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Like government levels below the state are pretty much fake, the state can override them easily if there's a supermajority

They can do something about it if they want to be refuge states

I do get the sense that the DSA is way more conservative about endorsements than other groups, based on the Boston one bsky.app/profile/crsc...

This feels like rewarding the New York machine for their insane pettiness right after you've beat them, seems to be falling into the same unfortunate nonconfrontational patterns of the democratic party if true

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Like I get Mamdani was "whipping against", but I assumed that was part of the deal where he got the Jeffries endorsement and I'm surprised anyone was taking that seriously

Is there like, an actual reason the NYDSA isn't voting to challenge Jeffries? Like he withheld his endorsement of Mamdani to the last minute, he's been a constant anti left element within the Democratic party, he literally voted to condemn socialism today

I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks

See this is why I should probably have taken more than 3 EE classes, now I can never be president of Brazil 😔

(my education is like 10% EE classes but the degree is EECS)

Honestly as someone who technically has a master's in electrical engineering it sounds vaguely plausible to me

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To the point that people are saying that this is somehow normalizing Trump, like no, Trump is the president of the United States. He cannot be normalized. On the other hand, mamdani doesn't have the support of the two senators from his own party and state

In general, I think liberals are so used to the idea that we control the narrative that the fact that we can be normalized too is a thing that we've kind of forgotten

Idk as it turns out they were doing climate dengism and unlike socialist dengism they are actually following through with phase 2

Remember when the narrative was "oh China is super dependent on coal, why do we have to do anything 😡😡"

Like the fact that this language has been used by conspiracist reactionaries doesn't make it inherently conspiracist or reactionary. There is in fact a top of society that's bad. The fact that reactionaries have decided the top is baristas doesn't mean they own the concept

I'm honestly mostly ok with a politics of hygiene when it comes to like, actual issues of consequence, but vague phrasing stuff like this really has no moral valence

It's, like, obviously true that "it's not left vs right, it's top vs bottom" is political messaging for dumb people, but it seems, uh, bad that everyone saying that kind of thing is drawing people to the right

Becoming a Thurmond* Democrat as a bit

*D-CA

He's not even running for election right now? His term ends in 2028

Yeah like I'm sympathetic to the view that this is a response to different circumstances which is why I focused above on the goals that would've been known before the die was cast, but yeah even then it's not hypocrisy to like the outcome of a nat 20 over that of a nat 1

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Gillebrand has always been a moderate! MeToo was her one left wing position

The relevant ones I'm thinking of are Polis, Schumer/Jeffries, Whitmer, Shapiro, Gillebrand, Kaine

Uprising against Israeli rule over Palestine; this means various things to various people, but in this context it probably refers to the settlements

Mamdani also accomplished something (a bunch of sound bites that defuse some conservative narratives). In general, Mamdani had more to gain, since he is somewhat outside of the Overton Window and can benefit from normalization. What was Whitmer even trying to do?

Genuinely do not understand the people who think it's some weird double standard or hypocrisy to treat Whitmer and Mamdani's visits to the white house differently. Whitmer was going there to support his tarrifs, Mamdani was just going for a conversation

Also Eric Adams. Too many yimby Trojan horse adamses

I mean like maybe? The thing about Obamacare was that it was kinda a mess, the rollout was a disaster, it turned out the individual mandate wasn't actually necessary despite being the least popular part, a bunch of it relied on buyin from states that wouldn't take free money, etc. but it worked

The problem with tarriffs isn't the details, it's that it's inherently a stupid idea with no upside in a modern American economy. If you're starting from a less stupid baseline I think getting something through is way more important than getting the details right

The media gave it air because the democrats engaged with it. The media also was affected by tarrifs but the Republicans just didn't engage