• criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I’m very surprised that people are so scared about a mayoral election. Yeah it’s NYC but like it’s not like he’s gonna have that much reach that the fucking PM of Israel needs to make a statement about it.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      that’s how much they fear anything that even remotely resembles actual socialism.

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        18 days ago

        I … suspect it might be more that they are scared of the racial component. Not even “scared”.

        Silicon Valley is a burgerhole of Curtis Yarvin, dreams of technofascism with its inhabitants on top, impunity with wages not quite mirroring quality, and a bit - American academic culture. And American academic culture is the fucking opposite of the European one, or so I’ve read.

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            18 days ago

            The jerk has his own Wikipedia page.

            Basically an ideologist of what you get if you remove NAP and common property of unmade resources from ancap. Would be a funny thought experiment if there weren’t crowds of people, working in those big companies, thinking his ideology is good and right.

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      18 days ago

      He won’t affect global policy much at all. He’s a threat to the mega wealthy because he’s a symbol of change in the American people.

      This is the same reason the elite went so hard on the communist scare late last century. Back then certain political views were almost a criminal offense. Hopefully history doesn’t repeat itself here.

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        18 days ago

        The rise of fascism in the mid-1920s to late 1930s was a direct response by the ruling capitalists to the ascent of real, populist/socialist/communist changes that actually threatened their power and wealth for the first time in history. It happened all over the world (well at least Europe), and it totally makes sense what we’re seeing now all over the world.

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      18 days ago

      He’s proving the point that the DNC has denied for well over a fucking decade: stop listening to money, start listening to people, and you will win. That’s it. That’s the whole argument.

      And the DNC establishment is scared shitless, because they know it’s working, and they know more people are gonna run campaigns like he’s doing, and there’s gonna be a sea-change in terms of what the fuck the Democratic Party is (that, or a third party is going to spawn and absolutely fucking crush the DNC).

      The neoliberals are looking down the barrel of a gun right now, and they know they put themselves there.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        18 days ago

        It’s telling when most of the Congress dnc votes with the GOP, or at least don’t put up a fight when gop constantly walks over them