It's funny how hot Gillibrand got over Zohran, but hasn't really said a peep in the last 5ish months of all... this.
It's certainly curious.
It's funny how hot Gillibrand got over Zohran, but hasn't really said a peep in the last 5ish months of all... this.
It's certainly curious.
I mean at this rate with about %70 of democrats saying no to Bernie's stop arm sales motions, we can already safely assume yes they are. They have only been caring about their seats for quite a while and the deals they have made to stay on those seats do not align with the aims and interests of people like Bernie and Zohran. That is why they try to stop such candidates as ferociously as Republicans.
I'm pretty sure they're with Zohran because he's literally the DNC candidate.
Yes, of course. That must be why they tried ferociously to stop him from winning the primary with Islamophobic smears and are now freaking out that they failed, and why the corporate media (yes, even the "liberal" media) are all crashing out.
Ah yes, the great DNC freakout of 2025. It was legendary. Why even Bill Clinton made such vile remarks as
Congratulations @ZohranKMamdani on your victory in yesterday’s primary election and a well-run campaign. I’m wishing you much success in November and beyond as you work to bring New Yorkers together to tackle the city’s challenges and shape a stronger, fairer future,
These horrible disgusting people would stop at nothing to keep them off their ticket. Except, of course, not inviting him to run on their ticket, for some reason.
They're all maintaining decorum (something they would die before dropping) by congratulating him on his win while denouncing his policies and stopping short of endorsing him. Ever since his victory all the "liberal" corporate media has been praising the "energy" of his campaign while criticizing his policies as dangerous and painting his pro-palestinian views as anti-semitic. Don't even try to pretend the way the DNC has been responding to this is normal. In nearly every other democratic primary the DNC have been quick to line up behind the victor.
What sort of stuff were they saying
Here's an article from the corporate media about the DNC's response to Mamdani's victory, and Here's an article from independent leftist media about the Islamophobic attacks against him.
I won't include an article from right-wing media, but I'm sure you can guess how they're coping with the electoral victory of a Muslim socialist immigrant born in Uganda to Indian parents (not well).
The post we're commenting under has also included some articles.
DNC doesn't even stand for anything anymore. People use it when it's not even relevant.
Yeah, you're just an Islamaphobe. I know this because you're specifically focusing on Islam, rather than every other major religion.
Spoken like a true chauvinist. The UK murdered tens of millions more in India alone under the guise of the values of enlightenment than Islam has in the past century and a half.
Islam makes women 2nd class citizens it's a guise for enslaving a whole gender. Fuck Islam. Defending it means you don't value 50% of humans.
Yeah you're right, unlike evangelical Christianity, which treats women as valuable and treasured members of society... Nah just kidding they are just ambulatory wombs that occasionally make noises as far as the evangelicals are concerned.
I am disgusted by religion, all religions, but let's not blind ourselves to the reality that when religion is an excuse for shitty behaviour it's not restricted to a single religion, and its not like getting rid of the religion would remove the shitty behaviour it would just mean coming up with a new justification.
I think the same of all religions, Islam is as bad as it gets though.
What inspired your discrimination?
The open misogyny and discrimination against women
I believe that you must judge religion for it's content and after that its possible use. Otherwise, you will simply delve into unfair discrimination distinction. As someone who "doesn't adhere to the bible but still identifies as a Christian", arguably is not a Christian.
The Quran is very vocal about the fact that women are most valued for her body, while the bible doesn't really value women even for their body. The Quran says that women are almost equal to men, but that men are a degree above them. Which is way, way, way more generous than what the bible gives them. The bible says that women must treat men like gods, and that they basically have no rights at all. Women may not teach at all, and have no authority over men.
Both treat menstruation like a disease and are really vile against it. The bible even describes how gods favorite insult is menstruous woman... "You must stay away from women who menstruate", is something both the Quran and Bible say. The Quran also says women are some reward, which is truly disgusting. Both the Bible and Quran are pretty lenient in women in slavery, although these things get pretty complicated for me personally. On the topic of men owning women, both the Bible and the Quran say pretty much the same. Although in Christianity, the original belief was to just avoid women and sex, since there wasn't enough time. Jesus was coming so soon that the people living then didn't have enough time to even have sex... it's insane that people even can be Christians, because the religion very openly prophesized the end to be before 200 AC, it should've been in a lifetime. But alas, I guess no Christian has actually read the whole bible. Matthew 23:36 is one of the many instances where the bible said that the generation that was around for the bible would see the events of the end of the world... Sorry for going off-topic. I have an interest in religion.
