quarrk [he/him] @ quarrk @hexbear.net

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Believe it or not but there are many people who would have voted for both Mamdani and Cuomo. They just would rank Cuomintang 1 because they’re sus of a brown person supporting Palestine, but they like Mamdani’s smile so they give him a 2 anyway.

Single choice elections give outsized influence on single issues and make it easier to manipulate the discussion one way or another. All you have to do is build a narrative that Mamdani = bad economics, Mamdani = jihadist, etc. and suddenly his polling collapses even if nobody particularly dislikes him. People are less willing to take a chance if they feel like they can make only one selection.

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I assumed it was someone from here

I made multiple comments and had a feeling they were invisible.

Yup, if I view the thread in an incognito tab, my comments don’t appear. Shadow banning, another reason Reddit is a dead end

A manifesto is a declaration of values, whether for an organization or an individual.

If an individual, then it is electoralism-brained, public preaching on the street corner to prove that one holds the most correct stances. Because in liberal democracy, your political power is reduced to mere enumeration of individual beliefs, rather than organized action. A manifesto of this kind centers the individual for little benefit to the broader working class, if any. The only time it might make sense to publish this kind of manifesto, then, is before some sort of adventurism which is ineffective and individualist for the same reasons.

If an organization, then a manifesto serves as a centralized place to declare the purpose of their concrete activism, as a means of recruitment.

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There’s also this one by John_Jack_Reed

Wouldn’t get your hopes up. But if someone here feels motivated to add a comment, I’ll upvote it

NYC, the capital of Capital, would be a poetic start of socialism in the US if that were to happen

Better red than dead

Writing a manifesto in isolation from an organization

Whataboutism

If button-mashing political views were a person

Reminds me of some new research that each person’s breathing pattern is like a fingerprint that can identify them. An ordinary smartphone microphone is sufficient

Agree, nostalgia is a tool of reaction. It will backfire if that’s how you recruit support.

Liberals love economics too. Except instead of “it’s simple really, let me explain to you the supply-demand curve” the liberals will say “let me explain why this program for Pell Grant recipients benefits you metaphysically although not actually, and here’s why you should love it”

“You have to really have tunnel vision and not understand the most basic economic history to make the misrepresentations that Krugman said.

And if I hadn’t met him, and I didn’t know how really stupid he is as a person, I would think he’s deliberately lying, but I have met him and he really is that stupid.

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Krugman doesn’t understand the difference between paying a domestic debt and paying a foreign debt. And that’s because he doesn’t understand foreign trade.

If he understood foreign trade and debt, he never could have won a Nobel Prize. A precondition for winning the Nobel Prize is not to understand how international finance works so that you can act to preserve the kind of financial superstition that’s taught in the universities like the University of Chicago.”

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That would be cooler than the reality of it

Right and wrong aren’t really applicable to people who cynically drift between stances depending on expedience

What is the relationship between Fanon and Camus? Personal or theoretical?

Edit: ok looks like they just covered similar topics

Where put memes ?