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Tuesday’s results showed that Mamdani’s seal of approval carried significant weight.
His allies did their best to ensure establishment Democrats took note: gothamist.visitlink.me/OabzUV
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@krystalball @joewrote She endorsed exactly the candidates she know would be hard for zohran to endorse. Why would she also endorse those that are hard for her to endorse, but easier for zohran to endorse?
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@krystalball @joewrote Maybe the modern AOC would not endorse the past AOC. The current zohran wouldnt hatetweet against Obama. The question is whether the modern AOC does the right thing by minimizing the political capital needed in order for her to support candidates. And she does. All DSA won.
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I really like Krystal and her commentary. But this is a total misreading of the Zohran-AOC strategy.
There were 10 candidates on the DSA slate. Zohran endorsed Claire Valdez and DAC because they ran against sitting Congressional incumbents, who would have been costly for AOC to endorse.
And AOC did the same, endorsing the NYC Assembly candidates that would have been costly for Zohran to endorse — David Orkin, Christian Celeste Tate, and Eon Huntley.
The rest of NYC DSA's slate was endorsed by one or both, except for Conrad Blackburn, the only DSA-endorsed candidate who lost. It's likely they saw Blackburn had little chance and decided to sit out.
This was a well-coordinated strategy between two of the most powerful and popular DSA elected officials to maximize DSA's chance of success.
It's what we want from socialist leaders. And with respect, just because AOC didn't inform media figures about her strategy doesn't mean she's "on the sidelines." She's fresh off helping Chris Rabb beat back Josh Shapiro's ultra-zionist sabotage campaign.
Krystal Ball@krystalball
Last night also demonstrates the problems with AOC’s don’t rock the boat strategy. Since she has refused to endorse against sitting members, she is on the sidelines of a movement that she herself helped to kick off and logically should be leading. Missing the entire Dem Tea Party at the federal level because the once insurgent is now a de facto incumbent protector.
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@brechtstadt Häh? Nein, das weiß ich nicht, weil es kompletter Quatsch ist. was für einen Film schiebst du?
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Scheiß drauf, dass er ein Soze ist, er hat absolut Recht und ihr wisst das auch
𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙪-𝙒𝙚𝙞ß@geblauweiss
solche leute sind aktuell die durchschnittlichen linken wähler und linkstwitter denkt immer noch die könnten hier bald stalinistische revolution machen bahahahaha
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@JoergWimalasena Neee... Alle AOC picks haben ebenso gewonnen. Es war klug, sich die picks aufzuteilen.
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@ProudBavaria Nah, I don't think so. By that logic, any depictions in education books are wrong and honestly, they are just good at making people engage with the content. It depends on how the documentary is done, as it always does.
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Jesus, no.
This is the worst use case for AI, as it relates to history because it convinces people that what they are watching is authentic and accurate, which it simply isn't in any way.
This content is doing incredible harm to people's understanding of history.
DutchKafir 🇳🇱@DutchKafir
Mijns inziens is dit een van de beste use cases voor AI-videocontent op dit moment. Een AI-influencer reist terug in de tijd naar 1536 om te vloggen over haar ervaringen in Tudor-Londen.
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@QueensForBernie @demsocsean That is not true. AOC's endorsements were vital to some of yesterday's DSA wins.
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@demsocsean She is gigantic sellout who stayed silent on these races DSA Congressional races in her own city, even though other fellow progressive congresspeople endorsed them. She deferred to the establishment hacks in the party. She is a fraud and traitor to the left.
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer Claudia Sheinbaum ist eine sozialistische Politikerin. Richtig oder falsch? Mit der Logik könntest du auch fragen, was an der Linken sozialistisch ist, nur weil da nicht Stalin und Mao mit dabei sind.
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@somewheredense @realPlebejer Skandinavien ist ähnlich aufgestellt wir wir in Deutschland, mit den gleichen Problemen Übrigens...Und was an Mexiko sozialistisch ist, erschliest sich mir nicht. Ernsthaft versucht und gescheitert sind eher Kuba und Venezuela.
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Für eine sozialistische Arbeiterpartei wäre es völlig selbstverständlich, dass bürgerlich-kapitalistische Medien und CDU, die zum Weltkrieg rüstet und Sozialstaat wie Arbeiterrechte schreddert, Gegner sind. Für die linksliberale Linkspartei sind sie hingegen Partner und Maßstab.