The short version of my whole lineup, if you stop comparing religions, then they all are guilty of misogyny and discrimination against women. Quran and the Bible both contain a good amount of misogyny. From my point of view, the bible condones the murder of women more, while the Quran seems to condone rape more (they both condone these to a degree). If you went into studies of actual behavior partaken in by people who identify as either Muslim or Christian, this would be more complex.
I just dislike giving Christianity a pass as if it is anywhere close to being better. I am not going to argue towards making Christianity seem worse, which someone could easily do in a lot of ways. My intention is just to say that both religions do hold these views in their fundaments. Aside from this all, I would say that judging either Muslims or Christians by them being so is wrong. This also goes for many other religions too, of course, I am just trying to make it easier to talk about this as some religions are fundamentally bad to be a part of. Many Christians can be good and bad people, many Muslims can be good and bad people.
I hope that this response has fallen well, and it has helped to inform. There is not one that can be credited to be as bad as it gets, as it is really hard to accurately make an estimate of which is the actual worse one. It just creates a distinction which can be used to harm a demographic, sometimes even a bigger one than the original intention (if you dislike Muslims, then this might extend to anyone that appears Arabic to you).
Fundamentalists of any religion do this.
Western chauvinism makes non-whites 2nd class citizens. It's a guise for enslaving the whole global south. Fuck western chauvinism. Defending it means you don't value 80% of humans.
Don't forget Bernie.
DNC had the same exact response. With the same exact Trump.
Took the DNC ten fucking years to pull their head out of their ass long enough to complain about young men populism being the key to victory, despite literally pissing away all the young men populism voters they had with Bernie Sanders.
Thank fuck it's now blatantly obvious with Zohran.
I'm not confident they will get it this time. Or care
I mean really they don't, I'm pretty sure 180 just voted against the impeachment of Trump. Literally just waiting to see which shill geriatric they'll put up for 2028 and pull the same "vote for us or suffer Republicans" bs for the next election.
I keep saying that if progressives in the DNC are being constantly blocked and cheated out of power, they need to split off and make their own party. They're afraid that if they do, they'll lose a majority against Republicans, but that's already true because even bargain basement protection laws barely pass when the Dems do have a majority in congress, and they actively support bs Republican bills when a minority like right now.
Splitting would render the DNC useless and simultaneously tap into the huge block of nonvoters that would turnout like how Mamdani's voter base was largely a grassroots campaign.
Oh I agree completely. Just to clarify: The DNC absolutely will not get it or care. This is what I was describing as more "apparant" now.
I like this analogy.
The Democrats are playing the game.
The Republicans are playing the rules of the game.
It's funny. A lot on the right say the same thing about their representatives. They even call them RINOs (republican in name only). Funny how when republicans take control the spending goes up anyway.
It's almost like either party doesn't actually do what they say they do and have an entirely different agenda. It would be interesting to see on what issues congressional dems and republicans agree on that the public disagrees with them on. That might tell us what the actual agenda is.
There is something people are missing with Bernie. Bernie does happen to be Jewish, but he is not a Zionist, unlike for example Chuck Shumer. Then Hillary is not Jewish but she is a Zionist.
The control system prefers Zionists for legislative positions but they absolutely require Zionists for administrative positions. So much so they won't let someone escape a primary without the machine kicking into play. Even at the state level.
The Democratic Party are not friends to the people. They get rich being the opposition party and will only do the bare minimum necessary to get you to not vote the monsters back in, which is one of the reasons far-right parties are getting a draw world-wide when the alternative is neoliberalism.
We have to force radical change (the no brainer stuff like social safety nets, massive justice reform, and massive election reform).
The Sword of Damocles is twofold: the revolution of the people, and the wrath of rival dictators. And it's not to be blunted, but to keep our officials serving the public rather than their own private interests.
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It is so pleasant to see that people in the US understand that.
This is the extreme example, but if you look at Russia, that separation between the public and the politics had happened a long time ago. Now it is impossible to even convince people that politics has to serve their interests, and not the rich. And we see with the invasion how these lofeviews eventually unfolds.
Wish Americans to be strong in their transformation into the real civil society. And wish you luck and to have required support for this transformation.
