That said, other person says Mamdani DID vote for her in the end, and since I keep hearing a lot of conflicting messages on to what degree he did or didn't endorse I'm gonna have to do my own proverbial research. I'm: pragmatic. Which is my and I suspect your main beef with the DSA/abstainers.
And I'm 3000 miles away as well. But, I like a LOT of what Mamdani's putting down, policy and campaign. He seems canny, and actually distanced himself a bit from the DSA just lately. And I used to live in NYC, so I'm kibitzing pretty hard. Anyways.
I'm from Buffalo. He's OK on issues. I've fought for them all one time or the next. They're Dem concerns. But it's too late to distance himself from DSA that is really hard core elitist, and very racist, anti diversity.
Yup. Pragmatic to the core. No grand idea is worth a thing if you can logically and humanely implement it.
elsewhere I was talking on someone else's feed who is VERY irate about what appears to be a DSA plank to the effect of "getting rid of USAID is Good, Actually, because U.S. imperialism," iow, the tankie faction won out in there somewhere. Someone came into the thread defending that take.
and I said basically the same thing, re her saying there were questions about whether getting rid of USAID "would" be worse, and like: lady. There's no "would." People are literally dying *right now* by the hundreds of thousands or more. If your ideology matters more than that, fuck your ideology.
SERIOUSLY. That's very well said!
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