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I’m not pro-zohran by any metric really [social democrat, auto dismissed], but I dont really get the criticism of him not arresting netanahyu.
1.Hes a mayor. He can’t unilaterally recognize the ICC. And he can’t really arrest a foreign head of state, and even then what would the charge be? The only thing would maybe be delivering him to an embassy that recognizes the ICC? Then what? Idk
2.if we push past this and say “oh well ge could just do it anyway,” he’d probably be arrested and deposed immediately, and that might be best case scenario. Worst case scenario people start shooting each other when there’s no way he or the progressive forces in America would win.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a defense of anything else. But I just don’t get this one bit.
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The NYPD have been deputized by federal law enforcement in an anti terrorism task force. They 100% have jurisdiction. As the mayor he appoints the commissioner and he could choose a commissioner who would get it done.
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In the process of deposing a mayor and installing a new mayor who would then install a new police commissioner there would be plenty of time for Mileikowsky to be transferred to the Hague.
We shouldn’t be hating on mamdani for being a liar, fraud and spinless wretch. He is a liar and a fraud and a spinless wretch but that is because he is a democrat. This is not a reason to hate him, this is a reason to hate the democratic party and anyone who would run under their banner.
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Frankly, I am pro-Zohran
If liberals and Zionists keep wringing their hands about him or whatever
Then fuck it, I am not reformist, I still want revolution, but fuck, I will defend at least some of the good he does, idk…
But has he really done anything good or has he just said a lot of shit and maybe made a few bandaid solutions to systemic problems?
We can absolutely criticize him because of three facts:
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He explicitly promised to arrest Netanyahu on his campaign trail.
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He affirmed that he would indeed arrest Hamas members in accordance with ICC warrants if they were in New York.
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New York City currently holds the legitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in captivity. There is already precedent in the US for illegally arresting world leaders, it wouldn’t even be a first.
All that aside the real problem is that he lied about something he is either unable, or even uninterested to do, purely to signal to the growing anti Zionist sentiment in the US and use it as an easy way to score votes. I think it’s frankly disrespectful and a little gross to use a genocide as a means to get positive press and not follow through on your promises once you get what you want.
Yeah
But tbh?
Of Mamdani did any of that
He’d be toast and probably deported to Uganda.
Then he shouldn’t lie that he would do it just to convince people to vote for a Democrat. It’s a failing of both him and electoralism in general.
Yeah, that’s just America ln political culture
If they wanted us to vote
They wouldn’t currently be taking the right away from folks
Doesn’t matter to me
Obama promised a lot of shit and did none of it
He did worse, even
Mamdani promised to protect anti-Zionist speech
He did in the very beginning of his administration (in a very Zionist city, mind you, or at least with a strong Zionist connection and influence)
Cuomo had to go (I can’t imagine the Cuomo brothers having more influence and the Democrats acting like nothing is wrong with that picture)
And he effectively got rid of him
Mamdani has so far disappointed…
…But frankly, I expect that of most politicians.
I would rather have someone that pisses off both the libs and the conservatives than another AOC (where everyone is literally just “fake-mad” about him, especially the liberal media).
If anything what you got is pretty much another AOC in Madani. It’s the same every time with these “progressive” US politicians. Also I don’t think Obama is a great comparison, he didn’t position himself as a radical socialist. The purpose of characters like Madani, AOC, Bernie etc. is to take all radical energy in the country and steer it back into the established capitalist political system.
Cori Bush was much better than Mamdani, I’m sorry, dawg
Every one of “the Squad” is not there any more.
AOC is because she was and is rich and well-funded.
Even her backstory is made up and exaggerated.
She is there.
The other “Squad” members aren’t.
I would rather have a fluke like Mamdani than a psy-op like AOC.
(anyway, whatever, Mamdani will disappoint, I already know this lol but I will take NYC traffic today than what is before lol)
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This isn’t much different from when libs were crying about South Africa not arresting Putin.
