Not sure who called it “Netanyahu’s wars”, but I hope Mamdani has more sense than that. We can’t allow for Netanyahu to become the fall guy for what is a genocidal ethnic supremacist state, and just pretend that it will all be better when some former terrorist becomes PM.
Citizens united must be reversed
Political funding needs to end
But both parties have their snozzles in the trough and because they benefit it’s going to require a third party that promises to change the constitution to fix campaign funding and policies for the rich
I’m starting to really like this guy
Billionaires are the terrorists of the 21st century.
AIPAC will keep trying under different pacs now. But they are awful no matter what rebranding they use.
Mamdani is 100% correct.
He’s not wrong
Somewhere there’s a mentally ill loner being groomed, given bullets with names scribbled on the casing, and a screed written in a bizarre Elizabethan style…
Who’d have guessed “tomorrow” and “Montreal”?
He’s not wrong they should be declared a terrorist group.
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They should at least have to register as a foreign lobby
Do they fucking not now? How is that allowed!?
The politically appointed and republican biased supreme court should not be allowed to arbitrarily make law that impacts national security without an assessment by a balanced group overseeing it’s decisions, joint chiefs, pentagon, house and Congress.
Citizens united opens an enormous gaping national security hole that needs to be closed permanently and never reopened.
Have you gotten hasbara thrown at u that Israel is lower than some other countries in FARA reports? Yeah.
No but if it’s not bad enough that they are a foreign lobby meddling in our elections, they have resorted to dark money fronts posing as progressive or conservative activist groups in order to hide their influence. It’s fucking insidious.
Yup, it’s bullshit, clearly they are a functional foreign lobby and as you suggest they should be on the list. But they aren’t, so my pro-Israel friends/family pull up the FARA numbers to prove Israel isn’t the top foreign lobbyist in the US. It’s farcical.
They don’t do any terroristic activities.
They just bribe and coerce public employees into giving an immoral genocidal foreign government infinite money and protection from accountability and justice.
according to statesian law, funding terrorists is terroristic activity. on that basis i disagree with your judgment of:
They don’t do any terroristic activities.
otherwise, you seem to have a good grasp of the situation
They demand uncritical support of Israel, which is basically a terrorist state at this point.
There were founded by terror groups attacking and displacing the Arab people, since the start they have been a terrorist state.
they do almost nothing but terrorism. Its their whole shtick.
Antifa was last year.
Opposing Israel is not synonymous with Antifa.
It’s just synonymous with American patriotism
That’s not the point, I was shutting down right wing rhetoric.
Sorry misread your comment out with the dog. I agree, it’s just common sense.
What right wing rhetoric? They just made a factual statement. Antifa WAS declared a terrorist org. It’s insane nonsense that doesn’t even define what antifa is but it’s true.
You know you can click on a user’s name and see their post history right?
We’re not talking about antifa is the point because he’s unrelated to them.
My understanding of their incredibly vague comment that you are reading an awful lot into, is that terrorist designations are silly and mean mostly nothing because the people doing the designating are untrustworthy.
But you can feel however you want about things
POTUS designated it a terrorist organization happened.
It’s not an organization
So what? It’s a legal terrorist organization.
Check the news.
It’s not an organization
It’s unrelated to this conversation.
Can you explain how Antifa is a terrorist group?
I’d love specifics.
What specifically have they done? Who have they terrified? Hell, even just… Who is the group?
Antifa isn’t a group like Al Qaeda, The Taliban, ISIS, The Proud Boys, etc. it is an anti-fascist philosophy. So if you’re actively against antifa, that necessarily puts you on the side of fascists. Keep that in mind when looking at who is vocally against antifa and trying to demonize antifa.
Executive order.
Why even bother replying if you don’t have an answer? You just made yourself look fucking stupid.
Executive orders only affect federal workers.
terrorists or demons would be a tad better, but monsters checks out. I like to bring in war criminals hiding from international justice too.
