prediction: as Trump threatens Mamdani more and more, affective polarization is going to lead more and more dems to agree with Mamdani
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I think they are hoping this happens so they can make Democrat = Mamdani = Communist = Muslim = Terrorist equation work, but it's going to backfire soooo massively lol
jul 1, 2025, 5:03 pm • 17 0 • view
It's so helpful to have attractive people as the public face of your party. Who do you want to look at and listen to for another four years? Not ideal that attractiveness matters so much, but we don't need to pick that fight right now.
jul 1, 2025, 5:07 pm • 7 0 • view
A genuine smile can move mountains. A smirk only hardens the stone.
jul 1, 2025, 5:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Arrest All Political Opponents??? Trump's threat to go after Mamdani puts Trump in with Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega who simply arrests any political opposition. Trump's rapid move toward authoritarianism cannot be ignored. All hands on deck to fight Fascism!
jul 2, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope so!
jul 1, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
as the 1920s psychoanalysis after freud teach us the child in infancy to two year old learn “hate” before they learn “reciprocal love” this is because 0 to 24 months the child is a ball of need, exploration, frustration, for the world is confusing to their senses
jul 1, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
and this confusion plus hate is how the child first learns how things work in a manifold fashion, and the manifold is base for later care, love, reciprocation, repair, and respect 🫡
jul 1, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
It all comes down to what do most Democrats value more…being Islamophobic and making sure they crush any progressive/left momentum in the US, or taking the battle against Trump and the broader problem of fascism seriously. I hope they get behind Mamdani, but that’s not what I’d put my money on
jul 1, 2025, 6:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Pretty much the recipe during Trump I.
jul 1, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Pity it has to come to that
jul 1, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
With any luck there'll be such momentum the pro-MAGA Democrats will start pretending they supported him all along and begrudgingly pass his policies
jul 1, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view
This is what has already happened with "socialism." By associating popular politicians with "socialism," the right has made socialism more popular rather than harming those politicians. If you've heard Fox News scream "socialism" about any program that helps people, you conclude it is good.
jul 1, 2025, 5:07 pm • 12 0 • view
The whole socialism = communism = bad is a holdover from the previous political era (pre-Reagan) that didn't get passed on to the next generations. Socialism is only a dirty word to old people nowadays. The red scare died when the Berlin wall fell.
jul 1, 2025, 5:27 pm • 8 0 • view
Inshallah This is how progressives win 🌹💪
jul 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Easiest money there is
jul 1, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
that is the silver lining if there is one, if only we didn't all have to go through all this heinous awful shit to get there
jul 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
At some point I wouldn't be surprised if NYC and other blue enclaves just seceded from the US
jul 1, 2025, 5:05 pm • 3 0 • view
They'd be attacked immediately. Though they'd have the ability to scorch earth whatever the feds wanted to save of the city.
jul 2, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
i mean it's either that or they start to agree more with Trump and I do think your hypothetical is significantly more likely, but it's not *totally* nonzero...
jul 1, 2025, 5:06 pm • 4 0 • view
I don't. I've only ever seen Dems snub ppl to their left. Voters? Sure. Establisment? Not a chance.
jul 1, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
at least dem voters but dem leadership rarely gets polarized
jul 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 4 0 • view
When asked about Mamdani's plan to resist ICE raids Trump responded, "Well then, we'll have to arrest him." Trump then lied about his citizenship. "A lot of people are saying he's here illegally," Trump said. THIS IS THE FASCISM WE WARNED YOU ABOUT
jul 2, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
To be fair, I doubt that any Democrat in an urbanized constituency could get elected in 2026 without copying Mamdani's agenda. Economic desperation will breed a new brand of politics.
jul 1, 2025, 5:14 pm • 23 1 • view
The one good thing about the rise of fascism is a powerful resurgence and growth of the militant left. But we need an immediate full court press if we want to get ahead of the purges, and we're running out of time.
jul 1, 2025, 5:16 pm • 10 0 • view
I would rather live in a world run by neoliberals and social democrats without the threat of fascism.
jul 1, 2025, 5:26 pm • 8 1 • view
I'm under no illusions that actual leftists will assume any real and meaningful power. We either get purged by the fascists beforehand, or purged by the new regime afterwards. Or both 🤷♂️ But if we're not here organizing and fighting, we won't get past fascism. Neoliberalism isn't going to fix this.
jul 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 6 1 • view
No it won't, but ideologically it won't survive the transition to a 7th Party system any better than mid-20th century social democracy survived the transition to the 6th. What comes next probably doesn't even have a word for it yet.
jul 1, 2025, 5:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Ideally, the western world moves collectively towards wider adoption of Scandinavian style social-democracy with a strong syndicalist backbone, but that's just me being a "union-based activism as a driver of social change" type person.
jul 1, 2025, 5:55 pm • 5 1 • view
Sadly it isn’t just a matter of the material conditions. It is the information war. Look at Sweden. A Conservative government propped up by a literal Nazi Party called the Sweden Democrats. Who are proper Nazis.
jul 2, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
information war and the fact that people are racist as fuck and the moment an immigration wave happens, homogeneous societies freak the fuck out
jul 2, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 1 • view
There's actually an abundance of literature about the decline of Swedish syndicalism that's come out over the past decade, and a new push to refresh the movement. It's a hot topic in a few different anarchist spaces that I've followed over the years.
jul 2, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately I worked for Stefan Löfven I know all about this nonsense. I could probably talk for a full day on my takes about Scandinavian political fuck ups in the Social Democracy. It is a substantially good system, but they also decided to hit it hard with the neoliberal stick.
jul 2, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, neoliberalism is the cancer that seems to infect everything good and eventually enable it to turn into fascism. That's a problem that needs addressing.
jul 2, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
znetwork.org/znetarticle/... This article was making the rounds quite a bit last year.
jul 2, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Cheers thank for the piece. I will give it a read. It you want to get really inspired get into Austrian Trade Unionism. And the Workers Chamber.
jul 2, 2025, 12:15 am • 1 0 • view
All I've ever seen the Dem establishment do is slink further and further right. Not a chance.
jul 1, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Totally anecdotal obviously, but I have seen this shift in some relatives already
jul 1, 2025, 5:17 pm • 4 0 • view