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Zohran Mamdani Elected

Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was just elected in New York City, leading with (currently, I guess they're still counting them) 8.8% over Andrew Cuomo. This comes after the landslide win for Zohran in the previous election (I don't remember what it's called). Between then and now things had really ramped up: Cuomo was posting racists and Islamophobic things and making ads, Curtis Sliwa rose into public view and attracted some people with his out-of-it style, Cuomo spent the whole race talking about Israel and Hasan Piker while Zohran spoke of policy and planning. Sliwa sadly only got around 7% of the vote, I wish he got more, but all that matters is that Cuomo did not win.
This is a huge thing: NY's first Muslim mayor, the youngest one in like a century, an open democratic socialist who will push social policy and public welfare, it's a big win for leftism in general too. I am really excited about this and it brings me hope that things are changing for the better, that a people are becoming more open to these things and are getting closer to potentially having these social systems in place while living in the least developed developed country. Highest GDP, yet, on a given day, over 700,000 people are without a home.

Hurrah for Mamdani and good luck to him and New Yorkers in the coming future, things are looking up.

~ This campaign is for every person who believes in the dignity of their neighbors and that the government's job is to actually make our lives better.

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I will never blame the victims

I will never blame the victims of oppression, exploitation, abuse, subjugation, genocide, war, economic bullying, etc. When the people who have been kept down by colonial and imperial power rise up and the oppressors face blowback, I will not feel bad for them—I will celebrate their karma.
These colonial powers take due care to paint those they hurt as evil, different, and unqualified for pity or freedom. The people are subliminally torn between knowing what's wrong and siding with their colonial power, because they're different and hard to have empathy for; I mean, you remember that event where they did something against us? Or how backwards their culture and way of life is? How they aren't really 'compatible?' They still feel bad for them, but there's always something there stopping them. You must always preface your talking points with condemnation and efforts to show that you know what you're talking about—because no sane, intelligent person would genuinely side with them after all that stuff they do and did.

Pro-Israel western countries require that you must "condemn Hamas" before you can even think of criticizing Israeli action. This leaves people who aren't open to the capitulation of evil criticized and shunned while those on Israel's payroll walk free. This fact remains for all other things the West supports and propagandizes. You must be against apartheid subjects retaliating against their colonizers, you must be against Koreans retaliating against their colonizers, you must be against a people in a war-torn country who were used and left to rot when they make a major strike against you, so, you must always be against victim retaliation.

This enlightened-abuser mentality must end and acknowledgement of the horrors delt upon the people of the world must be known and owned. You cannot speak of the wrongs and mistakes of the West while thinking positively of them, you cannot make any concessions to evil: "We totally destabilized the Middle-East and killed a lot of innocent people, but, we were just spreading democracy and making things better." You must reject this neo-liberal painting of things and walk away from every defending the West before things can change and be made better; you cannot help a country ruined by the US and capitalism by still employing capitalism and being under the banner of the US, you have to move away and fully understand things.

I will never blame the victims put under the West's boot when they fight back, and, to ever dream of making things better, you must eliminate the problem starter: the colonial west, the imperial core, and the neo-liberal mentality of foreign policy and action.

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