Don't you worry about it. Soon there will be no more recalls, just mysterious diseases that unfortunately nobody could have prevented.

They actually weren't: Letter regarding "Krematorium" in Auschwitz

Tippecanoe?

Bei meinem ALDI talk-Tarif kostet die Schweiz auch nicht extra.

Let's just say this: if they really cared they could resupply Lincoln. Where there's a will there's a way.

Everyone “to the left of Hitler” should unite?

Not what I said. But your point is well taken that 1% left of Hitler isn't very left at all. The whole reason I argued this way was that criticism of the right is not a divisive issue at a time where we're seeing Hitler megafans and their Hitler megafan enablers taking the reins (Trump, Elon, etc.). What I should have said was that everyone to the right of X gets criticized by the extreme left. HOWEVER, there is no X because even Karl Marx himself, labor bless him, would never be allowed to take the top spot. Couldn't pass the purity test. Because no one can.

Look, my entire point is this: Mamdani has earned his keep so far and shown nothing but integrity. So a teeny tiny ^yay^ might be in order rather than trying to slander the man and feed into the right wing campaign against him. From your responses, I'm seeing that our positions don't seem awfully far apart on this, after all. So I'm going to bow out of the discussion at this point. Thank you, it's been fun.

we should focus on important things like winning primaries that the last century has proven doesn't change anything

Not what I said. My focus was on Mamdani, who is not running in any primaries and already has an important job (which does seem to change things by all accounts). Wrapping a hit piece on Mamdani in a valid critique of AOC is dubious and unnecessarily divisive.

and not let silly little unimportant things divide us

Not what I said. Defunding the police is not silly, little, or unimportant. But I don't think it's the panacea that its proponents tout it as. More importantly, it is not a promise that Mamdani ran on to become mayor. Even the article admits that.

I believe in holding politicians to their campaign promises, none of which he has violated to my knowledge. The people of NYC elected him on certain issues, and he is tending to those.

Maybe you are belittling the democratic expression of the will of the people? No politician is obliged to do what you and your friends on the fringe demand, just what they promised and were elected for.

genocides or ethnic-cleansings or human rights violations or crimes against humanity.

The amount of funding for the police falls under none of these categories.

You're conflating issues, which is a slippery slope to arguing in bad faith.

Speaking of genocides specifically, Mamdani has taken a remarkably clear stance on the conduct of the Israeli government. If you ask me, he deserves praise and support instead of criticism.

There are much better targets, like the DINOs in the Democratic party, its corrupt leaders, or its members who don't believe Americans have a right to healthcare.

Trying to smear a politician who is actually doing his damn job is divisive not just because it pits the left against itself but also because it ultimately erodes the possibility of having a functioning political process in the first place.

If you start a moral panic each time an elected official doesn't do exactly what you want, you're adding fuel to the fire of those who would abandon the democratic form of government entirely. Let's not do that.

One last point: you are just as susceptible to "narratives" as anyone else, including me. Pretending that it isn't so makes you look ignorant, not me.

Cool snark you got there but entirely unrelated to my post. Thanks for taking the time, though.

It's just laughably easy to divide the left.

Whenever any politician to the left of Adolf Hitler gets popular you just claim that they are not ideologically pure enough and leftists will rally with torches and pitchforks to drive out the impure spirit instead of enjoying the modicum of progress we're getting.

A politician who picks their battles to get shit done? Such an insult to the values of Marxism-Leninism must not be tolerated!

Meanwhile the ruling class and their fascist minions are holding their bellies laughing at the infighting of those stupid peasants. 🙄

Don't get me wrong, AOC has disappointed me as well. The two-party system is an embarrassment to the country which considers itself the home of democracy. The mere fact that someone like Mamdani is considered unusual in politics is mind-blowing (shouldn't all politicians be public minded like he is?).

But for fuck's sake, can we please enjoy a good thing while we've got it? Doesn't mean we have to give up the fight. Just stop squandering our energies on drivel like this article.

MAGA is nuts. It's their natural state.

Smells more like Call of Doody.

We didn't have psyches back in the day. Just a can-do attitude and strong values.

And a bottle of alcohol too many here and there. And hobbies such as beating your wife black and blue in front of your kids. And fatal accidents from speeding around in our souped up cars.

Just none of that psyche shit, okay?

SLASH S.

That chart is missing the 35% I understood what you were saying after the first nine words and now I'm getting awfully bored.

(of course sometimes I understood them wrong and make an ass out of myself 🫣)

They're really telling on themselves. Scared shitless.

We get it, you're gay.

Netanyahu: Finally, we have a solution.

You're not supposed to place your laptop directly in the lap of your fur suit. Always leave an air gap for ventilation, smh.

Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? If they're not even bothering to uphold the Constitution in a courthouse you guys are well and truly fucked.

Everyone complaining here about not being able to have unique footers or moving images or ignoring spelling errors just doesn't know what they're doing. You're literally the bad workman blaming the tool. I can do all of those things in Word.

If you prefer another tool, fine. But please stop shitting on things just because you don't understand them.

And PDF was never meant to be edited. Its sole purpose is to give you a document file which comes out exactly the same on computer screens and printers everywhere. Compact, reliable, compatible. If you need to replace parts of a PDF document post publication, it should be prepared using the Forms tools that are readily available in all good PDF suites.

By the way: I paid 30 Euros for an Office 2019 lifetime license. If ever that should not receive further updates then I'm ready to fork over another 30.