alive today he'd probably hate modern day "marxists" and they'd hate him.

Fascists use religion (along with everything else available) to gain, increase, and maintain power. Fascists will even use socialist rhetoric if it gains them power. Actions matter more than what people are saying.

You can say you're a socialist or whatever, but if you want to hurt people simply for being different from you, then you're a fascist.

Yeah nothing going on at all... just the Prime Minister resigned, no biggie.

Sounds like you understand everything that's important to know about this race.

I've been banned from many communities on lemmy.ml.

Their ideas simply don't stand up to scrutiny, so they remove any scrutiny. They want to live in an alternate world where communism is good, and everyone else is stupid. They're not significantly different from flat earthers, qanon, maga, or any other delusional online group.

The mentality that everything is an opinion and all opinions are valid is an sign of acute internet brainrot.

The truth actually exists. You've spent too much time on the internet if you think in terms of "choose your own reality".

WAKA WAKA the plane has been diverted to Africa.

It's hard to tell, the article is poorly written. There's something about an Australian guy getting arrested at LAX, not sure if that's related to what happened in LV or not.

At any rate, it's kinda stupid to arrest someone at an airport even before they've gone through security. They're likely leaving the country and will have to present themselves to a customs official anyway. Instead of wasting money on prosecuting someone that overstayed, it's better just to let them leave, maybe charge them a fine or whatever.

It's just cruelty for the sake of cruelty.