The left is coming for Democratic incumbents. In primary challenges, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to install allies in Congress
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/06/18/the-left-is-coming-for-democratic-incumbents
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/06/18/the-left-is-coming-for-democratic-incumbents
57 Comments
Astronut@lemmy.zip · 73 pts · 59d
Well this is great news! You don’t hear many good headlines these days.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 59d
https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us06242026_ujrk36.pdf
Supporting genocide is no longer a moderate position.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 58d
All my moderate homies hate genocide.
The genocides on Palestine, Ukraine and the Uyghurs all need to be ended.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 57d
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 7 pts · 57d
If you forcibly sterilize a population you are committing genocide.
That's only one allegation against the Chinese government.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 57d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz#Criticism
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Uygur_Autonomous_Region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang#Demographics
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 57d
culprit@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 57d
There's a distinct lack of Data for these claims. Unless that's all just Lore?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 57d
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 57d
So what you are saying is you support genocides if you agree with the state that is sponsoring it?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 57d
"Pol Pot did nothing wrong!!"
culprit@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 57d
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 57d
Ah, I get it.
There's two types of genocides: ones that you don't support and ones that you don't care about.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 57d
So we have the CCP saying they aren't and the Uyghurs saying they are and showing it.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 57d
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 56d
It always entertains me to see the pretend care tankies have for genocide when using Isreal/Palestine as a wedge issue because as soon as you get a glimpse behind the mask they fully support genocide and even imperialism.
I think you know that you're carrying the CCP genocide denial talking points. I think you know they arent true but you repeat them just to muddy the water because thats effective.
If anyone reading unironically thinks this is all made up by a single german guy go read the UN reports and Human rights watch reports going over the thousands of testimonies, investigations by journalists, governments, independent bodies. It is truly horrible stuff. Over a million unfairly detained and kept in tiny cells, tortured, raped, women and kids sold, people being used as experiments for drugs, people dying from the amount of abuse. The only thing the reports didnt conclude was systematic killings because instead they are sterilizing and imprisoning them which is not a loophole to avoid genocide.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 49 pts · 59d
It is not just Mayor Mamdani doing that, and I am glad to see a politician make waves.
subignition@fedia.io · 40 pts · 59d
Make Democrats Actually Left Again
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 59d
I agree!
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
redparadise@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 57d
It would have an even better meaning on a standard red cap.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 59d
This article is account walled.
I know going off of headlines is a no-no, but since it's all I have at the moment, and it's the Economist... I really fucking hate the corporate media's push to paint Mamdani as some kind of aggressor and insurrectionist plotting the overthrow of a formerly respectable Democrat party. The voters are choosing progressive candidates, Mamdani is not installing anyone. To claim that he is single-handedly engineering elections and implying Machiavellian means at once discounts the will of the actual voters and gives too much credit to a single person, while trying to dirty him up at the same time.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 59d
https://archive.is/20260624070340/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/06/18/the-left-is-coming-for-democratic-incumbents
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 57d
Nice framing from the Economist with the word "install". If anyone has installed allies in congress it is the pedophiliac billionaire cabal.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 57d
my first thought too
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 59d
This is the way.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 59d
I agree with you on this!
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 59d
Thank you kindly.
And the reason why I up-vote 99% of your content is because I agree with you. Have a good day!
Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 58d
Fuck Haley Stevens
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 59d
Finally some good news. Our representatives need to remember they work for us, not the other way around. Our taxes go to us and our needs, not filling the Epstein class's pockets.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 58d
"Give 'em Hell 54th!"
apftwb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 57d
I'm worried establishment Dems would skuttle the party's infrastructure before letting anti-genocide socialists take over. That being said, it is the only way forward.
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 57d
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 0 pts · 56d
Rough day for the encumbent dem, losing to DAC is humiliating. I think landers a pretty good candidate. DAC is a fucking nutcase and has the worst policy platform ive ever seen from a leftwing politician. I forgot the other ones name but she seems alright, she seems like she'll be a good rep once she drops some of her absolutely dogshit policies.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 56d
The incumbent got $650,000 from AIPAC, and you think the winning opponent "is a fucking nutcase". Very interesting.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 0 pts · 56d
Yeah she isnt a nutcase and her policies are shit. Its a local election got nothing to do with isreal. Plus DAC is objectively worse for the people of gaza.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 56d
sounds like you admitting to being a zionist to me
Fizz@lemmy.nz · -1 pts · 53d
Shes more Zionist than I am. She gives isreal everything they want and encourages Palestinians to die.