Current Events > The Online Communists and Tankies Have Turned on Mamdani Now

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And he hasn't even been elected yet, mind you.
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This is the "offending" video that triggered them immensely. Is there even anything that's remotely controversial about it?
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Bunch of fucking loserds.

They just needed an in to bring his aspirations to a close.

I'm really curious what they expect a NYC mayor to do about Gaza.

They don't want to actually do anything, they just want to "win" arguments online.

I didn't think tankies ever supported him. You follow all these guys, so let us know. Did tankies support him?

Do tankies support anyone?

kind9 posted...

Do tankies support anyone?

Stalin and/or Mao. Sometimes (a lot of them are weirdly Dengists, which would make them anti-Maoist, but they don't view it that way even though Mao explicitly condemned Deng and had him imprisoned as a capitalist [which he was]).

These people really don't want to win elections at all.
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what is CEs obsession with random twitter brainrot?

monkmith posted...

what is CEs obsession with random twitter brainrot?

It's just the one dude making all these topics.

ssjevot posted...

It's just the one dude making all these topics.

huh, honestly i dont remember names here...

I randomly found Tcs Bluesky account the other day. He makes these exact posts there as well

You complain when I and others criticize democrats and yeht you go out of your way to find random Bsky posters whining? It's pretty clear Mamdani is pro-palestine. Nobody cares what a few nobodies say. They neither live in NYC nor vote so they're twice as useless.

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HashtagSEP posted...

They don't want to actually do anything, they just want to "win" arguments online.

Agreed. They are dead weight for the broader left and should be treated like MAGA.

Tmaster148 posted...

I'm really curious what they expect a NYC mayor to do about Gaza.

That's what I'd like to know myself.

Why do you keep reposting tweets from probable Russian troll farms like they're some sort of news

bover_87 posted...

Why do you keep reposting tweets from probable Russian troll farms like they're some sort of news

Because he's a liberal who is obsessed with hating leftists

AnsestralRecall posted...

Because he's a liberal who is obsessed with hating leftists

So you acknowledge that they're bonafide leftists then?

I would call them pretty extreme leftists.

Humble_Novice posted...

So you acknowledge that they're bonafide leftists then?

I don't know anything about any of those people tbh

I'm pretty insulated from most social media political discourse anyways

kind9 posted...

I would call them pretty extreme leftists.

It's very sus how some people here become automatically defensive over a couple of tankies.

expected/10

Progressives/social dems should be looked at as the new left. Tankies ruin it for the rest of us and just engage in shooting one another in the name of purity. Pay them no heed.

AnsestralRecall posted...

I don't know anything about any of those people tbh

I'm pretty insulated from most social media political discourse anyways

So why would this topic even bother you to begin with? You never even respond to my other topics unless it has something to do with the far left or tankies.

Xenogears15 posted...

expected/10

Progressives/social dems should be looked at as the new left. Tankies ruin it for the rest of us and just engage in shooting one another in the name of purity. Pay them no heed.

Agreed. If the broader left is to be saved, they need to disown tankies and treat them like the far right. That's not so difficult, right?

Humble_Novice posted...

Agreed. If the broader left is to be saved, they need to disown tankies and treat them like the far right. That's not so difficult, right?

They do. You just continue to act like they don't. Literally no one likes tankies other than other tankies.

ssjevot posted...

They do. You just continue to act like they don't. Literally no one likes tankies other than other tankies.

Do kindly show me these leftists then, or are we supposed to pretend that they're more relevant and influential than the vocally loud Hasan left?

TC is literally like racists who try to dogwhistle by posting stories about minorities who commit heinous crimes.

Humble_Novice posted...

Do kindly show me these leftists then, or are we supposed to pretend that they're more relevant and influential than the vocally loud Hasan left?

What's relevant to who wins elections, social media "influence" or actual votes? Are you seriously trying to insinuate that this is the turning point and now Mamdini is going to lose?

The race only gets tight if Adams and Sliwa both drop.

AnsestralRecall posted...

Because he's a liberal who is obsessed with hating leftists

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(Snickers to self)

That tag predated today.

Starks posted...

The race only gets tight if Adams and Sliwa both drop.

This. I would like to avoid seeing Cuomo win at all costs, and that includes curbing tankies who might try to poison the left's enthusiasm for Mamdani.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

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(Snickers to self)

That tag predated today.

My God, I didn't even know they voted for Jill Stein. I could have sworn they were a reluctant Kamala supporter. Now I get why they're so defensive whenever a tankie topic pops up.

ssjevot posted...

It's just the one dude making all these topics.

Nah, CE loves Twitter drama.

Humble_Novice posted...

My God, I didn't even know they voted for Jill Stein. I could have sworn they were a reluctant Kamala supporter. Now I get why they're so defensive whenever a tankie topic pops up.

Never voted Green in my life. I voted Kamala out of self-preservation and harm reduction even if I wasn't exactly thrilled about her. It was necessary as both a trans and neurodivergent person.

I've defended third parties existing as able to influence policy by bringing to light potential issue stances Dems may not feel is viable, but electorally they're non-viable.

These people are nobodies and dont matter but also shut up and never ever criticize them

AnsestralRecall posted...

Never voted Green in my life. I voted Kamala out of self-preservation and harm reduction even if I wasn't exactly thrilled about her. It was necessary as both a trans and neurodivergent person.

