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‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail

Mamdani’s internet trail reveals far more than a veneered candidate biography on a website ever could. In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law), and insists that New York should look more like socialist Vienna. As Mamdani moves more into general-election mode as the front-runner to beat—wearing suits, moderating his message, and cozying up to the business community—his digital past offers a rare glimpse of the ideology beneath the polish.

Under capitalism, he wrote, gender equality was “impossible.” The only way forward, in his view, was to decriminalize “both the buying and selling of consensual sex.” In a section titled “Protect Sex Workers and End Violence Against Women and Nonbinary People,” Mamdani rejected the so-called Nordic Model, which makes it illegal to buy sex, but not to sell it. He called that model “untenable.”

Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

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But calling it a UK tour gets me excited when it lands in my inbox, then I’m disappointed when it isn’t actually visiting Scotland.

If Nancy Mace really has broken any glass ceilings, I can only presume she’s done so with that solid brick of a face of hers. Thwomp-lookin prick!

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Thon Rachel Johnson article defending Gregg Wallace is one of the most poorly-written things I’ve ever come across. I had to read a few sentences several times and I’m still not 100% sure what she’s saying. Blood is tricking out of my ear. 😔

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Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.

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Trans people don't have a right to speak but GCs have a right to be heard.

Trans people are, as standard, excluded from discussions about us because we are deemed too biased. This applies to healthcare policy, media coverage and everything in between.

GCs are never biased. Always just concerned.

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.

Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.

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