He is trying to be the next FDR with modernized fireside chats, and I am vibing with it.
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Been waiting for such a long time for a politician to do this. NYC did an amazing job at electing him.
I hope there will be an army of mods, as well, to deal with the absolute tsunami of slurs that will be thrown at him.
i am so tired my glasses are starting to fail me and i read:
Major Zohran Mamdani is going to live (short i) on twitch in new streaming series.
so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.
so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.

The mainstream press, being owned by the mega wealthy, hasn't exactly been platforming and fair in its reporting of left wing candidates in general. This has now morphed to a strategy by left wind politicians to go directly to their voters on social media. Zack Polensky, the Green party leader in the UK, has drastically improved his parties standing simply by delivering their policies directly on Twitter and other social media. This is quite likely to become the way that left wing politicians operate in the near future. They potentially seek to gain leverage to fairer representation and presence in mainstream media, although that might not even matter given the mass exodus and distrust of the people of those old platforms.
But twitch is owned by Amazon and frankly they can and do moderate Twitch streams.
This is not supposed to be a discouragement of politicians connecting with the public via any means necessary.
I just want to point out the flawed logic of saying news media is owned by billionaires so it can't be trusted, but twitch, also owned by a billionaire can somehow be trusted.
They aren't yet putting up barriers since their sole purpose is people connecting to each other. There is every chance they do move to restricting access but I think it would be the death of Twitch and certainly Twitter if they started doing so. Social media doesn't require us to trust some group of people to choose our content for us and as such is a lot less prone to that bias and billionaire control. That isn't to say the billionaires don't have an effect, on Twitter what people are exposed to by the algorithm is very intentional and controlled as is the front page roll on Twitch, but unlike mainstream media its still possiblr to see and connect with the unfavoured content and grass roots movements can still form. I would prefer this was all on the fediverse but its not where the people are yet.
I use twitch. It doesn't take much at all to get a ban of any kind. I've seen twitch streamers get banned mid stream. I think this stream in particular is likely to attract a lot of people who disagree with his political leanings and want to troll. It'll be heavily modded and there are likely to be topics that will not be discussed because they're problematic enough that a troll could use twitch's own guidelines against the stream.
it serves 2 purposes reaching the gen-z pop, if amazon decides to block him, then the viewers/audiences will know and it will cause a streisand effect.
I think this cuts two ways.
- If anything goes wrong with this stream at all, whether it's Amazon's fault or not, it will be perceived as if they sabotaged it by the people who support him.
- If nothing goes wrong then we have the same problem we had with ByteDance and Tik Tok, where the perception is that the platform is a "bastion of free speech that people who support him put more trust in. We saw how this went with Tik Tok. Where people were convinced that it was censoring them less and promoting more liberal content when in fact we know from recent news articles that this is not in fact the case.
Neither of these things should make twitch a good platform for this type of thing, but it does happen to be what is available and well known.
If this guy runs for president we will have many bots going "oh yeah what about that one time he hesitated to call it a genocide". Don't get me wrong it is %100 a genocide but equating someone with Trump because of this would be ridiculous, he is one of the most progressive democrats around which makes for a nice jumping board.
He was born in Uganda so he can't run for president. No worries there.
We have a rapist, thief, traitor, and war criminal in the oval office. There are many immigrants who have more honor, integrity, and intelligence than Agent "Krasnov" Orange.
Sticking to rules, when the Grand Old Pedophile party uses them selectively, is a fool's game. We must either elect Mamdani or AOC, preferably both, into top offices.
If the GOP protests? Punch them, and ignore their opinion. Because they don't give a shit about law nor decency, and should face the consequences of breaching the social contract.
I kind of think blatantly violating the constitution is a good way to not get put on any ballots in the USA. Like the states board of elections would never go along with that. That's silly talk.
Plenty of politicians that are deserving of the presidency exist aside from AOC.
plus had his slovenian "prostitute" get here on a faux genius visa/ citizenship.
Either of his parents American citizens when he was born?
dang it I could almost see the bots
That's because you're accustomed to imagining bots whenever you see opposition to genocide.
you haven't even read my previous msg did you? oh wait judging by the single downvote on each post you did. I suppose you just did not want to process it in that case.
Sorry. I thought your initial comment was saying that the opposition to genocide that exists is petty and unreasonable and has no legitimate grievances.
Were you not saying that?
No what I was saying is more related to discussion in bad faith. I find discussions around things like "Bernie didn't call it a genocide he called only it a horrific crime so he is no different from Trump" quite vacuous and possibly in bad faith too. For instance, I think that if he was the president, US would not be backing the genocide irregardless of whether he called it a genocide or not and that is what matters.
He can't, he was not born in the USA
Neither can a treasonous felon rapist, I once thought.
trump already put the Constitution in the trash, so it doesn't matter 😛
Hope he's doing a world tour after he's done with NYC :)
Oh you sweet, stupid child.
So that debt the state is paying for....why do you think NYC had it in the first place?
Even with this "offloaded debt," NYC citizens receive less for their tax dollars than the rest of the state
As if govs aren't in stupidly unreasonable amounts of debt already by spending money on corporate welfare and death machines. And corruption. Let them have a small treat.
I personally don't foresee this being that good of an idea. I foresee disinformation bots, porn link bots, and hate comments forcibly flooding the chat to ensure nothing actually happens, with not enough moderators to deal with it all. That, and twitch refusing to help moderate and instead shutting the account down in an attempt to silence him for big daddy Baldo.
Large twitch chats definitely can be constructive and well moderated, and the mayors office definitely has the resources to do that. I'm cautiously optimistic
its not like traditional MSM is going to give him a fair light,, where the propaganda is even worst. hes targeting his audience, young gen-z people and maybe some milleneals. hes villified by both old guard DNC and the gop.
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