In a healthy society Zohran Mamdani would be a centrist.

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I literally don’t know how america can come back from the mentality of enjoying other human’s suffering. That doesn’t seem like a symptom that people ever really recover from, especially when reality seems to be rewarding them for it

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  • BillCheddar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We come back by getting rid of the right-wing propaganda web.

    Everything from far-right internet/social media, Fox News and its bastard clones, talk radio. All of it needs to be scrubbed. Burn some sage in that fucking Fox News building before tearing it down.

    I don’t think most of those people would be so awful if they weren’t propagandized to do so 24/7 like the North Koreans. I mean christ, Rush Limbaugh was teaching people to hate the Clintons’ teenaged kid daughter back in the 90s. They’ve been at this shit a long time.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Every other ad I see is for Jordan Peterson’s weird little propaganda university. I think it’s different from Praeger U, but I don’t watch long enough to know. People are signing up to pay their hard earned, vanishingly valuable dollars to watch right wing propaganda videos. They hunger for it.

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  • deft@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not sure why everyone believes this is solely an American thing.

    Most governments today are perfectly happy benefiting from overseas slave wages and exploitation. I’d argue America at least is the most racially conscious society. Everywhere has racists but God damn talking to some Europeans or Africans or South Americans reminds me how socially aware America is

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  • PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s been here since day 1. It never went anywhere, and it probably never will. But it can be between down and drowned and muzzled, relegated to the background noise, at least for a time. And things can get better for that time.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Really don’t think so in the age of hyper-reality. It’s too insulating, touching grass doesn’t actually cure anyone’s racism or antisociality.

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dude, America was literally built on human suffering.

    Although at the time it was justified by claiming that the ones doing the suffering weren’t human because of their skin color or because they didn’t believe in the same imaginary friends.

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Outside of the US, someone like Mamdani would be considered “center-left”.

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• Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, and the left needs to get better at NOT pre-compromising and instead saying what they actually want. Leaving no room for negotiations is not viable in a two party system. This was the great failure of the Clintonista “Third Way” that literally drove GOP policy further right.

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ideological puritans threw the election to Donald Trump, tbh an actual ape that eats 2 actual infants per day would still get my vote if it meant keeping a Republican out of office.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its kind of exemplary of the post when ‘Can we not support literal genocide’ is some kind of excessively puritanical ask though.

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The post says no such thing, but it’s also a difference of opinion that politicians like Biden ever supported a genocide to begin with. Under Biden aid got in, often through extreme efforts like air drops and mobile piers. Weapons shipments got withheld from Israel. Under Trump all of that changed.

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