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer In Skandinavien zum Beispiel. Oder in Mexico, wo Sheinbaum viele Menschen aus der Armut holt und sich großer Beliebtheit erfreut. oder eben in New York.
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@somewheredense @realPlebejer Wo genau ist linke Politik erfolgreich?
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer Nö. Linke Politik ist an vielen Orten extrem erfolgreich, und gerade in Amerika ist Mamdani einer der wenigen Politiker, der ernsthaft tag für tag verbesserungen für die einfachen leute erzielt. Wir brauchen den deutschen Mamdani.
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@realPlebejer @somewheredense Und wenn er das ein paar Jahre macht, dann ist er gescheitert und New York ist pleite. Merke: Linke Politik scheitert immer..
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer Wenn ein Vermieter das Haus verkommen lässt, soll es bald an Genossenschaften oder die Mieter übertragen werden können: nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-…
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@somewheredense @realPlebejer Wo genau in New York werden gerade die Vermieter enteignet? Wo die Steuern erhöht? Wie genau macht man dort linke Politik? Kleiner Tipp: versucht man es mit linker Politik, dann wird sie scheitern...
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@soulkhan @ZohranKMamdani let zohran do what he does bro, he is good at it
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hey @ZohranKMamdani, idk who's around you possibly telling you otherwise, but tonight, it should be plainly clear to see that you can do things like fire jessica tisch tomorrow and stop conceding any rhetorical or policy ground to zionist nutjobs
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer Da schau ich nach new york und sehe, dass linke die einzig kompetenten verbleibenden politiker sind
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@somewheredense @realPlebejer Linke und Rechte interagieren auch miteinander. Derzeit gewinnen die Rechten, diese sind nix besser als die Linken. Merke,ä: Rechte und Linke in der Regierung brauchen wir nicht.
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@SuperFloxes No, please don't fall for that bullshit. What even is that "preventing extinction" angle? There are species dying out everyday and zoos do not give a fuck about anything except the few species that attract people to make fotos.
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DON’T fucking demonise zoos. They are incredibly important to the conservation of animals. Several species have avoided extinction due to them.
But call out the bad ones though. Those fucking SUCK.
Ric@veganfitnessric
If children can understand it, why can't adults
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@novogratz Quick question from European: Do people in America not get a government letter that tell them there is an election and where they can vote and when?
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If you are a New Yorker it’s primary day!! It’s a sad part of our democracy that almost no one I know knew that and hence didn’t vote. So candidates get chosen by a tiny few.
We should at least have all primaries on the same day so there is a ‘noise’ about it like Election Day.
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@HondaWang I agree. Difference in opinions among socialists or even socialist allying progressives should not mean that we do not lend each other our strengths enthusiastically.
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if nyc-dsa sweeps tonight, it’ll be a testament to its existing capacity & where it managed to grow: capitalizing on the media reach and energized volunteers from the mamdani campaign.
zohran alone could not win this races, nyc-dsa could not win without zohran.
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@HellwegBernhard @realPlebejer Die Union regiert ja auch. Dennoch ist die Linke aktuell die einzige Partei mit ernsthaften Versuchen, AfD Wähler anzusprechen durch nicht-rechte Politik. Diesen Anspruch haben andere Parteien leider verloren.
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@somewheredense @realPlebejer Derzeit arbeitet sich die Linke hauptsächlich an der Union ab...
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@AnettSchuett @Neonnugget_ The top ten of hottest years in Germany has mostly happened in the last 20 years.
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@Neonnugget_ Let's see if it holds up the prediction.
The record temperature for Germany is from 1913 so Co2 doesn't seem to be responsible - but rather a strong El Niño which is a weather phenomenon
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I beg of u to stop acting like 40° in June in Germany is normal because "it's summer now" summer has never been this hot in Europe
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@Sparvey_Hecter @Neonnugget_ It literally has, as that is increasingly likely the hotter earth is on a whole.
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@Neonnugget_ Stop crying and do research. This has to do with hot air from africa being pumped to us icw a high pressure zone above europe which hasn't the slightest thing to do with CO2 or "climate change".
This is nature at her finest. It's totally natural behavior.
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@realPlebejer Dann wird es aber schwer, zu begründen, warum man damals unbedingt gemeinsam mit RRG die Zusammenarbeit von CDU und AfD torpedieren wollte, was ja viele Wähler SEHR GUT fanden von der Linken. Wenn es das Gleiche ist, was war das Problem?
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