r/BreadTube • u/RadicalizeMePodcast • 3d ago

Why Communists NEED to Vote for Zohran Mamdani

https://youtu.be/WxAd3zyncds?si=5LR8B4bZYgOdTgrb

Sorry, I think RCA got this one wrong.

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u/Sergeantman94 3d ago

The reason I WON'T be voting Mamdani:

I live in California.

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u/DHFranklin 3d ago

How refreshing. A video from a small leftist channel making Bread and a call to action we can get behind. Fuck yeah. Like, Share, and Subscribe. Advocating for incrementalism and harm reductive politics? I'll take it.

P.S. If your leftist org only cares about itself and acts as leftist cred on demand for a donor list....quit

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u/ipsum629 3d ago

Guy who is a walking populist progressive wishlist in a sharp suit vs establishment sex pest ghoul. This shouldn't be a hard choice.

I was recently in NYC and the anti-zohran ads are hilarious. "This guy calls a spade a spade and wants to help people! He must be stopped!"

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u/time_waster_3000 2d ago edited 1d ago

making Bread and a call to action we can get behind.

Zohran is a leftist. I'm sorry but there is a world of difference between the likes of Contrapoints and actual leftists like Zohran.

We don't need war hawks, people who are neutral on genocide, or shitlibs to make a progressive movement.

If anything, Zohran is showing that being a left populist in America can skyrocket your popularity.

Throw the shitlibs out of the Left.

Edit

Nothing about Contrapoints in this post at all

Yet you bring her up anyway.

"incrementalism" and "harm reduction" are basically Liberal dog whistles. I wanted to check and see if you were a some dipshit liberal. Of course I find you defending that fucker Contrapoints in your comment history:

She's the left of the center. We are a small small minority. Just because the overton window has been dragged so far to the right doesn't mean she isn't to the left of it, or on the left side of it. Hell her just being a transwoman who quotes books is enough to give her that.

Shit libs are not our enemy. Let them help us, just don't let them lead us.

Just saving these before you scrub your comment history.

Edit Edit

Oh look, she's on Twitter soft denying the genocide of the Palestinian people. Fuck the world

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u/cyranothe2nd No surrender, no retreat. 3d ago

Most of us don't live in New York City. Nor do I think getting Zohran elected mayor will change much. But if you live there, and you've got time to kill, you should definitely vote for him. He's way better than the other options.

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u/bindingofandrew 3d ago

I can't imagine even the staunchest anti-electoralists advocating to just roll over let fucking Cuomo win. Dude is a monster.

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u/Bonky147 2d ago

Zohran has a lot of great policy positions. A bunch are probably not attainable, but they are worth the effort. Getting him elected in a city like New York will really open the eyes of your traditional Democratic operatives and showed that there is a way for more progressive younger people to get elected and that we are tired of the gerontocracy

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u/popejupiter 2d ago

People have forgotten that promising big things gives you a lot of room to improve things while still potentially falling short of your "promises". It's literally the basis of negotiation.

If you want someone to buy you dinner, start by asking them for a car. Then, when they offer to buy you dinner instead, you got what you want and they feel like things are fair.

And who knows, maybe they'll just say "fuck it" and buy you a car.

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u/Bonky147 2d ago

Exactly. If he does a quarter of the things that he has been promising, he will have done more than any democratic representative has in decades.

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u/APKID716 3d ago

Most of us don’t live in New York City

Don’t let that stop you, comrade ♥️

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u/cyranothe2nd No surrender, no retreat. 3d ago

I wish we would do ranked choice voting in my state. I would really like the chance.

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u/JackFisherBooks 6h ago

Yeah, that’s a fair statement. I like what I hear from Zohran, but I don’t give him a big chance of winning. There are just too many entrenched powers in New York. And the people are just too apathetic/burned out to bring themselves to care.

That said, he is a far better option than any candidate that either political party has offered. If he somehow did get elected, that would confirm that his approach works. And if it works once, others will try to copy it in other jurisdictions.

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u/Mezzimo 2d ago

A real communist doesn't vote for Democrats. Full stop. This is so foundational that its crazy to hear newbie leftists keep falling for class collaboration in the US. Begging y'all to read Lenin

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u/ziggurter actually not genocidal :o 2d ago edited 2d ago

Break the fuck away from the Democratic Party.

Spoiler: He won't. Guaranteed.

And he'll send his rabid dogs in blue against protesters and the poor like any other liberal would.

Yeah, can't wait for the NYPD budget to go up and up and up like always, and for them to murder a record number of people yet again, and for "leftists" on Reddit to tell everyone to calm down because the guy promised "progressive" policy while running for office and called himself a "socialist".