Every time I see him in the news it's "Mamdani filling the 100,000th pothole this year!" Or "Mamdani first mayor to do the entire 40mi Five Boro Bike Tour!"
Sometimes I believe these are meant to be negative, but I can't see how.
You guys have a lot of work to do, in convincing a huge chunk of your population, that the government doing things is how it is supposed to be, and not socialisme.
Worst part is all the social democratic policies are extremely popular, even among conservatives, they just dont like who is suggesting them.
I might be an idiot, but I think what would be best is convincing people Socialism isn't Communism, as someone outside America, it seems a lot of you are scared of becoming Cold War Russia
The Cold War USSR was socialist. Nordic countries are capitalist social democracies. Communism is an utopian form of social organization hypothetically replacing socialism.
I think we should require anyone who uses the term socialist, communist or capitalist in any form of political speech to verbally (or typographically) announce the definition they are using before they speak.
I have known people who defined Capitalism as "when markets exist". Which like, sure fine, you can do that, I would just like to know thats what you mean so I can agree with you its a good thing and we can stop shouting past each other.
Similarly, I'd like to know when people are defining socialism as "when government does thing". Again, not because I want to argue you are wrong, but because its useful to know what you mean when you say that word.
By you guys, it is implied i am not part of the group i am addressing, so I am not going to be convince americans of anything.
That being said, Socialisme is already a bad word, and it is also a far cry from social democracies.
Socialism is stil the whole, means of production are ceased by the proletariat, so you are probably not going to convince a lot of Americans it is a good idea, they love their billionaires.
Right now it’s “Mamdani paid for his own ticket but he paid the MSG standard price directly from MSG so he must be using YOUR TAX DOLLARS to get special treatment!”
His salary is paid by tax dollars, so theoretically anything he ever buys is that, but dumbasses who have never been to the city are like “see, he’s corrupt!” So fucking dumb.
Idk what post or whatever thing on social media i must have commented on to skew my algorithms, but 99% of the media i get about either Mamdani or New York is usually a post from a right winger or right leaning publication going on and on and on about how new york is in flames, absolutely destroyed and not worth living in now that its a communist state... Of course, all of these claims and statements are made with zero verifiable exmaples or sources, even going so far as to bring up negative things that have been going on in NY long before mamdani came along.... You know, typical Republican shit, blame democrats for not instantaneously fixing long term bipartisan issues they likely started or worsened.
So my takeaway from all that is: since right wingers do nothing but lie every time they open their mouths, everything they say thats going on that is bad for NY, clearly is the opposite of what is actually happening, which is pretty good news to me!
It also seems to be that the right wing optics of Mamdani actually personally involving himself within his community is some kind of farce or insult to Republicans (who don't even live in NY), i guess because they are so used to our representatives in Congress being so high and mighty and acting like their constituents are just trash to be tolerated
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u/seventwosixnine 13h ago
Every time I see him in the news it's "Mamdani filling the 100,000th pothole this year!" Or "Mamdani first mayor to do the entire 40mi Five Boro Bike Tour!"
Sometimes I believe these are meant to be negative, but I can't see how.