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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I can talk more about this if I do an in depth breakdown for sure, but in short it’s been something we’ve been aware of and planned for

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

Get ready, because if Zohran wins tomorrow’s election you haven’t even heard the start of it. The Israel lobby is going to dial election news saturation up to 11

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Philippines are not going anywhere. It is a sad state of affairs, but even the famously yoked to the U.S. Japan & South Korea are far less yoked to the U.S. than the Philippines in both foreign policy, politics, and economics.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago

Sweet, free drones

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The campaign is going pretty much how it was drawn up from the beginning when Zohran was polling at 1%. Aside from a few minor tweaks given changing conditions/current events, we knew what we challenges we had to overcome to get here and honestly wouldn’t have been able to do it without materialist analysis.

If enough people are interested I could get into some details here some time later this week. Today and tomorrow I’m still busy running some canvassing stuff in this crazy hot weather. Heat index is 107°F today (42°C) and 105° tomorrow (41°C).

Here’s me desperately begging people to help with the campaign by phone banking. You don’t have to live in NYC or give any personally identifying information to sign up (Just make stuff up. You can still sign up without confirming any identity). It’s also kind of fun. You’re mostly going to talk to people who hate Cuomo. Please ignore if you aren’t interested lol ⬇️Also please please please, if you are reading this, we are still looking for people to work the phones for Zohran today and tomorrow! No requirement to live in NYC, just to have a US phone number. We have 9 different phonebanking times today and offer 27 second language options! We need all of the help we can get to win this and every little bit helps. Please consider signing up for a shift here even if you can only make a few calls.

I’m not supposed to say this, but if you don’t feel comfortable using personally identifiable information, you can use a fake name, burner email, and Google voice number. I don’t really care. We need people working the phones. Zohran is not even above 90% name recognition yet among potential voters, and 4% of voters are still undecided. If even one of you signs up, please let me know so I can recognize you for your efforts to the community here.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I have been so active working for this campaign that I can’t wait to stop hearing about it for a bit, but we will definitely be hearing more. There’s going to be a 4-5 way competition in the general election smoking-fish

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Polling ahead ≠ counted votes.

In early voting it is estimate Zohran has an almost 10% lead with nearly 400000 votes already cast. Also this election is going to be on a day with nearly record heat in NYC. The temperature is going to be >100°F (38°C) in most of the city, which is going to depress turnout of Cuomo’s base, who are typically old and live farther from their polling places

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

Democratic Socialist candidate for mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani, has officially taken his first lead in an independently conducted poll, pulling ahead of Cuomo in round 8 of ranked choice voting 52%-48%

With only a 3% MOE and 4% undecided voters left, who have been falling heavily towards Zohran as this race unfolds, I am cautiously optimistic. The Zohran campaign’s voter outreach has been unreal, and seems to be fairly easily overcoming being outspent $10-$1 by the Cuomo campaign.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

What zero materialism does to a MFer

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

“Please help me America”

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Last night Israeli media was reporting it as destroyed btw. Here come the walk backs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

They are incredibly heavy and made with incredibly expensive. Also bombing nuclear sites was at least kinda a taboo question at the time, so these were probably not designed with destroying Iranian nuclear facilities under an entire mountain in mind.

 

Least brainrotted carpilled American

 

The quote in this picture above is an excerpt from a letter Sheinbaum wrote to Trump regarding recent statements about drugs from, tariffs on, and migration through Mexico.

Full letter+translation here. Some great quotes and I’d highly recommend reading.

Translation:

Dear President-elect Donald Trump,

I am writing to you regarding your statement on Monday, November 25, concerning migration, fentanyl trafficking, and tariffs.

You may not be aware that Mexico has developed a comprehensive policy to assist migrants from different parts of the world who cross our territory en route to the southern border of the United States. As a result, and according to data from your country’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP), encounters at the Mexico–United States border have decreased by 75% between December 2023 and November 2024. Moreover, half of those who arrive do so through a legally scheduled appointment under the United States’ CBP One program. For these reasons, migrant caravans no longer arrive at the border.

Even so, it is clear that we must work together to create a new labor mobility model that is necessary for your country, as well as address the root causes that compel families to leave their homes out of necessity. If even a small percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility.

On another note, and for humanitarian reasons, Mexico has consistently expressed its willingness to help prevent the fentanyl epidemic in the United States from continuing. This is, after all, a public health and consumption problem within your society. So far this year, Mexican armed forces and prosecutors have seized tons of various types of drugs, 10,340 firearms, and have detained 15,640 individuals for violence related to drug trafficking.

Furthermore, the Mexican Congress is in the process of approving a constitutional reform to classify the production, distribution, and commercialization of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs as a serious crime without bail. However, it is publicly known that the chemical precursors used to produce this and other synthetic drugs are illegally entering Canada, the United States, and Mexico from Asian countries. This underscores the urgent need for international collaboration.

