Can we be sure this has changed? Many people today would feel this way.

However, our society lacks a lot of mechanisms the Greeks had for controlling runaway accumulation such as euergetism, virtue politics, or the leitourgia. They understood very well how it jeopardizes popular government..

It was definitely as dumb as this, including some of those guys.

The opposition to SNAP on the basis that SNAP is a corporate subsidy is so bizarre I legitimately wonder if it’s a billionaire-financed psyop.

None of those people are serious leftists, but are rather cathartically posting through their own personal trauma.

In a way, not unlike the centrists that blame everything on the left. They see politics not for what it is, but as a prism for their own personal issues.

Everyone is to blame. We need to push on all fronts to obtain power, and only by obtaining power can we obtain justice.

Is this another “this is a distraction?” Wake up to the digital era man. Flood the zone. Outrage all the time. There are no trade offs here.

Love seeing this using criticism for enhancing your perspective. Clearly an academic!

Sure, but things have to get much, much worse before the mandate you’re talking about will exist. The amount of suffering you’re accounting for is probably unimaginable by anyone in the US at the moment, if you compare to the resiliency of the GOP after COVID and the GFC.

Chinatowns are awesome and people like going to them. And they’re usually in the US where car-brained DOTs don’t know how to expand sidewalks.

He's endorsed an anti-congestion pricing candidate, wants free buses which have a long track record of failing (see Kansas City), is lukewarm on building housing with the city of yes plan. Mamdani would make a lot of problems worse and none of that has anything to do with being Muslim.

Cuomo is not a moderate. He is an incompetent psychopath.