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.
This is just aggressive ignorance. It’s not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It’s basic history and terminology.
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 (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.
Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for “Shah of Iran” and look at the results.
Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you’re doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People’s Republic of China.
Both are authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
They are identical.
Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.
I’m not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.
I’m sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.
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.
Didn’t even bother to read the whole quote…
They’re a Leninist. Hypocrisy is their super power. The only thing that maters to them is that he attacked the party/dictator. Which is the only unforgivable sin. Every problem with their governments is always somehow the West’s fault. And they are infallible. Zero nuance or irony.
Yes the US has a history of meddling in south America and blockading Cuba. And yes that’s wrong. But blaming that for all their problems is ridiculous. The Cuban government imprisoning those sharing western media that makes it through the blockade etc. Isn’t because of the blockade. It’s because the government is authoritarian. And if those they control get narratives outside the governments approved ones. It makes them harder to control. It’s why Western media narratives are suddenly starting to much closer mimic those of leninist and other dictatorial governments.
i did.
the US didn’t “make it worse”. the US is the one creating these bad conditions, and it’s about to make things worse for south america.
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.
you guys are precious 😂
Hey, how about Graham Platner’s secret Nazi sympathies? We know he has them, because of the tattoo! I haven’t heard that one for a while.
you mean the fascist jackboot who worked in the takeover of the middle east?
tell me again what makes that guy a leftist. and what makes you not a fascist for supporting it?
A new one! What makes you say that he worked in Abu Ghraib? I did a quick search, and all I can find is a YouTube video by “BadEmpanada.”
you are at least aware venezuela and cuba are in the gutter because of US blockades, not their leadership, right?
US blockades are responsible for their financial crises, not for them arresting journalists and dissenters. Also, the quote in the screenshot explicitly states that the US only made things worse.
.ml shitbags begone. Rapist apologists.
fuck you too, just for good measure.
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.
Turns out that prejudice is harmful even if it isn’t negative, or even about you in particular.
At least, that’s what we’ve been saying about racial prejudice for a long time. Dunno when we forgot about that.
Yeah, I hate this idea that suddenly it’s okay to judge people as a group of millions if the “conditions are right”. That opens a door we should want to keep closed
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.
Well, I’m an American and I thought it was funny.
Maybe if the tone were right I’d agree but I read it as angry snark, not as a joke
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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