Arresting a sitting head of state sets a dangerous precedent that no country wants to set. It’s part of why the ICC is a joke in the first place; nobody’s going to enforce these rules except the people who have the power to escape the consequences, like the U.S. for example. It’s unrealistic to expect anybody to follow through on these “arrest X leader” threat. There’s no incentive to do so and every incentive not to.
Yeah
Why doesn’t Trump arrest Hillary already?
the criticism ive seen more is: he should do policies that he can actually do (eg. ban zionist funding / investment), instead of posturing about policies he cannot do
I do suppose I agree on that though, yeah
Hmmm
I think… Well… No.
I think not everyone has this angle or, at least, it’s not the “dominant” angle most people have atm
This is what I hear from Palestinian solidarity orgs
That’s fair, I agree with that
R E A L
I finally put a blue light filter on my tablet and…
Holy shit, this really works. I can feel a difference. I am not sure how it did the trick but I am not over-stimulated or having migraines right now…
Wow…
The attacker at Berlin Pride might be a Muslim so right wingers who also want to kill lgbtq+ people are coming out of their dungeons to defend us
“How dare that Muslim kill people I was going to blame for not being able to pay my rent!”
It’s just so pathetic man. These same people probably made a comment the same day about pride being shoved down their throats.
I saw where Trump announced he’s running again, and I just wish he would have done it later so I wouldn’t have to see an endless barrage of liberals saying that “It’s illegal” and how “congress will stop him”.
Also I am putting my prediction up of a Trump win in 2028.
Where did he say he was running again?
Source?
https://youtu.be/xyzWui2OX2I?t=224
Some people say he’s joking. I really don’t understand how you can interpret that as a joke.
But maybe he is. I doubt it
He’s going to run again lol
Can people stop being in denial about it already? 😅
(Err, not to you specifically, just generally, especially around liberals lol)
You think there will be an election in 2028?
everyone should be aware of the upcoming/ongoing infiltration campaign as remarked by marco rubio.
source?
Narco rubio latest speech on the globar war against anti-fascism.
You mean infiltrating our movements or…?
Rubio thinks Cubans are responsible for the BLM protests and all other leftist movements in the US.
OOOOHHHH
that
Tbh, that does seem to hint at an escalation on their part…
I think I am glad that I am leaving this country now lol…
Yeah the way they are talking I think they’ll start putting comrades into camps soon.
Americans need to look into forming underground, armed parties.
Huh?
They’re going to clog all leftist institution with feds.
True, people need to know this.
With the World Cup now over I’ve been watching the ASEAN Championship matches and rooting for Vietnam and Laos of course
Thank you for giving me something to watch. And the women’s AFCON starts tomorrow
Honestly i can’t understand being rich and like, funding nazis or whatever. I’d honestly spend all of my money paying people to make specific games/mods for me. Like not even to sell i just have really niche interests
Because after a certain point of rich you lose all human thinking abilities it seems. You don’t get to a trillion dollars if you have lost all your soul and the only thing you can focus on atp is more power.
I know some people from where I grew up who started businesses and sold them for a couple of millions. That is never having to work money, possibly for your kids as well. They just do fun stuff all the time, but they are nowhere near Musk or other billionaires.
They 100% do that. I don’t see any reason why they would share their mods though.
Like, they could just call someone in Rockstar to mod GTA or smth. It would just stay in their computer.
modding my copy of GTA 5 so that the cops just spontaneously explode at random
Another heat wave is approaching in Belgium. We are nearing a month without proper rain, it’s scary. I was watching the news here in England and some places here had 33 days since their last rain. In England. It rains forever in here.
I tried writing about what I learned reading Capital vol II, check it out here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12264322
The web being full of liberals is never a great thing but at least it usually doesn’t prevent me for watching entertainment videos. For some reasons though I have encountered quite a lot of videos with crazy claims in the last two days. Your typical “communism requires following a leader without questioning them” or “Stalin committed atrocities” or “Cuba is a dictatorship” and I even got a bit of “Sweden is true socialism” and “people in Finland are happier than in China, therefore the Finnish system is better.”