I've defended third parties existing as able to influence policy by bringing to light potential issue stances Dems may not feel is viable, but electorally they're non-viable.

Do you still defend third parties now though? At this point, we're going to have to acknowledge that the US Green Party and GOP are in cahoots with one another to screw over the Democrats and by extension the people.

Humble_Novice posted...

Do you still defend third parties now though? At this point, we're going to have to acknowledge that the US Green Party and GOP are in cahoots with one another to screw over the Democrats and by extension the people.

The Green Party isn't screwing anyone over. They're even more irrelevant then Libertarian's.
Humble_Novice posted...

This. I would like to avoid seeing Cuomo win at all costs, and that includes curbing tankies who might try to poison the left's enthusiasm for Mamdani.

You just want a blue cult. You don't want anyone to dare criticize anyone. The harshest critics are coming from the big Democrats. Crazy, right? You dig around all day on Bsky looking for random people to be outraged over.

ssjevot posted...

They do. You just continue to act like they don't. Literally no one likes tankies other than other tankies.

Tankies dont like other tankies either. They think theyre Zionists.

Tankies and Maga can fuck off and also each other.

Dio posted...

You just want a blue cult. You don't want anyone to dare criticize anyone. The harshest critics are coming from the big Democrats. Crazy, right? You dig around all day on Bsky looking for random people to be outraged over.

You exemplify this meme the most. Is criticizing Democrats all you have to offer?
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Are they a sizable portion of NYC voters? Is there verifiably data highlighting their voting records and analysis that it's a problem that needs to be addressed? Are they big enough that it's important enough they all fall in line and not catering to them fully is a mistake? Are they small enough that their vote doesn't matter and thus focusing on them obsessively, more than the moderates that were proven to have gotten Trump elected due to economic reasons, is a mistake? Are they more of a roadblock to Mamdani than said moderates?

I'm trying to understand why this particular fringe group is worth this much mind space where your reddit account is literally nothing but whining about the same three people. Is it because the belief is that margins are so thin but with the online tankie support Democrats would win easily?

Board_hunter567 posted...

I'm trying to understand why this particular fringe group is worth this much mind space where your reddit account is literally nothing but whining about the same three people.

Are you some kind of stalker?

SaikyoStyle posted...

Tankies dont like other tankies either. They think theyre Zionists.

And this is why their constant purity testing gets them nowhere.

This is twitter, it's definitely a handful of nutjobs or bots being amplified by musk to try to turn people against Mamdani.

Board_hunter567 posted...

Are they a sizable portion of NYC voters? Is there verifiably data highlighting their voting records and analysis that it's a problem that needs to be addressed? Are they big enough that it's important enough they all fall in line and not catering to them fully is a mistake? Are they small enough that their vote doesn't matter and thus focusing on them obsessively, more than the moderates that were proven to have gotten Trump elected due to economic reasons, is a mistake? Are they more of a roadblock to Mamdani than said moderates?

I'm trying to understand why this particular fringe group is worth this much mind space where your reddit account is literally nothing but whining about the same three people. Is it because the belief is that margins are so thin but with the online tankie support Democrats would win easily?

That's not how information works when it grabs attention. The goal is to post radical information enough to hit a target that will catch like wild fire. The source or start gets obscurity and the information that was passed gets the highlight. We are in an age of misinformation warfare. It doesn't matter how small the voice of the message as the goal is to have it amplified by bad actors.

Scardude posted...

That's not how information works when it grabs attention. The goal is to post radical information enough to hit a target that will catch like wild fire. The source or start gets obscurity and the information that was passed gets the highlight. We are in an age of misinformation warfare. It doesn't matter how small the voice of the message as the goal is to have it amplified by bad actors.

And who's trying to do the amplifying in this instance?

Scardude posted...

That's not how information works when it grabs attention. The goal is to post radical information enough to hit a target that will catch like wild fire. The source or start gets obscurity and the information that was passed gets the highlight. We are in an age of misinformation warfare. It doesn't matter how small the voice of the message as the goal is to have it amplified by bad actors.

I mean I get it. It's latent anger over the "Bernie bros" who definitely cost Clinton the election and not the literal decades of slander against her name. On another level it's not a belief that online leftists are the holdout votes costing elections, it's that if online leftists go away Democrats will win over the relatively small percentage of moderates needed to consistently win. It's comforting to think that because otherwise nobody has any idea how to actually appease and appeal to moderates, besides perhaps moving further to the right. That's why the focus isn't on pointing and laughing at idiots who voted for a better economy and are now getting owned, because the hope is they can still be converted to loyal blue voters.

I'm annoyed not because I'm a secret commie/tankie, I legit have no idea who these people are and frankly I don't want to know. My concern is over the right wing figures who are far more prominent and any effort not going towards combating the very real alt-right pipeline is a huge waste. Basically I don't want Democrats to keep losing, and this ain't helping with that. Like, at all.

myusernameislame posted...

And who's trying to do the amplifying in this instance?

We're an isolated board. In this case, YouTube and Twitter. So google and musk.

Scardude posted...

We're an isolated board. In this case, YouTube and Twitter. So google and musk.

Really makes no sense when people get up in arms about the reach of CE of all places. We don't have reach. It's bunched panties for no reason.