For some of us, the 2016 Democratic primary was quite illuminating. I'm glad to see people are catching up finally.
sO yOu ArE sAyInG "bOtH sIDeS eQuAlLy BaD"?!?!?!
cOnGrAtULaTiOnS oN gEtTiNg TrUmP eLeCtEd!! :(
It's like the second you notice parallels in our two party system, they misrepresent you as saying they are EXACTLY the same in EVERY REGARD.
Meanwhile, we no longer question why we only have two parties to vote for in the first place. Hint: the two parties keep it that way.
the Dems are in cahoots with the same elite that are in cahoots with the Reps. the dems and reps pretend to be on opposite ends of a spectrum, but they are both sucking up to capitalists and their corporations
By definition that makes them all rightwing authoritarians aka fascists, which checks out.
What it actually makes them is zionist controlled opposition. You don't get zionist occupied government without having zionist occupied parties. The US government does whatever is good for Israel even if it is bad for the American people, so yes, we have zionist occupied government.
So you shouldn't be surprised that the current in power dems have more loyalty to that than any ideology / policy take. It's a club and they have to maintain it by controlling who's in it.
The guy, unfortunately for him, has a very human and natural position on Gazan genicide. And that's just not permissible.
Crazy how much people at large have moved past the whole religious zealotry thing, but the people in charge are still having their holy wars and crusades, fulfilling their biblical prophecies and "divine right." I thought for those in charge this whole religion thing was just a mechanism for power, what's crazy to me is it actually looks like they believe that shit.
It's very simple. One of these people blindly supports Israel no matter what it does, up to and including genocide, and the other one doesn't.
we shall destroy the democratic party and rebuild it in our image
Bought and paid for and unwilling to lose their power at any cost it seems.
Most of the people we're talking about are either members of the house or senate in our federal government. And our current system makes it very difficult to win or keep those specific seats unless you're willing to be bought and paid for. Those who don't do as they're told will get primaried by an opponent who is much better funded. It is a system that is specifically set up to choose corrupt politicians.
We desperately need campaign finance reform, but none of those politicians who are bought and paid for are going to honestly support it. Realistically, I don't see any way that we'll see it unless there is an overwhelming popular sentiment in favor of it. Where everybody is truly upset about it and politicians' hands are forced out of fear. But I don't see that happening in America any time soon, when half the country is voting Republican.
So funny to see in real time the difference between their phony outrage over Trump’s arguably monstrous policies, VS their genuine fear over a socialist winning a mayoral race.
This is why everyone who claims the way to fix Dems is via primaries is wrong. Dems will lie, cheat, or simply not hold primaries altogether, rather than risk an actual leftist winning the nomination.
I still think we should support those that do primary if just to show the flippant double standards.
Plus it’s good if some of them win and pull the party in a reasonable direction. And having decent people in government is always nice.
The structural flaws in our elections that force us into a two-party system are deeply entrenched and they aren’t going to change until this place burns down and starts over. If you aren’t willing to vote for a politician with good priorities because they were nominated by the democratic party, you can still be an influential voice but come election time the system is already designed to ignore your vote.
Now watch as Dems throw their support behind the independent in order to undermine Zohran.
Andrew Cuomo running as an independent, and he was endorsed by many dem leaders already
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cuomo-stay-new-york-city-mayoral-ballot-november/story?id=123258468
Your source indicates he is still running, but unless I'm missing something makes no mention of endorsements. Do you have a source for that?
The endorsements were from before he was running during the primary.
I was being slightly fecesious
I was curious when I heard he'd passed the deadline to remove his name from the ballot for the general (whether he runs or not), and it seems the Republicans are pissed he didn't because he's likely going to take their votes away from Adams. Probably a good thing for Mamdani.
Theres like 2 people in the DNC who have voiced dislike of Zohran, and they're getting fucking roasted on social media for it.
Zohran Mamdani is a Democrat. He is the DNC candidate. Vote for the DNC, vote for Zohran Mamdani.
Donald Trump is useful to the real power.
getting pretty close to time to just start referring to the DNC as fascist adjacent. playing lame duck to this particular psychopath is way too old and fucking irresponsible a decade later.
especially when they pull this crap at the same time
Nationalism ✔️ imperialism ✔️ mixed economy for the benefit of the bourgeoisie ✔️ labor suppression ✔️ caters to middle class&petty bourgeois ✔️
I hope you never thought these people were there for you. At least after the age of about 22, 23?
Its as if the oligarchs dont like it when a candidate that is not endorsed by them wins
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