Trump had his own personal Vietnam. Chuck Schumer can have his own personal 9/11.

You're the CEO of a polling institution. Run a poll asking "Do you support 'doing 9/11' to the Democratic Party?" you coward.

For even the most cynical treatlerites, it really does just boil down to "what have you done for ME lately?" From a naive perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. From a critical perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the institutionalist, "rule of law" liberals, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the "America First" nationalists, Israel is nothing but a liability. The only people who see merit in the cause of Israel are total cranks and zealots who truly believe the US or Israel (depending on who you ask) are ordained by God (and their secular cousins, the Atlanticists - the fundamentalists of American civic religion), who look forward to dying in a nuclear inferno on that hill. There are a lot of them though.

Big Beautiful Summer.

Having trouble running this smoothly in Mupen64Plus (Z-buffer problems), ParallellN64 (performance), or Project64 (running an emulator in an "emulator") :/

Looks sick though.

Them:

The Democrats as we know them will never go away. They might never win a national election ever again, but they will gatekeep and backstab and coopt until Hell freezes over.

The last thing the industry wants is another Doom (1993). A game that is (now) open source, highly portable, highly moddable, and still FUN and approachable 30 years later (and well preserved, as a result). At the time, it made sense for Id to release the source, because it held their competitors feet to the fire. Today, there is nothing left to innovate on the technology side of video games. They want everything to work like Madden/FIFA, where the publishers do the work a couple modders can pull off in a week and charge full price for it all over again.

(to the tune of "Fly Like an Eagle")

Dicks keep on slipping, slipping, slipping,

Into my butthole

While I think the third-worldists / ultras / anti-electoralists are generally right about the prospect of electoral work within the Great Satan, I feel like the pushback against Mamdani (specifically thinking of a couple well known Twitter users here) is an over-correction, and their criticisms come across as lazy and reflexive to me.

First is the criticism of electoral work being a misdirection of resources. It is worth noting that New York is just one city within the Great Satan. Circumstances are different than e.g. the Bernie campaigns of 2016 and 2020. We don't have "the left" dropping everything from sea to shining sea to get this man in office. It is a local struggle, and placed in the context of a city which has seen a militarized police force repeatedly deployed to crush and evict several anti-genocide encampments, it has the potential to change the way these other non-electoral tactics unfold moving forward, and a lot of people involved in the campaign are likely involved in these other tactics. It isn't a this-or-that situation at all.

Then there is the criticism of Democratic Party entryism. We all know the Democratic Party is a dead end institution, but also it is an extremely loosely defined institution. There is a big difference between building independent campaign infrastructure which is capable (among other things) of capturing the Democratic Party ballot line in a municipal election vs. planning to take control (or attempting to reform) institutions like the DNC, county and state level party organizations, the constellation of think tanks, PACs, and corporate media which define the party more broadly. The electoral strategy is a consequence of the shit-ass voting system we've got. I wouldn't call all cases of contesting a Democratic primary election entryism. It really depends on what your goals are. Do you think the party will embrace you if you win? Do you think you can influence them? Or are you doing it just to get on the ballot while eliminating some centrist goblin and forcing people to choose between social welfare and fascism.

I have several hopes for this campaign. I hope it activates people who have been unactivated. If it manages to do this, I wouldn't consider it a misdirection of resources. I would consider it more along the lines of "meeting the people where they're at." And from there people have the potential to grow.

I don't understand how people can write this off simply as entryism. The idea of entryism being bad is that the party cannot be reformed so it is a waste. Well, LOOK at the reaction of all the elite party and media figures to this news. They are destroying themselves. Is that a waste? If an act of "entryism" does more to undermine and destroy an institution than other tactics, can we really be mad about it?

No, this won't stop the genocide, or bring down the empire, but I also don't see any harm coming from this, at this stage at least. For the moment, it is making all the right people go apeshit.