Mayor Zohran Mamdani charged Benjamin Nentayahu with genocide, said he is unwelcome in New York City, and called for his arrest. Two years ago, that would have been unimaginable. Going forward, it should be a litmus test.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani charged Benjamin Nentayahu with genocide, said he is unwelcome in New York City, and called for his arrest. Two years ago, that would have been unimaginable. Going forward, it should be a litmus test.

  • Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    61·
    6 days ago

    We havent had a fair election in my entire life. Bush straight up stole the election from Gore, and even if theres none of that extreme blatant stealing, everything is rigged so hard in favor of republicans, from voting booth locations, to gerrymandering, to right wing thugs being intimidating, etc etc.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      6 days ago

      Imagine a world where Al Gore won in 2000, and Bernie Sanders in 2016. Sigh…

      Can’t change the past though. Might as well wish Jimmy Carter beat Reagan in '81, and JFK and LBJ both served two full terms…

      It’s crazy to think how different the world could be if a few evil republicans didn’t ratfuck everything.

      Nixon, Reagan, Bush2, and tRump. The sheer amount of the world’s woes that can be laid squarely at the feet of just four people is astounding…

      It’s not like they didn’t have help. But if it weren’t for those four presidencies, so much shit never would have happened…

        • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          You’re going to need to elaborate, you’ve lost me with what exactly you’re trying to get at with being so vague. Traditionally you use the subject’s name, before switching to pronouns so the reader knows who the fuck you’re talking about.

          • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 days ago

            This is not hard to follow. You responded to someone, your comment appears below theirs. I responded to you, my comment appears below yours. Notice how this trend continues.

            How is he “right” in saying there has “never” been a fair election in his lifetime but he’s not including two of them? Has he died and come to life repeatedly?

            • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 days ago

              Just because Dems win, doesn’t make them fair. Gerrymanding is a very unfair tactic, and Republicans have been disenfranchising voters since before I could vote. And if they cheated, in 2004, why the fuck would they not continue to cheat in every election afterwards? It’s a valid logic path to follow, and to assume that every election is likely unfair and has only gotten more unfair since then.

              2020 was won by Biden, but in no way was the election fair. Trump did everything in his power to interfere, and would have won if not for covid basically enforcing nationwide mail in ballots, which turns out to be pretty hard to cheat. Though we did find millions of ballots in ditches, and various other places that never got counted (Edit: In 2024). So yeah… Maybe you’re just ignorant of all the data points?