disguy_ovahea @ disguy_ovahea @lemmy.world

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I didn’t see it reported elsewhere, but Middle East Eye has a good reputation for factual reporting.

While still running in the primary, the DNC is not technically supposed to provide funding directly to a candidate. That was part of the scandal with Hillary. Bernie was unable to challenge the unbalanced support because he didn’t receive any, and had no access to Hillary’s collusion with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

The difference is Zohran has now won the primary, and is the Democratic candidate for NYC mayor. He will now be financed by the DNC. He can compare the amount that he is provided by the DNC to the very accessible public records of past Democratic mayoral candidates. Do you understand the difference now?

100%. There are primaries all the time. The only difference with Zohran is we showed up.

That doesn’t matter at all. He won the primary with a grassroots campaign, so he doesn’t need their funding. Being in the blue/Working Families column will win the know-nothing vote in NYC.

The key is for us to seek out the progressive on the primary ballot and vote. We shouldn’t be rewarding the candidates that have the financial means to find us in our living rooms. Sign up for mailers if you forget to vote. Sign up for mail-in ballots if you have an irregular schedule.

That depends entirely on who we vote for in the primaries.

See: Zohran Mamdani for an example

They’re both correct, depending on the context. A social democracy is a system of government. Democratic socialism is an ideology.

This is the simple solution proposed by Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel laureate in physics.

https://files.catbox.moe/yr8vt3.mov

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, JD Vance’s kids, and Barron Trump are all children of immigrants. Hypocrisy means nothing to MAGA.

And they’re talking about cheap Chinese gas station vapes here. If you use quality coils, there won’t be lead at all.

Actually, Jesus’ crucifixion fulfilled Moses’ laws of the Old Testament and created a New Covenant, but Christians don’t read their own book.🤷‍♂️

That’s incorrect. The New York City Council sets the NYC property and income tax rates. Taxes are collected by NYS.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/taxcommission/about/about-the-nyc-tax-commission.page

Rent-stabilized apartments already exist in NYC. They are subject to regulations, so prices can be bureaucratically frozen.

He has proposed city-owned grocery stores, that would save money on rent and property taxes, forcing competitive pricing on groceries in NYC, and reducing the insane inflation rates we see. During the bird flu, eggs hit $13/dozen, for example.

He’s also looking to increase the city minimum wage to $30/hr, and make the city bus free for residents.

You misunderstand. I’m saying people don’t want big money candidates, right? We want new, progressive, people like us. Those candidates run often, but they don’t have the money to reach you. If we did our job of researching and voting for all of the candidates in every primary we are eligible to vote in, we wouldn’t have a government full of career incumbents.

Mamdani had grown a network of 50k people canvassing NYC for him. That’s hardly possible in Texas districts without a big fuel budget. We need to do our job of actively looking for our representation in every primary, rather than rewarding the wealthy ones that can afford to show up in our living rooms.

He’s not implementing socialism. He’s using democratic socialism, an existing facet of our economy, on city-wide needs.

Right. That’s the problem. The candidates aren’t trying to date us. We are supposed to be selecting OUR representation. This is the message we should be sharing with one another proving how political engagement actually changes things, instead of the same old misinformation about ‘the DNC controlling everything’ and ‘two wings of the same bird’ nonsense. We just proved that turnout = change. We need more people to take this seriously.

You don’t even know what you’re talking about. The Bernie scandal was over the primary. That’s what Zohran just won. He’s now on the Democratic ticket. He has full transparency with their donor records.

He’s about to raise taxes on ~350k millionaires, while increasing wages and lowering the cost of groceries and rent. It’s everything Trump promised in his campaign, but he’s doing it the exact opposite way.

When it works, Trump is gonna look like a dick, and the nation will see that democratic socialism will get them what they were promised.

My point is we get them ALL THE TIME. People just don’t learn about them and show up for them. Congressional primaries see less than 15% turnout, yet people wonder why nothing changes. It’s simple. Retirees always vote in primaries and pick the centrist. That’s why everything stays the same. The DNC is not ‘handing us bad candidates’ in the general. We’re not picking the good candidates in the primary.

I’m not getting fifty different videos to please your empty criticism. We look out for one another. Get the point?

Here’s the rest of the video. Pretty effective “performance art,” huh?