I’ve been seeing a bunch of people saying that he’s not really anti-Zionist because he says Israel has a right to exist “as a state with equal rights” rather than saying they don’t have a right to exist and that he’s not actually a Lefty because he isn’t making like huge sweeping promises before even getting into office officially.
It honestly just sounds like more “Holier Than Thou, I’m The Better Leftist” LARP that the Online Left seems to love engaging in.
Edit: Oh and people taking him talking about the talks he’s had with Jewish New Yorkers about the whole “Globalize Intifada” smear the wrong way. I guess some have taken it as him capitulating to the Zionists when I guess to me it sounds more like he’s just saying that he understands that he had a different view on what those words meant than other people apparently did not that he’s changing his views or anything.
I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.
idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.
I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”
I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?
I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.
I’ve been seeing a bunch of people saying that he’s not really anti-Zionist because he says Israel has a right to exist “as a state with equal rights” rather than saying they don’t have a right to exist and that he’s not actually a Lefty because he isn’t making like huge sweeping promises before even getting into office officially.
It honestly just sounds like more “Holier Than Thou, I’m The Better Leftist” LARP that the Online Left seems to love engaging in.
Edit: Oh and people taking him talking about the talks he’s had with Jewish New Yorkers about the whole “Globalize Intifada” smear the wrong way. I guess some have taken it as him capitulating to the Zionists when I guess to me it sounds more like he’s just saying that he understands that he had a different view on what those words meant than other people apparently did not that he’s changing his views or anything.
I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.
idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.
I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”
I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?
I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.