I mean, he’s right? A (questionably) socialist dictator is still a dictator. Maduro was given the ability to rule by decree like a decade ago, and, like Trump, basically has control over every major part of the government.
Of course, as he says, that doesn’t justify arbitrarily killing people or the long-term embargo on Cuba that has economically crippled the country.
You really just have to look at it through the oversimplified lens of the Marxist Linanist. If the West does it, it is bad. If anyone else does it, it is good. All the whining about reading theory, that is honestly as deep as it gets.
Capitalism, when the party does it is good actually. Suppression, imprisonment, and slaughter of the proletariat? If you did it in the name of the party, it’s no vice.
Typical Mamdani W.
Western chauvinists gonna chauvinist
Using a western word against the west in a way the west nearly never uses that word. …
You mean the democratic socialist, an inherently anti-authoritarian party, is calling out authoritarians?
Is it going to be news when he condems Xixing Ping and Putin and Netanyahu, and the Iranian Shah, and Saudi Royal family, and well you get the picture.
Fuck authority that doesn’t earn it.
Chiching Ping isnt his name, but that is hilarious
Its Xi Jinping
I don’t actually remember how to spell it because whenever I call him Winnie the Pooh it summons the CCP bot army calling that racist and I forget. Maybe this will be the time.
Iranian Shah
Why would he condemn a regime that hasn’t existed for 46 years?
Because the Ayatollah is the Shah lol
The monarchs of Iran ruled for over two and a half millennia, beginning as early as the 8th century BC and enduring until the 20th century AD. The earliest Iranian monarch is generally considered to have been either Deioces of the Median dynasty (c. 727–550 BC) or Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC). The last Iranian monarch was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979), who was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution. Since then, Iran has been governed by theocratic supreme leaders.[1]
“Shah of Iran” redirects to that page.
You know, sometimes it’s ok for you to be wrong. I know hexbear is a community where everything is literal, but in this case, an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes.
Just like Xi Jingping is the Authoritarian Ruler of China, like Mao was.
You know, sometimes it’s ok for you to be wrong
an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes
Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes. If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.
The other “but do you condemn Hamas” of leftism, gotta say it or you scare the bitches.
yes those dirty brown people in south america can’t do socialism right when its being sieged by the US!
how telling of mr. mamdani.
What…?
They’re really trying to figure out reasons to dislike the guy. For some reason, the “leftists” on lemmy.ml hate when a left American politician starts achieving success, and try to tear them down and lie about what a terrible person they are. It’s one of their favorite things; they relentlessly criticize AOC and Mamdani in a way they never would froth at the mouth about Chuck Schumer or anybody who is actually doing real damage.
Spreading the word far and wide. Did you just learn about this? This is 2 months old.
Hoping to read more of his thoughts on how to actually solve the problem, instead the authors were just using a Mamdani interview quote to plug their podcast: gonna do 45 episodes per year with whoever we can find to join the debate.
Ugh, do I have to do everything myself? Honey, watch the kids, I’m gonna go build a strong middle class in the ‘global south’.
Here’s how Americans “solve” it: stop destabilizing Latin America, take climate change seriously, and otherwise mind your own business and let them figure their own shit out.
Any chance you have a podcast?
Yeah, it is his responsibility as the mayor of NYC after all.
Oh shit, a balanced, nuanced take on a complex issue. Quick, get the Americans out of of here, they won’t be able to handle this.
Plenty of Americans can handle nuance. But cool bigotry though
Proving the point. As an American, let me just say: chill.
As a world citizen I say: people in every country are every given attribute and we don’t need to pretend anyone is inferior to others, as op and people like them always seem eager to do.
Things are tense here, for sure, but you gotta take a deep breath and step back from it and know when the joke isn’t a direct attack on you (unless it is), and try not to cheapen words like bigotry by defensively applying it to an arguably accurate depiction of many Americans. Don’t prove their joke by missing the nuance yourself.
It’s still pretty shitty to judge an entire population and paint them with one generalized brush, no matter how you frame it. You assume my annoyance is personal but it’s not.
I mean they just elected the dude by a pretty wide margin. It sounds like some of us at least are fine with nuance.
There are a lot of parts of the country that cannot of course
#notallburgers
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