Some "leftists" are almost as mad that Zohran won than the libs and chuds, it's a funny kind of synchronicity

Meanwhile all I care about is that he triggers the birth of countless more socialists and dismantles THE MOST crippling mindset among the masses "Your politics are cool, but they're not realistic"

Zohran is a blow to capitalist realism, to AIPAC, to the DNC, to leftist book club mentality, it's a shame nobody realizes five years too late we got our wish and the door is finally open for mass radicalization, at least in New York City

I remember joyously watching the press conferences with his transition team. I was excited for him to tackle the financial crisis.

Years later I learned that he had gotten his whole cabinet pre-approved by Citi Bank. Tackling Wall Street indeed.

I give it three months into his term before people are posting again

I don't really care for Mamdani in a way that expects him to change things, I care for him for what he means for proper communists in New York and the whole US. People ought to use him and his success to further actual socialism.

Because they're sniffing their own farts over Mamdani winning and Prop. 50 passing.

first as thing then as thing

NYC will improve slightly but not as much as we want. Maybe some smaller places will get some copycats who won't be asked about international issues. that's about it.

oh, also dick cheney died, that was a shame it took so long.

This is much different bro

A Mayor who even says That he would arrest Netanyahu in the USA is such a massive change

The fact it’s the mayor of New York makes it even bigger

I knew Obama wasn't going to change anything, and I didn't vote for him, but I did go to DC for his inauguration. It was historic, and it inspired a lot of people. The energy that day was unforgettable.

I also don't have any illusions about Mamdani, but I think it's rad that he opened his victory speech with a Debs quote. That a dude like this can win (handily) in NY, says something significant about our historical moment

10 years after Bernie first ran his presidential campaign, the American left finally gets to celebrate the election of its first socialist mayor. (With the exception of AOC, whose relation with the left had soured just a few years in)

I’ll leave you to decide whether this is good progress or not.

But what is clear is that this is nowhere near the “significance” of Obama’s presidential win. Not even close.

At one point, Bernie boasted a million volunteers nationwide during his primary campaign. Have those energy dissipated into nowhere? Or did it remain latent and about to be reinvigorated after Mamdani’s victory? Are there plans to run 100s and 1000s of socialist candidates all over the country? If so, what are the organized movements that sustain these effort? How are they organized, especially against hostile state apparatuses? Can they translate electoral victories into palpable political actions? What are their strategies toward taking broader state power?

These are the important questions to ask. And if no such political movement emerges in the wake of Mamdani, nothing will change.

I remember thinking the world was gonna change. Not in a revolutionary way but in an "arc of history bends towards justice" kinda way. Fuck me for being even that optimistic right

It takes a truely demented American to obsess over elections instead of, say, sports gambling at this point. Have some self-respect and buy the executive scamcoins. There's not even any money in this bizarro fantasy world certain Felix reply guys live in where there is an internal democrat civil war between Hilldawg and Obamna. As many people with less-pockmarked brains than I have pointed out, the latter had a much better record as an activist than Mamdani. It's just that our times are too unsubtle for even slickos like Barack and Zohran has to go around doing Don't Worry I Promise I Am Sheepdogging These Assholes press conferences with the kind liberal Zionists next to whatever placard

At first I resented the discourse at all but now I realize that Americans birthing another one of these creatures with social media tulpamancy is an opportunity to educate people on the paucity of mere wage + rent stabilization without land reform (the kind that gets you in the black book) and other unspeakables

If you've never repackaged and sold the same old shit as 'hope and change', well, that's why you're a fucking poor.

That being said, if you don't think today's results reflect a significant shift you're blind. The republican strategy to racist shitpost their way to absolute power has pushed society further left than any attention seeking would be icon ever could.

If you keep electing people who call themselves democratic socialists (not Obama obviously), eventually you will get a Hugo Chávez.