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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 80 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Conservatives deciding that "let the socialists win" is actually a good idea to convince people socialism is bad because they genuinely sincerely believe their own propaganda is possibly the funniest possible thing that could happen.

Like, I actually believe this could happen because they swallow their own propaganda ALL THE TIME.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should let these STUPID LIBERALS PUNISH THEMSELVES, I SAY!

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They will own the libs if they get mandani elected

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 77 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Rent control have these clowns absolutely panicking but concentration camps and threatening to go to war with your own cities is normal. I could do a thousand "see from other perspectives and common ground" hours and I will never understand these people. thats-why-im-confused

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Liberalism stratifies people into tiers of value. At the top are billionaires, below that smaller capitalists, below that wealthy professional workers, below that imperial core workers, &c. &c. until at the very bottom are working class in the imperial periphery. If harm toward a person in a lower tier has badness value 1, then harm toward a person a tier above them has badness value n, where n is an arbitrary number so large that no amount of violence against those in the lower tiers could result in a number comparable to it; comparisons are only possible within a given stratum because the differences in value between tiers are unbridgeably vast. For examples of this, see: how they talk about Alexei vs. how they talk about (or rather don't talk about) peasant children killed in the Russian Civil War, how much attention they give to imperial soldiers killed in wars vs. the people they're bombing, the Soviet famine of 1930–1933 vs. the Bengal famine.

(For anyone here who does programming, the analogy I'm probably poorly trying to make is to Big O notation)

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(For anyone here who does programming, the analogy I'm probably poorly trying to make is to Big O notation)

A small o notation would work somewhat better here, as big O just tells us about final boundedness of a function given a topological filter, and also doesn't tell us how the function behaves compared to previous 'n's.
With small o notation, you could order the tiers starting from the wealthiest/most influential/etc. This way, you could go for something like 'the way violence against people of tier n is considered/respected/recognised (on some relevant scale) is o(n) (with the topological filter n->inf'. o(n) given some topological filter F is a set of functions that can be represented as n multiplied by some other function that has the limit of 0 given the topological filter F, basically. The expression 'f(n) = o(n) [given topological filter F]' can be read as 'f is infinitely small relative to n [given topological filter F]'.

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[–] SnuggleButt@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

Not to be as similar to them as possible, but when you take their own pill and stop seeing them as fully functional people, it becomes real fucking easy to understand them

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 68 points 2 days ago (6 children)

found this absolute bloomer banger in the comments

On day one Mamdani will issue an edict much like Bragg did on his first day. The reign of communist terror will start immediately. Mamdani will rule like a dictator regardless of rules and laws. He will be, in the end, the mirror image of Trump but on the “ Hate America “ side.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago

Okay, this is kinda selling me on Mamdani electoralism again

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He will be, in the end, the mirror image of Trump but on the “ Hate America “ side.

And, you know, a city mayor.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro chill I've already voted for him 73 times you don't need to sell him to me any more

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

I don't live in NYC, does anyone have a cosmic ray so I can vote for him 1,048,576 times?

[–] Meh@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

This is just a set up for the "this isn't what America is all about" tweet

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

let's take the nuclear option: lose

Mf as if you have a choice che-smile

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

It was totally our idea to let Mamdani win. We were not owned

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No don't elect the socialist mayor that would own me so bad I might actually try and save up and move to nyc because I'd be so mad, nooo stop don't.

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I live here (yeah yeah opsec but there’s like 8 million people here so I don’t care) and I’m rent stabilized and it’s awesome.

One cool thing about the system here is that it’s extremely easy to get your landlord fined you can just get the housing department to come over they look at the problem and they fine them no questions asked.

A lot of these landlords literally just eat the fines though until they feel like doing something it’s really gross

[–] booty@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

no-copyright Stuff that is only punishable by a fine is just legal for rich people

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, the playbook of getting an insignificant progressive elected and pinning real, imagined, and manufactured economic troubles on that official as a way of discrediting anything remotely left could work. However, being the mayor of the city of Wall Street is too symbolically important if nothing else.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

this article is basically screaming at his fellow conservatives "HEY! idiots! stop trying to interfere with the election and just do the normal thing we do of sabotaging leftists in power! doing what you are doing just makes socialism seem cool and dangerous!"

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Implying that some unknown force will blow up New York if Mamdani wins

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

scrolling through the comments i found more than one person begging trump to nuke nyc if he wins

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump could nuke NYC and they'd still blame it on communism

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

Of course, it's the ideology of "look what you made me do"

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

some unknown force

I wouldn't put it past the CIA

9/11 is coming up.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lol, what even is Mamdani's most "loony radical left" policy that will tear down NYC utterly? Like, no-fare public transit?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He wants to build grocery stores for poor people. Which would undermine the entire fabric of America destroying it from the core out

[–] The_hypnic_jerk@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

The whole grocery store thing is so funny.

On the block near me in my city is a whole foods right next to a cheap regional store. They have mostly the same shit. Both stores are always busy.

The lowest price doesn't = I win the market share.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

According to an insider that posted on here, he can fuck over rent control for the next few years on day 1. That's probably the biggest thing they're worried about.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What if we had a Comrade plant that could spread Communism Accelerationism among capitalists?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

If Mamdani gets stripped of his citizenship (on the basis of being a communist) and gets removed from power, he’d be a comrade plant for all intents and purposes and I hope people wouldn’t be weird ultras about it

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[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Well, hey, if they're gonna throw in the towel already... inshallah

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Take it from me, Charles Gasparino, owner and proprietor of Gasparino & Sons' Sanitation, Limousine and Luxury Car Services, these people don't respect the American Dream the same as a respectable business man like me or my fawtha before me, Little Chucky G., owner and proprietor of Gasparino & Sons' Sanitation, Salvage and Haulage, or his fawtha before him, my grandfawtha, Salvatore Santino Massimo Gasparino, owner and proprietor of Gasparino & Sons' Sewage Hauling & Meat Processing.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

:sickosicko-jpeg Yes, hand it all over to the communists so you can watch it burn to the ground

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

oh no we would be so owned if we were in charge

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

Coming Soon: New York Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

finally some good accelerationism

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago
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