I have no idea how this happened, I wasn’t even watching anything overtly political, but it was a bit infuriating.
What do you do when you are in a bad mood comrades? Me, I like to write stuff.That’s just how Western platforms work, anticommunist content will always be promoted, regardless of what you watch. For YouTube, you can use a proxy like inv.nadeko.net to avoid the tracking and “tailored” recommendations, at the expense of stability.
Using a local client is much better. Like PipePipe on Android. It’s not as smooth an experience as it used to be since YouTube sucks, but it’s still preferable to a public Invidious instance in my opinion. Selfhosting a private Invidious instance could be a solution too, I don’t have the money to selfhost stuff so I can’t comment on it though.
Might work if you’re using a VPN to obfuscate traffic (otherwise they’ll obviously track you through third-party clients too), but they can and do ban VPN IP addresses so it won’t always be an option.
Doesn’t Finland have a significant suicide rate? And also a lot of Neo-Nazis?
Anyway, social media platforms seem to tend to form a balance between ragebait recommendations and normal recommendations to get you to spend as much time in them as possible. If you follow a lot of things the solution is RSS. If you stick to a few corporate platforms anyway the solution is third party clients that filter out the algorithmic stuff if possible.
I try to distract myself when I’m in a bad mood. Mainly play video games while listening to some podcast. Neurotypicals may struggle with doing both at the same time, or maybe not, I don’t know.
I went to visit Chethams library in Manchester because Marx and Engels used to study there and their study corner is still there. I expected to be probably the only one hyped for it (it is a 70 min tour of lots of things after all) but multiple people nearly RAN to the booth as soon as we saw it lol. They had books on Engles for sale as well and they were all gone after the tour. Sometimes I’m surprised to see other commies in the wild.
communists are returning to libraries; nature is healing 💙
I hope we have more libraries in the United States
cricket, cricket
Gooood moooorning!!
Getting rid of my Twitter account.
Should be gone in 30 days.
Hell yeah! Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over 😌
Thank fuck there are some things that end.
(looking at you, web novels and infinite scroll websites!)
Please don’t overuse this but if you need to keep some Chinese journalists or whatever that are twitter exclusive, try https://xcancel.com/ [username] /rss (if the RSS reader isn’t whitelisted you need to email them, Feeder & Netnewswire work). Note that I went too far with this & it just ended up making me even worse because now I actually have the chronological timeline that Elon keeps fucking with & nobody else does
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me [educated substance aficionado]: crack is way better than that stuff
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Well, I, uhh, never heard of these before.
May have heard of yewtube but I think I’m confusing it with peertube
When I was at Tishʻa Bʼav service a few hours ago, the Rabbi made no mention of the pogroms of 1917–1923 (but did mention the 1929 Hebron massacre as well as the Oct. 7th incident). When I asked him after the service why he omitted these events, he justified on the grounds that mentioning every anti-Jewish atrocity would have taken too long. I then said that that era was very significant, and he brushed it aside saying that Tishʻa Bʼav is mostly about the destruction of the Temple anyway. (Although the service spent only a little time on the Temple.)
I know that asking for some recognition of the Palestinians—beyond mentioning the Hebron massacre—would have been an ‘outrageous’ demand, but I would have at least expected the clergy to mention the largest anti-Jewish massacre before the 1940s. I sent the Rabbi an email about the subject, but as I was rushing I carelessly left in the part where I wrote, ‘While most Herzlians insist that the Shoah was so unique that it was incomparable to anything else in history, it would be utterly baffling if they explicitly included this catastrophe as something else incomparable to the Shoah, which is possibly another reason that they almost never discuss it.’ If he ever reads that email then I get the feeling that he is not going to take that comment lightly; it would be so typical for me if I received an extreme reaction.
I can’t say that I was satisfied with the service, but oh well; it wasn’t for me. If it makes somebody sleep easier at night, good for them.
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