We need more politicians involved in dismantling oppressive systems and seeking unity. He’s showing Dems the way a path forwards. What Democratic leadership is pushing hasn’t worked for a while, maybe try to learn.
Jpost? OK guess I’ll just go with what the state says…
I didn’t even notice the source on my first read…. On second read I still think Mamdani is doing excellent work :)
Oh I’m all for Mamdani, just would like to see links from better sources.
100% I just find it funny in this instance and even from that perspective, he still comes out looking like a champion.
He might be a filthy half-measure loving democratic socialist, but he does occasionally do the right thing.
Ah, and there it is.
He is moving the overton window back to the left tho
The Overton window in the US has a long way to move towards the left before it even reaches center.
Mamdani’s kinda straddling the edge. He calls himself a Democratic Socialist and uses anti-capitalist rhetoric but his policy platform is just Social Democracy.
Excise him immediately!
In blue and maybe purple areas sure, but deep red areas are only getting redder in response. Speaking as someone who has lived in a red area my whole life.
Well pandering to their bullshit didn’t make them less red so now they must get left behind if any of us want a brighter future.
Hahaha the leftists have purity tested MAMDANI out of their circle. You can’t make this shit up, Lemmy
Mamdani would be like a center left politician in Europe. I guess for most Americans anything slightly to the left of a Hillary Clinton is the limit of the left spectrum.
Which left wing European governments are building state-owned grocery stores?
Anything that isn’t a total leninist commie is “center left”. I love it! You guys are so funny it’s sad. Once again, the left proving is exclusively good at one thing and one thing only: purity testing the left.
Also, I live in Europe. Mamdani is a boiler plate leftist here. Nothing you said is true.
The word “left” is extremely fluid on Lemmy, it seems. When Mamdani is campaigning, it’s a big tent word and Mamdani is definitely on the team. After the campaign, when the purity testing begins, “left” has strict leninist parameters in must adhere to. It’s fun, isn’t it
Ehhh, this isn’t half as true as it used to be (lived on both sides of the Atlantic extensively, am currently in central Europe). The majority of Europe is as firmly neoliberal as America is ideologically. We have a more robust welfare state, and some of us have some better labor laws, but the core ideals of neoliberalism rule nearly the entire subcontinent with real, old school socialist parties (that are actually still holding socialist views) don’t really have any more power than they do in the US. They get a bit more just by virtue of parliamentary systems, but their actual size and influence is almost non existent in most countries here.
Europe is in decline. It used to have people much to the left of Mamdani who implemented the socialist policies, but neoliberalism has been slowly eroding all of Europe and it is turning into the USA.
That is why Mamdani is now center-left in Europe. In the past he would just be a centrist or even center-right with his current policies. Everything is relative.
Compare Mamdani for example to Mechelon in France and Mamdani is clearly far to his right.
This is all vibes. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Well yes, but that’s my point, this trend has been global since the 80’s with Reagan and Thatcher. Continental Europe held out longer, but even here it pretty much rules the day. A lot of Americans have a very, very misinformed view of what politics here look like thinking it much more to the left, and that just hasn’t been the case for arguably a few decades. There’s a few issues we’re even to the right of Americans on. Sure, there are some holdouts, but not many that have impacted politics much in recent history.
Of course but the argument is that Mamdani is nowhere near the edge of leftism. Politicians with far more leftist policies than him have existed and succesfully implemented many. It is not a mythical pipe dream.
In the last two decades in US politics? Like who? Name one
Definitely agree with that. I’d say he’s near the edge of politicians currently in an actual elected position in the US, but that’s about as far as it goes. Even in the US, there have been politicians further left in power historically. Absolutely no pipe dream.
Go outside. Touch grass. Deprogram.
Taking a break from denying China’s systematic human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang to talk shit about Mamdani, are we? Democratic socialism not totalitarian enough for your liking?