You must also be aware of the illegal trafficking of firearms into my country from the United States.

Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.

President Trump, migration and drug consumption in the United States cannot be addressed through threats or tariffs. What is needed is cooperation and mutual understanding to tackle these significant challenges.

For every tariff, there will be a response in kind, until we put at risk our shared enterprises. Yes, shared. For instance, among Mexico’s main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico.

I am convinced that North America’s economic strength lies in maintaining our trade partnership. This allows us to remain competitive against other economic blocs. For this reason, I believe that dialogue is the best path to understanding, peace, and prosperity for our nations. I hope our teams can meet soon to continue building joint solutions.

Since this letter, Trump and Sheinbaum have had a phone call that Trump said was productive.

This is being flaunted in conservative circles as a huge Trump win before he is even president, when the reality is that this is just Sheinbaum hilariously telling Trump the same things she wrote about in her letter, and that Mexico has already been addressing all of his issues of concern.

Personal analysisThere is just something so funny about how the US empire is probably the strongest country in the world, but it can’t stop declining and getting walked over. It’s the same reason why your boss/manager is so often the most incompetent person at your workplace. It’s the same reason is why failing upwards is real. Its the same reason is why leadership around you feels genuinely stupid. You might not believe it at first, but this is what meritocracy looks like when attempted under capitalism. The people with “merit” in a deeply flawed system can only be deeply flawed people. The heightening contradictions of the US political and economic system result in only appointing leadership from any combination of the most corrupt, reverse-crème-of-the-crop dimwits, conmen, failchildren, or geriatric patients that are in the steepest cognitive decline you’ve ever seen.

 

China has near global monopolies on these exports, accounting for 98% of global gallium production, 93% of germanium production, and 49% of antimony production.

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This makes her “strategy” even more baffling than before. How do you know you are down the entire time and do absolutely nothing about policy?

 

Dear [PERSON READING THIS],

Tough times.

The American people understand that our economic and political systems are rigged. They know that the very rich get much richer while almost everyone else becomes poorer. They know that we are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society.

The Democrats ran a campaign protecting the status quo and tinkering around the edges. Trump and the Republicans campaigned on change and on smashing the existing order.

Not surprisingly, the Republicans won. Unfortunately, the “change” that Republicans will bring about will make a bad situation worse, and a society of gross inequality even more unequal, more unjust and more bigoted.

Will the Democratic leadership learn the lessons of their defeat and create a party that stands with the working class and is prepared to take on the enormously powerful special interests that dominate our economy, our media and our political life? Highly unlikely.

They are much too wedded to the billionaires and corporate interests that fund their campaigns.

Given that reality, where do we go from here? That is the very serious question that needs a lot of discussion in the coming weeks and months.

How do we expand our efforts to build a multi-racial, multi-generational working class movement?

How do we create a 50 state movement, not politics based on the electoral college and “battleground” states?

How do we deal with Citizens United and the ability of billionaires to buy elections?

How do we recruit more working class candidates for office at all levels of government?

Should we be supporting Independent candidates who are prepared to take on both parties?

How do we better support union organizing?

How do we put together listening sessions around the country that intentionally seek input from people who did not vote for Democrats in the last election?

How do we best use social media to build our movement and combat the lies and disinformation coming from the billionaire class and right wing media?

How do we build sustainable and long-term issue-based organizing structures that live beyond individual campaigns?

These are some of the political questions that, together, we need to address. And it is absolutely critical that you make your voice heard during this process.

Not me. Us. That is the only way forward.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

What do we think? Considering all of the selling out he did from 2016 onward, only for none of it to be successful, I think there’s actually a possibility that he recognizes that his “legacy” is in danger. I’m actually so interested in hearing what the Hexbear community has to say about this that I’m legitimately excited to post it lmao

 

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Truly some top tier Baltic level stuff coming out of Lithuania right now. You know it must be fairly serious when you are on trial for antisemitism in LITHUANIA. Well let’s just do a little bit of research on the leader of the NA, Remigijus Žemaitaitis. First I’ll check his wikiped– oh…

You know it’s gonna be bad when the first sentence of your intro paragraph on Wikipedia page mentions you being known for your antisemitism. I can’t help myself. I have to check what he’s been saying that’s so controversial.

TW actual antisemitism

pooh-wtf

[this is a well-known Lithuanian anti-Semitic rhyme].

what-the-hell Of course it is! And of course Lithuania has a well known antisemitic rhyme!

Hm actually I don’t need to read his other quotes. Read more about the antisemitism trial he is currently on here. (warning: his quotes are here and contain obvious and aggressive antisemitism)

 
 
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