• CoolerOpposide [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    Yes, I did reread it and think you actually have a great point.

    You’ve totally changed my mind. All electoralism is inherently evil. If the working class is crying out for the boot to be removed from their neck, as principled socialists we absolutely should make sure they know that we actually don’t care. Should the opportunity to make the quality of life and organizing conditions of the working class better arise organically from ideas the working class has, and they are pursuable with almost no effort, we should resoundingly say

    “I’m sorry, but I’m a principled socialist. You idiot proletarians will indeed be paying more in rent this year. Yes I know it is an overwhelmingly popular idea amongst you workers, and one might think getting a letter in your mailbox that says ’Your rent isn’t going up this year because socialists have your back.’ would appear to be a good thing for the movement, but actually that’s bad for you. Trust. Rent is due on the 1st btw.”

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        The policy literally central to the campaign of the candidate being called into question, which won’t be implemented if they aren’t elected, is a strawman? Lol

        I’d say you’re acting like a Democrat, but in all honestly I’ve rarely seen Democrats fight so hard against a rent freeze as I’ve seen some of the anti-electoral so-called socialists, who seem absolutely insistent that we allow private landlords to raise rents on literally millions of working class New Yorkers.

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            Wow you leftists really love Israel! I never knew you hated starving Palestinians so much that you’d fight against somebody saying Israel is committing a genocide, that aid must be delivered to Gaza, that Netanyahu would be arrested if he stepped foot in his city, and that Israel fundamentally can not be allowed to exist as a Jewish supremacist apartheid state.

            Yes! Yet again, another great point. Zohran and Kamala are completely comparable! History will absolutely remember you as the most principled leftist, and one who can totally discern the difference between when something that realistically helps the working class is actually on offer, or if nothing at all is actually on offer!

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        The social-democratic/reformist/electoralist contingent on this site often resorts to this type of thing because they have a chip on their shoulder about always being clowned on here, and they probably deep down kinda know the critiques of them from revolutionaries and communists are correct so they overcompensate with vitriol